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Submissions from 2006
Geochronology and Tectonic Significance of Middle Proterozoic Granitic Orthogneiss, North Qaidam HP/UHP Terrane, Western China, Chris G. Mattinson, Joseph L. Wooden, Juhn G. Liou, D. K. Bird, and C. L. Wu
An oxygen isotope study of seasonal trends in soil water fluxes at two sites along a climate gradient in Washington state (USA), Jessica A. Robertson and Carey A. Gazis
Surface Rupture and Behavior of Thrust Faults Probed in Taiwan, Charles M. Rubin, K. Sieh, Yue-Gao Chen, Jian-Cheng Lee, Hao-Tsu Chu, Robert Yeats, Karl Mueller, and Yu-Chang Chan
Closed- to open-system differentiation at Arenal volcano (1968-2003), C. H. Ryder, J. B. Gill, F. Tepley III, Frank Ramos, and M. Reagan
Blowup with Small BV Data in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Robin Young and Walter Szeliga
Submissions from 2005
North-South Extension in the Tibetan Crust Triggered by Granite Emplacement, Mutsuki Aoya, Simon R. Wallis, Kentaro Terada, Jeffrey Lee, Tetsuo Kawakami, Matt Heizler, and Yu Wang
Validation of Sr isotopes in otoliths by laser ablation multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-MC-ICPMS): opening avenues in fisheries science applications, Rachel Barnett-Johnson, Frank C. Ramos, Churchill B. Grimes, and R. Bruce MacFarlane
Trace-element composition of hydrothermal zircon and the alteration of Hadean zircon from the Jack Hills, Australia, Paul W.O. Hoskin
Penrose conference report: Kinematics and geodynamics of intraplate dextral shear in eastern California and western Nevada, Jeffrey Lee, Daniel Stockli, Christopher Henry, and Timothy Dixon
Potential sedimentation impacts related to dam removal: Icicle Creek, Washington, U.S.A., Mark S. Lorang and Graeme Aggett
Geomorphic Effects of Tsunamis in Asacha and Mutnaya Bays, Southern Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia (Abstract), Breanyn MacInnes, Joanne Bourgeois, Tatiana K. Pinegina, Maria Elizabeth Martin, and Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya
Further amino acid racemisation evidence for glacial age, multiple lowstand deposition on the New South Wales outer continental shelf, southeastern Australia, C. V. Murray-Wallace, Marie A. Ferland, and P. S. Roy
Distinguishing Melting of Heterogeneous Mantle Sources from Crustal Contamination: Insights from Sr Isotopes at the Phenocryst Scale, Pisgah Crater, California, Frank C. Ramos and M. R. Reid
Sr isotope disequilibrium in Columbia River flood basalts: Evidence for rapid shallow-level open-system processes, Frank C. Ramos, John A. Wolff, and Darren L. Tollstrup
Relative humidity recorded in tree rings: A study along a precipitation gradient in the Olympic Mountains, Washington, USA, Yong Shu, Xiahong Feng, Carey Grazis, Doug Anderson, Anthony M. Faiia, Kuilian Tang, and Gregory J. Ettl
Extent and Duration of the 2003 Cascadia Slow Earthquake, Walter Szeliga, Timothy I. Melbourne, M. Meghan Miller, and Victor Marcelo Santillan
An Early Palaeozoic HP/HT Granulite–Garnet Peridotite Association in the South Altyn Tagh, NW China: P–T History and U-Pb Geochronology, Jian-Xin Zhang, Chris G. Mattinson, Fan-Cong Meng, and Yu-Sheng Wan
Two Contrasting Eclogite Cooling Histories, North Qaidam HP/UHP Terrane, Western China: Petrological and Isotopic Constraints, Jian-Xin Zhang, J. S. Yang, Chris G. Mattinson, Z. Q. Xu, Fan-Cong Meng, and R. D. Shi
Submissions from 2004
Detection of arbitrarily large dynamic ground motions with a dense high-rate GPS network, Yehuda Bock, Linette Prawirodirdjo, and Timothy I. Melbourne
Magmatic Evolution of the Skye Igneous Centre, Western Scotland: Modelling of Assimilation, Recharge and Fractional Crystallization, Sarah J. Fowler, Wendy A. Bohrson, and Frank J. Spera
Geologic Context of Geodetic Data across a Basin and Range Normal Fault, Crescent Valley, Nevada, A. M. Friedrich, Jeffrey Lee, B. P. Wernicke, and K. Sieh
A stable isotope study of soil water: evidence for mixing and preferential flow paths, Carey Grazis and Xiahong Feng
Evolution of North Himalayan gneiss domes: structural and metamorphic studies in Mabja Dome, southern Tibet, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley Hacker, and Yu Wang
Evolution of North Himalayan Gneiss Domes: Structural and Metamorphic Studies in Mabja Dome, Southern Tibet, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley Hacker, and Yu Wang
Quantitative analysis of movement along an earthquake thrust scarp: a case study of a vertical exposure of the 1999 surface rupture of the Chelungpu fault at Wufeng, Western Taiwan, Jian-Cheng Lee, Charles Rubin, Karl Mueller, Yue-Gau Chen, Yu-Chang Chan, Kerry Sieh, Hao-Tsu Chu, and Wen-Shan Chen
Epidote Minerals in High P/T Metamorphic Terranes: Subduction Zone and High- to Ultrahigh-pressure Metamorphism, Juhn G. Liou, Chris G. Mattinson, and M. Enami
Six similar sequential ruptures of the San Andreas fault, Carrizo Plain, California, Jing Liu, Yann Klinger, Kerry Sieh, and Charles Rubin
Epidote-rich Talc-kyanite-phengite Eclogites, Sulu Terrane, Eastern China: P − T − fO2 Estimates and the Significance of the Epidote-talc Assemblage in Eclogite, Chris G. Mattinson, Ru Y. Zhang, Tatsuki Tsujimori, and Juhn G. Liou
Detachment folding in the Southwestern Tian Shan–Tarim foreland, China: shortening estimates and rates, K. M. Scharer, D. W. Burbank, J. Chen, R. J. Weldon, Charles Rubin, R. Zhao, and J. Shen
Open-System Magma Chamber Evolution: an Energy-constrained Geochemical Model Incorporating the Effects of Concurrent Eruption, Recharge, Variable Assimilation and Fractional Crystallization (EC-E′RAχFC), Frank J. Spera and Wendy A. Bohrson
Southern Cascadia Episodic Slow Earthquakes, Walter Szeliga, Timothy I. Melbourne, M. Meghan Miller, and Marcelo Santillan
Southern Cascadia episodic slow earthquakes, Walter Szeliga, Timothy I. Melbourne, M. Meghan Miller, and V. Marcelo Santillan
Error analysis of continuous GPS position time series, Simon D. P. Williams, Yehuda Bock, Peng Fang, Paul Jamason, Rosanne M. Nikolaidis, Linette Prawirodirdjo, Meghan Miller, and Daniel J. Johnson
Submissions from 2003
Energy‐constrained open‐system magmatic processes IV: Geochemical, thermal and mass consequences of energy‐constrained recharge, assimilation and fractional crystallization (EC‐RAFC), Wendy A. Bohrson and Frank J. Spera
Phase relations in silicic systems at one-atmosphere pressure, Carrie R. Brugger, A. Dana Johnston, and Katharine V. Cashman
The 2002 Denali fault earthquake, Alaska: A large magnitude, slip-partitioned event, Donna Eberhart-Phillips, Peter J. Haeussler, Jeffrey T. Freymueller, Arthur D. Frankel, and Charles M. Rubin
Reply to “Comment on `A Vertical Exposure of the 1999 Surface Rupture of the Chelungpu Fault at Wufeng, Western Taiwan: Structural and Paleoseismic Implications for an Active Thrust Fault'", Jian-Cheng Lee, Charles Rubin, Karl Mueller, Yu-Chang Chan, Hao-Tsu Chu, Yue-Gau Chen, Kerry Sieh, Wen-Shan Chen, and Robert Yeats
Slow But Not Quite Silent, Timothy I. Melbourne and Frank H. Webb
Submissions from 2002
Coseismic Displacements from the Hector Mine, California, earthquake: Results from survey-mode global positioning system measurements, Duncan Carr Agnew, Susan Owen, Zheng-Kang Shen, Gregory Anderson, Jerry Svarc, Hadley Johnson, Kenneth E. Austin, and Robert Reilinger
The Coseismic Displacement Fields for the 1992 Landers and 1999 Hector Mine Earthquakes in California, from Regional GPS Observations, Kenneth E. Austin and M. Meghan Miller
Magnetochronology of the Upper Cenozoic strata in the Southwestern Chinese Tian Shan: rates of Pleistocene folding and thrusting, Jie Chen, D. W. Burbank, K. M. Scharer, E. Sobel, Jinhui Yin, Charles M. Rubin, and Ruibin Zhao
Seamounts at the continental margin of California: A different kind of oceanic intraplate volcanism, Alicé S. Davis, David A. Clague, Wendy A. Bohrson, G. Brent Dalrymple, and H. Gary Greene
Seismic cycle and rheological effects on estimation of present-day slip rates for the Agua Blanca and San Miguel-Vallecitos faults, northern Baja California, Mexico, Timothy H. Dixon, Julien Decaix, Fred Farina, Kevin Furlong, Rocco Malservisi, Richard Bennett, Francisco Suarez-Vidal, John Fletcher, and Jeffrey Lee
Historical Changes in Mid-Water Stands of Common Reed in the Winnebago Pool Lakes, Wisconsin, Anthony O. Gabriel and Leo R. Bodensteiner
GPS deformation in a region of high crustal seismicity: N. Cascadia forearc, Stéphane Mazzotti, Herb Dragert, Roy D. Hyndman, M. Meghan Miller, and Joseph A. Henton
Whole mantle shear structure beneath the East Pacific Rise, Timothy I. Melbourne and Donald V. Helmberger
Precursory transient slip during the 2001 Mw = 8.4 Peru earthquake sequence from continuous GPS, Timothy I. Melbourne and Frank H. Webb
Rapid postseismic transients in subduction zones from continuous GPS, Timothy I. Melbourne, Frank H. Webb, Joann M. Stock, and Christoph Reigber
Periodic Slow Earthquakes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, M. Meghan Miller, Timothy I. Melbourne, Daniel J. Johnson, and William Q. Sumner
Energy‐constrained open‐system magmatic processes 3. Energy‐Constrained Recharge, Assimilation, and Fractional Crystallization (EC‐RAFC), Frank J. Spera and Wendy A. Bohrson
Late Quaternary slip rates across the central Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, central Asia, Stephen C. Thompson, Ray J. Weldon, Charles M. Rubin, Kanatbek Abdrakhmatov, Peter Molnar, and Glenn W. Berger
Submissions from 2001
Energy-Constrained Open-System Magmatic Processes II: Application of Energy-Constrained Assimilation–Fractional Crystallization (EC-AFC) Model to Magmatic Systems, Wendy A. Bohrson and Frank J. Spera
New constraints on the pyroclastic eruptive history of the Campanian volcanic Plain (Italy), B. De Vivo, G. Rolandi, P. B. Gans, A. Calvert, Wendy A. Bohrson, F. J. Spera, and H. E. Belkin
Quaternary faulting history along Deep Springs fault, California, Jeffrey Lee, Charles M. Rubin, and Andrew Calvert
Holocene slip rates along the Owens Valley Fault, California: Implications for the recent evolution of the Eastern California Shear Zone, Jeffrey Lee, Joel Spencer, and Lewis Owen
Understanding earthquakes and seismic hazards in eastern North America and other intraplate settings. Expand Holocene slip rates along the Owens Valley fault, California: Implications for the recent evolution of the Eastern California Shear Zone, Jeffrey Lee, Joel Spencer, and Lewis Owen
A vertical exposure of the 1999 surface rupture of the Chelungpu fault at Wufeng, western Taiwan: Structural and paleoseismic implications for an active trust fault, Jian-Cheng Lee, Yue-Gau Chen, Kerry Sieh, Karl Mueller, Wen-Shan Chen, Hao-Tsu Chu, Yu-Chang Chan, Charles Rubin, and Robert Yeats
Terrestrial Plant Fossils from the Mississippian Diamond Peak Formation, White Pine Range, Eastern Nevada, Chris G. Mattinson and Bruce H. Tiffney
Present Day Kinematics of the Eastern California Shear Zone from a Geodetically Constrained Block Model, S. C. McClusky, S. C. Bjornstad, B. H. Hager, R. W. King, B. J. Meade, M. Meghan Miller, F. C. Monastero, and B. J. Souter
Mantle Control of Plate Boundary Deformation, Timothy I. Melbourne and Don Helmberger
Refined kinematics of the Eastern California shear zone from GPS observations, 1993-1998, M. Meghan Miller, Timothy H. Dixon, and Roy K. Dokka
GPS-determination of along-strike variation in Cascadia margin kinematics: Implications for relative plate motion, Subduction zone coupling, and permanent deformation, M. Meghan Miller, Daniel J. Johnson, Charles M. Rubin, Herb Dragert, Kelin Wang, Anthony Qamar, and Chris Goldfinger
Submissions from 2000
New kinematic models for Pacific‐North America Motion from 3 Ma to Present, II: Evidence for a “Baja California Shear Zone”, Timothy Dixon, Fred Farina, Charles DeMets, Francisco Suarez-Vidal, John Fletcher, Bertha Marquez-Azua, M. Meghan Miller, Osvaldo Sanchez, and Paul Umhoefer
Present‐day motion of the Sierra Nevada block and some tectonic implications for the Basin and Range province, North American Cordillera, Timothy H. Dixon, M. Meghan Miller, Frederic Farina, Hongzhi Wang, and Daniel Johnson
Sequence-stratigraphic significance of Miocene to Pliocene glauconite-rich layers, on- and offshore of the US Mid-Atlantic margin, L. C. Harris and Brian M. Whiting
Comment on " Volume of magma accumulation or withdrawal estimated from surface uplift or subsidence, with application to the 1960 collapse of Kīlauea volcano" by P. T. Delaney and D. F. McTigue, Daniel J. Johnson, Freysteinn Sigmindsson, and Paul T. Delaney
Evolution of the Kangmar Dome, southern Tibet: Structural, petrologic, and thermochronologic constraints, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley R. Hacker, William S. Dinklage, Yu Wang, Phillip Gans, Andrew Calvert, JingLin Wan, Wenji Chen, Ann E. Blythe, and William McClelland
U-Pb geochronology of mid-Cretaceous and Tertiary plutons along the western edge of the Coast Mountains, Revillagigedo Island, and Portland Peninsula, southeast Alaska, Charles M. Rubin and Jason B. Saleeby
Submissions from 1999
GPS determination of current Pacific–North American plate motion, Kyle Antonelis, Daniel J. Johnson, M. Meghan Miller, and Randy Palmer
Partitioning of intermontane basins by thrust‐related folding, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, D. W. Burbank, J. Kim McLean, M. Bullen, K. Y. Abdrakhmatov, and M. Meghan Miller
High-resolution Holocene environmental changes in the Thar Desert, northwestern India, Y. Enzel, Lisa L. Ely, S. Mishra, R. Ramesh, R. Amit, B. Lazar, S. N. Rajaguru, V. R. Baker, and A. Sandler
Surficial slip distribution on the central Emerson fault during the June 28, 1992, Landers earthquake, California, Sally F. McGill and Charles M. Rubin
Submissions from 1998
Isotope systematics of granites and gneisses of the Nanga Parbat Massif, Pakistan Himalaya, Carey A. Grazis, Joel D. Blum, C. Page Chamberlain, and Michael Poage
Mylonitic fabric transition in an extensional tectonic setting, Jeffrey Lee
Precise measurements help gauge Pacific Northwest's Earthquake potential, M. Meghan Miller, Herb Dragert, Elliot Endo, Jeffrey T. Freymueller, Chris Goldfinger, Harvey M. Kelsey, Eugene D. Humphreys, Daniel J. Johnson, Robert McCaffrey, John S. Oldow, Anthony Qamar, and Charles M. Rubin
Evidence for large earthquakes in metropolitan Los Angeles, Charles M. Rubin, Scott C. Lindvall, and Thomas K. Rockwell
Subsidence record of early-stage continental collision, Eratosthenes platform (Sites 966 and 967), Brian M. Whiting
Submissions from 1997
Response of extreme floods in the southwestern United States to climatic variations in the late Holocene, Lisa L. Ely
The Geodetic Signature of the M8.0 Oct. 9, 1995, Jalisco Subduction Earthquake, Timothy I. Melbourne, I. Carmichael, C. DeMets, K. Hudnut, O. Sanchez, J. Stock, G. Suarez, and F. Webb
Long dormancy, low slip rate, and similar slip‐per‐event for the Emerson fault, eastern California shear zone, Charles M. Rubin and Kerry Sieh
Submissions from 1996
Prolonged history of silicic peralkaline volcanism in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Wendy A. Bohrson, Mary R. Reid, Anita L. Grunder, Matthew Heizler, T. Mark Harrison, and Jeffrey Lee
Changes in the magnitude and frequency of late Holocene monsoon floods on the Narmada River, central India, Lisa L. Ely, Yehouda Enzel, Victor R. Baker, Vishwas S. Kale, and Sheila Mishra
Magnitude and frequency of Holocene palaeofloods in the southwestern United States: A review and discussion of implications, Yehouda Enzel, Lisa L. Ely, Kyle House, and Victor R. Baker
Palaeo and historical flood hydrology, Indian Peninsula, Vishwas S. Kale, Lisa L. Ely, Yehouda Enzel, and Victory R. Baker
Middle Miocene extension in the Gulf Extensional Province, Baja California: Evidence from the southern Sierra Juarez, Jeffrey Lee, M. Meghan Miller, Robert Crippen, Bradley Hacker, and Jorge Ledesma Vazquez
Systematic underestimation of earthquake magnitudes from large intracontinental reverse faults: Historical ruptures break across segment boundaries, Charles M. Rubin
Submissions from 1995
Structural and metamorphic relations in the southwest SewardPeninsula, Alaska: Crustal extension and the unroofing of blueschists, Kimberly A. Hannula, Elizabeth L. Miller, Trevor A. Dumitru, Jeffrey Lee, and Charles M. Rubin
Constraints on present-day Basin and Range deformation from space geodesy, Jeffrey Lee, Timothy H. Dixon, Stefano Robaudo, and Marith C. Reheis
Deformation of the northern circum-Pacific margin: Variations in tectonic style and plate-tectonic implications, Charles M. Rubin, E. L. Miller, and J. Toro
Submissions from 1994
Do microplates in subduction zones leave a geological record?, Jeffrey Lee and Joann M. Stock
Submissions from 1993
Regional coseismic deformation from the June 28, 1992, Landers, California, earthquake: Results from the Mojave GPS network, M. Meghan Miller, Frank H. Webb, David Townsend, Matthew P. Golombek, and Roy K. Dokka
Near-Field Investigations of the Landers Earthquake Sequence, April to July 1992, Kerry Sieh, Lucile Jones, Egill Hauksson, Kenneth Hudnut, Donna Eberhart-Phillips, Thomas Heaton, Susan Hough, Kate Hutton, Hiroo Kanamori, Anne Lilje, Scott Lindvall, Sally F. McGill, James Mori, Charles Rubin, James A. Spotila, Joann Stock, Hong Kie Thio, Jerome Treiman, Brian Wernicke, and Judith Zachariasen
Submissions from 1983
Boron in Sillimanite, Edward S. Grew and James R. Hinthorne
Submissions from 1948
Further Notes on the Blue Lake Rhino, George F. Beck
Identification of a Stump, George F. Beck
Pine and Pine-Like Woods of the West American Tertiary, George F. Beck
Submissions from 1947
Some Additions to Grand Coulee Geology, George F. Beck
Submissions from 1946
Fauna and Flora of the Tyrell Quarry, Selah, Washington, George F. Beck
Fossil Woods of the Columbia Gorge, George F. Beck