Golconda Thrust

The Golconda Thrust is a major oceanic terrane that was thrust over central and northern Nevada, North America, in possibly sometime between the Late Permian and the late Jurassic.[1] It is considered equivalent to the Tobin thrust fault.[2]

It contains the Havallah sequence.[3]

  1. ^ "Pacific Section SEPM". The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  2. ^ Silberling, N. J. (1 January 1975). "Age Relationships of the Golconda Thrust Fault, Sonoma Range, North-Central Nevada". GeoScienceWorld. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  3. ^ Brueckner, Hannes K.; Snyder, Walter (1985). "Structure of the Havallah sequence, Golconda allochthon, Nevada: Evidence for prolonged evolution in an accretionary prism". Retrieved 23 December 2018.