Our most recent papers about the Basin and Range

W.C. Hammond, W. Thatcher,

GPS Measurement of deformation of the Basin and Range province, western United States, to be submitted to Eos Trans. AGU, 83, Fall Meet Suppl., 2002.

[Online Abstract]

M. Nyst, W.C. Hammond,

Present-Day kinematics of the Walker Lane, Nevada, derived GPS data, to be submitted to Eos Trans. AGU, 83, Fall Meet Suppl., 2002.

[Online Abstract]

W.C. Hammond, W. Thatcher,

Integrated kinematic analysis of GPS and fault slip data in the Eastern California Shear Zone, Walker Lane and Sierra Nevada., Eos Trans. AGU, 82, Fall Meet Suppl., 2001.

[Online Abstract]

T. Parsons, J. McCarthy and G. A. Thompson,

Very different crustal response to extreme extension in the southern Basin and Range and Colorado Plateau transition, in, Erskine, M. C., Faulds, J. E., Bartley, J. M., and Rowley, P. D., editors, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Pacific Section Guidebook, GB 78, pp., 291-304, 2001.

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W. Thatcher, G. R. Foulger, B. R. Julian, J. Svarc, E. Quilty and G. W. Bawden,

Present Day Deformation Across the Basin and Range Province, Western United States, Science, 282, pp. 1,714-1,718, 1999.

[Online article]

D. Dzurisin, C. Wicks and W. Thatcher,

Renewed Uplift at the Yellowstone Caldera Measured by Leveling Surveys and Satellite Radar Interferometry, Bulletin of Volcanology, 61, pp. 349-355, 1999.

[Online article]

C. Wicks, W. Thatcher and D. Dzurisin,

Migration of Fluids Beneath Yellowstone Caldera Inferred from Satellite Radar Interferometry, Science, 282, pp. 458-462, 1998.

[Online article]

T. Parsons, G. A. Thompson and R. P. Smith,

More than one way to stretch: a tectonic model for extension along the plume track of Yellowstone hotspot and adjacent Basin and Range Province, Tectonics, 17, pp. 221-234, 1998.

G. Marshall, J. Langbein, R. S. Stein, M. Lisowski and J. Svarc,

Inflation of Long Valley Caldera, California, basin and range strain, and possible Mono craters dike inflation from 1990-94 GPS surveys, Geophys. Res. Let., 24, pp. 1003-1006, 1997.

[Online article]

R. S. Stein,

Earthquakes: Being struck by a balance (News and Views), Nature, 379, pp. 769-770, 1996.

T. Parsons, J. McCarthy, W. M. Kohler, C. J. Ammon, H. M. Benz, J. A. Hole and E. E. Criley,

The crustal structure of the Colorado Plateau, Arizona: Application of new long-offset seismic data analysis techniques, J. Geophys. Res., 101, pp. 11,173-11,194, 1996.

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K. M. Hodgkinson, R. S. Stein and G. C. P. King,

The 1954 Rainbow Mountain-Fairview Peak-Dixie Valley earthquakes: A triggered normal faulting sequence, J. Geophys. Res., 101, pp. 25,459-25,471, 1996.

K. M. Hodgkinson, R. S. Stein and G. Marshall,

Geometry of the 1954 Fairview Peak-DixieValley earthquake sequence from joint inversion of leveling and triangulation data, J. Geophys. Res., 101, pp. 25,437-25,457, 1996.

F. H. Webb, M. Bursik, T. Dixon, F. Farina, G. Marshall and R. Stein,

Inflation of Long Valley caldera from one year of continuous GPS observations, Geophys. Res. Lets., 22, pp. 195-198, 1995.

T. Parsons, N. I. Christensen and H. G. Wilshire,

Velocities of southern Basin and Range xenoliths: Insights on the nature of lower crustal reflectivity and composition, Geology, 23, pp. 129-132, 1995.

T. Parsons,

The Basin and Range Province, in K. Olsen (Eds.), Continental Rifts: evolution, structure and tectonics, pp. 277-324, 1995.

T. Parsons and J. McCarthy,

The active southwest margin of the Colorado Plateau: Uplift of mantle origin, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 107, pp. 139-147, 1995.

J. Langbein, D. Dzurisin, G. Marshall, R. Stein and J. Rundle,

Shallow and peripheral volcanic sources of inflation revealed by two-color geodeimeter and leveling data from Long valley caldera, California, 1988-92, J. Geophys. Res., 100, pp. 12,487-12,495, 1995.

T. H. Dixon, F. Farina, A. Mao, F. Webb, M. Bursik, G. Marshall and R. Stein,

GPS monitoring data for active volcanoes available on Internet, EOS, Transactions AGU, 76 (1), pp. 2, 1995.

T. Parsons, N. I. Christensen and H. G. Wilshire,

Velocities of southern Basin and Range xenoliths: Insights on the nature of lower crustal reflectivity and composition, Geology, 23, pp. 129-132, 1995.

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T. Parsons, G. A. Thompson and N. H. Sleep,

Mantle plume influence on the Neogene uplift and extension of the U.S. western Cordillera?, Geology, 23, pp. 83-86, 1994.

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J. McCarthy and T. Parsons,

Insights into the kinematic Cenozoic evolution of the Basin and Range-Colorado Plateau transition from coincident seismic refraction and reflection data, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 106, pp. 747-759, 1994.

T. Parsons, J. M. Howie and G. A. Thompson,

Seismic constraints on the nature of lower crustal reflectors beneath the extending southern transition zone of the Colorado Plateau, Arizona, J. Geophys. Res., 97, pp. 12391-12407, 1992.

J. M. Howie, T. Parsons and G. A. Thompson,

High-resolution P- and S-wave deep crustal imaging across the edge of the Colorado Plateau, USA: Increased reflectivity caused by initiating extension, in R. M. e. al. (Eds.), Continental Lithosphere: Deep Seismic Reflections, pp. 21-29, 1991.

S. E. Barrientos, R. S. Stein and S. N. Ward,

Erratum to: Comparison of the 1959 Hebgen Lake, Montana, and the 1983 Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquakes from geodetic observations, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 79, pp. 2018, 1989.

S. E. Barrientos, R. S. Stein and S. N. Ward,

Comparison of the 1959 Hebgen Lake, Montana, and the 1983 Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquakes from geodetic observations, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 77, pp. 784-808, 1987.

[Printable article (1.8Mb)]

R. S. Stein and R. C. Bucknam,

Quake replay in the Great Basin, Natural History, 95, pp. 28-35, 1986.

[Online article]

R. S. Stein and S. E. Barrientos,

Planar High-Angle faulting in the Basin and Range: Geodetic analysis of the 1983 Borah peak, Idaho, Earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research, 90, pp. 11355-11366, 1985.