Angela Jayko
Dr. Jayko is a Scientist Emeritus at the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center at the U.C. White Mountain Research Station. She came to the USGS in 1979 and returned as an Emeritus. She studied tectonics of convergent margin associations and most recently, she’s focused on the Plio-Pleistocene transtensive deformation.
Dr. Jayko's thesis concerned Late Mesozoic subduction. She studied tectonics of convergent margin associations with work in the continental collision complex of the French Alps, in a Paleozoic transtensive basement tectonics in eastern Australia, and in the Paleozoic fold and thrust belt of central Nevada. Most recently she’s focused on the Plio-Pleistocene transtensive deformation.
Professional Experience
1979 - Current, Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
1995 - 1998, Chair, I.U.G.G., International Lithosphere Program
1993 - 1995, Vice chair, I.U.G.G., International Lithosphere Program
1990 - 1992, Lecturer, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand
1978 - 1979, Geometrics, EGG, Sunnyvale, California
Education and Certifications
Ph.D., Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1984 (Gilbert Fellowship 1988)
B.A., Geology, Humboldt State University, 1976
Affiliations and Memberships*
Geological Society of America, Fellow
American Geophysical Union
Science and Products
Tectonic evolution of Northwest California and Southwest Oregon
Tectonostratigraphic terranes of northern California
Tectonostratigraphic terranes in southwest Oregon
Sedimentary petrology of graywacke of the Franciscan Complex in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, California
Tectonostratigraphic terranes of the San Francisco Bay Region
Tectonostratigraphic terranes of Magdalena Island, Baja California Sur
Preliminary geologic map of the Red Bluff 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California
ORLEANS MOUNTAIN ROADLESS AREA (C5079, B5079), CALIFORNIA.
Sedimentation, metamorphism and tectonic accretion of the Franciscan assemblage of northern California
Geology of a subduction complex in the Franciscan assemblage of northern California
Plate tectonic history of the Yolla Bolly Junction, northern California: Geological Society of America Guidebook
Science and Products
Tectonic evolution of Northwest California and Southwest Oregon
Tectonostratigraphic terranes of northern California
Tectonostratigraphic terranes in southwest Oregon
Sedimentary petrology of graywacke of the Franciscan Complex in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, California
Tectonostratigraphic terranes of the San Francisco Bay Region
Tectonostratigraphic terranes of Magdalena Island, Baja California Sur
Preliminary geologic map of the Red Bluff 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California
ORLEANS MOUNTAIN ROADLESS AREA (C5079, B5079), CALIFORNIA.
Sedimentation, metamorphism and tectonic accretion of the Franciscan assemblage of northern California
Geology of a subduction complex in the Franciscan assemblage of northern California
Plate tectonic history of the Yolla Bolly Junction, northern California: Geological Society of America Guidebook
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