Please search for “Las Vegas, NV”.  Navigate around the landscape and take mental notes on what you observe.  You are looking at the Basin and Range region of the western United States. You are viewing a landscape largely formed by regional-scale tectonic processes that began 25+ millions of years ago.  Which type of faulting do you think characterizes the landscape surrounding Las Vegas, Nevada, based on what you have learned in lecture? Hot spot activity   Strike-slip/Transform faulting   Extensional/Normal faulting   Compressional/Thrust faulting

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