JOHN M BARTLEY portrait
  • Professor Emeritus, Geology & Geophysics
801-585-1670

Research Statement

Bartley has worked on varied problems in field-based structural geology and regional tectonics. Recent field research has particularly focused on processes during the growth of igneous intrusions and involves field studies in the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Mountains. Other research has concerned the Cordilleran orogen of the western U.S., including (1) the origins of low-angle normal faults and of the metamorphic core complexes thus generated, (2) time-space patterns of magmatism and tectonism, and implications for models for continental extension, (3) Mesozoic contractional systems and their relations to subsequent extensional tectonics, and (4) Cretaceous to Recent, dextral transpressional tectonics in the southwestern United States

Presentations

  • Bartley, J. M., Glazner, A. F., Coleman, D. S., and Law, B., 2009, Ladder dikes in the Cathedral Peak granodiorite: Migrating fingered dikes?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, No. 7, p. 59. Conference Paper, Other, 2009.
  • Johnson, B.W., Bowman, J. R., Nash, B. P., Bartley, J. M., and Valley, J. W., 2009, TitaniQ, cathodoluminescence and Oxygen isotope analyses of the Alta stock: Geochemical insights into pluton assembly: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, No. 7, p. 58. Conference Paper, Other, 2009.
  • Stearns, M., Bartley, J. M., Clemons, K., 2009, Coalescence of slipped joints in granitic plutons to form the West Pinnacle fault, Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, No. 7, p. 458. Poster, Other, 2009.