Collaborative Research: Lithospheric removal:
The Sierra Nevada as the prototype of a fundamental process in mountain building 

This is the supplemental page for the NSF proposals submitted by University of Colorado, Boulder (EAR-0607831), Brown University, California Institute of Technology, University of Arizona, University of California at Riverside, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, William Lettis and Associates and is intended primarily for reviewers of that proposal.

Budgets:

By PI, in thousands.

Figures from the proposal (color) and extra animations

Proposal Summary, description, and refs PDF (smaller than the full monster from NSF) (12.6 Mb)

Reprints/Preprints of interest:

• 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)
• Clark, M. K., G. Maheo, J. Saleeby, and K. Farley (2005), The non-equilibrium landscape of the southern Sierra Nevada, CA, GSA Today, 15 (9), 4-10.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• S. K. Park, Mantle heterogeneity beneath eastern California from magnetotelluric measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B09406, doi:10.1029/2003JB002948, 2004.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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)

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

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