Miocene magmatism and coeval crustal extension in the Colorado River and Death Valley extensional terrains (IGCP-510)

2008 ◽  
pp. 111-138
Author(s):  
J.P. Calzia ◽  
Steve Ludington ◽  
C.F. Miller ◽  
O.T. Rämö
Keyword(s):  
Colorado River ◽  
Death Valley ◽  
Crustal Extension

Was There a Pliocene-Pleistocene Fluvial-Lacustrine Connection between Death Valley and the Colorado River?

1995 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Brown ◽  
Michael R. Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Colorado River ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
River System ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Death Valley ◽  
Hydrologic Systems ◽  
Dry Lake ◽  
Middle Pliocene ◽  
River Drainage Basin ◽  
Lake Basins

AbstractSince the turn of the century, a Pliocene-Pleistocene connection between the Death Valley-Owens River pluvial system and the Colorado River drainage basin has been frequently postulated. The two most commonly proposed routes involve (1) a southward overflow from the Death Valley Lake system or (2) southward migration of the Mojave River between its present course and a more southerly route. Under the present topographic regime, a Death Valley Lake capable of overflowing the bedrock saddle at Ludlow, California and discharging southward into the Bristol, Cadiz, and Danby Lake basins (and eventually the Colorado River) would be over 12,000 km2 in size. Few surface and subsurface indicators exist to support either a fluvial or lacustrine connection. Evidence from deep cores and boreholes drilled in Soda, Bristol, Cadiz, and Danby dry lake basins indicate that a hydrologic connection has not occurred during the past 4 myr. No well-documented paleoshoreline features have been located at elevations corresponding to the above hydrologic systems in Death Valley, Silver-Soda, Bristol, or Danby Lake basins. In the Cadiz, Silurian, and Broadwell basins these features have not been found at all. Therefore, we conclude that a hydrologic connection between the Death Valley-Owens River system and the Colorado River has not occurred along either of these routes since the middle Pliocene.

Restoring Timbisha Shoshone Land Management Practices in Death Valley National Park

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 302-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. S. Fowler ◽  
P. Esteves ◽  
G. Goad ◽  
B. Helmer ◽  
K. Watterson
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
National Park ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Death Valley ◽  
Death Valley National Park
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