SCOTT R. PATERSON
University of Southern California
Department of Earth Sciences
Los Angeles, California 90089-0740
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Education:Ph.D. Geology (1987) University of California, Santa Cruz. Dissertation: "Strains, Metamorphism, and Structural Evolution of Tectonostratigraphic Terranes in the Western Metamorphic Belt, Sierra Nevada, California."
M.S. Geology (1981) University of Maine at Orono. Thesis: "A Comparison and Application of Strain Analyses in Southeastern Maine."
B.S. Geology (1978) University of Washington. Senior Thesis: "The Structure and Petrology of the Leech River Formation, Vancouver Island, British Columbia."
Professional: Full Professor (2002-present).Department of Earth Sciences, Experience: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Associate Professor (1993-2002) Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Assistant Professor (1989-1993) Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Post-Doctoral Research (1987-89) University of California, Santa Cruz and Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. Project Title: "Developing and Using Criteria for Recognizing Pre-Deformational I- and S-Type Intrusives in Metamorphic Belts."
TeachingUniversity of Southern California (1989-present). Taught Structural
Experience: Geology, Field Techniques, Structural Evolution of Arcs, Strain Analyses, Microstructures & Deformation Mechanisms, Planet Earth, Nature of Scientific Inquiry, Research in the Earth Sciences, Undergraduate Team Resarch, Seminars on Tectonics & Structural Geology, Lithospheric Dynamics, and Writing & Time Management.
Supervised 7 undergraduate Senior projects, University of California, Santa Cruz (1984-1988). Five of these projects received University grants or awards for excellence.
Teaching Assistant: University of California, Santa Cruz, 1982-84. Taught labs in Introductory Geology, Mineralogy, Petrography, and Structural Geology.
Lecturer: San Jose State University, 1981-82. Taught classes in Introduction to Geology, Field Techniques, Map and Aerial Photo Interpretation, Structural Geology, and Geologic Writing.
Instructor Adult Education Class: San Jose State University, 1982. Taught general geology of Baja California.
Teaching Assistant: University of Maine at Orono, 1978-80. Taught labs and lectured in Physical Geology, Optical Mineralogy, Petrography, and Structural Geology.
OtherCo-editor: Geological Society of America, Structural and Tectonics
Experience: Division Newsletter: 1990-1995.
Penrose Conference Convener September 9-13, 1992. Conference title: "Application of strain analyses: from microstructures to orogenic belts."
Penrose Conference Convener September 10-15, 1988. Conference
title: "Criteria for establishing the relative timing of pluton emplacement and regional deformation."
Special Associate Editor, J. Structural Geology (1994): Applications of Strain: from Microsctructures to Orogenic Belts.
Special Editor, Geol. Society of America, Special Publications (2000), The Geology of Baja California: A Volume in Honor of Dr. Gordan Gastil.
Special Editor, Canadian Mineralogist (2007) A volume on “Contaminated Granites”.
Awards USC - Faculty Innovative Undergraduate Teaching award (2007)
USC - Raubenheimer Award (1993): For outstanding Junior Faculty, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
Hutton Symposium “Pewter Computer” award for contributions to granite email discussion.
PUBLICATIONS
Papers in preparation for submittal in 07 (hopefully)
Alsleben, H., Wetmore, P.H., Gehrels, G.E., and Paterson, S.R., Tracking accretion of the Alisitos arc using detrital zircon geochronology, in preparation (to be submitted to EPSL)
Economos, R. C., J. Miller, S.R. Paterson, V. Memeti, S. Erdmann, J. Zak, Causes of compositional diversity in a lobe of the Half Dome Granodiorite, Tuolumne Batholith, Central Sierra Nevada, CA, Geology.
Matzel, J. and ?? Tuolumne ages Jenny – title and where will you submit?
Memeti, V.; Gehrels, G.; Thompson, J., Paterson, S., Using detrital zircon data to track down the origin of metasedimentary pendants in the High Sierra Nevada and the enigmatic Mojave-Snow Lake fault: to be submitted to Tectonics.
Memeti, Paterson, Economos, Erdmann, Miller, Tectonic histories of metasedimentary pendants trapped along pluton boundaries in the central Sierra: Regional deformation and emplacement related rotation: to be submitted to GSA Bulletin.
Memeti, Paterson, Miller, Ducea, Length and Time-scales of Fractionation, Mixing, and Crystallization in batholiths: a comparison of processes in lobes and the main chamber of the Tuolumne batholith: to be submitted to Hutton 6 Volume
Okaya, David, Paterson, S.R., and Pignotta, G. Physical behavior of stoped blocks in magma chambers. David, where will you submit?
Paterson, Scott R., Jiří Žák, and Vojtěch Janoušek, Growth of complex magmatic zones during recycling of older magmatic phases: the Sawmill Canyon area in the Tuolumne Batholith, Sierra Nevada, California. J. Structural Geology
Paterson, Scott R., Geoff Pignotta, Jiri Zak, Vali Memeti, Saskia Erdmann, and Rita Economos, Formation and transfer of stoped blocks into magma chambers: the high temperature interplay between cracking, focused porous flow, and diking. Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Pignotta, G.S. and Paterson, S.R, Complex spatial and temporal history of stoping in the Jackass Lakes pluton, central Sierra Nevada Batholith: evidence for multiple episodes of recycling during incremental emplacement. Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Pignotta, G.S., Paterson, S.R., and Zak, J., An evaluation of structures indicating paleovertical and younging directions in magma chambers: Implications for evaluating incremental growth models.J. Structural Geology.
Schmidt, K.L., Paterson, S.R., Blythe, A.E., Kopf, C., Girty, M., Grove, M. Mountain building across a zoned arc: the Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith in the Sierra San Pedro Martir of Baja California, Mexico. Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Wetmore, P.H. Pignotta, G.P., Ducea, M., Paterson, S.R., and Gehrels, G., Emplacement of an Upper Crustal Intrusion by Multiple Material Transfer Processes: An Example from the Balbuena Pluton, Baja California. J. Structural Geology.
Wetmore, P.H., Alsleben, H., Ducea, M., Valencia, V., Paterson, S.R., and Gehrels, G., Contractional and Transpressional Deformation of the Northern Alisitos Arc of Baja California, Mexico. Tectonics
Yoshinobu ?? Stoping Aaron, Title and where will you submit?
Žák, Jiří, Scott R. Paterson, Petr Kabele, Vojtěch Janoušek, The Mammoth Peak Sheeted complex, Tuolumne Batholith, Central Sierra Nevada, California: A Record of Initial Growth or Late Thermal Contraction in a Magma Chamber? J. Geology.
Jiri Zak, Vojtech Janousek, Scott R. Paterson, Multi-stage interactions and stoping of contrasting magmatic pulses at Potter Point, the Tuolumne Batholith, central Sierra Nevada, California (USA)
Papers in Review 07
Anderson, J. Lawford, Jean Morrison, Julie Francis, and Scott Paterson Post-emplacement fluids and pluton thermobarometry: Mt. Stuart batholith, Washington Cascades. Accepted pending revisions, J. Metamorphic Petrology.
Bin He, Yi-Gang Xu Scott Paterson, Complex reworking of host rock during the diapiric ascent of the Fangshan pluton, southwest of Beijing, China. Submitted to ESPL.
Needy, S.K., Anderson, J.L., Wooden, J.L., Barth, A.P., Paterson, S.R., Memeti, V., and Pignotta, G.S., in review, Mesozoic magmatism in an upper- to middle-crustal section through the Cordilleran continental margin arc, eastern Transverse Ranges, California: Submitted toCrustal cross-sections from the western North America Cordillera and elsewhere: Implications for tectonic and petrologic processes, R. Miller and A. Snoke, eds. Geological Society of America special paper.
Miller, Robert B., Matzel, Jennifer P., Paterson, Scott R., Plutonism at different crustal levels: insights from the ~5-40 km (paleodepth) North Cascades crustal section, Washington. Submitted toCrustal cross-sections from the western North America Cordillera and elsewhere: Implications for tectonic and petrologic processes, R. Miller and A. Snoke, eds. Geological Society of America special paper.
Pignotta, G.S., Paterson, S.R., Coyne, C., and Anderson, J.L. Testing models for the incremental growth of magma chambers: Construction of the Jackass Lakes pluton, central Sierra Nevada batholith. Submitted toGeosphere.
Papers In Press 07
Alsleben, H., Wetmore, P.H., Schmidt, K.L., Paterson, S.R., and Melis, E.A., Complex deformation as a result of arc-continent collision: Quantifying finite strain in the Alisitos arc, Peninsular Ranges, Baja California, Journal of Structural Geology.
Farris, D.W. and Paterson, S.R., 2007. Subduction of a segmented ridge along a curved continental margin: Variations between the western and eastern Sanak-Baranof belt, southern Alaska: in press, Tectonophysics. Doi 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.10.008
Paterson, S.R., and Farris, D.W., Downward host rock transport and the formation of rim monoclines during the emplacement of Cordilleran batholiths. In pressTransactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences;Special Issue Plutons and Batholiths (The Wallace Pitcher Memorial Volume).
Vernon, R.H. and Paterson, S.R., Mesoscopic structures resulting from crystal accumulation and melt movement in granites. In press, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences;Special Volume in honor of Wally Pitcher.
Vernon, R.H. & S.R. Paterson How extensive are intergranular microstructural changes in cooling granites? Accepted pending revisions, Lithos.
Papers Published 07
Paterson, S.R., Farris, D., Memeti, V., Miller, R., Pignotta, G., Yoshinobu, A., Vernon,
R.H., and Zak, J., 2007, Comment of “Is stoping a volumetrically significant pluton emplacement process?” by Glazner, A. and Bartley, J., Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Farris, D.W. and Paterson, S.R., 2007, Physical contamination of silicic magmas and fractal fragmentation of xenoliths in Paleocene plutons on Kodiak Island, AK: Canadian Mineralogist. vol. 45, p. 107-129.
Pignotta, G.S. and Paterson, S.R., 2007, Voluminous stoping in the Mitchell Intrusive Suite, Sierra Nevada batholith, California, Canadian Mineralogist, vol. 45, pp. 87-106.
Žák, Jirˇí Paterson, Scott R. and Memeti, Vali, Four magmatic fabrics in the Tuolumne batholith, central Sierra Nevada, California (USA): Implications for interpreting fabric patterns in plutons and evolution of magma chambers in the upper crustGSA Bulletin; January/February 2007; v. 119; no. 1/2; p. 184–201; doi: 10.1130/B25773.
Papers Published 06
Farris, D.W., Haeussler, P., Friedman, R., Paterson, S.R., Saltus, R.W., Ayuso, R., 2006, Emplacement of the Kodiak batholith: A consequence of slab-window migration: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, no. 11/12, p. 1360-1376.
Miller, R.B., Paterson, S.R. Lebit, H., Alsleben, H., and Luneburg C. 2005 Significance of composite lineations in the mid- to deep crust: a case study from the North Cascades, Washington. Journal of Structural Geology 28 (2006) 302–322.
Žák J, Paterson SR (2006): Roof and walls of the Red Mountain Creek pluton, eastern Sierra Nevada, California (USA): implications for process zones during pluton emplacement. Journal of Structural Geology 28: 575-587
Papers Published 05
Albertz, M., Paterson, S.R., and Okaya, D., 2005 A new criterion for fast strain rates during pluton emplacement: Magmatically folded leucocratic dikes in aureoles of the Mount Stuart Batholith, Washington and the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin,v. 117; no. 3/4; p. 450–465; doi: 10.1130/B25444.1.
Paterson. S.R., 2005, Comment: “A close spatial relationship between plutons and shear zones” by Weinberg, R.F., Sial, A.N., and Mariano, G. Geology, Online Forum, p. e72.
Paterson, S.R., Vernon, R.H., Zak, J. Mechanical Instabilities and Physical Accumulation of K-feldspar Megacrysts in Granitic Magma, Tuolumne Batholith, California, USA. J. Virtual Explorer, .
Wetmore, P.H., Alsleben, H., Paterson, S.R., Ducea, M., Gehrels, G., Valencia, V., 2005, Field trip to the northern Alisitos arc segment: Ancestral Agua Blanca fault region: Field trip guide for the VII International Meeting of the Peninsular Geological Society, 40p.
Zák J, Paterson SR (2005): Characteristics of internal contacts in the Tuolumne Batholith, central Sierra Nevada, California (USA): implications for episodic emplacement and physical processes in a continental arc magma chamber. Geological Society of America Bulletin, Vol 117, No 9, 1242-1255: doi: 10.1130/B25558.1.
2004
Gerbi, C.C., Johnson, S.E. and Paterson, S.R., Implications of rapid, dike-fed pluton growth for host-rock strain rates and emplacement mechanisms. J. Structural Geology, 26, no. 3, 583-594.
Paterson, S.R., Pignotta, G.S., and Vernon, R.H., The significance of microgranitoid enclave shapes and orientations. J. Structural Geology, 26, no. 8, 1465-1481.
Paterson, S.R, Miller, R.B., Alsleben, H., Whitney, D.L., Valley, P.M., and Hurlow, Hugh., Driving mechanisms for >40 km of exhumation during contraction and extension in a continental arc, Cascades core, Washington. Tectonics, 23, TC3005, DOI:10.1029/2002TC001440. .
Whitney, D.L., Paterson, S.R., Schmidt, K.L., Glazner, A.F., and Kopf, C.F., Growth and demise of continental arcs and orogenic plateaux in the North American Cordillera: from Baja to British Columbia. GSA Special Publication 227: Vertical coupling and decoupling in the lithosphere; eds Grocott, J., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Taylor, G., and Tikoff, B., p. 167-176.
2003
Johnson, S.E., Fletcher, J.M., Fanning, C.M., Vernon, R.H., Paterson, S.R. and Tate, M.C., 2003. Structure, emplacement and lateral expansion of the San José tonalite pluton, Peninsular Ranges batholith, Baja California, México:, Journal of Structural Geology, 25, 1933-1958.
Miller, R.B., Matzel, J.P., Paterson, S.R., and Stowell, H.H., 2003, Cretaceous to Paleogene Cascades arc: Structure, metamorphism, and timescales of magmatism, burial, and exhumation of a crustal section, in Swanson, T., ed., Western Cordillera and adjacent areas: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Field Guide 4, p. 107-135.
Paterson SR, Onezime J, Teruya L, Žák J (2003): Quadruple-pronged enclaves: their significance for the interpretation of multiple magmatic fabrics in plutons. JOURNAL OF THE VIRTUAL EXPLORER 10: Electronic Edition, General Contributions 2003, Paper 2.
Valley, P.M., Whitney, D.L., Paterson, S.R., Miller, R.B., and Alsleben, H., 2003, Metamorphism of deepest exposed arc rocks in the Cretaceous to Paleogene Cascades belt, Washington: evidence for large-scale vertical motion in a continental arc: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 21, 1-19.
Wetmore, P.H., Herzig, C., Schultz, P.W., Alsleben, H, Paterson, S.R., and Schmidt, K.L., Cretaceous Tectonic Evolution of the Western Zone of the Peninsular Ranges Batholith of Southern and Baja California, in press in Johnson, S.E., Paterson, S.R., Girty, G.H., and Fletcher, J, eds., Geological Society of America Special Paper in honor of Gordon Gastil.
Yoshinobu, A., Fowler, T. K., Jr., Paterson, S.R., Llambias, E., Tickyj, H., Sato, A. M., 2003. A view from the roof; magmatic stoping in the shallow crust, Chita Pluton, , Journal of Structural Geology, 25, 1037-1048.
2002
Schmidt, K.L., and Paterson, S.R. 2002, A doubly vergent, fan structure in the Peninsular Ranges batholith: Transpression or complex flow along a crustal-scale discontinuity? Tectonics. 21, 14-1 to 14-19.
Schmidt, K.L., Wetmore, P.H., Johnson, S.E., and Paterson, S.R. (2002), Controls on orogenesis along an ocean-continent margin transition in the Jura-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith, in Barth, A., ed., Contributions to Crustal Evolution of the Southwestern United States: Geological Society of America Special Paper 365, p. 49-71.
Vernon, R.H. and Paterson, S.R.: Igneous Origin of K-feldspar Megacrysts in Deformed Granite of the Papoose Flat Pluton, California, USA
Vernon, R.H. and Paterson, S.R.: 2002, Axial-surface leucosomes in anatectic migmatites. Tectonophysics, v. 335, p. 183-192.
Wetmore, P.H., Schmidt, K.L., and Paterson, S.R., 2002, Tectonic implications for the along-strike variation in the character of the western zone of the Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern and Baja California, Geology, v. 30, p. 247-250.
2001
Benn, K., Paterson, S.R., Lund, S.P., Pignotta, G.S., and Kruse, S. 2001. Magmatic fabrics in plutons as kinematic indicators in convergent orogens: example of the Cretaceous Mt. Stuart batholith, Washington State. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 26: 343-354.
Johnson, S.E., Albertz, M., and Paterson, S.R., 2001. Growth rates of dike-fed plutons: are they compatible with observations in the middle and upper crust? Geology, 21, 727-730.
Miller, R.B., and Paterson, S.R., 2001, Construction of mid-crustal sheeted plutons: Examples from the North Cascades, Washington: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 1423-1442.
Miller, R.B., and Paterson, S.R., 2001, Influence of lithological heterogeneity, mechanical anisotropy, and magmatism on the rheology of an arc, North Cascades, Washington: Tectonophysics, v. 342, p. 351-370.
Paterson, S.R., and Vernon, R.H., 2001. Inclusion trail patterns in porphyroblasts from Foothills Terrane, California: a record of orogenesis or local strain heterogeneity? J. Metam. Geol., v. 19, p. 351-372.
Paterson, S.R. and Schmidt, K.L. 2001. Reply to discussion of “Is there a close spatial relationship between faults and plutons?” J. Structural Geology, v. 23, p. 2029-2032.
2000
Miller, R.B., and Paterson, S.R, DeBari, S.M., and Whitney, D.L., 2000 North Cascades Cretaceous crustal section: Changing kinematics, rheology, metamorphism, pluton emplacement, and petrogenesis from 0 to 40 kilometers depth Geologic Association of Canda Field Guide, 2000. Edited by Woodsworth, G.J., Jackson, L.E., Jr., Nelson, J.L., and Ward, B.C., pgs. 229-278.
Schmidt, K.L., and Paterson, S.R., Are processes of deformation and magmatism coupled? Insights from spatial and geometrical analysis: Eos. V. 81, n18, pg. 197, 202-203.
1999
Fowler, T. K., Jr., and Paterson, S.R., Timing and nature of magmatic fabrics in plutons from relations around arrested stoped blocks. Reply J. Struct. Geol., v. 21, p. 1493-1494..
Johnson, S. E., Paterson, S.R., and Tate, M.C., Structure and emplacement history of multiple-center, cone-sheet-bearing ring complex: the Zarza Intrusive Complex, Baja California, Mexico. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 111, 607-619.
Miller, R.B., and Paterson, S.R., In defense of magmatic diapirs. J. Struct. Geol., v. 21, p. 1161-1174.
Paterson, S.R., and Schmidt, K. Is their a close spatial relationship between faults and plutons? J. Struct. Geol., v. 21, p. 1131-1142.
Whitney, D.L., Miller, R.B., and Paterson, S.R. (1999) P-T-t constraints on mechanisms of vertical tectonic motion in a contractional orogen. J. Metam. Geology, 17, 75-90.
1998
Miller, R.B., and Paterson, S.R., 1998. S-C fabrics formed in syntectonic plutons during the transition from magmatic to high-temperature subsolidus conditions, In Snoke, A.W., Tullis, J.A., and Todd, V.R., eds., Fault-related rocks, A Photographic Atlas. Princeton University Press, 616 pgs.
Paterson, S.R., 1998. Late-stage sinking of plutons: Comment, Geology, v. 26, p. 863-864.
Paterson, S.R. and Miller, R.B., 1998. Magma emplacement during are-perpendicular contraction. Tectonics, v. 17, p. 571-586.
Paterson, S.R. and Miller, R.B. 1998. Structural and metamorphic evolution of the Mt. Stuart region, Cascades Core, Washington. Comment: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., v. 110, p. 685-687.
Paterson, S.R. and Miller, R.B. 1998. Mid-crustal magmatic sheets in the Cascades Mountains, Washington: Implications for magma ascent. J. Struct. Geol., v. 20, p. 1345-1363.
Paterson, S.R. and Miller, R.B. 1998. Stoped blocks in plutons: paleo-plumb bobs, viscometers, or chronometers? J. Struct. Geol., v. 20, p. 1261-1272.
Paterson, S.R., T. Kenneth Fowler Jr., Keegan Schmidt, Aaron Yoshinobu, and Semele Yuan, 1998. Interpreting Magmatic fabric patterns in plutons. Lithos, v. 44, p. 53-82.
Yoshinobu, A.S., Okaya, D.A., and Paterson, S.R., 1998, Modeling the thermal evolution of fault-controlled magma emplacement models: Implications for the solidification of granite plutons: J. Struct. Geol., v. 20, p. 1205-1218.
1997:
Fowler, T. K., Jr., and Paterson, S.R., 1997. Timing and nature of magmatic fabrics in plutons from relations around arrested stoped blocks. J. Struct. Geol. v. 19, 209-224.
1996:
Paterson, S.R., T. Kenneth Fowler, Jr., and Miller, R.B., 1996, Pluton emplacement in arcs: a crustal-scale exchange process. Trans.J. Geol. Soc. Edinburgh. Earth Sciences, v. 87, p 115-123.
Paterson, S.R., and T. Kenneth Fowler, Jr., 1996, Local displacement of diapir contacts and its importance to pluton emplacement study: Comment. J. Struct. Geol., v. 18, p. 711-712.
Stein, E., and Paterson, S.R., 1996, Country rock displacement during emplacement of the Joshua Flat pluton, White-Inyo Mountains, California. In: Basement Tectonics, O. Oncken and Janssen, C. (eds.), 11, 35-49.
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Paterson, S.R., 1996, Fracture-controlled magma conduits in an obliquely convergent continental magmatic arc: Comment: Geology, v. 24, p. 669-670.
1995:
Paterson, S.R., Yu, H. and Oertel, G., 1995 Primary and tectonic fabric intensities in mudrocks. Tectonophysics, v. 247, p. 105-119.
Paterson, S.R. and Vernon, R.H., 1995. Bursting the bubble of ballooning plutons: a return to nested diapirs emplaced by multiple processes. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., v. 107, p. 1356-1380.
Vernon, R.H. and Paterson, S.R. 1995. Reply to discussion “The Ardara pluton, Ireland: deflating an expanding intrusion.” Lithos, v. 35, p. 135-138.
1994:
Miller, R.B. and Paterson, S.R., Transition from magmatic to high-temperature solid-state deformation, Mount Stuart batholith, Washington. J. Struct. Geol., v. 16, p. 853-865.
Paterson, S. R., 1994. Dike transport of granitoid magmas: comment. Geology, v. 22, p. 473.
Paterson, S. R., and Fowler Jr., K. 1993. Reexamining pluton emplacement processes: reply J. Struct. Geology, 16, p. 747-748.
Paterson, S. R. and Yu, H. Microstructures and primary grain-shape fabrics in sandstones: implications for depositional processes and strain analyses. J. Struct. Geol., v. 16, p. 505-517.
Paterson, S.R., Miller, R.B., Anderson, J.L., Lund, S., Bendixen, J., Taylor, N., and Fink, T., 1994. Emplacement and evolution of Mount Stuart batholith: In: Swanson, D.A. and Haugerud, R.A., eds., Geologic field trips in the Pacific Northwest: 1994 Geol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting, 2F-1 - 2F-47.