Pyramid Lake Fault Zone
The Pyramid Lake Fault Zone is an active right lateral-moving (dextral) geologic fault located in western Nevada. It is considered an integral part of the Walker Lane.
The fault zone extends to the southeast from Pyramid Lake roughly parallel to the course of the Truckee River between the Truckee Range to the northeast and the Pah Rah Range to the southwest.[1]
The Pyramid Lake Fault is the easternmost of a series of en echelon faults of the Walker Lane straddling the Nevada – California border. The parallel striking faults to the west are the , the Honey Lake Fault, and the .[2]
References[]
- ^ Anderson, Larry W. and Fred F. Hawkins, Recurrent Holocene strike-slip faulting, Pyramid Lake fault zone, western Nevada, Geology, November 1984, v. 12, no. 11, p. 681-684
- ^ Faulds, James E., Christopher D. Henry and Nicholas H. Hinz Kinematics of the northern Walker Lane: An incipient transform fault along the Pacific–North American plate boundary, Geology, June 2005, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 505-508 doi:10.1130/G21274.1
Additional reading[]
- Late Pleistocene fault slip rate, earthquake recurrence, and recency of slip along the Pyramid Lake fault zone, northern Walker Lane, United States
- USGS Database
Coordinates: 39°45′N 119°20′W / 39.750°N 119.333°W
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