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Wes Hildreth is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geology, Artificial Intelligence, and Paleontology.

The research topics covered by Hildreth focus extensively on Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

They have published multiple papers, with recent works including:

  • Two-million-year eruptive history of Laguna del Maule volcanic field, 2024, Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Precaldera Mafic Magmatism at Long Valley, California: Magma-Tectonic Siting and Incubation of the Great Rhyolite System, 2022, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Comparative Rhyolite Systems: Inferences From Vent Patterns and Eruptive Episodicities: Eastern California and Laguna del Maule, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Trachyandesite of Kennedy Table, its vent complex, and post-9.3 Ma uplift of the central Sierra Nevada, 2021, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Ages of the granitic basement of Long Valley Caldera, California, USA, and siting of the Quaternary granite-rhyolite pluton, 2023, Geological Society of America Bulletin

Frequent coauthors contributing to this body of work include Judy Fierstein, Fred M. Phillips, Andy Calvert, Andrew T. Calvert, and Juliet Ryan-Davis.

Hildreth's publications have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Best Publications

  • Crustal contributions to arc magmatism in the Andes of Central Chile

    Wes Hildreth;Stephen Moorbath

  • Gradients in silicic magma chambers: Implications for lithospheric magmatism

    Wes Hildreth

  • Large partition coefficients for trace elements in high-silica rhyolites

    Gail Mahood;Wes Hildreth

  • Volcanological perspectives on Long Valley, Mammoth Mountain, and Mono Craters: several contiguous but discrete systems

    Wes Hildreth

  • The Bishop Tuff: Evidence for the origin of compositional zonation in silicic magma chambers

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  • Compositional Zoning of the Bishop Tuff

    Wes Hildreth;Colin J. N. Wilson

  • Isotopic and chemical evidence concerning the genesis and contamination of basaltic and rhyolitic magma beneath the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field

    Wes Hildreth;Alex N. Halliday;Robert L. Christiansen

  • Pre-eruption recharge of the Bishop magma system

    D.A. Wark;W. Hildreth;F.S. Spear;D.J. Cherniak

  • The compositionally zoned eruption of 1912 in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai National Park, Alaska

    Wes Hildreth

  • The Bishop Tuff: New Insights From Eruptive Stratigraphy

    Colin J. N. Wilson;Wes Hildreth

  • The plinian eruptions of 1912 at Novarupta, Katmai National Park, Alaska.

    Judy Fierstein;Wes Hildreth

  • Compositional Diversity of Late Cenozoic Basalts in a Transect Across the Southern Washington Cascades: Implications for Subduction Zone Magmatism

    William P. Leeman;Diane R. Smith;Wes Hildreth;Zen Palacz

  • Quaternary magmatism in the Cascades : geologic perspectives

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  • Volcán Quizapu, Chilean Andes

    Wes Hildreth;Robert E. Drake

  • Catastrophic isotopic modification of rhyolitic magma at times of caldera subsidence, Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field

    Wes Hildreth;Robert L. Christiansen;Jamesr R. O'Neil

  • Geology of the peralkaline volcano at Pantelleria, Strait of Sicily

    Gail A. Mahood;Wes Hildreth

  • Primitive magmas at five Cascade volcanic fields; melts from hot, heterogeneous sub-arc mantle

    Charles R. Bacon;Peggy E. Bruggman;Robert L. Christiansen;Michael A. Clynne

  • Modelling the petrogenesis of high Rb/Sr silicic magmas

    Alexander N. Halliday;Jon P. Davidson;Jon P. Davidson;W. Hildreth;Peter Holden;Peter Holden

  • Katmai volcanic cluster and the great eruption of 1912

    Wes Hildreth;Judy Fierstein

  • Ring-fracture eruption of the Bishop Tuff

    Wes Hildreth;Gail A. Mahood

  • Quaternary acid magma in New Zealand

    A. Ewart;W. Hildreth;I. S. E. Carmichael

  • Potassium-argon geochronology of a basalt-andesite-dacite arc system: The Mount Adams volcanic field, Cascade Range of southern Washington

    Wes Hildreth;Marvin A. Lanphere

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew T. Calvert
Andrew T. Calvert United States Geological Survey
Colin J.N. Wilson
Colin J.N. Wilson Victoria University of Wellington
Brad S. Singer
Brad S. Singer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Marvin A. Lanphere
Marvin A. Lanphere United States Geological Survey
Bruce F. Houghton
Bruce F. Houghton University of Hawaii at Manoa
Duane E. Champion
Duane E. Champion United States Geological Survey
Gail A. Mahood
Gail A. Mahood Stanford University
John C. Eichelberger
John C. Eichelberger University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alex N. Halliday
Alex N. Halliday Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Brian R. Jicha
Brian R. Jicha University of Wisconsin–Madison

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