GEO 730 MW 10:50-Noon LMR 373

Course Bibliography

Note: Many of the pdfs within sections Late Cenozoic Deformation and beyond were scanned from paper copies before available as electronic pdfs.  If the references appear less than stellar you should consider downloading the manuscripts directly to obtain better resolution figures for presentations.  They are for the most part all available on the UNR library website (e.g. Science Citation Index or the USGS clearinghouse:    https://pubs.er.usgs.gov

Contemporary Strain

Global Positioning System

Garmin, 2001. GPS Beginners guide. A WEB DOCUMENT. (PDF)

Segall, P. and Davis, J.L., 1997. GPS applications for geodynamics and earthquake studies. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 25: 301-336. (PDF)

Useful Website dealing with use of GPS:    https://www.unavco.org/education/resources/modules-and-activities/majors-gps-strain/majors-gps-strain.html#context

And a powerpoint dealing with calculation of crustal strain from GPS measurements:  StrainFromGPS.pptx

Lecture Notes From First Class: Powerpoint

Active Faulting and Seismicity - synopsis

The lecture materials may be generally derived from the following papers. We will return to this topic toward the end of the class to the detail allowed by remaining time. I have removed the references pertaining to individual fault systems and seismicity to the end of this file.

Lecture Notes Second Class: Powerpoint

The essence of the Lecture Notes may be derived from the summarys and obser687Kaustvations provided in the following papers.

Wesnousky, S. G., Barron*, A. D., Briggs*, R. W., Caskey**, S. J., Kumar*, S. and L. Owen (2005), Paleoseismic transect across the northern Great Basin, USA, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B05408, doi:10.1029/2004JB003283. (PDF)

Wesnousky, S. G. (2005), Active faulting in the Walker Lane, Tectonics, 24, TC3009, doi:10.1029/2004TC001645. (PDF)

Wesnousky, S. G. (2005), The San Andreas and Walker Lane fault systems, western North America: transpression, transtension, cumulative slip and the structural evolution of a major transform plate boundary (2005), Journal of Structural Geology, 27, 1505-1512. (PDF)

Koehler*, R. D. and S. G. Wesnousky (2011), Late Pleistocene regional extension rate derived from earthquake geology of late Quaternary faults across the Great Basin, Nevada, between 38.5° and 40°N latitude, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123, 631-650, doi: 10.1130/30111.1. (PDF)

Wesnousky, S. G., Bormann, J. M., Kreemer, C., Hammond, W. C., and J. N. Brune (2012), Neotectonics, Geodesy, Seismic Hazard in the northern Walker Lane of Western North America: Thirty kilometers of crustal shear and no strike-slip? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 329-330, 133-140, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.02.018 (PDF)


Glacial and Pluvial History

Lecture notes from Class: Powerpoint

The notes are derived from the papers listed in section of same name at end of this file

Late Cenozoic Deformation: Inception and Offset

Mojave/Eastern California Shear Zone

Nolan powerpoint- Dixon, T.H., Miller, M., Farina, F., Wang, H.Z., Johnson, D., 2000. Present-day motion of the Sierra Nevada block and some tectonic implications for the Basin and Range province, North American Cordillera. Tectonics 19, 1-24. (PDF)

Kurt powerpoint- Miller, M.M., Johnson, D.J., Dixon, T.H., Dokka, R.K., 2001. Refined kinematics of the Eastern California shear zone from GPS observations, 1993-1998. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth 106, 2245-2263. (PDF)

Neal powerpoint (combine next two into one presentation)

Dokka, R.K., 1983. Displacements on late Cenozoic strike-slip faults of the central Mojave Desert, California. Geology, 11: 305-308. (PDF)

Dokka, R.K., 1989. The Mojave extensional belt of southern California. Tectonics, 8: 363-390. (PDF) powerpoint

Lee, J., Stockli, D.F., Owen, L.A., Finkel, R.C., Kislitsyn, R., 2009. Exhumation of the Inyo Mountains, California: Implications for the timing of extension along the western boundary of the Basin and Range Province and distribution of dextral fault slip rates across the eastern California shear zone. Tectonics 28, 20. (PDF)

Sierra Nevada

Axelrod, D. I., 1957. Late Tertiary floras and the Sierra Nevada uplfit [Calif. - Nev], Geological Society of America Bulletin, 68, 19-45. (PDF)

Moore, D.D. and Hopson, C.A., 1961. The Independence Dike Swarm in Eastern California. American Journal of Science, 259: 241-259. (PDF)

Ross, D.C., 1962. Correlation of granitic plutons across faulted Owens Valley, California. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 450-D: D86-D88. (PDF)

Dalrymple, G.B., 1964. Cenozoic chronology of the Sierra Nevada,California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, 46: A-116. (PDF)
Dalrymple Map (PDF) Dalrymple Fig 12 (PDF)

Christensen, M.N., 1966. Late Cenozoic crustal movements in the Sierra Nevada of California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 77: 163-181. (PDF)

James powerpoint- Bachman, S.B., 1978. Pliocene-Pleistocene break-up of the Sierra Nevada-White-Inyo Mountain block and formation of Owens Valley. Geology, 6: 461-463. (PDF) powerpoint

Huber, N.K., 1981. Amount and timing of late Cenozoic uplift and tilt of the central Sierra Nevada, Californa: Evidence from the upper San Joaquin River basin. U. S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1197. (PDF)

Luke powerpoint- Unruh, J.R., 1991. The uplift of the Sierra-Nevada and implications for late Cenozoic epeirogeny in the western Cordillera. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 103: 1395-1404. (PDF)

Angelica  powerpoint- Wolfe, J.A. and Molnar, P., 1997. Paleobotannical evidence for high altitudes in Nevada during the Miocene. Science, 276: 1672-1675. (PDF)

Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Coleman, D.S., Glazner, A.F., et. Al, 2005, Evidence for 65 km of dextral slip across Owens Valley, California, since 83 Ma, Geological Society of America Bulletin 117 (7-8), 962-968 (PDF)

Nolan powerpoint- Wakabayashi, J. and T. L. Sawyer, 2001, Stream incision, tectonics, uplift, and evolution of topography of the Sierra Nevada, California, Journal of Geology, 109, 5, 539-562 (PDF)

Lindgren, W., 1911, The Tertiary gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 73, 226 (PDF) (PDF - plate 1) (PDF - plate 9)
(It was Lindgren that conluded that north Sierra was tilted toward the west as a rigid block and that the hinge line lay along the present boudnary between the Siera Nevada and Central Valley)

Jones, C. H., Farmer, G. L. and J. Unruh, 2004, Tectonics of Pliocene removal of lithosphere of the Sierra Nevada, California, Geological Society of America Bulletinm 116m 11012, 1408-1422 (PDF)

Wernicke, B., Clayton, R., Ducea, M., Jones, C.H., Park, S., Ruppert, S., Saleeby, J., Snow, J.K., Squires, L., Fliedner, M., Jiracek, G., Keller, R., Klemperer, S., Luetgert, J., Malin, P., Miller, K., Mooney, W., Oliver, H., Phinney, R., 1996. Origin of high mountains in the continents: The southern Sierra Nevada. Science 271, 190-193. (PDF)

Kurt powerpoint - House, M.A., Wernicke, B.P., Farley, K.A., 1998. Dating topography of the Sierra Nevada, California, using apatite (U-Th)/He ages. Nature 396, 66-69. (PDF)

 

Southern Walker Lane

1    Death Valley

Wright, L.A., 1982. The geology of Death Valley. Earth Science, 35: 11-15. (PDF)

next two papers introduce 'turtlebacks' of Death Valley
Curry, H. D. (1954) Turtlebacks in the central black mountains, Death Valley, California, in Jahns, R. H., Editor, Geology of souther California, Calif. Div. Mines Bull 170, chapt IV, p. 53-59. (PDF)

Noble, L. F., and Wright, L. A. (1954), Geology of central sourthern Death valley region, California, in Jahns, R. H., Editor, Geology of souther California, Calif. Div. Mines Bull 170, chapt IV, p. 143-160. (PDF)

James (also do Butler Paper at same time). - Hill, M. L. and Troxel, B. W. 1966. Tectonics of Death Valley Region, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 77, 4, 435-438 (PDF)

Angelica - powerpoint Burchfiel , B. C., and Stewart, J. H., 1966, "Pull-apart" origin of the central segment of Death Valley, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 77, 439-442. (PDF)

Luke - powerpoint Stewart, J.H., 1983. Extensional tectonics in the Death Valley area, California; transport of thePanamint Range structural block 80 km northwestward. Geology, 11(153-157). (PDF)

James - powerpoint Butler, P.R., Troxel, B.W. and Verosub, K.L., 100. Late Cenozoic history and styles of deformation along the southern Death Valley fault zone, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 100: 402-410. (PDF)

Neal - powerpoint Holm, D.K., Snow, J.K. and Lux, D.R., 1992. Thermal and barometric constraints on the intrusive and unroofing history of the black Mountains, implications for timing, initial dip, and kinematics of detachment faulting in the Death Valley region, California. Tectonics, 11: 507-522. (PDF)

Mike - powerpoint Holm, D. K. and Dokka, R. K. 1993. Interpretation and tectonic implications of cooling histories: An example from the Black Mountains, Death Valley extended terrane, California, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 116, Issue 1-4, p. 63-80 (PDF)

Calzia, J.P. and Ramo, O.T., 2000. Late Cenozoic crustal extension and magmatism southern Death Valley region. In: D.R. Lageson, S.G. Peters and M.M. Lahren (Editors), Great Basin and Sierra Nevada: GSA Field Guide 2. Geological Society of America, Reno, NV, pp. 135-164. (PDF)

White Mountains


Stockli, D. F., Farley, K. A., and Dumitru, T. A., 2000, Calibration of the apatite (U-TH)/He thermochronometer on an exhumed fault block, White Mountains, California, Geology, v 28, 983-986. (PDF)

Nolan - powerpoint Stockli, D. F., Dumitru, T. A., McWilliams,  M. O. and Rarley, K. A., 2003, Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the White Mountains: California and Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 115, p. 788-816. (PDF)

Panamint-Saline Valley

Emily - powerpoint Burchfiel, B.C., Hodges, K.V. and Royden, L.H., 1987. Geology of the Panamint Valley - Saline Valley pull-apart system, California: Palinspastic evidence for low-angle geometry of a Neogene range-bounding fault. Journal of Geophysical Research, 92: 10422-10426. (PDF)

Central Walker Lane

Molinari, M.P., 1984. Late Cenozoic structural geology of Stewart and Monte Cristo Valleys, Walker Lane of west central Nevada. In: J. Lintz Jr. (Editor), Western Geological Excursions. 1984 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America, Reno, NV, pp. 219-231. (PDF)


Kurt - powerpoint Ekren, E.B. and Byers, F.M., 1984. The Gabbs Valley Range -- A well-exposed segment of the Walker Lane in west-central Nevada. In: J. Lintz Jr. (Editor), Western Geological Excursions. 1984 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America, Reno, NV, pp. 203-215. (PDF)
  
Hardyman, R.F., 1984. Strike-slip, normal, and detachment faults in the northern Gillis range, Walker Lane of west-central Nevada. In: J. Lintz Jr. (Editor), Western Geological Excursions. 1984 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America, Reno, NV, pp. 184-202. (PDF)

Hardyman, R.F. and Oldow, J.S., 1991. Tertiary tectonic framework and Cenozoic history of the central Walker Lane, Nevada. In: G.L. Raines (Editor), Geology and Ore Deposits of the Great Basin. Geological Society of Nevada, Reno, pp. 279-302. (PDF)

Neal - powerpoint Oldow, J.S., Kohler, G. and Donelick, R.A., 1994. Late Cenozoic extensional transfer in the Walker Lane strike-slip belt, Nevada. Geology, 22 (637-640) (PDF)


James - powerpoint Stockli, D. F., Surpless, B. E., and T. A.Dumitu, 2002. Thermochronological constraints on the timing and magnitude of Miocene and Pliocene extensions in the central Wassuk Range, western Nevada, Tectonics, 21 1028, 10.1029/2001TC001TC0012995 pages 10-1 to 19 (PDF)

Angelica - powerpoint Surpless, B. E., Stockli, D. F., Dumitru, T. A., and E. L. Miller, 2002. Two phase westward encroachment of Basin and Range extension into the northern Sierra Nevada, Tectonics, 21, 10.1029/2000TC001257 (PDF)



Gray, D.S., 1996. Structural contols of precious metal mineralizaton at the Denton-Rawhide Mine, Rawhide, Nevada, in: Coyner, A.R., Fahey, P.L. (Eds.), Geology and Ore Deposits of the American Cordillera. Geological Society of Nevada Symposium, April 1995, Reno-Sparks, Nevada, pp. 263-281 (PDF)

Northern Walker Lane


Luke - powerpoint powerpoint Cashman, P. H., and S. A. Fontaine, 2000, Strain partitioning in the northern Walker Lane, western Nevada and northeastern California, Tectonophysics, 326, 111-130. (PDF)


Nolan - powerpoint Henry, C. D. and M. E. Perkins, 2001, Sierra Nevada-Basin and Range transition near Reno, Nevada; two-stage development at 12 and 3 Ma, Geology, 29, 719-722. (PDF)

Kurt - powerpoint Faulds , James E., Christopher D. Henry, and Nicholas H. Hinz, Kinematics of the northern Walker Lane: An incipient transform fault along the Pacific–North American plate boundary, Geology, October 2007; v. 35; no. 10; p. 943–947; doi: 10.1130/G23868A (PDF)


Trexler field guide article?

Basin and Range

Appearance of fault controlled basins


Robinson, P.T., Mckee, E.H. and Moiola, R.J., 1968. Cenozoic volcanism and sedimentation, Silver Peak region, western Nevada and adjacent California. In: R.R. Coats, R.L. Hay and C.A. Anderson (Editors), Studies in volcanology-A memoir in honor of Howel Williams. Geological Society of America, pp. 577-611. (PDF)

Ekren, E.B., Rogers, C.L., Anderson, R.E. and Orkild, P.P., 1968. Age of basin and range normal faults in Nevada Test Site and Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada, Nevada Test Site. Geological Society of America, pp. 247-250 (PDF)

Axelrod, D.I., 1957. Late Tertiary floras and the Sierra Nevada uplift [Calif. - Nev]. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 68: 19-45. (see prior section) (PDF)

Neal - powerpoint Gilbert, C.M. and Reynolds, M.W., 1973. Character and chronology of basin development, western margin of the Basin and Range province. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 84: 2489-2509. (PDF)

James - powerpoint Stewart, J.H., 1980. Geology of Nevada: a discussion to accompany the Geologic Map of Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication, 4: pp. 136. (read pages 105-115). (PDF)

Angelica - powerpoint Dubendorfer, E.M. and Simpson, D.A., 1994. Kinematics and timing of Tertiary extension in the western Lake Mead region, Nevada. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 106: 1057-1073. (PDF)

Nolan - powerpoint Proffet, J.M.J., 1977. Cenozoic geology of the Yerington distric, Nevada, and implications for the nature and origin of Basin and Range faulting. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 88: 247-266. (PDF)

Mike - powerpoint Dilles, J.H. and Gans, P.B., 1995. The chronology of Cenozoic volcanism and deformation in the Yerington area, western Basin and Range and Walker Lane. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 107: 474-486. (PDF)

Emily - Luke powerpoint Mon Colgan, J. P., Dumitru, T. A., Miller, E. L., Diachroneity of Basin and Range extension and Yellowstone hotspot volcanism in northwestern Nevada, 2004, Geology, 32, 121-124. (PDF)

Nolan - Luke powerpoint Colgan, J. P., Dumitru, T. A., McWilliams, M. and E. Miller, 2006, Timing of Cenozoic volcanism and Basin and Range Extension in northwestern Nevada, New constraints from the northern Pine Forest Range, Geological Society of American Bulletin, 118, 126-139. (PDF)

Kurt - powerpoint Fosdick, J.C.  and J.P. Colgan, Miocene extension in the East Range, Nevada: A two-stage history of normal faulting in the northern Basin and Range, GSA Bulletin; September/October 2008; v. 120; no. 9/10; p. 1198–1213; doi: 10.1130/B26201.1 (PDF)

Colgan, J. P., Dumitru, T. A., Reiners, P. W., Wooden, J. L. Miller, E. L., 2006, Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the basin and range province in northwestern Nevada, American Journal of Science, 306, 616-654 (PDF)

Wasatch

Bryant, B., Naeser, C.W., Marvin, R. F., and Mehnert, H.H., 1989. Ages of late Paleogene and Neogene tuffs and the beginning of rapid regional extension, eastern boundary of the Basin and Range Province near Salt Lake City, Utah: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1787 Chapter K, 37p. (PDF) (Plate 1)

Kowallis, B. J., Ferguson, J., and G. G. Jorgensen, 1990, Uplift along the Salt Lake segment of the Wasatch fault from apatite and zircon dating in the Little Cottonwood stock, in Durani, S. A., and Benton, E. V., eds., Proceedings of the 6th International Fission track Dating Workshop, Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements, 17: Oxford, Pergamon, p. 325-329. (PDF)

Neal - powerpoint Armstrong, P. A., Ehlers, T. A., Chapman, D.S., Farley, K.A., and Kamp, P.J.J., 2003. Exhumation of the central Wasatch Mountains, 1: Pattern and timing deduced from low-temperature thermochronology data: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 108, no B3, p. 2172, doi: 10.1029/2001JB001708 (PDF)

Lack of relief prior to basin and range faulting (ash flow sheets and stratigraphy)


James - powerpoint Cooke, E.F., 1965. Stratigraphy of Tertiary volcanic rocks in eastern Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Mines Rept, 11: 61 p. (PDF)

Stewart, J.H., 1980. Geology of Nevada: a discussion to accompany the Geologic Map of Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication, 4: pp. 136. (see comments on p. 110 bearing on igneous activity). (PDF)

Angelica - Gromme, C.S., McKee, E.H. and Blacke, M.C., 1972. Paleomagnetic correlation and potassium-argon dating of middle Tertiary ash-flow sheets in the easttern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah. Geological Society of American Bulletin, 83: 1619-1638. (PDF)

Luke - powerpoint Garside-The upper reaches of the Sierra Nevada auriferous gold deposits, Geological Society of Nevada Symposium 2005: Window to the World, Reno, Nevada, May 2005, p. 209–235. (PDF)

Henry, CD, Nicholas H. Hinz1, James E. Faulds1, Joseph P. Colgan2, David A. John2, Elwood R. Brooks3, Elizabeth J. Cassel4, Larry J. Garside1, David A. Davis1, and Steven B. Castor, Eocene–Early Miocene paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada–Great Basin–Nevadaplano based on widespread ash-flow tuffs and paleovalleys Geosphere; February 2012; v. 8; no. 1; p. 1–27; doi:10.1130/GES00727.1 (pdf)

 

Busby, C.J. ,  S.B. DeOreo, I. Skilling, P.B. Gans, and J.C. Hagan, Carson Pass–Kirkwood paleocanyon system: Paleogeography of the ancestral Cascades arc and implications for landscape evolution of the Sierra Nevada (California), GSA Bulletin; March/April 2008; v. 120; no. 3/4; p. 274–299; doi: 10.1130/B25849.1 (PDF)


Geologic constraints on amount of extension/displacement


Nolan - powerpoint combine with following too - Thompson, G.A., 1959. Gravity measurements between Hazen and Austin, Nevada: A study of basin-range structure. Journal of Geophysical Research 64, 217-229. (PDF)

Thompson, G.A., 1966. The rift system of the western United States, in: Irvine, T.N. (Ed.), The World Rift System: Report of Symposium, Ottaw, Canada 4-5 September, 1965. Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 280-289. (PDF)

Nolan - powerpoint Thompson, G.A., Burke, D.B., 1973. Rate and direction of spreading in Dixie Valley, Basin and Range province, Nevada. Geological Society of America Bulletin 84, 627-632. (PDF)

Thompson, G.A., Burke, D.B., 1974. Regional Geophysics of the Basin and Range Province. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 2, 213-238. (PDF)


*Morton, W. H. and Black, R. 1975, Afar depression of Ethiopia. Inter-Union Commission on Geodynamics; International Symposium on the Afar Region and Related Rift Problems: Proceedings, 55-65 (PDF)

Stewart, J.H., 1978. Basin and Range structure in western north America: A review. In: R.B. Smith and G.P. Eaton (Editors), Cenozoic Tectonics and Regional Geophysics of the Western Cordillera. Geological Socity of America, Boulder, CO, pp. 1-31. (PDF)
powerpoint 49

Kurt - powerpoint Stewart, J.H., 1980. Regional tilt patterns of late Cenozoic Basin-Range fault blocks, Western United-States, GSAB, 91, 8, 460-464 (PDF)

Stewart, J.H., 1998, Regional characteristics, tilt domains, and extensional history of the late Cenozoic Basin and Range province, western North America, in Faulds, J.E., and Stewart, J.H., eds., Accommodation zones and transfer zones: The regional segmentation of the Basin and Range province, Geological Society of America Special Paper 323, p. 47-74. (PDF)

Rowley, P.D., 1998, Cenozoic transverse zones and igneous belts in the Great Basin, western United States: Their tectonic and economic implications, in Faulds, J.E., and Stewart, J.H., eds., Accommodation zones and transfer zones: The regional segmentation of the Basin and Range Province, Geological Society of America Special Paper 323, p. 195-228 (PDF)

Wallace, A. R. 2006, Sedimentation, faulting, and erosion in the Carlin basin, northeastern Nevada, and implications for mineral exploration and ground water resources, in Rhoden, H.n., Steininger, R.C., and Vikre, P.G., eds., Geological Society of Nevada Symposium 2005: Window to the World, Reno, Nevada, May 2006, in press (PDF)

Neal - - powerpoint Hamilton, W. and Meyers, W. B., 1966, Cenozoic tectonics of the western United States, Reviews of Geophysics, 4, 4, 509-549 (PDF)

*Magill, J., A. Cox, and R. Duncan (1981). Tillamook volcanic series - further evidence for tectonic rotation of the Oregon coast range, Journal of Geophysical Research 86 2953-2970. (PDF)

James - powerpoint Wernicke, B., Spencer, J.E., Burchfiel, B.C. and Guth, P.L., 1982. Magnitude of crustal extension in the southern Great Basin. Geology, 10: 499-503. (PDF)

The Northern Nevada Rift


Luke for Angelica - powerpoint. Zoback, M.L., Thompson, G.A., 1978. Basin And Range rifting in northern Nevada - Clues From A Mid-Miocene Rift and its subsequent offsets. Geology 6, 111-116. (PDF)

Li, Y., Geissman, J.W., Nur, A., Ron, H., Huang, Q., 1990. Paleomagnetic evidence for counterclockwise block rotation in the North Nevada Rift region. Geology 18, 79-82. (PDF)

Luke for Angelica - powerpoint Zoback, M.L., McKee, E.H., Blakely, R.J., Thompson, G.A., 1994. The Northern Nevada Rift - regional tectonomagmatic relations and Middle Miocene stress direction. Geological Society of America Bulletin 106, 371-382. (PDF)


Cenozoic Volcanism


Angelica for Luke- powerpoint Armstrong, R.L., Ekren, E.B., McKee, E.H. and Noble, D.C., 1969. Space-time relations of Cenozoic silicic volcanism in the Great Basin. American Journal of Science, 267: 478-490. (PDF)

McKee, E.H. and Silberman, M.L., 1970. Geochronology of Tertiary igneous rocks in central Nevada. Geological Society of American Bulletin, 81: 2317-2327. (PDF)

Mike - powerpoint McKee, E.H., 1971. Tertiary igneous chronoloy of the Great Basin of western United States;Implications for tectonic models. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 82: 3497-3502. (PDF)

Emily - powerpoint McKee, E.H. and Noble, D.C., 1986. Tectonic and magmatic development of the Great Basin of Western United States during late Cenozoic. Modern Geology, 1: 39-49. (PDF)

Nolan - powerpoint Christiansen, R.L. and McKee, E.H., 1978. Late Cenozoic volcanic and tectonic evolution of the Great Basin and Columbia Intermontane regions. In: P.W. Lipman, C.E. Chapin and M.A. Dungan (Editors), Cenozoic Volcanism in the western United States: a volume of selected reprints. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., pp. 645-673. (PDF)

Kurt - powerpoint Axen, G. (1993) Space-time patterns and tectonic controls of Tertiary extension and magmatism in the Great Basin of the western United States, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 105, 56-75 (PDF)

Neal - powerpoint Luedke, R.G. and Smith, R.L., 1991. Introduction. In: R.B. Morrison (Editor), Quaternary nonglacial geology; Conterminous U.S. Geological Society of America, pp. 75-92. (PDF)

James -  powerpoint Sarna, A.M. and Davis, J.O., 1991. Quaternary tephrochronology. In: R.B. Morrison (Editor), Quaternary nonglacial geology; Conterminous U.S. Geological Society of America, pp. 93-116. (PDF)

Angelica - powerpoint Sieh, K. and Bursik, M.J., 1986. Most recent eruption of the Mono Craters, eastern Central California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 91: 12539-12571. (PDF)

Anonymous, 2001. Geologic History of Long Valley Caldera and the Mono-Inyo Craters Volcanic Chain, California. https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-81/Intro/GeologicMaps/GeologicHistory.html


Luke - powerpoint Bailey, R.A., Dalrymple, G.B., and Lanphere, M.A., 1976, Volcanism, structure, and geochronology of Long Valley Caldera, Mono County, California: Journal of Geophysical Research, B, v. 81, no. 5, p. 725-744. (PDF)

Dilles, J. H., and Gans, P. B., 1995, The chronology of Cenozoic volcanism and deformatin in the Yerington area, western Basin and Rane and Walker Lane, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 107, 474-486. (PDF)

Colgan, J.P., Dumitru, T. A., and Miller, E. L., 2004, Diachroneity of Basin and Range extension and Yellowstone hotspot volcanism in northwestern Nevada, Geology, v. 32, 121-124. (PDF)

Nolan - powerpoint Hooper, P.R. , G.B. Binger, and K.R. Lees, Ages of the Steens and Columbia River flood basalts and their relationship to extension-related calc-alkalic volcanism in eastern Oregon, GSABulletin; January2002; v.114; no.1; p.43–50 (PDF)

Nolan - powerpoint Baksi, A. K. 2004 Ages of the Steens and Columbia River flood basalts and their relationship to extension-related calc-alkalic volcanism in eastern Oregon: Discussion, GSA Bulletin (2004) 116 (1-2): 247–248 (PDF)

Plate Tectonic Models


Kurt - - powerpoint  Dickenson, W. R., and W. S. Snyder, 1979, Geometry of subducted slabs related to San Andreas transform, Journal of Geology, 87, 609-628. (PDF)

Neal - - powerpoint Engebretson, D.C., Cox, A. and Thompson, G.A., 1984. Correlation of plate motions with continental tectonics - Laramide to Basin and Range. Tectonics, 3: 115-119. (PDF)

James - - powerpoint Severinghaus, J. and Atwater, T., 1990. Cenozoic geometry and thermal state of the subducting slabs beneath western North America. Geological Society of America, Memoir 176: 1-22. (PDF)

Angelica - - powerpoint Dumitru, T.A., Gans, P.B., Foster, D.A. and Miller, E.L., 1991. Refrigeration of the western Cordilleran lithosphere during Lramide shallow-angle subduction. Geology, 19: 1145-1148. (PDF)

Luke - - powerpoint Livaccari, R.F., 1991. Role of crustal thickening and extensional collapse in the tectonic evolution of the Sevier-Laramide orogeny, western United States. Geology, 19: 1104-1107. (PDF)

Humphreys, E. D,, 1995, Post-Laramide removal of the Farallon slab, western United States, Geology, v. 23, 987-990. (PDF)

Mike - powerpoint McQuarrie, N. and Wernicke, B. P., 2006, An animated tectonic reconstruction of southwestern North America since 36 Ma, Geosphere, December 2005, v. 1; no. 3, p. 147-172; doi: 10.1130/GES00016.1 (PDF)


Age of Sierra Nevada

Emily - powerpoint Barth, A.P., J. D. Walker, J.L. Wooden, N.R. Riggs, and R. A. Schweickert, 2011, Birth of the Sierra Nevada magmatic arc: Early Mesozoic plutonism and volcanism in the east-central Sierra Nevada of California (PDF)

Nolan -powerpoint Nadin, E.S., Saleeby, J., and Wong, M., 2016, Thermal evolution of the Sierra Nevada batholith, California, and implications for strain localization: Geosphere, v. 12, no. 2, p. 377–399 (PDF)

Kurt - powerpoint Paterson, S. R. and M. N. Ducea ,2015, Arc Magmatic Tempos: Gathering the Evidence, ELEMENTS, Vol. 11,pp. 91–98 (PDF)

Bateman, P. C., L.D. Clark, N.K. Huber, J. G. Moore and C D. Rinehart ,1963, A synthesis of recent work across the Central Part, Geological Survey Professional Paper 414-D, ppl. 45 (PDF)

E. S. Larsen, D. Gottfried, . W. JHaffe, and C. L. Waring, 1958, Lead-Alpha ages of Mesozoic batholiths of western North America,, Geological Survey Bulletin 1070-B, (PDF)

Chen, J. H., 1982, Uranium-lead isotopic ages from the sierra nevada batholith, California, Jour. Geophy. Res., v. 87, 4761-4784 (PDF)

Core Complexes and Early Cenozoic Extension


Neal -powerpoint Coney, P.J., 1980. Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes: An overview. Geological Society of America Memoir 153, 6-31. (PDF)
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Neal -powerpoint Coney, P.J., 1984. Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes; Cenozoic extensional relics of Mesozoic compression. Geology, 12: 550-554. ((PDF)

 Lipman, P.W., Porostka, H.J. and Christiansen, R.L., 1972. Cenozoic volcanism and plate-tectonic evolution of the wetern United States; I, Early and middle Cenzoic. Royal Society of london Philosophical Transactions,, 271: 217-248. (PDF)

Coney, P.J., 1987. The regional tectonic setting and possible causes of Cenozoic extension in the North American Cordillera. In: M.P. Coward, J.F. Dewey and P.L. Hancock (Editors), Continental extensional tectonics. Geological Society of London, London, pp. 177-186. (PDF) 

James -powerpoint Armstrong, R.L. and Ward, P., 1991. Evolving Geographic Patterns of Cenozoic Magmatism in the north Ameican Cordillera: The Temporal and Spatial Association of Magmatism and Metamorphic Core Complexes. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96: 13201-13224. (PDF)

Angelica -powerpoint Best, M.G. and Christiansen, E.H., 1991. Limited extension during peak Tertiary volcanism, Great Basin of Nevada and Utah. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96: 13509-1358. (PDF)

Luke -powerpoint Gans, P.B., Mahood, G.A. and Schermer, E.R., 1989. Synextensional magmatism in the Basin and Range Province; a case study from the eastern Great Basin. Geological Society of America Bulletin - Special Paper, 233: 53 pp. (PDF)

Egger, A. E., Dumitru, T. A., Mliler, E. L. and others, Timing and nature of Tertiary plutonism in the Grouse Creek Mountains, Utah, International Geology Review, 45, 1 -37. (PDF)

Miller, E. L., Dumitru, T. A., Brown, R. W., and P. B. Gans, 1999, Rapid Miocene slip on the Snake Range-Deep Creek Range fault system, east-central Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111, 886-905. (PDF)

Armstrong, P.A., Ehlers, T. A., Chapman, D. S., Farley, K.A., and Kamp, P.J., 2003, Exhumation of the central Wasatch Montains, Utah: 1. Patterns and timng of exhumatin deduced from low-temperature thermochronology data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, B3, 2172, doi: 10.1029/2001JB001708 (PDF)

Nolan -powerpoint Howard, K. A., 2003. Crustal structure in the Elko-Carlin region, Nevada, during Eocene gold mineralization: Ruby-East Humboldt metamorphic core complex as a guide to the deep crust, Economic Geology, v. 98, 249-268. (PDF)

Nolan - powerpoint - Long, S. P., Heizler, M. T., Thomson, S. N., Reiners, P. W., & Fryxell, J. E. (2018). Rapid Oligocene to early Miocene extension along the Grant Range detachment system, Nevada, USA: Insights from multipart cooling histories of footwall rocks. Tectonics, 37, 4752–4779. https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2018TC005073 (PDF)

Henry, C. D. and D. A. John, 2013, Magmatism, ash-flow tuffs, and calderas of the ignimbrite flareup in the western Nevada volcanic field, Great Basin, USA, Geosphere; August 2013; v. 9; no. 3; p. 951–1008; doi:10.1130/GES00867.1 (PDF)


 *Anderson R. E.,  1971Thin skin distension in tertiary rocks of southeastern Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 82, 1, 43-58 (PDF)

*Rahl, J. M., A. J. McGrew, and K. A. Foland, 2002, Transition from contraction to extension in the northeastern Basin and Range: New evidence from the Copper Mountains, Nevada, Journal of Geology 110 179-194. (PDF)

*Gans, P. B., E. Seedorff, P. L. Fahey, R. W. Hasler, D. J. Maher, R. A. Jeanne, and S. A. Shaver, 2001, Rapid Eocene extension in the Robinson district, White Pine County, Nevada: Constraints from Ar-40/Ar-39 dating, Geology 29 475-478. (PDF)

*McGrew, A. J., M. T. Peters, and J. E. Wright, 2000, Thermobarometric constraints on the tectonothermal evolution of the East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex, Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin 112 45-60. (PDF)

*McGrew, A. J., and L. W. Snee, 1994,  AR-40 AR-39 Thermochronological constraints on the tectonothermal evolution of the northern East Humboldt range metamorphic core complex, Nevada, Tectonophysics 238 425-450.

*Wells, M. L., L. W. Snee, and A. E. Blythe, 2000, Dating of major normal fault systems using thermochronology: An example from the Raft River detachment, Basin and Range, western United States, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth 105 16303-16327. (PDF)

*Methner, K., A. Mulch, C. Teyssier, M. L. Wells, M. A. Cosca, R. Gottardi, A. Gebelin, and C. P. Chamberlain (2015). Eocene and Miocene extension, meteoric fluid infiltration, and core complex formation in the Great Basin (Raft River Mountains, Utah), Tectonics 34 680-693. (PDF)

Mesozoic: Laramide Orogeny


Kurt -powerpoint Dickenson, W. R. and others, 1988, Paleogeographic and paleotectonic setting of Laramide sedimentry basins in the central Rocky Mountain region, Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 100, 1023-1039. (PDF)

Humphreys, E., and others, 2003, How Laramide-age hydration of North American Lithosphere by the Farallon Slab controlled subsequent activity in the western United States, International Geoloyg Review 45, 575-595. (PDF)

Neal -powerpoint Saleeby, J., 2003, Segmentaton of the Laramide Slab - evidence from the southern Sierra Nevada region, Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 115, 655-668. (PDF)

James -powerpoint English, J. M. and Johnsotn, S. T., 2004, The Laramide Orogeny: What were the Driving Forces? International Geology Review, 46, 833-838. (PDF)

Angelica -powerpoint McMillan, M. E. , Paul L. Heller, and Scott L. Wing, History and causes of post-Laramide relief in the Rocky Mountain orogenic plateau, GSA Bulletin; March/April 2006; v. 118; no. 3/4; p. 393–405; doi: 10.1130/B25712.1 (PDF)

Coleman, Drew S., Stephanie Briggs, Allen F. Glazner, and C.J. Northrup, Timing of plutonism and deformation in the White Mountains of eastern California, GSABulletin;January2003;v.115;no.1;p.48–57 (PDF)

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Mesozoic: Sevier Orogeny and Luning Fencemaker Thrust


Luke -powerpoint Armstrong, R.L., 1968. The Sevier orogenic belt in Nevada and Utah. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 79: 429-458. (PDF)

Mike/SGW -powerpoint Armstrong, R.L., 1972. Low-angle (denudation) faults, hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt, eastern Nevada and western Utah. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 83: 1729-1754. (PDF)


 Emily -powerpoint Hose, R. K. and Danes, Z.F., 1973. Development of late Mesozoic to early Cenozoic structures in the eastern Great Basin. In: K.A. De Jong and R. Scholten (Editors), Gravity and tectonics. John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 429-442. (PDF)

 Nolan -powerpoint Oldow, J.S., 1984, Evolution of a late Mesozoic back-arc fold and thrust fault, western Great Basin, U.S.A.: Tectonophysics, v. 102, p. 245-274. (PDF)

Kurt -powerpoint Hodges, K.V., 1992. Extension in the Cretaceous Sevier orogen, North American Cordillera. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 104: 560-569. (PDF)


Neal -powerpoint Wyld, Sandra J., Structural evolution of a Mesozoic backarc fold-and-thrust belt in the U.S. Cordillera: New evidence from northern Nevada, GSABulletin;November2002;v.114;no.11;p.1452–1468 (PDF)

James -powerpoint diagamSGW DeCelles, P.G., 2004, Late Jurassic to Eocene evolution of the Cordilleran Thrust Belt and Foreland Basin System, western U.S.A., American Journal of Science, 304, 105-168. (PDF)

Angelica -powerpoint DeCelles, Peter G.  and James C. Coogan, Regional structure and kinematic history of the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt, central Utah, GSA Bulletin; July/August 2006; v. 118; no. 7/8; p. 841–864; doi: 10.1130/B25759.1 (PDF)

Paleozoic: The Antler and Sonoma Orogenys (Roberts Mtn and Golconda Allochthons)

Sonoma Orogeny and Golconda Allocthon (latest Permian)


Luke -powerpoint Gabrielse, H., Snyder, W.S., and Stewart, J.H., 1983, Sonoma orogeny and Permian to Triassic tectonism in western North America: Geology, v. 11, p. 484-486 (PDF)

Luke- powerpoint Wyld, S. J., , 1991, Permo-Triassic tectonism in volcanic arc sequences of the western U.S. Cordillera and implications for the Sonoma orogeny, Tectonics, v. 10, 1007-1017 (PDF)

Nolan -powerpoint Miller, E.L., Holdsworth, B.K., Whiteford, W.B. and Rodgers, D., 1984. Stratigraphy and structure of the Schoonover sequence, northeastern Nevada; Implications for Paleozoic plate-margin tectonics. Geological Society of American Bulletin, 95: 1063-1076. (PDF)
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Kurt -powerpoint Trexler, James H., Patricia H. Cashman, Walter S. Snyder, and Vladimir I. Davydov, 2004, Late Paleozoic tectonism in Nevada: Timing ,kinematics, and tectonic significance, GSABulletin;May/June2004;v.116;no.5/6;p.525–538;doi:10.1130/B25295.1. (PDF)

Paleogeographic Maps of Blake put together by Luke  Blakey Maps All       Blakey Southwest     Decelles_Blakey

Paleogeographic Maps of Blake put together by Neal  the maps

Antler Orogeny and Roberts Mtn Allocthon(Mississippian)

Evans, J. G. and T. G. Theodore,  1978, Deformation of the Roberts Mountains Allocthon in north-central Nevada, (Shorter contributions to general geology), USGS Professional Paaer 1060, 18pp (PDF)

(PDF of data repository item)

Neal - -powerpoint Roberts, R.J., Hotz, P.E., Gilluly, J., and Ferguson, H.G., 1958, Paleozoic rocks of north-central Nevada: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 81, p. 2045-2060. (this really defined the Roberts Mountains thrust and Antler orogeny) (PDF)

James -powerpoint Speed, R.C. and Sleep, N.H., 1982. Antler Orogeny and foreland basin; a model. Geological Society of American Bulletin, 93: 815-828. (PDF)

Angelica -powerpoint Oldow, J.S., 1984, Spatial variability in the structure of the Roberts Mountains allochthon, western Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 95, p. 174-185. (PDF)

Luke -powerpoint Trexler , James H., Jr., Patricia H. Cashman, James C. Cole, Walter S. Snyder, Richard M. Tosdal, and Vladimir I. Davydov, 2003, Widespread effects of middle Mississippian deformation in the Great Basin of western North America, GSABulletin;October2003;v.115;no.10;p.1278–1288 (PDF) (PDF of Data Repository item)


Stevens, Calvin H. and Paul Stone, Correlation of Permian and Triassic deformations in the western Great Basin and eastern Sierra Nevada: Evidence from the northern Inyo Mountains near Tinemaha Reservoir, east-central California, GSABulletin; October2002; v.114; no.10; p.1210–1221 (PDF)


Wise , James M., Correlation of Permian and Triassic deformations in the western Great Basin and eastern Sierra Nevada: Evidence from the northern Inyo Mountains near Tinemaha Reservoir, east-central California: Discussion, GSA Bulletin, October 2003; v.115; no.10; p.1307–1311. (PDF)


PreCambrian Continental Margin and Evolution


Mike -powerpoint Stewart, J.H., 1972. Initial deposits in the cordilleran geosyncline; Evidence of a late Precambrian (<850 m.y.) continental separation. Geological Society of American Bulletin, 83: 1345-1360. (PDF)

Emily -powerpoint Stewart, J.H. and Poole, F.G., 1974. Lower Paleozoic and uppermost Precambrian Cordilleran miogeocline, GreatBasin, western United States. In: W.r. Dickinson (Editor), Tectonics and sedimentation. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, pp. 28-57. (PDF)


Nolan -powerpoint Stewart, J.H., 1976. Late Precambrian evolution of North America: Plate tectonic implications. Geology, 4: 11-15. (PDF)

Kurt -powerpoint Stewart, J.H. and Suczek, C.A., 1977. Cambrian and latest Precambrian paleogeograpjy and tectonics in the western United States. In: J.H. Stewart, C.H. Stevents and A.E. Fritche (Editors), Paleozoic, paleogeograpy of the western United States. Pacific Section, Pacific coast Paleogeography Symposium. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists,, pp. 1-17. (PDF)

Neal -powerpoint Farmer, G.L. and DePaolo, D.J., 1984. Origin of Mesozoic and Tertiary granite in the western United States and implications of pre-Mesoczoic crustal structure; 2, Nd and Sr isotopic studies of unmineralized and Cu and Mo-mineralized granite in the Precambrian craton. Journal of Geophysical Research, 89: 10141-10160. (PDF)

James -powerpoint Kistler, R. W. and Z. E. Peterman, 1978, Reconstruction of Crustal Blocks of California on the Basis of Initial Strontium Isotope Composition of Mesozoic Granitic Rocks, USGS Professional Paper 1071 (PDF)

Summary Papers


Dickenson, W.R., 2002, The basin and range province as a composite extensional domain, International Geology Review 44 (1), 1-38. (PDF)

* Dickinson, W.R., 2001, Tectonic setting of the Great Basin through geologic time: implications for metallogeny, in Shaddrick, D.R., Zbinden, E., Mathewson, D.C., and Prenn, C., eds., Regional tectonics and structural control of ore: the major gold trends of northern Nevada, Geological Society of Nevada, 2001 Spring Field Conference Proceedings and Field Trip Guide, Special Publication No. 33, p. 27-53. (PDF)

McQuarrie, N., and Wernicke, B. P. , 2006. An animated tectonic reconstruction of southwest North America since 36 Ma, Geosphere; December 2005; v. 1; no. 3; p. 147–172; doi: 10.1130/GES00016.1; 11 figures; 6 tables, 1 animation. (PDF)


If time allows, we will return to the topics below at end of class to the level allowed by time constraints

San Andreas System

Freymueller, J.T., M.H. Murray, P. Segall, and D. Castillo, 1999, Kinematics of the Pacific-North America plate boundary zone, northern California, J. Geophys. Res., 104 (B4), 7419-7441 (PDF)

Savage, J.C., W. Gan, W.H. Prescott, and J.L. Svarc, 2004, Strain accumulation across the Coast Ranges at the latitude of San Francisco, 1994-2000, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B03413, doi:10.1029/2003JB002612 (PDF)

d'Allessio, M.A., Johanson, I.A., and R. Burgmann, D.A. Schmidt, and M.H. Murray, 2005, Slicing up the San Francisco Bay area: Block kinematics and fault slip rates from GPS-derived surface velocities, J. Geophys. Res., 110 (B06403, doi:10.1029/2004JB003496) (PDF) .

Antonellis, K., Johnson, D. J., Miller, M. M., and R. Palmer, 1999. GPS determination of current Pacific-North American plate motion, Geology, 27, 299-302. (PDF)

Williams, S.D.P., Svarc, J.L., Lisowski, M. and Prescott, W.H., 1994. GPS measured rates of deformation in the northern San Francisco Bay region, California, 1990-1993. Geophysical Research Letters, 21: 1511-1514. (PDF)

Feigl, K. L. and many others, 1993, Space geodetic measurements of crustal deformation in central and southern California, 1984-1992, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 98, 21,677-21,712. (PDF  PDF)

Argus, D. F. and R. G. Gordon, Present tectonic motion across the Coast Ranges and San Andreas fault system in central California, Geological Society of American Bulletin, 113, 1580-1592. (PDF)

Murray, J.R., P. Segall, and P. Cervelli, 2001, Inversion of GPS data for spatially variable slip-rate on the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, CA, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 (2), 359-3 (PDF)

Bennett, R.A., A.M. Friedrich, and K.P. Furlong, 2004, Co-dependent histories of the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault zones from inversion of geologic displacement rate data, Geology, 32, 961-964. (PDF)

McCaffrey R., 2005, Block kinematics of the Pacific-North America plate boundary in the southwestern United States from the inversion of GPS, seismological, and geologic data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, Art. No. B07401 July 6 2005. (PDF)


Eastern California Shear Zone, Walker Lane, and Sierra NV

Dixon, T., Miller, M., Farina, F., Wang, H. and Johnson, D., 2000b. Present-day motion of the Sierra Nevada block and some tectonic implications for the Basin and Range province, North American Cordillera. Tectonics, 19: 1-24. (PDF) .

Dixon , Timothy H., E. Norabuena, and L. Hotaling, Paleoseismology and Global Positioning System: Earthquake-cycle effects and geodetic versus geologic fault slip rates in the Eastern California shear zone, Geology;January2003;v.31;no.1;p.55–58 (PDF)

Miller, M., Johnson, D., Dixon, T. and R. K. F, 2001, Refined kinematics fo the Eastern California shear zone from GPS observations 1993-1998, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 2245-2263. (PDF)

Bennett, R.A. et al., 1997. Global Positioning constraints on fault slip rates in the Death Valley region, California and Nevada. Geophysical Research Letters, 24: 3073-3076. (PDF)

Oldow, J. S., Aiken, C. L. V., Hare, J. L., Ferguson, J. F., Hardyman, R. F., 2001, Active displacement transfer within the central Walker Lane, western Great Basin, Geology, 29, 19-22. (PDF)

Bos AG and W. Spakman, 2005, Kinematics of the southwestern US deformation zone inferred from GPS data, Journal of Geophysical Research - 110 (B8) (PDF)

Gan W. J., 2000, Srain accumulation across the Eastern California Shear Zone , Journal of Geophysical Research, 105 : 16229 (PDF)

Basin and Range and Wasatch


Wernicke, B., J. L. Davis, N. A. Niemi, P. Luffi, and S. Bisnath, Active megadetachment beneath the western United States, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B11409, doi:10.1029/2007JB005375, 21 November 2008 (PDF)

Bennett, R.A., Wernicke, B.P. and Davis, J.L., 1998. Continuous GPS measurements of contemporary deformation across the northern Basin and Range province. Geophysical Research Letters, 25: 563-566. (PDF)

Thatcher, W. et al., 1999. Present-day deformation across the Basin and Range province, western United States. SCIENCE, 283: 1999. (PDF)

Martinez, L., Meertens, C. and Smith, R., 1998. Rapid deformation rates along the Wasatch fault zone, Utah, from first GPS measurements with implications for earthquake hazard. Geophysical Research Letters, 25: 567-570. (PDF)

Bennett, R. A., Davis, J. L. and B. P. Wernicke, Present-day pattern of Cordilleran deformation in the western United States, GEOLOGY, 371-374, 1999. (PDF)

Hammond, W. C. and W. Thatcher, 2004, Contemporary tectonic deformation of the Basin and Range province, western United States: 10 years of observations with the Global Positioning System, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, B08403, doi:1029/2003JB002746 (PDF) )

Hammond, W. C., and W. Thatcher, 2007, Crustal deformation across the Sierra Nevada, northern Walker Lane, Basin and Range transition, western United States measured with GPS, 2000–2004, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B05411, doi:10.1029/2006JB004625, 12 May 2007 (PDF)

Hammond, W. C., Kreemer, C.,  and G. Blewittt, Geodetic constrains on contemporary deformation in the northern Walker Lane: 3, central Nevada seismic belt postseismic relaxation, preprint, submitted to Geological Society of America Special Paper. (PDF)

Hammond, W. C., and Thatcher, W., 2005, Northwest Basin and Range tectonic deformation observed with the Global Positioning System, 1999–2003, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 110, B10405, doi:10.1029/2005JB003678, 2005 (PDF)

Here are slides that Bill H. once used to summarize .

Bennet R. A., Wernick, B.P., Niemi, N.A. and others, 2003, Contemporary strain rates in the northern Basin and Range province from GPS data, Tectonics, 22, (2) Article no. 1008 Mar 21, 2003 (PDF)

Kreemer, Corné and William C. Hammond, Geodetic constraints on areal changes in the Pacific–North America plate boundary zone: What controls Basin and Range extension?, Geology, October 2007; v. 35; no. 10; p. 943–947; doi: 10.1130/G23868 (PDF)

Here are slides that Corne Kreemer once used to summarize things

Contemporary Seismicity


Urhammer, R.A., 1991. Northern California Seisicity. In: D.B. Slemmons, E.R. Engdahl, M.D. Zoback and D.d. Blackwell (Editors), Neotectonics of North America. Geological Society of America, Decade Map V. 1., Boulder, pp. 99-106) (PDF)

Hill, D.P. et al., 1991. The seismotectonic fabric of central California. In: D.B. Slemmons, E.r. Engdahl, M.D. Zoback and D.d. Blackwell (Editors), Neotectonics of North America. Geological Society of America, Decade Map Volume 1., Boulder, pp. 107-132. (PDF)

Hutton, L.K., Jones, L.J., Hauksson, E. and Given, D.D., 1991. Seismotectonics of southern California. In: D.B. Slemmons, E.r. Engdahl, M.D. Zoback and D.d. Blackwell (Editors), Neotectonics of North America. Geological Society of America, Decade Map Volume 1., Boulder, pp. 133-152. (PDF)

Rogers, A.M., Harmsen, S.C., Corbett, E.J., Priestly, K. and dePolo, D., 1991. The seismicity of Nevada and some adjacent parts of the Great Basin. In: D.B. Slemmons, E.r. Engdahl, M.D. Zoback and D.d. Blackwell (Editors), Neotectonics of North America. Geological Society of America, Decade Map Volume 1., Boulder, pp. 153-184. (PDF)

Smith, R.B. and Arabasz, W.J., 1991. Seismicity of the Intermountain Seismic Belt. In: D.B. Slemmons, E.r. Engdahl, M.D. Zoback and D.d. Blackwell (Editors), Neotectonics of North America. Geological Society of America, Decade Map Volume 1., Boulder, pp. 185-228. (PDF)


Active Faults and Recent Quakes

Mojave

Dokka, R.K. and Travis, C.J., 1990a. Late Cenozoic strike-slip faulting in the Mojave Desert, California. Tectonics, 9: 311-340. (PDF)

Dokka, R.K. and Travis, C.J., 1990b. Role of the Eastern California Shear zone in accommodating Pacific-North Amrican plate motion. Geophysical Research Letters, 17: 1323-1326. (PDF)

Christy, H., 2000. The October 16, 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine earthqake 16 October, 1999. California Geology, 53: 12-15. (PDF)

Haukkson, E., Jones, L.M., and Hutton, K., 2002, The 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake sequence: Complex conjugate strike-slip faulting, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v 92, 1154-2002 (PDF)

Treiman, J.A. and many others, 2002, Primary surface rupture associated with the Mw 7.1 16 October 1999 Hector Mine earthquake, San Bernardino County, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America,, v 92, 1771-1191. (PDF)

Toppozada, T.R., 1993. The Landers-Big Bear earthqujake sequence and its felt effects. California Geology, Jan/Feb: 3-9. (PDF)

Sieh, K. E. and many others, Near field investigations of the Landers earthquake sequence, April to July 1992, 171-176, 1993. (PDF)

Oskin, M., Iriondo, A., Large-magnitude transient strain accumulation on the Blackwater fault, Eastern California shear zone, GEOLOGY, 32, (4), 313-316 (PDF)

Oskin, M., L. Perg, D. Blumentritt, S. Mukhopadhyay, and A. Iriondo. 2007, Slip rate of the Calico fault: Implications for geologic versus geodetic rate discrepancy in the Eastern California Shear Zone, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B03402, doi:10.1029/2006JB004451, 10 March 2007 (PDF)

Rockwell, TK, Paleoseismology of the Johnson Valley, Kickapoo, abnd Homestead Valley faults: Clustering of earathquakes in the eastern California shear zone, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 90, (5), 12201236. (PDF)

Southern Walker Lane

    Death Valley, Fish Lake Valley and StateLine fault zones

Frankel, K. L., K. S. Brantley, J. F. Dolan, R. C. Finkel, R. E. Klinger, J. R. Knott, M. N. Machette, L. A. Owen, F. M. Phillips, J. L. Slate, and B. P. Wernicke, 2007, Cosmogenic 10Be and 36Cl geochronology of offset alluvial fans along the northern Death Valley fault zone: Implications for transient strain in the eastern California shear zone,, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B06407, doi:10.1029/2006JB004350, 13 June 2007 (PDF)

Guest B., Nathan Niemi, and Brian Wernicke, 2007, Stateline fault system: A new component of the Miocene-Quaternary Eastern California shear zone, Geological Society of American Bulletin, v. 119; no. 11/12; p. 1337–1346; doi: 10.1130B26138.1 (PDF)

Wills, C.J., 1989. A neotectonic tour of the Death Valley fault zone, Inyo County. California Geology, 42: 15-2000. (PDF)

Reheis, M.C. and Sawyer, T., 1997. Late Cenozoic history and slip rates of the Fish lake Valley, emigrant Peak, and Deep Springs fault zones, Nevada and California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 109: 280-299. (PDF)

Butler, R.R., Troxel, B.W. and Verosub, K.L., 1988. Late Cenozoic history and styles of deformation along the southern Death Valley fault Zone, California. Geological Society of America, 100: 401-410. (PDF)

Brogan, G.E., Kellogg, K.S., Slemmons, D.B., and Terhune, C.L., 1991, Late Quaternary faulting along the Death Valley-Furnace Creek fault system, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1991, 23 p., 4 pls., scale 1:62,500.

Hill, M. L. and Troxel, B. W., 1966, Tectonics of Death Valley region, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 77, p. 435-438. ((PDF)

Machette, M.N., Klinger, R.E., Knott, J.R., Wills, C.J., Bryant, W.A., and Reheis, M.C., 2001, A proposed nomenclature for the Death Valley fault system, in Machette, M.N., Johnson, M.L., and Slate, J.L., eds., eds., Quaternary and late Pliocene geology of the Death Valley region-- Recent observations on tectonics, stratigraphy, and lake cycles (Guidebook for the 2001 Pacific Cell, Friends of the Pleistocene Fieldtrip): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-51, p. J173-J183.

Hayman , N. W., Jeffrey R. Knott, Darrel S. Cowan, Eliza Nemser, and Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, Quaternary low-angle slip on detachment faults in Death Valley, California, Geology;April2003;v.31;no.4;p.343–346 (PDF)
 

    Panamint Valley, Hunter Mountain,and Saline Valley

Oswald, J.A. and G, W.S., 2002. Neotectonics and Quaternary geology of the Hunter Mountain Fault Zone and Saline Valley Region, southeastern California, Geomorphology. Geomorphology, 42: 255-278. (PDF)

Zhang, P., Ellis, M., Slemmons, D.B. and Mao, f., 1990. Right-lateral displacements and the holocene slip rate associated with prehistoric earthquakes along the southern Panamint Valley fault zone; implications for southern Basin and Range tectonics and coastal California deformation. Journal of Geoph Res., 95: 4857-4872. (PDF)

Smith, R.S.U., 1979. Holocene offset and seismicity alon the Panamint Valley fault zone, western Basin and Range province, California. Tectonophysics, 52: 411-415. (PDF - MB)

    Owens Valley and Mono Basin

Lee, J., Spencer, J. and Owen, L., 2001. Holocene slip rates along the Owens Valley fault, California; implications for the recent evolution of the Eastern California shear zone. Geology, 29: 819-822. (PDF)

Beanland, S. and Clark, M., 1994a. The Owens Valley Fault zone, Eastern California, and Surface rupture associated with the 1872 earthquake. USGS Bulletin, 1982: 29. (PDF)

Reheis, M.C., 1996. Kinematics of the eastern California shear zone; evidence for slip transxfer from Owens and Saline Valley fault zones to Fish Lake Valley fault zone. Geology, 24: 339-342. (PDF)

Bursik, M. and Sieh, M., 1989. Range front faulting and volcanism in the Mono Basin, eastern California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 94: 15587-15609. (PDF)

Bacon, S. N., Jayko, A. S., and J. P. McGeehin, 2005, Holocene and latest Pleistocene oblique dextral faulting on the southern Inyo mountains fault, Owens Lake basin, California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 95, 6, 2472-2485. (PDF)

Bacon, Steven N. and Silvio K. Pezzopane, 2007, A 25,000-year record of earthquakes on the Owens Valley fault near Lone Pine, California: Implications for recurrence intervals, slip rates, and segmentation models, GSA Bulletin; July/August 2007; v. 119; no. 7/8; p. 823–847; doi: 10.1130/B25879.1 (PDF)

Le, Lee, Owen amd Finkel , 2007, Late Quaternary slip rates along the Sierra Nevada frontal fault zone, Californnia: Slip partitioning across the western….., Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1991, 240-256. ((PDF)

The Excelsior Trend

Callaghan, E. and Gianella, V.P., 1935. The earthquake of January 30, 1934, at Excelsior mountains, Nevada. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 25: 161-168. (PDF)

dePolo, C.M., Peppin, W.A. and Johnson, P.A., 1993. Contemporary tectonics, seismicity, and potential earthquake sources in the White Mountains seismic gap, wwest-central Nevada and east-central California, USA. Tectonophysics, 225: 271-299. (PDF)

Central Walker Lane

Wesnousky, S. G. (2005), The San Andreas and Walker Lane fault systems, western North America: transpression, transtension, cumulative slip and the structural evolution of a major transform plate boundary (2005), Journal of Structural Geology, 27, 1505-1512. (PDF)

Wesnousky, S. G. (2005), Active faulting in the Walker Lane, Tectonics, 24, TC3009, doi:10.1029/2004TC001645. (PDF)

Bell, J.W., dePolo, C.M., Ramelli, A.R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M. and Meyer, C.E., 1999. Surface faulting and paleoseismic history of the 1932 Cedar Mountain earthquake area, west-central Nevada, and implicaitons for modern tectonics of the Walker Lane. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111: 791-807. (PDF)

Link, M.H., Roberts, M.T. and Newton, M.S., 1985. Walker Lake Basin, Nevada: An Example of Late Tertiary (?) to Recent Sedimentation in a Basin Adjacent to an Active Strike-Slip Fault. Special Publication of Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 37: 105-125. (PDF)

Neilsen, R.L., 1965. Right-lateral strike-slip faulting in the Walker Lane west-central Nevada. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 76: 1301-1308. (PDF)

Oldow, J.S., Aiken, C.L.V., Hare, J.L., Ferguson, J.F. and Hardyman, R.F., 2001. Active displacement transfer and differential block motion within the central Walker Lane, western Great Basin. Geology, 29(19-22). (PDF)

Oldow , John S. Active transtensional boundary zone between the western Great Basin and Sierra Nevada block, western U.S. Cordillera, Geology; December2003; v.31;no.12; p.1033–1036 (PDF)

Unruh, J., James Humphrey, and Andrew Barron, Transtensional model for the Sierra Nevada frontal fault system, eastern California, Geology;April2003;v.31;no.4;p.327–330 (PDF)
 

Northern Walker Lane

Ramelli, A.R., Bell, J.W., dePolo, C.M. and Yount, J.C., 1999. Large-magnitude, late Holocene earthquakes on the Genoa Fault, west-central Nevada and eastern California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 89: 1458-1472. (PDF)

Sanders, C.O. and Slemmons, D.B., 1979. Recent crustal movements in the central Sierra Nevada-Walker Lane Region ofCalifornia-Nevada: Part III, The Olinghouse fault zone. Tectonophysics, 52: 585-597. (PDF)

Sanders, C.O. and Slemmons, D.B., 1996. Geomorphic evidence fo Holocene earthquakes in the Olinghouse fault zone, western Nevada. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 86: 1784-1792. (PDF)

Anderson, L.W. and Hawkins, F.F., 1984. Recurrent Holocene strike-slip faulting, Pyramid Lake Fault zone, western Nevada. Geology, 12: 681-684. (PDF)

Briggs*, R. W. and S. G. Wesnousky, Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleoearthquake activity of the Olinghouse fault zone, Nevada (2005), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 95, 1301-1313. (PDF)

Briggs*, R. W., and S. G. Wesnousky (2004), Late-Pleistocene fault slip rate, earthquake recurrence, and recency of slip along the Pyramid Lake fault, northern Walker Lane belt, USA, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002717. (PDF)

Wills, C. J. and Borchardt, G., (1993) Holocene slip rate and earthquake recurrence on the Honey Lake fault zone, northeasteaster n California, Geology, 21, 853-856 (PDF)

Basin and Range

John W. Bell, S. John Caskey, Alan R. Ramelli, and Luca Guerrieri, 2004, Pattern and Rates of Faulting in the Central Nevada Seismic Belt, and Paleoseismic Evidence for Prior Beltlike Behavior, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2004 94: 1229-1254 (PDF)

Doser, D.I., 1985. Source parameters and faulting processesof the 1959 Hebgen Lake, Montana, earthquake sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research, 90(4537-4555). (PDF)

Doser, D.I., 1988. Source parameters of earthquakes in the Nevada seismic zone, 1915-1943. Journal of Geophysical Research, 93: 15001-15015. (PDF)

Caskey, S. J., Bell, J., Wesnousky, S. G., Ramelli, A.R. (2004), Historic surface faulting and paleoseismicity in the area of the 1954 Rainbow Mountain – Stillwater earthquake sequence, Central Nevada, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 94, 1255-1275. (PDF)

Crone, A. et al., 1987. Surface faulting accompanyingthe Borah Peak earthquake and segmentation of the Lost River Fault, central Idaho. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 77: 739-770. (PDF)

Ichinose G.I., John G. Anderson, Ken D. Smith, and Yuehua Zeng, 2003, Source Parameters of Eastern California and Western Nevada Earthquakes from Regional Moment Tensor Inversion, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America,  2003 93: 61-84. (PDF)

Personius, S. F.  and Shannon A. Mahan, 2005, Unusually Low Rates of Slip on the Santa Rosa Range Fault Zone, Northern Nevada, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2005 95: 319-333. (PDF)

Suter, M.  and Juan Contreras, 2002, Active Tectonics of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico (Southern Basin and Range Province) and the 3 May 1887 Mw 7.4 Earthquake , Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2002 92: 581-589. (PDF)

Suter, M. Structural Configuration of the Otates Fault (Southern Basin and Range Province) and Its Rupture in the 3 May 1887 MW 7.5 Sonora, Mexico, Earthquake, Seismological Society of America,  2008 98: 2879-2893 (PDF)

Witkind, I.J., Myers, W.B., Hadley, J.B., Hamiton, W. and Fraser, G.D., 1964. Geologic features of the earthquake at Hebgen Lake, Montana, August 17, 1959. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 52: 163-180. (PDF)

Caskey, S. J., Wesnousky, S. G., Zhang, P., and D.B. Slemmons (1996) Surface faulting of the 1954 Fairview Peak (Ms 7.2) and Dixie Valley (Ms 6.8) Earthquakes, Central Nevada, Bulletin of the Seismological Society ofAmerica, 86, 761-787 (PDF)

Wesnousky, S. G., Barron*, A. D., Briggs*, R. W., Caskey**, S. J., Kumar*, S. and L. Owen (2005), Paleoseismic transect across the northern Great Basin, USA, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B05408, doi:10.1029/2004JB003283. (PDF)

Wasatch & Yellowstone


Machette, M.N., Personius, S.F. and Nelson, A.R., 1992. Paleoseismology of the Wasatch fault zone; a summary of recent investigations, interpretations, and conclusions. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1500-A-J: E1-E20. (PDF)

McCalpin, J.P. and Nishenko, S.P., 1996. Holocene paleoseismicity, temporal clustering, and probabilities of future large (M>7) earthquakes on the Wasatch fault zone, Utah. Journal of Geophysical Research, 101: 6233-6253. (PDF)

Bruhn, R. L., DuRoss, C. B., Harris, R. A., and W. R. Lund, 2005. Neotectonics and paleoseismology of the Wasatch Fault, Utah, in Pederson, J. and Dehler, C.M., Interior of the Western United States: Geological Socity of America Field Guide, 20 Pages (PDF)

Waite, G. P., and R. B. Smith, Seismotectonics and stress field of the Yellowstone volcanic plateau from earthquake first-motions and other indicators, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B02301, doi:10.1029/2003JB002675 (PDF)



Glacial and Pluvial History

Oxygen-Isotope Record

Martinson, M.D. et al., 1987. Age dating and the orbital theorey of the ice ages: development of a high-resolution 0 to 3000,000 year chronostratigraphy. Quaternary Research, 27: 1-29. (PDF)

Basin and Range Glaciation

Osborn, G. and Bevis, K., 2001. Glaciation in the Great Basin of the western United States. Quaternary Science Reviews, 13: 1377-1410. (PDF)

Sierran Glaciation


Blackwelder, E.B., 1931. Pleistocene glaciation in the Sierra Nevada and Basin Ranges. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 42: 865-922. (PDF)
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Sharp, R.P. and Birman, J.H., 1963. Additions to classical sequence of Pleistocene glaciations, Sierra Nevada, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 74: 1079-1086. (PDF)

Gillespie, A.R., Clark, M.M. and Burke, R.M., 1999. Eliot Blackwelder and the alpine glaciations of Sierra Nevada. Geological Society of America Bulletin-Special paper, 338: 443-452. (PDF)

Bursik, M.J., 1993. Late Pleistocene glaciation of Mono Basin, California. Quaternary Research, 39: 24-35. (PDF)

Phillips, F.M. et al., 1990. Cosmogenic chlorine-36 chronologyh for glacial deposits at Blody Canyon, eastern Sierra Nevada. Science, 248: 1529. (PDF)

Gardner, J.V., Mayer, L.A., Hughes, C. and Clarke, J.E., 2000. Morphology and processes in Lake Tahoe (California-Nevada). Geological Society of America Bulletin, 112: 736-746. (PDF - 0.4 MB) .

Ruby-East Humboldts

Sharp, R.P., 1938. Pleistocene glaciation in the Ruby-East Humboldt range, northeastern Nevada. Journal of Geomorphology, 1: 296-323. (PDF)

Wayne, W.J., 1984. Glacial chronology of the Ruby Mountains - East Humboldt Range, Nevada. Quaternary Research, 21: 286-303. (PDF)

Pluvial Lake History


Reheis, M. Map of pluvial lakes of western U.S. Smithsonian publication (PDF)

Hunt, C. B., 1980, .K.Gilberts Lake Bonneville Stdies, GSA Special Paper 183, 45-59 (PDF)

Morrison, R.B., 1991. Introduction. In: R.B. Morrison (Editor), Quaternary nonglacial geology; Conterminous U.S. Geological Society of America, pp. 1-12. (PDF)

Adams, K.D. and Wesnousky, S.G., 1998. Shoreline processes and the age of the Lake Lahontan highstand in the Jessup Embayment, Nevada. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 110: 1318-1332. (PDF)

Adams, K.D. and others, 1999, Isostatic Rebound, active fauling, and potential geoorphic effects in Lake Lahontan basin, Nevada and California, SA Bulletin, 111, 1739-1756 (PDF)

Benson, and many others, 1990, Chronology of expansin and contrction of four Great Bsin Lake Systems during the past 35,000 years, Palaeogeograpy, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeocology, 78, 241-286. (PDF)

Reheis, M., 1999. Highest pluvial-lake shorelines and Pleistocene climate of the western Great Basin. Quaternary Research, 52: 196-205. (PDF)

Reheis, M.C., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Reynolds, R.L., Repenning, C.A., and Mifflin, M.D., 2002, Pliocene to middle Pleistocene lakes in the western Great Basin: Ages and connections, in Hershler, R., Madsen, D., and Currey, D.R., eds., Great Basin Aquatic Systems History: Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, Contributions to the Earth Sciences no. 33, p. 53-108. (PDF)

Adams, K. D. and others, 1999, Isostatic rebound, active faulting, and potential geomorphic effects in Lake Lahontan Basin, Nevada and California, GSA Bulletin 111, 1739-1756 ((PDF)


 

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