GP41A-0775,
Ostos, L., and S. K. Park, Magnetotelluric Transect Through Yosemite Reveals
Evidence of Sierran Delamination, AM poster
Fall AGU, December 2007, San Francisco
- Clark, M. K., and K. A. Farley, Sierra Nevada river incision from apatite 4He/3He thermochronometry, Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract T31E-03, 2007.
- Harig, C., P. Molnar, and G. Houseman, The growth of Rayleigh-Taylor instability under a shear-stress free top boundary condition, Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract T31E-03, 2007.
- Levandowski,
W., C. Jones, G. Nolet, B. Phinney, Mysterious Moho Beneath the Southern
Sierra Nevada, Analyzed with Beam-Formed Receiver Functions, Eos
Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract T33A-1148,
2007
- Ostos, L., and S.K. Park, Magnetotelluric Transect Through Yosemite National Park Provides a First Look at Deep Crust and Upper Mantle Electrical Conductivity, Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract T31E-03, 2007.
- Saleeby, J., The western extent of the Sierra Nevada batholith in the Great Valley basement and its significance in underlying mantle dynamics, Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract T31E-02, 2007.
IRIS Meeting, 19-21 June 2003, Fish Camp, CA: (click for abstract)
- Mihai N. Ducea, Jason Saleeby, Crustal production and loss in continental
magmatic arcs; Evidence from the Sierra Nevada (talk, 4:30 Saturday, Salon V
and VI)
- Craig
H. Jones, G. Lang Farmer, Peter Molnar, Jeffrey R. Unruh, Delamination
of the Sierra Nevada: Seismological observations and tectonic implications (poster)
[pdf version of poster online,
2.3 Mb, click here]
- George
Zandt, Hersh Gilbert, Thomas J. Owens, Drip Drag? (poster)
Other papers from the SierraDrip/SNEP groups: (most recent first)
- Nadin, E.S. and J.B. Saleeby. Quaternary reactivation of the Kern Canyon fault system, southern Sierra Nevada, California. Geological Society Of America Bulletin, 122 (9-10), 1671-1685, 2010.
- Chapman, A.D., S. Kidder, J. B. Saleeby, and M. N. Ducea, Role of extrusion of the Rand and Sierra de Salinas schists in Late Cretaceous extension and rotation of the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity. Tectonics, 29, TC5006, doi:10.1029/2009TC002597, 2010
- Ducea, M.N., and Barton, M.N., Igniting flare-up events in Cordilleran
arcs, Geology, 35 (11),1047-1050, 2007.
- Horodinksy, Y, Lee, C-T., and Ducea, M.N.,
An arc origin for Archean high MgO "eclogite" xenoliths? Archean
continent formation by accretion of arc lithospheres and underthrusting
of oceanic lithosphere, Earth
and Planetary Sciences Letters, v. 256, 3-4, 510-520, 2007.
- Brady, R.J., Ducea, M.N., Kidder S. and J. Saleeby. The distribution of
radiogenic heat production as a function of depth in the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California. Lithos, 86(3-4), 197-204, 2006.
- Cecil, M.R., M. N. Ducea, and P. W. Reiners, and C. G. Chase, Cenozoic
exhumation of the northern Sierra Nevada, California, from (U-Th)/He thermochronology,
Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 118 (11-12): 1481-1488, 2006.
- Zeng, L., Saleeby, J., and Ducea, M.N., Non-modal crustal anatexis during
the formation of migmatites, southern Sierra Nevada, California, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 150,
386-402, 2005
- Ducea, M.N., Saleeby, J., Morrison, J., and V.A. Valencia, Subducted carbonates
and their role in the metasomatism of mantle wedges: An example from California, American
Mineralogist, 90, 864-870, 2005.
- Clark, M. K., G. Maheo, J. Saleeby,
and K. A. Farley, The non-equilibrium landscape of the southern Sierra
Nevada, California, GSA Today, 15 (9), 4-10,
2005.
- 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.
- 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, 2004. (Supplementary
material)
- S. K.
Park, Mantle heterogeneity beneath eastern California from magnetotelluric
measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B09406,
doi:10.1029/2003JB002948, 2004.
- Boyd,
O., C. H. Jones, A. F. Sheehan, Foundering
lithosphere imaged beneath the southern Sierra Nevada, California,
USA, Science, 305,
660-662, 2004. (Supplementary
material)
- J. Saleeby and Z. Foster, Topographic
Response to Mantle Lithosphere Removal in the Southern Sierra Nevada Region,
California, Geology, 32 [3], p. 245–248;
doi: 10.1130/G19958.1, 2004.
- G. M. Stock, R. S. Anderson, and Robert
C. Finkel, Pace of landscape evolution in the Sierra Nevada, California, revealed by cosmogenic dating of cave sediments. Geology, 32,
[3], p. 193–196; doi: 10.1130/G20197.1, 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.
- M.N. Ducea, S. Kidder, G. Zandt, Arc
composition at mid-crustal depths: Insights from the Coast Ridge Belt,
Santa Lucia Mountains, California, Geophys. Res. Letts., 30 [13],
1703, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016297, 2003.
- S. K. Park
and M. N. Ducea, Can in situ measurements of mantle electrical conductivity
be used to infer properties of partial melts? J. Geophys. Res., 108 [B5],
2270, doi:10.1029/2002JB001899, 2003
- S. K.
Park, and B. P. Wernicke, Electrical conductivity images of Quaternary
faults and Tertiary detachments in the California Basin and Range, Tectonics, 22 [4],
1030 10.1029/2001TC001324, 2003.
- J. Saleeby,M.
Ducea, D. Clemens-Knott, Production and loss of high-density batholithic
root - southern Sierra Nevada, California, Tectonics, 22
[6], 1064, doi:10.1029/2002TC001374, 2003.
- G. Zandt, The
Southern Sierra Nevada Drip and the Mantle Wind Direction Beneath the Southwestern
United States, International Geology Review (Thompson
Volume),45, 213-224, 2003.
- M. N. Ducea, Constraints on the bulk composition
and root foundering rates of continental arcs: A California arc perspective, J.
Geophys. Res., 107 [B11], 2304, doi:10.1029/2001JB000643,
2002
From other groups:
- Several papers of varying degrees of relevance to this project are in the Sierra and Walker Lane theme issue of Busby and Putirka.
- Henry, C. D., Hinz, N. H., Faulds, J. E., Colgan, J. P., John, D. A., Brooks, E. R., Cassel, E. J., et al. (2012). Eocene-Early Miocene paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada-Great Basin-Nevadaplano based on widespread ash-flow tuffs and paleovalleys. Geosphere, 8(1), 1–27. doi:10.1130/GES00727.1
- Cassel, E. J., & Graham, S. A. (2011). Paleovalley morphology and fluvial system evolution of Eocene-Oligocene sediments ("auriferous gravels"), northern Sierra Nevada, California: Implications for climate, tectonics, and topography. Geological Society Of America Bulletin, 123, 1699–1719. doi:10.1130/B30356.1
- Phillips, F. M., Mcintosh, W. C., & Dunbar, N. W. (2011). Chronology of late Cenozoic volcanic eruptions onto relict surfaces in the south-central Sierra Nevada, California. Geological Society Of America Bulletin, 123(5-6), 890–910. doi:10.1130/B30000.1
- Lechler, A. R., & Niemi, N. A. (2011). Sedimentologic and isotopic constraints on the Paleogene paleogeography and paleotopography of the southern Sierra Nevada, California. Geology, 39(4), 379–382. doi:10.1130/G31535.1
- Lin, G., C.H. Thurber, H. Zhang, E. Hauksson, P. Shearer, F. Waldhauser, T.M. Brocher, and J.A. Hardebeck, California Statewide Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Model from Both Absolute and Differential Times. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America,100 (1) pp. 225-240, doi: 10.1785/0120090028, 2010
- Henry, C. D., & Faulds, J. E. (2010). Ash-flow tuffs in the Nine Hill, Nevada, paleovalley and implications for tectonism and volcanism of the western Great Basin, USA. Geosphere, 6(4), 339–369. doi:10.1130/GES00548.1
- Schmandt, B., and E. Humphreys. Seismic heterogeneity and small-scale convection in the southern California upper mantle. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 11 art. Q05004, doi: 10.1029/2010GC003042, 2010
- Bonnin, M., G. Barruol, and G.H.R. Bokelmann, Upper mantle deformation beneath the North American–Pacific plate boundary in California from SKS splitting. Journal Of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth And Planets, 115 (B4) art. B04306, doi: 10.1029/2009JB006438, 2010.
- Figueroa, A.M., and J.R. Knott. Tectonic geomorphology of the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains (California): Evidence for uplift and basin formation. Geomorphology, 123 (1-2) pp. 34-45, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.06.009, 2010.
- McPhillips, D., and M.T. Brandon. Using tracer thermochronology to measure modern relief change in the Sierra Nevada, California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 296 (3-4) pp. 373-383, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.05.022, 2010.
- Hren, M.T., M. Pagani, D.M. Erwin, and M. Brandon, Biomarker reconstruction of the early Eocene paleotopography and paleoclimate of the northern Sierra Nevada. Geology, 38 (1) pp. 7-10, doi: 10.1130/G30215.1, 2010.
- Van Buer, N.J., E.L. Miller, and T.A. Dumitru, Early Tertiary paleogeologic map of the northern Sierra Nevada batholith and the northwestern Basin and Range. Geology , 37 (4) pp. 371-374, doi: 10.1130/G25448A.1, 2009.
- Thurber, C., H. Zhang, T. Brocher, and V. Langenheim, Regional three-dimensional seismic velocity model of the crust and uppermost mantle of northern California. Journal Of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth And Planets, 114 (B1) art. B01304, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005766, 2009.
- Thompson, G.A., and T. Parsons. Can footwall unloading explain late Cenozoic uplift of the Sierra Nevada crest?. International Geology Review, 51 (9-11) pp. 986-993, DIO: 10.1080/00206810903059156, 2009 [although their answer is a partial yes, if you scale their figure and calculate the gravity signal from this mechanism, I think the answer becomes not really]
- Busby, C.J., and K. Putirka. Miocene evolution of the western edge of the Nevadaplano in the central and northern Sierra Nevada: palaeocanyons, magmatism, and structure. International Geology Review, 51 (7-8) pp. 670-701, doi: 10.1080/00206810902978265, 2009.
- Galewsky, J., Orographic precipitation isotopic ratios in stratified atmospheric flows: Implications for paleoelevation studies. Geology, 37 (9) pp. 791-794, doi: 10.1130/G30008A.1, 2009.
- Galewsky, J., Rain shadow development during the growth of mountain ranges: An atmospheric dynamics perspective. Journal Of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth And Planets, 114 art. F01018, doi: 10.1029/2008JF001085, 2009.
- Erkan, K., and D. Blackwell. Transient thermal regimes in the Sierra Nevada and Baja California extinct outer arcs following the cessation of Farallon subduction. Journal Of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth And Planets,114, art. B02107, doi: 10.1029/2007JB005498, 2009.
- Bennett, R.A., N.P. Fay, S. Hreinsdóttir, C. Chase, and G. Zandt, Increasing long-wavelength relief across the southeastern flank of the Sierra Nevada, California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 287 (1-2) pp. 255-264, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.011, 2009.
- Biasi, G. P., Lithospheric evolution of the Pacific-North American Plate Boundary considered in three dimensions, Tectonophysics, 464 (1-4), doi 10.1016/J.Tecto.2008.10.018, 43-59, 2009.
- Schweickert., R.A., Beheaded west-flowing drainages in the Lake Tahoe region, northern Sierra Nevada: implications for timing and rates of normal faulting, landscape evolution and mechanism of Sierran uplift. International Geology Review, 51 (9-11) pp. 994-1033, doi: 10.1080/00206810903123481, 2009.
- Cassel, E.J., A.T. Calvert, and S. A. Graham, Age, geochemical composition, and distribution of Oligocene ignimbrites in the northern Sierra Nevada, California: implications for landscape morphology, elevation, and drainage divide geography of the Nevadaplano. International Geology Review, 51 (7-8) pp. 723-742, doi: 10.1080/00206810902880370, 2009.
- Hagan, J.C., C.J. Busby, K. Putirka, and P.R. Renne, Cenozoic palaeocanyon evolution, Ancestral Cascades arc volcanism, and structure of the Hope Valley-Carson Pass region, Sierra Nevada, California. International Geology Review, 51 (9-11), pp. 777-823, doi: 10.1080/0020681090302810, 2009.
- Phillips, F.M., Geological and hydrological history of the paleo Owens River drainage since the late Miocene. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 439, pp. 115-150, doi: 10.1130/2008.2439(06), 2008.
- Busby C, S.B. DeOreo, I. Skilling, P.B. Gans, and J.C. Hagan, Carson Pass–Kirkwood paleocanyon system: Paleogeography of the ancestral Cascades arc and implications for landscape evolution of the Sierra Nevada (California). Geological Society Of America Bulletin, 120 (3) pp. 274-299, doi: 10.1130/B25849.1, 2008
- Fay, N., R.A. Bennett, and S. Hreinsdottir, Contemporary vertical velocity of the central Basin and Range and uplift of the southern Sierra Nevada. Geophysical Research Letters, 35 (20) art. L20309, doi: 10.1029/2008GL034949, 2008.
- Fay, N., and E. D. Humphreys. Forces acting on the Sierra Nevada block and implications for the strength of the San Andreas fault system and the dynamics of continental deformation in the western United States. Journal Of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth And Planets, 113 (B12), art. B12415, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005809, 2008.
- Crowley, B., B, P.L. Koch, and E. Davis, Stable isotope constraints on the elevation history of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. Geological Society Of America Bulletin, 120 (5-6) pp. 588-598, doi: 10.1130/B26254.1, 2008.
- Cousens, B., J. Prytulak, C.D. Henry, A. Alcazar, and T. Brownrigg, Geology, geochronology, and geochemistry of the Miocene-Pliocene Ancestral Cascades arc, northern Sierra Nevada, California and Nevada: The roles of the upper mantle, subducting slab, and the Sierra Nevada lithosphere. Geosphere, 4 (5) pp. 829-853, doi: 10.1130/GES00166.1, 2008
- Yang, Y., M. Ritzwoller, F. Lin, M.P. Moschetti, and N. Shapiro,Structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the western United States revealed by ambient noise and earthquake tomography. Journal Of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth And Planets, 113 (B12), art. B12310, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005833. 2008.
- Mulch, A., A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki, M. E. Perkins, and C. P. Chamberlain, A Miocene to Pleistocene climate and elevation record of the Sierra Nevada (California). Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America, 105 (19) pp. 6819-6824, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708811105, 2008.
- Pelletier, J.D., Numerical modeling of the Cenozoic geomorphic evolution of the southern Sierra Nevada, California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 259 (1-2) pp. 85-96, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.030, 2007
- Scheirer, A. H. (ed.), Petroleum Systems and Geologic Assessment of Oil and Gas in the San Joaquin Basin Province, California, USGS Prof. Paper, 1713, 2007 (still being completed online; includes several summaries of stratgraphy and sedimentology in the basin)
- King N, J. Hillhouse, S. Gromme, B. Hausback, and C. Pluhar, Stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility of the Miocene Stanislaus Group, central Sierra Nevada and Sweetwater Mountains, California and Nevada. Geosphere, 3 (6) pp. 646-666, doi: 10.1130/GES00132.1, 2007.
- Hammond, W.C., and W. Thatcher. Crustal deformation across the Sierra Nevada, northern Walker Lane, Basin and Range transition, western United States measured with GPS, 2000–2004. Journal Of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth And Planets, 112 (B5), art. B05411, doi: 10.1029/2006JB004625, 2007.
- Creely, S., and E. R. Force. Type Region of the Ione Formation (Eocene), Central California: Stratigraphy, Paleogeography, and Relation to Auriferous Gravel, U.S.G.S. Open File Report, 2006-1378, 65 pp., 2007.
- Cecil, M.R., C. G. Chase, and J. A Wolfe, Geologic and stratigraphic context of paleoflora from Eocene river systems, Northern Sierra Nevada, California. Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, 258 pp. 119-128, 2007.
- K. Putirka and C. J. Busby, The tectonic significance of high-K2O volcanism in the Sierra Nevada, California, Geology, 35 (10), 923-926, 2007. (will also be in GeoScienceWorld)
- Pelletier,
J. D., Numerical modeling of the Cenozoic geomorphic evolution of the southern
Sierra Nevada, California, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 259,
Issues 1-2, p. 85-96, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.030, 2007.
- Hasterok, D., and D. S. Chapman, Continental thermal isostasy: 2. Application
to North America, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B06415, doi:10.1029/2006JB004664,
2007
- Yan, Z., and R. W. Clayton, Regional mapping of the crustal structure in
southern California from receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res., 112,
B05311, doi:10.1029/2006JB004622, 2007
- Le K, J. Lee, L.A. Owen, and R. Finkel, Late Quaternary slip rates along
the Sierra Nevada frontal fault zone, California: Slip partitioning across
the western margin of the Eastern California Shear Zone-Basin and Range Province,
Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 119 (1-2): 240-256, 2007.
- Stern, T. A., W. R. Stratford,
and M. L. Salmon, Subduction evolution and mantle dynamics at a continental
margin: Central North Island, New Zealand, Rev.
Geophys., 44. RG4002, doi:10.1029/2005RG000171, 2006. (invokes
R-T instability for processes, including uplift and subsidence).
- Fadil, A., P. Vernant, S.
McClusky, R. Reilinger, F. Gomez, D. Ben Sari, T. Mourabit, K. Feigl, and
M. Barazangi (2006), Active tectonics of the western Mediterranean: Geodetic
evidence for rollback of a delaminated subcontinental lithospheric slab
beneath the Rif Mountains, Morocco, Geology, 34 (7),
doi: 10.1130/G22291.1, 529-532. (Documents 3 mm/yr plate-motion-normal
movement of Rif Mtns to SSW, opening behind, closing in front, very similar
to motion of Sierra, though I would dispute their preferred mechanism).
- Le Pourhiet, L.
, M. Gurnis, J. Saleeby, Mantle instability beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains
in California and Death Valley extension, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 251, 104 – 119, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.08.028, 2006.
- Mulch, A., S.
A. Graham, and C. P. Chamberlain, Hydrogen Isotopes in Eocene River Gravels
and Paleoelevation of the Sierra Nevada, Science,
313. no. 5783, pp. 87 - 89, doi: 10.1126/science.1125986, 2006.
- Lee, C.-T. A., X.
Cheng, and U. Horodyskyj ,The development and refinement of continental
arcs by primary basaltic magmatism, garnet pyroxenite accumulation, basaltic
recharge and delamination: insights from the Sierra Nevada, California,
Contrib Mineral Petrol, 151 (2), p. 222-242, doi:10.1007/s00410-005-0056-1,
2006
- Yang,
Y., and D. W. Forsyth, Rayleigh wave phase velocities, small-scale convection,
and azimuthal anisotropy beneath southern California, J.
Geophys. Res., 111 (B7): Art. No. B07306, doi:10.1029/2005JB004180,
JUL 25 2006
- Whitehouse, P. L., P. C. England, and G. A. Houseman, A physical model
for the motion of the Sierra Block relative to North America, Earth
and Planetary Science Letters, 237, 590 – 600 doi:
10.1016/j.epsl.2005.03.028, 2005
- Horton, T.W., D. K. Sjostrom, M. J. Abruzzese, M.A. Poage, J. R. Waldbauer,
M. Hren, J. Wooden, C. P. Chamberlain, Spatial and temporal variation
of Cenozoic surface elevation in the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada, Am.
J. Sci., 304 (10): 862-888, 2004
- Louie, J. N., W. Thelen, S. B. Smith, J. B. Scott, M.
Clarka, and S. Pullammanappallil, The northern Walker Lane refraction experiment: Pn arrivals and the northern Sierra Nevada root, Tectonophysics, 388,
253 – 269, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2004.07.042 , 2004
Abstracts from other groups of interest:
- Kouwenberg, L. L. R., J. Broughton, and J. C. McElwain,
The potential of stomatal frequency analysis as a paleo-altimeter, AGU Fall
meeting, T23C-0579, 2005. Abstract
at AGU; poster
at UCMP (gets subsidence in northern Sierra since 18-22 Ma)
Other info:
SNEP seismic experiment info on SNEP page.
Some other info on Sierran Paradox experiment webpage
Support for the research discussed here has been provided by
the National Science Foundation's Continental
Dynamics Program through
grants 0607831 to C. Jones, R. Anderson, G. L. Farmer, and P. Molnar at CU
Boulder, 0607349 to S. Park at UCR, 0607458 to M. Clark at U. Mich., 0607625
to J. Unruh at Wm. Lettis Assoc., 0607702 to L. Elkins-Tanton at Brown Univ.,
0607499 to A. Glazner at UNC, 0606903 to J. Saleeby at Caltech, and 0606967
to M. Ducea at Univ. Ariz.. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations
expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Please send mail to cjones@cires.colorado.edu if you encounter any problems or have suggestions.
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