Source-area dynamics recorded in Pennsylvanian to Early Permian Keeler Canyon Formation, Death Valley-Owens Valley region, California

The middle to upper Keeler Canyon Formation exposed in east-central California is composed of up to 1200 m of mixed-carbonate/siliciclastic gravity-flow deposits that accumulated in a basin inherited from the Antler foreland basin. Based on lithologic and facies associations and on paleocurrent data, this basinal succession is divisible into two distinct depositional sequences related to the evolution of two separate source areas.