Mendocino Project Bibliography

Papers Published by the Mendocino Working Group:

• Godfrey, N. J., B. C. Beaudoin, C. Lendl, A. Meltzer, and J. H. Luetgert, Data report for the 1993 Mendocino Triple Junction seismic experiment, USGS Open-FIle Report 95-275, 83 pp.
• Trehu, A., M., and the Mendocino Working Group Pulling the rug out from under California: seismic images of the Mendocino Triple Junction region, EOS, Transactions, Am. Geophys. Un., v.76, p. 369, 380-381, 1995
• Beaudoin, B. C., N. Godfrey, S.L. Klemperer, C. Lendl, A. Trehu, T.J. Henstock, A. Levander, J.E. Holl, A.S. Meltzer, J.H. Luetgert, W.D. Mooney, The transition from slab to slabless: results from the 1993 Mendocino Triple Junction Seismic Experiment,Geology, v.24, p. 195-199, 1996
• Levander, A., A.S. Meltzer, T.J. Henstock, B.Beaudoin, A.M. Trehu and the Mendocino Working Group, A Window Through the Lithosphere: Seismic Images of Active Magmatic Crustal Accretion, submitted to Nature, October 1995.

Extended Reference List for the Mendocino Triple Junction Region:

This is a list with references for the Mendocino Triple Junction region. The list is by no means complete. If you have suggestions for additional references or corrections, please send email to Anne Trehu (trehu@oce.orst.edu).

• Aalto, K.R., Late Cenozoic sediment provenance and tectonic evolution of the northernmost coast ranges, California, in Field Trip Guide Book, AAPG-SEPM, p. 10-18, 1992.
• Atwater, T., Implications of plate tectonics for the Cenozoic tectonic evolution of western North America, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 81, 3513-3536, 1970.
• Atwater, T., and P. Molnar, Relative motion of the Pacific and North American plates deduced from sea-floor spreading in the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans, in Proceedings of the Conference on Tectonic Problems of the San Andreas Fault System, Publ. Geol., Sci., 13, edited by R. L. Kovach and A. Nur, pp. 136-142, Stanford Univ. Press, Palo Alto, CA,1973.
• Beaudoin, B.C., M. Magee, and H. Benz, Crustal velocity structure north of the Mendocino triple junction, Geophys. Res. Letters, 21, 2319-2322, 1994.
• Benz, H., G. Zandt, and D. H. Oppenheimer, Lithospheric structure of northern California from teleseismic images of the upper mantle, Jour. of Geophys. Res., 97, 4791-4808, 1992.
• Blake, M. C., Jr., and D. L. Jones, The Franciscan assemblage and related rocks in northern California: A reinterpretation, in The Geotectonic Development of California, Rubey Volume I, W. G. Ernst, ed., p. 306-328, 1981.
• Blake, M.C., Jr., Bruhn, R.L., Miller, E.L., Moores, E.M., Smithson, S.B., and Speed, R.C. 1985. GSA Centennial Continent/Ocean Transect #12, C-1 Mendocino Triple Junction to North American Craton.
• Bohannon, R.G., and T. Parson, Tectonic implications of post-30 Ma Pacific and North American relative plate motion, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., in press.
• Bolt, B.A., C. Lomnitz, and T.V. McEvilly, Seismological evidence on the tectonics of central and northern California and the Mendocino Escarpment, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 58, 1725-1767, 1968.
• Burchfiel, B.C., and G.A. Davis, Triassic and Jurassic tectonic evolution of the Klamath Mountains - Sierra Nevada Geologic Terrane, pp. 50-70, in The Geotectonic Development of California, ed. W.G. Ernst, Prentice-Hall, Englewood, N.J., 1981.
• Carver, G.A., Late Cenozoc tectonics of the Eel River basin region, coastal northern California, in H. Schymiczek and R. Suchland, eds., Tectonics, sedimentation and evolution of the Eel River and other coastal basins of northern California: San Joaquin Geological Society Misc. Publ. 37, 61-72, 1987.
• Carver, G.A., Late Cenozoic tectonics of coastal northern California, in Field Trip Guide Book, AAPG-SEPM, p. 1-9, 1992.
• Castillo, D.A. and W.L. Ellsworth, Seismotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System between Point Arena and Cape Mendocino in Northern California: Implications for the Development and Evolution of a Young Transform, J. Geophys. Res, 98, 6543-6560, 1993.
• Clarke, S. H., Jr., Geology of the California continental margin north of Cape Mendocino, in Geology and Resource Potential of the Continental Margin of Western North Qmerica and Adjacent Ocean Basins-Beaufort Sea to Baja California, Earth Sci. Ser., vol. 6, edited by D. W. Scholl, A. Grantz, and J. G. Vedder, pp. 337-350, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Houston, Tex., 1987.
• Clarke, S. Geology of the Eel River basin and adjacent region: Implications for late Cenozoic tectonics of the northwestern California continental margin, Am. Assoc. Petrl. Geol., v. 76, p. 199-224
• Clarke, S. H., Jr., and G.A. Carver, Late Holocene tectonics and paleoseismicity, southern Cascadia subduction zone, Science, 255, 188-192, 1992.
• Cockerham, R.S., Evidence for a 180 km long subducted slab beneath northern California, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 74, 569-576, 1984.
• Dickinson W. R., and W. S. Snyder, Geometry of subducted slabs related to San Andreas transform, J. Geol., 87, 609-627, 1979.
• Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., M.G. Burns, F.E. Goff, E.K. Peters, and J.M. Thompson, The Geyser-Clear Lake area, CA: Thermal waters, mineralization, volcanism, and geothermal potential, Economic Geology, v. 88, p. 301-316, 1993.
• Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., B.C. Hearn, G.H. Curtis, and R.E. Drake, Geochronology and evolution of the Clear Lake volcanics, in Research in the Geyser-Clear Lake Geothermal Area, Northern California, U. S. Geo. Surv. Prof. Paper 1141, 47-60, 1981.
• Drake, D. E., D. A. Cacchione, J. B. Gardner, and D. S. McCulloch, Morphology and growth history of Delgada Fan: Implications for the Neogene evolution of Point Arena basin and the Mendocino Triple Junction, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3139-3158, 1989.
• Fox, K. F., Jr., R. J. Fleck, G. H. Curtis, and C. E. Meyer, Implications of the northwestardly younger age of volcanic rocks of west-central California, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 96, 647-654, 1985.
• Furlong, K. P., Lithospheric behavior with triple junction migration: An example based on the Mendocino triple junction, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 36, 213-223, 1984.
• Furlong, K. P., W. D. Hugo, and G. Zandt, Geometry and evolution of the San Andreas Fault zone, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3100-3110, 1989.
• Griscom, A., and R. C. Jachens, Tectonic history of the north portion of the San Andreas Fault system, California, inferred from gravity and magnetic anomalies, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3089-3099, 1989.
• Harbert, W., and A. Cox, Late Neogene motion of the PaciÞc plate, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3052-3064, 1989.
• Helferty, M. G., J. R. Booker, B. R. Weertman, and D. R. Auld, Detection of the south edge of the Gorda plate by geomagnetic induction, EOS, 67, 1225, 1986.
• Jachens, R. C., and A. Griscom, Three-dimensional geometry of the Gorda plate beneath northern California, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 9375-9392, 1983.
• Johnson, C. M., and J. R. O'Neil, Triple junction magmatism: a geochemical study of Neogene volcanic rocks in western California, Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., 71, 241-262, 1984.
• Kelsey, H.M., and G.A. Carver, Late Neogene and Quaternary tectonics associated with the northward growth of the San Andreas transform fault, northern California, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 4797-4819, 1988.
• Levander, A. R., and R.L. Kovachs, Shear velocity structure of the northern California lithosphere, Jour. Geophys. Res., 95, 19,773-19,784, 1990.
• Liu, M., and Furlong, K.P., Cenozoic volcanism in the California Coast Ranges: Numerical solutions, Jour. Geophys. Res., 97, 4941-4952, 1992.
• Liu, M. and G. Zandt, Convective thermal instabilites in the wake of the migrating mendocino triple junction, California,Geophys. Res. Lett., in press.
• McCrory, P. A., Late Neogene geohistory analysis of the Humboldt basin and its relationship to convergence of the Juan de Fuca Plate, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3126-3138, 1989.
• McCulloch, D. S., Regional geology and hydrocarbon potential of offshore central California, in Geology and Resource Potential of the Continental Margin of Western North Qmerica and Adjacent Ocean Basins-Beaufort Sea to Baja California, Earth Sci. Ser., vol. 6, edited by D. W. Scholl, A. Grantz, and J. G. Vedder, pp. 353-401, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Houston, Tex., 1987.
• McLaughlin, R. J., and J. M. Donnelly-Nolan, Introduction, in Research in the Geyser-Clear Lake Geothermal Area, Northern California, U. S. Geo. Surv. Prof. Paper 1141, 1-2, 1981.
• McLaughlin et al., Tectonic uplift of a middle Wisconsin marine platform near the Mendocino Triple Junction, Geology, 11, p. 35-39, 1983.
• McLaughlin et al., Implications of onshore and offshore structure for location and Cenozoic evolution of teh Mendocino triple junction, GSA abstracts with programs, 20, p. A382, 1988.
• McPherson, R. C., Seismicity and stress at the southern end of the Cascadia subduction zone, in Field Trip Guide Book, AAPG-SEPM, p. 19-28, 1992.
• Merritts D., and W.B. Bull, Interpreting Quaternary uplift rates at the Mendocino triple junction from uplifted marine terraces, Geology, 17, 1020-1024, 1989.
• Merritts, D., and K.R. Vincent, Geomorphic response of coastal streams to low, intermediate, and high rates of uplift Mendocino triple junction region, northern California, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 101, 1373-1388, 1989.
• Michael, A., ThreeÕs a crowd in California, Nature, 357, 111-112, 1992.
• Niazi, M. and E. Karageorgi, Irregular geometry of the Gorda subduction and deep structure of the Eel River basin determined from teleseismic P delays, Tectonophysics, 201, 209-228, 1992.
• Oppenheimer, D., G. Beroza, G. Carver, L. Dengler, J. Eaton, L. Gee, F. Gonzalez, A. Jayko, W.H. Li, M. Lisowski, M. Magee, G. Marshall, M. Murray, R. McPherson, B. Romanowicz, K. Satake, R. Simpson, P. Somerville, R. Stein, and D. Valentine, The Cape Mendocino, California, earthquakes of April 1992: Subduction at the triple junction, Science, 261, 433-438, 1993.
• Oppenheimer, D. H., and K. E. Herkenhoff, Velocity-density properties of the lithosphere from three-dimensional modeling at the Geysers- Clear Lake region, California, J. Geophys. Res., 86, 6057-6065, 1981.
• Riddihough, R. P., Recent movements of the Juan de Fuca plate system, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 6980-6994, 1984.
• Severinghaus, J., and Atwater, T., Cenozoic geometry and thermal state of the subducting slabs beneath western North America, in Wernicke, B.P., ed., Basin and Range extensional tectonics near the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada, Volume Memoir 176: Gelogical Society of Maerica Memoir: Boulder Colorado, Geological Society of America, P. 1-22, 1990
• Shor, G.G., P. Dehlinger, H.K. Kirk, and W.S. French, Seismic refraction studies off Oregon and northern California, J. Geophys. Res., 73, 2175-2194, 1968.
• Silver, E.A., Tectonics of the Mendocino triple junction, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 82, 2965-2978, 1971.
• Smith, S. W., J. S. Knapp, and R. McPherson, Seismicity of the Gorda Plate and an eastward jump of the Mendocino Triple junction, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 8153-8172, 1993.
• Stoddard, P.R., A kinematic model for the evolution of the Gorda plate, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 11524-11532, 1987.
• Verdonck, D. and G. Zandt, Three-dimensional crustal structure of the Mendocino Triple Junction region from local earthquake travel times, J. Geophys. Res., v. 99, p. 23,843-23,858, 1994.
• Walter, S. R., Intermediate-Focus Earthquakes Associated with Gorda Plate Subduction in Northern California, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 76, 583-588, 1986.
• Wang, K., and G.C. Rogers, An explanation for the double seismic layers north of the Mendocino triple junction, Geophys. Res. Letters, 21, 121-124, 1994
• Warren, D. H., Seismic-refraction measurements of crustal structure near Santa Rosa and Ukiah, California, in Research in the Geyser-Clear Lake Geothermal Area, Northern California, U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 1141, 167-182, 1981.
• Wentworth, C.M., M.C. Blake, Jr., D.L. Jones, A.W. Walter, and M.D. Zoback, Tectonic wedging associated with emplacement of the Franciscan assemblage, California coast ranges, in Blake, M.C., Jr., ed., Franciscan Geology of Northern California: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, vol. 43, pp. 163-173, 1984.
• Wilson, D. S., Deformation of the so-called Gorda Plate, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3065-3075, 1989.
• Zandt, G. and K. P. Furlong, Evolution and thickness of the lithosphere beneath coastal California, Geology, 10, 376-381, 1982.
• Zandt, G., S. K. Park, C. J. Ammon, and D. Oppenheimer, P-delays in northern California: Evidence on the southern edge of the subducting Gorda plate, EOS, 66, p.958 (Fall AGU), 1985.
• Zucca, J., G. Fuis, B. Milkereit, W. Mooney, and R. Catchings, Crustal structure of northeastern California, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 7,359-7,382, 1986.