Teaching:
Historical Geology
Structural Geology (Undergraduate
and Graduate)
Regional Geology and Tectonics
Field Geology (Undergraduate and
Graduate)
Geochronological/Isotopic
Techniques
Tectonics
Research
Grants:
National Science Foundation, 2001, "ITR/IM:
Collaborative Research:
Development of a Western North American Volcanic and Intrusive Rock
Database." Co-PI with R. Black.
Geothermal
Program Office, Department of the Navy, 2001, "Integrated Study of the Slate Range Crossing
Tectonic Zone." Co-PI with D. L. Kamola.
Geothermal Program Office, Department
of the Navy. "The
relationship of crustal density and magmatism in extensional
environments." Co-PI with R. Black.
Naval
Air Warfare Center, China Lake, 1997-2000, "Advanced GIS Applications to
Geology and Geophysics, including Global Positioning Satellite Based Geologic
Mapping." Co-PI with R. Black and D.L. Kamola.
Naval Air Warfare Center,
China Lake, 1997-2001, "Geologic and Geophysical Synthesis of the
Southwestern Basin and Range and Mojave Desert." $60,048. Co-PI with R. Black, D.L.
Kamola, and A.F. Glazner.
Recent Publications:
Walker, J.D., Martin,
M.W., and Glazner, A.F., in press, Late Paleozoic to Mesozoic development of the
Mojave Desert and environs, in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley,
J.M., editors, Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin
and Range: Geological Society of America Memoir.
Glazner, A.F.,
Walker, J.D., Bartley, J.M., and Fletcher, J.M., in press, Cenozoic evolution
of the Mojave block, southern California, in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and
Bartley, J.M., editors, Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and
Southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Memoir.
Martin, M.W., Walker,
J.D., and Fletcher, J.M., in press, Timing of middle to late Jurassic ductile
deformation and implications for paleotectonic setting, Shadow Mountains,
western Mojave Desert, California, in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and
Bartley, J.M., editors, Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and
Southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Memoir.
Miller, J.S., and
Walker, J.D., in press, Mesozoic geologic evolution of Alvord Mountain,
California and its bearing on tectonics of the Jurassic Cordilleran arc, in
Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors, Geologic Evolution
of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of
America Memoir.
Linn, J.K., Walker, J.D.,
and Bartley, J.M., in press, Late Cenozoic crustal contraction in the Kramer
Hills, west-central Mojave Desert, California, in Glazner, A.F., Walker,
J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors, Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and
Southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Memoir.
Monastero, F.C.,
Walker, J.D., Katzenstein, A.M., and Sabin, A.E., in press, Neogene Evolution
of the Indian Wells Valley, east-central California, in Glazner, A.F.,
Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors, Geologic Evolution of the Mojave
Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of America
Memoir.
Black, R.A., Walker,
J.D., and Baker, G., in press, Three-dimensional gravity modeling and crustal
density variations, Panamint Range to the eastern Sierras, southeastern
California, in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors,
Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range:
Geological Society of America Memoir.
Walker, J.D., Berry,
A.K., Davis, P.J., Andrew, J.E., and Mitsdarfer, J.M., in press, Geologic
compilation map of the northern Mojave Desert and southwestern Basin and
Range Province, in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors,
Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range:
Geological Society of America Memoir.
Wang, K., Plank, T.,
Walker, J.D., and Smith, E.I., in press, A mantle melting profile across the
Basin and Range, SW USA: Journal of Geophysical Research.
Coleman, D.S.,
Walker, J.D., Bartley, J.M., and Hodges, K.V., 2001, Thermochronologic
evidence for footwall deformation during extensional core complex
development, Mineral Mountains, Utah: Utah Geological Association Publication
30 - Pacific Section
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Publication GB78, p. 155-168.
Schermer, E.R,
Stephens, K.A, and Walker, J.D., 2001, Paleogeographic and tectonic
implications of the geology of the Tiefort Mountains, northern Mojave Desert,
California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 920-938.
McLelland, J.,
Hamilton, M., Selleck, B., McLelland, J., Walker, J.D., and Orell, S., 2001,
Geochronologic constraints on the age of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondack
Highlands, New York and regional implications: Precambrian Research, v. 109,
p. 39-72.
Stockli, D.F, Linn,
J.K., Walker, J.D., and Dumitru, T.A., 2001, Miocene unroofing of the Canyon
Range during extension along the Sevier Desert detachment, west-central Utah:
Tectonics, vol. 20, p. 289-307.
Walker, J.D.,
and Black, R.A, 2000, Mapping
the outcrop: Geotimes, vol. 45, no. 11, p. 28-31.
Taylor, W.J.,
Bartley, J.M., Martin, M.W., Geissman, J.W., Walker, J.D., Armstrong, P.A.,
and Fryxell, J.E., 2000, Relation between hinterland and foreland shortening,
Sevier orogeny, central North American Cordillera: Tectonics, v. 19, p.
1124-1143.
Smith, E.I., Sanchez,
A., Walker, J.D., and Wang, K., 1999, Geochemistry of mafic magmas in the
Hurricane volcanic field, Utah: Implications for small- and large-scale
chemical variability of the lithospheric mantle: Journal of Geology, vol.
107, p. 433-448.
Walker, J.D., and
Glazner, A.F., 1999, Tectonic development of the California Deserts:
Geological Society of America Special Paper 338, p. 375-380.
