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The Neotethyan Sanandaj‐Sirjan zone of Iran as an archetype for passive margin‐arc transitions by Hassanzadeh, Jamshid, Wernicke, Brian P.

“…The Sanandaj‐Sirjan zone of Iran is a northwest trending orogenic belt immediately north of the Zagros suture, which represents the former position of the…”
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A Paleogene extensional arc flare-up in Iran by Verdel, Charles, Wernicke, Brian P., Hassanzadeh, Jamshid, Guest, Bernard

“…Arc volcanism across Iran is dominated by a Paleogene pulse, despite protracted and presumably continuous subduction along the northern margin of the…”
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On seasonal signals in geodetic time series by Davis, James L., Wernicke, Brian P., Tamisiea, Mark E.

“…We explore implications for modeling and noise analysis of stochastic seasonal processes of climatic origin in geodetic time series. Seasonal signals are…”
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Evidence for mechanical coupling and strong Indian lower crust beneath southern Tibet by Copley, Alex, Avouac, Jean-Philippe, Wernicke, Brian P.

“…North–south divide on Tibetan Plateau The Tibetan Plateau, the largest area of high topography on the planet, has been central to the study of the processes…”
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Digitalization Index: Developing a Model for Assessing the Degree of Digitalization of Construction Projects by Sezer, Ahmet Anil, Thunberg, Micael, Wernicke, Brian

“…AbstractThe construction industry is one of the least digitally advanced industries. Although the industry is project-based, a project-level assessment of…”
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Subsidence history of the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation and related strata of southwest Laurentia; implications for the age and duration of the Shuram isotopic excursion and animal evolution by Witkosky, Rebecca, Wernicke, Brian P

“…The Johnnie Formation and associated Ediacaran strata in southwest Laurentia are ∼3000 m thick, with a Marinoan cap carbonate sequence at the bottom, and a…”
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Thermochronometry Across the Austroalpine‐Pennine Boundary, Central Alps, Switzerland: Orogen‐Perpendicular Normal Fault Slip on a Major “Overthrust” and Its Implications for Orogenesis by Price, Jason B., Wernicke, Brian P., Cosca, Michael A., Farley, Kenneth A.

“…Fifty‐one new and 309 published thermochronometric ages (nine systems with closure temperatures ranging from ~450 to 70°C) from the Graubünden region of the…”
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Use of clumped-isotope thermometry to constrain the crystallization temperature of diagenetic calcite by Huntington, Katharine W, Budd, David A, Wernicke, Brian P, Eiler, John M

“…We describe an approach to estimating the crystallization temperatures of diagenetic calcites using clumped-isotope thermometry, a paleothermometer based on…”
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Episodic Dissolution, Precipitation, and Slip along the Heart Mountain Detachment, Wyoming by Swanson, Erika, Wernicke, Brian P., Hauge, Thomas A.

“…The Heart Mountain allochthon is among the largest landslide masses in the rock record. The basal fault, the Heart Mountain detachment, is an archetype for the…”
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Grand Canyon provenance for orthoquartzite clasts in the lower Miocene of coastal Southern California by Sabbeth, Leah, Wernicke, Brian P, Raub, Timothy D, Grover, Jeffery A, Lander, E. Bruce, Kirschvink, Joseph L

“…Orthoquartzite detrital source regions in the Cordilleran interior yield clast populations with distinct spectra of paleomagnetic inclinations and detrital…”
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Characterization of site-specific GPS errors using a short-baseline network of braced monuments at Yucca Mountain, southern Nevada by Hill, Emma M., Davis, James L., Elósegui, Pedro, Wernicke, Brian P., Malikowski, Eric, Niemi, Nathan A.

“…We use a short‐baseline network of braced monuments to investigate site‐specific GPS effects. The network has baseline lengths of ∼10, 100, and 1000 m…”
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Evidence for Deep Magma Injection beneath Lake Tahoe, Nevada-California by Smith, Kenneth D., von Seggern, David, Blewitt, Geoffrey, Preston, Leiph, Anderson, John G., Wernicke, Brian P., Davis, James L.

“…A deep earthquake swarm in late 2003 at Lake Tahoe, California (Richter magnitude < 2.2; depth of 29 to 33 kilometers), was coeval with a transient…”
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Active megadetachment beneath the western United States by Wernicke, Brian, Davis, James L., Niemi, Nathan A., Luffi, Peter, Bisnath, Sunil

“…Geodetic data, interpreted in light of seismic imaging, seismicity, xenolith studies, and the late Quaternary geologic history of the northern Great Basin,…”
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Dating topography of the Sierra Nevada, California, using apatite (U-Th)/He ages by House, Martha A, Wernicke, Brian P, Farley, Kenneth A

“…The upward motion of rock masses relative to the Earth's surface has been documented for most of the main mountain belts using thermochronological and…”
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BARGEN continuous GPS data across the eastern Basin and Range province, and implications for fault system dynamics by Niemi, Nathan A., Wernicke, Brian P., Friedrich, Anke M., Simons, Mark, Bennett, Richard A., Davis, James L.

“…We collected data from a transect of continuous Global Positioning System (GPS) sites across the eastern Basin and Range province at latitude 39°N from…”
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Comparison of geodetic and geologic data from the Wasatch region, Utah, and implications for the spectral character of Earth deformation at periods of 10 to 10 million years by Friedrich, Anke M., Wernicke, Brian P., Niemi, Nathan A., Bennett, Richard A., Davis, James L.

“…The Wasatch fault and adjacent fault zones provide an opportunity to compare present‐day deformation rate estimates obtained from space geodesy with geologic…”
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Tectonic implications of a dense continuous GPS velocity field at Yucca Mountain, Nevada by Wernicke, Brian, Davis, James L., Bennett, Richard A., Normandeau, James E., Friedrich, Anke M., Niemi, Nathan A.

“…A dense, continuous GPS network was established in the Yucca Mountain area in 1999 to provide the most reliable measurements possible of geodetic strain…”
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Electrical conductivity images of Quaternary faults and Tertiary detachments in the California Basin and Range by Park, Stephen K., Wernicke, Brian

“…Comparison of an electrical resistivity section derived from magnetotelluric (MT) data to a geologic section extending eastward from the Sierra Nevada near…”
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Origin of High Mountains in the Continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada by Wernicke, Brian, Clayton, Robert, Ducea, Mihai, Jones, Craig H., Park, Stephen, Ruppert, Stan, Saleeby, Jason, Snow, J. Kent, Squires, Livia, Fliedner, Moritz, Jiracek, George, Keller, Randy, Klemperer, Simon, Luetgert, James, Malin, Peter, Miller, Kate, Mooney, Walter, Oliver, Howard, Phinney, Robert

“…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…”
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Cosmogenic 10Be and 36Cl geochronology of offset alluvial fans along the northern Death Valley fault zone: Implications for transient strain in the eastern California shear zone by Frankel, Kurt L., Brantley, Katherine S., Dolan, James F., Finkel, Robert C., Klinger, Ralph E., Knott, Jeffrey R., Machette, Michael N., Owen, Lewis A., Phillips, Fred M., Slate, Janet L., Wernicke, Brian P.

“…The northern Death Valley fault zone (NDVFZ) has long been recognized as a major right‐lateral strike‐slip fault in the eastern California shear zone (ECSZ)…”
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