focusing on the southern portion of the sevier thrust belt many thrust faults can be found. one thrust system is known as the garden valley thrust system in the central nevada thrust belt. thrusts within this system include the pahranagat, mount irish, and golden gate thrusts. these thrusts were correlated with the southward gass peak thrust. the gass peak thrust is located in the las vegas range and is a sevier age structure. this thrust may have been responsible for the largest slip of the major belt along that latitude. these thrusts were located all along the same strike. this region showed small scale extension in the cenozoic due to reactivation of the thrusts. such a correlation suggests that the garden valley thrust system has a direct link to the sevier thrust belt. the interpretation of this data led to the central nevada thrust belt as being an interior section of the sevier. this correlation provides evidence that the sevier thrust belt was a result of compression moving eastward through the north american plate.