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
Introduction, Chapter 1 in Metallogenesis and tectonics of northeast Asia
Appendix C: Summary of Major Metallogenic Belts in Northeast Asia (the Russian Far East, Yakutia, Siberia, Transbaikalia, Northern China, Mongolia, South Korea, and Japan)
Appendix B: Description of Map Units for Northeast Asia Summary Geodynamics Map
Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect and continental evolution involving subduction underplating and synchronous foreland thrusting
Introduction to Regional Geology, Tectonics, and Metallogenesis of Northeast Asia
Origin of narrow terranes and adjacent major terranes occurring along the Denali fault in the Eastern and Central Alaska Range, Alaska
Crustal structure of the Alaska Range orogen and Denali fault along the Richardson Highway
Geographic information systems (GIS) spatial data compilation of geodynamic, tectonic, metallogenic, mineral deposit, and geophysical maps and associated descriptive data for northeast Asia
Northern Cordillera
Geology and nonfuel mineral deposits of Asia and the Pacific
Metallogenesis and tectonics of the Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera
Geology and nonfuel mineral deposits of Greenland, Europe, Russia, and northern Central Asia
Science and Products
Introduction, Chapter 1 in Metallogenesis and tectonics of northeast Asia
Appendix C: Summary of Major Metallogenic Belts in Northeast Asia (the Russian Far East, Yakutia, Siberia, Transbaikalia, Northern China, Mongolia, South Korea, and Japan)
Appendix B: Description of Map Units for Northeast Asia Summary Geodynamics Map
Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect and continental evolution involving subduction underplating and synchronous foreland thrusting
Introduction to Regional Geology, Tectonics, and Metallogenesis of Northeast Asia
Origin of narrow terranes and adjacent major terranes occurring along the Denali fault in the Eastern and Central Alaska Range, Alaska
Crustal structure of the Alaska Range orogen and Denali fault along the Richardson Highway
Geographic information systems (GIS) spatial data compilation of geodynamic, tectonic, metallogenic, mineral deposit, and geophysical maps and associated descriptive data for northeast Asia
Northern Cordillera
Geology and nonfuel mineral deposits of Asia and the Pacific
Metallogenesis and tectonics of the Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera
Geology and nonfuel mineral deposits of Greenland, Europe, Russia, and northern Central Asia
*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government