The number of broadband three‐component seismic stations in southern California has
more than tripled recently. In this study we use the teleseismic receiver function technique to …

ABSTRACT The Pelona–Orocopia–Rand and related schists of southern California are an
archetypal example of an exhumed shallow subduction complex.'The schist'comprises …

During the latest Cretaceous-early Paleogene Laramide orogeny, the lithosphere beneath
the southernmost Sierra Nevada batholith and the adjacent Mojave Desert region batholith …

Sedimentary rock units originally formed in subduction trenches are often found tectonically
underplated directly below magmatic arc crustal sections along some segments of the …

New three‐dimensional (3‐D) VP and VP/VS models are determined for southern California
using P and S‐P travel times from local earthquakes and controlled sources. These models …

Eclogites are commonly believed to be highly susceptible to delamination and sinking into
the mantle from lower crustal metamorphic environments. We discuss the production of a …

Abstract During the Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic, southern California was impacted by
two anomalous tectonic events:(1) underplating of the oceanic Pelona-Orocopia-Rand …

We present evidence for a thick (∼ 100 km) sequence of cogenetic rocks which make up the
root of the Sierra Nevada batholith of California. The Sierran magmatism produced tonalitic …

Abstract The Sierra Nevada batholith is an∼ 600-km-long, NNW-trending composite arc
assemblage consisting of a myriad of plutons exhibiting a distinct transverse zonation in …

Oxygen isotope ratios of zircon (Zc) from intrusives exposed in the Tehachapi Mountains,
southern California, reveal large inputs of high-δ18O supracrustal contaminant into gabbroic …