Textbook and Reference List (last updated 01/12/10 VMA)

Reading related to the Geology of the Field Area:

Shreve, R.L., 1987, Blackhawk Landslide, Southwestern San Bernardino County, California, Geological Society of America Centennial Field Guide - Cordilleran Section, 1987.

Sylvester, A.G., 1999, Rifting, Transpression, and Neotectonics in the Central Mecca Hills, Salton Trough, Pacific Section SEPM Book 85, ISBN 1-878861-78-6 pp. 52.

Lynch, D., Hudnut, K., 2008, The Wister Mud Pot Lineament: Southeastward Extension or Abandoned Strand of the San Andreas Fault?, SSA Bulletin, no. 98, DOI: 10.1785/0120070250; p. 1720-1729.

Law, R., Eriksson, K., and Davisson, C., 2001, Formation, evolution, and inversion of the middle Tertiary Diligencia basin, Orocopia Mountains, southern California, GSA Bulletin, vol. 113, no. 2, p. 196-221.

Philibosian, B., Fumal, T., and Weldon, R., 2011, San Andreas Fault Earthquake Chronology and Lake Cahuilla History at Coachella, California, SSA Bulletin, no. 101, DOI: 10.1785/0120100050; p. 13-38.

Weldon R., Scharer, K., Fumal, T., and Biasi, G., 2004, Wrightwood and the earthquake cycle: What a long recurrence record tells us about how faults work, GSA Today, no. 9, DOI: 10.1130/1052-5173; p. 1-7.

Brothers D.S., Driscoll, N.W., Kent, G.M., Harding, A.J., Babcock, J.M., and Baskin, R.L., 2009, Tectonic Evolution of the Salton Sea Inferred from Seismic Reflection Data, Nature, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO590; p. 1-4.

Jacobson, C.E., Barth, A.P. and Grove, M., 2000, Late Cretaceous protolith age and provenance of the Pelona and Orocopia Schists, southern California: Implications for evolution of the Cordilleran margin, Geology, v. 28; no. 3; p. 219-222.

"San Andreas Fault": Columnar Section for the Indio and Mecca Hills (page 3).

"San Andreas Fault": Field Trip Guide, Mecca Hills Area (pages 22-34).

Sylvester, A.G. and Smith, R.R., 1976, Tectonic Transpression and Basement-Controlled Deformation in San Andreas Fault Zone, Salton Trough, California, Treatise of Petroleum Geology, No. 10.

Grove, M., Jacobson, C.E., Barth, A.P. and Vucic, A., 2003, Temporal and spatial trends of Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary underplating of Pelona nad related schist beneath southern California and southwestern Arizona, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 374.

Shifflett, H., Gray, M.G., Grannell, R. and Ingram B.L., 2002, New Evidence on the Slip Rate, Renewal Time, and Late Holocene Surface Displacement, Southernmost San Andreas Fault, Mecca Hills, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 92, No. 7, pp. 2861-2877.

Luttrell, K., Sandwell, D., Smith-Konter, B., Bills, B. and Bock, Y., 2007, Modulation of the earthquake cycle at the southern San Andreas fault by lake loading, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 112, B08411.

Reading useful for Gravity Assignment:

Langenheim, V.E. and Jachens, R. C., 2002, The Emerson Lake Body: A Link between the Landers and Hector Mine Earthquakes, Southern California, as Inferred from Gravity and Magnetic Anomalies, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Reading useful for Magnetics Assignment:

Jachens, R. C. et al., 2002, Relationship of the 1999 Hector Mine and 1992 Landers Fault Ruptures to Offsets on Neogene Faults and Distribution of Late Cenozoic Basins in the Eastern California Shear Zone, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Reading Useful for First Homework Assignment

Dorsey, R. et al., 2007, Chronology of Miocene-Pliocene deposits at Split Mountain Gorge, Southern California: A record of regional tectonics and Colorado River evolution, Geological Society of America, Geology.

Fumal, T.E. et al., 2002, Timing of Large Earthquakes since A.D. 800 on the Mission Creek Strand of the San Andreas Fault Zone at Thousand Palms Oasis, near Palm Springs, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Hudnut, K. et al., 1989, Surface Ruptures on Cross-Faults in the 24 November 1987 Superstition Hills, California, Earthquake Sequence, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Ichinose, G. et al., 1996, Crustal thickness variations beneath the Peninsular Ranges, Southern California, Geophysical Rersearch Letters.

Kirby, S. et al., 2007, Pleistocene Brawlery and Ocotillo Formations: Evidence for initial Strike-Slip Deformation along the San Felipe and San Jacinto Fault Zones, Southern California, The Journal of Geology.

Kohler, W.M. and Fuis, G.S., 1986, Travel-Time, Time-Term, and Basement Depth Maps for the Imperial Valley Region, California, From Explosions, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Langenheim, V.E. and Hauksson, E., 2001, Comparison between Crustal Density and Velocity Variations in Southern California, Geophysical Rersearch Letters.

Lohman, R.B. and McGuire, J.J., 2007, Earthquake swarms driven by aseismic creep in the Salton Trough, California, Journal of Geophysical Rersearch.

Lovely, P. et al., 2006, A Structural Vp Model of the Salton Trough, California, and Its Implications for Seismic Hazard, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Meltzner, A.J. et al., 2006, Recent and Long-Term Behavior of the Brawley Fault Zone, Imperial Valley, California: An Escalation in Slip Rate?, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Nicholson, C. et al., 1986, Seismic Evidence for Conjugate Slip and Block Rotation Within the San Andreas Fault System, Southern California, Tectonics.

Olsen, K.B. et al., 2008, TeraShake2: Spontaneous Rupture Simulations of Mw 7.7 Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

*Pacheco, M. et al., 2006, Stratigraphy and structure of the Altar basin of NW Sonora: Implications for the history of the Colorado River delta and the Salton Trough, Revista mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas.

Parsons, T. and McCarthy, J., 1996, Crustal and upper mantle velocity structure of the Salton Trough, southeast California, Tectonics.

Plesch, A. et al., 2007, Community Fault Model (CFM) for Southern California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

*Schmitt, A.K. and Vazquez, J.A. 2006, Alteration and remelting of nascent oceanic crust during continental rupture: Evidence from zircon geochemistry of rhyolites and xenoliths from the Salton Trough, California, Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Tsai, C.C. et al., 2008, High-Resolution Seismic Images and Seismic Velocities of the San Andreas Fault Zone at Burro Flats, Southern California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

*Contain figures found in Lecture 1

Additional Reading:

Hulen, J. et al. Refined Conceptual Modeling and a New Resource Estimate for the Salton Sea Geothermal Field, Imperial Valley, California.

Hulen, J. and Pulka, F.S., 2001, Newly-Discovered, Ancient Extrusive Rhyolite in teh Salton Sea Geothermal Field, Imperial Valley, California, Proceedings, 26th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering.

McLin, K.S., 2006, Mineral Characterization of Scale Deposits in Injection Wells; Coso and Salton Sea Geothermal Fields, CA, Proceedings, 31st Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering.

Moore, J.M. and Adams, M.C. 1988, Evolution of the Thermal Cap in two wells from the Salton Sea Geothermal System, California, Geothermics.

Suarez-Vidal, et al., 2008, Shape and Dimensions of the Cerro Prieto Pull-Apart Basin, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, Based on the Regional Seismic Record and Surface Structures, International Geology Review.

Tian, Y. et al., 2007, Deep Structure of Southern California, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.

US Department of Energy, 2000, A History fo DOE-Funded Research: Developing the Salton Sea Geothermal Resource, Geothermal Technologies.