Copper Canyon Turtleback@Death Valley
by Bnte Creations
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Copper Canyon Turtleback@Death Valley
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Bnte Creations
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Copper Canyon Turtleback, midway between badwater basin and Ashford Mill ruins,California's Death Valley National Park.
Copper Canyon Turtleback, a large normal fault that separates metamorphic rocks in footwall (green) from overlying sedimentary and volcanic rocks.The Copper Canyon Turtleback is one of three so-called "turtlebacks" in the Black Mountains, named because their curving shapes resemble the backs of turtles. They consist of a core of ductiley deformed metamorphic basement rock (the greenish rock in the foreground), and "upper plate" of brittley faulted sedimentary or volcanic rock (reddish rock in the middleground), and a low-angle normal fault between them
Turtleback displays a doubly plunging antiformal core of metamorphic and igneous rock and a brittle fault contact to the northwest that is structurally overlain by Miocene–Pleistocene volcanic and/or sedimentary rock.
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