Eastern Mojave Vegetation Huntoon Valley, Mineral County, Nevada.
 
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See also: Adobe Valley.

Closed basin in Mineral County, western Nevada, bounded on the northwest by the Excelsior Mountains.


Elevation: 5636ft, 1718m.      

Literature Referring To This Location:

  • Adams, K. D., and T. L. Sawyer. 1998. Huntoon Valley fault system, in Quaternary fault and fold database of the United States. U.S. Geological Survey website, http://earthquakes.usgs.gov/regional/qfaults, accessed at 10/20/2006 12:34 PM..
  • Dohrenwend, J. C. 1982. Map Showing Late Cenozoic Faults in the Walker Lake 1° By 2° Quadrangle, Nevada - California. Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1382-D. Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey, 1982.
  • Hanson, Meri. 1978. From Walker Lake to Walker Pass with Fremont's Third Expedition: the Travel Journal of Edward Kern. Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. 21(1):56-65.
  • Higgins, C. T., T Flynn, R. H. Chapman, D. T. Trexler, G. R. Chase, C. F. Bacon, and G. Ghusn, Jr. 1985. Geothermal systems of the Mono Basin - Long Valley region, eastern California and western Nevada. DOE/SF/12230-T1.
  • Stewart, J. H., John E. Carlson, and Dann C. Johannesen. 1982. Geologic Map of the Walker Lake 1° By 2° Quadrangle, California and Nevada. Miscellaneous Field Investigations Map MF-1382-A. Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey, 1982.
  • Tingley, Joseph V. 1990. Mineral Resource Inventory, Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, Navada. NBMG Open File Report 90-1. Reno, Nevada: United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, January 1990.
  • Wesnousky, Steven G. 2005. The San Andreas and Walker Lane fault systems, western North America: transpression, transtension, cumulative slip and the structural evolution of a major transform plate boundary. Journal of Structural Geology. 27: 1505-1512.
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