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Weiss & Noble 1989
Weiss, S.I. and Noble, D.C. (1989). Stonewall Mountain volcanic center, southern Nevada: Stragraphic, structural, and facies relations of outflow sheets, near-vent tuffs, and intracaldera units. Journal of Geophysical Research 94: doi: 10.1029/88JB04083. issn: 0148-0227.

Directly south and southeast of Stonewall Mountain, Nevada, a depression and north facing caldera scarp were formed during and (or) after eruption of the Spearhead Member of the late Miocene Stonewall Flat Tuff. Abundant large lithic and juevnile blocks are present in the Spearhead Member within 0.5 km of this topographic margin but absent elsewhere in the ash-flow sheet, consistent with eruption from vents in the Stonewall Mountain area. Within about 100,000 years, comendite tuff of the overlying Civet Cat Canyon Member of the Stonewall Flat Tuff buried the depression and associated scarp. The Civet Cat Canyon Member is traceable continuously to the north from an outflow sheet capping northwestern Pahute Mesa, into near-vent tuff on the southeastern flank of Stonewall Mountain. Proximal outflow-sheet tuff locally exhibits strong rheomorphic disruption and is overlain without a cooling break by surge, flow, and fall deposits of trachytic composition. Much of Stonewall Mountain is composed of welded tuff and megabreccia interpreted as intracaldera tuff of the Civet Cat Canyon Member, strongly suggesting that the vent area of the member was largely within Stonewall Mountain. Welded tuff of trachytic composition comprises an important part of the intracaldera Civet Cat Canyon Member, which was intruded by dikes and plugs of trachyte and rhyolite. Juvenile inclusions of basalt dispersed in near vent facies trachyte tuff provide direct evidence for the high-level involvement of basaltic magma in the evolution of the highly potassic Stonewall mountain center. Complex discordant compaction foliations and the widespread presence of megabreccia within the caldera tuff suggest, following Foley (1978), cauldron subsidence by piecemeal collapse during eruption of the Civet Cat Canyon Member. The elevation of intracaldera tuff and intrusions in Stonewall Mountain above the surrounding ashflow sheet suggests a significant amount of magmatic uplift, perhaps involving the emplacement of plugs, dikes, and small stocks within the intracaldera tuff prism. ¿ American Geophysical Union

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Volcanology, General or miscellaneous, Information Related to Geologic Time, Cenozoic, Information Related to Geographic Region, North America, Volcanology, Ash deposits
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