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Craig H. Jones
Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Publications - 71
Citations - 3746
Craig H. Jones is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lithosphere & Crust. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 69 publications receiving 3459 citations. Previous affiliations of Craig H. Jones include Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences & University of Nevada, Reno.
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Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada in California
TL;DR: Viscous coupling between the crust and mantle is therefore apparently driving present-day surface subsidence.
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WESTERN UNITED STATES EXTENSION: How the West was Widened
Leslie J. Sonder,Craig H. Jones +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a complex interrelation of extension, volcanism, and plate boundary tectonics that defeats simple notions of active or passive rifting is presented. But, the latter two are most responsible for driving extension where it is observed in the Basin and Range.
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The role of gravitational potential energy in active deformation in the southwestern United States
TL;DR: In orogenic belts, intrinsic (buoyancy) and extrinsic (boundary) forces act on the continental lithosphere; determining the relative importance of these forces is fundamental to understanding the dynamics of continental deformation as mentioned in this paper.
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Origin of high mountains in the continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada
Brian P. Wernicke,Robert W. Clayton,Mihai N. Ducea,Craig H. Jones,Stephen K. Park,Stan Ruppert,Jason B. Saleeby,J. Kent Snow,Livia Squires,Moritz M. Fliedner,George R. Jiracek,Randy Keller,Simon L. Klemperer,James H. Luetgert,Peter Malin,Kate C. Miller,Walter D. Mooney,Howard W. Oliver,Robert A. Phinney +18 more
TL;DR: Active and passive seismic experiments show that the southern Sierra, despite standing 1.8 to 2.8 kilometers above its surroundings, is underlain by crust of similar seismic thickness, about 30 to 40 kilometers.
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User-driven integrated software lives: Paleomag paleomagnetics analysis on the Macintosh
TL;DR: PaleoMag, a paleomagnetics analysis package originally developed for the Macintosh operating system in 1988, allows examination of demagnetization of individual samples and analysis of directional data from collections of samples that was widely used despite not running properly on machines and operating systems sold after 1995.