Christopher J. Pluhar

TL;DR: In this article, a Middle Pleistocene flood is identified by normal magnetic polarity, calcrete-capped deposits that yield maximum Th/U age dates from 200 to >400 ka.

TL;DR: This paper integrated new stratigraphic, structural, geochemical, geochronological, and magnetostratigraphic data on Cenozoic volcanic rocks in the central Sierra Nevada to arrive at closely inter-related new models for: (1) the paleogeography of the ancestral Cascades arc, (2) the stratigraphic record of uplift events in the Sierra Nevada, (3) the tectonic controls on volcanic styles and compositions in the arc, and (4) the birth of a new plate margin.

TL;DR: This article measured vertical-axis rotation by comparing remanence directions of widespread members of the Eureka Valley Tuff of the Late Miocene Stanislaus Group within the west-central Walker Lane to the same units on the Sierra Nevada microplate.

TL;DR: Paleomagnetism and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) reveal pyroclastic flow patterns, stratigraphic correlations, and tectonic rotations in the Miocene Stanislaus Group, an extensive volcanic sequence in the central Sierra Nevada, California and in the Walker Lane of California and Nevada as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Monastero et al. as discussed by the authors measured rotations of Wild Horse Mesa in the Coso Range, CA relative to two different reference frames and averaged the variation through sedimentary sections to reveal rotation or absence relative to paleogeographic north.