Geologic map and digital database of the Redlands 7.5' quadrangle, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California.

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description: The Redlands 7.5' quadrangle is located in the southeastern margin of the San Bernardino Basin, an extensional region situated in a right-step-over zone within the San Andreas Fault system. The quadrangle is traversed by several important fault zones, including: (1) northwest-trending right-lateral strike-slip faults of the San Andreas system (Banning Fault, the Mission Creek and San Bernardino Strands of the San Andreas Fault, the San Jacinto Fault); (2) northeast-trending normal dip-slip faults that have downdropped the San Bernardino Basin; (3) east-trending contractional faults of the San Timoteo Canyon Fault zone. Some of these faults bound distinctive packages of crystalline basement rock. Northwest of the Mission Creek Strand of the San Andreas Fault lies an igneous and metamorphic complex characterized by textural and compositional heterogeneity. This terrane, the Wilson Creek block, is strongly gneissose but includes foliated to massive granitoid rocks intimately intermingled with the gneisses. Thin slices of the gneissose complex have been displaced a few kilometers by the San Bernardino Strand of the San Andreas, the modern trace of the San Andreas Fault in the Redlands quadrangle and elsewhere along the southwest margin of the San Bernardino Mountains. The Mission Creek strand is inferred to lie beneath Quaternary surficial deposits along the southwestern base of the San Bernardino Mountains. This fault is the major strand of the San Andreas Fault zone, has about 100 km of right-slip, and has juxtaposed distinctive crystalline rocks of San Gabriel Mountains-type against the Wilson Creek block and the San Bernardino Mountains. The Banning Fault probably demarcates an important boundary between rocks of San Gabriel Mountains-type to the north and rocks of Peninsular Ranges-type to the south. This hypothesis is difficult to test because outcrops of the two terranes are several miles apart and between them the trace of the Banning Fault must be inferred beneath surficial deposits and beneath the San Timoteo beds of Frick (1921). The rocks of Peninsular Range-type are very different from those of San Gabriel Mountains-type, and consist of massive to foliated granitoids of monzogranitic, granodioritic, and tonalitic composition. Much of the Redlands quadrangle is covered with unconsolidated Quaternary surficial deposits of sand and gravel that have accumulated over the last 600,000 years or so. These are thickest on the modern and ancestral flood plains of the Santa Ana River. In the south part of the quadrangle within the San Timoteo and Reche Canyon drainage systems, Quaternary surficial deposits are less extensive and have distribution patterns determined by displacements on the San Timoteo Canyon Fault zone (reverse faulting) and the San Jacinto Fault (strike-slip faulting). In this region, folded and faulted deposits of the San Timoteo beds of Frick, (1921) formed upwarps and downwarps that influenced the evolution of the landscape and its sedimentary deposits. Digital Data: This geologic database of the Redlands 1:24,000-scale 7.5' quadrangle, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California, was prepared by the Southern California Areal Mapping Project (SCAMP), a geoscience project sponsored jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the California Geological Survey. The database was created in ARC/INFO (Environmental Systems Research Institute), and includes the following files: (1) a readme file, (2) this metadata file, (3) coverages containing geologic-map data and station-location data, (4) associated data tables, (5) a browse graphic of the geologic-map plot and map-marginal explanatory information (.pdf file), (6) a PostScript graphics file of the geologic-map plot with map-marginal explanatory information, and (7) .pdf files describing map units of the Redlands quadrangle (Description of Map Units) and their geologic age and correlation (Correlation of Map Units).; abstract: The Redlands 7.5' quadrangle is located in the southeastern margin of the San Bernardino Basin, an extensional region situated in a right-step-over zone within the San Andreas Fault system. The quadrangle is traversed by several important fault zones, including: (1) northwest-trending right-lateral strike-slip faults of the San Andreas system (Banning Fault, the Mission Creek and San Bernardino Strands of the San Andreas Fault, the San Jacinto Fault); (2) northeast-trending normal dip-slip faults that have downdropped the San Bernardino Basin; (3) east-trending contractional faults of the San Timoteo Canyon Fault zone. Some of these faults bound distinctive packages of crystalline basement rock. Northwest of the Mission Creek Strand of the San Andreas Fault lies an igneous and metamorphic complex characterized by textural and compositional heterogeneity. This terrane, the Wilson Creek block, is strongly gneissose but includes foliated to massive granitoid rocks intimately intermingled with the gneisses. Thin slices of the gneissose complex have been displaced a few kilometers by the San Bernardino Strand of the San Andreas, the modern trace of the San Andreas Fault in the Redlands quadrangle and elsewhere along the southwest margin of the San Bernardino Mountains. The Mission Creek strand is inferred to lie beneath Quaternary surficial deposits along the southwestern base of the San Bernardino Mountains. This fault is the major strand of the San Andreas Fault zone, has about 100 km of right-slip, and has juxtaposed distinctive crystalline rocks of San Gabriel Mountains-type against the Wilson Creek block and the San Bernardino Mountains. The Banning Fault probably demarcates an important boundary between rocks of San Gabriel Mountains-type to the north and rocks of Peninsular Ranges-type to the south. This hypothesis is difficult to test because outcrops of the two terranes are several miles apart and between them the trace of the Banning Fault must be inferred beneath surficial deposits and beneath the San Timoteo beds of Frick (1921). The rocks of Peninsular Range-type are very different from those of San Gabriel Mountains-type, and consist of massive to foliated granitoids of monzogranitic, granodioritic, and tonalitic composition. Much of the Redlands quadrangle is covered with unconsolidated Quaternary surficial deposits of sand and gravel that have accumulated over the last 600,000 years or so. These are thickest on the modern and ancestral flood plains of the Santa Ana River. In the south part of the quadrangle within the San Timoteo and Reche Canyon drainage systems, Quaternary surficial deposits are less extensive and have distribution patterns determined by displacements on the San Timoteo Canyon Fault zone (reverse faulting) and the San Jacinto Fault (strike-slip faulting). In this region, folded and faulted deposits of the San Timoteo beds of Frick, (1921) formed upwarps and downwarps that influenced the evolution of the landscape and its sedimentary deposits. Digital Data: This geologic database of the Redlands 1:24,000-scale 7.5' quadrangle, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California, was prepared by the Southern California Areal Mapping Project (SCAMP), a geoscience project sponsored jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the California Geological Survey. The database was created in ARC/INFO (Environmental Systems Research Institute), and includes the following files: (1) a readme file, (2) this metadata file, (3) coverages containing geologic-map data and station-location data, (4) associated data tables, (5) a browse graphic of the geologic-map plot and map-marginal explanatory information (.pdf file), (6) a PostScript graphics file of the geologic-map plot with map-marginal explanatory information, and (7) .pdf files describing map units of the Redlands quadrangle (Description of Map Units) and their geologic age and correlation (Correlation of Map Units).
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Title Geologic map and digital database of the Redlands 7.5' quadrangle, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California.
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