Publications
Manuscripts
published (inverse chron. order)
Adams, R.H. Kavage, and Spotila, J.A. (2005).
The form and function of headwater streams, based on field and modeling
investigations in the southern Appalachian Mountains, Earth Surface
Processes and Landforms.
Spotila, J.A., Buscher, J.T., Meigs, A., and Reiners, P.W. (2004). Long-term glacial erosion of active
mountain belts: Example of the Chugach/St. Elias Range, Alaska, Geology,
32, 501-504.
Spotila, J.A., Bank, G.C., Naeser, C.W., Reiners, P.W., Naeser, N.D., and
Henika, B.S. (2004). Origin of the
Blue Ridge escarpment along the passive margin of eastern North America, Basin
Research, 16, 41-63.
Spotila, J.A., and Anderson, K.B. (2004). Fault interaction at the junction of the Transverse Ranges
and eastern California shear zone: A case study of intersecting faults, Tectonophysics,
379, 43-60.
Spotila, J.A. (2004).
Orogenesis, in Goudie, A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, Int. Assoc.
Geomorph., Routledge, London and New York, p. 731-734.
Spotila, J.A. (2004). Crustal
Deformation, in Goudie, A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, Int. Assoc.
Geomorph., Routledge, London and New York, p. 201-203.
Anderson, K.B., Spotila, J.A., and Hole, J.A. (2003). Application of geomorphic analysis and
ground-penetrating radar to characterization of paleoseismic sites in dynamic
alluvial environments: An example from southern California, Tectonophysics,
368, 25-32.
Spotila, J.A., House, M.A., Blythe, A.E., Niemi, N., and Bank, G.C.
(2002). Controls on the erosion and geomorphic evolution of the San
Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains, southern California, Geol. Soc. Amer.
Special Paper, 365, 205-230.
Blythe, A.E., House, M.A., and Spotila, J.A. (2002). Low temperature
thermochronology of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains, southern
California: Constraining structural evolution, Geol. Soc. Amer.
Special Paper, 365, 231-250.
Spotila, J.A., Farley, K., Yule, D., Reiners, P. (2001). Near-field
transpressive deformation along the San Andreas fault zone in southern
California, based on exhumation constrained by (U-Th)/He dating, J. Geophys.
Res., 106, 30,909-30,922.
Spotila, J.A., and Sieh, K. (2000). Architecture of transpressional
thrust faulting in the San Bernardino Mountains, southern California, from
deformation of a deeply weathered surface, Tectonics, 19, 589-615.
Ebel, J.E. and Spotila, J.A. (1999). Modern Earthquake
Activity and the Norumbega Fault, in Ludman, A., and West, D.P., eds.,
Norumbega Fault System of the Northern Appalachians, Geol. Soc. Amer.
Special Paper, 331, 195-202.
Spotila, J.A., Farley, K., and Sieh, K.E. (1998). Uplift and erosion
of the San Bernardino Mountains associated with transpression along the San
Andreas fault, California, as constrained by radiogenic helium
thermochronometry, Tectonics, 17, 360-378.
Spotila, J.A. and Sieh K.E. (1995). Geological investigations of a
"slip gap" in the surficial ruptures of the 1992 Landers earthquake,
southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 543-559.
Sieh, K.E., Jones, L., Hauksson, E., Hudnut, K.,
Eberhart-Phillips, D., Heaton, T., Hough, S., Hutton, K., Kanamori, H., Lilje,
A., Lindvall, S., McGill, S., Mori, J., Rubin, C., Spotila, J.A., Stock, J., Thio, H.K., Treiman, J.,
Wernicke, B., Zachariasen, J. (1993). Near field investigations of the
Landers earthquake sequence, April to July, 1992, Science, 260, 171-176.
Spotila, J.A., House, M.A., Niemi, N.A., Brady, R.J., Oskin, M., and
Buscher, J.T. (in review).
Mechanisms of transpression along the San Andreas fault, based on
patterns of bedrock uplift, in Till, A., Roeske, S., Foster, D., and Sample, J.
(eds.), Geol.
Soc. Amer. Special Paper.
Spotila, J.A. (in review).
Applications of low-temperature thermochronometry to tectonic
geomorphology, based on examples from transpressional and convergent settings,
in Ehlers, T.A., and Reiners, P.W. (eds.), Low Temperature Thermochronometry: Techniques,
Interpretations, and Applications, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry,
Mineral. Soc. Amer.
Brady, R.J., Spotila, J.A. (in review). Exhumation and tilting of the Northern
California Coast Range associated with migration of the Mendocino Triple
Junction: Southward younging (U-Th)/He in apatite ages due to a
northward-migrating slab gap, Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Lukes, L., Bekken, B., Spotila, J.A., and Eriksson, S. (in review). Analysis of model-driven vs.
data-driven approaches to engaging student learning in introductory geoscience
laboratories, J. Geoscience Education.
Reed, J.S., Spotila, J.A., Eriksson, K.A., and Bodnar, R.J.
(in review). The downs and ups of
Pennsylvanian strata: Central Appalachian Basin, Basin Research.
Ward, D.J., Spotila, J.A., Hancock, G.S., Galbraith, J.M. (in
review). New constraints on the
late Cenozoic incision history of the New River, Virginia, Geomorphology.
Abstracts (chron. order, by year)
pre-1998
1) Ebel, J.E., Spotila, J.A. (1992).
Seismicity along the Norumbega Fault in New England; implications for
seismic hazard in the Northeast United States, Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, 24, no.3,
pp.17-18.
2) Ebel, J.E. and Spotila, J.A. (1993).
The relationship between earthquakes and regional geology in New
England, Eos Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 74, no.16, pp.288.
3) Ebel, J.E., and Spotila, J.A. (1995).
Intraplate seismicity in the northeastern United States, International
Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, XXI General Assembly, Abstracts, 21, pp.361.
4) Spotila, J.A., Sieh, K., and Farley, K. (1997). The exhumation and uplift history of the San Bernardino
Mountains along the San Andreas Fault, as constrained by radiogenic helium
thermochronometry, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 29, no.6, pp.235.
1998
5) Ebel, J.E., and Spotila, J.A. (1998). Modern
earthquake activity and the Norumbega fault zone, Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs, 30,
no.1, pp.15.
6) Spotila, J.A. (1998). The vertical
displacement field of the San Bernardino Mountains, southern California, based
on the use of a deeply weathered surface as a structural datum, Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 30, no.7, pp.237-238.
1999
7) Spotila, J.A., Farley, K.A., Yule, J.D., and Reiners, P.W. (1999). Long-lived exhumation along the
transpressive San Andreas fault zone in southern California, based on U-Th/He
dating, Eos Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 80, no.46, pp.1170.
2000
8) Blythe, A., House, M.A., Spotila, J.A., and Burbank, D.W. (2000). Strain partitioning and topographic response of fault blocks
along the San Andreas fault, California, from apatite fission track, (U-Th)/He,
and DEM analysis, Fission Track Meeting, Lorne, Australia, Geological
Society of Australia Abstracts, 58,
pp.37-38.
9) Bank, G., and Spotila, J.A. (2000).
Testing origins of a passive-margin great escarpment along the Blue
Ridges of the southern Appalachians, using topographic analysis and
geochronology, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 32, no.7, pp.28.
10) Spotila, J.A., and Anderson, K.B. (2000).
Assessing the behavior and seismic hazard of complex thrust and
strike-slip faulting along the northern front of the San Bernardino Mountains,
southern California, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 32, no.7, pp.242.
2001
11) Kavage, R.H., and Spotila, J.A. (2001).
Ephemeral channels and hillslope erosion in the southern Valley and
Ridge, southwest Virginia, Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, 33, no.2, pp.59.
12) Anderson, K.B., and Spotila, J.A. (2001).
The relationship of geologic structure and the Giles County seismic zone
in southwest Virginia, based on fracture mapping in allochthonous Paleozoic
strata, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 33, no.2, pp.1.
13) Spotila, J.A. (2001). Enhancing
Earthscope by constraining vertical motions of the continental crust and
surface, Earthscope national meeting, Making and Breaking a Continent,
Snowbird, Utah.
14) Kavage, R.H., and Spotila, J.A. (2001).
Controls on the form and function of headwater channels in humid,
moderate-relief drainage basins, Eos Transactions, American Geophysical
Union, Annual Meeting.
15) Bank, G.C., Spotila, J.A., and Reiners, P.W. (2001). Origin of an eastern North America Great Escarpment based on
(U-Th)/He dating and geomorphic analysis, Eos Transactions, American
Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting.
16) Anderson, K.B., and Spotila, J.A. (2001).
Investigating complex fault behavior at the intersection of the
Transverse Ranges and the Eastern California shear zone, southern California, Eos
Transactions, American Geophysical Union,
Annual Meeting.
17) Spotila, J.A. (2001). Controls on
erosion and long-term evolution of mountain belts: Constraints from a comparison between the San Bernardino and
San Gabriel Mountains, southern California, Eos Transactions, American
Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting.
2002
18) Reed, J.S., Spotila, J.A., Bodnar, R.J., and Eriksson, K.A. (2002). Paleothermometry and thermochronology
of Carboniferous strata, central Appalachian basin, southern West Virginia:
Burial and geomorphic evolution of the Appalachian Plateau, Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 34, no.6, pp.133.
19) Kavage, R.H., and Spotila, J.A. (2002).
Distributed hydrologic modeling in southern Appalachian headwater
basins, Virginia Tech GIS and Remote Sensing Research Symposium, Roanoke,
Virginia.
20) Buscher, J.T., Spotila, J.A., and Meigs, A. (2002). Glacial erosion as a primary control on landscape evolution
of the active Chugach/St. Elias Range of southern Alaska, Eos Transactions,
American Geophysical Union, Annual
Meeting.
21) Spotila, J.A., and Buscher, J.T. (2002).
Measuring crustal convergence using rock exhumation along the complex
glaciated Chugach Mountains, southeast Alaska, Eos Transactions, American
Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting.
22) Spotila, J.A., Buscher, J.T., and Meigs, A. (2002). The influence of glacial erosion on active mountain
building, based on exhumation of the Chugach/St. Elias Range, southeast Alaska,
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 34, no.5, pp.78.
2003
23) Ward, D.J., Hancock, G., Spotila, J.A., and Law, R.D. (2003). Testing the roles of climate, tectonics, and bedrock lithology
in the late Cenozoic incision history of the New River, Geological Society
of America Abstracts with Programs,
Annual Meeting.
24) Reed, J.S., Spotila, J.A., Bodnar, R.J., and Eriksson, K.A. (2003). Constraining the burial and geomorphic
evolution of the Appalachian Plateau using Pennsylvanian sedimentary rocks, American
Association of Petroleum Geologists,
Annual Meeting.
25) Payn, R.A., Valett, M.H., Webster, J.R., and Spotila,
J.A. (2003). Hyporeic function in forested vs.
agricultural streams, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting.
26) Brady, R.J., and Spotila, J.A. (2003).
Active transtensional basin formation along the Maacama fault zone,
northern California Coast Range, Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs, Annual Meeting.
27) Binnie, S.A., Spotila, J.A., Phillips, W.M., Summerfield, M.A., and Keith, F.
(2003). The coexistence of steady
and non-steady state topography in the San Bernardino Mountains, southern
California, from cosmogenic 10Be and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry, Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting.
28) Spotila, J.A., House, M.A., Brady, R., Niemi, N.A., Lukes, L. (2003). Rock uplift along the San Andreas fault
and implications for processes of transpression, Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs,
Annual Meeting.
2004
29) Spotila, J.A., and Bank, G.C. (2004).
Origin of the Blue Ridge escarpment along the passive margin of eastern
North America, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, NE/SE Meeting, Tysons Corner, Virginia.
30) Kavage Adams, R.H., and Spotila, J.A., (2004).
The form and function of headwater streams based on investigations in
the southern Appalachian Mountains, Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs, NE/SE Meeting, Tysons
Corner, Virginia.
31) Ward, D.J., Hancock, G., and Spotila, J.A. (2004).
Testing the roles of climate, tectonics, and bedrock lithology in the
late Cenozoic incision history of the New River, Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, NE/SE
Meeting, Tysons Corner, Virginia.
32) Brady, R.J., and Spotila, J.A. (2004).
Tranform deformation on the western margin of North America: Geology,
geochronology, and geomorphology in the Northern California Coast Range, in
From Forelands to Core Zones: Deformation and Tectonic Evolution of Orogenic
Belts, U. Calgary Symposium; A Conference and Field Trip to Honor Dr. Philip
Simony, June 17-20, 2004, Alberta, Canada.
33) Ward, D., Spotila, J.A., and Hancock, G. (2004). New constraints on the late Cenozoic incision history of the
New River, Virginia, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, Annual Meeting, Denver.
34) Lukes, L., Bekken, B., Spotila, J.A., and Eriksson, S. (2004). Analysis of "model-driven" vs.
"data-driven" approaches to engaging student learning in introductory
geoscience laboratories, Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Program, Annual Meeting, Denver.
35) Meigs, A.J., Spotila, J., Johnston, S., and Blair, M. (2004). Role of tectonics and climate in the
topography, glaciation, denudation, and flow of rocks in the Chugach/St. Elias
Range (southern Alaska) active collisional orogen, Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Program,
Annual Meeting, Denver.
36) Johnston, S., Meigs, A., Garver, J., and Spotila,
J. (2004). Backstop and orogenic wedge cooling histories in the active
Yakutat terrane collision, southern Alaska, Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Program, Annual
Meeting, Denver.
37) Niemi, N., Spotila, J., and House, M. (2004). Crustal exhumation in a transpressional setting, the San
Emigdio Mountains, California, Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Program, Annual Meeting, Denver.
38) Spotila, J.A., and Meigs, A.J. (2004). Testing glacial limits to mountain building: The buzz saw in
the Chugach/St. Elias Range, Alaska, American Geophysical Union Transactions, Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
39) Meigs, A.J., and Spotila, J.A. (2004).
Role of tectonics and climate in the topography, glaciation, denudation,
and flow of rocks in the Chugach/St. Elias Range (southern Alaska), American
Geophysical Union Transactions,
Annual Meeting, San Francisco.