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• Formation and evolution of the Pacific-North American (San Andreas) plate boundary: Constraints from the crustal architecture of northern California, 2024, Tectonics (43) - 6
• Earthquake relocations delineate discrete a fault network and deformation corridor throughout Southeast Alaska and Southwest Yukon, 2024, Tectonics (43) - 5
• Using stochastic point pattern analysis to track regional orientations of magmatism during the transition to cenozoic extension and Rio Grande rifting, Southern Rocky Mountains, 2024, Tectonics (43) - 2
• Deep structure of Siletzia in the Puget Lowland: Imaging an obducted plateau and accretionary thrust belt with potential fields, 2024, Tectonics (43) - 2
• Crustal structure across the central Dead Sea Transform and surrounding areas: Insights into tectonic processes in continental transforms, 2023, Tectonics (42) - 8
• Substantial upper plate faulting above a shallow subduction megathrust earthquake: Mechanics and implications of the surface faulting during the 2016 Kaikoura, New Zealand, earthquake, 2023, Tectonics (42) - 5
• Ediacaran-Ordovician magmatism and REE mineralization in the Wet Mountains, Colorado, USA: Implications for failed continental rifting, 2023, Tectonics (42) - 4
• Quantifying permanent uplift due to lithosphere-hotspot interaction, 2022, Tectonics (41) - 12
• Probing the upper end of intracontinental earthquake magnitude: A prehistoric example from the Dzhungarian and Lepsy faults of Kazakhstan, 2022, Tectonics (41) - 10
• Tectonic subsidence modeling of diachronous transition from backarc to retroarc basin development and uplift during Cordilleran orogenesis, Patagonian-Fuegian Andes, 2022, Tectonics (41) - 10
• Defining the timing, extent, and conditions of Paleozoic metamorphism in the southern Appalachian Blue Ridge terranes of Tennessee, North Carolina, and northern Georgia, 2022, Tectonics (41) - 10
• Late Paleozoic flexural extension and overprinting shortening in the southern Ozark dome, Arkansas, USA: Evolving fault kinematics in the foreland of the Ouachita orogen, 2022, Tectonics (41) -
• Mature diffuse tectonic block boundary revealed by the 2020 southwestern Puerto Rico seismic sequence, 2022, Tectonics (41) - 3
• Microcontinent breakup and links to possible plate boundary reorganization in the northern Gulf of California, México, 2022, Tectonics (41) - 1
• From crystals to crustal-scale seismic anisotropy: Bridging the gap between rocks and seismic studies with digital geologic map data in Colorado, 2022, Tectonics (41) - 1
• Quaternary reelfoot fault deformation in the Obion River Valley, Tennessee, USA, 2021, Tectonics (40) - 8
• The paleogeography of Laurentia in its early years: New constraints from the Paleoproterozoic East-Central Minnesota batholith, 2021, Tectonics (40) - 5
• Gondwanic inheritance on the building of the western Central Andes (Domeyko Range, Chile): Structural and thermochronological approach (U-Pb and 40Ar-39Ar), 2021, Tectonics (40) - 3
• Constraining central Himalayan (Nepal) fault geometry through integrated thermochronology and thermokinematic modeling, 2020, Tectonics (39) - 9
• The Cenozoic evolution of crustal shortening and left‐lateral shear in the central East Kunlun Shan: Implications for the uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau, 2020, Tectonics (39) - 9
• Exhumation of the Coyote Mountains metamorphic core complex (Arizona): Implications for orogenic collapse of the southern North American Cordillera., 2020, Tectonics (39) - 8
• Evidence for late Quaternary deformation along Crowley's Ridge, New Madrid seismic zone, 2020, Tectonics (39) -
• Timing of Cenozoic extension in the southern Stillwater Range and Dixie Valley, Nevada, 2020, Tectonics (39) - 3
• Orogenic recycling of detrital zircons characterizes age distributions of North American Cordilleran strata, 2019, Tectonics (38) - 12
• Thermotectonic history of the Kluane Ranges and evolution of the eastern Denali Fault Zone in southwestern Yukon, Canada, 2019, Tectonics (38) - 8
• The influence of foreland structures on hinterland cooling: evaluating the drivers of exhumation in the eastern Bhutan Himalaya, 2019, Tectonics (38) - 9
• Late Miocene to Pleistocene source to sink record of exhumation and sediment routing in the Gulf of Alaska from detrital zircon fission-track and U-Pb double dating, 2019, Tectonics (38) - 8
• Serpentinite‐rich gouge in a creeping segment of the Bartlett Springs Fault, northern California: Comparison with SAFOD and implications for seismic hazard, 2018, Tectonics (37) - 12
• Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic exhumation of the western Brooks Range, Alaska, revealed from apatite and zircon fission track data, 2018, Tectonics (37) - 12
• Interpretation of low‐temperature thermochronometer ages from tilted normal fault blocks, 2018, Tectonics (37) - 10
• Kinematic, deformational, and thermochronologic conditions along the Gossan Lead and Fries shear zones: Constraining the western-eastern Blue Ridge boundary in northwestern North Carolina, 2018, Tectonics (37) - 10
• Neotectonics of the Big Sur Bend, San Gregorio‐Hosgri fault system, central California, 2018, Tectonics (37) - 7
• Crustal structure and quaternary acceleration of deformation rates in central Washington revealed by stream profile inversion, potential field geophysics, and structural geology of the Yakima folds, 2018, Tectonics (37) - 6
• Thermochronometry across the Austroalpine-Pennine boundary, Central Alps, Switzerland: Orogen-perpendicular normal fault slip on a major ‘overthrust’ and its implications for orogenesis, 2018, Tectonics (37) - 3
• The story of a Yakima fold and how it informs Late Neogene and Quaternary backarc deformation in the Cascadia subduction zone, Manastash anticline, Washington, USA, 2017, Tectonics (36) - 10
• Evidence for distributed clockwise rotation of the crust in the northwestern United States from fault geometries and focal mechanisms, 2017, Tectonics (36) - 5
• Testing fault growth models with low-temperature thermochronology in the northwest Basin and Range, USA, 2016, Tectonics (35) - 10
• Changing exhumation patterns during Cenozoic growth and glaciation of the Alaska Range: Insights from detrital thermochronology and geochronology, 2016, Tectonics (35) - 4
• Eocene and Miocene extension, meteoric fluid infiltration, and core complex formation in the Great Basin (Raft River Mountains, Utah), 2015, Tectonics (34) - 4
• Subsurface geometry of the San Andreas-Calaveras fault junction: Influence of serpentinite and the Coast Range Ophiolite, 2014, Tectonics (33) - 10
• A kinematic model for the formation of the Siletz-Crescent forearc terrane by capture of coherent fragments of the Farallon and Resurrection plates, 2013, Tectonics (32) - 3
• Recent, slow normal and strike-slip faulting in the Pasto Ventura region of the southern Puna Plateau, NW Argentina, 2013, Tectonics (32) - 1
• Uplift history of the Sila Massif, southern Italy, deciphered from cosmogenic ¹⁰Be erosion rates and river longitudinal profile analysis, 2012, Tectonics (31) - 3
• Mineral parageneses, regional architecture, and tectonic evolution of Franciscan metagraywackes, Cape Mendocino-Garberville-Covelo 30' x 60' quadrangles, northwest California, 2012, Tectonics (31) - 1
• Fault zone structure from topography: signatures of en echelon fault slip at Mustang Ridge on the San Andreas Fault, Monterey County, California, 2010, Tectonics (29) -
• Thermochronology and tectonics of the Leeward Antilles: Evolution of the southern Caribbean Plate boundary zone, 2010, Tectonics (29) - TC6003
• Rapid middle Miocene extension and unroofing of the southern Ruby Mountains, Nevada, 2010, Tectonics (29) -
• Exhumation along the Fairweather fault, southeastern Alaska, based on low-temperature thermochronometry, 2009, Tectonics (28) - 1
• Coolwater culmination: Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) U-Pb and isotopic evidence for continental delamination in the Syringa Embayment, Salmon River suture, Idaho, 2008, Tectonics (27) - 2
• How was the Triassic Songpan-Ganzi basin filled? A provenance study, 2007, Tectonics (26) - 4
• New insights into Arctic paleogeography and tectonics from U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology, 2006, Tectonics (25) - 3
• Implications of volcanism in coastal California for the Neogene deformation history of western North America, 2005, Tectonics (24) - 3
• Pliocene transpressional modification of depositional basins by convergent thrusting adjacent to the "Big Bend" of the San Andreas fault: An example from Lockwood Valley, southern California, 2005, Tectonics (24) - 1
• Taking apart the Big Pine fault: Redefining a major structural feature in southern California, 2005, Tectonics (24) - 6
• Miocene extension and extensional folding in an anticlinal segment of the Black Mountains accommodation zone, Colorado River extensional corridor, southwestern United States, 2004, Tectonics (23) - 1
• Assembly of the Pamirs: Age and origin of magmatic belts from the southern Tien Shan to the southern Pamirs and their relation to Tibet, 2004, Tectonics (23) - 4
• Tectonic processes during oblique collision: Insights from the St. Elias orogen, northern North American Cordillera, 2004, Tectonics (23) - 3
• Driving mechanisms for >40 km of exhumation during contraction and extension in a continental arc, Cascades core, Washington, 2004, Tectonics (23) - 3
• Holocene to Pliocene tectonic evolution of the region offshore of the Los Angeles urban corridor, southern California, 2004, Tectonics (23) - 1
• Active shortening of the Cascadia forearc and implications for seismic hazards of the Puget Lowland, 2004, Tectonics (23) - 1
• Syntectonic remagnetization in the southern Methow block: Resolving large displacements in the southern Canadian Cordillera, 2002, Tectonics (21) - 4
• Tectonic erosion and consequent collapse of the Pacific margin of Costa Rica: Combined implications from ODP leg 170, seismic offshore data, and regional geology of the Nicoya Peninsula, 2001, Tectonics (20) - 5
• Geophysical constraints on the location and geometry of the Las Vegas Shear Zone, Nevada, 2001, Tectonics (20) - 2
• Geochronology of the proterozoic basement of southwesternmost North America, and the origin and evolution of the Mojave crustal province, 2000, Tectonics (19) - 4
• Upper plate contraction north of the migrating Mendocino triple junction northern California: Implications for partitioning of strain, 2000, Tectonics (19) - 6
• Accretion in the wake of terrane collision: The Neogene accretionary wedge off Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, 1999, Tectonics (18) - 2
• Plate deformation at depth under northern California: Slab gap or stretched slab?, 1999, Tectonics (18) - 6
• Comment on "New evidence of magmatic diapirs in the intermediate crust under the Dead Sea, Israel" by Nitzan Rabinowitz, Jean Steinberg, and Yossi Mart, 1998, Tectonics (17) - 5
• More than one way to stretch: A tectonic model for extension along the plume track of the Yellowstone hotspot and adjacent Basin and Range Province, 1998, Tectonics (17) - 2
• Wide-angle seismic constraints on the evolution of the deep San Andreas plate boundary by Mendocino triple junction migration, 1998, Tectonics (17) - 5
• Paleomagnetic evidence that the central block of Salinia (California) is not a far-traveled terrane, 1998, Tectonics (17) - 3
• Contour mapping of relic structures in the Precambrian basement of the Reelfoot rift, North American midcontinent, 1998, Tectonics (17) - 2
• Remagne California margin, 1998, Tectonics (17) - 6
• Controls on accretion of flysch and melange belts at convergent margins: Evidence from the Chugach Bay thrust and Iceworm melange, Chugach accretionary wedge, Alaska, 1997, Tectonics (16) - 6
• Triassic plutonism in southern California: Southward younging of arc initiation along a truncated continental margin, 1997, Tectonics (16) - 2
• Extensional reactivation of the Chocolate Mountains subduction thrust in the Gavilan Hills of southeastern California, 1997, Tectonics (16) - 4
• Metamorphic and structural evidence for significant vertical displacement along the Ross Lake fault zone, a major orogen-parallel shear zone in the Cordillera of western North America, 1997, Tectonics (16) - 4
• Crustal and upper mantle velocity structure of the Salton Trough, southeast California, 1996, Tectonics (15) - 2
• Far-travelled permian chert of the North Fork terrane, Klamath mountains, California, 1996, Tectonics (15) - 2
• Paleomagnetic study of the northern Ford Ranges, western Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: Motion between West and East Antarctica, 1996, Tectonics (15) - 1
• Large-scale right-slip displacement on the East San Francisco Bay Region fault system, California: Implications for location of late Miocene to Pliocene Pacific plate boundary, 1996, Tectonics (15) - 1
• Patterns of late Cenozoic volcanic and tectonic activity in the West Antarctic rift system revealed by aeromagnetic surveys, 1996, Tectonics (15) - 3
• The Amazon-Laurentian connection as viewed from the Middle Proterozoic rocks in the central Andes, western Bolivia and northern Chile, 1996, Tectonics (15) - 4
• An 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the Ofoten‐Troms region: Implications for terrane amalgamation and extensional collapse of the northern Scandinavian Caledonides, 1995, Tectonics (14) - 2
• Paleozoic ophiolitic assemblages within the southern New England orogen of eastern Australia: Implications for growth of the Gondwana margin, 1994, Tectonics (13) - 5
• Earthquake refraction profiles of the root of the Sierra Nevada, 1994, Tectonics (13) - 4
• Paleomagnetism and rotation constraints for the middle Miocene southwestern Nevada volcanic field, 1994, Tectonics (13) - 2
• Strike-slip faulting at Thebes Gap, Missouri and Illinois; implications for New Madrid tectonism, 1994, Tectonics (13) - 2
• Structure, metamorphism, and geochronology of the Cosmos Hills and Ruby Ridge, Brooks Range schist belt, Alaska, 1994, Tectonics (13) - 1
• Large-scale deformation related to the collision of the Aleutian Arc with Kamchatka, 1994, Tectonics (13) - 3
• Mid‐Cretaceous extensional tectonics of the Yukon‐Tanana Terrane, Trans‐Alaska Crustal Transect (TACT), east‐central Alaska, 1993, Tectonics (12) - 1
• Correction and addition to “Seismicity of the Sundra Strait: Evidence for crustal Extension and volcanologic implications”, 1993, Tectonics (12) - 3
• Crustal-scale thrusting and origin of the Montreal River monocline-A 35-km-thick cross section of the midcontinent rift in northern Michigan and Wisconsin, 1993, Tectonics (12) - 3
• Comparison of deep structure along three transects of the western North American continental margin, 1993, Tectonics (12) - 6
• Contrasting P‐T‐t paths: Thermochronologic evidence for a Late Paleozoic final assembly of the Avalon Composite Terrane in the New England Appalachians, 1992, Tectonics
• Kinematic evidence for extensional unroofing of the Franciscan Complex along the Coast Range Fault, Northern Diablo Range, California, 1992, Tectonics (11) - 2
• Evidence for cenozoic crustal extension in the Bering Sea region, 1992, Tectonics (11) - 4
• Structural evolution of an arc-basin: The Gravina Belt in central southeastern Alaska, 1992, Tectonics (11) - 6
• Structure of the collision zone between Bougainville guyot and the accretionary wedge of the New Hebrides island arc, southwest Pacific, 1991, Tectonics (10) - 5
• Geophysical studies of the West Antarctic rift system, 1991, Tectonics (10) - 6
• The age of the Keystone thrust: laser-fusion 40Ar/39Ar dating of foreland basin deposits, southern Spring Mountains, Nevada, 1990, Tectonics (9) - 3
• Remagnetization and northward coastwise transport of Franciscan Complex rocks, northern California: a reinterpretation of the paleomagnetic data, 1990, Tectonics (9) - 5
• Extensional faulting in the southern Klamath Mountains, California, 1989, Tectonics (8) - 1
• The North American Midcontinent rift beneath Lake Superior from GLIMPCE seismic reflection profiling, 1989, Tectonics (8) - 2
• The style of late Cenozoic deformation at the eastern front of the California Coast Ranges, 1989, Tectonics (8) - 2
• The evolution of forearc structures along an oblique convergent margin, central Aleutian Arc, 1989, Tectonics (8) - 3
• Taconic plate kinematics as revealed by foredeep stratigraphy, Appalachian Orogen, 1989, Tectonics (8) - 5
• Tectonics of formation, translation, and dispersal of the Coast Range ophiolite of California, 1988, Tectonics (7) - 5
• The Goodman swell: a lithospheric flexure caused by crustal loading along the Midcontinent rift system, 1988, Tectonics (7) - 5
• The origin of summit basins on the Aleutian Ridge: implications for block rotation of an arc massif ( Pacific)., 1988, Tectonics (7) - 2
• Geologic structure of the northern New Caledonia ridge, as inferred from magnetic and gravity anomalies, 1988, Tectonics (7) - 5
• Attenuation of the Coast Range ophiolite by extensional faulting and nature of the Coast Range "thrust," California, 1987, Tectonics (6) -
• Correlation of early Cretaceous blueschists in Washington, Oregon and northern California, 1987, Tectonics (6) - 6
• Stress orientation determined from fault slip data in Hampel Wash area, Nevada, and its relation to contemporary regional stress field ( USA)., 1987, Tectonics (6) - 2
• Significance of Klamath rocks between the Franciscan Complex and Coast Range ophiolite, northern California, 1986, Tectonics (5) -
• A kinematic model of southern California., 1986, Tectonics (5) - 1
• Cenozoic plate motions and the volcano-tectonic evolution of western Oregon and Washington, 1984, Tectonics (3) - 2