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Publications

Selected USGS publications on the Mono-Inyo Craters. 

Bibliography

Ewert, J. W., Harpel, C. J., Brooks, S. K. & Marcaida, M. (2010). Bibliography of Literature Pertaining to Long Valley Caldera and Associated Volcanic Fields. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report , 2010-1320, 146 p. and database.

 

Databases

Bursik, M. & Sieh, K. (2013). Digital Database of the Holocene Tephras of the Mono-Inyo Craters, California. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series , 758

 

Fact Sheets

Hill, D. P., Bailey, R. A., Sorey, M. L., Hendley II, J. W. & Stauffer, P. H. (2000). Living with a restless Caldera, Long Valley, California. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet , 108-96, 2 p.

Priest, S. S., Hass, J. H., Ellsworth, W. L., Farrar, C. D., Sorey, M. L., Hill, D. P., Bailey, R. A., Jacobson, R. D., Finger, J. T., McConnell, V. S. & Zoback, M. (1998). Scientific Drilling in Long Valley, California - What Will We Learn?. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet , 077-98, 2 p.

 

Geologic Maps

Bailey, R. A. (1989). Geologic map of Long Valley caldera, Mono-Inyo Craters volcanic chain, and vicinity, Mono County, California. U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Map , 1933, 11 p.

 

Hazards Assessments and Reports

White, M. N., Ramsey, D. W. & Miller, C. D. (2011). Database for potential hazards from future volcanic eruptions in California. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series , 661

Miller, C. D. (1989). Potential hazards from future volcanic eruptions in California. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin , 1847, 17 p.

Miller, C. D., Mullineaux, D. R., Crandell, D. R. & Bailey, R. A. (1982). Potential hazards from future volcanic eruptions in the Long Valley-Mono Lake area, east-central California and southwest Nevada; a preliminary assessment. U.S. Geological Survey Circular , 877, 10 p.

 

Journal Articles

Hildreth, E., Fierstein, J., Ryan-Davis, J. (2021). No ring fracture in Mono Basin, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 133, 2210-2225. 

Marcaida, M., Vazquez, J.A., Stelten, M.E., Miller, J.S. (2019). Constraining the early eruptive history of the Mono Craters rhyolites, California, based on 238U–230Th isochron dating of their explosive and effusive products. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 1539-1556. 

Peacock, J. R., Mangan, M. T., McPhee, D. & Ponce, D. A. (2015). Imaging the magmatic system of Mono Basin, California, with magnetotellurics in three dimensions. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth , 120, p 7273–7289. 

Bergfeld, D., Evans, W.C., Howle, J.F., Hunt, A.G. (2015). Magmatic gas emissions at Holocene volcanic features near Mono Lake, California, and their relation to regional magmatism. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 292, 70-83. 

Marcaida, M., Mangan, M.T., Vazquez, J.A., Bursik, M., Lidzbarski, M.I. (2014). Geochemical fingerprinting of Wilson Creek formation tephra layers (Mono Basin, California) using titanomagnetite compositions. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 273, 1-14. 

Riley, P., Tikoff, B., Hildreth, W. (2012). Transtensional deformation and structural control of contiguous but independent magmatic systems: Mono-Inyo Craters, Mammoth Mountain, and Long Valley Caldera, California. Geosphere, 8, 740-751. 

Hill, D.P., Segall, P. (2004). Interdisciplinary discussion of volcanic processes beneath the Long Valley Caldera-Mono Craters Area. EOS Science News, 85, 228-230. 

Hildreth, W. (2004). Volcanological perspectives on Long Valley, Mammoth Mountain, and Mono Craters: several contiguous but discrete systems. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research , 136, 169-198. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.05.019

Madsen, D.B., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Thompson, R.S. (2002). A late Pleistocene tephra layer in the southern Great Basin and Colorado Plateau derived from Mono Craters, California. Quaternary Research, 57, 382-390. 

Eichelberger, J. C., Vogel, T. A., Younker, L. W., Heiken, G. H. & Wohletz, K. H. (1988). Structure and stratigraphy beneath a young phreatic vent: South Inyo Crater, Long Valley Caldera, California. Journal of Geophysical Research , 93, pp. 13,208-13,220.

Miller, C. D. (1985). Holocene eruptions at the Inyo volcanic chain, California: implications for possible eruptions in the Long Valley caldera. Geology , 13, pp. 14-17.

Hill, D.P. (1984). Monitoring unrest in a large silicic caldera, the Long Valley-Inyo Craters volcanic complex in east-central California. Bulletin Volcanologique, 47, 371-395. 

Dalrymple, G.B. (1967). Potassium-argon ages of recent rhyolites of the Mono and Inyo craters, California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 3, 289-298. 

 

Response and Coordination Plans

Mono County Emergency Operations Plan. Department of Emergency Management (2012). Mono County California.

 

USGS General Publication

Bailey, R. A. (2004). Eruptive history and chemical evolution of the precaldera and postcaldera basalt-dacite sequences, Long Valley, California: Implications for magma sources, current seismic unrest, and future volcanism. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper , 1692, 75 p.

Meador, P.J, Hill, D.P., Luetgert, J.H. (1985). Data report for the July-August 1983 seismic-refraction experiment in the Mono Craters-Long Valley region, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 85-708, 70 p. 

Meador, P.J., Hill, D.P. (1983). Data report for the August 1982 seismic-refraction experiment in the Mono Craters-Long Valley region, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 83-708, 53 p. 

Alpha, T.R., Bailey, R.A., Morley, J.M. (1983). Oblique map of Mono-Inyo Craters, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 82-230, 1 plate. 

 

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