Latitude: N 37°24'16"
Longitude: W 118°18'46"
Length: 1056.9m
Number of Bench marks: 35
Number of Surveys to 2000: 7
Date of Initial Survey: 5 August 1987
Date of Latest Survey: 16 August 1995
Trespass Permission: None needed.
Directions:
Travel north on 395 through Bishop. Continue north on Highway 6 toward Tonopah.
After crossing the Owens River (just before Laws), turn right o nto Silver
Canyon Road and proceed east on paved and dirt roads up the alluvial fan.
The beginning of the line (SC01) is 25 m south of Silver Canyon Road, 2 miles
from the intersection at Highway 6.
From White Mountain Research Station: Proceed west on East Line Road to the
Laws-Poleta Road. Turn right and proceed north until it deadends at Silver
Canyon Road. Turn right and proceed up the fan to the start of the line.
Comments:
This line crosses the main traces of the White Mountain fault zone along
the west base of the White Mountains one mile east of Laws. The line was
extended 183 m eastward up Silver Canyon in 1990.
Results:
Four levelings from 1987 to 1992 are compared in an accompanying figure.
The east half of the line rose nearly 3 mm in four years, relative to the
west half, and then subsided about 1 mm. It is also possible to infer that
the line has tilted westward abo ut 2 microradians in five years.
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