Driving forces for continental extension

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND ABSTRACTS

  • Gans, P. B.(1987) An open-system, two-layer crustal stretching model for the eastern Great Basin. Tectonics, v. 6, p. 1-12.

  • Gans, P. B., G. A. Mahood, and E. Schermer. (1989) Synextensional magmatism in the Basin and Range province: A case study from the eastern Great Basin. Geol. Soc. America Special Paper 233, p.53

  • Dumitru, T. A., Gans, P. B., Foster, D. A., and Miller, E. L. (1991) Refrigeration of the western Cordilleran lithosphere during Laramide shallow angle subduction. Geology, v.Ê19, p. 1145-1149.

  • Dumitru, T. A., Miller, E. L., O'Sullivan, P. B., Amato, J. M., Hannula, K. A., Calvert, A. T, and Gans, P. B. (1995) Cretaceous to Recent Extension in the Bering Strait Region, Alaska, Tectonics, v. 14, p. 549-563.

  • Gans, P. B. (in press) Large-magnitude Oligo-Miocene extension in southern Sonora: Implications for the tectonic evolution of northwest MexicoTectonics

  • Faulds, J. E., Gans, P. B., and Smith, E. (in preparation) Spatial and temporal patterns of extension in the Colorado River extensional corridor. To be submitted to Tectonics

Abstracts
  • Gans, P. B. (1990) Space-time patterns of Cenozoic N-S extension, N-S shortening, E-W extension, and magmatism in the Basin and Range province: Evidence for active rifting. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 22, p. 24.

  • Gans, P. B. (1991) Magmatically induced flow in the lower crust of the Basin and Range province and its influence on the geometry and kinematics of upper crustal extension. Proceedings from International School of Solid Earth Geophysics, 7th Course: "Modes of crustal deformation from the brittle upper crust through detachments to the ductile lower crust", Erice, Italy, pp. 39-41.

  • Gans, P. B. (1991) Extensional strain rates in the Basin and Range province. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. 28.

  • Gans, P. B., Miller, E. L., and Lee, J. (1993) The Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the eastern Great Basin: A revised history, Eos Transactions, AGU, v. 74, p. 608.

  • Nauert, J. and Gans, P. B. (1994b) 40Ar-39Ar geochronology of whole rock basalts: examples from the Patsy Mine and Mt. Davis volcanics, Eldorado Mountains, Southern Nevada, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Cordilleran Section), p. 76.

  • Gans, P. B. (1996) Large-magnitude Oligo-Miocene extension in southern Sonora: Implications for the tectonic evolution of northwest Mexico, EOS Transactions, AGU, v.77 p. 641.

CURRENT RESEARCH INVESTIGATIONS ON CONTINENTAL EXTENSION

  • Cenozoic extension and magmatism in Sonora, Mexico
  • The lower Colorado River extensional corridor - a failed Miocene rift
  • Cretaceous - early Tertiary evolution of Arctic Alaska and Northeast Russia
  • Origin if gneiss domes in southern Tibet
  • Cenozoic-Mesozoic evolution of the eastern Great Basin

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