Papers
In Print
Wetmore, P.H. , Schmidt, K.L., and Paterson , S.R., The tectonic implications for the along-strike variability in the character of Peninsular Ranges batholith of southern and Baja California : Geology, v. 30, p. 247-250.
Wetmore, P.H. , Hughes, S.S., and Anderson, S.R., 1997, Model morphologies of subsurface quaternary basalts as evidence for a decrease in the magnitude of basaltic magmatism at and near the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho : Proceedings of the 32nd Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering, p. 45-58.
Schmidt, K.L., Wetmore, P.H., Johnson, S.E., and Paterson, S.R., Along-strike variation in the origin of an ocean-continent basement join in the Mesozoic Peninsular Ranges batholith: to what degree does an island arc collision drive orogeny?, in Barth, A., ed., Geological Society of America Special Paper v. 365, p. 49-72.
Wetmore, P.H. , Herzig, C., Schultz, P.W., Alsleben, H, Paterson, S.R., and Schmidt, K.L., Cretaceous Tectonic Evolution of the Western Zone of the Peninsular Ranges Batholith of Southern and Baja California, in Johnson, S.E., Paterson, S.R., Girty, G.H., and Fletcher, J, eds., Geological Society of America Special Paper v. 374, p. 93-116.
Unrefereed publications
Wetmore, P.H. , 1998, An assessment of physical volcanology and tectonics of the central eastern Snake River Plain based on the correlation of subsurface basalts at and near the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho [unpublished M.S. thesis]: Idaho State University , Pocatello , Idaho , 118 p.
Wetmore, P.H. , 2003, Investigation into the tectonic significance of along strike variations of the Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern and Baja California [unpublished PhD dissertation]: University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , 199p.
In Press
Hughes, S.S., Wetmore, P.H., and Casper, J.L., Evolution of Quaternary tholeiitic basalt eruptive centers on the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: in Bonnichson, B., and McCurry, M., eds., Magmatic and tectonic evolution of the eastern Snake River Plain volcanic province, Idaho Geological Survey Bulletin v. 30, in press.
Wetmore, P.H., Paterson , S.R., and Faulds, J., The contribution of primary grain shapes and orientations to the finite fabric ellipsoid of strained rocks: accepted for publication by the Journal of Structural Geology.
Barbeau, D.L., Ducea, M.N., Gehrels, G.E., Kidder, S., Wetmore, P.H., Saleeby, J.B., U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology of northern Salinian basement and cover rocks, Geological Society of America Bulletin, In Press.
In Review-In Progress
Wetmore, P.H. , Alsleben, H., Ducea, M., Gehrels, G., Sutherland, M., and Paterson , S.R., The ancestral Agua Blanca fault: An Early Cretaceous suture of the western Peninsular Ranges of Baja California , Mexico : submitted for review to Tectonics.
Wetmore, P.H. , Ducea, M., and Gehrels, G., Lateral variations in the magnitude of shortening exhibited by the geochemistry of late-syntectonic to post-tectonic intrusions of the Alisitos arc segment, Baja California, Mexico, in progress (to be submitted to Geology).
Wetmore, P.H. , Hughes, S.S., Rodgers, D. W., and Anderson, S.R., The competing effects of differential subsidence and volcanic construction to form the Big Lost Trough on the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho, in progress.
Abstracts
Coast Plutonic Complex (BATHOLITHS project)
Wetmore, P.H., Kayzar, T., Ducea, M., Patchett, P.J., and Gehrels, G., 2004, Preliminary results of the petrological and geochemical component tot he BATHOLITHS project, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36
Eastern Snake River Plain
Wetmore, P.H. , and Hughes, S.S., 1997, Change in magnitude of basaltic magmatism determined from model morphologies of subsurface Quaternary lavas at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho : Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, p. 365.
Hughes, S.S., Wetmore, P.H., and Casper, J.L., 1997, Geochemical interpretations and basalt stratigraphy and Quaternary mafic volcanism, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, p. 298.
Wetmore, P.H. , Rodgers, D.W., and Hughes, S.S., 1998, Late Quaternary basaltic magmatism and the rate of extension on the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Rocky Mountain Section Meeting.
Wetmore, P.H. , Hughes, S.S., Rodgers, D.W., and Anderson, S.R., 1999, Constructional origin of the Axial Volcanic Zone of the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no 4, p. 61.
Hughes, S.S., Wetmore, P.H., and Casper , J.L, 1999, Evolution of Quaternary tholeiitic basalt eruptive centers on the eastern Snake River Plain: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no 4, p. 17.
Pluton Emplacement
Albertz, M., Wetmore, P.H., Pignotta, G.S., Potter, M.E., Andreasson, G., and Paterson , S.R., 2000, How do magma chamber–host rock systems evolve through time?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. 1.
Wetmore, P.H. , Schmidt, K.L., and Paterson , S.R., 2001, Amnesia in pluton emplacement, Balbuena Pluton , Baja California , Mexico : Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p325.
Peninsular Ranges batholith
Wetmore, P.H. , and Paterson, S.R., 2000, Diachronous accretion of ocean terranes across a transform fault in Baja California Norte , Mexico : Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p.75.
Wetmore, P.H. , Paterson , S.R., and Schmidt, K.L., 2000, Strain distribution within the Alisitos arc segment of the western Peninsular Ranges batholith Baja California Norte: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. 168.
Schmidt, K.L., Wetmore, P.H., and Paterson , S.R., 2000, Did mid-Cretaceous orogeny in the Peninsular Ranges batholith result from collision or increased subduction coupling: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. 46.
Wetmore, P.H. , Paterson , S.R., Schmidt, K.L., and Herzig, C., 2002, Tectonic implications for along-strike variations in the character of the Mesozoic Peninsular Ranges batholith of southern and Baja California : Memorias de VI Reunión Internacional sobre Geología de la Penísula de Baja California : p. 45-46.
Sutherland, M, Wetmore, P.H., Herzig, C., and Paterson , S.R., 2002, The Early Cretaceous Santiago Peak arc: A continental margin arc built on the North America Triassic-Jurassic accretionary prism of southern and Baja California : Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, p. 43.
Wetmore, P.H. , and Paterson, S.R., 2003, The “Guerrero Superterrane”: A single terrane or multiple arc segments?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, p. 65.
Wetmore, P.H. , Ducea, M., Gehrels, G., Schmidt, K.L., and Paterson, S.R., 2003, Magmatic response to differential crustal thickening: Geochemical constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Alisitos Arc Segment of Baja California, Mexico, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, p. 45-10.
Alsleben, H., Wetmore, P.H., Schmidt, K.L., Gehrels, G., and Paterson , S.R., 2003, Temporal and spatial constraints on suturing the Alisitos island arc to North America , Peninsular Ranges batholith, Baja California , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, p. 45-11.
Alsleben, H., Wetmore, P.H., and Paterson, S.R., 2004, An intra-arc strain gradient as a result of arc-continent collision-quantifying finite strain in the Alisitos arc, Peninsular Ranges, Baja California, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36
Strain
Wetmore, P.H. , and Paterson, S.R., 2002, Primary grain shapes and grain preferred orientations: Why no analysis of finite strain is complete without their incorporation: EOS Transactions AGU, v. 83, p.613.