The inferred relationship between the Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault zone and the West Valley fault zone (specifically, the Taylorsville and Granger faults). Vertical motion on the west-dipping Wasatch fault zone has uplifted the Wasatch Range and down dropped Salt Lake Valley. The West Valley fault zone is antithetic to the Wasatch fault zone to the east, forming a V-shaped graben. Modified from UGS Special Study 149 (Hylland and others, 2014).
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