Craig H. Jones
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences
E-mail: cjones@cires.colorado.edu
Office: ESCI 440C
Phone: 303-492-6994
Web: Prof. Jones' home page
Web: Prof. Jones (Dept. Geological Sciences)
Research Topics
- Vertical extent of plate boundaries
- Uplift of the Sierra Nevada
- Forces producing uplift in the western U.S.
- Vertical-axis rotations in contractional folds
- Oroflexural bending of the crust and tectonics of Lake Mead region.
- Slip-partitioning in the Western U.S.
- Seismotectonics in the Western U.S.
- Mapping in Death Valley
- Velocity inversions of seismic arrival times
Selected Publications
- 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, in press.
- Jones, C. H., User-driven Integrated Software Lives: "PaleoMag" Paleomagnetics Analysis on the Macintosh, Computers and Geosciences, in press, 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 is also one of the CIRES Faculty who teach at the University of Colorado at Boulder with teaching loads equivalent to those of CU faculty rostered solely in departments and programs.
