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Las Vegas Valley Fault Map

This is a map of all the known faults in the Las Vegas Valley. The brown lines are East-dipping normal faults. The yellow line is a West-dipping normal fault, and the green lines are inactive faults.

* Map courtesy of Dr. Wanda Taylor

Quaternary Faults in Nevada (http://gis3.nbmg.unr.edu/OF09_9/)
Online Interactive Map (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology)
 

   

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