Publications

Fact Sheets

Stovall, W. K., Marcaida, M. & Mangan, M. T. (2014). The California Volcano Observatory—Monitoring the State's Restless Volcanoes. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet , 2014-3120, 4 p.

Geologic Maps

Duffield, W. A. & Bacon, C. R. (1981). Geologic map of the Coso volcanic field and adjacent areas, Inyo County, California. U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Map , 1200, 1 map.

Hazards Assessments and Reports

Mangan, M. T., Ball, J., Wood, N. J., Jones, J. L., Peters, J., Abdollahian, N., Dinitz, L., Blankenheim, S., Fenton, J. & Pridmore, C. (2018). California's Exposure to Volcanic Hazards. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report , 2018-5159, 49 p.

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

Burgess, S.D., Coble, M., Vazquez, J.A. (2021) Zircon geochronology and geochemistry of Quaternary rhyolite domes of the Coso volcanic field, Inyo County, California. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 417.

Simon, J. I., Vazquez, J. A., Renne, P. R., Schmitt, A. K., Bacon, C. R. & Reid, M. R. (2009). Accessory mineral U-Th-Pb ages and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar eruption chronology, and their bearing on rhyolitic magma evolution in the Pleistocene Coso volcanic field, California. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology , 158, 421 - 446 pp. doi:10.1007/s00410-009-0390-9

Simakin, A. G. & Ghassemi, A. (2007). The mechanics of a magma chamber-fault system in trans-tension with application to Coso. Journal of Structural Geology , 29, pp. 1971-1983.

Miller, J.S., Wooden, J.L. (2004) Residence, resorption and recycling of zircons in the Devils Kitchen rhyolite, Coso Volcanic Field, California. Journal of Petrology, 45, 2155-2170. 

Manley, C.R., Bacon, C.R. (2000) Rhyolite thermobarometry and the shallowing of the magma reservoir, Coso volcanic field, California. Journal of Petrology, 41, 149-174.

Bacon, C.R., Metz, J. (1984) Magmatic inclusions in rhyolites, contaminated basalts, and compositional zonation beneath the Coso volcanic field, California. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 85, 346-365.

Bacon, C. R. (1982). Time-predictable bimodal volcanism in the Coso Range, California. Geology , 10, 65-69. 

Combs, J. (1980). Heat flow in the Coso geothermal area, Inyo County, California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 85, pp. 2411-2424.

Bacon, C.R., Macdonald, R., Smith, R.L., Baedecker, P.A. (1981) Pleistocene high-silica rhyolites of the Coso volcanic field, Inyo County, California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 86, 10223-10241. 

Duffield, W. A., Bacon, C. R. & Dalrymple, G. B. (1980). Late Cenozoic Volcanism, Geochronology, and Structure of the Coso Range, Inyo County, California. Journal of Geophysical Research , 85, 2381-2404.

USGS General Publication

Duffield, W. A. & Sass, J. H. (2003). Geothermal Energy: Clean Power From the Earth's Heat. U.S. Geological Survey Circular , 1249, 36 p.

Novak, S. W. & Bacon, C. R. (1986). Pliocene volcanic rocks of the Coso Range, Inyo County, California. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper , 1383, 44 p.