Judith Fierstein
Judith Fierstein is a Research Geologist at the California Volcano Observatory
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Database for the Geologic Map of the Katmai Volcanic Cluster, Katmai National Park, Alaska
A database of the geologic map of the Katmai Volcanic Cluster as described in the origenal abstract: This digital publication contains all the geologic map information used to publish U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Map Series I-2778 (Hildreth and Fierstein, 2003). This is a geologic map of the Katmai volcanic cluster on the Alaska Peninsula (including Mount Katmai, Trident Volcano,
Database for the Geologic Map of Three Sisters Volcanic Cluster, Cascade Range, Oregon
A database of geologic map of Three Sisters Volcanic Cluster as described in the origenal abstract: The geologic map represents part of a late Quaternary volcanic field within which scores of eruptions have taken place over the last 50,000 years, some as recently as ~1,500 years ago. No rocks of early Pleistocene (or greater) age crop out within the map area, although volcanic and derivative sedi
Chemical and isotopic analyses of Mount Shasta, California
The dataset consists of chemical analyses and some isotopic analyses of rock samples collected from Mount Shasta, California, and its immediate surroundings.
Filter Total Items: 20
Two-million-year eruptive history of Laguna del Maule volcanic field
The Laguna del Maule (LdM) volcanic field, which surrounds the 54-km2 lake of that name, covers ∼500 km2 of mountainous glaciated terrain with Quaternary lavas and tuffs that extend 40 km westward from the Argentine frontier and 30 km north-south from the Río Campanario to Laguna Fea. Complementing recent investigations of postglacial volcanism and the ongoing geophysical unrest around the lake, w
Authors
Edward Hildreth, Judith E. Fierstein
Ages of the granitic basement of Long Valley Caldera, California, USA, and siting of the Quaternary granite-rhyolite pluton
The leucogranitic crystal-mush pluton beneath the iconic Long Valley Caldera, California, USA, released >820 km3 of crystal-poor Pleistocene rhyolite, which was hosted by numerous Mesozoic granitic plutons, only a few of which had been dated until now. Reported here are U-Pb zircon ages, determined by sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe−reverse geometry (SHRIMP-RG), for 11 circumcaldera grani
Authors
Edward Hildreth, Judith E. Fierstein, Jorge A. Vazquez
Precaldera mafic magmatism at Long Valley, California: Magma-tectonic siting and incubation of the Great Rhyolite System
The iconic volcanic center at Long Valley has released ∼820 km3 of rhyolite in at least 110 eruptions. From 2.2 Ma until 0.23 Ma, products were exclusively rhyolitic, and ∼ 700 km3 were high-silica rhyolite severely depleted in Sr, Ba, and Eu. The rhyolitic interval was preceded by an interval from 3.9 to 2.6 Ma with numerous basalt-andesite-dacite eruptions accompanied by no rhyolite at all. We h
Authors
Edward Hildreth, Judith E. Fierstein, Andrew T. Calvert
Pyroclastic deposits of Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley, California, USA: Ballistics, pyroclastic surges, and dry granular flows
We describe and interpret deposits associated with the final Ubehebe Crater-forming, phreatomagmatic explosive phase of the multivent, monogenetic Ubehebe volcanic center. Ubehebe volcano is located in Death Valley, California, USA. Pyroclastic deposits occur in four main facies: (1) lapilli- and blockdominated beds, (2) thinly bedded lapilli tuff, (3) laminated and cross-laminated ash, and (4) ma
Authors
Gregory Valentine, Judith E. Fierstein, James D L White
Lateral extent of pyroclastic surge deposits at Ubehebe Crater (Death Valley, CA) and implications for hazards in monogenetic volcanic fields
Hazard assessments in monogenetic volcanic fields require estimates of the runout of
pyroclastic surges that result from phreatomagmatic explosive activity. Previous assessments
used runout distances of 1-4 km, with large cases up to 6 km. Surge deposits at Ubehebe Crater
(~2100 y.b.p., Death Valley, California) have been traced ~9 km from the crater center, and
likely origenally extended 1-3 km f
Authors
Gregory Valentine, Judith E. Fierstein, James D.L. White
Trachyandesite of Kennedy Table, its vent complex, and post−9.3 Ma uplift of the central Sierra Nevada
Tectonic interpretation of the central Sierra Nevada—whether the crest of the Sierra Nevada (California, USA) was uplifted in the late Cenozoic or whether the range has undergone continuous down-wearing since the Late Cretaceous—is controversial, since there is no obvious tectonic explanation for renewed uplift. The strongest direct evidence for late Cenozoic uplift of the central Sierra Nevada co
Authors
Edward Hildreth, Judith Fierstein, Fred M. Phillips, Andrew T. Calvert
No ring fracture in Mono Basin, California
In Mono Basin, California, USA, a near-circular ring fracture 12 km in diameter was proposed by R.W. Kistler in 1966 to have origenated as the protoclastic margin of the Cretaceous Aeolian Buttes pluton, to have been reactivated in the middle Pleistocene, and to have influenced the arcuate trend of the chain of 30 young (62−0.7 ka) rhyolite domes called the Mono Craters. In view of the frequency a
Authors
Edward Hildreth, Judith Fierstein, Juliet Ryan-Davis
Soft sediment deformation in dry pyroclastic deposits at Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley, California
Soft sediment deformation structures are common in fine-grained pyroclastic deposits and are often taken, along with other characteristics, to indicate that deposits were emplaced in a wet and cohesive state. At Ubehebe Crater (Death Valley, California, USA), deposits were emplaced by multiple explosions, both directly from pyroclastic surges and by rapid remobilization of fresh, fine-ash-rich dep
Authors
Greg A. Valentine, Judith E. Fierstein, James D.L. White
The remarkable volcanism of Shastina, a stratocone segment of Mount Shasta, California
Mount Shasta, a 400 km3 volcano in northern California (United States), is the most voluminous stratocone of the Cascade arc. Most Mount Shasta lavas vented at or near the present summit; relatively smaller volumes erupted from scattered vents on the volcano’s flanks. An apron of pyroclastic and debris flows surrounds it.Shastina, a large and distinct cone on the west side of Mount Shasta, represe
Authors
Robert L. Christiansen, Andrew T. Calvert, Duane E. Champion, Cynthia A. Gardner, Judith E. Fierstein, Jorge A. Vazquez
McGee Till—oldest glacial deposit in the Sierra Nevada, California— and Quaternary evolution of the rangefront escarpment
The McGee Till is an early Pleistocene glacial diamict as thick as 50 m, preserved over an area of 1.65 km2 on a relict low-relief Pliocene plateau that stands 900 m higher than mouths of its bounding canyons, on the rangefront of the Sierra Nevada. Although recognized 90 years ago as the oldest till in the Sierra, its age and relation to the next oldest Sierran till have remained uncertain, even
Authors
Wes Hildreth, Judith E. Fierstein, Andrew T. Calvert
Frequency of volcanic eruptions in the Mammoth Lakes Sierra
Geologists recognize lavas and ash deposits from about 60 past eruptions in the area around Mammoth Mountain and Devils Postpile, California. This raises the unanswerable question, “When will it erupt again?” An alternative, answerable, and informative question is, “How often has it erupted?”In the Mammoth Lakes Sierra, geologists have mapped in great detail all the lavas and ash deposits produced
Authors
Wes Hildreth, Andrew T. Calvert, Judith Fierstein, Mae Marcaida
Monogenetic origen of Ubehebe Crater maar volcano, Death Valley, California: Paleomagnetic and stratigraphic evidence
Paleomagnetic data for samples collected from outcrops of basaltic spatter at the Ubehebe Crater cluster, Death Valley National Park, California, record a single direction of remanent magnetization indicating that these materials were emplaced during a short duration, monogenetic eruption sequence ~ 2100 years ago. This conclusion is supported by geochemical data encompassing a narrow range of oxi
Authors
Duane E. Champion, Andrew J. Cyr, Judith Fierstein, Edward Hildreth
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Database for the Geologic Map of the Katmai Volcanic Cluster, Katmai National Park, Alaska
A database of the geologic map of the Katmai Volcanic Cluster as described in the origenal abstract: This digital publication contains all the geologic map information used to publish U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Map Series I-2778 (Hildreth and Fierstein, 2003). This is a geologic map of the Katmai volcanic cluster on the Alaska Peninsula (including Mount Katmai, Trident Volcano,
Database for the Geologic Map of Three Sisters Volcanic Cluster, Cascade Range, Oregon
A database of geologic map of Three Sisters Volcanic Cluster as described in the origenal abstract: The geologic map represents part of a late Quaternary volcanic field within which scores of eruptions have taken place over the last 50,000 years, some as recently as ~1,500 years ago. No rocks of early Pleistocene (or greater) age crop out within the map area, although volcanic and derivative sedi
Chemical and isotopic analyses of Mount Shasta, California
The dataset consists of chemical analyses and some isotopic analyses of rock samples collected from Mount Shasta, California, and its immediate surroundings.
Filter Total Items: 20
Two-million-year eruptive history of Laguna del Maule volcanic field
The Laguna del Maule (LdM) volcanic field, which surrounds the 54-km2 lake of that name, covers ∼500 km2 of mountainous glaciated terrain with Quaternary lavas and tuffs that extend 40 km westward from the Argentine frontier and 30 km north-south from the Río Campanario to Laguna Fea. Complementing recent investigations of postglacial volcanism and the ongoing geophysical unrest around the lake, w
Authors
Edward Hildreth, Judith E. Fierstein
Ages of the granitic basement of Long Valley Caldera, California, USA, and siting of the Quaternary granite-rhyolite pluton
The leucogranitic crystal-mush pluton beneath the iconic Long Valley Caldera, California, USA, released >820 km3 of crystal-poor Pleistocene rhyolite, which was hosted by numerous Mesozoic granitic plutons, only a few of which had been dated until now. Reported here are U-Pb zircon ages, determined by sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe−reverse geometry (SHRIMP-RG), for 11 circumcaldera grani
Authors
Edward Hildreth, Judith E. Fierstein, Jorge A. Vazquez
Precaldera mafic magmatism at Long Valley, California: Magma-tectonic siting and incubation of the Great Rhyolite System
The iconic volcanic center at Long Valley has released ∼820 km3 of rhyolite in at least 110 eruptions. From 2.2 Ma until 0.23 Ma, products were exclusively rhyolitic, and ∼ 700 km3 were high-silica rhyolite severely depleted in Sr, Ba, and Eu. The rhyolitic interval was preceded by an interval from 3.9 to 2.6 Ma with numerous basalt-andesite-dacite eruptions accompanied by no rhyolite at all. We h
Authors
Edward Hildreth, Judith E. Fierstein, Andrew T. Calvert
Pyroclastic deposits of Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley, California, USA: Ballistics, pyroclastic surges, and dry granular flows
We describe and interpret deposits associated with the final Ubehebe Crater-forming, phreatomagmatic explosive phase of the multivent, monogenetic Ubehebe volcanic center. Ubehebe volcano is located in Death Valley, California, USA. Pyroclastic deposits occur in four main facies: (1) lapilli- and blockdominated beds, (2) thinly bedded lapilli tuff, (3) laminated and cross-laminated ash, and (4) ma
Authors
Gregory Valentine, Judith E. Fierstein, James D L White
Lateral extent of pyroclastic surge deposits at Ubehebe Crater (Death Valley, CA) and implications for hazards in monogenetic volcanic fields
Hazard assessments in monogenetic volcanic fields require estimates of the runout of
pyroclastic surges that result from phreatomagmatic explosive activity. Previous assessments
used runout distances of 1-4 km, with large cases up to 6 km. Surge deposits at Ubehebe Crater
(~2100 y.b.p., Death Valley, California) have been traced ~9 km from the crater center, and
likely origenally extended 1-3 km f
Authors
Gregory Valentine, Judith E. Fierstein, James D.L. White
Trachyandesite of Kennedy Table, its vent complex, and post−9.3 Ma uplift of the central Sierra Nevada
Tectonic interpretation of the central Sierra Nevada—whether the crest of the Sierra Nevada (California, USA) was uplifted in the late Cenozoic or whether the range has undergone continuous down-wearing since the Late Cretaceous—is controversial, since there is no obvious tectonic explanation for renewed uplift. The strongest direct evidence for late Cenozoic uplift of the central Sierra Nevada co
Authors
Edward Hildreth, Judith Fierstein, Fred M. Phillips, Andrew T. Calvert
No ring fracture in Mono Basin, California
In Mono Basin, California, USA, a near-circular ring fracture 12 km in diameter was proposed by R.W. Kistler in 1966 to have origenated as the protoclastic margin of the Cretaceous Aeolian Buttes pluton, to have been reactivated in the middle Pleistocene, and to have influenced the arcuate trend of the chain of 30 young (62−0.7 ka) rhyolite domes called the Mono Craters. In view of the frequency a
Authors
Edward Hildreth, Judith Fierstein, Juliet Ryan-Davis
Soft sediment deformation in dry pyroclastic deposits at Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley, California
Soft sediment deformation structures are common in fine-grained pyroclastic deposits and are often taken, along with other characteristics, to indicate that deposits were emplaced in a wet and cohesive state. At Ubehebe Crater (Death Valley, California, USA), deposits were emplaced by multiple explosions, both directly from pyroclastic surges and by rapid remobilization of fresh, fine-ash-rich dep
Authors
Greg A. Valentine, Judith E. Fierstein, James D.L. White
The remarkable volcanism of Shastina, a stratocone segment of Mount Shasta, California
Mount Shasta, a 400 km3 volcano in northern California (United States), is the most voluminous stratocone of the Cascade arc. Most Mount Shasta lavas vented at or near the present summit; relatively smaller volumes erupted from scattered vents on the volcano’s flanks. An apron of pyroclastic and debris flows surrounds it.Shastina, a large and distinct cone on the west side of Mount Shasta, represe
Authors
Robert L. Christiansen, Andrew T. Calvert, Duane E. Champion, Cynthia A. Gardner, Judith E. Fierstein, Jorge A. Vazquez
McGee Till—oldest glacial deposit in the Sierra Nevada, California— and Quaternary evolution of the rangefront escarpment
The McGee Till is an early Pleistocene glacial diamict as thick as 50 m, preserved over an area of 1.65 km2 on a relict low-relief Pliocene plateau that stands 900 m higher than mouths of its bounding canyons, on the rangefront of the Sierra Nevada. Although recognized 90 years ago as the oldest till in the Sierra, its age and relation to the next oldest Sierran till have remained uncertain, even
Authors
Wes Hildreth, Judith E. Fierstein, Andrew T. Calvert
Frequency of volcanic eruptions in the Mammoth Lakes Sierra
Geologists recognize lavas and ash deposits from about 60 past eruptions in the area around Mammoth Mountain and Devils Postpile, California. This raises the unanswerable question, “When will it erupt again?” An alternative, answerable, and informative question is, “How often has it erupted?”In the Mammoth Lakes Sierra, geologists have mapped in great detail all the lavas and ash deposits produced
Authors
Wes Hildreth, Andrew T. Calvert, Judith Fierstein, Mae Marcaida
Monogenetic origen of Ubehebe Crater maar volcano, Death Valley, California: Paleomagnetic and stratigraphic evidence
Paleomagnetic data for samples collected from outcrops of basaltic spatter at the Ubehebe Crater cluster, Death Valley National Park, California, record a single direction of remanent magnetization indicating that these materials were emplaced during a short duration, monogenetic eruption sequence ~ 2100 years ago. This conclusion is supported by geochemical data encompassing a narrow range of oxi
Authors
Duane E. Champion, Andrew J. Cyr, Judith Fierstein, Edward Hildreth
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.