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DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.08.008
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85052837640
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McGee Till—oldest glacial deposit in the Sierra Nevada, California— and Quaternary evolution of the rangefront escarpment
作者: Hildreth W.; Fierstein J.; Calvert A.T.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2018
卷: 198
起始页码: 242
结束页码: 265
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Basalt ; Computer integrated manufacturing ; Landforms ; Early pleistocene ; Glacial deposits ; Granodiorite ; Long valley caldera ; Quaternary evolution ; Sierra Nevada ; Sierra Nevada , California ; Steep slope ; Glacial geology ; basalt ; canyon ; Cretaceous ; escarpment ; glacial deposit ; glaciation ; granodiorite ; Quaternary ; rangeland ; sandy soil ; slip ; California ; Long Valley Caldera ; Sierra Nevada [California] ; United States
英文摘要: The McGee Till is an early Pleistocene glacial diamict as thick as 50 m, preserved over an area of 1.65 km2 on a relict low-relief Pliocene plateau that stands 900 m higher than mouths of its bounding canyons, on the rangefront of the Sierra Nevada. Although recognized 90 years ago as the oldest till in the Sierra, its age and relation to the next oldest Sierran till have remained uncertain, even controversial. This contribution seeks to clarify both. The McGee Till consists predominantly of grussy boulders and sandy-granular matrix derived largely from a distinctive Cretaceous granodiorite that walls McGee Creek canyon 4–8 km to the south. The till rests directly upon two different basaltic units that yield 40Ar/39Ar ages of 2.8 and 2.6 Ma and show little or no evidence of preglacial erosion. The basalts preserve a minimum of 165–255 m of relief on steep slopes that existed around the plateau margins at the time of their eruption. McGee Creek consists of two segments—a north-directed reach that confined the glacier that deposited the till and, now diverging at a right bend just upvalley from the till, a northeast-flowing reach that was incised later. The base of the McGee Till is at 3160 m elevation on the present-day rim of McGee Creek, 610 m above the bend. The base of the 130-ka Tahoe Till (MIS 6) is at 2550 m elevation directly downslope from the McGee Till and at 2300 m at the rangefront mouth of the canyon's northeast reach. The base of the 900–866 ka Sherwin Till (MIS 22) is at 2400 m at the nearby rangefront mouth of Rock Creek. As the canyons were cut to nearly modern depths before the Sherwin glaciation, the high-perched McGee Till is probably older than 2 Ma and possibly close in age to the 2.6 Ma basalt it overlies. Growth in rangefront relief since about 3.0–2.5 Ma owes to normal slip on the Hilton Creek and Round Valley Faults east of McGee Mountain as well as to the 767-ka collapse of Long Valley caldera to its north. © 2018
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/112045
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作者单位: Volcano Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States

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Hildreth W.,Fierstein J.,Calvert A.T.. McGee Till—oldest glacial deposit in the Sierra Nevada, California— and Quaternary evolution of the rangefront escarpment[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2018-01-01,198
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