Dr. Nick Van Buer

Publications

Van Buer, N.J., Economos, R.C., Howard, K.A., Miller, C.F., Miller D.M., 2022, Cretaceous Plutonic Rocks of the Mojave Desert: GSA Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain Joint Section Meeting Field Trip, March 12-14.

Trevino, S.F., Tikoff, B., Van Buer, N., Wyld, S.J., and McLachlan, H., 2021, Exploring the emplacement of Cretaceous arc granites and dextral shear zones in northwestern Nevada, USA, using the StraboSpot data system, in Florsheim, J., Koeberl, C., Riggs, N., and McKay, M.P., eds., 2021 GSA Section Meeting Guides: Geological Society of America Field Guide 61.

Shulaker, D.Z., Grove, M., Hourigan, J.K., Van Buer, N., Sharman, G., Howard, K., Miller, J., and Barth, A.P., 2019, Detrital K-feldspar Pb isotopic evaluation of extraregional sediment transported through an Eocene tectonic breach of southern California's Cretaceous batholith: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 508, p. 5-17.

Van Buer, N.J., Jagoutz, O., Upadhyay, R., Guillong, M., 2015, Mid-crustal detachment beneath western Tibet exhumed where conjugate Karakoram and Longmu–Gozha Co faults intersect: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 413, p. 144-157.

Van Buer, N. J., 2012, Preliminary Geologic map of the Sahwave and Nightingale Ranges, Pershing County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open File 12-2, 1:62,500 scale, 12 p. text.

Van Buer, N.J. and Miller, E.L., 2010, The Sahwave Batholith, NW Nevada: Cretaceous arc flare-up in a basinal terrane: Lithosphere, v. 2, p. 423-446.

Van Buer, N.J., Miller, E.L., Dumitru, T.A., 2009, Early Tertiary paleogeologic map of the northern Sierra Nevada Batholith and the northwestern Basin and Range, Geology v. 37 (4), p. 371-374.

SELECTED ABSTRACTS

Van Buer, N.J., Mid-Cretaceous high-volume plutonism in NW Nevada, but no Nevadaplano: Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Reno, NV [virtual], May 2021.

Young, A. (G), Nourse, J.A., Osborn, S.G., Van Buer, N.J., and Estenssoro, L.D. (G), Investigation of anomalous sulfate concentrations within the San Antonio Canyon watershed of the San Gabriel Mountains, California: Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Reno, NV [virtual], May 2021.

Van Buer, N.J., and Pershken, J., Glacially dammed lake deposits in the Tangtse River Valley, Ladakh, India: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, September, 2019.

Blachly, G.F. (G), and Van Buer, N.J., The Ludlow Batholith: Geochronology and petrology of a likely cogenetic intrusive suite: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, September, 2019.

Van Buer, N.J., Detachment faulting in the northern Bristol Mountains, California: Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Portland, OR, May, 2019.

Vermillion, K.B.(UG), Van Buer, N.J., and Holk, G.J., Mesozoic magmatism and arc cessation in the central Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Portland, OR, May, 2019.

Dykstra, M.R.(G), Van Buer, N.J., and Nourse, J.A., Whole-rock geochemistry and U-Pb zircon analysis of Oligocene intrusives in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains: 99^th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pomona, CA, June, 2018.

Pimentel, A.(UG), Geology of the Jackrabbit Hill Quadrangle, Mojave Desert, California: 99^th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pomona, CA, June, 2018.

Prizlow, A.N.(UG), and Van Buer, N.J., Geochemical analysis of plutonic rocks in the northwestern Mojave Desert, California: 99^th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pomona, CA, June, 2018.

Wieland, A.K.(UG), Vermillion, K.B.(UG), and Van Buer, N.J., Geology of the Adobe Mountain Quadrangle, western Mojave Desert, CA: 99^th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pomona, CA, June, 2018.

LeBeau, A.G.(UG), and Van Buer, N.J., Evidence of Late Cretaceous extensional detachment faulting in the north Big Maria Mountains, Riverside County, California: Southern California Academy of Sciences 111^th Annual Meeting, Pomona, CA, May, 2018.

Vermillion, K.(UG), and Van Buer, N.J., The geochemical evolution of the central Mojave batholith: Southern California Academy of Sciences 111^th Annual Meeting, Pomona, CA, May, 2018.

Dykstra, M.R.(G), Van Buer, N.J., and Nourse, J.A., Whole-rock geochemistry, petrography, and preliminary U-Pb zircon analysis of Oligocene intrusives in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains: Geological Society of America Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Sections Annual Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ, May, 2018.

LeBeau, A.G.(UG), and Van Buer, N.J., Refinement of tectonostratigraphy of the northeast Big Maria Mountains, Riverside County, California: Geological Society of America Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Sections Annual Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ, May, 2018.

Shulaker, D.Z., Grove, M.J., Van Buer, N.J., Howard, K.A., Barth, A.P., Jacobson, C.E., and Sharman, G.R., Source of Eocene sediment transported through the breached Mojave segment of the mid-Cretaceous California batholith: Constraints from coupled Pb isotopic and Ar-Ar age results from detrital K-feldspar: Geological Society of America Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Sections Annual Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ, May, 2018.

Strom, C.A.(G), Determining controls of rock glacier formation on Earth and Mars, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, March, 2018.

Shulaker, D.Z., Grove, M., Hourigan, J.K., and Van Buer, N.J., Latest Cretaceous through Cenozoic exhumation history of the southern Sierra Nevada and northwestern Mojave Desert region using basement and detrital thermochronology: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2017.

Soto, P.M. (G), and Van Buer, N.J., Pressure and temperature constraints on Cretaceous plutons of the western Mojave Desert: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October, 2017.

Van Buer, N.J., and Shulaker, D.Z., Reconnaissance geochronology and thermochronology of the western Mojave batholith: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October, 2017.

Vermillion, K.B. (UG), and Van Buer, N.J., Geochemical analyses of plutons in the eastern Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2017.

Zylstra, S. (G), Van Buer, N.J., Nourse, J.A., and Vermillion, K. (UG), Late Cretaceous plutonic and metamorphic overprint of Proterozoic metasediments of Ontario Ridge, eastern San Gabriel Mountains, CA: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October, 2017.

Van Buer, N., Brigham, K. (UG), Soto, P. (UG), Late Cretaceous high-flux magmatism in the western Mojave Desert. Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Ontario, CA, April, 2016.

Brigham, K. (UG), Van Buer, N., 2016, Geochemical analysis of Late Cretaceous intrusive rocks in the western Mojave Desert, CA. Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Ontario, CA.

de Leon, A. (UG), Santos, R., Van Buer, N., 2016, Geologic mapping of the northern Calico Mountains, Mojave Desert, California. Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Ontario, CA.

Shulaker, D.Z., Van Buer, N.J., Sharman, G.R., Lovera, O.M., Grove, M., 2016, Detrital thermochronology reveals temporal changes in Eocene to Miocene erosion throughout the southern Sierra Nevada Batholith and northwest Mojave Desert region. Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Ontario, CA.

Van Buer, N., The heat budgets of magmatic arcs: Discrepancies between heat flow measurements, volatile fluxes, and interpretations of the geologic record. Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 16, 2015, Abstract V33E-04.

Van Buer, N.J., Jagoutz, O., Upadhyay, R., and Guillong, M., 2014, Eastward escape of Tibet facilitated by mid-crustal upwelling where conjugate faults meet at its western end: Abstract T21B-4592, poster at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2014.

Van Buer, N.J., Dumitru, T.A., Grove, M., and Hourigan, J., 2013, Multiple thermochronometers applied to normal-fault sections reveal prolonged exhumation history of the northernmost Sierra Nevada Batholith, Abstract T43F-2731 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.

Jagoutz, O., Upadhyay, R., Bouilhol, P., Van Buer, N.J., and Hanchar, J.M., 2012, The collision timing and subsequent deformation phases in the western Himalaya during the India-Eurasia collision, Abstract T53F-03 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.

Van Buer, N.J., and Wooden, J.L., 2010, Prolonged near-solidus heating in the Sahwave Intrusive Suite recorded by zircon and sphene geochronology and thermometry: GSA – Abst. with Prog., v. 42 (5), p. 666.

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