CraigÌıJones
- Professor
- Fellow
- GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
- CIRES
Research
My main interest is in the origin of mountains and elevated topography in continents, primarily in the western U.S. Much of the recent work has focused on seismological approaches to understanding the mechanism supporting topography in the Sierra Nevada and High Plains, but I have also incorporated observations from other disciplines (gravity, paleoaltimetry, petrology, etc.).
Keywords
Sierra Nevada, Rocky Mountains, tectonics, seismology, geophysics, geodynamics, lithospheric structure
Department Topic Areas
Education and Training
- B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1981
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
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