Ivanpah orogeny
The Ivanpah orogeny was a mountain building event in the Proterozoic from 1.71 to 1.70 billion years ago, preserved in the Ivanpah Mountains and the rocks of some mountain ranges in western Arizona and eastern California. The event is closely related to the Yavapai orogeny and may have had the same underlying causes. Foliated intrusive rocks including granite-gneiss, augen gneiss as well as amphibolite and granulite-grade metamorphism on the sequence of metamorphic facies offers evidence about the extent of deformation. [1]
See also
- List of orogenies
- Geology of Arizona
- Geology of California
References
- Anderson, John B. (1991). Precambrian: Conterminous U.S. Geological Society of America. p. 176-178.
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