A large anticline and syncline located near the mouth of Mazourka Canyon and formed during the early Mesozoic are broken by several faults of Tertiary age. These faults are almost parallel with the scarp formed at the time of the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake. Reconstruction of folds indicates that the best-exposed fault is normal and that vertical movement east of Kearsarge has exceeded 10,000 ft. Little

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if any strike-slip movement has taken place on this or closely associated faults.

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