Angela Jayko
Dr. Jayko is a Scientist Emeritus at the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center at the U.C. White Mountain Research Station. She came to the USGS in 1979 and returned as an Emeritus. She studied tectonics of convergent margin associations and most recently, she’s focused on the Plio-Pleistocene transtensive deformation.
Dr. Jayko's thesis concerned Late Mesozoic subduction. She studied tectonics of convergent margin associations with work in the continental collision complex of the French Alps, in a Paleozoic transtensive basement tectonics in eastern Australia, and in the Paleozoic fold and thrust belt of central Nevada. Most recently she’s focused on the Plio-Pleistocene transtensive deformation.
Professional Experience
1979 - Current, Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
1995 - 1998, Chair, I.U.G.G., International Lithosphere Program
1993 - 1995, Vice chair, I.U.G.G., International Lithosphere Program
1990 - 1992, Lecturer, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand
1978 - 1979, Geometrics, EGG, Sunnyvale, California
Education and Certifications
Ph.D., Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1984 (Gilbert Fellowship 1988)
B.A., Geology, Humboldt State University, 1976
Affiliations and Memberships*
Geological Society of America, Fellow
American Geophysical Union
Science and Products
Thirty-one years of debris-flow observation and monitoring near La Honda, California, USA
Last glacial maximum and Holocene lake levels of Owens Lake, eastern California, USA
Holocene and latest Pleistocene oblique dextral faulting on the southern Inyo Mountains fault, Owens Lake basin, California
Digital method for regional mapping of surficial basin deposits in arid regions, example from central Death Valley, Inyo County, California
Late Quaternary denudation, Death and Panamint Valleys, eastern California
Geologic map and database of the Roseburg 30' x 60' quadrangle, Douglas and Coos Counties, Oregon
Impacts of climate change on landscapes of the eastern Sierra Nevada and western Great Basin
Reconnaissance geologic map of the Dixonville 7.5' quadrangle, Oregon
The demise of the San Bruno Fault
The demise of the San Bruno Fault
Neogene contraction between the San Andreas fault and the Santa Clara Valley, San Francisco Bay region, California
Digital Geologic Map of the Nevada Test Site and Vicinity, Nye, Lincoln, and Clark Counties, Nevada, and Inyo County, California
Science and Products
Thirty-one years of debris-flow observation and monitoring near La Honda, California, USA
Last glacial maximum and Holocene lake levels of Owens Lake, eastern California, USA
Holocene and latest Pleistocene oblique dextral faulting on the southern Inyo Mountains fault, Owens Lake basin, California
Digital method for regional mapping of surficial basin deposits in arid regions, example from central Death Valley, Inyo County, California
Late Quaternary denudation, Death and Panamint Valleys, eastern California
Geologic map and database of the Roseburg 30' x 60' quadrangle, Douglas and Coos Counties, Oregon
Impacts of climate change on landscapes of the eastern Sierra Nevada and western Great Basin
Reconnaissance geologic map of the Dixonville 7.5' quadrangle, Oregon
The demise of the San Bruno Fault
The demise of the San Bruno Fault
Neogene contraction between the San Andreas fault and the Santa Clara Valley, San Francisco Bay region, California
Digital Geologic Map of the Nevada Test Site and Vicinity, Nye, Lincoln, and Clark Counties, Nevada, and Inyo County, California
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