Selected Publications on Faulting in the Basin and Range:

 

Papers:  
Submitted

Colgan, J.P., Dumitru, T.A., Miller, E.L., and Reiners, P.R., submitted, Timing and rate of late Cretaceous erosion and late Miocene extension in the northwestern Basin and Range Province,  submitted to Tectonics.

2005, in press

Colgan, J.P., Dumitru, T.A., Miller, E.L., and McWilliams, M.O., in press, Timing of Cenozoic volcanism and Basin and Range extension in northwestern Nevada: new constraints from the northern Pine Forest Range: Geological Society of America Bulletin.

2005 Lerch, D.W., Klemperer, S.L., Miller, E.L., and Colgan, J.P.; Velocity model from the 2004 Stanford University seismic experiment: a 260 km refraction/reflection/teleseismic survey in the northwestern Basin and Range; 2005 EarthScope National Meeting; Abstr. with Programs, p. 178.
2005 Markman, N., James, J., Fosdick, J., Miller, E., Lerch, D., Klemperer, S., and Colgan, J.; 2005; Constraints on the upper-crustal structure of the northwestern Basin and Range: preliminary results from reflection seismology and geologic mapping in Surprise Valley, CA; Geol. Soc. Amer. Cordilleran Sect. Abstr. with Programs, vol. 37.
2004 Colgan, J.P., Dumitru, T.A. and Miller, E.L., Diachroneity of Basin and Range extension and Yellowstone hot spot volcanism in northwestern Nevada, Geology, v. 32, no.2, p. 121-124.
2002 Surpless, B.E., Stockli, D.F., Miller, E.L., and Dumitru, T.A., Structural Evolution of the Central Wassuk Range, Western Nevada, in preparation.
2002 Surpless, B.E., Stockli, D.F., Dumitru, T. A., Miller, E.L., and Farley, K.A., Progressive westward encroachment of Basin and Range extension into the stable northern Sierra Nevada block, Tectonics, in final revision.
2001 Stockli, D. F., Pliocene onset of strike-slip deformation in northern Owens Valley, in prep., to be submitted to Geology.
2001 Stockli, D. F., Dumitru, T. A., Surpless, B. E., McWilliams, M. O., and Farley, K. A., Thermochronological constraints on the timing and magnitude of Miocene and Pliocene extension in the central Wassuk Range, western Nevada. Submitted to Tectonics.
2001 Stockli, D.F., Linn, J.K., Walker, J.D., Dumitru, T.A., , Miocene unroofing of the Canyon Range during extension along the Sevier Desert Detachment, west-central Utah. Tectonics, in press.
2001 Stockli, D. F., Dumitru, T. A., McWilliams, M. O., and Farley, K. A., Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the White Mountains, California and Nevada. Submitted to Geol. Soc. Am. Bull.
2000 McKenzie, D., Nimmo, F., Jackson, J.A., Gans, P.B., and Miller, E.L., Characteristics and consequences of flow in the crust, J. Geol. Res., v. 105, p. 11,029-11,046.
2000 Stockli, D.F., Farley, K.A. and Dumitru, T.A. Calibration of the (U-Th)/He thermochronometer on an exhumed normal fault block in the White Mountains, eastern California and western Nevada. Geology, v. 28; no. 11, p. 983-986.
2000 Dumitru, T.A., Fission Track Geochronology, in Quaternary Geochronology, Methods and Applications, eds., Noller, J.S., Sowers, J.M., Lettis, W.R., American Geophysical Union Reference Shelf, v. 4, p. 131-156.
1999 Miller, E., Dumitru, T., Brown, R., and Gans, P., Rapid Miocene slip on the Snake Range decollement, G.S.A. Bull., v, 111, p. 886-905.
PhD Theses:  
In Progress Whitehill, C.S., (anticipated 2007), Slip history and magnitude of extension across the Nightingale-Shawave block, northwestern Basin and Range Province, Nevada.
In Progress Lerch, D.W., (anticipated 2007), Crustal structure of the northwestern Basin and Range transition zone:  A geophysical and geological investigation of northwestern Nevada and northeastern California.
In Progress C. Martinez, Tertiary syn-tectonic sedimen-tary basins associated with low-angle normal faults in the Basin and Range Province, western U.S, in progress.
2005 Colgan, J.P.: Timing and Kinematic History of Basin and Range Extension in NW Nevada, Ph.D (160 p.) (U.S. Geologica Survey)
1999 D. Stockli, Regional timing and spatial distribution of Miocene extension in the northern Basin and Range Province, Stanford University, 239p.
1999 Tectonic Evolution of the northern Sierra Nevada-Basin and Range transition zone: A study of crustal evolution in extensional provinces, Stanford University, 186p.
MS Theses:  
2001 A. Egger, Magmatism and extension in the Grouse Creek Mountains, Utah: Evolution of a metamorphic core complex, Stanford University, 40p.
2000 S. Johnston, Normal faulting in the upper plate of a metamorphic core complex, northern Snake Range, Nevada, Stanford University, 60p.

 

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