VML Dating of Colluvial Boulder Deposits, Yucca Mountains, Western USA


Figure Caption:   Varnished colluvial boulder deposits along the west flank of the Yucca Mountains, southern Nevada (upper panel; view E) and optical microstratigraphy of rock varnish from the colluvial boulder deposits (lower panel). Varnish-based age estimate indicates that the minimum-limiting age for emplacement of these deposits is about 46 ka.