Selected Publications
Pluhar , C.J., Coe, R.S., Lewis, J.C., Monastero, F.C., and Glen, J.M.G., 2006. Fault block
kinematics at a releasing stepover of the Eastern California Shear Zone; partitioning
of rotation style in and around the Coso geothermal area and nascent metamorphic core
complex. EPSL, v.250(1-2), pp. 134-163.
Pluhar , C.J., Bjornstad, B.N., Reidel, S., Coe, R.S., Nelson, P.B., 2006. Magnetostratigraphic
evidence from the Cold Creek bar for onset of ice-age cataclysmic floods in eastern
Washington during the early Pleistocene. Quaternary Research, v. 65(1), pp. 123-135.
Busby, C.J., Wagner, D., Hagan, J., Putirka, K., Pluhar , C.J., Gans, P., Rood, D., and Skilling, I. , 2006, Mapping of Cenozoic volcanic
rocks in the central high Sierra: Clues to understanding landscape evolution and range-front
faulting. In: Geology of the Central Sierra, NAGT Far Western Section field trip guidebook, September
29 - Ocotober 1, 2006, Sonora California, pp. 1-53.
Pluhar , C.J., Coe, R.S., Sampson, D.E., Glen, J.M.G., Monastero, F.C., and Tanner, S.B.,
2005. Lava fingerprinting using pa leomagnetism and innovative X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy;
a case study from the Coso volcanic field, Californi a . Geochemistry, Geophysics,
Geosystems, v.6, Q04001, doi:10.1029/2004GC000707.
Pluhar , C.J., 2003 Paleomagnetic and Geochemical Applications to Tectonics and Quaternary
Geology: Studies at Coso Volcanic Field, CA and the Channeled Scabland, WA. Ph.D.
thesis University of California , Santa Cruz .
Bjornstad, B.N., Fecht, K.R. and Pluhar , C.J., 2001. Long History of Pre-Wisconsin, Ice-Age Cataclysmic Floods: Evidence
from Southeastern Washington State . Journal of Geology, v. 109, no. 6, pp. 695-713.
Downey , D.C. , Pluhar , C.J ., Archabal, S.R., 1995. Performance and Cost Evaluation of Purus PADRE Regenerative
Resin System for the Treatment of Hydrocarbon Vapors from Fuel-Contaminated Soils.
Report to United States Air Force by Parsons Engineering Science Inc., Denver , CO
, 30 pp.
Pluhar , C.J., Holt, J.H., Kirschvink, J.L., Beratan, K. and Adams . R.W., 1992. Magn etostratigraphy
of the Plio-Pleistocene Lake Sediments in the Confidence Hills of Southern Death Valley
, California . San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, v. 39, no. 2, pp.
12-19. See http://es.ucsc.edu/~cpluhar/PluharDeathValley.pdf
Pluhar , C.J., Kirschvink, J.L. and Adams . R.W., 1991. Magnetostratigraphy and Clockwise
Rotation of the Plio-Pleistocene Mojave River Formation, Central Mojave Desert , California
. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, v. 38, no. 2, pp. 31-42. See http://es.ucsc.edu/~cpluhar/PluharMojaveRiver.pdf
Manuscripts in Press, Revision, or Review
Busby, C.J., Hagan, J., Putirka, K., Pluhar C.J., Gans, P., Rood, D., DeOreo, S., Skilling, I. And Wagner, D. 200x. The ancestral
Cascade arc, central Sierra Nevada , California : implications for development of
the Sierran microplate and tectonic significance of high K 2 O volcanism. Accepted
to GSA special publication ed. Hopson.
Lewis, C.J., Twiss, R.J., Pluhar C.J., and Monastero, F.C., 200x. Multiple constraints on divergent strike-slip deformation along the eastern margin
of the Sierran microplate, SE California . In press GSA special paper 434, Exhumation associated with continental strike-slip fault systems .
King, N.M., Hillhouse, J.W., Gromme, S., Hausback, B.P., and Pluhar , C.J., 200x. Stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, geochemistry, and anisotropy of magnetic
susceptibility of the Miocene Stanislaus Group, central Sierra Nevada and Sweetwater
Mountains , California and Nevada , submitted to Geosphere .
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