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List of works by Scott R. Paterson

A review of mesoscopic magmatic structures and their potential for evaluating the hypersolidus evolution of intrusive complexes

scholarly article

Causes of compositional diversity in a lobe of the Half Dome granodiorite, Tuolumne Batholith, Central Sierra Nevada, California

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Characteristics of internal contacts in the Tuolumne Batholith, central Sierra Nevada, California (USA): Implications for episodic emplacement and physical processes in a continental arc magma chamber

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Close spatial relationship between plutons and shear zones: Comment and Reply: COMMENT

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Comment and Reply on "Fry spacing of deformed and undeformed modeled and natural salt domes"

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Complex deformation during arc–continent collision: Quantifying finite strain in the accreted Alisitos arc, Peninsular Ranges batholith, Baja California

scientific article published in February 2008

Construction, emplacement, and geochemical evolution of deep-crustal intrusions: Tenpeak and Dirtyface plutons, North Cascades, western North America

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Controls on orogenesis along an ocean-continent margin transition in the Jura-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith

Criteria for establishing the relative timing of pluton emplacement and regional deformation

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Day 1: Guadalupe Igneous Complex

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Day 4: Magmatic evolution of the Tuolumne Intrusive Complex

scientific article published in March 2014

Day 5: Mesozoic volcanic rocks of the central Sierra Nevada Arc

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Day 6: Overview of arc processes and tempos

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Density and magnetic susceptibility measurements near the Guadalupe igneous complex, west-central foothills, Sierra Nevada, California

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Dike transport of granitoid magmas: Comment and Reply

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Driving mechanisms for >40 km of exhumation during contraction and extension in a continental arc, Cascades core, Washington

scientific article published on 20 May 2004

Emplacement and deformation of granitoids during volcanic arc construction in the Foothills terrane, central Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published in May 1991

Emplacement of the Kodiak batholith and slab-window migration

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Erupted zircon record of continental crust formation during mantle driven arc flare-ups

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Evaluating the Mojave–Snow Lake fault hypothesis and origins of central Sierran metasedimentary pendant strata using detrital zircon provenance analyses

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Evidence for syntectonic intrusion of plutons in the Bear Mountains fault zone, California

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Extensional pluton-emplacement models: Do they work for large plutonic complexes?

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Extent of the Nevadan orogeny, central Sierra Nevada, California

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Formation and transfer of stoped blocks into magma chambers: The high-temperature interplay between focused porous flow, cracking, channel flow, host-rock anisotropy, and regional deformation

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Four magmatic fabrics in the Tuolumne batholith, central Sierra Nevada, California (USA): Implications for interpreting fabric patterns in plutons and evolution of magma chambers in the upper crust

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Fracture-controlled magma conduits in an obliquely convergent continental magmatic arc: Comment and Reply

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Geology and tectonic evolution of the Bear Mountains Fault Zone, Foothills Terrane, central Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published in October 1991

Geology of the Benson Lake Pendant, Western Yosemite National Park, Central Sierra Nevada

scientific article published in 2012

Growth and demise of continental arcs and orogenic plateaux in the North American Cordillera: from Baja to British Columbia

scientific article published in 2004

Growth of complex sheeted zones during recycling of older magmatic units into younger: Sawmill Canyon area, Tuolumne batholith, Sierra Nevada, California

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Hornblende as a tool for assessing mineral-melt equilibrium and recognition of crystal accumulation

scientific article published in January 2020

Implications of rapid, dike-fed pluton growth for host-rock strain rates and emplacement mechanisms

Incremental growth of an upper crustal, A-type pluton, Argentina: Evidence of a re-used magma pathway

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Is stoping a volumetrically significant pluton emplacement process?: Discussion

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K-feldspar megacryst accumulations formed by mechanical instabilities in magma chamber margins, Asha pluton, NW Argentina

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Late Paleozoic tectonic assembly of the Sierra Nevada prebatholithic framework and western Laurentian provenance links based on synthesized detrital zircon geochronology

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Magmatic erosion of the solidification front during reintrusion: the eastern margin of the Tuolumne batholith, Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published in 2009

Magmatically folded and faulted schlieren zones formed by magma avalanching in the Sonora Pass Intrusive Suite, Sierra Nevada, California

scholarly article

Magmatism and tectonics in a tilted crustal section through a continental arc, eastern Transverse Ranges and southern Mojave Desert

scientific article published in 2008

Mesoscopic structures resulting from crystal accumulation and melt movement in granites

Mesozoic magmatism in an upper- to middle-crustal section through the Cordilleran continental margin arc, eastern Transverse Ranges, California

Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the southern Peninsular Ranges batholith, Baja California, Mexico: Long-lived history of a collisional segment in the Mesozoic Cordilleran arc

Metamorphism of the deepest exposed arc rocks in the Cretaceous to Paleogene Cascades belt, Washington: evidence for large-scale vertical motion in a continental arc

article by P. M. Valley et al published 28 January 2003 in Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Mineral fabrics in high-level intrusions recording crustal strain and volcano–tectonic interactions: the Shellenbarger pluton, Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published in 2016

Nested Incremental Growth of Zoned Upper Crustal Plutons in the Southern Uplands Terrane, UK: Fractionating, Mixing, and Contaminated Magma Fingers

scientific article published in March 2018

Papoose Flat pluton: Forceful expansion or postemplacement deformation?

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Plutonism at different crustal levels: Insights from the ~5–40 km (paleodepth) North Cascades crustal section, Washington

scientific article published in 2009

Post-Nevadan deformation along the Bear Mountains fault zone: Implications for the Foothills terrane, central Sierra Nevada, California

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Primary and tectonic fabric intensities in mudrocks

scientific article published in July 1995

Quantifying crustal thickness over time in magmatic arcs

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Regional, structural and strain analyses of terranes in the Western Metamorphic Belt, Central Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published in January 1989

Repeated, multiscale, magmatic erosion and recycling in an upper-crustal pluton: Implications for magma chamber dynamics and magma volume estimates

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Roof and walls of the Red Mountain Creek pluton, eastern Sierra Nevada, California (USA): implications for process zones during pluton emplacement

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Schlieren-Bound Magmatic Structures Record Crystal Flow-Sorting in Dynamic Upper-Crustal Magma-Mush Chambers

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Spatial and Depth‐Dependent Variations in Magma Volume Addition and Addition Rates to Continental Arcs: Application to Global CO 2 Fluxes since 750 Ma

scientific article published in June 2019

Strains and structures associated with a terrane bounding stretching fault: the Melones fault zone, central Sierra Nevada, California

Structural and hydrothermal evolution of a strike-slip shear zone during a ductile-brittle transition, Sierra Nevada, CA

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Structural evidence for mid-Cretaceous suturing of the Alisitos arc to North America from the Sierra Calamajue, Baja California, Mexico

Tectonic implications of syn- and post-emplacement deformation of the Mount Stuart batholith for mid-Cretaceous orogenesis in the North Cascades

scientific article published in March 1992

The Mammoth Peak sheeted complex, Tuolumne batholith, Sierra Nevada, California: a record of initial growth or late thermal contraction in a magma chamber?

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The development of folds and cleavages in slate belts by underplating in accretionary complexes: A comparison of the Kodiak Formation, Alaska and the Calaveras Complex, California

scientific article published in 1988

Timing and nature of magmatic fabrics from structural relations around stoped blocks

scientific article published in February 1997

Tracking paleodeformation fields in the Mesozoic central Sierra Nevada arc: Implications for intra-arc cyclic deformation and arc tempos

scientific article published in 2015

Upper-crustal architecture and record of Famatinian arc activity in the Sierra de Narváez and Sierra de Las Planchadas, NW Argentina

scientific article published in January 2021

Using pluton ages to date regional deformations: Problems with commonly used criteria

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