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References Cited
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Le Pourhiet, L., Gurnis, M., and Saleeby, J., 2006, Mantle instability beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California and Death Valley extension: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.08.028.
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Saleeby, J., 2007, Western extent of the Sierra Nevada batholith in the Great Valley Basement: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 88, no. 52, p. F2186.
Saleeby, J., Le Pourhiet, L. Saleeby, Z., and Gurnis, M., 2012a, Epeirogenic transients related to mantle lithosphere removal in the southern Sierra Nevada region, Part I: implications of thermo-mechanical modeling, Geosphere (in press).
Saleeby, J., Saleeby, Z., and Le Pourhiet L., 2012b, Epeirogenic transients related to mantle lithosphere removal in the southern Sierra Nevada region, Part II: implications of rock uplift and basin subsidence relations, Geosphere (in review).
Schmandt, B., and Humphreys, E., 2010a, Complex subduction and small-scale convection revealed by body-wave tomography of the western united States upper mantle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.047.
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Contacts: Laetitia Le Pourhiet, Jason Saleeby, and Mike Gurnis
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