PUBLICATIONS (*CSUF undergraduate student; #CSUF graduate student)

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Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Knott. J.R., Westgate, J.A., Barron, J., Budahn, J.R., Bray, C.J., Meyer, C.E., Miller, D.M., Pearce, N.J.G., Smith, C.C., Walkup, L., Wan, E., and Yount, J., 2023, Ibex Hollow Tuff from 12-Ma mega-eruption, southern Idaho, identified across North America, eastern Pacifiic Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico: Geosphere, v. 19, n. X, doi.org/10.1130/GES02593.1.

 

Knott, J.R., Mahan, S.A., Bright, J., Langer*, L., Ramirez*, A., McCarty*, K., and Garcia, A.L., 2023, Pliocene-Pleistocene hydrology and pluvial lake during Marine Isotope States 5a and 4, Deep Springs Valley, western Great Basin, Inyo County, California: Quaternary Research 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2023.20,

 

Mahan, S.A., Krolczyk, E.K., and Knott, J.R., 2023, Data release for luminescence: Pliocene-Pleistocene hydrology and pluvial lake during Marine Isotope Stages 5a and 4, Deep Springs Valley, western Great Basin, Inyo, County, California, U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/105066/P9RWH71H. 

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Friel, A.D., Pordel, K., Meyers, Z., Seymour, C.O., Thomas, N.J., Phillips, F.M., Knott, J.R., Sada, D.W., Rademacher, L., Frisbee, M., and Hedlund, B.P., 2023, Synecological response of desert spring benthic prokaryotes and macroinvertebrates to Sierra Nevada roof pendant derived calcium: Ecosphere, doi.10.1002/ecs2.4464.

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Lutz, B.M., Knott, J.R., Phillips, F.M., Heizler, M.T., Heitkamp*, Jr., K.A., Griffie*, E.L., Axen, G.A., and Calzia, J.P, 2023, Tectonically controlled drainage fragmentation in the southwestern Great Basin, U.S.A.: Geological Society of America Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B36563.1.

 

Knott, J.R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Barron, J., Wan, E., Heizler, L., and Martinez*, P., 2022, Tephrochronology of the Monterey and Modelo Formations, California, in, Aiello, I., Barron, J., Ravelo, C., eds., Understanding the Monterey Formation and Similar Biosiliceous Units across Space and Time: Geological Society of America Special Paper 556, p. 187-214, doi.org/10.1130/2022.2556(08).

 

Harmon, R.S., Khashchevskaya, D., Morency, M., Owen, L.A., Jennings, M., Knott, J.R., and Dortch, J.M., 2021, Analysis of rock varnish from the Mojave Desert by handheld laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy; Molecules 2021, v. 26, 5200, https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26175200.

 

Gleason, C., Frisbee, M., Rademacher, L., Sada, D., Meyers, Z., Knott, J., and Hedlund, B., 2020, Hydrogeology of desert springs in the Panamint Range, California, USA: Geologic controls on the geochemical kinetics, flowpaths, and mean residence times of springs: Hydrological Processes, v. 34, n. 13, p. 2923-2948, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13776.

 

Craddock, J.P., Malone, D.H., Wartman, J., Kelly, M.J., Junlal, Liu, Bussolotto, M., Invernizzi, C., Knott, J., and Porter, R., 2019, Calcite twinning strains from syn-faulting strike-slip fault gouge: small-offset strike-slip, normal and thrust faults: International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 109(1), p. 1-42, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-019-01783-x.

 

Muessig, S.J., Pennell, W.M., Knott, J.R., and Calzia, J.P., 2019, Geology of the Monte Blanco Borate Deposits, Furnace Creek Wash, Death Valley, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019-1111, 30 pp.

 

Knott, J.R., Wan, E., Deino, A.L., Casteel, M., Reheis, M.C., Phillips, F.M., Walkup, L., McCarty*, K., Manoukian*, D.N., and Nunez*, E., 2019, Lake Andrei: A Pliocene pluvial lake in Eureka Valley, eastern California, in, Starratt, S. and Rosen, M., eds., From Saline to Freshwater: The Diversity of Western Lakes in Space and Time: Geological Society of America Special Paper 536, p. 125-142.

 

Knott, J.R., Liddicoat, J.C., Coe, R.S., and Negrini, R.M., 2019, Radiocarbon and paleomagnetic chronology of the Searles Lake Formation, San Bernardino County, California, U.S.A., in, Starratt, S. and Rosen, M., eds., From Saline to Freshwater: The Diversity of Western Lakes in Space and Time: Geological Society of America Special Paper 536, p. 81-95.

 

Brush, J.A., Pavlis, T.L., Hurtado, J.M., Jr., Mason, K.A., Knott, J.R., and Williams, K.E., 2019, Evaluation of field methods for 3-D mapping and 3-D visualization of complex metamorphic structure using multi-view stereo terrain models from ground-based photography: Geosphere, v. 15, n.1, p. 188-221.

 

Knott, J.R., and Garcia, A.L., 2018, Replicate photography and stability of the Death Valley landscape: 10th Death Valley Natural History Conference, November 6-8, 2015, Furnace Creek, CA, p. 245-265.

 

Knott, J.R., Phillips, F.M., Reheis, M.C., Sada, D., Jayko, A., and Axen, G., 2018, Geologic and Hydrologic Concerns about Pupfish Divergence during the Last Glacial Maximum: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v. 285: 20171648.

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Knott, J.R., Machette, M.N., Wan, E., Klinger, R.E., Liddicoat, J.C., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Fleck, R.J., Deino, A.L., Geissman, J.W., Slate, J.L., Wahl, D.B., Wernicke, B.P., Wells, S.G., Tinsley, J.C. III, Hathaway*, J.C., Weamer*, V.M., 2018, Late Neogene-Quaternary tephrochronology, stratigraphy and paleoclimate of Death Valley, CA, U.S.A.: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 130, n. 7/8, p. 1231-1255, doi.org/10.1130/B31690.1.

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Knott, J.R., Owen, L.A., Machette, M.N., Klinger, R., Frankel, K.L., 2016, Late Pleistocene Lake Manly: Death Valley Natural History Conference, November 15-17, 2013, Furnace Creek, CA, p. 58-69.

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Calzia, J., Ramo, T., Jachens, R., Smith, E. and Knott, J., 2016, Geology of the Greenwater Range: The Dawn of Death Valley: Death Valley Natural History Conference, November 15-17, 2013, Furnace Creek, CA, p. 424-457.

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Knott, J.R., Machette, M.N., Liddicoat, J.C., Wan, E., and Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., 2016, The ancient Furnace Creek basin at Zabriskie Point, in Calzia, J.P., Ramo, O.T., Jachens, R., Smith, E. and Knott, J., eds., Geology of the Greenwater Range, and the Dawn of Death Valley: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1064, p. 22-30.

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Frankel, K.L., Owen, L.A., Dolan, J.F., Knott, J.R., Lifton, Z.M., Finkel, R.C. and Wasklewicz, T.A., 2016, Timing and rates of Holocene normal faulting along the Black Mountains Fault Zone, Death Valley, USA: Lithosphere, v. 8, n. 1, p. 3-22.

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Sohn#, M.F., Knott, J.R., and Mahan, S.A., 2014, Paleoseismology of the Southern Section of the Black Mountains and Southern Death Valley Fault Zones, Death Valley, U.S.A.: Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, v. XX, n.2, p. 177-198.

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Negrini, R.M., McCuan, D.T., Cassata, W.S., Channell, J.E., Verosub, K.L., Knott, J.R., Coe, R.S., Liddicoat, J.C., Lund, S.P., Horton, R.A., Lopez, J.D., Benson, L.V., and Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., 2014, The behavior of the Earth’s non-dipole and dipole magnetic fields during the 35-32 ka Mono Lake excursion: Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: doi:10.1002/2013JB010846.

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Garcia#, A.L., Knott, J.R., Mahan, S.A., Bright, J., 2013, Geochronology and paleoenvironment of pluvial Harper Lake, Mojave Desert, California, USA: Quaternary Research, v. 81, p. 305-317, doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.10.008.

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Knott, J.R., Fantozzi#, J.M., Ferguson#, K.M., Keller#, S.E., Nadimi#, K., Rath#, C.A., Tarnowski*, J.M. and Vitale#, M.L., 2012, Paleowind Velocity and Paleocurrents of Pluvial Lake Manly, Death Valley, U.S.A.: Quaternary Research, v. 78, p. 363-372..

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Figueroa#, A.M. and Knott, J.R., 2011, Tectonic geomorphology of the western Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA, 2011 Friends of the Pleistocene Field Trip Guidebook, p. 22-27.

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Figueroa#, A.M., Bowman, D, and Knott, J.R., 2011, Modeling the effects of the San Andreas, Garlock and Sierra Nevada frontal fault zone on the uplift of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California: 2011 Friends of the Pleistocene Field Trip Guidebook, p. 28-34.

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Owen, L.A., Frankel, K.L., Knott, J.R., Reynhout, S., Finkel, R.C., Dolan, J.F., Lee, J., 2011, Beryllium-10 terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating of Quaternary landforms in Death Valley: Geomorphology, v. 125, n. 3-4, p. 541-557; doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.10.024.

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Figueroa#, A.M. and Knott, J.R., 2010, Tectonic geomorphology of the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains (California): Evidence for uplift and basin formation: Geomorphology, v. 123, n. 1-2, p. 34-45; doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.06.009.

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Peterson, C., Stock, E., Hart, R., Percy, D., Hostetler, S, Knott, J., 2010, Holocene coastal dune fields used as indicators of net littoral transport: West coast, USA: Geomorphology, v. 116, n. 1-2, p. 115-134.

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Knott, J.R., 2008, The influence of Irrigation on Triggering Slope Movements, Ventura County, California: Environmental and Engineering Geology, v. XIV, n.3, p. 151-165.

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Knott, J. R., Machette, M. N., Klinger, R. E., Sarna-Wojcicki, A. M., Liddicoat, J.C., Tinsley, J.C., III, David*, B.T., and Ebbs*, V.M., 2008, Reconstructing late Pliocene – middle Pleistocene Death Valley lakes and river systems as a test of pupfish dispersal hypotheses, in Reheis, M.C., Hershler, R. and Miller, D.M.,eds., Geologic and Biotic Perspectives on Late Cenozoic drainage history of the southwestern Great Basin and lower Colorado River region: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 439, p. 1-26, doi: 10.1130/2008.2439(01).

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Froese, D.G., Lowe, D.J., Knott, J.R., and Slate, J.L., 2008, Global tephra studies: John Westgate and Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki commemorative volume: Quaternary International, v. 178, p. 1-3.

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Frankel, K.L., Brantley, K.S., Dolan, J.S., Finkel, R.C., Klinger, R.E., Knott, J.R., Machette, M.N., Owen, L.A., Phillips, F.M., Slate, J.L., and Wernicke, B. P., 2007, Cosmogenic 10Be and 36Cl geochronology of offset alluvial fans along the northern Death Valley fault zone: Implications for transient strain in the eastern California shear zone: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 112, B06407, doi: 10.1029/2006JB004350.

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Knott, J.R. and Owen, L.A., 2007, Dating Quaternary sediments and landforms in drylands (editorial): Quaternary International, v. 166, p. 1-3, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2006.12.012.

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Sohn#, M.F., Mahan, S.A., Knott, J.R., and Bowman, D.D., 2007, Luminescence Ages for Alluvial-Fan Deposits in Southern Death Valley: Implications for Climate-Driven Sedimentation Along a Tectonically Active Mountain Front: Quaternary International, v. 166, p. 49-60, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.01.002

 

Knott, J.R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Wan, Elmira, Montanez, I.P., 2007, Differentiating the Bishop ash bed and related tephra layers by similarity coefficients calculated from minor and trace element analysis of volcanic glass shards by solution inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry: Quaternary International, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2006.12.014.

 

Taylor#, A., Armstrong, P.A., and Knott, J.R., 2006, Geomorphology And Geochronology Of The San Juan Creek Terraces: Implications For Quaternary Uplift Of The Santa Ana Mountain Foothills, Orange County, California; South Coast Geological Society 2006 Field Trip Guidebook, p. 135-156.

 

Knott, J.R., and Eley, D.S., 2006, Timing and control of early to middle Holocene coastal dune and estuarine deposition and its relation to climate, sea level rise and seismic hazard, Santa Maria Valley, California: Physical Geography, v. 27, n. 2, p. 127-136.

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McConnell, D.A., Steer, D.N., Owens, K.D., Knott, J.R., Van Horn, S., Borowski, W., Dick, J., Foos, A., Konigsberg, A., Malone, M., McGrew, H., Greer, L., Heaney, P. J., 2006, Using Conceptests to Assess and Improve Student Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Geoscience Courses: Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 54, n. 1, p. 61-68.

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Knott, J. R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A. M., Machette, M. N., Klinger, R. E., 2005, Upper Neogene stratigraphy and tectonics of Death Valley – A Review, in Calzia, J. P., ed., Fifty years of Death Valley Research: A volume in honor of Lauren A. Wright and Bennie W. Troxel: Earth-Science Reviews Special Issue, v. 73, p. 245-270.

Knott, J. R., Tinsley, J. C. III, and Wells, S. G., 2004, Letter to Editor regarding “Are the benches at Mormon Point, Death Valley, California, U.S.A. Scarps or Strandlines?”: Quaternary Research, v. 61, p. 339-343..

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Hayman, N. W., Knott, J. R., Cowan, D. S., Nemser, Eliza, Sarna-Wojcicki, A. M., 2003, Quaternary low-angle slip on detachment faults in Death Valley, California: Geology, v. 31, n. 4, p. 343-346.

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Knott, J. R., Tinsley, J. C. III, and Wells, S. G., 2002, Are the benches at Mormon Point, Death Valley, California, U.S.A. Scarps or Strandlines?: Quaternary Research, v. 58, p. 352-360.

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Enzel, Y., Knott, J. R., Anderson, K. C., Anderson, D. E., and Wells, S. G., 2002, Is There Any Evidence of Mega-Lake Manly During Isotope Stage 6?: Quaternary Research, v. 57, n. 1, pg. 173-176.

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Lundegard, P.D., and Knott, J.R., 2001, Polar organics in crude oil and their potential impacts on water quality, in Proceedings of the 2001 Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals Conference, National Ground Water Association API, Houston, TX, p. 138-144.

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Knott, J. R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A. M., Tinsley, J. C., III, and Wells, S. G., 2001, Late Quaternary tectonic-geomorphic development and pluvial lakes at Mormon Point, in, Machette, M. N., Johnson, M. L., and Slate, J. L., eds., Quaternary and late Pliocene geology of the Death Valley region: Recent Observations on tectonics, stratigraphy, and lake cycles (Guidebook for the 2001, Pacific Cell – Friends of the Pleistocene Fieldtrip); U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-51, p. 92-103.

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Knott, J. R. and Wells, S. G., 2001, Late Pleistocene slip rate of the Black Mountains fault zone, in, Machette, M. N., Johnson, M. L., and Slate, J. L., eds., Quaternary and late Pliocene geology of the Death Valley region: Recent Observations on tectonics, stratigraphy, and lake cycles (Guidebook for the 2001, Pacific Cell – Friends of the Pleistocene Fieldtrip); U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-51, p. 103-104.

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Knott, J. R., and Sarna-Wojcicki, A. M., 2001, Late Pliocene tephrostratigraphy and geomorphic development of the Artists Drive structural block, in, Machette, M. N., Johnson, M. L., and Slate, J. L., eds., Quaternary and late Pliocene geology of the Death Valley region: Recent Observations on tectonics, stratigraphy, and lake cycles (Guidebook for the 2001, Pacific Cell – Friends of the Pleistocene Fieldtrip); U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-51, p. 105-111.

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Knott, J. R., and Machette, M. N., 2001, Lacustrine gravel in Desolation Canyon, in, Machette, M. N., Johnson, M. L., and Slate, J. L., eds., Quaternary and late Pliocene geology of the Death Valley region: Recent Observations on tectonics, stratigraphy, and lake cycles (Guidebook for the 2001, Pacific Cell – Friends of the Pleistocene Fieldtrip); U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-51, p. 113-114.

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Sarna-Wojcicki, A. M., Machette, M. N., Knott, J. R., Klinger, R. E., Fleck, R. J., Tinsley, J. C., III, Troxel, B. W., Budahn, J. R., and Walker, J. P., 2001, Weaving a temporal and spatial framework for the late Neogene of Death Valley – Correlation and dating of Pliocene and Quaternary units using tephrochronology, 40Ar/39Ar dating, and other dating methods, in, Machette, M. N., Johnson, M. L., and Slate, J. L., eds., Quaternary and late Pliocene geology of the Death Valley region: Recent Observations on tectonics, stratigraphy, and lake cycles (Guidebook for the 2001, Pacific Cell – Friends of the Pleistocene Fieldtrip); U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-51, p. 121-135.

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Machette, M. N., Klinger, R. E., and Knott, J. R., 2001, Questions about Lake Manly’s age, extent, and source, in, Machette, M. N., Johnson, M. L., and Slate, J. L., eds., Quaternary and late Pliocene geology of the Death Valley region: Recent Observations on tectonics, stratigraphy, and lake cycles (Guidebook for the 2001, Pacific Cell – Friends of the Pleistocene Fieldtrip); U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-51, p. 143-149.

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Machette, M. N., Klinger, R. E., and Knott, J. R., Wills, C. J., Bryant, W. A., and Reheis, M. C., 2001, A proposed nomenclature for the Death Valley fault system, in, Machette, M. N., Johnson, M. L., and Slate, J. L., eds., Quaternary and late Pliocene geology of the Death Valley region: Recent Observations on tectonics, stratigraphy, and lake cycles (Guidebook for the 2001, Pacific Cell – Friends of the Pleistocene Fieldtrip); U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-51, p. 173-183.

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Knott, J. R., 2000, Correlation of contaminant biodegradation using electron acceptors and organic indicator compounds, in Proceedings of the 2000 Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Groundwater Conference, National Ground Water Association, Anaheim, CA, November, 2000, p. 132-146.

 

Knott, J. R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A. M., Meyer, C. E., Tinsley, J. C., III, Wells, S. G., and Wan, Elmira, 1999, Late Cenozoic Stratigraphy and Tephrochronology of the Western Black Mountains Piedmont, Death Valley California: Implications for the Tectonic Development of Death Valley, in, L. A. Wright and B. W. Troxel, eds., Cenozoic Basins of the Death Valley Region: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p. 345-366.

 

Knott, J. R., 1999, Quaternary Stratigraphy and Geomorphology of Death Valley, in Slate, J. L., ed., Proceedings of Conference on Status of Geologic Research and Mapping in Death Valley National Park, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 9-11, 1999: U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-153, p. 90-96.

 

Knott, J. R., 1999, A Brief Summary of Quaternary Geology of Mormon Point, in Slate, J. L., ed., Proceedings of Conference on Status of Geologic Research and Mapping in Death Valley National Park, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 9-11, 1999: U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-153, p. 165-168.

 

Knott, J. R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A. M., Klinger, R. E., Tinsley, J. C., III, and Troxel, B. W., 1999, Late Cenozoic Tephrochronology of Death Valley, California – New Insights into Stratigraphy, Paleogeography, and Tectonics, in Slate, J. L., ed., Proceedings of Conference on Status of Geologic Research and Mapping in Death Valley National Park, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 9-11, 1999: U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-153, p. 115-116.

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Knott, J. R., 1998, Geology of Mormon Point (Day 1, Stop 2), in, Proceedings of 1998 Annual meeting of the Professional Soil Scientists Association of California (PSSAC): Interconnectivity and relationships between soil science, geomorphology, geology, and paleoclimatology; PSSAC, p. 43-48.

 

Knott, J. R., 1998, Geology of Natural Bridge (Day 1, Stop 3), in, Proceedings of 1998 Annual meeting of the Professional Soil Scientists Association of California (PSSAC): Interconnectivity and relationships between soil science, geomorphology, geology, and paleoclimatology; PSSAC, p. 49-51.

 

Knott, J. R., 1997, An early to middle Pleistocene pluvial Death Valley lake, Mormon Point, central Death Valley, California, in, Reynolds, R. E. and Reynolds, J., eds., Death Valley: The Amargosa Route; San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, v. 44, n. 2, p. 85-88.

 

Katzenstein, Y. A., Kendrick, K., and Knott, J. R., 1995, A Preliminary Assessment of Calcic Soil Development at Piute Gorge, Fort Piute Wilderness, California, in Reynolds, R. E. & J. Reynolds, eds., Ancient Surfaces of the East Mojave Preserve; San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, v. 42, n. 3, p. 125-126. 

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Knott, J. R., 1992, Effects and mitigation of ground fissuring along State Highway 58, Hinkley Valley, San Bernardino County, CA; Proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the Association of Engineering Geologists, October 2-9, 1992, Long Beach, CA, v. 35, p. 134-142.