Selected Publications on the Western U.S.:

 

2003 Hourigan, J.K., Ernst, W.G., Inan, E.E., 2003, Thermal relaxation of a magmatic arc complex, Mount Barcroft area, eastern California: 40Ar/39Ar Geochronologic study of hornblende and biotite from igneous and metamorphic rocks, International Geological Review v. 45, no. 10, p. 863-885.
2002 E.L. Miller, M. Gelman, L. Parfenof and J. Hourigan, Mesozoic northern circum-Pacific magmatism-A comparison between NE Russia and the North American Cordillera across the Bering Strait, in, Miller, E.L., Grantz, A., and Klemperer, S., eds., Tectonic evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea-Arctic Margin and adjacent landmasses, Geological Society of America Special Paper, in press.
1997 Miller, E.L.and Gans, P.B., The Cordillera of western North America, in, van der Pluijm, B.A. and Marshak, S., Earth Structure-Introduction to Strructural Geology and Tecrtonics, McGraw Hill, p. 424-429.
1996 Tagami, T., and T.A. Dumitru, Provenance and thermal history of the Franciscan accretionary complex: Constraints from zircon fission track thermochronology, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, p. 11,353-11364.
1993 Smith, D.L., Wyld, S.J., Miller, E.L., and Wright, J.E., Progression and timing of Mesozoic crustal shortening in the northern Great Basin, western U.S.A., in Dunne, G. and McDougall, eds., SEPM Pacific Section Special Volume: Mesozoic Paleogeography of the Western United States, II v. 71, p. 389-405.
1992 Miller, E.L., Miller, M.M., Stevens, C.H., Wright, J.E., and Madrid, R.J.J., Late Paleozoic Tectonic Evolution of the western U.S. Cordillera. In, Burchfiel and others, eds., The Cordilleran Orogen: Coterminous U.S.: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. G-3, p. 57-106.
1991 Dumitru, T.A., Gans, P.B., Foster, D.A.and Miller, E.L., Refrigeration of the western Cordillera lithosphere during Laramide shallow-angle subduction, Geology v. 19, p. 1145- 1148.
1991 Dumitru, T.A., Effects of subduction parameters on geothermal gradients in forearcs, with an application to Franciscan subduction in California, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 96, p. 621-641.
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.
1990 Smith, D.L. and Miller, E.L., Late Paleozoic extension in the Great Basin, western United States, Geology v. 17, p. 712-715.
1990 Miller, E.L. and Gans, P.B., Comment and Reply on "Cretaceous crustal structure and metamorphism in the hinterland of the Sevier thrust belt, western U.S. Cordillera, Geology v. 18, p. 576-578.
1989 Turner, J.W., Madrid, R.J., and Miller, E.L., Reply on "Roberts Mountains allochthon: Stratigraphic comparison with lower Paleozoic outer continental margin strata of the northern Canadian Cordillera, Geology v. 17, p. 1063-1064.
1989 Turner, J.W., Madrid, R.J. and Miller, E.L., Roberts Mountains allochthon: Similarities with coeval outer miogeoclinal strata in the Northern Canadian Cordillera, Geology v. 17, p. 341-344.
1989 Miller, E.L., and Gans, P.B., Cretaceous crustal structure and metamorphism in the hinterland of The Sevier thrust belt, western U.S. Cordillera, Geology v. 17, p. 59-62.
1989 Blake, M.C. Jr., Bruhn, R.C.,Miller, E.L.,Moores, E.M.,Smithson, S. and Speed, R., with contributions from Griscom, A., Hill, D.P., Jones, D.L., Lachenbruch, A.H., McCulloch, D.D., Stauber, D., Smith, R.B., Leenen, W.P., Saleeby, J.B., , and Continent-Ocean Transect C-1, Northern California and Wyoming. Geological Society of America Centennial Continent-Ocean Transect #12, maps, cross-sections plus text.
1989 Dumitru, T.A., Constraints on uplift in the Franciscan subduction complex from apatite fission track analysis, Tectonics, v. 8, p. 197-220.
1988 Dumitru, T.A., Subnormal geothermal gradients in the Great Valley forearc basin, California, during Franciscan subduction: A fission track study, Tectonics, v. 7, p. 1201-1221.
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 Tomlinson, A.J., Miller, E.L., Holdsworth, B.K., and Whiteford, W.B., Structure of the Havallah sequence, Golconda allochthon, Nevada: Evidence for prolonged evolution in an accretionary prism: Discussion and Reply. Geol. Soc. of Amer. Bull., v. 98, pp. 615- 617.
1984 Miller, E.L., Holdsworth, B.K., Whiteford, W.B., Rodgers, D., Stratigraphy and structure of the Schoonover sequence, northeastern Nevada: Implications for Paleozoic Plate Margin Tectonics. Geol. Soc. of Amer. Bull., v. 95, pp. 1063-1076.
1983 Miller, E.L., and Larue, D.K., Ordovician Quartzite in the Roberts Mountains allochthon, Nevada: Deep Sea fan deposits derived from cratonal North America. In Steven, C. ed., Pre-Jurassic rocks in Cordilleran allochthonous terranes, Soc. Econ. Paleont. and Mineral. Pacific Section Special Publication, pp. 91-102.
1982 Miller, E.L., Kanter, L. Larue, D.K., Turner, R.J., Murchey, B. and Jones, D.L., Structural fabric of the Paleozoic Golconda allochthon, Antler Peak quadrangle, Nevada: Progressive deformation of an oceanic sedimentary assemblage. Jour. Geophys. Res., pp. 3795-3804.

 

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