Publications


Appelgate, B., Goldfinger, C., Kulm, L.D., MacKay, M., Fox, C.G., Embley, R.W., and Meis, P.J., 1992, A left lateral strike slip fault seaward of the central  Oregon convergent margin: Tectonics,  v. 11,  p. 465-477. 

Bellman, M., Heppell, S., Goldfinger C., in press, Evaluation of a U.S. West Coast Groundfish Habitat Conservation Regulation via Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Trawl Fishing Effort, in Greene and Todd, eds., Marine Geological and Benthic Habitat Mapping: Geological Association of Canada Special Publication.

Chaytor, J.D., Goldfinger, C., Dziak, R.P., and Fox, C.G., 2004, Active deformation of the Gorda plate: Constraining deformation models with new geophysical data: Geology, v. 32, p. 353-356. 

Chaytor, J.D., 2006, Diffuse Deformation Patterns Along the North American Plate Boundary Zone,
Offshore Western United States, PhD Thesis, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 299 p. Huge file!

Copps, S., Parkes, G., Wakefield , W., Yoklavich, M., Bailey, A., Goldfinger, C., Greene, G., In Press,  Integration of Geology and Fish Ecology to Assess U.S. West Coast Essential Fish Habitat for Groundfishes at the Scale of the Exclusive Economic Zone: in Todd, B.J., and Greene, G., eds., Mapping the Seafloor for Habitat Characterization: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 47, p. xx-xx.

Dziak, R.P., Fox, C.G., Bobbitt, A., and Goldfinger, C., 2001, Bathymetric Map of the Gorda Plate: Structural and Geomorphological Processes Inferred from Mulitbeam Surveys, v. 22, p. 235-250. 

Embley, R.W., Merle, S., Yeats, R.S., Goldfinger, C., Reynolds, J., and Clague, D., In Press, A Forearc Section of the Cascadia Subduction Zone at Heceta Bank off Oregon Revealed by High-Resolution Imagery: Extension of Geologic Mapping to the Continental Shelf: Marine Geology.

Goldfinger, C., Kulm, L.D., and Yeats, R.S., 1992, Neotectonic map of the Oregon continental margin and adjacent abyssal plain: Portland, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open-File Report O-92-4, scale 1:500,000
Arc Shapefiles

Goldfinger, C., Kulm, L.D., Yeats, R.S., Appelgate, B., MacKay, M., and Moore, G.F., 1992, Transverse structural trends along the Oregon convergent margin: implications for Cascadia earthquake potential: Geology,  v. 20, p. 141-144. 

Goldfinger, C., Kulm, L.D., Yeats, R.S., Hummon, C., Huftile, G.J., Niem, A.R., Fox, C.G., and McNeill, L.C., 1996, Oblique strike-slip faulting of the Cascadia submarine forearc:  The Daisy Bank fault zone off central Oregon, in Bebout, G.E., Scholl, D., Kirby, S., and Platt, J.P., eds., Subduction top to bottom, Volume Geophysical Monograph 96: Geophysical Monograph: Washington, D. C., American Geophysical Union, p. 65-74.

Goldfinger, C., Kulm, L.D., Yeats, R.S., Appelgate, B., MacKay, M., and Cochrane, G.R., 1996, Active strike-slip faulting and folding of the Cascadia plate boundary and forearc in central and northern Oregon, in Rogers, A.M., Walsh, T.J., Kockelman, W.J., and Priest, G., eds., Assessing and reducing earthquake hazards in the Pacific Northwest, Volume I,  Professional Paper 1560, U.S. Geological Survey,  p. 223-256. 

Goldfinger, C., Kulm, L.D., Yeats, R.S., McNeill, L.C., and Hummon, C., 1997, Oblique strike-slip faulting of the central Cascadia submarine forearc: Journal of Geophysical Research,  v. 102,  p. 8217-8243. 

Goldfinger, C., and McNeill, L.C., 1997, Case study of GIS data integration and visualization in submarine tectonic investigations: Cascadia subduction zone: Marine Geodesy,  v. 20, p. 267-289. 

Goldfinger, C., 1999, Active Tectonics: Data Acquisition and Analysis with Marine GIS , in Wright, D. J., and Bartlett, D. J., eds., Marine and Coastal Geographic Information Systems: London , Taylor and Francis, Research Monographs in GIS, p. 237-254.

Goldfinger, C., Kulm, L.D., McNeill, L.C., and Watts, P., 2000, Super-scale failure of the southern Oregon Cascadia margin: Pure and Applied Geophysics,  v. 157,. p. 1189-1226. 

Goldfinger, C., Dziak,, R., and Fox, C., 2002Offshore structure of the Juan de Fuca Plate from marine seismic and sonar studies, in: Kirby, Stephen, Wang, Kelin, and Dunlop, Susan, eds., 2002, The Cascadia Subduction Zone and Related Subduction Systems-Seismic Structure, Intraslab Earthquakes and Processes, and Earthquake Hazards: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-328, 169 p. on 1 CD-ROM, and Geological Survey of Canada Open File 4350 p. 23-26. 

Goldfinger, C., Romsos, C., Robison, R., Milstein, R., and Myers, S. A, 2002, Interim Seafloor Lithology Maps for Oregon and Washington, Oregon State University Active Tectonics  and Seafloor Mapping Laboratory Publication 02-01, 1 digital multilayer map on CD, and text, 11 pp. 

Goldfinger, C., Nelson, C.H., and Johnson, J.E., 2003, Deep-Water Turbidites as Holocene Earthquake Proxies: The Cascadia Subduction Zone and Northern San Andreas Fault Systems: Annali Geofisica, v. 46, p. 1169-1194. 

—, 2003, Holocene Earthquake Records From the Cascadia Subduction Zone and Northern San Andreas Fault Based on Precise Dating of Offshore Turbidites: Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 31, p. 555-577. 

Goldfinger, C., Morey, A.E., Nelson, C.H., Gutiérrez-Pastor, J., Johnson, J.E., Karabanov, E., Chaytor, J., Ericsson, A., and shipboard scientific party, 2007, Rupture lengths and temporal history of significant earthquakes on the Offshore and Northcoast segments of the Northern San Andreas Fault based on turbidite stratigraphy, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 254, p. 9-27.

Goldfinger, C., Grijalva, K., Burgmann, R., Morey, A.E., Johnson, J.E., Nelson, C.H., Gutierrez-Pastor, J., Karabanov, E., Chaytor, J.D., Patton, J., and Gracia, E., 2008, Late Holocene Rupture of the Northern San Andreas Fault and Possible Stress Linkage to the Cascadia Subduction Zone, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 98, p. 861-889. BSSA paper

Johnson, J.E., C. Goldfinger, N.L. Bangs, A.M. Tréhu, and J. Chevallier, In revision, Structural vergence variation and clockwise block rotation in the Hydrate Ridge region, Cascadia accretionary wedge offshore Oregon.

Johnson, J.E., Goldfinger, C., and Suess, E., 2003, Geophysical constraints on the surface distribution of authigenic carbonates aross the Hydrate Ridge region, Cascadia margin: Marine Geology, v. 202, p. 79-110. 

Johnson, J.E., Goldfinger, C, Trehu, A.M., Bangs, N., Torres, M.E., and Chevallier, J., 2005, North-south variability in the history of deformation and fluid venting across hydrate ridge, Cascadia margin, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, Volume 204.

Lanier, A., Romsos, C., and Goldfinger, C., 2007, Seafloor Habitat Mapping on the OregonContinental Margin: A Spatially Nested GIS Approach to Mapping Scale, Mapping Methods, and Accuracy Quantification, Marine Geodesy, v. 30, p. 1-26

Legg, M., Nicholson, C.,  Goldfinger, C., Milstein, R., Kamerling, M., 2004  Large Enigmatic Crater Structures Offshore Southern California: Geophysical Journal International, v.159, n.2, p.803-815. 

McCaffrey, R., and Goldfinger, C., 1995, Forearc deformation and great earthquakes:  Implications for Cascadia earthquake potential: Science,  v. 267, p. p. 856-859. 

McCaffrey, R., Long, M., Goldfinger, C., Nabelek, J., Johnson, C., Zwick, P., and Smith, C., 2000, Rotation and plate locking at the southern Cascadia subduction zone: Geophys. Res. Letts.,  v. 27,  p. 3117-3120. 

McNeill, L.C., Goldfinger, C., Kulm, L.D., and Yeats, R.S., 2000, Tectonics of the Neogene Cascadia forearc basin: Investigations of a deformed late Miocene unconformity: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 112, p. 1209-1224. 

McNeill, L.C., Goldfinger, C., Yeats, R.S., and Kulm, L.D., 1998, The effects of upper plate deformation on records of prehistoric Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes, in Stewart, I.S., and Vita-Finzi, C., eds., Coastal Tectonics, Volume Special Publications 146: London, Geological Society,  pp. 321-342. icon

McNeill, L.C., Piper, K.A., Goldfinger, C., Kulm, L.D., and Yeats, R.S., 1997, Listric normal faulting on the Cascadia continental margin: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 102, p. 12,123-12,138. 

Miller, M., Dragert, H., Endo, E., Freymueller, J.T., Goldfinger, C., Kelsey, H.M., Humphreys, E.D., Johnson, D.J., McCaffrey, R.M., Oldow, J.S., Qamar, A., and Rubin, C.M., 1998, Precise measurements help gauge Pacific Northwest's Earthquake potential: EOS, v. 79, p. 269-275.

Miller, M.M., Johnson, D.J., Rubin, C.M., Dragert, H., Wang, K., Qamar, A., and Goldfinger, C., 2001, GPS-determination of along-strike variation in Cascadia margin kinematics: Implications for relative plate motion, subduction zone coupling, and permanent deformation: Tectonics, v. 20, p. 161-176.  0

Morey, A. E., Mix, A.C., Pisias, N.G., 2005, Planktonic foraminiferal assemblages preserved in surface sediments correspond to multiple environmental variables, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 24, p. 925-950.

Nelson, C.H., Goldfinger, C., Johnson, J.E., and Dunhill, G., 2000, Variation of modern turbidite systems along the subduction zone margin of Cascadia Basin and implications for turbidite reservoir beds, in Weimer, P.W., and al., e., eds., Deep-water Reservoirs of the World: 20th Annual Research Conference, Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 31 pp. 

Romsos, C., Goldfinger, C., C., Robison, R., Milstein, R., Chaytor, J., 2007,  Development of a Regional Seafloor Surficial Geologic Habitat Map for the Continental Margins of  Oregon and Washington, USA ,  in  Todd, B.J., and Greene, G., eds., Mapping the Seafloor for Habitat Characterization: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 47, p. xx-xx.

Suess, E., Torres, M., Bohrmann, G., Collier, R.W., Rickert, D., Goldfinger, C., Linke, P., Heuser, A., Sahling, H., Heeschen, K., Jung, C., Nakamura, K., Greinert, J., Pfannkuche, O., Trehu, A., Klinkhammer, G., Whiticar, M.J., Eisenhauer, A., Teichert, B., and Elvert, M., 2001, Sea Floor methane hydrates at Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Margin: American Geophysical Union Monograph 124,  p. 87-98.

Trehu, A., Lin, G., Maxwell, E., and Goldfinger, C., 1995, A seismic reflection profile across the Cascadia subduction zone offshore central Oregon: New constraints on methane distribution and crustal structure: Journal of Geophysical Research,  v. 100, p. 15,101-15,116. 

Trehu, A.M., Bangs, N.L., Arsenault, M.A., Bohrmann, G., Goldfinger, C., Johnson, J.E., Nakamura, Y.,
and Torres, M.E., 2002. Complex subsurface plumbing beneath southern Hydrate Ridge, Oregon
continental margin, from high-resolution 3-D seismic reflection and OBS Data. Fourth Int. Conf. Gas
Hydrates: Yokohama, Japan, 19023:90–96.

Yeats, R.S., Graven, E.P., Werner, K.S., Goldfinger, C., and Popowski, T.A., 1996, Tectonics of the Willamette Valley, Oregon, in Rogers, A.M., Walsh, T.J., Kockelman, W.J., and Priest, G., eds., Assessing and reducing earthquake hazards in the Pacific Northwest, Volume I, Professional Paper 1560, U.S. Geological Survey, p. 183-222. 

Yeats, R.S., Kulm, L.D., Goldfinger, C., and McNeill, L.C., 1998, Stonewall anticline: An active fold on the Oregon continental shelf: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America,  v. 110,  p. 572-587. 

Early Cascadia Basin Theses and Publications

Griggs, G.B., 1969, Cascadia Channel: The anatomy of a deep sea channel [Ph.D. thesis]: Corvallis, OR, Oregon State University, 225 p. pdf icon

Duncan, J.R., 1968, Late Pleistocene and postglacial sedimentation and stratigraphy of deep-sea environments off Oregon [PhD thesis]: Corvallis, OR, Oregon State University, 243 p. pdf icon

Nelson, C.H., 1968, Marine geology of the Astoria deep-sea fan [Ph.D. thesis], Oregon State University, 301 p. pdf icon

 

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