Catastrophic rock avalanche 3600 years BP from El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, California
The morphology and age of a rock avalanche deposit beneath El Capitan in Yosemite Valley indicates a massive prehistoric failure of a large expanse of the southeast face. The coincidence of ages, combined with the fact that the most recent (AD 1872
The effect of syndepositional deformation within the Upper Permian Capitan Platform on the speleogenesis and geomorphology of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA
Cave and the Carlsbad Cavern. Folds parallel to the Reef escarpment are thus shown to be syndepositional. Finally, this work shows how syndepositional deformation of the Capitan Platform, dating back to the Upper Permian, has influenced the shaping