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Geologic map of the Lead Mountain 15’ quadrangle, San Bernardino County, California

Geologic Quadrangle 1766
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https://doi.org/10.3133/gq1766

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Abstract

The Lead Mountain 15’ quadrangle in the Mojave Desert contains a record of Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, and Quaternary magmatism. Small amounts of Mesoproterozoic(?) augen gneiss and Paleozoic and Mesozoic(?) metasedimentary rocks are preserved in small patches; they are intruded by voluminous Jurassic plutons of quartz diorite to granite composition and by Late Cretaceous granite of the Cadiz Valley batholith. Jurassic intrusive rocks include part of the Bullion Mountain Intrusive Suite and also younger dikes inferred to be part of the Jurassic Independence dike swarm. A contact-metamorphosed aureole 2 km wide in the Jurassic plutonic rocks fringes the Cadiz Valley batholith. Early Miocene dacitic magmatism produced a dense swarm of dikes in the eastern Bullion Mountains and the volcanic-intrusive remnant of a volcano at Lead Mountain. Tilting of the dike swarm from inferred vertical orientations may have resulted from Miocene tectonic extension. Conglomerate of Pliocene and (or) Miocene age is also tilted. Younger volcanism is recorded by Pliocene basalt of the Deadman Lake volcanic field, basalt of Lead Mountain (approximately 0.36 Ma), and the even younger basalt of Amboy. Quaternary sedimentation built alluvial fans and filled playas in the map area. Faulting in the dextral eastern California shear zone produced several northwest-striking faults in the quadrangle, some of them active into the Pleistocene and some that may have many kilometers of right-lateral offset.

Suggested Citation

Howard, K.A., Jagiello, K.J., Fitzgibbon, T.T., John, B.E., 2013, Geologic map of the Lead Mountain 15’ quadrangle, San Bernardino County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle 1766, Pamphlet: ii, 17 p.; 1 Plate: 30.68 × 33.11 inches, https://doi.org/10.3133/gq1766.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Geologic map of the Lead Mountain 15’ quadrangle, San Bernardino County, California
Series title Geologic Quadrangle
Series number 1766
DOI 10.3133/gq1766
Year Published 2013
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center
Description Pamphlet: ii, 17 p.; 1 Plate: 30.68 × 33.11 inches
Country United States
State California
County San Bernardino County
Other Geospatial Lead Mountain 15' quadrangle
Scale 62500
Online Only (Y/N) Y
Additional Online Files (Y/N) Y
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