Warren J Nokleberg
Dr. Warren J. Nokleberg is a Scientist Emeritus in the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center. After coming to the USGS in 1966, His research currently focuses on compiling and synthesizing a digital earth science atlas of Sierra Nevada, CA. He recently co-edited and published an e-book about the Dynamic Geology of the Northern Cordillera and Adjacent Marine Areas.
After starting graduate school in 1965, his major research emphases have been on the mineral deposits, metallogenesis, bedrock geology, and tectonics of the central Sierra Nevada, California, the Stillwater Igneous Complex, Montana, the Eastern Alaska Range, Alaska, the Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect (TACT) in Eastern Alaska, the Circum-North Pacific (Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera), and Northeast Asia. For these projects, he has led and coordinated large and complex teams of national and international geologists to compile, synthesize, interpret, and publish large and complex interpretative articles on regional geology, tectonics, and metallogenesis, regional geologic maps, mineral resource maps, mineral deposit databases, and spatial (GIS) databases.
He has authored or co-authored over 260 scientific papers. In 2002, he was awarded Meritorous Service Award of the Department of Interior for exceptional scientific research and leadership in Alaska and the Circum-North Pacific for the U.S. Geological Survey.
Professional Experience
2006 - 2018, Emeritus Research Geologist.
1969 - 1970, 1977 - 2006, Research Geologist, USGS, Menlo Park, CA
1961 - 1965, Regular Line Officer, U.S. Navy
1970 - 1977, Associate Professor of Geology at California State University, Fresno
Education and Certifications
Ph.D., Geology, University of California Santa Barbara, 1970
B.A., Geology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1965
Affiliations and Memberships*
Geological Society of America
Society of Economic Geologists (Fellow)
American Geophysical Union
State of California Registered Geologist
Science and Products
Geologic map of the southern part of the Mount Hayes quadrangle, Alaska
Geologic setting, petrology, and geochemistry of zoned tungsten-bearing skarns at the Strawberry Mine, central Sierra Nevada, California
Stratigraphy and structure of the Strawberry Mine roof pendant, central Sierra Nevada, California
Comments and replies on ‘Collision-deformed Paleozoic continental margin, western Brooks Range, Alaska’: Reply
Paleozoic and Mesozoic deformations in the central Sierra Nevada, California
Geologic bibliography of the Mount Hayes Quadrangle, Alaska
Geological and geochemical appraisal of metallic mineral resources, southern National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
Geologic setting of the lead and zinc deposits, Drenchwater Creek area, Howard Pass Quadrangle, Western Brooks Range, Alaska
Nature of the angular unconformity between the Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks and the mesozoic metavolcanic rocks in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California
Preliminary geologic map of the west-central and western parts of the Stillwater complex, Montana
Preliminary geologic map of the Stillwater complex, Montana
Science and Products
Geologic map of the southern part of the Mount Hayes quadrangle, Alaska
Geologic setting, petrology, and geochemistry of zoned tungsten-bearing skarns at the Strawberry Mine, central Sierra Nevada, California
Stratigraphy and structure of the Strawberry Mine roof pendant, central Sierra Nevada, California
Comments and replies on ‘Collision-deformed Paleozoic continental margin, western Brooks Range, Alaska’: Reply
Paleozoic and Mesozoic deformations in the central Sierra Nevada, California
Geologic bibliography of the Mount Hayes Quadrangle, Alaska
Geological and geochemical appraisal of metallic mineral resources, southern National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
Geologic setting of the lead and zinc deposits, Drenchwater Creek area, Howard Pass Quadrangle, Western Brooks Range, Alaska
Nature of the angular unconformity between the Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks and the mesozoic metavolcanic rocks in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California
Preliminary geologic map of the west-central and western parts of the Stillwater complex, Montana
Preliminary geologic map of the Stillwater complex, Montana
*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government