Selected Publications on Metamorphic Core Complexes:

 

2005 in press Mattinson, C.G., Colgan, J.P., Metcalf, J.R., Miller, E.L., and Wooden, J.L., Late Cretaceous to Paleocene metamorphism and magmatism in the Funeral Mountains metamorphic core complex, Death Valley, CA, Geological Society of America Special Paper, Convergent Margin Terranes and Associated Regions: A volume in honor of W. G. Ernst.
2003 Egger, A. E., Dumitru, T.A., Miller, E.L., Savage, C.F.I. and Wooden, J.L., , Timing and nature of Tertiary plutonism and extension in the Grouse Creek Mountains, Utah, in, Ernst et al., ed., The Thompson Volume-The Lithosphere of Western North America and its Geophysical Characterization, International Geology Review, v. 45, p. 497-532.
1999 Miller, E.L., T.A. Dumitru, R.W. Brown, and P.B. Gans, Rapid Miocene slip on the Snake Rang - Deep Creek Range fault system, east-central Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 886-905.
1988 Miller, E.L., Gans, P.B., Wright, J.E., and Sutter, J.F., Metamorphic history of the east- central Basin and Range Province: Tectonic setting and relationship to magmatism. In Ernst, W.G., ed., Rubey Volume No. VII Metamorphic and Tectonic evolution of the west U.S. Cordillera, p. 649-682.
1987 Lee, J., Miller, E.L., and Sutter, J.F., Ductile strain and metamorphism in an extensional tectonic setting: A case study from the northern Snake Range, Nevada,
1985 Gans, P.B., Miller, E.L., McCarthy, J., and Oldcott, M.L., Tertiary extensional faulting and evolving ductile-brittle transition zones in the northern Snake Range and vicinity: New insights from seismic data. Geology, v. 13, pp. 189-193.
1983 Miller, E.L., Gans, P.B., and Garing, J., The Snake Range Decollement: An exhumed mid-Tertiary ductile-brittle transition, Tectonics, v. 2, no. 3, pp. 239-263.

 

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