Craig H. Jones

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

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

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, in revision, to Geol. Soc. Am. Bull.

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, to be resubmitted to Tectonics, 2007.

Abstracts

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

Jones, C. H., G. L. Farmer, J. R. Unruh, and P. Molnar, Consequences of Removal of Cold Mantle Lithosphere: Uplift, Extension and Contraction in California (and Maybe Even Changes to the San Andreas) EOS Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract S22A-0419, 2003

Tetreault, J. L., C. H. Jones, and B. Boyle, Paleomagnetic Vertical Axis Rotations Caused by Oblique Deformation Within the Grand Hogback Monocline, Colorado Plateau, EOS Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract GP41C-0055, 2003

Wilson, C. K., C. H. Jones, P. H. Molnar, A. F. Sheehan, O. Boyd, M. Savage, and T. Stern, Evidence for distributed lower crustal deformation within a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough Fault System, South Island, New Zealand, EOS Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract S22A-0422, 2003

Tetreault, J. L., and C. H. Jones, Paleomagnetic constraints on oblique deformation within folds, Colorado Plateau, western USA, Geol. Soc. Abstr. Prog., 35 (5), 13, 2003.

Molnar, P., and C. H. Jones, Bounds on the Average Viscosity Coefficient of the Lithosphere from Convective Removal of that Beneath the Sierra Nevada, abstract MR51A-08, Fall Meeting, Amer. Geophys. Union, 2002.

Boyd, O.S., A.F. Sheehan, C. H. Jones, Attenuation Tomography of the Southern Sierra Nevada in the Presence of Strong Anisotropy Eos 83 (47) Fall Meeting Suppl., abstract T12F-08, 2002

Jones, C. H., G. L. Farmer, and J. R. Unruh, Impact of the removal of sub-Sierra Nevada eclogitic root upon the Basin and Range, Coast Ranges, and San Andreas Faut, California, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Prog., 34(6), 510, 2002.

Tetreault, J., and C. H. Jones, Testing Monoclines for Dextral Shear: Paleomagnetic Results From the Nacimiento Uplift, Northern New Mexico, EOS, 82, Fall 2001 AGU Meeting, 2001.

Jones, C.H., Horizontal folds as both contractional and strike-slip shear zones?, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. with Program, 32 (7), p. A29, 2000.

Wilson, C. K., and C. H. Jones, Relationship of crustal discontinuities at the Coso Geothermal Area to regional structures of the southwestern Great Basin, EOS, 80, [suppl. to no. 46], p. F666, 1999.

Jones, C. H., and R. A. Phinney, Prospecting for the petrology of the upper mantle: Teleseismic shear waves in the Sierra Nevada, California, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. Prog., 31, no. 7, A-481, 1999.

Jones, C. H., L. J. Sonder, J. R. Unruh, Body forces in western U.S. deformation: Engine, steering, or radio?, EOS, 79, [suppl. to no. 45], p. F207, 1998.

Unruh, J. R., L. J. Sonder, and C. H. Jones, Assessing the role of buoyancy forces in seismogenic deformation of southern California, EOS, 79, [suppl. to no. 45], p. F205, 1998.

Edwards, J., and C. H. Jones, Seismicity Of The Southern Sierra Nevada From Two Portable Experiments, Seismological Research Letters, 69, p. 162, 1998.

Sheehan, A. F., N. D. Hughes, and C. H. Jones, Microearthquake field study of the Front Range of Colorado, Seismological Research Letters, 69, p. 161, 1998.

Unruh, J. R., C. H. Jones, and L. J. Sonder, Slow, gravity-driven lithospheric extension in the Western United States, Seismological Research Letters, 69, p. 141, 1998.

Jones, C. H., and R. A. Phinney, The Sierran Paradox Seismic Experiment: Anisotropy, Tomography, and Isostasy, EOS, 78 [suppl. to no. 46], F493-4, 1997.

Phinney, R. A., and C. H. Jones, Structure of the Mantle Lid Across the Basin and Range: Sierra Nevada Transition, EOS, 78 [Suppl. to no. 46], F708 [original abstract withdrawn on medical grounds, but replacement talk on similar subject given by C. H. Jones], 1997.

Jones, Craig H., A. F. Sheehan, L. J. Sonder, M. K. Savage and S. Ozalaybey, Isolating Crustal Versus Mantle Sources of Isostatic Support of the Colorado Plateau, EOS, 76 (suppl. to no. 46), F619, 1995.

Phinney, R. A. , C. H. Jones, and C. B. Parker, Reflection and refraction imaging of the crust under the southern Sierra Nevada using local and regional earthquakes recorded by small arrays (abstract), EOS, 75 (44, supl.), 584, 1994.

Salyards, S. L., C. H. Jones, and L. J. Sonder, Magnetostratigraphy and stratigraphic correlations of the Miocene age Horse Spring Formation, Clark County, Nevada, and tectonic implications, EOS, 75 (44, supl.), 201, 1994.

Jones, C. H., P. H. Molnar, S. W. Roecker, R. B. Smith, and D. Hatzfeld, Possible expression of low-angle normal faulting in the seismicity of the Hansel Valley-Pocatello Valley region (abstract), Utah and Idaho,Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Progs., 25 (5), A60, 1993.

Y.H. Chen, S. W. Roecker, C. Jones, and J. Gomberg, Three-dimensional elastic wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath the southern Great Basin, abstract, EOS, 74 (34, suppl.), 419, 1993.

Qian, H. X., C. H. Jones, and H. Kanamori, Seismotectonics of southern Sierra Nevada, California, EOS, 71, 1559, 1990.

Colloquia (since 2000)

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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