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Published January 2013 | public
Journal Article

The Neoproterozoic Noonday Formation, Death Valley region, California: Reply

Abstract

Because our paper was focused on the stratigraphy of the Noonday Formation and the upper part of the underlying Wildrose Diamictite of the Kingston Peak Formation, we did not dwell on the structural geology, beyond presentation of geologic maps and photographs of our measured sections, and description of structural complexities, where appropriate, in our detailed stratigraphic sections in the GSA Data Repository. All metamorphic tectonites, as a definitional matter, are metamorphic rocks, but it is not the case that all metamorphic rocks are tectonites, or that they everywhere absorb large amounts of penetrative strain. We welcome this opportunity to summarize previous work bearing on this issue in Neoproterozoic strata exposed in the central and northern Panamint Range, and present additional photodocumentation demonstrating that our measured stratigraphic sections are structurally intact.

Additional Information

© 2013 Geological Society of America. Manuscript received 26 March 2012. Revised manuscript received 18 July 2012. Manuscript accepted 28 July 2012. We thank Pavlis for helping to illustrate so strikingly the fact that strain in orogenic belts may be focused into discrete zones. This highlights the necessity to combine careful mapping with geological circumspection in order to minimize the potential for arriving at erroneous, regional-scale conclusions from factually correct, outcrop-scale observations.

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