Golconda Thrust

The Golconda Thrust is a major oceanic terrane that was thrust over central and northern Nevada, North America, in possibly sometime between the late Permian and the late Jurassic.

[1] It is considered equivalent to the Tobin thrust fault.

[3] The time of the Golconda Thrust is not perfectly clear, and it may pre-date the Sonoma orogeny.

[4] Other references suspect it appears to have thrust during the Sonoma orogeny.

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