Basin and Range Deformation

(Figure from Hammond and Thatcher, 2004)

Relevant publications:

• Pancha, A., J.G. Anderson, and C. Kreemer
  Comparison of seismic and geodetic scalar moment rates across the Basin and Range Province
  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 96, 11-32, 2006.       PDF



• Coolbaugh, M., R. Zehner, C. Kreemer, D. Blackwell, G. Oppliger, D. Sawatzky, G. Blewitt, A. Pancha, M. Richards, C. Helm-Clark, L. Shevenell, G. Raines, G. Johnson, T. Minor, and T. Boyd,
  Geothermal Potential Map of the Great Basin, Western United States Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map, 151, 2005.       PDF



• Hammond, W.C.
  The ghost of an earthquake
  Science, Vol. 310, p. 1440-1442, 2005.       PDF



• Hammond, W.C., and W. Thatcher
  Northwest Basin and Range tectonic deformation observed with the Global Positioning System, 1999-2000
  Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110, B10405, doi:10.1029/2005JB003678, 2005.       PDF



• Hammond, W.C. and W. Thatcher
  Contemporary tectonic deformation of the Basin and Range province, western United States: 10 years of observation with the Global Positioning System
  J. Geophys. Res. 109(B8), 8403, doi:10.1029/2003JB002746, 2004     PDF
  
  
• Hammond, W.C.
  Vertical motion of the Basin and Range, western United States from 10 Years of Campaign GPS
  Cahiers du Centre Européen de Géodynamique et de Séismologie, Ed. T. van Dam & O. Francis, Vol. 23, p. 131-136, 2004     PDF