Publications

* indicates Denison undergraduate student coauthor

Herring, Donna M. and Greene, David C., 2016, The Western Utah Thrust Belt in the larger context of the Sevier Orogeny, in Comer, J.B., Inkenbrandt, P.C., Krahulec, K.A., and Pinnell, M.L., editors, Resources and Geology of Utah’s West Desert: Utah Geological Association Publication 45, p.131-145. View pdf

*Worm, Thomas J., and Greene, David C., 2016, Syntectonic emplacement of the White Chief pluton, Mineral King pendant, Sierra Nevada, California: Implications for Early Cretaceous deformation: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48, no. 7. View pdf

Greene, David C., 2016, Increasing resilience to earthquakes through educating community builders: Teaching earthquake-resistant building techniques in Guatemala: in Wessel, G.R., and Greenberg, J.K., eds., Geoscience for the Public Good and Global Development: Toward a Sustainable Future: Geological Society of America Special Paper 520, p. 295–309.  [Reprints are available on request].

Greene, David C., 2014, The Confusion Range, west-central Utah: Fold-thrust deformation and a western Utah thrust belt in the Sevier hinterland: Geosphere, v. 10, no. 1; p. 148-169. View pdf

Greene, David C., and Herring, Donna M., 2013, Structural Architecture of the Confusion Range, West-Central Utah: A Sevier Fold-Thrust Belt and Frontier Petroleum Province: Utah Geological Survey Open-File Report 613, 22 p., 6 pl.  

Greene, David C., 2013, A simple way to increase resilience to earthquakes: Teaching earthquake-resistant building techniques to rural builders in Guatemala: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 7, p. 646.

Klemetti, Erik W., *Williamson, Amy L., Greene, David C., and Lackey, Jade Star, 2013, Geothermobarometry of the Castle Creek quartz monzodiorite supports rapid Cretaceous subsidence of the Mineral King metamorphic pendant, Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 7, p. 610. 

*Van Auken, Cory and Greene, David C., 2013, Strain analysis and strain profile of the Mineral King pendant, southern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 7, p. 611.

Greene, David C., 2013, The Confusion Range “synclinorium”: A western Utah thrust belt analogous to the central Nevada thrust belt: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No. 6, p. 73.

Greene, David C., 2013, Teaching earthquake-resistant building practices in Guatemala: Disseminating existing knowledge to the people who need it most: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No. 6, p. 61. View poster (pdf, 8 mb)

Herring, Donna M., and Greene, David C., 2013, The western Utah fold-thrust belt: A frontier petroleum province (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Search and Discovery Article #90163.

Greene, David C., *Matteri, Matthew M.C., and *Yezerski, Donald, 2011, The Confusion Range, west-central Utah: A Sevier-age fold-thrust belt in the hanging wall of the Snake Range decollement: GSA Abstracts with Programs. v. 43 no. 4 p. 15 

Greene, David C., 2010,  Neoproterozoic rifting in the southern Georgina Basin, central Australia: Implications for reconstructing Australia in Rodinia: Tectonics, v. 29, no. 5, TC5010, p. 10-20. View pdf

*Matteri, Matthew M.C., and Greene, David C., 2010, New balanced and retrodeformable cross section of the northern Confusion Range, west-central Utah indicates an east-vergent fold-and-thrust belt of Sevier age: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, no. 5, p. 266.

*Yezerski, Donald, and Greene, David C., 2009, New Structural Interpretations of the Confusion Range, West-Central Utah, Based on Balanced Cross Sections: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Dec. 2009.

Greene, David C., 2008, Neoproterozoic rifting in the southern Georgina Basin, central Australia: Implications for connecting Australia and Laurentia in Rodinia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no 1, p. 64. View pdf

*Pierson, Mimi L., and Greene, David C., 2008, Geophysical Evidence for a Neoproterozoic rift basin underlying the Burke River Structural Belt, eastern Georgina Basin, central Australia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no 1, p. 68. View pdf

Greene, David C., 2007, Great Basin: in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10e: v. 8, p. 252-253; http://www.accessscience.com, DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.800320.

Greene, David C., 2006, Neoproterozoic rifting in central Australia and the breakup of Rodinia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no 7, p. 450. View pdf

*Lechler, A.R., and Greene, D.C., 2006, Fault reactivation during intracontinental deformation: the Toko Syncline and Toomba Fault, Georgina Basin, central Australia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 5, p. 11.

Glazner, A.F., Lee, J., Bartley, J.M, Coleman, D.S., Kylander-Clark, A., Greene, D.C., Le, K., 2005, Large dextral offset across Owens Valley, California, from 148 Ma to 1872 AD: Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Field Trip Guide, 35 p. 

Greene, David C., 2003, Laramide-style basement block faulting and fault inversion during the mid-Paleozoic intraplate Alice Springs orogeny, Huckitta region, Northern Territory, central Australia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 7, p. 344. 

Stevens, C.H., Stone, P., and Greene, David C., 2003, Correlation of Permian and Triassic deformations in the western Great Basin and eastern Sierra Nevada: Evidence from the northern Inyo Mountains near Tinemaha Reservoir, east-central California: Reply: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 1309-1311. 

Hanmer, Simon, and Greene, David C., 2002, A modern structural regime in the Paleoarchean (~3.64 Ga); Isua Greenstone Belt, southern West Greenland: Tectonophysics, v. 346, p. 201-222. 

Greene, David C., and Stevens, Calvin H., 2002, Geologic Map of Paleozoic Rocks in the Mount Morrison Pendant, Eastern Sierra Nevada, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Map Sheet 52, scale 1:24,000. View map (pdf, 20 mb)

*Kohlbecker, M.V., and Greene, D.C., 2000, Two joint domains in central Ohio: a divide between Appalachian Plateau-style jointing and Midcontinent-style jointing: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 4, p. A22.

Stevens, Calvin H., and Greene, David C., 2000, Geology of Paleozoic rocks in eastern Sierra Nevada roof pendants, California: in Lageson, D.R., Peters, S.G., and Lahren, M.M., eds., Great Basin and Sierra Nevada: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Field Guide 2, v. 111, p. 237-254.

Stevens, Calvin H., and Greene, David C., 1999, Stratigraphy, depositional history, and tectonic evolution of Paleozoic continental margin rocks in roof pendants of the eastern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 919-933. View pdf

*Dubé, J.P., and Greene, D.C., 1999, Extensional reactivation of a thrust ramp and implications of deformation in the Confusion Range, west-central Utah: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 6, p. 51.

Greene, David C., and Herring, Donna M., 1998, Thick sequences of Early Tertiary limestones deposited in a previously undescribed basin, Snake Valley and the Confusion Range, western Millard County, Utah: in French, D.E., and Schalla, R.A. (eds.), Hydrocarbon habitat and special geologic problems of the Great Basin: 1998 Field Trip Guide, Nevada Petroleum Society, Reno, Nevada, p. 91-92. 

Stevens, Calvin H., Stone, Paul, Dunne, George C., Greene, David C., Walker, Douglas J., and Swanson, Brian J., 1998, Paleozoic and Mesozoic Evolution of East-Central California: in Ernst, W.G., and Nelson, C.A. (eds.), Integrated Earth and Environmental Evolution of the southwestern United States: The Clarence A. Hall, Jr. Volume, Geological Society of America, p. 119-160. 

Herring, D.M., Greene, D.C., French, D.E., Schalla, R.A., Taylor, W.A., 1998, Day 3 Roadlog: Ely to Snake Valley: in French, D.E., and Schalla, R.A. (eds.), Hydrocarbon habitat and special geologic problems of the Great Basin: 1998 Field Trip Guide, Nevada Petroleum Society, Reno, Nevada, p. 81-94. 

Greene, David C., Schweickert, Richard  A., and Stevens, Calvin H., 1997, The Roberts Mountains allochthon and the western margin of the Cordilleran miogeocline in the Northern Ritter Range pendant, eastern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 1294-1305. View pdf

Greene, David C., Stevens, Calvin H., and Wise, James M., 1997, The Laurel-Convict fault, eastern Sierra Nevada, California: a Permo-Triassic left-lateral fault, not a Cretaceous intrabatholithic break: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 483-488. View pdf

Stevens, Calvin H., Stone, Paul, Dunne, George C., Greene, David C., Walker, Douglas J., and  Swanson, Brian J., 1997, Paleozoic and Mesozoic Evolution of East-Central California: International Geology Review, v. 39, p. 788-829.

Tikoff, Basil, and Greene, David, 1997, Stretching lineations in transpressional shear zones: an example from the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 19, p. 29-39. View pdf

Stevens, Calvin H., and Greene, David, 1997, Apparent displacement of the Sri=0.076 isotopic isopleth in the Mono Lake region, east-central California: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6, p. 279.

Stevens, Calvin H., and Greene, David, 1997, Manifestation of the Mid-Paleozoic Antler orogeny in parautochthonous rocks in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 5, p. 67.

Greene, David C., 1996, Quaternary reactivation of the Lost Lakes fault, a brittle fault zone containing pseudotachylite in the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, Sierra Nevada, California: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 5, p. 70. 

Greene, David C., and Schweickert, R.A., 1995, The Gem Lake shear zone: Cretaceous dextral transpression in the Northern Ritter Range pendant, eastern Sierra Nevada, California: Tectonics, v. 14, p. 945-961. View pdf

Tikoff, Basil, and Greene, David C., 1994, Transpressional deformation within the Sierra Crest shear zone system, Sierra Nevada, California (92-80 Ma): vertical and horizontal stretching lineations within a single shear zone:  GSA Abstracts, v. 26, no. 7, p. 385.

Greene, David C., and Stevens, Calvin H., 1994, Structural repetition and a revised lower Paleozoic stratigraphy for the Mount Morrison pendant, eastern Sierra Nevada, California: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 2, p. 55. 

Greene, David C., and Dutro, J. Thomas, Jr., 1991, Stratigraphic affinity and structural implications of late Paleozoic fossils in the Ritter Range pendant, eastern Sierra Nevada, California:  GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, no. 2, p. 30. 

Greene, David C., Schweickert, R.A., Strobel, R.J., 1989, Possible westward continuation of the Roberts Mountains Thrust in the Northern Ritter Range Pendant, eastern Sierra Nevada, California: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 21, no. 5, p. 86-87.  

Greene, David C., 1984, Structural Geology of the Quseir Area, Red Sea Coast, Egypt: Contribution no. 52, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, 159 p.