Dr. Phyllis Camilleri

Professor of Geology

 

Research photo: thrust faults in Miocene-Pliocene Humboldt Formation in Knoll Mountain, NE Nevada. P.A. Camilleri

 

Education

Ph.D. University of Wyoming

M.S. Oregon State University

B.S. San Diego State University

 

Areas of Expertise: Structural geology, tectonics

Courses

GEOL 4995 Seminar in Geoscience Communication

GEOL 4000 Seminar in Tectonics

GEOL 3000 Structural Geology

GEOL 3001 Structural Geology Laboratory

GEOL 3002 Structure Field Practicum

GEOL 1040 Physical Geology*

GEOL 1041 Physical Geology Laboratory

*click here for Physical Geology lecture notes

Selected Publications
Recent Conference Proceedings

 

Deibert, J. E. and Camilleri, P. A., 2006, Sedimentologic and tectonic origin of an incised-valley-fill sequence along an extensional marginal-lacustrine system in the Basin and Range province, United States: implications for predictive models of the location of incised valleys: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 90, p. 209-235.
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Cover photo of valley fill

 

Camilleri, P. A., 2000, Metamorphic “klippen” in the Diamond Mountains, Nevada, and the implications for Mesozoic shortening and extension: The Mountain Geologist, v. 37, p. 59-69.

 

Camilleri, P. A.,1998, Prograde metamorphism, strain evolution, and collapse of footwalls of thick thrust sheets: a case study from the Sevier hinterland, U. S. A.: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 20, p. 1023-1042.

 

Camilleri, P., Yonkee, W. A., Coogan, J., DeCelles, P., McGrew, A., and Wells, M., 1997, Hinterland to foreland transect through the Sevier Orogen, northeast Nevada to north central Utah: structural style, metamorphism, and kinematic history of a large contractional orogenic wedge, in Link, P. K., and Kowallis, B. J., eds., Proterozoic to Recent stratigraphy, tectonics, and volcanology, Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho and central Mexico: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 42, Part 1, p. 297-309.

 

Camilleri P. A., and McGrew, A. J., 1997, The Architecture of the Sevier Hinterland: A Crustal Transect through the Pequop Mountains, Wood Hills, and East Humboldt Range, Nevada, in Link, P. K., and Kowallis, B. J., eds., Proterozoic to Recent stratigraphy, tectonics, and volcanology, Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho and central Mexico: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 42, Part 1, p. 310-324.


Camilleri, P.A., and Chamberlain, K.R., 1997, Mesozoic tectonics and metamorphism in the Pequop Mountains and Wood Hills region, northeast Nevada: implications for the architecture and evolution of the Sevier orogen: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109 p. 74-94.


Camilleri, P.A., 1996, Evidence for Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary(?) extension in the Pequop Mountains, Nevada: implications for the nature of the early Tertiary unconformity,in Taylor, W. J., and Langrock, H. eds., Cenozoic structure and stratigraphy of central Nevada: 1996 Field Conference Volume, Nevada Petroleum Society Inc., Reno, p. 19-28.


Fryxell, J.E., Taylor, W. J., Schmitt, J.G., French, D.E., Camilleri, P.A., Hulen, J., and Langrock, H., 1996, Field trip guide to the Cenozoic structure and stratigraphy of the White Pine and Grant Ranges, Nevada, in Taylor, W. J., and Langrock, H. eds., Cenozoic structure and stratigraphy of central Nevada: 1996 Field Conference Volume, Nevada Petroleum Society Inc., Reno, p. 111-122.


Cranham, G. T., Camilleri, P.A., and Jaffe, G.R., 1994, Geologic overview of the San Onofre Mountains, Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, San Diego County, California, in Rosenberg, P. S., ed., Geology and natural history of Camp Pendleton United States Marine Corps Base, San Diego County, California: San Diego Association of Geologists, p. 11-33.

Camilleri, P. A., 1992, Mesozoic structural and metamorphic features in the Wood Hills and Pequop Mountains, northeastern Nevada, in Wilson, J. R., ed., Field guide to geologic excursions in Utah and adjacent areas of Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming: Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 92-3, p. 93-105.


Camilleri, P. A., Miller, D. M., Snoke, A. W., and Wells, M. E., 1992, Structure and fabric of metamorphic terrains in the northeastern Great Basin: implications for Mesozoic crustal shortening and extension, in Wilson, J. R., ed., Field guide to geologic excursions in Utah and adjacent areas of Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming: Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 92-3, p. 19-58.


Camilleri, P. A., 1992, Extensional geometry of a part of the northwestern flank of the northern Grant Range, Nevada: inferences on its evolution: Mountain Geologist, p. 75-84.

 

 

Camilleri, P. A., Deibert, J. E., and Perkins, M. E., 2007, Structural and chronologic constraints on the nature of tertiary extension and basin formation in the knoll mountain region, northeastern Nevada:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 226.

 

Camilleri, P. A., 2005, Growth of biotite porphyroblasts during dominantly coaxial deformation at low metamorphic grades in the Pequop Mountains, Nevada: contradictory microstructure and the effects of spatial and temporal partitioning of strain: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, p. 212.

 

Camilleri, P. A., and Deibert, J. E., 2004, Tectonic controls on incised valley systems along extensional-lacustrine margins: an example from the Miocene Humboldt Formation near Knoll Mountain (HD range), northeast Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, p. 72.

 

Camilleri, P. A., and Deibert, J. E., 2003, Digital geologic map of Knoll basin, Nevada with detailed layers of structural and sedimentologic data: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, p. 58.

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