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Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, Ecology, and Paleontology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies

Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki has published papers primarily in the venues Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America and Geosphere. Their publication record includes the following recent papers:

  • Ibex Hollow Tuff from ca. 12 Ma supereruption, southern Idaho, identified across North America, eastern Pacific Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico (2023, Geosphere)
  • TEPHROCHRONOLOGY OF THE MODELO FORMATION, BALCOM CANYON, VENTURA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA (2020, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America)
  • A REMARKABLE FOSSIL FAUNULE FROM THE BASAL WILSON GROVE FORMATION (LATE MIOCENE), SONOMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA (2020, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America)
  • TEPHROCHRONOLOGY OF THE MODELO FORMATION AT BALCOM CANYON, VENTURA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA (2021, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America)
  • TEPHROCHRONOLOGY OF THE LAST CHANCE RANGE, EASTERN CALIFORNIA: DOCUMENTATION OF THE SALINE RANGE AS A SIGNIFICANT PLIOCENE TEPHRA SOURCE (2024, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Common co-authors include Elmira Wan, Jeffrey R. Knott, Alan L. Deino, Lynn Heizler, and Priscilla R. Martinez, reflecting ongoing partnerships on related research topics.

Best Publications

  • Hydrometeor-enhanced tephra sedimentation: Constraints from the 18 May 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens

    A.J. Durant;A.J. Durant;A.J. Durant;William I. Rose;A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki;Steven Carey

  • Correlation of upper Cenozoic tephra layers between sediments of the western United States and eastern Pacific Ocean and comparison with biostratigraphic and magnetostratigraphic age data

    A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki;S. D. Morrison;C. E. Meyer;J. W. Hillhouse

  • A Miocene to Pleistocene climate and elevation record of the Sierra Nevada (California)

    A. Mulch;A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki;M. E. Perkins;C. P. Chamberlain

  • New 40Ar/39Ar age of the Bishop Tuff from multiple sites and sediment rate calibration for the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary

    Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki;Malcolm S. Pringle;Jan Wijbrans

  • Correlation of the Rockland ash bed, a 400,000-year-old stratigraphic marker in northern California and western Nevada, and implications for middle Pleistocene paleogeography of central California

    Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki;Charles E. Meyer;Harry R. Bowman;N. Timothy Hall

  • Age of the Mono Lake excursion and associated tephra

    Larry Benson;Joseph Liddicoat;Joseph Smoot;Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki

  • Age and correlation of a paleomagnetic episode in the western United States by 40Ar/39Ar dating and tephrochronology: The Jamaica, Blake, or a new polarity episode?

    Emilio Herrero-Bervera;C. E. Helsley;A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki;K. R. Lajoie

  • Chemical analyses, correlations, and ages of upper Pliocene and Pleistocene ash layers of east-central and Southern California

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  • Ages of tuff beds at East African early hominid sites and sediments in the Gulf of Aden

    A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki;C. E. Meyer;P. H. Roth;F. H. Brown

  • Quaternary low-angle slip on detachment faults in Death Valley, California

    Nicholas W. Hayman;Jeffrey R. Knott;Darrel S. Cowan;Eliza Nemser

  • Correlation of Pliocene and Pleistocene tephra layers between the Turkana Basin of East Africa and the Gulf of Aden

    Francis H. Brown;Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki;Charles E. Meyer;Bereket Haileab

  • Environmental history and tephrostratigraphy at Carp Lake, southwestern Columbia Basin, Washington, USA

    Cathy Whitlock;Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki;Patrick J. Bartlein;Rudy J. Nickmann

  • Tephrochronologic correlation of upper Neogene sediments along the Pacific margin, conterminous United States

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  • Record of middle Pleistocene climate change from Buck Lake, Cascade Range, southern Oregon—Evidence from sediment magnetism, trace-element geochemistry, and pollen

    Joseph G. Rosenbaum;Richard L. Reynolds;David P. Adam;John Drexler

  • Influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the climate of theSierra Nevada, California and Nevada

    Larry Benson;Braddock Linsley;Joe Smoot;Scott Mensing

  • Large‐scale right‐slip displacement on the East San Francisco Bay Region fault system, California: Implications for location of late Miocene to Pliocene Pacific plate boundary

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  • Origin, extent, and thickness of Quaternary geologic units in the Willamette Valley, Oregon

    Jim E. O'Connor;Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki;Karl C. Wozniak;Danial J. Polette

  • Surface faulting and paleoseismic history of the 1932 Cedar Mountain earthquake area, west-central Nevada, and implications for modern tectonics of the Walker Lane

    John W. Bell;Craig M. dePolo;Alan R. Ramelli;Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki

  • Review and analysis of the age and origin of the Pliocene Bouse Formation, lower Colorado River Valley, southwestern USA

    Jon E. Spencer;P. Jonathan Patchett;Philip A. Pearthree;P. Kyle House

  • Magnetostratigraphy and tephrochronology of an upper Pliocene to Holocene record in lake sediments at Tulelake, northern California

    Hugh J. Rieck;Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki;Charles E. Meyer;David P. Adam

  • Radiocarbon Ages and Environments of Deposition of the Wono and Trego Hot Springs Tephra Layers in the Pyramid Lake Subbasin, Nevada

    Larry V. Benson;Joseph P. Smoot;Michaele Kashgarian;Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki

  • Drainage reversals in Mono Basin during the late Pliocene and Pleistocene

    Marith C. Reheis;Scott Stine;Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki

  • Tulelake, California: The last 3 million years

    David P. Adam;Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki;Hugh J. Rieck;J.P. Bradbury

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Fleck
Robert J. Fleck United States Geological Survey
Alan L. Deino
Alan L. Deino Berkeley Geochronology Center
Larry Benson
Larry Benson University of Colorado Boulder
Marith C. Reheis
Marith C. Reheis United States Geological Survey
Stephen G. Wells
Stephen G. Wells New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Kenneth L. Verosub
Kenneth L. Verosub University of California, Davis
Walter E. Dean
Walter E. Dean United States Geological Survey
Everett H. Lindsay
Everett H. Lindsay University of Arizona
Patrick J. Bartlein
Patrick J. Bartlein University of Oregon
Cathy Whitlock
Cathy Whitlock Montana State University

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