Craig H. Jones

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Schulte-Pelkum, V, G. P. Biasi, A. F. Sheehan, and C. H. Jones, Differential motion between upper crust and lithospheric mantle in the Central Basin and Range, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/NGEO1229, published online 14 Aug 2011, 2011.

Frassetto, A., G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, and C. H. Jones, Structure of the Sierra Nevada from receiver functions and implications for lithospheric foundering, Geosphere, 7(4), 898-921, doi: 10.1130/GES00570.1, 2011.

Yang, Y., M. H. Ritzwoller, and  C. H. Jones, Crustal structure determined from ambient noise tomography near the magmatic centers of the Coso region, southeastern California, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 12 (2), Q02009, DOI:10.1029/2010GC003362, 2011.

Jones, C. H., G. L. Farmer, B. Sageman, and S. Zhong, Hydrodynamic Mechanism for the Laramide Orogeny, Geosphere,7, 183-201, doi: 10.1130/GES00575.1, 2011.

Frassetto, A., G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, and C. H. Jones, Improved imaging with phase-weighted common-conversion-point stacks of receiver functions, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04617.x, 2010.

Mueller, K., G. Kier, T. Rockwell, and C. H. Jones, Quaternary rift-flank uplift of the Peninsular Ranges in Baja and Southern California by removal of mantle lithosphere, Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2007TC002227, 28, TC5003, 2009.

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.

Jones, C. H., L. J. Sonder, and J. R. Unruh, Reply to Comment on "Lithospheric gravitational potential energy and past orogenesis: Implications for conditions of initial Basin and Range and Laramide deformation", Geology, 27, 475-476, 1999.

Sonder, L. J., and C. H. Jones, Western United States extension: How the West was widened, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 27, 417-462, 1999.

Jones, C. H., L. J. Sonder, and J. R. Unruh, Lithospheric graviational potential energy and past orogenesis: Implications for conditions of initial Basin and Range and Laramide deformation, Geology, 26, 639-642, 1998.

Jones, C.H., and Phinney, R.A., Seismic structure of the lithosphere from teleseismic converted arrivals observed at small arrays in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California, J. Geophys. Research,103, 10065-10090, 1998.

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.

C. H. Jones, J. R. Unruh, and L. J. Sonder, The role of gravitational potential energy in active deformation in the southwestern United States, Nature, 381 (6577), 37-41, 1996.

Wernicke, B. , R. Clayton, M. Ducea, C. H. Jones, S. Park , S. Ruppert, J. Saleeby, J. K. Snow, L. Squires , M. Fliedner, G. Jiracek, R. Keller, S. Klemperer , J. Luetgert, P. Malin, K. Miller, W. Mooney, H. Oliver , and R. Phinney, Origin of high mountains in the continents: The southern Sierra Nevada, Science, 271, 190-193, 1996.

Sheehan, A.F., G. A. Abers, C. H. Jones, and A. L. Lerner-Lam, Crustal thickness variations across the Colorado Rocky Mountains from teleseismic receiver functions,J. Geophys. Res., 100, p. 20,391-20,404, 1995.

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.

Jones, C. H., H. Kanamori, and S. W. Roecker, Missing roots and mantle "drips:" Regional P_n and teleseismic arrival times in the Southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California, J. Geophys. Res., 99 (B3), 4567-4601, 1994.

Sonder, L. J., C. H. Jones, S. L. Salyards, and K. M. Murphy, Vertical-axis rotations in the Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone, southern Nevada: Paleomagnetic constraints on kinematics and dynamics of block rotations, Tectonics, 13 (4), 769-788, 1994.

Wesnousky, S. G., and C. H. Jones, Slip partitioning, spatial and temporal changes in the regional stress field, and the relative strength of active faults in the Basin and Range, Geology, 22, 1031-1034, 1994.

Savage, M. K., Li Li, J. P. Eaton, C. H. Jones, and J. N. Brune, Earthquake refraction profiles of the root of the Sierra Nevada, Tectonics, 13 (4), 803-817, 1994.

Jones, C. H., and S. G. Wesnousky, Variations in strength and slip rate along the San Andreas Fault system, Science, 256, 83-86, 1992.

Jones, C. H., B. P. Wernicke, G. L. Farmer, J. D. Walker, D. S. Coleman, L. W. McKenna, and F. V. Perry, Variations across and along a major continental rift: An interdisciplinary study of the Basin and Range Province, western USA, Tectonophysics, 213, 57-96, 1992.

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.

Jones, C. H., Is extension in Death Valley accommodated by thinning of the mantle lithosphere beneath the Sierra Nevada, California?, Tectonics, 6, 449-473, 1987.

MIT 1985 Field Geophysics Course (C. H. Jones, M. R. Nelson, G. Abers, C. Decker, J. Hegley, R. Herrmann, M. Kohn, T. Madden, R. Manikkalingam, J. Matarese, D. Meinholz, P. Molnar, and C. Ruppel) and S. Biehler, A geophysical investigation of the northern Panamint Valley, Inyo County, California: Evidence for possible low-angle normal faulting at shallow depth in the crust, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 10427-10441, 1987.

Nelson, M. R., and C. H. Jones, Paleomagnetism and crustal rotations along a shear zone, Las Vegas Range, southern Nevada, Tectonics, 6, 13-33, 1987.

Books

Burger, H. R.,  A. F. Sheehan, and C. H. Jones, Introduction to Applied Geophysics,  W. W. Norton, New York, 2006.

Computer Programs

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.

Book Review

Jones, C. H., Review of Exploring the Highest Sierra, by James G. Moore, Geotimes, February, 2001.

Non-peer-reviewed article

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.

C. H. Jones (on behalf of the CPGB Field Crew), The 1994-5 Colorado Plateau-Great Basin PASSCAL Experiment, IRIS newsletter, v. XV, no. 1, p. 1-4, 1996.

In review or preparation

H. Gilbert, Y. Yang, D. W. Forsyth, C. Jones, T. Owens, G. Zandt, and J. Stachnik,  Imaging lithospheric foundering in the structure of the Sierra Nevada, submitted to Geosphere, 1/12

Unruh, J. R., E. Haukssonn, and C. H. Jones, Internal Deformation of the Southern Sierra Nevada Microplate Associated with Foundering Lower Lithosphere, California, to be submitted to Geosphere, 2012.

C. H. Jones, Reeg, H., G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, P-wave tomography of potential convective downwellings and their source regions, Sierra Nevada, California, to be submitted to Geosphere, 2012.

Levandowski, W., H. Reeg, C. H. Jones, A. Frassetto, H. Gilbert, G. Zandt, and T. J. Owens, Means of isostatic support of the Sierra Nevada and identification of garnet-rich crust from seismological constraints, to be submitted to Geosphere, 2012.

Abstracts (past 5 years)

Jones, C. H., K. Mahan, and G. L. Farmer (2011), Post-Laramide Epiorogeny through Crustal Hydration?, EOS (Trans. Am. Geophys. Union), 92 (Fall Suppl.), abstract T11B-2309. (ePoster link)

Levandowski, W, C. H. Jones, M. H. Ritzwoller, W. Shen, H. J. Gilbert, Buoyancy sources in the Western U.S.: Two case studies at different scales, EOS Trans AGU, 92, Fall Mtg. Suppl., abstract T11B-2308, 2011. (ePoster link)

Frassetto, A., H. J. Gilbert, G. Zandt, O. Hurd, J. C. Ryan, C. H. Jones, and T. J. Owens, Seismic character of the crust and upper mantle beneath the Sierra Nevada (Invited), EOS Trans AGU, 92, Fall Mtg. Suppl., abstract T53A-2483, 2011.

Harig, C., S. Zhong, C. H. Jones, Controls on subduction dip angles and their effects on deformation in the overriding plate, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Prog., 42 (5), 78 (Abstract 24-1), 2010

Jones, C. H., Deviatoric stress vs. strength in continental deformation, with examples from the western U.S., Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Prog., 42 (5), 79 (Abstract 24-11), 2010.

Levandowski, W., C. H. Jones, A.Frassetto,G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, Buoyancy and downwelling: distribution of eclogite in the Sierra Nevada Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Prog., 42 (5), Geol. Soc. Am. Ann. Mtg., Abstract 74-11, 2010.

Ritzwoller, M H, Y. Yang, A. L. Levshin, M. P. Barmin, C. H. Jones,  Subsurface Characterization Beneath the Coso Geothermal Field by Ambient Noise Tomography, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U51C-0038, 2009.

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.

Frassetto, A., H. Gilbert, G. Zandt, T. J. Owens, and C. Jones, Seismic character of the crust and upper mantle beneath the Sierra Nevada, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S32B-05, 2008.

H. Reeg., C. H. Jones, H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, and G. Zandt, Tomographic observations connecting convective downwellings with lithospheric source regions, Sierra Nevada, California, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S32B-06. 2008.

T. J. Owens, I. D. Bastow, N. Badger, G. Zandt, C. Jones, and H. Gilbert, Shear wave anisotropy beneath the Sierra Nevada: Implications for lithospheric foundering and mantle flow, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S33B-1956 , 2008.

Ryan, J. C., A. Frassetto, O. Hurd, G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, T. Owens, and C. Jones, Focal Mechanisms for Deep Crustal Earthquakes in the Central Foothills and Near Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada, California, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S33B-1957, PM poster

Levandowski, W., H. Reeg, C. H. Jones, G. Zandt, T. J. Owens, and H. Gilbert, Constraints on lithology of downwelling lithosphere from the Sierra Nevada, California, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U51B-0044, AM poster

Gilbert, H., Y. Yang, D. W. Forsyth, C. H. Jones, T. J. Owens, and G. Zandt, Bounds of foundering in the southern Sierra Nevada, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U54A-04, 4:45 pm

Zandt, G., H. Gilbert, C. Jones, and T. J. Owens, Insights on Lithospheric Delamination from the Sierra Nevada Earthscope Project (SNEP), Geol. Soc. Am Abstr. Prog., 40 (6), p. 396, abstract 263-7, 2008.

Owens, T., H. Gilbert, G. Zandt, C. Jones, Lithospheric Foundering:  Constraints from the Sierra Nevada EarthScope Project, 33rd Intl. Geol. Congress, Oslo, Norway, Aug. 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.

Colloquia (since 2000)

USGS Lakewood, “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 13 December 2011

Univ. Kansas, “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 17 November 2011

New Mexico State, “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 10 November 2011

(Lecturer, CIDER workshop, Berkeley, Calif., July 2011).

Purdue Univ. (Crough Memorial Lecture), “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 28 April 2011.

Colorado State Univ., “Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny,” 7 February 2011

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.

C. H. Jones | CIRES | Dept. of Geological Sciences | Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

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