| Department of Geological Sciences Campus Box 399 University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0399 |
cjones@cires.colorado.edu (303)-492-6994 (voice) (303)-492-2606 (fax) |
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| Education | ||
| Ph.D., GeophysicsMassachusetts Institute of Technology,"A Geophysical and Geological Investigation of Extensional Structures, Great Basin, Western United States,"Peter H. Molnar, advisor. | October 1987 | |
| B.S., Geophysics and Planetary Science (with honors)California Institute of Technology. | June 1981 | |
| Professional Experience | ||
| Associate Professor, Geological Sciences |
August 1998- June 1999- |
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| Research Asst. Prof., Geological Sciences | Sept 1996-June 1998 | |
| Research Associate, CIRES CU-Boulder |
Oct 1993-August 1998 |
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| Research Asst. Prof/Res. Assoc. Center for Neotectonic Studies Univ. of Nevada, Reno |
Jan 1991-Sept. 1993 | |
| Research Fellow California Institute of Technology |
Nov 1987-Dec. 1991 | |
| Teaching Experience | ||
| Geology 1020, Introduction to Geology II | Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2005, 2004, Fall 2002, 2001, 2000, Spring 1999 | |
| Geology 4714/5714, Field Geophysics | Fall 2009, 2008, 2005, 2003, 2000, Fall 1998 (as 4740) | |
| Geology 4717/5717, Field Seminar in WUS Tectonics | Spring 2009, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2000 | |
| Geology 5700, Physics and Chemistry of the Solid Earth (with Lang Farmer) | Fall 2008, 2006, 2004 | |
| Geology 5690, Geologic History of the Western US | Spring 2010, Fall 2005, 2003, Spring 2002, Fall 1999 | |
| Geology 5700, Seminar on uplift of Rockies and adjoining areas (with Bob Anderson) |
Fall 2005 | |
| Geology 5750 (Seminar), Geologic History of the Basin and Range | Spring 1998 | |
| Geology 1140, Our Dynamic Earth II (non-majors geophysics/geology) (with H. Spetzler) | Spring 1996 | |
| Seminar: History and Physics of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau (with A. F. Sheehan) | Spring 1994 | |
| Seminar: History and Physics of the Basin and Range (with S. Wesnousky) | Spring 1992 | |
| Teaching Assistant, MIT Field Geophysics Camps | 1983, 1985, 1987 | |
| Field Experience | ||
| Passive seismic experiment (Sierra Nevada Earthscope Experiment) | 2005-2007 | |
| Paleomagnetic sampling, Colorado Plateau and California Coast Ranges | 2000, 2002-4, 2007 | |
| Teleseismic and deep local converted wave experiment, Marlborough Fault Zone, South Island, New Zealand | 2000-2002 | |
| Teleseismic converted wave experiment experiment, Coso Geothermal Area | 1998-2000 | |
| Teleseismic tomography experiment, Sierra Nevada | Summer 1997 | |
| Teleseismic experiment, Utah and Nevada | Sept. 1994-June 1995 | |
| Teleseismic and refraction experiment, Sierra Nevada | Summer 1993 | |
| Paleomagnetic sampling, Lake Mead area | 1988-present | |
| Seismological deployment, Sierra Nevada | summer 1988 | |
| Geologic mapping, Alexander Hills, Death Valley area | several months, 1984-1986 | |
| Microearthquake deployment, northern Utah | Aug-Oct 1983 | |
| MIT Field Geophysics Camps (as TA), southern Nevada and SE California | Jan 1983, 1985, and 1987 | |
| Awards, Honors and Fellowships | ||
Best Presentation for 2005 (Past Presidents' Award), Colorado Scientific Society |
2005 | |
| Geological Society of America Fellow | 2002 | |
| Geological Society of America Distinguished Service Award | 2001 | |
| Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Tectonics | 1989 | |
| Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow, California Inst. Technology | 1987-1989 | |
| Amoco Fellowship, Massachusetts Inst. Technology | 1986-1987 | |
| Chevron Fellowship, California Inst. Technology | 1980-1981 | |
| Professional Service | ||
| Associate editor, Geosphere, Deccember 2004- | ||
| Publications committee, Geological Society of America, July 2004-June 2007 | ||
| Organizing Committee, “Thermal Processes in the Context of EarthScope” workshop, March 2004 | ||
Electronic Journal Committee, Geological Society of America, Summer 2003 |
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| Associate editor, Tectonics 2000-2003 | ||
| Technical Program co-chair, 1999 Annual Meeting,
Geological Society of America Annual Program Committee, GSA |
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| Editorial board, Geology magazine, 1990-1992 | ||
| Reviewed articles for Science, Nature, Geology, Tectonics, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Geophysical Journal International, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Tectonophysics, Geophysical Journal International,Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, GSA Today, Geol. Soc. America Special Papers, G-cubed, Seismotectonics of Nepal Himalaya special volume, and Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. | ||
Ph.D. Students |
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Tetreault, J., C. H. Jones, E. Erslev, M. Hudson, S. Larson, and S. Holdaway, Paleomagnetic and structural evidence for oblique-slip in a fault-related fold, Grayback Monocline, Colorado, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 120 (7/8); p. 877–892; doi: 10.1130/B26178.1, 2008.
Boyd, O. S., M. K. Savage, A. F. Sheehan, C. H. Jones, Illuminating the plate interface structure beneath Cook Strait, New Zealand with receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res. 112 (B6), B06310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006JB004552, 2007
Gilbert, H., C. Jones, T. J. Owens, and G. Zandt, Imaging Sierra Nevada Lithospheric Sinking, EOS, 88 (21), pp. 225 & 229, May 22, 2007
Jones, C. H., G. L. Farmer, and J. R. Unruh, Tectonics of Pliocene removal of lithosphere of the Sierra Nevada, California, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 116 (11/12), 1408-1422, 2004.
Wilson, C. K., C. H. Jones, A. F. Sheehan, P. Molnar, O. S. Boyd, Distributed deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand, Geology, 32, 837-840, 2004.
Zandt. G., H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, M. Ducea, J. Saleeby, and C. H. Jones, Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada, California, Nature, 431, 41-46, 2004.
Boyd, O., C. H. Jones, A. F. Sheehan, Foundering lithosphere imaged beneath the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA, Science, 305, 660-662, 2004.
Molnar, P. H., and C. 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, Geophysical Journal International , doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02138, 156 , 555-564, 2004. . [link is to preprint pdf of manuscript; final print version pdf available on request]
Wilson, C. K., C. H. Jones, and H. J. Gilbert, A single-chamber silicic magma system inferred from shear-wave discontinuities of the crust and uppermost mantle, Coso geothermal area, California, J. Geophysical Research, 108 [B5], 10.1029/2002JB001798, 2003.[JGR online abstract]
Jones, C. H., User-driven Integrated Software Lives: "PaleoMag" Paleomagnetics Analysis on the Macintosh, Computers and Geosciences, 28 (10), 1145-1151, 2002.
Wannamaker, P. E. , J. M. Bartley, A. F. Sheehan, C. H. Jones, A. R. Lowry, Trevor A. Dumitru, Todd A. Ehlers, W. S. Holbrook, G. L. Farmer, M. J. Unsworth, D. B. Hall, D. S. Chapman, D. A. Okaya, B. E. John, and J. A. Wolfe, Great Basin-Colorado Plateau transition in central Utah: An interface between active extension and stable interior, in The Geologic Transition, High Plateaus to Great Basin: A symposium and field guide: The Mackin Volume, ed. by M. C. Erskine, J. E. Faulds, J. M. Bartley and P. Rowley, Utah Geol. Assoc. UGA-30/Amer. Assoc. Petr. Geol. Guideb. GB78, Cedar City, Utah, September 20-23, p. 1-38, 2001.
Unruh, J. R., L. J. Sonder, and C. H. Jones, Relation of gravitationally driven lithospheric extension to low slip-rate faults and regional seismic hazards in the western United States, in Lund, W.R., ed., Proceedings Volume, Basin and Range Province Seismic-Hazards Summit, Western States Seismic Policy Council: Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 98-2, p. 167-179, 1998.
Sheehan, A.F., C. H. Jones, M. K. Savage, S. Ozalaybey, and J. M. Schneider, Contrasting lithospheric structure beneath the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin: Initial results from Colorado Plateau - Great Basin PASSCAL experimentGeophys. Res. Letts., 24 (21), 2609-2612, 1997.
Park, S. K., R. Clayton, M. Ducea, B. Wernicke, C. H. Jones, and S. Ruppert, Project combines seismic and magnetotelluric surveying to address the Sierran root question, EOS, 76 (30), 297-8, July 25, 1995.
Magistrale, H., H. Kanamori, and C. H. Jones, Forward and inverse three-dimensional P-wave velocity models of the southern California crust, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 14,115-14,135, 1992.
Burger, H. R., A. F. Sheehan, and C. H. Jones, Introduction to Applied Geophysics, W. W. Norton, New York, 2006.
Jones, C. H., R. Ripperdan, and J. Kirschvink, “PaleoMag,” an interactive paleomagnetics analysis code for the Apple Macintosh, 1990-present (in use at more than 18 different institutions on four continents), http://cires.colorado.edu/people/jones.craig/PMag3.html.
Jones, C. H., Review of Exploring the Highest Sierra, by James G. Moore, Geotimes, February, 2001.
Jones, C. H., H. Gilbert, G. Zandt, and T. Owens, The Sierra Nevada EarthScope Project: A first report from the broadband FlexArray, IRIS Newsletter, pp. 12-14, Nov. 2006.
Jones, C. H., How faults accommodate plate motion [Perspective], Science, 300, 1105-1106, 2003.
Wilson, C. K., and C. H. Jones, Using Antelope for PASSCAL field data management, IRIS DMS Electronic Newsletter, 4, no. 2, http://www.iris.washington.edu/newsletter/vol4no2/page3.htm, 2002.
(Laramide paper, several SNEP papers).
Jones, C. H., G. L. Farmer, B. Sageman, and S. Zhong, Rethinking the Laramide: Limited Laramide shallow subduction enhanced by hydrodynamic effects in the asthenospheric wedge, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U54A-01, 2008.
Levandowski, W., C. Jones, G. Nolet, and B. Phinney, Mysterious Moho Beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada, Analyzed with Beam-Formed Receiver Functions, Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract T33A-1148, 2007.
Tetreault, J L. and C. H. Jones, Paleomagnetic and Seismologic Evidence for Oblique-Slip Partitioning to the Coalinga Anticline From the San Andreas Fault, Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract T43A-1099, 2007.
Reeg, H., C. H. Jones, H. Gilbert, T. Owens and G. Zandt,Teleseismic Travel-Time Tomography of the Sierra Nevada and its Foundering Lithosphere, Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract T33A-1150, 2007.
Badger, N. B., I. D. Bastow, T. J. Owens, G. Zandt, C. H. Jones, and H. Gilbert, Shear wave anisotropy beneath the Sierra Nevada range: Implications for lithospheric foundering and upper mantle flow, Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract T33A-1149, 2007.
Zandt, G., H. Gilbert, A. Frassetto, T. Owens, and C. Jones, Insights on Lithospheric Foundering from the Sierra Nevada Earthscope Project (SNEP) , Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract T31E-01, 2007.
Jones, C. H., G. L. Farmer, B. Sageman, and S. Zhong, Exploring An Alternative Explanation For The Laramide Orogeny, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 53, 2007.
Bailley, T.L., G. L. Farmer, C. Jones, Reassessing Magmatic Space-Time-Composition Patterns in the Colorado Mineral Belt, USA, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(23), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract V23C-03, 2007.
Levandowski, W., C. H. Jones, Receiver functions from medium aperture broadband beams and the Moho of the Sierra Nevada, California, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S54A-03, 2006.
Byerly, K., T. J. Owens, H. Crotwell, J. Julia, H. Gilbert, G. Zandt, C. H. Jones, Bulk crustal properties of the Sierra Nevada, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S43A-1358, 2006.
Bastow, I. D., T. J. Owens, G. Zandt, C. Jones, H. Gilbert, J. Julia, SKS splitting analyses from the Sierra Nevada Earthscope Project: Insights into lithospheric foundering, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S43A-1361, 2006.
Gilbert, H., C. Jones, T. Owens, G. Zandt, Observations of lithospheric foundering, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S54A-01, 2006.
Frassetto, A., I. D. Bastow, O. Hurd, G. Zandt, H. J. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, and C. H. Jones, Crustal anisotropy, deep crustal earthquakes, and the Moho hole beneath the west-central Sierra Nevada, California, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T52B-02, 2006.
Hurd, O., A. Frassetto, G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, C. Jones, and T. J. Owens, Deep Crustal Earthquakes and Repeating Earthquakes in the West-Central Sierra Nevada, Western USA, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S43A-1360, 2006.
Thomas, A, C. Jones, H. Reeg, H. Gilbert, G. Zandt, and T. Owens, Teleseismic travel times, the Isabella anomaly, and the missing Moho, from the Sierra Nevada EarthScope experiment, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S51A-1061, 2005
Schulte-Pelkum, V., and C. Jones, Surface Tectonics-Matched SKS Splitting: Vertically Coherent Mantle Deformation or Crustal Anisotropy?, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S51A-0974, 2005
Byerly, K., J. Julia, T. J. Owens, H. Gilbert, G. Zandt, and C. Jones. Sierra Nevada Earthscope Project: Constraints on the Sierran Seismic Structure From Regional Waveform Modelling?, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S51A-1062, 2005
Burdick, S., G. Zandt, H. Gilbert. C. Jones, and T. Owens, Moho Structure of the Central Sierra Nevada From an EarthScope Flex Array Deployment?, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S41E-05, 2005
Jones, C. H, G. Zandt, T. J. Owens Jr., and H. Gilbert, The Sierra Nevada Earthscope project: Motiviations, status, and early results, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 59, 2005.
Jones, C. H., The lost world: Preserving analyses for future workers, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 416, 2005.
Boyd, O S, M. K. Savage, A. F. Sheehan, C. H. Jones, Deep Seismic Discontinuity Structure Beneath New Zealand, EOS, 85 (47) (fall meeting supplement), abstract T21B-0523, 2004.
Tétreault, J. L., C. H. Jones, Three-dimensional studies of oblique deformation within Laramide folds, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Prog., 35, 2004 (presention 8 Nov. 2004, 2:45 pm)
Gilbert, H. J., C. H. Jones, and G. Zandt, Anisotropy at the base of the Sierra Nevada batholith as inferred from passive seismic observations: Trigger or result of root removal, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Prog., 35, 2004
University of Utah, “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 28 February 2008
Caltech, “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 30 November 2007.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography (UCSD), Sierra Nevada talk, October 15, 2007.
Yosemite National Park, monthly Yosemite Forum talk, “Raising the Sierra: New insights into an old problem”, October 9, 2007.
Northwestern University, “Sierra Nevada: Testing Mantle Foundering as a Tectonic Engine”, invited colloquim, May 26, 2006.
University of California at Berkeley, “The Sierra Nevada: Type Locale of a Different Tectonic Engine?”, invited Seisology Lab colloquim, April 25, 2006.
Princeton University, “Bob's Bookends: Receiver Functions and Tectonics In and Near the Southern Sierra Nevada, California”, Phinney retirement colloquim, invited, May 16, 2005.
Colorado Scientific Society, Haunted By A Cryptic Orogen: The Sierra Nevada And Its Impact On The Evolution Of California, 19 January 2005.
Ball Aerospace, Boulder, Untitled talk on the Sierra Nevada, 19 November 2004.
Colorado State University, "Haunted by a Cryptic Orogen: Pliocene Deformation Under the Sierra Nevada and its Implications for Intracontinental Deformation," 1 December 2003.
University of New Mexico Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, "Haunted by a Cryptic Orogen: Pliocene Deformation Under the Sierra Nevada and its Implications for Intracontinental Deformation", 18 April 2003
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, "Haunted by a Cryptic Orogen: Pliocene deformation under the Sierra Nevada of California," 31 May 2002.
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, "Haunted by a Cryptic Orogen: Pliocene deformation under the Sierra Nevada of California," 30 May 2002.
Institute for Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, "Beyond Plate Tectonics: Body Forces and the Mantle in the Western United States," 25 May 2001.
Geophysics Section of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington, "Beyond Plate Tectonics: Body Forces and the Mantle in the Western United States," 17 May 2001.
Northwestern University, 26 May 2000, two talks (Sierra Nevada and Coso).
University of California, Riverside, 9 May 2000.
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