Craig H. Jones

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications. Students italicized

Bogolub, K. R., & Jones, C. H. (2022). Quantifying the cryptic topography of the High Plains. Tectonics, 41, e2022TC007370, doi: 10.1029/2022TC007370.

Ryan, J., A. M. Frassetto, O. Hurd, C. H. Jones, J. Unruh, G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, and T. J. Owens, Unusually Deep  Earthquakes in the Central Sierra Nevada: Foundering Ultramafic Lithosphere?, Geosphere, 16, in press, doi: 10.1130/GES02158.1, 2020.

Bernardino, M., C. H. Jones, W. Levandowski, I. Bastow, T. J. Owens, H. Gilbert, A multicomponent Isabella anomaly: Resolving the physical state of the Sierra Nevada upper mantle from Vp/Vs-anisotropy tomography, Geosphere, 15, 2018-2042, doi: 10.1130/GES02093.1., 2019.

Levandowski, W. B., C. H. Jones, L. A. Butcher and K. Mahan, Lithospheric density models reveal evidence for Cenozoic uplift of the Colorado Plateau and Great Plains by lower-crustal hydration, Geosphere, 14, 1150-1164. doi:10.1130/GES01619.1, 2018.

Levandowski, W. B., and C. H. Jones, Linking Sierra Nevada, California uplift to subsidence of the Tulare basin using a seismically derived density model, Tectonics, 34 (11), 2349-2358, doi: 10.1002/2015TC003824, 2015.

Jones, C. H., K. H. Mahan, L. A. Butcher, W. B. Levandowski, and G. L. Farmer, Continental uplift through crustal hydration, Geology, 43 (4), 355-358, doi: 10.1130/G36509.1, 2015.

Molnar, P., P. England, C. H. Jones, Mantle dynamics, isostasy, and the construction and support of high terrain, JGR, 120 (3), 1932-1957, doi: 10.1002/2014JB011724, 2015.

Jones, C. H., Reeg, H., G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, J. Stachnik, P-wave tomography of potential convective downwellings and their source regions, Sierra Nevada, California, Geosphere, 10 (3), doi:10.1130/GES00961.1, 2014.

Levandowski, W.B., C.H. Jones, W. Shen, M.H. Ritzwoller and V. Schulte-Pelkum, Origins of topography in the western U.S.: Mapping crustal and upper mantle density variations using a uniform seismic velocity model, doi: 10.1002/2013JB010607, 2014

Unruh, J. R., E. Hauksson, and C. H. Jones, Internal deformation of the Southern Sierra Nevada microplate associated with foundering lower lithosphere, California, Geosphere, 10(1), 107-128, doi:10.1130/GES00936.1, 2014.

Levandowski, W., C. H. Jones, H. Reeg, A. Frassetto, H. Gilbert, G. Zandt, and T. J. Owens, Seismological estimates of means of isostatic support of the Sierra Nevada, Geosphere, 9(6), 1552-1561, doi: 10.1130/GES00905.1, 2013.

Farmer, G.L., A. F. Glazner, W. Kortmeier, M. Cosca, C. H. Jones, J. Rosenberg, R. Schweickert, Mantle lithosphere as source of post-subduction magmatism, northern Sierra Nevada, California, Geosphere, 9 (5), doi: 10.1130/GES00885.1, 2013.

H. Gilbert, Y. Yang, D. W. Forsyth, C.H. Jones, T.J. Owens, G. Zandt, and J.C. Stachnik,  Imaging lithospheric foundering in the structure of the Sierra Nevada, Geosphere, 8(6), 1310-1330, doi: 10.1130/GES00790.1, 2012

Schulte-Pelkum, V, G. P. Biasi, A. F. Sheehan, and C. H. Jones, Differential motion between upper crust and lithospheric mantle in the Central Basin and Range, Nature Geoscience, 9, 619-623, doi: 10.1038/NGEO1229, 2011.

Frassetto, A., G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, and C. H. Jones, Structure of the Sierra Nevada from receiver functions and implications for lithospheric foundering, Geosphere, 7(4), 898-921, doi: 10.1130/GES00570.1, 2011.

Yang, Y., M. H. Ritzwoller, and  C. H. Jones, Crustal structure determined from ambient noise tomography near the magmatic centers of the Coso region, southeastern California, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 12 (2), Q02009, DOI:10.1029/2010GC003362, 2011.

Jones, C. H., G. L. Farmer, B. Sageman, and S. Zhong, Hydrodynamic Mechanism for the Laramide Orogeny, Geosphere,7, 183-201, doi: 10.1130/GES00575.1, 2011.

Frassetto, A., G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, and C. H. Jones, Improved imaging with phase-weighted common-conversion-point stacks of receiver functions, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04617.x, 2010.

Mueller, K., G. Kier, T. Rockwell, and C. H. Jones, Quaternary rift-flank uplift of the Peninsular Ranges in Baja and Southern California by removal of mantle lithosphere, Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2007TC002227, 28, TC5003, 2009.

Tetreault, J., C. H. Jones, E. Erslev, M. Hudson, S. Larson, and S. Holdaway, Paleomagnetic and structural evidence for oblique-slip in a fault-related fold, Grayback Monocline, Colorado, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 120 (7/8); p. 877–892; doi: 10.1130/B26178.1, 2008.

Boyd, O. S., M. K. Savage, A. F. Sheehan, C. H. Jones, Illuminating the plate interface structure beneath Cook Strait, New Zealand with receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res. 112 (B6), B06310, doi: 10.1029/2006JB004552, 2007

Gilbert, H., C. Jones, T. J. Owens, and G. Zandt, Imaging Sierra Nevada Lithospheric Sinking, EOS, 88 (21), pp. 225 & 229, May 22, doi: 10.1029/2007eo210001, 2007

Jones, C. H., G. L. Farmer, and J. R. Unruh, Tectonics of Pliocene removal of lithosphere of the Sierra Nevada, California, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 116 (11/12), 1408-1422, 2004.

Wilson, C. K., C. H. Jones, A. F. Sheehan, P. Molnar, O. S. Boyd, Distributed deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand, Geology, 32, 837-840, doi: 10.1130/g20657.1, 2004.

Zandt. G., H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, M. Ducea, J. Saleeby, and C. H. Jones, Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada, California, Nature, 431, 41-46, doi:10.1038/nature02847, 2004.

Boyd, O., C. H. Jones, A. F. Sheehan, Foundering lithosphere imaged beneath the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA, Science,  305, 660-662, 2004.

Molnar, P. H., and C. H. Jones , A test of laboratory based rheological parameters of olivine from an analysis of late Cenozoic convective removal of mantle lithosphere beneath the Sierra Nevada, California, USA, Geophysical Journal International , doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02138, 156, 555-564, 2004. [link is to preprint pdf of manuscript; final print version pdf available on request]

Wilson, C. K., C. H. Jones, and H. J. Gilbert, A single-chamber silicic magma system inferred from shear-wave discontinuities of the crust and uppermost mantle, Coso geothermal area, California, J. Geophysical Research, 108 [B5], 10.1029/2002JB001798, 2003.

Jones, C. H., User-driven Integrated Software Lives: "PaleoMag" Paleomagnetics Analysis on the Macintosh, Computers and Geosciences, 28 (10), 1145-1151, doi: 10.1016/s0098-3004(02)00032-8, 2002.

Wannamaker, P. E. , J. M. Bartley, A. F. Sheehan, C. H. Jones, A. R. Lowry, Trevor A. Dumitru, Todd A. Ehlers, W. S. Holbrook, G. L. Farmer, M. J. Unsworth, D. B. Hall, D. S. Chapman, D. A. Okaya, B. E. John, and J. A. Wolfe, Great Basin-Colorado Plateau transition in central Utah: An interface between active extension and stable interior, in The Geologic Transition, High Plateaus to Great Basin: A symposium and field guide: The Mackin Volume, ed. by M. C. Erskine, J. E. Faulds, J. M. Bartley and P. Rowley, Utah Geol. Assoc. UGA-30/Amer. Assoc. Petr. Geol. Guideb. GB78, Cedar City, Utah, September 20-23, p. 1-38, 2001.

Jones, C. H., L. J. Sonder, and J. R. Unruh, Reply to Comment on "Lithospheric gravitational potential energy and past orogenesis: Implications for conditions of initial Basin and Range and Laramide deformation", Geology, 27, 475-476, 1999.

Sonder, L. J., and C. H. Jones, Western United States extension: How the West was widened, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 27, 417-462, doi: 10.1146/annurev.earth.27.1.417, 1999.

Jones, C. H., L. J. Sonder, and J. R. Unruh, Lithospheric graviational potential energy and past orogenesis: Implications for conditions of initial Basin and Range and Laramide deformation, Geology, 26, 639-642, 1998.

Jones, C.H., and Phinney, R.A., Seismic structure of the lithosphere from teleseismic converted arrivals observed at small arrays in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California, J. Geophys. Research,103, 10065-10090, 1998.

Unruh, J. R., L. J. Sonder, and C. H. Jones, Relation of gravitationally driven lithospheric extension to low slip-rate faults and regional seismic hazards in the western United States, in Lund, W.R., ed., Proceedings Volume, Basin and Range Province Seismic-Hazards Summit, Western States Seismic Policy Council: Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 98-2, p. 167-179, 1998.

Sheehan, A.F., C. H. Jones, M. K. Savage, S. Ozalaybey, and J. M. Schneider, Contrasting lithospheric structure beneath the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin: Initial results from Colorado Plateau - Great Basin PASSCAL experiment, Geophys. Res. Letts., 24 (21), 2609-2612, doi: 10.1029/97gl02782, 1997.

C. H. Jones, J. R. Unruh, and L. J. Sonder, The role of gravitational potential energy in active deformation in the southwestern United States, Nature, 381 (6577), 37-41, 1996.

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

Sheehan, A.F., G. A. Abers, C. H. Jones, and A. L. Lerner-Lam, Crustal thickness variations across the Colorado Rocky Mountains from teleseismic receiver functions,J. Geophys. Res., 100, p. 20,391-20,404, 1995.

Park, S. K., R. Clayton, M. Ducea, B. Wernicke, C. H. Jones, and S. Ruppert, Project combines seismic and magnetotelluric surveying to address the Sierran root question, EOS, 76 (30), 297-8, doi: 10.1029/95eo00177, July 25, 1995.

Jones, C. H., H. Kanamori, and S. W. Roecker, Missing roots and mantle "drips:" Regional P_n and teleseismic arrival times in the Southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California, J. Geophys. Res., 99 (B3), 4567-4601, 1994.

Sonder, L. J., C. H. Jones, S. L. Salyards, and K. M. Murphy, Vertical-axis rotations in the Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone, southern Nevada: Paleomagnetic constraints on kinematics and dynamics of block rotations, Tectonics, 13 (4), 769-788, 1994.

Wesnousky, S. G., and C. H. Jones, Slip partitioning, spatial and temporal changes in the regional stress field, and the relative strength of active faults in the Basin and Range, Geology, 22, 1031-1034, 1994.

Savage, M. K., Li Li, J. P. Eaton, C. H. Jones, and J. N. Brune, Earthquake refraction profiles of the root of the Sierra Nevada, Tectonics, 13 (4), 803-817, 1994.

Jones, C. H., and S. G. Wesnousky, Variations in strength and slip rate along the San Andreas Fault system, Science, 256, 83-86, 1992.

Jones, C. H., B. P. Wernicke, G. L. Farmer, J. D. Walker, D. S. Coleman, L. W. McKenna, and F. V. Perry, Variations across and along a major continental rift: An interdisciplinary study of the Basin and Range Province, western USA, Tectonophysics, 213, 57-96, doi:10.1016/0040-1951(92)90252-2, 1992.

Magistrale, H., H. Kanamori, and C. H. Jones, Forward and inverse three-dimensional P-wave velocity models of the southern California crust, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 14,115-14,135, doi: 10.1029/92jb00494, 1992.

Jones, C. H., Is extension in Death Valley accommodated by thinning of the mantle lithosphere beneath the Sierra Nevada, California?, Tectonics, 6, 449-473, 1987.

MIT 1985 Field Geophysics Course (C. H. Jones, M. R. Nelson, G. Abers, C. Decker, J. Hegley, R. Herrmann, M. Kohn, T. Madden, R. Manikkalingam, J. Matarese, D. Meinholz, P. Molnar, and C. Ruppel) and S. Biehler, A geophysical investigation of the northern Panamint Valley, Inyo County, California: Evidence for possible low-angle normal faulting at shallow depth in the crust, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 10427-10441, 1987.

Nelson, M. R., and C. H. Jones, Paleomagnetism and crustal rotations along a shear zone, Las Vegas Range, southern Nevada, Tectonics, 6, 13-33, 1987.

Books

Jones, C. H., The Mountains that Remade America, University of California Press, 338 pp. + xx, 2017.

Burger, H. R.,  A. F. Sheehan, and C. H. Jones, Introduction to Applied Geophysics,  W. W. Norton, New York ,ISBN: 978-0393926378, 2006.(associated software continues to be updated; reprinted with Cambridge 2023, 2nd edition underway)

Computer Programs

Jones, C. H., R. Ripperdan, and J. Kirschvink, “PaleoMag,” an interactive paleomagnetics analysis code for the Apple Macintosh, 1990-2012 (in use at more than 18 different institutions on four continents), http://cires.colorado.edu/people/jones.craig/PMag3.html.

Book Review

Jones, C.H., Journeys West, book review of "Rough-hewn Land," by Keith Heyer Meldahl, Nature Geoscience, 5 (8), p. 519, doi: 10.1038/ngeo1533, 2012.

Jones, C. H., Review of Exploring the Highest Sierra, by James G. Moore, Geotimes, February, 2001.

Non-peer-reviewed article

Jones, C. H., and J. B. Saleeby, Introduction: Geodynamics and Consequences of Lithospheric Removal in the Sierra Nevada, California. Geosphere, 9(2), 188–190. doi:10.1130/GES00907.1, 2013.

Jones, C. H., H. Gilbert, G. Zandt, and T. Owens, The Sierra Nevada EarthScope Project: A first report from the broadband FlexArray, IRIS Newsletter, pp. 12-14, Nov. 2006.

Jones, C. H., How faults accommodate plate motion [Perspective], Science, 300, 1105-1106, doi:10.1126/science.1084028, 2003.

Wilson, C. K., and C. H. Jones, Using Antelope for PASSCAL field data management, IRIS DMS Electronic Newsletter, 4, no. 2, http://www.iris.washington.edu/newsletter/vol4no2/page3.htm, 2002.

C. H. Jones (on behalf of the CPGB Field Crew), The 1994-5 Colorado Plateau-Great Basin PASSCAL Experiment, IRIS newsletter, v. XV, no. 1, p. 1-4, 1996.

In review or preparation

(Second edition of Burger et al. textbook)

Jones, C.H., The Late Cretaceous Dynamics of the Mojave Waistland, California, for submission to GSA Special Paper entitled Jurassic-Paleogene tectonic evolution of the North American Cordillera, S. Gordon, R. Miller, M. Rusmore, and B. Tikoff, editors. Submitted July 2024.
Jones, C.H. Geophysics of the Sierra Nevada, for submission to GSA Field Guide, The Sierra Nevada: Old or Young?: The Topographic Evolution of the Sierra Nevada, C.D. Henry and C. H. Jones, editors.

Abstracts (past 5 years)

Jones, C.H., Consequences of the Mojave Waistland, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Prog., v. 55 (6), paper 68-9, doi: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-395448, 2023

Jones, C.H., The Mysterious Seismotectonics of the Interior of the Sierra Nevada-Great Valley Plate, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Prog., v. 54 (5), paper 66-11, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-383731, 2022.

Jones, C. H., The Gravitational Potential Energy Construct: Strengths and Weaknesses in Understanding Orogenesis, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, abstract 165-3. Vol 53, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2021AM-369463, 2021.

Jones, C. H., M. Bernardino, A Passive Seismological View of The Coso Volcanic System, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, abstract 16-5, Vol. 53, No. 4, doi: 10.1130/abs/2021CD-363017, May, 2021.

Bernardino, M. J., C. H. Jones, Screening for elastic multipathing effects on teleseismic body waves,  JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020, SSS17-P11, July 2020.

Bernardino, M. J., C. H. Jones, Modeling focusing and defocusing effects on teleseismic shear wave seismic attenuation measurements: Case study of the Isabella anomaly, Am. Geophys. Union Fall Meeting, S41F-0592, December 2019 <https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/623106>

Jones, C. H., The 85 Ma Trainwreck: Deconstructing the debris that made the Cordilleran Orogen of today (invited), Geol Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, v. 51 (5), doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-339562, 2019.

Bogolub, Kyren, C. H. Jones, S. W. Roecker, Finding Focus in the Pn Shadow Zone of the Sierra Nevada with P Coda Migration, Seismol. Soc. Am. Ann. Mtg, Seattle, WA, 25 April 2019, <https://seismosoc.secure-platform.com/a/gallery/rounds/7/details/4094>, 2019.

Colloquia/Talks (since 2010)

Mineral King (campfire talk), “The Hidden Geology of the Sierra Nevada”, Sequoia National Park, 4 August 2018, 27 July 2019.

Powder Keg Brewing Company, "Making the Rockies by Drowning Colorado," Tuesday Nerd Talks, 20 February 2018.

Center for Environmental Journalism and CIRES, CU, "More than just mountains", 8 February 2018

Center for Environmental Journalism, seminar for Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism, 8 February 2018.

UNAVCO, Boulder, "How modern Colorado emerged from the Sierra Nevada," Lunchtime Series Seminar, 2 February 2018.

Sequoia National Park, "Mysterious Origins of the Southern Sierra Nevada," 19 October 2017

UC Davis Werdnesday seminar, "The Significance of the Sierran Orogen", 18 October 2017

UC Press lunchtime talk, "How -- and Why -- Yosemite Changed America," 17 October 2017

Cal State Fresno, Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar Series, "The continuing mysteries surrounding the elevation of the Sierra Nevada", 12 October 2017

Mono Lake Committee, Lee Vining, Calif., ""Refreshments with Refreshing 'Ologists" series, "Water law plus geology", 11 October 2017

Yosemite National Park, "How -- and Why -- Yosemite Changed America", Yosemite Forum, 10 October 2017

Colorado State University, "Making the Rockies by drowning Colorado", 3 March 2016.

Ball Aerospace, Boulder, "Making the Rockies by drowning Colorado", 11 September 2015.

Luxembourg University, "Studying the Mountains that Remade America: The Origin of the Sierra Nevada of California," 6 June 2015.

Denver Museum of Nature and Science, "Making the Rockies by drowning Colorado", 3 February 2015.

Denver Geophysical Society, “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 12 July 2012

USGS Lakewood, “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 13 December 2011

Univ. Kansas, “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 17 November 2011

New Mexico State, “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 10 November 2011 (also an informal tomography talk)

(Lecturer, CIDER workshop, Berkeley, Calif., July 2011).

Purdue Univ. (Crough Memorial Lecture), “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 28 April 2011.

Colorado State Univ., “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 7 February 2011.

C. H. Jones | CIRES | Dept. of Geological Sciences | Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

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