Publication List

Journal Articles in preparation:

Pignotta, G.S. and Pateson S.R., An evaluation of structures indicating paleovertical and younging directions in magma chambers: Implications for evaluating incremental growth models.

Pignotta, G.S., Lund, S.P. and Paterson, S.R., Paleomagnetism of the central Sierra Nevada batholith: Local and regional implications.

Okaya, D., Pignotta, G.S., and Paterson, S.R. Thermo-mechanical disintegration of stoped blocks in magma chambers: An example from the Mitchell Intrusive Suite, Sierra Nevada, California.

Lund, S.P., Paterson, S.R., Pignotta, G.S. and Anderson, J.L., Paleomagnetism of the Mt. Stuart Batholith:  Reassessment of discordant paleomagnetic results.

Lund, S.P., Paterson, S.R., Pignotta, G.S. and Anderson, J.L., Examination of rock magnetism in the Mt. Stuart batholith and its implications for paleomagnetic interpretations.

Paterson, S.R, Pignotta, G.S. and Okaya, D., Magma and host rock rheology during fabric formation: Lessons learned from an andesitic raft in the Jackass Lakes pluton, Sierra Nevada, California.

 

Journal Articles:

Pignotta, G.S., Paterson, S.R., Coyne, C., and Anderson, J.L. Testing models for the incremental growth of magma chambers: Construction of the Jackass Lakes pluton, central Sierra Nevada batholith. Submitted, Geosphere.

Pignotta, G.S. and Paterson, S.R., Voluminous stoping in the Mitchell Intrusive Suite, Sierra Nevada batholith, California. In press, Canadian Mineralogist.

Paterson, S.R., Pignotta, G.S and Vernon, R.H., 2003, Evaluating the quantitative significance

     of microgranitoid enclave shapes and orientations. Journal of Structural Geology, v.26, pp. 1465-1481.

Benn, K., Paterson, S. R., Lund, S. P., Pignotta, G. S. & Kruse, S. 2001. Magmatic fabrics in batholiths as markers of regional strains and plate kinematics: Example of the Cretaceous Mt. Stuart batholith. Phys. Chem. Earth (A) 26(4-5), 343-354.

Pignotta, G.S. and Benn, K., 1999,  Magnetic fabrics of the Barrington Passage pluton,  Meguma  Terrane, Nova Scotia:  a two-stage fabric history of syntectonic emplacement. Tectonophysics,  v.307, pp. 75-92.

Benn, K., Ham, N.M., Pignotta, G.S. and Bleeker, W., 1998, Emplacement and deformation of granites during transpression:  magnetic fabrics of the Archean Sparrow pluton, Slave Province, Canada. Journal of Structural Geology, v.20, pp. 1247-1259.

Benn, K., Horne, R.J., Kontak, D.J., Pignotta, G.S. and Evans, N.G., 1997, Syn-Acadian emplacement  model for the South Mountain batholith, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia:  magnetic fabric and  structural analyses. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.109, pp. 1279-1293.

Ham, N., Benn, K., Pignotta, G.S. and Bleeker, W., 1997, Magnetic fabrics in the Sparrow granite pluton:  markers of the late Archean strain field in the southern Yellowknife Domain, Slave Province, Canada. Lithoprobe Report, v.56, p.210.

 

 

Abstracts:

Pignotta, G.S., Paterson, S.R. and Zak, J., 2005, An Evaluation Of Younging Direction And Paleovertical Indicators In Magma Chambers. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7.

Pignotta, G.S., Paterson, S.R. and Coyne, C.M., 2005, The Jackass Lakes Pluton: Evidence For Complex Spatial And Temporal Magma Chamber Evolution In The Sierra Nevada Batholith. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 4.

Coyne, C.M., Pignotta, G.S., Paterson, S.R., and Anderson, J.L., 2004, Magma Mixing/Mingling In A Heterogeneous Multi-Pulse Magmatic System: Evidence From Jackass Lakes Pluton, Central Sierra Nevada Batholith. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 4.

Pignotta, G.S. and Paterson, S.R., 2003, Magma chamber construction and evolution: Constraints from the Jackass Lakes pluton, central Sierra Nevada. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 35, No. 6.

Lund, S.P., Paterson, S.R., Pignotta, G.S. and Anderson, J.L., 2003, Paleomagnetism and rock magnetism of the Mt. Stuart Batholith:  Reassessment of discordant paleomagnetic results. GAC-MAC-SEG 2003 Abstracts, Volume 28.

Pignotta, G.S. and Paterson, S.R., 2002, Mafic microgranitoid enclaves: Strain markers, fabric elements or blobs of deception? GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 34, No. 5.

Pignotta, G.S., Paterson, S.R., and Okaya, D., 2001, Cracking the stoping paradigm:  Field and modeling constraints from the Sierra Nevada batholith. EOS Trans. AGU, Vol. 82, No. 6.

Pignotta, G.S. and Paterson, S.R., 2001, The role of stoping in the evolution of magmatic systems: Field and modeling constraints from plutons in the Sierra Nevada batholith California. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 33, No. 6.

Pignotta, G.S., Paterson, S.R., and Pettersson, D., 2001, Voluminous stoping in the Mitchell Peak  Granodiorite, Sierra Nevada, California. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 33, No.3.

Yoshinobu, A.S., Pignotta, G.S. and Schmidt, K.L., 2000, Geometry of intrusion and magma migration in  the Tortuga Ophiolite, Chilean Tierra del Fuego. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 32, No. 7.

Albertz, M., Wetmore, P. H., Potter, M. E., Pignotta, G. S., Andreasson, G., Paterson, S. R.,  2000, How do magma chamber host rock systems evolve through time? GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 32, No. 6.

Pignotta, G.S., Paterson, S.R., and Sammis, C.G., 1999,  Thermally and mechanically driven cracking at magma-host rock contacts:  Implications for stoping in plutons.  EOS Trans. AGU, Vol. 80, No. 46.

Pignotta, G.S. and Benn, K., 1998, Magnetic fabrics of the syntectonic Barrington Passage pluton  Meguma Terrane:  a record of Acadian folding. Geological Association of Canada Abstracts with  Programs, v.28.

Pignotta, G.S. and Benn, K., 1998, Emplacement and polyphase magmatic (?) deformation of the syn-Acadian Barrington Passage pluton, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia. GSA Abstracts with  Programs, v.30.