Brian P. Wernicke

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Brian P. Wernicke

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Brian P. Wernicke's Degrees

PhD Geology Stanford University
Masters Geology Stanford University
Bachelors Geology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Brian Philip Wernicke is an American geologist and a professor of geology. He has been the Chandler Family Professor of Geology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California since 2001.

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Uniform-sense normal simple shear of the continental lithosphere (1985) (1404)
Low-angle normal faults in the Basin and Range Province: nappe tectonics in an extending orogen (1981) (1084)
Modes of extensional tectonics (1982) (780)
On the role of isostasy in the evolution of normal fault systems (1988) (576)
Cenozoic evolution of Neotethys and implications for the causes of plate motions (2003) (519)
Near-Field Investigations of the Landers Earthquake Sequence, April to July 1992 (1993) (399)
Cenozoic extensional tectonics of the U.S. Cordillera (1992) (321)
A Paleogene extensional arc flare‐up in Iran (2011) (320)
Contemporary strain rates in the northern Basin and Range province from GPS data (2003) (301)
Basin and Range Extensional Tectonics Near the Latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada (1991) (290)
Comparison of geodetic and geologic data from the Wasatch region, Utah, and implications for the spectral character of Earth deformation at periods of 10 to 10 million years (2003) (277)
Dating topography of the Sierra Nevada, California, using apatite (U–Th)/He ages (1998) (273)
Low-angle normal faults and seismicity: A review (1995) (272)
An animated tectonic reconstruction of southwestern North America since 36 Ma (2005) (272)
A physical model for Cenozoic extension of western North America (1987) (230)
Origin of High Mountains in the Continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada (1996) (216)
Radiation damage control on apatite (U-Th)/He dates from the Grand Canyon region, Colorado Plateau (2007) (188)
Unroofing, incision, and uplift history of the southwestern Colorado Plateau from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry (2008) (179)
Lithospheric Extension Near Lake Mead, Nevada: A Model for Ductile Flow in the Lower Crust (1991) (179)
Tectonomagmatic evolution of Cenozoic extension in the North American Cordillera (1987) (178)
The Neotethyan Sanandaj‐Sirjan zone of Iran as an archetype for passive margin‐arc transitions (2016) (177)
Basin and Range extensional tectonics at the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada: Discussion and reply (1990) (160)
Geology and thermochronology of Tertiary Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complexes in the Saghand region of central Iran (2007) (159)
Cenozoic tectonism in the central Basin and Range; magnitude, rate, and distribution of upper crustal strain (2000) (155)
Paleo-Geomorphology of the Sierra Nevada, California, from (U-TH)/He Ages in Apatite (2001) (154)
Cenozoic thermal evolution of the central Sierra Nevada (1997) (153)
Evidence for mechanical coupling and strong Indian lower crust beneath southern Tibet (2010) (143)
Present-day pattern of Cordilleran deformation in the western United States (1999) (134)
On seasonal signals in geodetic time series (2012) (129)
Cosmogenic 10Be and 36Cl geochronology of offset alluvial fans along the northern Death Valley fault zone: Implications for transient strain in the eastern California shear zone (2007) (126)
Cenozoic Tectonism in the Central Basin and Range: Motion of the Sierran-Great Valley Block (1998) (125)
Dynamics of Plate Boundary Fault Systems from Basin and Range Geodetic Network (BARGEN) and Geologic Data (2000) (125)
Influence of climate change and uplift on Colorado Plateau paleotemperatures from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry (2010) (121)
Use of Clumped-Isotope Thermometry to Constrain the Crystallization Temperature of Diagenetic Calcite (2011) (117)
Magnitude of crustal extension in the southern Great Basin (1982) (112)
The Fluid Crustal Layer and Its Implications for Continental Dynamics (1990) (108)
Miocene crustal extension and uplift in southeastern Nevada: Constraints from fission track analysis (1991) (103)
The Snake Range Décollement interpreted as a major extensional shear zone (1984) (101)
Evidence for Deep Magma Injection Beneath Lake Tahoe, Nevada-California (2004) (99)
Helium and argon thermochronometry of the Gold Butte block, south Virgin Mountains, Nevada (2000) (98)
Structural discordance between neogene detachments and frontal sevier thrusts, central Mormon Mountains, southern Nevada (1985) (96)
The California River and its role in carving Grand Canyon (2011) (94)
Variations across and along a major continental rift: An interdisciplinary study of the Basin and Range Province, western USA (1992) (82)
Escape hypothesis for the Stikine block (1988) (78)
Continuous GPS measurements of contemporary deformation across the Northern Basin and Range Province (1998) (75)
BARGEN continuous GPS data across the eastern Basin and Range province, and implications for fault system dynamics (2004) (70)
The Shuram and subsequent Ediacaran carbon isotope excursions from southwest Laurentia, and implications for environmental stability during the metazoan radiation (2011) (69)
Sm−Nd dating of multiple garnet growth events in an arc-continent collision zone, northwestern U.S. Cordillera (1993) (66)
Kinematic evolution of a large-offset continental normal fault system, South Virgin Mountains, Nevada (2000) (63)
Tectonic implications of a dense continuous GPS velocity field at Yucca Mountain, Nevada (2004) (59)
Geologic context of geodetic data across a Basin and Range normal fault, Crescent Valley, Nevada (2004) (58)
Uniqueness of geological correlations: An example from the Death Valley extended terrain (1989) (57)
Intracontinental subduction and hinged unroofing along the Salmon River Suture Zone, west central Idaho (1992) (56)
Deep burial of the footwall of the northern Snake Range decollement, Nevada (1999) (55)
Characterization of site‐specific GPS errors using a short‐baseline network of braced monuments at Yucca Mountain, southern Nevada (2009) (54)
Reconciliation of San Andreas slip discrepancy by a combination of interior Basin and Range extension and transrotation near the coast (1997) (53)
Stateline fault system: A new component of the Miocene-Quaternary Eastern California shear zone (2007) (51)
The Neoproterozoic Noonday Formation, Death Valley region, California (2011) (48)
Active megadetachment beneath the western United States (2008) (47)
Temperatures and fluids on faults based on carbonate clumped–isotope thermometry (2012) (46)
Assessment of GPS velocity accuracy for the Basin and Range Geodetic Network (BARGEN) (2003) (46)
Black Mountains crustal section, Death Valley extended terrain, California (1990) (45)
Th–U–total Pb geochronology of authigenic monazite in the Adelaide rift complex, South Australia, and implications for the age of the type Sturtian and Marinoan glacial deposits (2010) (45)
Distribution and provenance of the middle Miocene Eagle Mountain Formation, and implications for regional kinematic analysis of the Basin and Range province (2001) (45)
Intracrustal subduction and gravity currents in the deep crust: Sm-Nd, Ar-Ar, and thermobarometric constraints from the Skagit Gneiss Complex, Washington (1997) (44)
Rapid uplift and crustal growth in extensional environments: An isotopic study from the Death Valley region, California (1990) (44)
Chapter 6: Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the Sevier thrust belt in the Virgin River Valley area, southern Nevada (1990) (43)
Global Positioning System constraints on fault slip rates in the Death Valley Region, California and Nevada (1997) (41)
Variations in magma source regions during large-scale continental extension (1994) (37)
Subcontinental-scale crustal velocity changes along the Pacific–North America plate boundary (2006) (37)
Crustal loading near Great Salt Lake, Utah (2003) (36)
Gold butte crustal section, South Virgin Mountains, Nevada (1992) (35)
Spatiotemporal evolution of fault slip rates in deforming continents: The case of the Great Basin region, northern Basin and Range province (2015) (32)
Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheology and Heat Budget (2009) (31)
Tilt and rotation of the footwall of a major normal fault system: Paleomagnetism of the Black Mountains, Death Valley extended terrane, California (1993) (31)
Electrical conductivity images of Quaternary faults and Tertiary detachments in the California Basin and Range (2003) (26)
Chapter 41 Glaciogenic and related strata of the Neoproterozoic Kingston Peak Formation in the Panamint Range, Death Valley region, California (2011) (21)
Thermochronometry Across the Austroalpine‐Pennine Boundary, Central Alps, Switzerland: Orogen‐Perpendicular Normal Fault Slip on a Major “Overthrust” and Its Implications for Orogenesis (2017) (20)
Timing of exhumation, Wheeler Pass thrust sheet, southern Nevada and California: Late Jurassic to middle Cretaceous evolution of the southern Sevier fold-and-thrust belt (2017) (20)
Low-temperature thermochronologic constraints on the kinematic history and spatial extent of the Eastern California shear zone (2009) (19)
The detachment era (1977–1982) and its role in revolutionizing continental tectonics (2009) (19)
Extensional Tectonic Framework of the U.S. Central Atlantic Passive Margin: Chapter 2: Concepts (1989) (19)
A new type of decollement thrusting (1982) (17)
Nature of the contact zone between the North Cascades crystalline core and the Methow Sequence In the Ross Lake Area, Washington: Implications for Cordilleran tectonics (1990) (17)
Comment on “Tertiary extension and contraction of lower‐plate rocks in the central Mojave Metamorphic Core Complex, southern California” by John M. Bartley, John M. Fletcher, and Allen F. Glazner (1991) (14)
Comment and Reply on On the role of isostasy in the evolution of normal fault systems (1989) (11)
Large-magnitude Permian shortening and continental-margin tectonics in the southern Cordillera: Discussion and reply (1993) (10)
Project combines seismic and magnetotelluric surveying to address the Sierran root question (1995) (10)
Detecting Strain in the Yucca Mountain Area, Nevada (1998) (10)
Subsidence history of the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation and related strata of southwest Laurentia: Implications for the age and duration of the Shuram isotopic excursion and animal evolution (2018) (10)
Characteristics of a Continental Margin Magmatic Arc as a Function of Depth: The Skagit-Methow Crustal Section (1990) (9)
Insights from Basin and Range surface geology for the process of large-scale divergence of the continental lithosphere (1981) (9)
Detecting Large-scale Intracontinental Slow-slip Events (SSEs) Using Geodograms (2010) (9)
Results of the Basin and Range Geoscientific Experiment (BARGE): A marine‐style seismic reflection survey across the eastern boundary of the central Basin and Range Province (2000) (7)
Faulting in the Yucca Mountain region: Critical review and analyses of tectonic data from the central Basin and Range (1996) (7)
Mineral resources of the Mormon Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Lincoln County, Nevada (1988) (7)
Comment and Reply on "Escape hypothesis for the Stikine block" (1989) (6)
Late Neogene–Quaternary tephrochronology, stratigraphy, and paleoclimate of Death Valley, California, USA (2018) (6)
Extensional Tectonics in the Basin and Range Province Between the Southern Sierra Nevada and the Colorado Plateau: The Basin and Range Province of Southern Nevada and Southeastern California June 30–July 7, 1989 (1989) (6)
Comment and Reply on ‘Mesozoic evolution, hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt’COMMENT (1982) (6)
Processes of extensional tectonics (1982) (6)
The Basal Ediacaran Noonday Formation, Eastern California, and implications for Laurentian equivalents (2009) (6)
and the North American Cordillera Tectonomagmatic evolution of Cenozoic extension in service (2007) (6)
Digitalization Index: Developing a Model for Assessing the Degree of Digitalization of Construction Projects (2021) (5)
Assessing vertical axis rotations in large-magnitude extensional settings: A transect across the Death Valley extended terrane, California (2002) (5)
Reconstruction of Basin and Range extension and westward motion of the Sierra Nevada Block (2000) (5)
Episodic Dissolution, Precipitation, and Slip along the Heart Mountain Detachment, Wyoming (2016) (4)
Testing the Extensional Detachment Paradigm: A Borehole Observatory in the Sevier Desert Basin (2009) (4)
Grand Canyon provenance for orthoquartzite clasts in the lower Miocene of coastal southern California (2019) (4)
Th-U-total Pb Geochronology of Authigenic Monazite Near the top of the Sturtian-Marinoan Interglacial, Adelaide Rift Complex, South Australia (2007) (4)
Subcontinental-Scale Crustal Velocity Changes Along the Pacific-North America Transform Plate Boundary From BARGEN GPS Data (2006) (3)
Plate Tectonics and the Alpine Orogeny: Implications of Thermometric and Kinematic Analyses of the Upper and Lower Boundaries of the Pennine Zone in the Central Alps (2021) (3)
Reply [to “Comment on ‘The Snake Range Decollement interpreted as a major extensional shear zone” by John. M. Bartley and Brian P. Wernicke”] (1985) (3)
Magnitude and Timing of Extreme Continental Extension, Central Death Valley Region, California (1999) (3)
Retrospective on "Low-angle (denudation) faults, hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt, eastern Nevada and western Utah" by Richard Lee Armstrong (1999) (3)
Geomorphic Expression and Neotectonic Evaluation of a Diffuse Fault System from Airborne Laser Swath Mapping, Pahrump Valley, California and Nevada (2005) (3)
Space Geodetic Measurements of Plate Boundary Deformation in the Western U.S. Cordillera (2013) (3)
Basin and Range extension (1999) (3)
Flow and resource efficiency measurement method in off-site production (2017) (2)
Sub-millimeter Signal Detection by GPS: Cross Validation using GIPSY and GAMIT Solutions for the Yucca Mountain Network (2002) (2)
Flow Dimensions at Swedish Construction Contractors (2019) (2)
(U-Th)/He apatite constraints on the erosional history of the southwestern Colorado Plateau and implications for Early Tertiary uplift and carving of a "Proto-Grand Canyon" (2007) (2)
Surface Velocity Field in the Yucca Mountain Area, Nevada and California, From BARGEN Continuous GPS Data (2002) (1)
Comment on "Neotethyan subduction ignited the Iran arc and back-arc differently" by Shafaii Moghadam et al. (2020) (2020) (1)
Dynamics of Great Basin Crust-Mantle Coupling Through Combined Analysis and Modeling of EarthScope Seismic, Geodetic, and Geologic Data (2012) (1)
Day 6: Middle Miocene(?) Through Quaternary Extension, Northern Panamint Mountains Area, California (2013) (1)
Geologic map of the east-central Meadow Valley Mountains, and implications for reconstruction of the Mormon Peak detachment, Nevada (2017) (1)
Foundation for Balancing Resources and Flow Efficiency in Industrialized Construction (2017) (1)
Tectonic Evolution of the Death Valley Region (1999) (1)
Reciprocal dynamic effectiveness for industrialized house builder (2017) (1)
Fluid Flow, Brecciation, and Shear Heating on Faults: Insights From Carbonate Clumped‐Isotope Thermometry (2018) (1)
Fault slip-rate estimate for the right-lateral Beng Co strike-slip fault, based on Quaternary dating of displaced paleo-lake shorelines (2010) (1)
REEXAMINING AN ARCHETYPAL THRUST FAULT: NORMAL MOTION ON THE AUSTROALPINE 'OVERTHRUST' DURING EXHUMATION OF THE PENNINE ZONE, C. 35-20 MA (2016) (0)
Recent advances and on-going challenges of estimating past elevation from climate proxy data (2012) (0)
A Northeast-Propagating Wave of Topographic Uplift and Subsidence of the Cordilleran Orogenic Plateau, Late Cretaceous through Late Tertiary Time (2012) (0)
California shear zone Stateline fault system : A new component of the Miocene-Quaternary Eastern (2007) (0)
Investigation of site-dependent GPS errors and monument stability using a short-baseline network of braced monuments (2007) (0)
Origin of Plateau Uplift Using The (2006) (0)
Extension of a Continent: Architecture, Rheological Coupling, and Heat Budget (2008) (0)
Day 2. Superimposed Thrust and Normal Faulting, Colorado Plateau to Eastern Mormon Mountains (2013) (0)
Day 1: Craton and Frontal Thrust Belt Near Las Vegas (2013) (0)
LiDAR Acquisition for the GeoEarthScope Community (2007) (0)
Paleoaltimetry from "clumped" ^(13)C-^(18)O bonds in carbonates, Colorado Plateau (2007) (0)
Day 8 Neogene Extension Between the Grapevine Mountains and Spring Mountains, California and Nevada (2013) (0)
Quantifying paleorelief using ( UTh ) / He thermochronology : an example from the Sierra Nevada , (2006) (0)
Paleoclimate and paleoelevation in the western US Cordillera, 80 Ma to Present (2011) (0)
GREAT NORMAL FAULTS AND THEIR ROLE IN ACCOMMODATING THE RISE OF COLLISIONAL MOUNTAIN BELTS (2018) (0)
NanoSIMS 207Pb-206Pb dating of monazite, xenotime and baddeleyite (2007) (0)
The influence of climate change and uplift on Colorado Plateau 1 paleotemperatures from carbonate clumped-isotope thermometry 2 3 (2009) (0)
THERMAL HISTORY OF THE WHEELER RIDGE PALEOCANYON AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EROSION KINEMATICS OF WESTERN GRAND CANYON (2018) (0)
EASTERN GRAND CANYON PROVENANCE FOR ORTHOQUARTZITE CLASTS IN LOWER MIOCENE CONGLOMERATES OF THE SESPE FORMATION NEAR MALIBU, CA (2018) (0)
CORRELATION OF THE MORMON PEAK AND PETROGLYPH DETACHMENTS IN THE SOUTHERN MORMON MOUNTAINS, SOUTHERN NEVADA (2020) (0)
Geological Society of America Bulletin (2011) (0)
Day 7: Neogene Dextral Translation of the Cottonwood Mountains Area, California (2013) (0)
BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MORMON PEAK-TULE SPRINGS DETACHMENT SYSTEM, MORMON MOUNTAINS AND TULE SPRINGS HILLS AREA, SOUTHERN NEVADA (2022) (0)
REGIONAL STRUCTURE , TECTONICS , AND BEDROCK GEOLOGY Tectonic Evolution of the Death Valley Region (2014) (0)
AERIAL EXTENT OF THE COASTAL DRAINAGE SYSTEM IN THE WAKE OF THE LARAMIDE COLLAPSE OF THE CALIFORNIA ARC (2012) (0)
Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complexes in central Iran and implications for the Tethysides (2006) (0)
LATE NEOGENE-QUATERNARY TEPHROCHRONOLOGY, STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOCLIMATE OF DEATH VALLEY, CA, U.S.A (2016) (0)
de tecting la rge-scale in tracontinental sl ow-sl ip ev ents ( s ses ) usi ng g eodograms (2010) (0)
New structural and low-temperature AHe thermochronological data from the southeastern Stateline Fault Zone, California and Nevada (2006) (0)
Origin ofHighMountains intheContinents: TheSouthern Sierra Nevada (2007) (0)
Day 3. Western Part Of The Mormon Mountains, Meadow Valley Wash, and Muddy Mountains (2013) (0)
Inversion of 39Ar diffusion data to constrain the Oligocene thickness of the Alpine orogenic lid (2018) (0)
The Cutting Edge of Tectonics (2003) (0)
Tracking the demise of the Neotethys Ocean between Arabia and Eurasia (2002) (0)
Day 5: Spring Mountains Breakaway Zone, Amargosa Chaos, and the Death Valley Pulir‐Apart Basin (2013) (0)
Piston-like emplacement of the Pennine zone and the rise of the Alps as post-convergent processes (2017) (0)
Crustal Deformation in the Basin and Range: Recent Results from the BARGEN Network and Questions for the Future (2003) (0)
Whole‐Lithosphere Normal Simple Shear: An Interpretation of Deep‐Reflection Profiles in Great Britain (2013) (0)
Evidence for radiation damage control on apatite He ages from the grand canyon region, colorado plateau (2006) (0)
Sequential Strain Maps of Continental Extension: Comparing Variations in Geologic to Geodetic Strain Rates in the Basin and Range (2003) (0)
Temperature and timing of diagenesis from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry and thermochronology (2008) (0)
Day 4. Tertiary Extension In The Sheep Range Area, Northwestern Clark County, Nevada (2013) (0)
Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Strain in the Sevier Desert Region from a Decade of BARGEN Continuous GPS Observations (2007) (0)
Hot summers in the Western United States during the Late Cretaceous and Early Cenozoic (2011) (0)
Penrose Conference Scheduled—Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheological Coupling, and Heat Budget (2007) (0)

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