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Submissions from 2012
Engaging Students in Earthquakes via Real-Time Data and Decisions, Anne E. Egger
Magmatic Rifting and Active Volcanism Conference, Afar Rift Consortium, Anne E. Egger, Tyrone Rooney, and Donna Shillington
Owyhee River intracanyon lava flows: Does the river give a dam?, Lisa L. Ely, Cooper C. Brossy, P. Kyle House, Elizabeth B. Safran, Jim E. O'Connor, Duane E. Champion, Cassandra R. Fenton, Ninad R. Bondre, Caitlin A. Orem, Gordon E. Grant, Christopher D. Henry, and Brent D. Turrin
Wilson Cycles, Tectonic Inheritance, and Rifting of the North American Gulf of Mexico Continental Margin, Audrey D. Huerta and Dennis L. Harry
Bookshelf faulting in the Ziarat earthquake sequence, Northern Baluchistan, October 2008, Din Mohammad Kakar, Walter Szeliga, and Roger Bilham
Size and Exhumation Rate of Ultrahigh-Pressure Terranes Linked to Orogenic Stage, Andrew R.C. Kylander-Clark, Bradley R. Hacker, and Chris G. Mattinson
Timing of Eclogite-Facies Metamorphism of the Chuacús Complex, Central Guatemala: Record of Late Cretaceous Continental Subduction of North America's Sialic Basement, Uwe C. Martens, Hannes K. Brueckner, Chris G. Mattinson, Juhn G. Liou, and Joseph L. Wooden
E-W Extension at 19 Ma in the Kung Co Area, S. Tibet: Evidence for Contemporaneous E–W and N–S Extension in the Himalayan Orogen, Mayumi Mitsuishi, Simon R. Wallis, Mutsuki Aoya, Jeffrey Lee, and Yu Wang
Atmospheric circulation change in the central Himalayas indicated by a high-resolution ice core deuterium excess record, Hongxi Pang, Shugui Hou, Susan Kaspari, Paul Mayewski, Douglas Introne, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Jean Jouzel, Zhenchao Li, Yuanqing He, Sungmin Hong, and Dahe Qin
Interseismic strain accumulation along the western boundary of the Indian subcontinent, Walter Szeliga, Roger Bilham, Din Mohammad Kakar, and Sarosh H. Lodi
Interseismic strain accumulation along the western boundary of the Indian subcontinent, Walter Szeliga, Roger Bilham, Din Mohammad Kakar, and Sarosh H. Lodi
Provenance of Eclogitic Metasediments in the North Qilian HP/LT Metamorphic Terrane, Western China: Geodynamic Implications for Early Paleozoic Subduction-Erosion, Jian-Xin Zhang, Jin-Ping Li, Shengyao Yu, Fan-Cong Meng, Chris G. Mattinson, Huai-Jen Yang, and C. M. Ker
Submissions from 2011
Stratigraphic record of Holocene coseismic subsidence, Padang, West Sumatra, Tina Dura, Charles M. Rubin, Harvey M. Kelsey, Benjamin P. Horton, Andrea Hawkes, Christopher H. Vane, Mudrik Daryono, Candace Grand Pre, Tyler Landinsky, and Sarah Bradley
Recruiting Students into the Earth Sciences through Undergraduate Research, Anne E. Egger and Simon L. Klemperer
Evolution of the Northwestern Margin of the Basin and Range: The Geology and Extensional History of the Warner Range and Environs, Northeastern California, Anne E. Egger and Elizabeth L. Miller
Recent increase in black carbon concentrations from a Mt. Everest ice core spanning 1860-2000 AD, Susan D. Kaspari, M. Schwikowski, M. Gysel, M. G. Flanner, S. Kang, S. Hou, and P. A. Mayewski
Geologic Field Trips to the Basin and Range, Rocky Mountains, Snake River Plain, and Terranes of the U.S. Cordillera, Jeffrey Lee and James P. Evans
Middle to Late Miocene Extremely Rapid Exhumation and Thermal Reequilibration in the Kung Co Rift, Southern Tibet, Jeffrey Lee, Christian Hager, Simon R. Wallis, Daniel F. Stockli, Martin J. Whitehouse, Mutsuki Aoya, and Yu Wang
Penrose Conference Report: Neotectonics of arc-continent collision, Paul Mann, Carlos Vargas, and Caroline Whitehill
Beryllium-10 Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide Surface Exposure Dating of Quaternary Landforms in Death Valley, Lewis A. Owen, Kurt L. Frankel, Jeffrey R. Knott, Scott Reynhout, Robert C. Finkel, James F. Dolan, and Jeffrey Lee
Topographic control of asynchronous glacial advances: A case study from Annapurna, Nepal, Beth Pratt-Sitaula, Douglas W. Burbank, Arjun M. Heimsath, Neil F. Humphrey, Michael Oskin, and Jaakko Putkonen
Controls on large landslide distribution and implications for the geomorphic evolution of the southern interior Columbia River basin, Elizabeth B. Safran, Scott W. Anderson, Megan Mills-Novoa, P. Kyle House, and Lisa Ely
Glide avalanche response to an extreme rain-on-snow event, Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, USA, John Stimberis and Charles M. Rubin
Insights into the 1968–1997 Dasht-e-Bayaz and Zirkuh earthquake sequences, eastern Iran, from calibrated relocations, InSAR and high-resolution satellite imagery, R. T. Walker, E. A. Bergman, Walter Szeliga, and E. J. Fielding
Dynamics of stick–slip motion, Whillans Ice Stream, Antarctica, J. Paul Winberry, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Douglas A. Wiens, Richard B. Alley, and Knut Christianson
Submissions from 2010
Tsunami Boulder Transport and Other Dramatic Effects of the 15 November 2006 Central Kuril Islands Tsunami on the Island of Matua, Joanne Bourgeois and Breanyn MacInnes
Miocene - Quaternary tectonic evolution of the northern eastern California shear zone, Kurt L. Frankel, Jeffrey Lee, Kim Bishop, Nancye Dawers, Plamen Ganev, Jeff Unruh, and Lewis A. Owen
Slow-slip phenomena in Cascadia from 2007 and beyond: A review, Joan Gomberg and Timothy I. Melbourne
The role of hydrologic processes and geomorphology on the morphology and evolution of sediment clusters in gravel-bed rivers, Ross R. Hendrick, Lisa L. Ely, and A. N. Papanicolaou
Variability of atmospheric dust loading over the central Tibetan Plateaubased on ice core glaciochemistry, Shichang Kang, Yulan Zhang, Yongjun Zhang, Bjorn Grigholm, Susan Kaspari, Dahe Qin, Jiawen Ren, and Paul Mayewski
Middle Crustal Ductile Deformation Patterns in Southern Tibet: Insights from Vorticity Studies in Mabja Dome, Jackie Langille, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley Hacker, and Gareth Seward
Slip Distribution of the 1952 Kamchatka Great Earthquake Based on Near-Field Tsunami Deposits and Historical Records, Breanyn MacInnes, Robert Weiss, Joanne Bourgeois, and Tatiana K. Pinegina
A Catalog of Felt Intensity Data for 570 Earthquakes in India from 1636 to 2009, Stacey Martin and Walter Szeliga
Intensity, Magnitude, Location, and Attenuation in India for Felt Earthquakes since 1762, Walter Szeliga, Susan Hough, Stacey Martin, and Roger Bilham
Kinematics and Vorticity in Kangmar Dome, Southern Tibet: Testing Midcrustal Channel-flow Models for the Himalaya, Tom Wagner, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley R. Hacker, and Gareth Seward
U-Pb Zircon Geochronology of Coesite-bearing Eclogites from the Southern Dulan Area of the North Qaidam UHP Terrane, Northwestern China: Spatially and Temporally Extensive UHP Metamorphism during Continental Subduction, Jian-Xin Zhang, Chris G. Mattinson, Shengyao Yu, Jin-Ping Li, and Fan-Cong Meng
Submissions from 2009
Moment release rate of Cascadia tremor constrained by GPS, Ana C. Aguiar, Timothy I. Melbourne, and Craig W. Scrivner
The Process of Science, Anthony Carpi and Anne Egger
Future Cascadia megathrust rupture delineated by episodic tremor and slip, James S. Chapman and Timothy I. Melbourne
Atmospheric Soluble Dust Records From a Tibetan Ice Core: Possible Climate Proxies and Teleconnection with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, B. Grigholm, P. A. Mayewski, S. Kang, Y. Zhang, Susan Kaspari, S. B. Sneed, and Q. Zhang
Mantle Transition Zone Structure beneath Kenya and Tanzania: More Evidence for a Deep-Seated Thermal Upwelling in the Mantle, Audrey D. Huerta, Andrew A. Nyblade, and Angela M. Reusch
Quaternary Faulting in Queen Valley, California-Nevada: Implications for Kinematics of Fault-slip Transfer in the Eastern California Shear Zone–Walker Lane Belt, Jeffrey Lee, Jason Garwood, Daniel F. Stockli, and John Gosse
Exhumation of the Inyo Mountains, California: Implications for the Timing of Extension along the Western Boundary of the Basin and Range Province and Distribution of Dextral Fault Slip Rates across the Eastern California Shear Zone, Jeffrey Lee, Daniel F. Stockli, Lewis A. Owen, Robert C. Finkel, and Roman Kislitsyn
Tsunami Geomorphology: Erosion and Deposition from the 15 November 2006 Kuril Island Tsunami, Breanyn MacInnes, Joanne Bourgeois, Tatiana K. Pinegina, and Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya
Field Survey and Geological Effects of the 15 November 2006 Kuril Tsunami in the Middle Kuril Islands, Breanyn MacInnes, Tatiana K. Pinegina, Joanne Bourgeois, Nadezhda G. Razhigaeva, Victor M. Kaistrenko, and Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya
Paragneiss Zircon Geochronology and Trace Element Geochemistry, North Qaidam HP/UHP Terrane, Western China, Chris G. Mattinson, Joseph L. Wooden, Jian-Xin Zhang, and D. K. Bird
Seismic and geodetic constraints on Cascadia slow slip, Timothy I. Melbourne, Aaron G. Wech, and Kenneth C. Creager
Kinematic behavior of southern Alaska constrained by westward decreasing postglacial slip rates on the Denali Fault, Alaska, A.-S. Mériaux, K. Sieh, R. C. Finkel, Charles M. Rubin, M. H. Taylor, A. J. Meltzner, and F. J. Ryerson
Applying geodesy and modeling to test the role of climate controlled erosion in shaping Himalayan morphology and evolution, Beth Pratt-Sitaula, Bishal Nath Upreti, Timothy Melbourne, Andrew Miner, Emily Parker, Santa Man Rai, and Tara Nidhi Bhattarai
Paleomagnetic behavior of volcanic rocks from Isla Socorro, Mexico, Elise Sbarbori, Lisa Tauxe, Avto Goguitchaichvili, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, and Wendy A. Bohrson
Glide avalanche response to an extreme rain-on-snow event, Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, USA, John Stimberis and Charles M. Rubin
Fold and thrust partitioning in a contracting fold belt: Insights from the 1931 Mach earthquake in Baluchistan, Walter Szeliga, Roger Bilham, Daniel Schelling, Din Mohamed Kakar, and Sarosh Lodi
Seismic observations of transient subglacial water-flow beneath MacAyeal Ice Stream, West Antarctica, J. Paul Winberry, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, and Richard B. Alley
Basal mechanics of ice streams: Insights from the stick-slip motion of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, J. Paul Winberry, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Richard B. Alley, Robert A. Bindschadler, and Matt A. King
U-Pb Geochronology of Paragneisses and Metabasite in the Xitieshan Area, North Qaidam Mountains, Western China: Constraints on the Exhumation of HP/UHP Metamorphic Rocks, Jian-Xin Zhang, Chris G. Mattinson, Fan-Cong Meng, Huai-Jen Yang, and Yu-Sheng Wan
Coesite in Eclogite from the North Qaidam Mountains and Its Implications, Jian-Xin Zhang, Fan-Cong Meng, Jin-Ping Li, and Chris G. Mattinson
Submissions from 2008
Anomalous cosmogenic 3He production and elevation scaling in the high Himalaya, William H. Amidon, Kenneth A. Farley, Douglas W. Burbank, and Beth Pratt-Sitaula
Tracking natal origins of salmon using isotopes, otoliths, and landscape geology, Rachel Barnett-Johnson, Thomas E. Pearson, Frank C. Ramos, Churchill B. Grimes, and R. Bruce MacFarlane
Interaction Between the Himalaya and the Flexed Indian Plate - Spatial Fluctuations in Seismic Hazard in India in the Past Millennium?, Roger Bilham and Walter Szeliga
Modern erosion rates in the High Himalayas of Nepal, Emmanuel J. Gabet, Douglas W. Burbank, Beth Pratt-Sitaula, Jaakko Putkonen, and Bodo Bookhagen
Manifestations of the Tsunami on November 15, 2006, on the Central Kuril Islands and Results of the Runup Heights Modeling, B. W. Levin, Victor M. Kaistrenko, A. V. Rybin, M. A. Nosov, Tatiana K. Pinegina, N. G. Razzhigaeva, E. V. Sasorova, K. S. Ganzei, T. N. Ivel’skaya, Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya, S. V. Kolesov, Yu. V. Evdokimov, Joanne Bourgeois, Breanyn MacInnes, and B. Titzhugh
New GPS station network and elastic half-space modeling of Nepalese Himalayan tectonics and earthquake hazard, Beth Pratt-Sitaula and Bishal Nath Upreti
Multiple Plagioclase Crystal Populations Identified by Crystal Size Distribution and in situ Chemical Data: Implications for Timescales of Magma Chamber Processes Associated with the 1915 Eruption of Lassen Peak, CA, Morgan J. Salisbury, Wendy A. Bohrson, Michael A. Clynne, Frank C. Ramos, and Paul Hoskin
Geomorphology of the southernmost Longitudinal Valley fault: Implications for evolution of the active suture of eastern Taiwan, J. Bruce H. Shyu, Kerry Sieh, Yue-Gau Chen, Ray Y. Chuang, Yu Wang, and Ling-Ho Chung
GPS constraints on 34 slow slip events within the Cascadia subduction zone, 1997–2005, Walter Szeliga, Timothy I. Melbourne, Marcelo Santillan, and Meghan Miller
Columbia River flood basalts from a centralized crustal magmatic system, J. A. Wolff, Frank C. Ramos, G. L. hart, J. D. Patterson, and A. D. Brandon
Polyphase Tectonothermal History Recorded in Granulitized Gneisses from the North Qaidam HP/UHP Metamorphic Terrane, Western China: Evidence from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology, Jian-Xin Zhang, Chris G. Mattinson, Fan-Cong Meng, Yu-Sheng Wan, and Kuoan Tung
Submissions from 2007
Insight into subvolcanic magma plumbing systems, Wendy A. Bohrson
Energy-Constrained Recharge, Assimilation, and Fractional Crystallization (EC-RAxFC): A Visual Basic computer code for calculating trace element and isotope variations of opensystem magmatic systems, Wendy A. Bohrson and Frank J. Spera
Tsunami Runup in the Middle Kuril Islands from the Great Earthquake of 15 Nov 2006 (abstract), Joanne Bourgeois, Tatiana K. Pinegina, N. Razhegaeva, Victor M. Kaistrenko, B. W. Levin, Breanyn MacInnes, and Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya
Paleoseismic evidence for coseismic growth-fold in the 1999 Chichi earthquake and earlier earthquakes, central Taiwan, Wen-Shan Chen, Kun-Jie Lee, Long-Sheng Lee, Ashley R. Streig, Charles M. Rubin, Yue-Gau Chen, Hsiao-Chin Yang, Hui-Cheng Chang, and Chii-Wen Lin
Late Holocene paleoearthquake activity in the middle part of the Longitudinal Valley fault, eastern Taiwan, Wen-Shan Chen, I-Chin Yen, Keegan P. Fengler, Charles M. Rubin, Chi-Cheng Yang, Hsiao-Chin Yang, Hui-Cheng Chang, Chii-Wen Lin, Wei-Hsiung Lin, Yen-Chiu Liu, and Yen-Hui Lin
Episodic Tremor and Slip in the Pacific Northwest, Kenneth C. Creager and Timothy I. Melbourne
Prehistoric earthquakes along the Shanchiao fault, Taipei Basin, northern Taiwan, Shao-Yi Huang, Charles M. Rubin, Yue-Gau Chen, and Huan-Chi Liu
Contact metamorphism in the Malashan dome, North Himalayan gneiss domes, southern Tibet: An example of shallow extensional tectonics in the Tethys Himalaya, Tetsuo Kawakami, Mutsuki Aoya, Simon Wallis, Jeffrey Lee, Kentaro Terada, Yu Wang, and Matt Heizler
Onset of mid-crustal extensional flow in southern Tibet: Evidence from U/Pb zircon ages, Jeffrey Lee and Martin J. Whitehouse
Onset of mid-crustal extensional flow in southern Tibet: Evidence from U/Pb zircon ages, Jeffrey Lee and Martin J. Whitehouse
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, Kimberly Le, Jeffrey Lee, Lewis A. Owen, and Robert 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, Kimberly Le, Jeffrey Lee, Lewis A. Owen, and Robert Finkel
Tsunami Erosion: Geomorphology Before and After the 15 Nov 2006 Tsunami in the Middle Kuril Islands, Russia (abstract), Breanyn MacInnes, Joanne Bourgeois, Tatiana K. Pinegina, Maria Elizabeth Martin, and Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya
Late Cretaceous to Paleocene Metamorphism and Magmatism in the Funeral Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Death Valley, California, Chris G. Mattinson, Joseph P. Colgan, James R. Metcalf, Elizabeth L. Miller, and Joseph L. Wooden
High- and Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism in the North Qaidam and South Altyn Terranes, Western China, Chris G. Mattinson, C. A. Menold, Jian-Xin Zhang, and D. K. Bird
Paleotsunamis in the Middle Kuril Islands -- Implications for a Seismic Gap (and in View of Recent Events) (abstract), Tatiana K. Pinegina, Joanne Bourgeois, Breanyn MacInnes, Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya, Maria Elizabeth Martin, and N. Razhegaeva
Bedload-to-suspended load ratio and rapid bedrock incision from Himalayan landslide-dam lake record, Beth Pratt-Sitaula, Michelle Garde, Douglas W. Burbank, Michael Oskin, Arjun Heimsath, and Emmanuel Gabet
Development of a Continental Volcanic Field: Petrogenesis of Pre-caldera Intermediate and Silicic Rocks and Origin of the Bandelier Magmas, Jemez Mountains (New Mexico, USA), M. C. Rowe, J. A. Wolff, J. N. Gardner, Frank C. Ramos, R. Teasdale, and C E. Heikoop
Determining eruption ages and erosion rates of Quaternary basaltic volcanism from combined U-series disequilibria and cosmogenic exposure ages, Kenneth W.W. Sims, Robert P. Ackert Jr., Frank C. Ramos, Robert A. Sohn, Michael T. Murrell, and Donald J. DePaolo
Partitioning of trace elements among coexisting crystals, melt, and supercritical fluid during isobaric crystallization and melting, Frank J. Spera, Wendy A. Bohrson, Christy B. Till, and Mark S. Ghiorso
Evidence for prehistoric coseismic folding along the Tsaotun segment of the Chelungpu fault near Nan-Tou, Taiwan, Ashley R. Streig, Charles M. Rubin, Wen-Shan Chen, Long-Shen Lee, Stephen C. Thompson, Chris Madden, and Shih-Ting Lu
Submissions from 2006
The Malashan Gneiss Dome in South Tibet: Comparative Study with the Kangmar Dome with Special Reference to Kinematics of Deformation and Origin of Associated Granites, Mutsuki Aoya, Simon Wallis, Tetsuo Kawakami, Jeffrey Lee, Yu Wang, and H. Maeda
Petrogenesis of the Campanian Ignimbrite: implications for crystal-melt separation and open-system processes from major and trace elements and Th isotopic data, Wendy A. Bohrson, Frank J. Spera, Sarah J. Fowler, Harvey E. Belkin, Benedetto De Vivo, and Giuseppe Rolandi
Late Pleistocene outburst flooding from pluvial Lake Alvord into the Owyhee River, Oregon, Deron T. Carter; Lisa L. Ely; Jim E. O.Connor; and Cassandra R, Fenton
Phase Equilibria Constraints on the Chemical and Physical Evolution of the Campanian Ignimbrite, Sarah J. Fowler, Frank J. Spera, Wendy K. Bohrson, Harvey E. Belkin, and Benedetto De Vivo
New observations on some poorly known protasterid ophiuroids from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany, Alexander Glass
Pyritized tube feet in a protasterid ophiuroid from the Upper Ordovician of Kentucky, U.S.A., Alexander Glass
A New Species of Brittlestar (Ophiuroidea, Echinodermata) from the Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Lower Devonian) of Germany, Alexander Glass and Markus Poschmann
Oligocene-Miocene middle crustal flow in southern Tibet: Geochronology of Mabja Dome, Jeffrey Lee, W. McClelland, Yu Wang, Ann Blythe, and M. McWilliams
Fault Slip Transfer in the Eastern California Shear Zone–Walker Lane Belt, Jeffrey Lee, Daniel Stockli, Jeffrey Schroeder, Christopher Tincher, David Bradley, Lewis Owen, John Gosse, Robert Finkel, and Jason Garwood
Serial ruptures of the San Andreas fault, Carrizo Plain, California, revealed by three-dimensional excavations, Jing Liu-Zeng, Yann Klinger, Kerry Sieh, Charles Rubin, and Gordon Seitz
Holocene and Latest Pleistocene Activity on the Mesquite Lake Fault near Twentynine Palms, Eastern California Shear Zone: Implications for Fault Interaction, Christopher L. Madden, Charles M. Rubin, and Ashley Streig
Age and Duration of Eclogite-facies Metamorphism, North Qaidam HP/UHP Terrane, Western China, Chris G. Mattinson, Joseph L. Wooden, Juhn G. Liou, D. K. Bird, and C. L. Wu