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.^[2]

It contains the Havallah sequence.^[3]

Timing the Golconda Thrust

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.^[5]

See also

• Geology of Nevada
• Golconda, Nevada
• Sonomia terrane