Selected Publications on the Sierra Nevada-Basin and Range Transition Zone:

 

Papers:  
2003 Stockli, D.F., Dumitru, T.A., McWilliams, M.O., and Farley, K.A., 2003, Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the White Mountains, California and Nevada. GSA Bulletin, Vol. 115, No. 7, pp. 788–816.
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,v.21 no. 1, p.1-13.
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.
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., Pliocene onset of strike-slip deformation in northern Owens Valley, in prep., to be submitted to Geology.
2001 Surpless, B.E., Stockli, D.F., Dumitru, T. A., Miller, E.L., and Farley, K.A., in final revision, Progressive westward encroachment of Basin and Range extension into the stable northern Sierra Nevada block, Tectonics.
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.
1990 Dumitru, T.A., Subnormal Cenozoic geothermal gradients in the extinct Sierra Nevada magmatic arc: Consequences of Laramide and post-Laramide shallow-angle subduction, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 95, p. 4925-4942.
PhD Theses:  
1999 D. Stockli, Regional timing and spatial distribution of Miocene extension in the northern Basin and Range Province, Stanford University, 239p.
1999 B. Surpless, Tectonic Evolution of the northern Sierra Nevada-Basin and Range transition zone: A study of crustal evolution in extensional provinces, Stanford University, 186p.

 

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