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List of works by Craig 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

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Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada in California

scientific article published in September 2004

Continental uplift through crustal hydration

scientific article (publication date: 3 March 2015)

Contrasting lithospheric structure between the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin: Initial results from Colorado Plateau - Great Basin PASSCAL Experiment

scholarly article

Crustal structure determined from ambient noise tomography near the magmatic centers of the Coso region, southeastern California

scholarly article

Crustal thickness variations across the Colorado Rocky Mountains from teleseismic receiver functions

scientific article published in 1995

Differential motion between upper crust and lithospheric mantle in the central Basin and Range

Distributed deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand

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Earthquake refraction profiles of the root of the Sierra Nevada

scholarly article by Martha K. Savage et al published August 1994 in Tectonics

Foundering Lithosphere Imaged Beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA

scientific article published in Science

GEOPHYSICS: How Faults Accommodate Plate Motion

scientific article published in Science

Illuminating the plate interface structure beneath Cook Strait, New Zealand, with receiver functions

scholarly article

Internal deformation of the southern Sierra Nevada microplate associated with foundering lower lithosphere, California

scientific article published in 2014

Introduction to Applied Geophysics

book

Introduction: Geodynamics and Consequences of Lithospheric Removal in the Sierra Nevada, California

scholarly article

Is extension in Death Valley accommodated by thinning of the mantle lithosphere beneath the Sierra Nevada, California?

article by Craig H. Jones published August 1987 in Tectonics

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Linking Sierra Nevada, California, uplift to subsidence of the Tulare basin using a seismically derived density model

scientific article published in 2015

Lithospheric density models reveal evidence for Cenozoic uplift of the Colorado Plateau and Great Plains by lower-crustal hydration

scientific article published on 2 May 2018

Lithospheric gravitational potential energy and past orogenesis: Implications for conditions of initial Basin and Range and Laramide deformation

scientific article

Lithospheric gravitational potential energy and past orogenesis: Implications for conditions of initial Basin and Range and Laramide deformation: Comment and Reply

scholarly article

Mantle dynamics, isostasy, and the support of high terrain

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Mantle lithosphere as a source of postsubduction magmatism, northern Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published in 2013

Missing roots and mantle “drips”: RegionalPnand teleseismic arrival times in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California

scholarly article

Oblique slip, slip partitioning, spatial and temporal changes in the regional stress field, and the relative strength of active faults in the Basin and Range, western United States

scholarly article

Origin of High Mountains in the Continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada

scientific article published in Science

Origins of topography in the western U.S.: Mapping crustal and upper mantle density variations using a uniform seismic velocity model

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P-wave tomography of potential convective downwellings and their source regions, Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published in 2014

Paleomagnetic and structural evidence for oblique slip in a fault-related fold, Grayback monocline, Colorado

scholarly article

Paleomagnetism and crustal rotations along a shear zone, Las Vegas Range, southern Nevada

scholarly article

Project combines seismic and magnetotelluric surveying to address the Sierran root question

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Quaternary rift flank uplift of the Peninsular Ranges in Baja and southern California by removal of mantle lithosphere

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Seismic structure of the lithosphere from teleseismic converted arrivals observed at small arrays in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California

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Seismological estimates of means of isostatic support of the Sierra Nevada

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Single-chamber silicic magma system inferred from shear wave discontinuities of the crust and uppermost mantle, Coso geothermal area, California

scientific article published in 2003

Structure of the Sierra Nevada from receiver functions and implications for lithospheric foundering

scholarly article

Tectonics of Pliocene removal of lithosphere of the Sierra Nevada, California

scholarly article

The role of gravitational potential energy in active deformation in the southwestern United States

scientific article published in Nature

User-driven integrated software lives: “Paleomag” paleomagnetics analysis on the Macintosh

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Variations across and along a major continental rift: An interdisciplinary study of the Basin and Range Province, western USA

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Variations across and along a major continental rift: an interdisciplinary study of the Basin and Range Province, western USA

scientific article published in 1992

Variations in strength and slip rate along the san andreas fault system

scientific article

Vertical axis rotations in the Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone, southern Nevada: Paleomagnetic constraints on kinematics and dynamics of block rotations

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WESTERN UNITED STATES EXTENSION: How the West was Widened

scholarly article by Leslie J. Sonder & Craig H. Jones published May 1999 in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences