5 Funeral Formation This cross section, like Figure 6, uses topographic data from the DEM and outcrop geology from Workman et al. c. Quartzite, conglomeratic quartzite, siltstone, shale and minor limestone and dolomite beds. Interbedded shale, quartzite, and dolomite in the upper part of the Wood Canyon Formation in the ridge along the north side of Blackwater Wash.Circa 1960. Rainstorm Member contains mixed clastic and carbonate units, and the "Johnnie oolite", a distinctive grayish-orange ooid-bearing dolomite unit in the lower part of the member. The two events responsible for the chaotic appearance of the Amargosa Chaos did not occur until over half a billion years later, during Mesozoic or Early Tertiary time. The middle section contains bryozoans and some brachiopods, while the lower section has no fossils. Natural Bridge Canyon: On the east side of the park . This interpretation is similar to one shown by Hunt and Mabey (1996) in a cross section near Hanaupah Canyon (their fig. Cambrian The petroglyphs here are made possible because many of the rocks in these arid conditions have desert varnish on them. Also in the last few years, several important data sets relevant to a regional understanding of the geology of the Death Valley area have become available. The end result of these forces was the formation of marble that was smoothed over thousands of years by wind and water. Locally, fair dolomite near middle arid at top. Seismic reflection data (Louie et al., 1992) show 140 m of flat-lying section below the 5.12 Ma basalts, this section lying unconformably on tilted and faulted sediments. From Dante's View one can see the central part of Death Valley from a vantage point 5,500 feet (1,700m) above sea level. Eocene and Paleocene A poorly preserved brachiopod assemblage has been found. Consists of a lower lagoonal or mudflat limestone. 32 Carrara Formation As Figure 4 shows, outcrops of Paleozoic sediments along the eastern side of the range are continuous from Tucki Mountain southward along the eastern slope of the Panamints, and these Paleozoic sediments are interpreted to be Basin and Rangestyle extensional allochthons. a. Hornblende quartz monzonite with variations. The lower section contains Early Mississippian coral and the cephalopod Cravenoceras. This eastward propagation is likely to continue with the Pacific-North America plate boundary ultimately moving to the ECSZ, with motion on the San Andreas fault ceasing (Faulds et al., 2005). This relative timing can be seen in Figure 3, where events associated with Basin and Range extension predate deposition of most of the Artist Drive through Funeral Formations. Death Valley is a playground for geology enthusiasts, maybe even more like a Mecca. Several thin limestone layers near the top of the formation at Quartz Spring are fossiliferous. The slickenslides are on the southwest flanks of the turtleback surfaces and trend northwest with a plunge of 10 to 15 (Troxel and Wright, 1987); these structures imply both normal and strike-slip components of motion along the flanks of the turtlebacks. Death Valley is located in three partly overlapping structural provinces (Fig. Saratoga Springs (.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}354054N 1162525W / 35.68167N 116.42361W / 35.68167; -116.42361[11]) is a desert oasis located in southern Death Valley National Park. Rocks now in the crest of the range were metamorphosed to greenschist facies, representing 10 km burial, in the Jurassic, with retrograde metamorphism associated with granitic intrusions in the Cretaceous (Labotka and Albee, 1990). Modern geologists have documented four major deformational events that faulted and folded the Amargosa Chaos.