Talk:Gold Butte National Monument

Geology Note
I need to write-up the geology of Gold Butte National Monument as it provides geologists and other Earth scientists with possibly the longest continuously exposed section, about 24 to 25 kilometers (15 to 16 mi) thick, of the Earth's crust in the southwestern United States and maybe even North America. The section far thicker than the one expsoed in the Grand Canyon. Paul H. (talk) 22:31, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Go see:
 * Fryxell, J. E.; Salton, G. G.; Selverstone, J.; and Wernicke, B. 1992. Gold Butte crustal section, South Virgin Mountains, Nevada. Tectonics, 11:1099–1120.
 * Wernicke, B. and Axen, G.J. 1988. On the role of isostasy in the evolution of normal fault systems. Geology, 16(9), pp.848-851.
 * Wernicke, B. 1992. Cenozoic extensional tectonics of the U.S. Cordillera. In Burchfiel, B. C.; Lipman, P.W.; and Zoback, M. L., eds. The Cordilleran Orogen: conterminous U.S. (Geology of North America, Vol. G-3). Boulder, CO, Geol. Soc. Am., p. 553–581. Paul H. (talk) 22:31, 31 December 2016 (UTC)