Across an expanse of the Nevada desert, in the center of the state ... Its name is derived from its appearance and topography, as it resembles the surface of the moon. It is located in a massive ...

My main interest is in the origin of mountains and elevated topography in continents, primarily in the western U.S. Much of the recent work has focused on seismological approaches to understanding the ...

On an October morning in 2023, a chemical explosion detonated in a tunnel under the Nevada desert was the ... some of these very local conditions, topography and other aspects, would affect ...

Neogene (Miocene-Pliocene) sedimentary rocks of the northeastern Sierra Nevada were deposited in small basins that formed in response to volcanic and tectonic activity along the eastern margin of the ...