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Papoose Flat Pluton Bibliography

• Brigham, R.H., 1984. K-feldspar genesis and stable isotope relations of the Papoose Flat pluton, Inyo Mountains, California. PhD Dissertation, Stanford University 172 p.
• Law, R. D., S. S. Morgan, M. Casey, A. G. Sylvester, and M. Nyman, 1992. The Papoose Flat pluton of eastern California: A reassessment of its emplacement history in the light of new microstructural and crystallographic fabric observations. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 83, 361-375.
• Law, R. D., S. S. Morgan, M. Casey, A. G. Sylvester, and M. Nyman, 1992. The Papoose Flat pluton of eastern California: a reassessment of its emplacement history in the light of new microstructural and crystallographic fabric observations, pp. 361-376 in Brown, P. E., and B. W. Chappel, Editors, The Second Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granites and Related Rocks. Geological Society of America Special Paper 272, 506 p.
• Law, R. D., A. G. Sylvester, C. A. Nelson, S. S. Morgan, and M. W. Nyman, 1993. Deformation associated with emplacement of the Papoose Flat pluton, Inyo Mountains, eastern California: Geologic overview and field guide, pp. 231-260, in Lahren, M. M., Trexler, J. H., Jr., and C. Spinosa, editors, Crustal Evolution of the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada. Field Trip Guidebook for the 1993 Joint Meeting of the Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain Sections of the Geological Society of America, Reno, Nevada, 19-21 May, 1993. Department of Geological Sciences, Mackay School of Mines, Univ. Nevada, Reno, 498 p.

• Morgan, S.S., 1992. Strain path partitioning during forceful emplacement of the Papoose Flat Pluton, Inyo Mountains, CA. MSc thesis, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, 126 p.
• Morgan, S.S., R.D. Law, and M.W. Nyman, 1998. Laccolith-like emplacement model for the Papoose Flat pluton based on porphyroblast-matrix analysis: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 96-110.
• Morgan, S.S., R.D. Law, and M. de Saint Blanquat, 2000. Papoose Flat, Eureka Valley–Joshua Flat–Beer Creek, and Sage Hen Flat plutons: Examples of rising, sinking, and cookie-cutter plutons in the central White–Inyo Range, eastern California. GSA Field Guide 2: Great Basin and Sierra Nevada, 189–204.
• Nelson, C. A., G. Oertel, J. M. Christie, and A. G. Sylvester, 1977. Geologic map, cross sections and palinspastic geologic map of Papoose Flat pluton, Inyo Mountains, California. Geological Society of America Map and Chart Series 20.
• Nyman, M.W., R.D. Law, and S.S. Morgan, 1995. Conditions of contact metamorphism, Papoose Flat pluton, eastern California, USA: implications for cooling and strain histories: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 13, p. 627-643.
• Paterson, S.R, Tom Brudos, Ken Fowler, Chris Carlson, Kim Bishop, and R.H. Vernon, 1991. Papoose Flat Pluton; forceful expansion or postemplacement deformation? Geology 1991 19 (4), 324-327.
• Saint-Blanquat, M. de, R.D. Law, J-L. Bouchez, and S.S. Morgan, 2001. Internal structure and emplacement of the Papoose Flat pluton: An integrated structural, petrographic, and magnetic susceptibility study. Geological Society of America Bulletin 113 (8), 976-995.

• Sylvester, A.G., 1966. Structural and metamorphic petrology of the Papoose Flat pluton, Inyo Mountains, California. PhD Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 162 p.
• Sylvester, A. G., and J. M. Christie, 1968. The origin of crossed-girdle orientations of optic axes in deformed quartzites. Journal of Geology 76 (5), 571-580.
• Sylvester, A. G., 1969. A microfabric study of calcite, dolomite and quartz around Papoose Flat pluton, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 80 (7), 1311-1327.
• Sylvester, A. G., G. Oertel, C. A. Nelson, and J. M. Christie, 1978. Papoose Flat pluton: A granitic blister in the Inyo Mountains, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 89, 1205-1219.

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