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1. Girty, G.H., and Parrott, B.S., 1983, Upper Cenozoic unconformity, Gulf of Mexico, in, Bally, A.W., ed., Seismic expression of structural styles: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Studies in Geology, Series 15, v.1, p.12–21.

2. Girty, G.H., and Schweickert, R.A., 1984, The Culbertson Lake allochthon, a newly identified structure within the Shoo Fly Complex, California: Evidence for four phases of deformation and extension of the Antler orogeny to the northern Sierra Nevada: Modern Geology, v.8, p.181–198.

3. Girty, G.H., and Wardlaw, M.S., 1984, Was the Alexander terrane a source of feldspathic sandstones in the Shoo Fly Complex, Sierra Nevada, California?: Geology, v.12, p.339–342.

4. Girty, G.H., Wardlaw, M.S., Schweickert, R.A., Hanson, R.E., and Bowring, S., 1984, Timing of pre-Antler deformation in the Shoo Fly Complex, Sierra Nevada, California: Geology v.12, p.673–676.

5. Schweickert, R.A., Bogen, N.L., Girty, G.H., Hanson, R.E., and Merguerian, C., 1984, Timing and structural expression of the Nevadan orogeny, Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.95, p.967–979.

6. Girty, G.H., Reiland, D.N., and Wardlaw, M.S., 1985, Provenance of the Silurian Elder Sandstone, north-central Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.96, p.925–930.

7. Girty, G.H., and Wardlaw, M.S., 1985, Petrology and provenance of pre-Late Devonian sandstones, Shoo Fly Complex, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.96, p.516–521.

8. Girty, G.H., 1985, Shallow-marine deposits in Boyden Cave roof pendant westcentral Sierra Nevada, Madera and Tulare counties: California Geology, v.6, p.51–55.

9. Girty, G.H., 1985, An accreted seamount: A working hypothesis for the Bullpen Lake sequence, Sierra Nevada, California: California Geology, v. 6, p. 123-128.

10. Schweickert, R.A., Bogen, N.L., Girty, G.H., Hanson, R.E., and Merguerian, C., 1985, Timing and structural expression of the Nevadan orogeny, Sierra Nevada, California: Discussions and reply: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.96, p.1346–1352.

11. Girty, G.H., 1987, Sandstone provenance, Point Loma Formation, San Diego, California: Evidence for uplift of the Peninsular Ranges during the Laramide orogeny: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v.57 p.839–844.

12. Girty, G.H., and Pardini, C.H., 1987, Provenance of sandstone inclusions in the Paleozoic Sierra City melange, Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.98, p.176–181.

13. Girty, G.H., Mossman, B.J., and Pincus, S.C., 1988, Petrology of Holocene sand, Peninsular Ranges, California and Baja Norte, Mexico: Implications for provenance discrimination models: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 58, p. 881-887.

14. Girty, G.H., and Armitage, A., 1989, Composition of Holocene Colorado River sand: An example of mixed-provenance sand derived from multiple tectonic elements of the Cordilleran continental margin: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 59, p. 597-604.

15. Windh, J., Griffith, R.C., and Girty, G.H., 1989, Tectonic significance of kink bands in Arroyo Calamajue, Baja California, Mexico, in Abbott, P., ed., Geologic studies in Baja California: Pacific Section, SEPM, p. 75-78.

16. Rees, M.N., Girty, G.H., Panttaja, S.K., and Braddock, P., 1987, Multiple phases of early Paleozoic deformation in the central Transantarctic Mountains: Journal of Antarctic Research, v. 22, p. 33-35.

17. Girty, G.H., Gester, K.C., and Turner, J.B., 1990, Pre-Devonian geochemical, stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and structural patterns, Shoo Fly Complex, northern Sierra Nevada, California, in Harwood, D.S., and Miller, M.M., eds., Paleozoic and early Mesozoic paleogeography of the Klamath Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and related terranes: Geological Society of America Special Paper 255, p. 43-56.

18. Girty, G.H., 1991, A note on the composition of plutoniclastic sand produced in different climatic belts: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 61, p. 428-433.

19. Girty, G.H., Gurrola, L.D., Taylor, G.W., Richards, M.J., and Girty, M.S., 1991, The pre-Upper Devonian Lang and Black Oak Springs sequences, Shoo Fly Complex, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Trench deposits composed of continental detritus, in Cooper, J. D., and Stevens, C. H., eds., Paleozoic paleogeography of the western United States-II: Pacific Section, SEPM, v. 67, p. 703-716.

20. Girty, G.H., Keller, A. M., Franklin, K.R., and Stroh, R.C., 1991, The southernmost lens of the Upper Devonian Grizzly Formation, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Evidence for a trench-slope depositional setting, in Cooper, J. D., and Stevens, C. H., eds., Paleozoic paleogeography of the western United States-II: Pacific Section, SEPM, v. 67, p. 693-701.

21. Girty, G.H., Barber, R.W., and Knaack, C., 1993, REE, Th, and Sc evidence for the depositional setting and source rock characteristics of the Quartz Hill chert, Sierra Nevada, California, in Johnsson, M.J. and Basu, A., eds., Processes controlling the composition of clastic sediments: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 284, p.109-119.

22. Girty, G.H., Yoshinobu, A.S.,Wracher, M., Girty, M.S., Bryan, K.A., Skinner, J.E., McNulty, B.A., Bracchi, K.A., Harwood, D.S., and Hanson, R.E., 1993, U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Emigrant Gap composite pluton, northern Sierra Nevada, California: implications for the Nevadan orogeny, in Dunne, G., and McDougall, K., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States, II: SEPM, Pacific Section, p. 323-332.

23. Girty, G.H., Hanson, A.D., Yoshinobu, A.S., Knaack, C., and Johnson, D., 1993, Provenance of Paleozoic mudstones in a contact metamorphic aureole determined by rare earth element, Th, and Sc analyses, Sierra Nevada, California: Geology, v. 21, p. 363-366.

24. Girty, G.H., Hanson, A.D., Knaack, C., and Johnson, D., 1994, Provenance determined by REE, Th, and Sc analyses of metasedimentary rocks, Boyden Cave roof pendant, central Sierra Nevada, California: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. B64, p. 68-73.

25. Thomson, C.N., and Girty, G.H., 1994, Early Cretaceous intra-arc ductile strain in Triassic-Jurassic and Cretaceous continental margin arc rocks, Peninsular Ranges, California: Tectonics, v. 13, p. 1108-1119.

26. Girty, G.H., Girty, M.S., Hanson, R.E., Schweickert, R.A., Harwood, D.S., Yoshinobu, A.S., Bryan, K.A., Skinner, J.E., and Hill, C.A., 1995, Timing of emplacement of the Haypress Creek and Emigrant Gap plutons: Implications for the timing and controls of Jurassic orogenesis, northern Sierra Nevada, California, in Miller, D.M., and Busby, C., eds., Jurassic Magmatism and tectonics of the North American Cordillera: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 299, p. 191-201.

27. Girty, G.H., Ridge, D.L., Knaack, C., Johnson, D., and Al-Riyami, R.K, 1996, Provenance and depositional setting of Paleozoic chert and argillite, Sierra Nevada, California: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 66, p. 107-118.

28. Cardenas, A.A., Girty, G.H., Hanson, A.D., Lahren, M.M., Knaack, C., and Johnson, D., 1996, Assessing differences in composition between low metamorphic grade mudstones and high-grade schists using logratio techniques: Journal of Geology, v. 104, p. 279-293.

29. Girty, G.H., Lawrence, J., Burke, T., Fortin, A., Wirths, T.A., Lewis, J.G., Ridge, D.L., Knaack, C., and Johnson, D., 1996, The Shoo Fly Complex: its origin and tectonic significance, in Girty, G.H., Hanson, R.E., Schweickert, R.A., and Harwood, D.S., The northern Sierra terrane and associated Mesozoic magmatic units: Implications for the tectonic development of the western Cordillera: Pacific Section, SEPM, Book 81, p. 1-24.

30. Hanson, R.E., Girty, G.H., Girty, M.S., Hargrove, U.S., Harwood, D.S., Kulow, M.J., Mielke, K.L., Phillipson, S.E., Schweickert, R.A., and Templeton, J.H., 1996, Paleozoic and Mesozoic arc rocks in the northern Sierra terrane, in Girty, G.H., Hanson, R.E., Schweickert, R.A., and Harwood, D.S., The northern Sierra terrane and associated Mesozoic magmatic units: Implications for the tectonic development of the western Cordillera: Pacific Section, SEPM, Book 81, p. 25-56.

31. Howell, S.M., Gallarano, C.S., and Girty, G.H., 1997, Kinematic, chemical, and petrological development of protomylonite within the Scove Canyon segment of the Cuyamaca-Laguna Mountains shear zone, Peninsular Ranges, southern California, in Girty, G.H., Hanson, R.E., and Cooper, J.D., Geology of the western Cordillera: Perspectives from undergraduate research: Pacific Section, SEPM, Book 82, p65-78.

32. Garrison, K.M., Bradbury, L.M., Sanders, J.C., Jr., Hanson, W.E., Gallarano, C.S., Ash, J.W., Waite, R.A., and Girty, G.H., 1997, Estimating and power for the Student’s t test: Implications for elemental mass change in a Middle Jurassic contact metamorphic aureole: in Girty, G.H., Hanson, R.E., and Cooper, J.D., Geology of the western Cordillera: Perspectives from undergraduate research: Pacific Section, SEPM, Book 82, p.123-135.

33. Kulow, M.J., Hanson, R.E., and Girty, G.H., 1997, The Big Bend shear zone: Early Cretaceous ductile deformation associated with pluton emplacement in the northern Sierra terrane, California: : in Girty, G.H., Hanson, R.E., and Cooper, J.D., Geology of the western Cordillera: Perspectives from undergraduate research: Pacific Section, SEPM, Book 82, p. 79-90.

34. Mielke, K.L., Hanson, R.E., Girty, G.H., Girty, M.S., and Schweickert, R.A., 1998, Jurassic island-arc rocks in the Weber Peak and Meadow Lake areas, northern Sierra Nevada, California, The Compass (Journal of Earth Sciences of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the National Geological Honor Society), v.74, no.3, p.77-86.

35. Kulow, M.J., Hanson, R.E., Girty, G.H., Girty, M.S., and Harwood, D.S., 1998, Cretaceous plutonic rocks in the Donner Lake - Cisco Grove area, northern Sierra Nevada, California, The Compass (Journal of Earth Sciences of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the National Geological Honor Society), v.74, no.3, p.69-76.

36. Phillipson, S.E., Hanson, R.E., Girty, G.H., and Girty, M.S., 1998, Petrology and geochronology of the intrusive suite of Haypress Creek (Middle Jurassic), northern Sierra terrane, California, The Compass (Journal of Earth Sciences of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the National Geological Honor Society), v.74, no.3, p.87-94.

37. Girty, G.H., Thomson, C.N., Carmichael, D.L., Netto, S.L., and Wagemakers, R., 1998, Normal-sense mylonites of the Scove Canyon segment (SCs), Cuyamaca-Laguna Mountains shear zone (CLMSZ), California, in Snoke, A., Tullis, J.A., and Todd, V.R., eds., Atlas of Mylonitic and Fault-Related Rocks, Princeton Press.

38. Yoshinobu, A.S., and Girty, G.H., 1999, Measuring host rock volume changes during magma emplacement: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 21, p. 111-116.

39. Warren, N.H., and Girty G.H., 1999, A Matlab 5 program for calculating the statistics of mass change: Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 47, p. 313-320.

40. Harding, J.P., Gehrels, G.E., Harwood, D.S., and Girty, G.H., 2000, Detrital zircon geochronology of the Shoo Fly Complex, northern Sierra terrane, northeastern California, in Soreghan, M.J., and Gehrels, G.E., eds., Paleozoic and Triassic Paleogeography and Tectonic Evolution of Western Nevada and Northern California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 347.

41. Girty, G.H., and Lawrence, J.L., 2000, Bootstrap technique and the location of the source of siliciclastic detritus in the lower Paleozoic Shoo Fly Complex, northern Sierra terrane, California, in Soreghan, M.J., and Gehrels, G.E., eds., Paleozoic and Triassic Paleogeography and Tectonic Evolution of Western Nevada and Northern California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 347.

42. Gehrels, G.E., Dickinson, W.R., Darby, B.J., Harding, J.P., Manuszak, J.D., Riley, Brook C.D., Spurlin, M.S., Finney, S.C., Girty, G.H., Harwood, D.S., Miller, M.M., Satterfield, J.I., and Smith, M.T., 2000, Tectonic implications of detrital zircon data from Paleozoic and Triassic strata in western Nevada and northern California, in Soreghan, M.J., and Gehrels, G.E., eds., Paleozoic and Triassic Paleogeography and Tectonic Evolution of Western Nevada and Northern California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 347.

43. Lewis, J.G., and Girty, G.H., 2001, Tectonic implications of a petrographic and geochemical characterization of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Sailor Canyon Formation, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geology, v. 29, p.627-630.

44. Thorbjarnarsn, K.W., Inami, J.H., and Girty, G.H., 2002, Visual solute transport: A computer code for use in hydrogeology classes, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 50, p.287-291.

45. Girty, G.H., 2002, Strain Machine, A Macromedia Director 8.5 application for introducing the concepts of simple and pure shear, Journal of the Virtual Explorer (www.vitualexplorer.com.au), v. 9, p. 31-38.

46. Girty, G.H., Reish, N., Baroek, P., Heitman, B., Randall, K., Lilly, D.R., Lynch, C., 2002, A Visual Basic 6 program that facilitates learning the characteristics of simple and pure shear through experimentation, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 50, p, 559-563.

47. Girty, G.H., Marsh, J., Meltzner, A., McConnell, J.R., Nygren, D., Nygren, J., Prince, G.M., Randall, K., Johnson, D., Heitman, B., and Nielsen, J., 2003 Assessing changes in elemental mass as a result of chemical weathering of granodiorite in a Mediterranean (hot summer) climate, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 434-443.

48. Johnson, S.E., Paterson, S.R., Fletcher, J.M., Girty, G.H., Kimbrough, D.K., and Martin-Barajas, A., 2003, eds., Tectonic evolution of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern USA, Geological Society of America Special Paper 374, 478 p.

49. Girty, G.H., 2004 - 2005, Notes on Planet Earth: An Introduction to Geology; Montezuma Publishing, San Diego State University, (http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/visualgeology/geology101/), 150 p.

50. Girty, G.H., and Cooper, J., 2006, eds., Using Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Geochemistry to Unravel the Geologic History of the Southwestern Cordillera: A Volume in Honor of Patrick L. Abbott; Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Book 101, 360 p.

51. Girty, G.H., Stephenson, D., Canfield, A., Marsh, J., Middleton, T., Rayburn, J., Sisk, M., Verdugo, D., Moniz, R., Gunter, J., Nielsen, J., Gasca, C., Rowland-Smith, A., Smith, M., Lovering, K., Campbell, K., Castaneda, F., Gray, R., Campbell, C., 2006, Geology of Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California: Implications for the timing of formation of the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium, in Girty, G.H., and Cooper, J., eds., Using Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Geochemistry to Unravel the Geologic History of the Southwestern Cordillera: A Volume in Honor of Patrick L. Abbott, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Book 101, p. 255-274.

52. Stephenson, D.B., and Girty, G.H., 2006, Constraining the Source of the Orocopia Schist, SE California: A comparative study of the major and trace element chemistry of Cretaceous sandstones deposited in forearc settings in Girty, G.H., and Cooper, J., eds., Using Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Geochemistry to Unravel the Geologic History of the Southwestern Cordillera: A Volume in Honor of Patrick L. Abbott, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Book 101, p.77-96.

53. Ebsen, J.M, Carrick, C.M., Girty, G.H., and Carrasco, T., 2006, Petrological and Chemical Characteristics of grus and sandy loam, Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern California: Implications for using sandstone framework compositions to determine source-rock characteristics in Girty, G.H., and Cooper, J., eds., Using Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Geochemistry to Unravel the Geologic History of the Southwestern Cordillera: A Volume in Honor of Patrick L. Abbott, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Book 101, p.291-306.

54. Girty, G.H., Culotta, J., Murray, G.T., and Johnson, S.L., 2006, Assessing elemental mass transfer and volume strain during two phases of metamorphism of the Triassic Julian Schist, Peninsular Ranges, southern California in Girty, G.H., and Cooper, J., eds., Using Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Geochemistry to Unravel the Geologic History of the Southwestern Cordillera: A Volume in Honor of Patrick L. Abbott, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Book 101, p.57-76.

55. Johnson, S., Bearor, C.G., Rayburn, Z., Martinez, C., Stackpole, K.L., and Girty, G.H., 2006, The texture and chemistry of tonalitic saprolite, Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, Temecula, California: implications for saprolite development in Bonsangue, J., and Lemmer, R., eds., Geology of the Orange County Region, Southern California, South Coast Geological Society, Field trip Guidebook No. 33, p. 213-228.

56. Girty, G.H., Biggs, M.A., and Berry , R.W., 2008, An unusual occurrence of probable Pleistocene corestone with a Cretaceous dioritic enclave, Peninsular Ranges , California , Catena, v. 74, p. 43-57.

57. Carrano, J., Ferguson, J.R., Girty, G.H., Smith, S.T., and Carrano, C.J., 2008, A Chemical and Mineralogical Comparison of Nubian and Egyptian Style Ceramics and the Implications for Culture Contact: Preliminary Report, The Sudan Archaeological Research Society Bulletin (British Museum) No. 12, p. 90-98.

58. Carrano, J., Girty, G.H., Carrano, C., 2009, Re-examining the Egyptian Colonial Encounter in Nubia through a Compositional, Mineralogical, and Textural Comparison of Ceramics, Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 36, p. 785-797.

59. Carrano, J., Ferguson , J.R., Girty, G.H., and Smith, S.T., 2009, A Chemical Analysis of Ancient Nubian and Egyptian style Ceramics: Evaluating the Substance of Style, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo p. 35-62.

60. Rockwell, R., Sisk, M., Girty, G.H., Dor, O., and Ben-Zion, Y., 2009, Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Pulverized Tejon Lookout Granite Adjacent to the San Andreas and Garlock Faults: Implications for Earthquake Physics, Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 166, p. 1-22.

61. Carrano, J., Smith, S.T., Herbst, G., Girty, G.H.., Carrano, C.J., and Ferguson, J.R., 2009, Applying a multi-analytical approach to the investigation of ancient Egyptian influence in Numian communities: The socio-cultural implications of chemical variation in ceramic styles, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, v. 1, p. 11-21.

62. Wechsler, N., Allen, E.E., Rockwell, T.K., Girty, G., Chester, J.S., and Ben-Zion, Y., 2011, Characterization of pulverized granitoids in a shallow core along the San Andreas Fault, Little Rock, CA, Gephysical Journal International, p. 1-17.

63. Ricketts, J.W., Girty, G.H., Sainsbury, J.S., Muela, K.K., Sutton, L.A., Biggs, MA., and Voyles, E.M., 2011, Episodic growth of the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium recorded by the Neogene Bear Canyon conglomerate, SE California, U.S.A., Journal of Sedimentary Research, v.81, p. 859-873.

64. Morton, N., Girty, G.H., Rockwell, T.L., 2012, Fault zone architecture of the San Jacinto fault zone in Horse Canyon, southern California: a model for focused post-seismic fluid flow and heat transfer in the shallow crust, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 329-330, p. 71-83.

65. Girty, G.H., Muela, K.K., Olson, H., Sutton, L., Biggs, M., Sainsbury, J., Ricketts, J.W., Errthum, R., Colby, T.A., Carrasco, T., Gordon, E., Pelbath, T., 2012, Toward a unified model for the geologic and tectonic history of the region between Indian Pass and Picacho State Recreation Area, southeastern California, in Wirths, T.A., ed., Picacho and the Cargo Muchachos, San Diego Association of Geologists, San Diego, CA, p. 53-86. 

66. Girty, G.H., Colby, T.A., Rayburn, J.Z., Parizek, J.R., Voyles, E.M., 2013, Biotite-controlled linear compositional trends in quartz dioritic to tonalitic saprock, Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, southern California, USA, Catena, v. 105, p.40-51 .

67. Colby, T.A., and Girty, G.H., 2013, Determination of volume loss and element mobility patterns associated with the development of the Copper Basin fault, Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California, USA, Journal of Structural Geology, v. 51, p. 14-37.

68. Girty, G.H., Gebhart, K.L., Replogle, C.T., Morton, N., Purcell, J.W., Parizek, J.R., Carrasco, T., Errthum, R., and Groover, K., 2014, Reconstructing the regolith from erosionally exhumed corestone and saprock derived from the Cretaceous Val Verde tonalite, Peninsular Ranges, southern California, USA, Catena, 113, p.150-164.

69. Bethel-Thompson, C., Sainsbury, J., Ricketts, J.W., and Girty, G.H., 2014,The Rattlesnake Valley and Oriflamme Canyon plutons: Key temporal markers in the Jurassic and Cretaceous development of the transition zone of the Peninsular Ranges batholith, in Morton, D.M., and Miller, F.K., eds., Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Baja and Southern California, Geological Society of America, Memoir 211, p. 609-624.

70. Parizek, J.R., and Girty, G.H., 2014, Assessing volumetric strains and mass balance relationships resulting from biotite-controlled weathering: Implications for the isovolumetric weathering of the Boulder Creek granodiorite, Boulder County, Colorado, USA, Catena, 120, p. 29-45.

71. Rockwell, B.G., Girty, G.H., and Rockwell, T.K., 2014, A statistical framework for calculating and assessing compositional linear trends within fault zones: A case study of the NE block of the Clark segment, San Jacinto fault, California, USA, Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 171, p. 2919-2935.

72. Girty, G.H., Muela, K.K., Olson, H., Sutton, L., Biggs, M., Sainsbury, J., Ricketts, J.W., Errthum, R., Colby, T.A., Carrasco, T., Gordon, E., and Pelbath, T., 2015, Toward a unified model for the geologic and tectonic history of the region between Indian Pass and Picacho State Recreation Area, southeastern California, in Wirth, T.A. (ed.) Picacho and the Cargo Muchachos, gold, guns, and geology of eastern Imperial Country, California (2nd Edition). San Diego Association of Geologists, Sunbelt Publications, p.55-88.

73. Heath, A.R., Replogle, C.T., and Girty, G.H., 2015, Effects of illuviation on the petrology and chemistry of tonalitic saprock, Catena, v. 131, p. 160-172.

74. Carrasco, T.L., and Girty, G.H., 2015, Identifying a reference frame for calculating mass change during weathering: A review and case study utilizing the C# program assessing element immobility and critical ratio methodology, Catena, v. 125, p. 146-161.

75. Purcell, J.W., Lovelace, F.D., and Girty, G.H., 2015, Biotite controlled chemical alteration of granodioritic-tonalitic saprock: Exploring the use of sieving to enhance compositional linear trends, Geoderma, v. 253-254, p. 90-101.

76. Gordon, E.M., Rockwell, T.K., Girty, G.H., Goetz, C., 2015. Geomorphic analysis of late Quaternary activity of the Earthquake Valley and Hot Springs-San Felipe fault zones, and their role in slip transfer between the northern Elsinore and southern San Jacinto faults. in Wagner, R. (Ed.), Geology of the Coyote Mountains, Southern California. San Diego Association of Geologists, Sunbelt Publications, pp. 95–108.

77. Webb, H.N., Girty, G.H., 2016. Residual regolith derived from the biotite-controlled weathering of cretaceous tonalite–quartz diorite, Peninsular Ranges, southern California, USA: A case study. Catena 132, 459–482.

78. Whearty, J.L., Rockwell, T.K., and Girty, G.H., 2017, Incipient pulverization at shallow burial depths along the San Jacinto fault, southern California, in Thomas, M.Y., Mitchell, T.M., and Bhat, H.S. (eds.), Fault zone dynamic processes: Evolution of fault properties during seismic rupture. Geophysical Monograph 227, American Geophysical Union and John Wiley and Sons, Inc., p. 3-20.

79. Azevedo, M., Parizek, J.R., Webb, H.N., Dennis, K.N., Dorsey, M.T., Fenton, N.C., Hall, C.M., and Girty, G.H., 2017, Recongizing non-steady-state weathering conditions in ancient submarine fan systems: Correcting for K-metasomatism reveals a Late Creataceous non-steady-state weathering regime, Point Loma Formation, southwestern California, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 87, p. 707-721.

80. Zeidan, T., Heath, A., Peppard, D., and Girty, G.H., 2017, Fractional changes in elemental mass (omega) and relative variation curves: Unravelling elemental mass redistribution patterns within the regolith. Catena, 149, p. 28-42.

81. Vierra, E.J., Webb, H., Girty, G.H., 2018, Unravelling the development of a spheroidally weathered diorite-gabbro, Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, Peninsular Ranges, southern California, USA, Catena, 163, p. 297-310.

82. Peppard, D.W., Webb, H.N., Dennis, K., Vierra, E., Girty, G.H., Rockwell, T.K., Blanton, C.M., Brown, J.F., Goldstein, A.I., Kastama, K.w., Korte-Nahabedian, M.A., Puckett, D., Richter, A.K., 2018, Micro-scale damage characterized within part of a dismembered positive flower structure, San Jacinto fault, southern California, USA. Journal of Structural Geology, 112, 53-68.

83. Hall, C.M., Webb, H.N., Girty, G.H., Allam, A.A., and Rockwell, T.K., 2019, A case study of a precariously balanced rock, its partially exhumed corestone platform, and encasing saprock and soil. Catena, 172, p. 719-737.

84. Powerman, V., Hanson, R., Nosov, A., Girty, G., Hourigan, J., Tretiakov, A., 2019, Nature and timing of Late Devonian-early Mississippian island-arc magmatism in the Northern Sierra Terrane and implications for regional Paleozoic plate tectonics, Geosphere, v. 16, https://doi.org /10.1130/GES02105.1.

85. Dorsey, M.T., Rockwell, T.K., Girty, G.H., Ostermeijer, G.A., Browning, J., Mitchell, T.M., Fletcher, J.M., 2021,    Evidence of hydrothermal fluid circulation driving elemental mass redistribution in an active fault zone, Journal of Structural Geology, 144, in press        

GUIDEBOOKS

1. Moore, J.G., Nokleberg, W.J., Chen, J.H., Girty, G.H., and Saleeby, J.B., 1979, Geologic guide to the Kings Canyon Highway, central Sierra Nevada, California: Cordilleran section, Geological Society of America, 75th Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, 33 p.

2. Schweickert, R.A., Harwood, D.S., Girty, G.H., and Hanson, R.E., 1984, Tectonic development of the northern Sierra terrane: An accreted late Paleozoic island arc and its basement [Field Trip 5], in, Lintz, Jr., J., Western geological excursions: Geological Society of America, 1984 Annual Meeting, p.1–65.

3. Walawender, M.J., Girty, G.H., Lombardi, M.M., Kimbrough, D., Girty, M.S., and Anderson, C., 1991, A synthesis of recent work in the Peninsular Ranges batholith, in Walawender, M.J., and Hanan, B.B., eds., Geological excursions in southern California and Mexico: Guidebook for Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, p. 297-312.

4. Walawender, M.J., and Girty, G.H., 1991, Field Guide to the Peninsular Ranges batholith, in Walawender, M.J. and Hanan, B.B., eds., Geological excursions in southern California and Mexico: Guidebook for Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, p. 313-318.

5. Hanson, R. E., Girty, G.H., Harwood, D.S., Schweickert, R.A., Templeton, J.H., Yoshinobu, A.S., Wracher, M.D., and Girty, M.S., 1993, Devonian and Jurassic volcano-plutonic associations in the northern Sierra terrane: implications for arc evolution and Mesozoic deformation--part I, Geological Society of America Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain Meeting field trip guidebook, p. 97-128.

6. Girty, G.H., Thomson, C.N., Girty, M.S., Miller, J., and Bracchi, K., 1993, The Cuyamaca-Laguna Mountains shear zone, Late Jurassic plutonic rocks and early Cretaceous extension, Peninsular Ranges, southern California, in Abbott, P.L., and, E.M. and Rendina, M.A., eds., Geologic investigations in Baja California, Mexico, 1993, Southern California Geological Society, annual field trip, guidebook No. 21, p. 173-180.

7. Schweickert, R.A., Hanson, R.E., and Girty, G.H., 1999, Accretionary tectonics of the western Sierra Nevada metamorphic belt, in Geological Field Trips in northern California, eds., Wagner, D.L., and Graham, S.A., California Division of Mines and Geology, Special Publication 119, p. 33-79.

8. Hanson, R.E., Girty, G.H., Harwood, D.S., and Schweickert, R.A., 2000, Paleozoic subduction complex and Paleozoic-Mesozoic island-arc volcano-plutonic assemblages in the northern Sierra terrane, Geological Society of America Field Trip volume.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATON OR REVIEW

1. Surratt, E., Dennis, K., Peppard, D., Girty, G.H.,  in preparation, Correcting for bassanite and calcite precipitation: A case study ,  Clark segment, San Jacinto fault, Anza, California, for submissal to Catena  

2. Einbund, M., Parizek, J., Girty, G.H., in preparation, Gibbsite discovered in fractured rind of spheroidally weathered granodiorite, Santa Margarita Ecologicial Reserved, southern California, for submissal to Catena 

ABSTRACTS

1. Girty, G.H., 1977, Cataclastic rocks in the Boyden Cave pendant and their regional significance: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.9, p.423.

2. Girty, G.H., and Schweickert, R.A., 1979, Preliminary results of a detailed study of the “lower” Shoo Fly, Bowman Lake, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.11, p.79.

3. Snyder, W.S., and Girty, G.H., 1979, The Havallah sequence, Nevada: An upper Paleozoic marginal sea: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.11, p.129.

4. Girty, G.H., Schweickert, R.A., and Hanson, R.E., 1980, Structural fabrics of the Shoo Fly Complex near Bowman Lake, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.12, p.107.

5. Schwieckert, R.A., and Girty, G.H., 1981, Significance of the unconformity between Shoo Fly Complex and Paleozoic island arc sequence, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.13, p.105.

6. Girty, G.H., and Schweickert, R.A., 1982, The lower Paleozoic Bowman Mountain basalt, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Stratigraphic and geochemical evidence for an intraplate eruptive setting: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.15, p.166.

7. Schweickert, R.A, Bogen, N.L., Girty, G.H., Hanson, R.E., and Merguerian, C., 1983, Timing and structural expression of the Nevadan orogeny, Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.15, p.293.

8. Girty, G.H., 1983, The Shoo Fly Complex, northern Sierra Nevada, California: A plausible correlative of the Roberts Mountains allochthon? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.14, p.496.

9. Girty, G.H., Bowring, S.A., and Wardlaw, M.S., 1983, The Shoo Fly Complex–Evidence for Devonian assembly and accretion to North America: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,, v.15, p.582.

10. Cummings, D.O., Coffman, L.E., and Girty, G.H., 1984, Implications for Precambrian accretionary tectonics: A synthesis of deformational events and metamorphic fabrics in southcentral Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.16, p.219.

11. Bennet, G.S., Bickford, M.E., and Girty, G.H., 1984, Geochemistry and petrotectonic setting of bimodal volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks, Cochetopa Canyon area, central Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.16, p.214.

12. Evans, D.C., and Girty, G.H., 1984, The use of parametric cubic splines to assist in orthogonal thickness measurements of rock folds: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.16, p.83.

13. Gastil, R.G., Miller, R., Girty, G.H., Walawender, M., Wardlaw, M., Crocker, J., Campbell, M., Hoobs, J., Reed, J., Diamond, J., and Knaack, L., 1985, The basement terranes of peninsular California and adjacent Mexico: Geological Society of Australia, extended abstracts for the Third Circum–Pacific Terrane Conference, no.14, p.75–77.

14. Pardini, C.H., and Girty, G.H., 1986, Preliminary results of a detailed structural and petrologic study of the Sierra City melange, Bowman Lake, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.18, p.168.

15. Griffith, R.C., Mossman, B.J., Hoobs, J.H., Girty, G.H., Wardlaw, M.S., and Windh, J,. 1986, Stratigraphic and structural implications of metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks in Arroyo Calamajue, Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.18, p.111.

16. Girty, G.H., and Kram, M., 1988, Are Paleozoic thrust faults in the Shoo Fly Complex, Sierra Nevada, California related to the Antler orogeny in Nevada? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.20, p.163.

17. Goetz, C.W., Girty, G.H., and Gastril, R.G., 1988, East over west ductile thrusting along a terrane boundary in the Peninsular Ranges: Rancho El Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.20, p.164.

18. Gorzolla, Y.R., Girty, G.H., and Walawender, M.J., 1988, Geochemistry of the Santiago Peak Volcanics, Peninsular Ranges batholith: Tectonic implications: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.20, p.164.

19. Gastil, G., Girty, G.H., Wardlaw, M., and Davis, T., 1988, Correlation of Triassic-Jurassic sandstone in peninsular California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.20, p.A314.

20. Stinson, A.L., Leeson, R.T., Padilla, E.M., Girty, G.H., Krummenacher, D., and the Advanced Structural Geology class, 1988, Results of a study of the Harper Creek gneiss, Cuyamaca-Laguna Mountains shear zone, San Diego County, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.20, p.235.

21. Girty, G.H., 1989, Sands and sandstones, Peninsular Ranges, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.21, p.105

22. Girty, G.H., and Guthrie, L., 1989, A westward verging imbricate structure, Shoo Fly Complex, Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.21. p.84.

23. Leeson, R.T., Girty, G.H., Wardlaw, M.S., and Meier, D.B., 1989, Harper Creek gneiss, Peninsular Ranges, southern California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.21, p.105.

24. McNulty, B.A., and Girty, G.H., 1990, Chronology of polyphase deformation in the Lang sequence, Shoo Fly Complex, northern Sierra Nevada, California: A preliminary assessment: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.22, p.67.

25. Richards, M.J., Taylor, G., Gurrola, L., Stroh., R., Girty, G.H., and Hanan, B.B., 1990, Tectonic implications of newly defined map units in the Shoo Fly Complex, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.22, p.77.

26. Wracher, M.D., Girty, G.H., and Wardlaw, M.S., 1991, Deformation in the Shoo Fly Complex and the role of a Middle Jurassic plutonic complex, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. 111.

27. Keller, A.A., Franklin, K.R., and Girty, G.H., 1991, Upper Devonian Grizzly Formation, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Evidence for a trench-slope setting: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. 41.

28. Girty, G.H., and Barber, R.W., 1991, A plate-marginal continental depositional setting for the Quartz Hill chert, Shoo Fly Complex, Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. A429.

29. Yoshinobu, A.S., Bryan, K.A., Seeliger, T.E., Skinner, J.E., Girty, M.S, and Girty, G.H., 1992, Evidence for Middle Jurassic deformation and emplacement of the Emigrant Gap composite pluton, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, p. 92.

30. Bracchi, K.A., Girty, G.H., and Girty, M.S., 1993, CLMSZ, Garnet Mountain area, southern California: A collisionally generated contractional shear zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, p. 13.

31. Hanson, A.D., Girty, G.H., Knaack, C., and Johnson, D., 1993, Tectonic implications of REE, Th, and Sc analyses of metamorphosed mudstones, Boyden Cave roof pendant, Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, p. 47.

32. Yoshinobu, A.S., Hanson, A.D., Girty, G.H., Knaack, C., and Johnson, D., 1993, Provenance discrimination of Paleozoic mudstones within a contact metamorphic aureole determined by REE, Th and Sc analyses, Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, p. 168.

33. Miller, J., Girty, G.H., and Girty, M.S., 1993, Harper Creek and Cuyamaca Reservoir gneisses, CLMSZ: Late Jurassic plutons of the Peninsular Ranges batholith: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, p. 122.

34. Hill, C.A., Skinner, J.E., Matusiak, M.R., Girty, G.H., Hanson, R.E., Harwood, D.S., Johnson, D., and Knaack, C., 1994, Petrology and geochemistry of the Middle Jurassic Black Buttes quartz monzodiorite, Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 59.

35. Lewis, J.G., Ridge, D.L., Al-Riyami, R., Ward, K.L., Yoshinobu, A.S., Girty, G.H., Johnson, D., and Knaack, C., 1994, Multiple sources determined by geochemical aspects, lower Paleozoic Shoo Fly Complex (SFC), Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 66 .

36. Girty, M.S., Thomson, C.N., Girty, G.H., Bracchi, K.A., and Miller, J., 1994, U-Pb zircon geochronology, Cuyamaca-Laguna mountains shear zone (CLMSZ), Peninsular Ranges, southern California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 54.

37. Harwood, D.S., Girty, G.H., Girty, M.S., and Hanson, R.E., 1994, Prebatholithic normal and right-oblique movement on the Talbot fault zone, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 57.

38. Kulow, M.J., Girty, G.H., Girty, M.S., Harwood, D.S., and Schweickert, R.A., 1994, Early Cretaceous ductile deformation associated with pluton emplacement in the northern Sierra terrane: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 64.

39. Skinner, J.E., Yoshinobu, A.S., Mongano, G.S., Pubentz, M.W., Schar, T.P., Girty, G.H., and Girty, M.S., 1994, Geochemistry, geochronology, and petrologic evolution of the Emigrant Gap composite pluton (EGCP): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 92.

40. Thomson, C.N., Girty, G.H., and Bracchi, K.A., 1994, Jurassic continental-arc magmatism and the record of Early Cretaceous normal convergence between the North American and Farallon plates: Cuyamaca-Laguna Mountains shear zone(CLMSZ), Peninsular Ranges Batholith (PRB), southern California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 98.

41. Yoshinobu, A.S., Skinner, J.E., and Girty, G.H., 1994, Ductile to brittle wall rock response during pluton emplacement, Emigrant Gap Composite Pluton (EGCP), northern Sierra Nevada, CA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 106.

42. Yoshinobu, A.S., and Girty, G.H., 1994, Mass transfer and volume loss during contact metamorphism: A possible "space-making" mechanism during pluton emplacement?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 106.

43. Hanson, R.E., Girty, G.H., and Harwood, D.S., 1994, Middle Jurassic evolution of the northern Sierra terrane: Large-scale tilting, deformation, and syn- to post-tectonic plutonism in a rapidly evolving arc: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.26, p. A-385.

44. Mielke, K., Hanson, R., Girty, G., Girty, M., Schweickert, R., 1995, Paleovolcanic and regional stratigraphic significance of Jurassic and Cretaceous island-are rocks in the Webber Peak quadrangle, Northern Sierra Terrane, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.27, no. 5, p. A-64.

45. Hargrove, U.S., Hanson, R.E., Girty, G.H., Harwood, D.S., 1995, Large-scale andesite-diorite peperite complex in subaqueous Jurassic arc-apron deposits, Northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.27, no. 5, p. A-24.

46. Phillipson, S.E., Hanson, R.E., Girty, G.H., Girty, M.S., 1995, Petrology, age, and structural relations of the composite Middle Jurassic Haypress Creek Pluton, Northern Sierra Terrane, Calif.: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.27, no. 5, p. A-71.

47. Lawrence, J., Cardenas, A.A., Girty, G.H., Schar, T.P., Knaack, C., and Johnson, D., 1996, Assessing differences in mudstone compositions: Implications for the Mojave-Snow Lake block hypothesis: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 5, p. 84.

48. Carmichael, D., and Girty, G.H., 1996, Volume change within the aureole of the La Posta pluton, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 5, p. 54.

49. Murray, G.T., and Girty, G.H., 1996, Pre-Jurassic deformation and metamorphism within the Julian Schist, Peninsular Ranges, southern California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 5, p. 95

50. Carmichael, D.L., Culotta, J.S., VanWyngaarden, HH., Gallarano, C.S., and Girty, G.H., 1996, Estimating volume and mass change in contact metamorphic aureoles: Implications for pluton emplacement mechanisms: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 7,.

51. Hill, C.A., Girty, G.H., Skinner, J.E., and Morrison, J.,1996, Petrogenesis of the Emigrant Gap pluton, northern Sierra Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 7.

52. Riley, B.C.D., Harding, J.P., Gehrels, G.E., Dickinson, W.R., Harwood, D.S., Girty, G.H., and Finney, S.C., 1997, Detrital zircon geochronology of lower Paleozoic strata of the northern Sierra terrane & Roberts Mountains allochthon: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 5, p. 59.

53. Hanson, R.E., Girty, G.H., Girty, M.S., Harwood, D.S., and Schweickert, R.A., 1997, Jurassic arc tectonics in the northern Sierra terrane, California, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29.

54. Howell, S.M., Girty, G.H., Girty, M.S., and Carrasco, T.P., 1998, Pluton-wallrock relationships, Emigrant Gap composite pluton (EGCP), CA: Implications for pluton emplacement mechanisms: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 5, p. 21

55. Binkin, M., Howell, S.M., and Girty, G.H., 1998, Assessing rock mass and volume change during mylonitization: A probalistic approach: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 5, p. 5

56. Reish, N.E., and Girty, G.H., 1998, Stress Analysis 98, a Visual Basic 5 program for analyzing stress: A tutorial approach: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 5, p. 61

57. Warren, H.N., Crow, L., and Girty, G.H., 1998, Statistical analysis of compositional data (SACD): A Visual Basic 5 (VB5) and Matlab 5.0 program for estimating power and  of the Student’s t test, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 5, p. 69

58. Burke, T., and Girty, G.H., 1998, A holistic appoach to evaluating the source rocks of meta-sandstones in the Shoo Fly Complex (SFC), CA, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 5, p. 7

59. Kulow, M., Hanson, R., Girty, G., Girty, M., and Harwood, D., 1998, Cretaceous plutonic rocks in the Donner Pass area, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Field relations and zircon geochronology, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 5, p. 49.

60. Warren, H.N., and Girty, G.H., 1998, Peale Chert: A case study for determining settings of chert-argillite units within complex metamorphic terranes, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.30, no.7, p. A-72

61. SacramentoGrilo, I., and Girty, G.H., 1998, Chemostratigraphy of the Peale chert in the northern Sierra terrane of California: Implications for plate movement patterns: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 7, p. A-72

62. Reish, N.E., and Girty, G.H., 1999, Visualizing Stress and Strain, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting (Official Program), San Antonio, Texas, p. A115-A116.

63. Girty, G.H., Gallarano, C., Reish, N., Miller, R., Carrasco, T., and Mellors, R., 2000, Dynamics of the Earth: A new perspective, The Sixth California State University Symposium on University Teaching: A Multidisciplinary Conference, p. 5.

64. Girty, G.H., Nielsen, J.L., Gasca, C., Rowland-Smith, A., Gray, R., Lovering, K., and Campbell, K., 2005, Structure and chemistry of Tertiary volcanics Picacho State Recreation Area: Implications for the transfer of Baja to the Pacific plate: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, p. 63.

65. Sisk, M., Rockwell, T., Girty, G.H., Dor, O., and Ben-Zion, Y., 2005, Potentially pulverized granites along the Garlock fault; An analysis of their physical and chemical properties, 2005 SCEC Annual Meeting Proceedings and Abstracts, v. XV, p. 184.

66. Girty, G.H., Canfield, A., Stephenson, D., Sisk, M., Middleton, T., and Verdugo, D., 2005, The Bear Canyon conglomerate and the timing of formation of the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium, SE California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, p.481.

67. Stephenson, D., and Girty, G.H., 2006, Constraining the source of the Orocopia Schist, SE California: A comparative study of the major and trace element chemistry of Cretaceous sandstones deposited in forearc settings; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, No. 5.

68. Sisk, M. Stillings, M, Rockwell, T., Girty, G.H., 2006, Pulverized rock along faults of the San Andreas system in southern California; Southern California Earthquake Center, 2006 SCEC Annual Meeting Proceedings and Abstracts, v. XVI, p. 165.

69. Biggs, M.A., Moniz, R.E., Girty, G.H., 2007, The ignimbrite of Ferguson Wash, the Bear Canyon conglomerate, and the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium, SE California: Evidence for Neogene reactivation of a regional scale long-lived fold and its tectonic implications; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 64.

70. Johnson, S.L., Martinez, C., Bearor, C.G., Hebeler, A., Rayburn, Z., and Girty, G.H., 2007, Petrological and chemical properties of corestone and saprolite, Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve (SMER), California: Evaluating models of their origin; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 25.

71. Stillings, M.P., Moniz, R.E., Biggs, M., Girty, G.H., and Rockwell T.K., 2007, Evidence for elemental and bulk mass redistribution associated with the development of an ultracataclastic fault core and damaged zone; Clark strand, San Jacinto fault zone, southern California; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 6.

72. Campbell, C.D., Van Zandt, A., Winther, P., Burgess, M., Johnson, S.L., Consentino, A., and Girty, G.H., 2007, Using TDR, Helium density, digital grain size analysis, and chemical data to characterize the physical properties of near surface fault zones: a proof-of-concept approach; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 6.

73. Biggs, M., Moniz, R., and Girty, G.H., 2007, Oligocene volcanic rocks, the Bear Canyon conglomerate, and the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium, SE California: Evidence for Neogene reactivation of a regional scale long-lived fold and its tectonic implications"; A symposium honoring the career of William R. Dickinson, Ores and Orogenesis, Program with Abstracts, Tucson, Arizona, p. 142.

74. Girty, G.H., and Carrasco, T., 2008, Using the Geoscience Concept Inventory (GCI) to assess the effectiveness of an online blended introductory geology class at San Diego State University; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 90.

75. Biggs, M., Girty, G.H., Kimbrough, D.L., Carrasco, T., and Kimbrough, J., 2008, The Lucky 5 and Oriflamme Canyon plutons: key temporal markers in the structural and tectonic evolution of the Peninsular Ranges batholith, SE California; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 98.

76. Johnson, S.L., Hebeler, A.K., Martinez, C.R., Biggs, M.A., and Girty, G.H., 2008, Saprolite-corestone development at Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve (SMER), Peninsular Ranges, California: Clues to the onset of chemical weathering in a Mediterranean climate; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 36.

77. Ricketts, J.W., Voyles, E.M., Sainsbury, J.S., Sutton, L.A., and Girty, G.H., 2010, Middle-Late Miocene growth of a depression in the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium, as recorded by the Bear Canyon conglomerate, SE California; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, p. 68.

78. Sainsbury, J.S., Ricketts, J.S., Muela, K.K., and Girty, G.H., 2010, The Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium: Miocence-growth and re-activation recorded in volcanics and alluvial gravels, Indian Pass to Carrizo Wash, SE California; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, p. 69

79. Page, B.R. and Girty, G.H., 2010, Assessing the statistical significance of mass and volume changes in the development of saprock from corestone near the Elsinore fault zone, San Diego County, California: potential implications for ground shaking events; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, p. 95.

80. Sutton, L.A., Ricketts, J.W., Sainsbury, J.S., Gordon, E.M., Hasten, Z.E.L., and Girty, G.H., 2010, The Copper Basin fault, a newly defined regional reverse fault in the lower Colorado River region, SE California: implications for the initiation of the ECSZ;Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, p. 108.

81.
Bethel-Thompson, C.E.M, Sainsbury, J.S., Ricketts, J.W., Girty, G.H., and Kimbrough, D.L., 2010, Structural history of a segment of the Peninsular Ranges batholith (PRB), southern California: new evidence for pre-130 Ma and post- to syn-116 Ma deformation, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, p. 108.

82. Colby, T.A., Voyles, E.M., Rayburn, T.L., Carrasco, T.L., and Girty, G.H., 2012, Toward a unified model for the weathering of granitoids: the case for K-feldspar deficient systems, Geological Society of American Abstracts with Programs, v. 44, no. 3.

83. Mitchell, T.M., Girty, G.H., Morton, N., and Rockwell, T.K., 2012, Permeability structure of the San Jacinto fault zone, Horse Canyon, California, Seismological Society of America National Meeting, San Diego, California.

84. Morton, N., Girty, G.H., and Rockwell, T.K., 2012, Fault zone architecture of the San Jacinto fault zone, Seismological Society of America National Meeting, San Diego, California.

85. Maroun, M., Replogle, C.T., Carrasco, T.L., Colby, T.A., Girty, G.H., and Rockwell, T.K., 2012, Speculations on the rold of ground shaking in the production of high dilational volumetric strains in saprock adjacent to the Elsinore fault, southern California, Seismological Society of America National Meeting, San Diego, California.

86. Vierra, E.J., Webb, H.N., Dennis, K., Peppard, D.W., Girty, G.H., & Rockwell, T.K., 2017,          Recognition of a dismembered positive flower structure along the San Jacinto Fault: structural and stratigraphic implications, SCEC Annual meeting 2017, Proceedings Volume XXVII, p. 86.

87. Vierra, E.J., Flynn, B. A., Bermudez, M. S., Webb, H.N., Girty, G.H., and Rockwell, T.K., 2018, Assessing off-fault damage during development of a dismembered flower structure, SCEC Annual meeting 2018, Proceedings Volume XXVIII, p. 197.

88. Vierra, E.J., Webb, H.N., Peppard, D. W., Flynn, B. A., Bermudez, M. S., and Girty, G. H., 2018, Rheological controls on damage intensity, San Jacinto Fault, southern California, GSA Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran joint Section meeting