Brett walker tuolumne ca
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Sequence 3 in the Nevadaplano paleochannels consists of distinctive, voluminous high-K lavas and ignimbrites of the Stanislaus Group. The Relief Peak Formation in the Walker Lane transtensional basins consists of massive (nonstratified) andesitic debris flow deposits and debris avalanche deposits, with slabs as much as 2 km long, including slabs of the Valley Springs Formation.
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12 Ma, in a full graben along what is now the Sierra Crest, and in transfer zone basins and half-grabens on what is now the eastern range front. However, we show for the first time that Relief Peak Formation also forms the basal fill of a Walker Lane transtensional basin system that began to form by ca. 16-12 Ma andesitic volcaniclastic rocks referred to as the Relief Peak Formation it occurs in all three paleochannels (Stanislaus, Cataract, and Mokelumne) as stratified fluvial and debris flow deposits, with abundant cut and fill structures. Sequence 1 is the most useful for tracing the courses of the paleochannels because it was deposited before faulting began however, it is incompletely preserved, due to erosion along unconformity 2 (with as much as 500 m of relief) as well as later erosional events. In the east-west paleochannels unconformity 1 is the deepest, eroded into mesozonal Cretaceous plutons it is overlain by the Oligocene to early Miocene Valley Springs Formation (sequence 1), consisting of ignimbrites erupted ~250 km to the east in Nevada. Previous work has shown that east-west Nevadaplano paleochannels in the central Sierra have four stratigraphic sequences floored by erosional unconformities we describe distinguishing characteristics between the ancient Nevadaplano paleochannels and the north-northwest-deranged paleochannels of the Walker Lane grabens. In this paper we use detailed geologic mapping to reconstruct the paleogeographic evolution of three Oligocene to Pliocene east-west paleochannels in the central Sierra Nevada, and their progressive south to north derangement by Walker Lane structures: The Stanislaus in the south, the Cataract in the middle, and the Mokelumne in the north. A second paradigm shift occurred in the past decade: The Sierra Nevada range front is formed of north-northwest transtensional structures of the younger than 12 Ma Walker Lane belt, not north-south to north-northeast-south-southwest extensional structures of the Basin and Range. More recent work has demonstrated that Sierran paleochannels are ancient features that formed on the shoulder of a broad high uplift (the Nevadaplano) formed during Cretaceous crustal shortening the headwaters were in central Nevada prior to disruption of the plateau by Basin and Range extension.
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A first paradigm shift occurred ~50 yr ago, when it was recognized that at least some of the paleochannel fill was sourced from the region of the current state of Nevada, and it was proposed that the Sierra Nevada range was younger than the paleochannels (younger than 6 Ma).
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The surveys showed that the paleochannels flowed westward, like the modern rivers of the range it then was assumed that the heads of the paleochannels were at the modern range crest. This combination of traits suggests that bone-crushing Borophagus potentially hunted in collaborative social groups and occupied a niche no longer present in North American ecosystems.Įocene to Pliocene paleochannels of the Sierra Nevada (California, USA) were first exploited for gold placer deposits during the California gold rush (1848), and then mapped in surveys more than century ago. parvus body weight of ~24 kg, reaching sizes of obligatory large-prey hunters and (5) prey size ranging ~35–100 kg. Surface morphology, micro-CT analyses, and contextual information reveal (1) droppings in concentrations signifying scent-marking behavior, similar to latrines used by living social carnivorans (2) routine consumption of skeletons (3) undissolved bones inside coprolites indicating gastrointestinal similarity to modern striped and brown hyenas (4) B.
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We report rare coprolites (fossilized feces) of Borophagus parvus from the late Miocene of California and, for the first time, describe unambiguous evidence that these predatory canids ingested large amounts of bone. Borophagine canids have long been hypothesized to be North American ecological ‘avatars’ of living hyenas in Africa and Asia, but direct fossil evidence of hyena-like bone consumption is hitherto unknown.