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Scientific Investigations Map 3151

Prepared in cooperation with the Inyo County, California, Yucca Mountain Repository Assessment Office

Geologic Map of the southern Funeral Mountains including nearby Groundwater Discharge Sites in Death Valley National Park, California and Nevada

By C.J. Fridrich, R.A. Thompson, J.L. Slate, M.E. Berry, and M.N. Machette

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This 1:50,000-scale geologic map covers the southern part of the Funeral Mountains, and adjoining parts of four structural basins—Furnace Creek, Amargosa Valley, Opera House, and central Death Valley—in California and Nevada. It extends over three full 7.5-minute quadrangles, and parts of eleven others—an area of about 1,000 square kilometers (km2). The boundaries of this map were drawn to include all of the known proximal hydrogeologic features that may affect the flow of groundwater that discharges from springs of the Furnace Creek basin, in the west-central part of the map. These springs provide the main potable water supply for Death Valley National Park.

Major hydrogeologic features shown on this map include: (1) springs of the Furnace Creek basin, (2) a large Pleistocene groundwater discharge mound in the northeastern part of the map, (3) the exposed extent of limestones and dolomites that constitute the Paleozoic carbonate aquifer, and (4) the exposed extent of the alluvial conglomerates that constitute the Funeral Formation aquifer.

First posted December 14, 2012

For additional information contact:
Director, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey
Box 25046, Mail Stop 980
Denver, CO 80225
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Suggested citation:

Fridrich, C.J., Thompson, R.A., Slate, J.L., Berry, M.E., and Machette, M.N., 2012, Geologic map of the southern Funeral Mountains including nearby groundwater discharge sites in Death Valley National Park, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3151, 20 p. pamphlet, 1 sheet, scale 1:50,000.



Contents

Introduction

Methods and Approach

Geologic Summary and Interpretation of Cenozoic Tectonics

A New Regional Cenozoic Tectonostratigraphy

Description of Map Units

References Cited


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