Warren J Nokleberg
Dr. Warren J. Nokleberg is a Scientist Emeritus in the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center. After coming to the USGS in 1966, His research currently focuses on compiling and synthesizing a digital earth science atlas of Sierra Nevada, CA. He recently co-edited and published an e-book about the Dynamic Geology of the Northern Cordillera and Adjacent Marine Areas.
After starting graduate school in 1965, his major research emphases have been on the mineral deposits, metallogenesis, bedrock geology, and tectonics of the central Sierra Nevada, California, the Stillwater Igneous Complex, Montana, the Eastern Alaska Range, Alaska, the Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect (TACT) in Eastern Alaska, the Circum-North Pacific (Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera), and Northeast Asia. For these projects, he has led and coordinated large and complex teams of national and international geologists to compile, synthesize, interpret, and publish large and complex interpretative articles on regional geology, tectonics, and metallogenesis, regional geologic maps, mineral resource maps, mineral deposit databases, and spatial (GIS) databases.
He has authored or co-authored over 260 scientific papers. In 2002, he was awarded Meritorous Service Award of the Department of Interior for exceptional scientific research and leadership in Alaska and the Circum-North Pacific for the U.S. Geological Survey.
Professional Experience
2006 - 2018, Emeritus Research Geologist.
1969 - 1970, 1977 - 2006, Research Geologist, USGS, Menlo Park, CA
1961 - 1965, Regular Line Officer, U.S. Navy
1970 - 1977, Associate Professor of Geology at California State University, Fresno
Education and Certifications
Ph.D., Geology, University of California Santa Barbara, 1970
B.A., Geology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1965
Affiliations and Memberships*
Geological Society of America
Society of Economic Geologists (Fellow)
American Geophysical Union
State of California Registered Geologist
Science and Products
Devonian volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits and occurrences, southern Yukon-Tanana Terrace, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska
Thin, low‐velocity crust beneath the southern Yukon‐Tanana Terrane, east central Alaska: Results from Trans‐Alaska crustal transect refraction/wide‐angle reflection data
Preliminary geologic map of the Mount Hayes quadrangle, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska
Geologic map of the Tehipite Dome quadrangle, Fresno County, California
Seismic reflection/refraction mapping of faulting and regional dips in the eastern Alaska Range
The Denali fault system and Alaska Range of Alaska: Evidence for underplated Mesozoic flysch from magnetotelluric surveys
Chapter 14: Middle Cretaceous silicic metavolcanic rocks in the Kings Canyon area, central Sierra Nevada, California
Geology of the Brooks Range and North Slope
The crustal structure of the Wrangellia Terrane along the East Glenn Highway, eastern‐southern Alaska
Structural analysis of the southern Peninsular, southern Wrangellia, and northern Chugach terranes along the Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect, northern Chugach Mountains, Alaska
Seismic reflection images of the crust of the northern part of the Chugach terrane, Alaska: Results of a survey for the Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect (TACT)
Geologic map of the Valdez A-4, B-3, B-4, C-3, C-4, and D-4 quadrangles, northern Chugach Mountains and southern Copper River basin, Alaska
Science and Products
Devonian volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits and occurrences, southern Yukon-Tanana Terrace, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska
Thin, low‐velocity crust beneath the southern Yukon‐Tanana Terrane, east central Alaska: Results from Trans‐Alaska crustal transect refraction/wide‐angle reflection data
Preliminary geologic map of the Mount Hayes quadrangle, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska
Geologic map of the Tehipite Dome quadrangle, Fresno County, California
Seismic reflection/refraction mapping of faulting and regional dips in the eastern Alaska Range
The Denali fault system and Alaska Range of Alaska: Evidence for underplated Mesozoic flysch from magnetotelluric surveys
Chapter 14: Middle Cretaceous silicic metavolcanic rocks in the Kings Canyon area, central Sierra Nevada, California
Geology of the Brooks Range and North Slope
The crustal structure of the Wrangellia Terrane along the East Glenn Highway, eastern‐southern Alaska
Structural analysis of the southern Peninsular, southern Wrangellia, and northern Chugach terranes along the Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect, northern Chugach Mountains, Alaska
Seismic reflection images of the crust of the northern part of the Chugach terrane, Alaska: Results of a survey for the Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect (TACT)
Geologic map of the Valdez A-4, B-3, B-4, C-3, C-4, and D-4 quadrangles, northern Chugach Mountains and southern Copper River basin, Alaska
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