Craig H. Jones

Best Publications

• Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada in California

  George Zandt;Hersh Gilbert;Thomas J. Owens;Mihai Ducea

  498
  Citations

• Introduction to Applied Geophysics: Exploring the Shallow Subsurface

  Henry Robert Burger;Anne F. Sheehan;Craig H. Jones

  373
  Citations

• WESTERN UNITED STATES EXTENSION: How the West was Widened

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  305
  Citations

• Origin of high mountains in the continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada

  Brian Wernicke;Robert Clayton;Mihai Ducea;Craig H. Jones

  276
  Citations

• The role of gravitational potential energy in active deformation in the southwestern United States

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  260
  Citations

• Crustal thickness variations across the Colorado Rocky Mountains from teleseismic receiver functions

  Anne F. Sheehan;Geoffrey A. Abers;Craig H. Jones;Arthur L. Lerner-Lam

  241
  Citations

• User-driven integrated software lives: Paleomag paleomagnetics analysis on the Macintosh

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  240
  Citations

• Tectonics of Pliocene removal of lithosphere of the Sierra Nevada, California

  Craig H. Jones;G. Lang Farmer;Jeffrey Unruh

  208
  Citations

• Missing roots and mantle “drips”: Regional Pn and teleseismic arrival times in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California

  Craig H. Jones;Hiroo Kanamori;Steven W. Roecker

  187
  Citations

• Seismic structure of the lithosphere from teleseismic converted arrivals observed at small arrays in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California

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  165
  Citations

• Foundering lithosphere imaged beneath the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA.

  Oliver S. Boyd;Craig H. Jones;Anne F. Sheehan

  154
  Citations

• Mantle dynamics, isostasy, and the support of high terrain

  Peter Molnar;Philip C. England;Craig H. Jones

  154
  Citations

• Paleomagnetism and Crustal Rotations Along a Shear Zone, Las Vegas Range, Southern Nevada

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  146
  Citations

• Hydrodynamic mechanism for the Laramide orogeny

  Craig H. Jones;G. Lang Farmer;Brad Sageman;Shijie Zhong

  128
  Citations

• Structure of the Sierra Nevada from receiver functions and implications for lithospheric foundering

  Andrew M. Frassetto;Andrew M. Frassetto;George Zandt;Hersh Gilbert;Thomas J. Owens

  122
  Citations

• Variations across and along a major continental rift: An interdisciplinary study of the Basin and Range Province, western USA

  Craig H. Jones;Brian P. Wernicke;G.Lang Farmer;J.Douglas Walker

  120
  Citations

• Vertical axis rotations in the Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone, southern Nevada: Paleomagnetic constraints on kinematics and dynamics of block rotations

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  97
  Citations

• Lithospheric gravitational potential energy and past orogenesis: Implications for conditions of initial Basin and Range and Laramide deformation

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  93
  Citations

• Distributed deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand

  Charles K. Wilson;Craig H. Jones;Peter Molnar;Anne F. Sheehan

  93
  Citations

• Oblique slip, slip partitioning, spatial and temporal changes in the regional stress field, and the relative strength of active faults in the Basin and Range, western United States

  Steven G. Wesnousky;Craig H. Jones

  84
  Citations