Publications

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.

Fact Sheets

Evans, W.C., Hurwitz, S., Bergfeld, D., Howle, J.F. (2018). Hot water in the Long Valley Caldera - The benefits and hazards of this large natural resource. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet, 2018-3009, 4 p. 

Hill, D. P., Bailey, R. A., Hendley II, J. W., Stauffer, P. H. & Marcaida, M. (2014). California's restless giant: the Long Valley Caldera. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet, 2014-3056, 2 p.

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.

Farrar, C. D., Evans, W. C., Venezky, D. Y., Hurwitz, S. & Oliver, L. K. (2007). Boiling Water at Hot Creek - The Dangerous and Dynamic Thermal Springs in California's Long Valley Caldera. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet, 2007-3045, 4 p.

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.

Sorey, M. L., Farrar, C. D., Gerlach, T. M., McGee, K. A., Evans, W. C., Hill, D. P., Bailey, R. A., Rogie, J. D., Hendley II, J. W. & Stauffer, P. H. (2000). Invisible CO₂ gas killing trees at Mammoth Mountain, California. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet, 172-96, 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.

Field Guides

Hildreth, W. & Fierstein, J. (2017). Geologic field-trip guide to Long Valley Caldera, California. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report, 2017-5022-L, 119.

Geologic Maps

Hildreth, W. & Fierstein, J. (2016). Eruptive history of Mammoth Mountain and its mafic periphery, California. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1812, 138 p.

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

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

Hildreth, E., Fierstein, J.E., Vazquez, J.A. (2023). Ages of the granitic basement of Long Valley Caldera, California, USA, and siting of the Quaternary granite-rhyolite pluton. GSA Bulletin, 135, 2753-2766.

Hildreth, E., Fierstein, J.E., Calvert, A.T., Precaldera mafic magmatism at Long Valley, California: Magma-tectonic siting and incubation of the Great Rhyolite System. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 433, 36 p.

Pulvirenti, F., Silverii, F., Battaglia, M. (2021) A new analysis of caldera unrest through the integration of geophysical data and FEM modeling: The Long Valley Caldera Case Study. Remote Sensing, 13.

Silverii, F., Pulvirenti, F., Montgomery-Brown, E.K., Borsa, A., Neely, W. (2021). The 2011-2019 Long Valley Caldera inflation: New insights from separation of superimposed geodetic signals and 3D modeling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 569, 15 p.

Hill, D.P., Montgomery-Brown, E.K., Shelly, D.R., Flinders, A.F., Prejean, S. (2020). Post-1978 tumescence at Long Valley Caldera, California: A geophysical perspective. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 400, 12 p.

Silverii, F., Montgomery-Brown, E.K., Borsa, A., Barbour, A.J. (2020). Hydrologically induced deformation in Long Valley Caldera and adjacent Sierra Nevada. Journal of Geophysical Research, 125, 17 p.

Montgomery-Brown, E.K., Shelly, D.R., Hsieh, P.A. (2019). Snowmelt-triggered earthquake swarms at the margin of Long Valley Caldera, California. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 3698-3705.

Flinders, A.F., Shelly, D.R., Dawson, P.B., Hill, D.P., Tripoli, B., Shen, Y. (2018). Seismic evidence for significant melt beneath the Long Valley Caldera, California, USA. Geology, 46, 799-802.

Nakata, N., Shelly, D.R. (2018). Imaging a crustal low-velocity layer using reflected seismic waves from the 2014 earthquake swarm at Long Valley Caldera, California: The magmatic system roof? Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 3481-3488.

Hildreth, E., Ryan-Davis, J., Harlow, B. (2017). Graphite in the Bishop Tuff and its effect on postcaldera oxygen fugacity. Geosphere, 14, 343-359.

Hildreth, E. (2017). Fluid-driven uplift at Long Valley Caldera: Geologic perspectives. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 341, 269-286.

Hildreth, E., Fierstein, J. & Calvert, A. T. (2017). Early postcaldera rhyolite and structural resurgence at Long Valley Caldera, California. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 433, 36 p.

Hill, D.P. (2017). Long Valley Caldera-Mammoth Mountain unrest: The knowns and unknowns. Elements, 13, 8-9. 

Shelly, D.R., Ellsworth, W.L., Hill, D.P. (2016). Fluid-faulting evolution in high definition: Connecting fault structure and frequency-magnitude variations during the 2014 Long Valley Caldera, California earthquake swarm. Journal of Geophysical Research, 212, 1776-1795. 

Peacock, J. R., Mangan, M. T., McPhee, D. & Wannamaker, P. E. (2016). Three-dimensional electrical resistivity model of the hydrothermal system in Long Valley Caldera, California, from magnetotellurics. Geophysical Research Letters , 43, 7953-7962. doi:10.1002/2016GL069263

Hill, D. P., Montcomery-Brown, E.K. (2015). Long Valley caldera and the UCERF depiction of Sierra Nevada range-front faults. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 105, 3189-3195. 

Montgomery-Brown, E.K., Wicks Jr., C.W., Cervelli, P.F., Langbein, J.O., Svarc, J.L., Shelly, D.R., Hill, D.P., Lisowski, M. (2015). Renewed inflation of Long Valley Caldera, California (2011-2014). Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 5250-5257. 

Hyeun Ji, K., Herring, T.A., Llenos, A.L. (2013). Near real-time monitoring of volcanic surface deformation from GPS measurements at Long Valley Caldera, California. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 1054-1058. 

Seccia, D., Chiarabba, C., De Gori, P., Bianchi, I., Hill, D.P. (2011). Evidence for the contemporary magmatic system beneath Long Valley Caldera from local earthquake tomography and receiver function analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, 116, 22 p. 

Hurwitz, S., Farrar, C.D., Williams, C.F. (2010). The thermal regime in the resurgent dome of Long Valley Caldera, California: Inferences from precision temperature logs in deep wells. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 198, 233-240. 

Tizzani, P., Battaglia, M., Zeni, G., Atzori, S., Berardino, P., Lanari, R. (2009). Uplift and magma intrusion at Long Valley caldera from InSAR and gravity measurements. Geology, 37, 63-66.

Hildreth, W., Wilson, C.J.N. (2007). Compositional zoning of the Bishop Tuff. Journal of Petrology, 48, 951-999. 

Hill, D. P. (2006). Unrest in Long Valley Caldera, California, 1978–2004. Troise, C., De Natale, G. & Kilburn, C. R. (Eds.) , Mechanisms of Activity and Unrest at Large Calderas , 269, 1-24 pp. 

Brodsky, E.E., Prejean, S.G. (2005). New constraints on mechanisms of remotely triggered seismicity at Long Valley Caldera. Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, 110, 1-14. 

Hildreth, W. (2004). Volcanological perspectives on Long Valley, Mammoth Mountain, and Mono Crates: several contiguous but discrete systems. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 136, 169-198. 

Foulger, G.R., Julian, B.R., Pitt, A.M., Hill, D.P., Malin, P.E., Shalev, E. (2003). Three-dimensional crustal structure of Long Valley caldera, California, and evidence for the migration of CO2 under Mammoth Mountain. Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, 108.

Pribnow, D.F.C., Schutze, C., Hurter, S.J., Flechsig, C., Sass, J.H. (2003). Fluid flow in the resurgent dome of Long Valley Caldera: Implications from thermal data and deep electrical sounding. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 127, 329-345. 

Prejean, S., Ellsworth, W., Zoback, M., Waldhauser, F. (2002). Fault structure and kinematics of the Long Valley Caldera region, California, revealed by high-accuracy earthquake hypocenters and focal mechanism stress inversions. Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, 107, 1-19. 

Hough, S.E., Dollar, R.S., Johnson, P. (2000). The 1998 earthquake sequence south of Long Valley Caldera, California: Hints of magmatic involvement. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 90, 752-763. 

Battaglia, M., Roberts, C., Segall, P. (1999). Magma intrusion beneath Long Valley caldera confirmed by temporal changes in gravity. Science,  285, 2119-2122. 

Wilson, C.J.N., Hildreth, W. (1997). The Bishop Tuff: New insights from eruptive stratigraphy. Journal of Geology, 105, 407-439. 

Dixon, T.H., Mao, A., Bursik, M., Heflin, M., Langbein, J., Stein, R., Webb, F. (1997). Continuous monitoring of surface deformation at Long Valley Caldera, California, with GPS. Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, 102, 12017-12034. 

Marshall, G.A., Langbein, J., Stein, R.S., Lisowski, M., Svarc, J. (1997). Inflation of Long Valley caldera, California, Basin and Range strain, and possible Mono Craters dike opening from 1990-94 GPS surveys. Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 1003-1006. 

Palmer, H.C., MacDonald, W.D., Grommé, C.S., Ellwood, B.B. (1996). Magnetic properties and emplacement of the Bishop tuff, California. Bulletin of Volcanology, 58, 101-116. 

Pitt, A.M., Hill, D.P. (1994). Long-period earthquakes in the Long Valley Caldera Region, eastern California. Geophysical Research Letters, 21, 1697-1682. 

Langbein, J., Hill, D.P., Parker, T.N., Wilkinson, S.K. (1993). An episode of reinflation of the Long Valley Caldera, eastern California: 1989-1991. Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, 98, 15851-15870. 

Sorey, M.L., Suemnicht, G.A., Sturchio, N.C., Nordquist, G.A. (1991). New evidence on the hydrothermal system in Long Valley caldera, California, from wells, fluid sampling, electrical geophysics, and age determinations of hot-spring deposits. Journal of Volcanology and Geophysical Research, 48, 229-263. 

Bailey, R.A., Hill, D.P., (1990). Magmatic unrest at Long Valley Caldera, California, 1980-1990. Geoscience Canada, 17, 175-179. 

Response and Coordination Plans

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

USGS General Publication

Hildreth, W. & Fierstein, J. (2016). Long Valley Caldera Lake and reincision of Owens River Gorge. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report , 2016-5120, 63 p. doi:10.3133/sir20165120

Wilkingson, S.K., Hill, D.P., Langbein, J.O., Lisowski, M., Mangan, M.T. (2014). Long Valley Caldera 2003 through 2014: Overview of low level unrest in the past decade. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 2014-1222, 1 sheet. 

Bergfeld, D. & Evans, W. C. (2011). Monitoring CO₂ emissions in tree-kill areas near the Resurgent Dome at Long Valley Caldera, California. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report , 2011-5038, 9 p.

Farrar, C., DeAngelo, J., Williams, C., Grubb, F., Hurwitz, S. (2010). Temperature data from wells in Long Valley Caldera, California. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series, 523.

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.

Anderson, E.D., Finn, C.A. (2004). Ground magnetic data from within the Long Valley caldera, California: A website for data distribution. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 2004-1096. 

Battaglia, M., Williams, M.J., Venezky, D.Y., Hill, D.P., Langbein, J.O., Farrar, C.D., Howle, J.F., Sneed, M., Segall, P. (2003). The Long Valley Caldera GIS database. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series, 81.

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