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Kidder, S.B., F. Herman, J. Saleeby, J.-P. Avouac, M.N. Ducea, and A. Chapman, Shear heating not a cause of inverted metamorphism, Geology, June 20, 2013, doi: 10.1130/​G34289.1 (article)

Saleeby, J., L. Le Pourhiet, Z. Saleeby, and M. Gurnis (2012), Epeirogenic transients related to mantle lithosphere removal in the southern Sierra Nevada region, California, part I: Implications of thermomechanical modeling, Geosphere; December 2012; v. 8; no. 6; p. 1286–1309; doi:10.1130/GES00746.1 (article)

Flowers, R. M., and K. A. Farley (2012) Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He Evidence for an Ancient Grand Canyon, Science, DOI:10.1126/science.1229390 (article)

Le Pourhiet, L., Gurnis, M., and Saleeby, J., 2006, Mantle instability beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California and Death Valley extension: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.08.028 (pdf)

Saleeby, J., Le Pourhiet, L. Saleeby, Z., and Gurnis, M., 2012a, Epeirogenic transients related to mantle lithosphere removal in the southern Sierra Nevada region, Part I: implications of thermo-mechanical modeling, Geosphere (in press).

Saleeby, J., Saleeby, Z., and Le Pourhiet L., 2012b, Epeirogenic transients related to mantle lithosphere removal in the southern Sierra Nevada region, Part II: implications of rock uplift and basin subsidence relations, Geosphere (in review).

Zandt, G. Gilbert, H., Owens, T., Ducea, M., Saleeby, J. and Jones, C., 2004, Active foundering 1 of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada, California: Nature, v. 43, p. 41-45 (pdf)






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