Major References for Hells Canyon & Blue Mountains Geology and Geophysics

RESOURCEFUL PAPERS & BOOKS


Bishop, Ellen Morris, 2003, In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and Natural History: Portland, OR, Timberline Press, Inc.  

Bonnichsen, W., and Breckenridge, R.M. (Editors), 1982, Cenozoic Geology of Idaho: Moscow, ID, Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology, Bulletin 26.

Brooks, H.C., and Vallier, T.L., 1978, Mesozoic rocks and tectonic evolution of eastern Oregon and western Idaho, in Howell, D.G. and McDougall, K.A. (Editors), Mesozoic Paleogeography of the Western United States (Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2); Los Angeles, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, p. 133-145.

Dickinson, William R., 1979, Mesozoic forearc basin in central Oregon: Geology, v. 7, p. 166-170.

Dickinson, William R., 2004, Evolution of the North American Cordillera: Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 32, P.13-45.

Dorsey, R.J., and Lamaskin, T.A., 2007, Stratigraphic record of Triassic-Jurassic collisional tectonics in the Blue Mountains Province, northeastern Oregon: American Journal of Science, v. 307, p. 1167-1193.

Dorsey, Rebecca J., and Lamaskin, Todd A., 2008, Mesozoic collision and accretion of oceanic terranes in the Blue Mountains province of northeastern Oregon: New insights from the stratigraphic record, in Spencer, J.E., and Titley, S.R. (Editors), Circum-Pacific tectonics, geologic evolution, and ore deposits:  Arizona Geological Survey Digest 22, p. 325-332.

Giorgis, Scott, Tikoff, Basil, and McClelland, William, 2005, Missing Idaho arc: Transpressional modification of the 87Sr/86Sr transition on the western edge of the Idaho Batholith: Geology, V. 33, p. 469-472.

Gray, K.D., and Oldow, J.S., 2005, Contrasting structural histories of the Salmon River belt and Wallowa terrane: Implications for terrane accretion in northeastern Oregon and west-central Idaho: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117, p. 687-706.

Hamilton, Warren, 1963, Metamorphism in the Riggins region, western Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 436, 95 p.

Hillhouse, J.W., Grommé, C.S., and Vallier, T.L., 1982, Paleomagnetism and Mesozoic tectonics of the Seven Devils volcanic arc in northeastern Oregon: Journal of Geophysical Research, B. Solid earth and Planets, v. 87, p. 3777-3794.

Jones, D.L., Silberling, N.J., and Hillhouse, J.W., 1977, Wrangellia—A displaced terrane in northwestern North America: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 14, p. 2565-2577.

Kuntz, Mel, and Snee, Lawrence, 2007, (Editors), Geological Studies of the Salmon River Suture Zone and Adjoining Areas, West-Central Idaho and Eastern Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1738.

Lamaskin, Todd A., Rebecca J. Dorsey, and Jeffrey D. Vervoot, 2008, Tectonic controls on mudrock geochemistry, Mesozoic rocks of eastern Oregon and western Idaho, U.S.A.: Implications for Cordilleran tectonics: Jour. of Sedimentary Research, v. 78, p. 765-783.

Lund, K., and Snee, L.W., 1988, Metamorphism, structural development, and age of the continent-island arc juncture in west-central Idaho, in Ernst, W.G. (Editor), Metamorphism and crustal evolution of the western United States, Rubey Volume III: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, p. 297-331.

Malde, H.E., 1968, The Catastrophic late Pleistocene Bonneville Flood in the Snake River Plain, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 596.

Mann, G.M., and Vallier, T.L., 2007, Mesozoic telescoping of island-arc terranes and geologic evolution of the Cuddy Mountains region, western Idaho, in Kuntz, Mel, (Editor), Geologic Studies of the Salmon River Suture Zone and Adjoining Areas, West-Central Idaho and Eastern Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 1738, p. 163-180.

O'Connor, James, 1993, Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Geomorphology of the Bonneville Flood: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 274.

Orr, Elizabeth, Orr, William, and Baldwin, Ewart, 1999, Geology of Oregon: Fifth Edition, Dubuque, IA, Kendall Hunt Publishing Co.

Vallier, T.L., 1977, The Permian and Triassic Seven Devils Group, western Idaho and northeastern Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1437, 58p.

Vallier, T.L., and Brooks, H.C. (Editors), 1986, Geology of the Blue Mountains Region of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington:  Biostratigraphy and Paleontology: U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 1435, 101 p.

Vallier, T.L., and Brooks, H.C. (Editors), 1987, Geology of the Blue Mountains Region of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington:  Idaho Batholith and its Border Zones: U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 1436, 196 p.

Vallier, T.L., and Brooks, H.C. (Editors), 1994, Geology of the Blue Mountains Region of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington: Stratigraphy, Physiography, and Mineral Resources of the Blue Mountains Region: U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 1439, 198 p.

Vallier, T.L., and Brooks, H.C. (Editors), 1995, Geology of the Blue Mountains Region of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington: Petrology and tectonic evolution of pre-Tertiary rocks:  U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 1438, 540 p.

Vallier, Tracy, 1998, Islands and Rapids: A geologic story of Hells Canyon: Lewiston, Idaho, Confluence Press, Lewis-Clark State College, 151 p.

Walker, G.W., 1990,( Editor), Geology of the Blue Mountains region of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington—Cenozoic Geology of the Blue Mountains Region: U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 1437.

Wyld, S.J., and Wright, J.E., 2001, New evidence for Cretaceous strike-slip faulting in the United states Cordillera and implications for terrane-displacement, deformation patterns, and plutonism: American Journal of Science, v. 301, p. 150-181.