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Selected Works of Elizabeth R. Schermer

Professor, Department of Geology

Areas of Expertise
Application of structural geology, metamorphic petrology, and geochronology to problems in continental tectonics; tectonic geomorphology and active faulting at continental margins.

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About Elizabeth R. Schermer

Areas of Expertise
Application of structural geology, metamorphic petrology, and geochronology to problems in continental tectonics; tectonic geomorphology and active faulting at continental margins.

Present	Faculty Member, Western Washington University ‐ Western Expert
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Present	Professor, Department of Geology, Western Washington University ‐ Department of Geology
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Geology and Geophysics and Seismology

Application of structural geology, metamorphic petrology, and geochronology to problems in continental tectonics and Tectonic geomorphology and active faulting at continental margins

Structural Geology with lab
Structural Geology of Washington Field course
Principles of Orogeny Seminar
Advanced Topics in Structural Geology
Field Theory
Field Methods
Physical Geology

Phone: (360) 650-3658

Fax: (360) 650-7302

Office: ES 438

Lab: ES 108

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Articles (20)

Subduction Initiation and Early Evolution of the Easton Metamorphic Suite ...

Lithosphere (2019)

Jeremy L. Cordova, Sean R Mulcahy, Elizabeth R. Schermer and Laura E. Webb

The Easton metamorphic suite, in the northwest Cascades of Washington State, preserves an inverted metamorphic sequence with ultramafic rocks underlain ...

Holocene fault reactivation in the eastern Cascades, Washington

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2018)

Benjamin M. Carlson, Elizabeth R. Schermer, Colin B. Amos, William J. Stephenson, et al.

Significant uncertainty remains concerning how and where crustal shortening occurs throughout the eastern Cascade Range in Washington State. Using light ...

U-Pb and Hf Isotopic Evidence for an Arctic Origin of ...

Geosphere (2018)

Elizabeth R. Schermer, Eric A. Hoffnagle, Edwin H. Brown, George E. Gehrels, et al.

New field, U-Pb, and Lu-Hf zircon data constrain the geologic history, age, and origin of the Yellow Aster Complex (YAC) ...

Holocene earthquakes of magnitude 7 during westward escape of the ...

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2017)

Alan R. Nelson, Stephen F. Personius, Ray E. Wells, Elizabeth R. Schermer, et al.

The Lake Creek–Boundary Creek fault, previously mapped in Miocene bedrock as an oblique thrust on the north flank of the ...

Slip rate estimates and slip gradient for the Alpine Fault ...

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics (2017)

R. M. Langridge, W. F. Ries, J. F. Dolan, E. R. Schermer, et al.

The dextral–reverse Alpine Fault offsets alluvial terraces of the Maruia River at Calf Paddock. RTK‐GPS surveying of the faulted terraces ...

Regional and temporal variability of melts during a Cordilleran magma ...

Geological Society of America Bulletin (2017)

A.P. Barth, J.L. Wooden, David M. Miller, Keith A. Howard, et al.

Intrusive rock sequences in the central and eastern Mojave Desert segment of the Jurassic Cordilleran arc of the western United ...

Geomorphology and Topography of Relict Surfaces: the influence of inherited ...

Journal of the Geological Society (2017)

Elizabeth R. Schermer, Thomas F. Redfield, Kjetil Indrevær and Steffen G. Bergh

Low-relief surfaces in northern Norway are mapped and analysed to explore (1) whether surfaces were once continuous and possibly correlative, ...

Paleoseismic evidence for late Holocene tectonic deformation along the Saddle ...

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2015)

Elizabeth A. Barnett, Brian L. Sherrod, Jonathan F. Hughes, Harvey M. Kelsey, et al.

Trench and wetland coring studies show that northeast‐striking strands of the Saddle Mountain fault zone ruptured the ground about 1000 ...

Holocene Earthquakes and Right-lateral Slip on the Left-lateral Darrington-Devils Mountain ...

Geosphere (2014)

Stephen F. Personius, Richard W. Briggs, Alan R. Nelson, Elizabeth R. Schermer, et al.

Sources of seismic hazard in the Puget Sound region of northwestern Washington include deep earthquakes associated with the Cascadia subduction ...

Post-Caledonian Brittle Fault Zones on the Hyperextended SW Barents Sea ...

Norwegian Journal of Geology (2013)

Kjetil Indrevær, Steffen G. Bergh, Jean-Baptiste Koehl, John-Are Hansen, et al.

Onshore-offshore correlation of brittle faults and tectonic lineaments has been undertaken along the SW Barents Sea margin off northern Norway. ...

Holocene Tectonics and Fault Reactivation in the Foothills of the ...

Geosphere (2013)

Elizabeth R. Schermer, Brian L. Sherrod, Elizabeth Barnett, Harvey M. Kelsey, et al.

We use LiDAR imagery to identify two fault scarps on latest Pleistocene glacial outwash deposits along the North Fork Nooksack ...

Late Holocene Rupture History of the Alpine Fault in South ...

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2012)

Kelvin Berryman, Alan Cooper, Richard Norris, Pilar Villamor, et al.

Abstract Strata and fault relationships revealed in five trenches excavated across the recent trace of the Alpine fault at the ...

Geometry, Microstructures, and Magnetic Fabrics of Kink Bands in the ...

Journal of Structual Geology (2011)

Bernard A. Housen, Rachel E. Dunham, Juliet G. Crider, Russell F. Burmester, et al.

Field, thin section, and magnetic fabric analyses of monoclinal, contractional kink bands in the Darrington Phyllite of northwestern Washington, USA, ...

Relationship of Voluminous Ignimbrites to Continental Arc Plutons: Petrology of ...

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2010)

Elizabeth R. Schermer, N. K. Fohey-Breting, A. P. Barth, J. L. Wooden, et al.

Volcanism was broadly associated in both space and time with Mesozoic plutonism in the Cordillera continental margin arc, but the ...

Quaternary Deformation Along the Wharekauhau Fault System, North Island, New ...

Tectonics (2009)

Elizabeth R. Schermer, Timothy A. Little and Uwe Rieser

The southern Wairarapa region of the North Island of New Zealand preserves a variably deformed late Quaternary stratigraphic sequence that ...

Late Holocene Surface Ruptures on the Southern Wairarapa Fault, New ...

Lithosphere (2009)

Elizabeth R. Schermer, T. A. Little, R. Van Dissen and R. Carne

The Holocene beach ridges at Turakirae Head, New Zealand, are remarkable because the fault that caused their uplift is accessible ...

Arc-parallel Extension and Fluid Flow in an Ancient Accretionary Wedge ...

The Geological Society of America Bulletin (2007)

Elizabeth R. Schermer, John R. Gillaspy and Rynn Lamb

Structural analysis of the Lopez Structural Complex, a major Late Cretaceous terrane-bounding fault zone in the San Juan thrust system, ...

Active Faults, Paleoseismology and Historical Fault Rupture in the Northern ...

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics (2004)

Elizabeth R. Schermer, R. Van Dissen, K. R. Berryman, H. M. Kelsey, et al.

Active faulting in the upper plate of the Hikurangi subduction zone, North Island, New Zealand, represents a significant seismic hazard ...

Late Cenozoic Structure and Tectonics of the Northern Mojave Desert

Tectonics (1996)

Elizabeth R. Schermer, B. P. Luyendyk and S. Cisowski

In the Fort Irwin region of the northern Mojave desert, late Cenozoic east striking sinistral faults predominate over northwest striking ...

Temperature-Time History of Subducted Continental-Crust, Mount Olympos Region, Greece

Tectonics (1990)

Elizabeth R. Schermer, Daniel R. Lux and B. Clark Burchfiel

In the Mt. Olympos region of northeastern Greece, continental margin strata and basement rocks were subducted and metamorphosed under blueschist ...

Contribution to Book

Tectonic Evolution of the San Juan Islands Thrust System, Washington

Fire, Faults, and Floods: Geological Field Trips in Washington State and Southwest British Columbia (2007)

Bernard A. Housen, Elizabeth R. Schermer and Edwin H. Brown