The 36–18 Ma Central Nevada ignimbrite field and calderas, Great Basin, USA: Multicyclic super-eruptions

Dendroecological testing of the pyroclimatic hypothesis in the central Great Basin, Nevada, USA

In the Great Basin region of western North America, records of past climate and wildfire variability are needed not only for fire use, but also for understanding the mechanisms behind the centurylong expansion of piñon-juniper woodlands. The Mt. Irish area (Lincoln County, south-eastern Nevada) is a remote mountain ecosystem on the hydrographic boundary between the Great Basin and the Colorado ...

Interference competition in a heteromyid community in the Great Basin of Nevada, USA

Relationships between expanding pinyon–juniper cover and topography in the central Great Basin, Nevada

Land-cover change is a major component of global change (Foley et al., 2005). Many forms of land-cover change, such as deforestation and urbanization, are directly associated with land use. Other land-cover changes, such as melting of permafrost, may be indirectly associated with human activity via anthropogenically induced climate change. Further changes in land cover, such as the expansion of...

Eruption and emplacement timescales of ignimbrite super-eruptions from thermo-kinetics of glass shards

Yan Lavallée*, Fabian B. Wadsworth, Jérémie Vasseur, James K. Russell, Graham D. M. Andrews, Kai-Uwe Hess, Felix W. von Aulock, Jackie E. Kendrick, Hugh Tuffen, Andrew J. Biggin and Donald B. Dingwell 1 Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2 Earth and Environment, Ludwig Maximilan University of Munich, Munich, Germany 3 Volcanology and Petrology Laborator...

Foreshock Probabilities in the Western Great-basin Eastern Sierra Nevada

We quantify foreshock occurrence probabilities by applying the empirical technique of Jones (1985) to the western Nevada and eastern California earthquake catalog compiled by the University of Nevada, Reno, from 1934 through 1991. The foreshock occurrence rates depend heavily on the parameters used to remove aftershocks from the catalog. It is necessary to separate the Mammoth/Mono region from ...