Phyllis Camilleri

Areas of Expertise: Structural geology, tectonics

• Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the Knoll Mountain, Pequop Mountains, Wood Hills and Ruby-East Humboldt region in northeastern Nevada

• Timing and geometry of Tertiary normal faulting and basin evolution in the Knoll Mountain (HD Range) region in northeastern Nevada

• Quaternary normal faulting and geomorphic evolution of the Grant Range in east-central Nevada

• Orogen to microscale mechanisms of extensional collapse in fold and thrust belts

• Growth and deformation mechanisms of matrix and porphyroblastic biotite during regional metamorphism

• Drescher, A., Patel, P., Middleton, G., Camilleri, P.A., Deibert, J. E., and Schwartz, J. J, 2019, Late Oligocene extension in the East Humboldt-Wood Hills-Pequop metamorphic core complex: new constraints from ages of detrital zircons in the Humboldt Formation along the northern margin of the Pequop Mountains, NE NV; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-330465

• Middleton, G., Patel, P., Drescher, A., Deibert, J. E., Camilleri, P. A., and Schwartz, J. J., 2019, Provenance of Pre-Cenozoic detrital zircons from the Humboldt Formation along the northern margin of the Wood Hills and its implications for pre-16 ma paleogeography and extension in the East Humboldt-Wood Hills-Pequop metamorphic core complex, NE NV; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-330464

• Camilleri, P.A., 2018, Classification, Character, and Origin of Textural Zoning in Porphyroblasts: Significance and Relation to Strain: Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science, v. 93, no. 1-2, p. 50-60. PDF

• Camilleri, P.A., Deibert, J.E., Schwartz, J. J., Hoffman, D., Hensley, R., and Hackett, P.,  2018, Cenozoic exhumation of the Ruby Mountain-East Humboldt-Wood Hills-Pequop Mountains metamorphic core complex: new constraints from remnants of Paleogene to Neogene extensional basins: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2018AM-315276.

• Hackett, P., Hensley, R., Hoffman, D., Deibert, J.E., Camilleri, P.A., and Schwartz, J. J., 2018, Provenance of Cenozoic detrital zircons in the Miocene Humboldt Formation in the northern Wood Hills, northeastern Nevada: implications for local sedimentation in the Nevadaplano: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2018AM-315273.

• Camilleri, P.A., Deibert, J.E., and Perkins, M.E., 2017, Middle Miocene to Holocene tectonics, basin evolution, and paleogeography along the southern margin of the Snake River Plain in the Knoll Mountain-Ruby-East Humboldt Range region, northeastern Nevada and southcentral Idaho: Geosphere, v. 13, no. 6. PDF

• Deibert, J.E., Camilleri, P.A., and Perkins, M.E., 2016, Tephrochronologic and structural constraints on the age of the Miocene-Pliocene(?) Humboldt Formation and associated mammalian fauna from Chalk Springs near Knoll Mountain, northeastern Nevada and implications for the timing of extensional faulting: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48, no. 7, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-277191.  Abstract

• Camilleri, P.A., Deibert, J.E., and Perkins, M.E., 2016, The role of the ~ 16 -5 Ma Knoll-East Humboldt-Ruby Mountains fault system in the evolution of the Ruby–East Humboldt-Wood Hills metamorphic core complex, northeast Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48, no. 7, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-277274 .  Abstract

• Camilleri, P. A., and  Deibert, J.E., 2014, Tectonics and reconstruction of middle Miocene to recent rift basins in northeastern Nevada:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, p. 24.  Abstract

• Camilleri, P. A., compiler, 2013, Geologic map and structure of the west-central part of the Grant Range, Nye County, Nevada: Geological Society of America Digital Map and Chart series 14, 1 sheet, 25 p. text, doi:10.1130/2013.DMCH01.  Text PDF    Map PDF

• Camilleri, P. A., McGrew, A. J., Deibert, J.E., and Snoke A.W., 2013, Mesozoic to Cenozoic tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of the Ruby-East Humboldt-Wood Hills metamorphic core complex region, Nevada, and the role of tectonic inheritance in its development:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, p. 239. Abstract

• McGrew, A. J., Camilleri, P. A., and Snoke A.W., 2013, Unfolding the story of late cretaceous tectonic inheritance in the Ruby-East Humboldt-Wood Hills metamorphic core complex, Nevada: phantom thrust belts, thinning fold-nappes, and other enigmas:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, p. 239. Abstract

• Wills, M.A., Hoisch, T.D., Vervoort, J., Wells, M.L., and Camilleri, P.A., 2013, Age of metamorphism and pressure-temperature path from metamorphosed Dunderberg Shale in the Wood Hills, eastern Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 45, no. 6, p. 71.  Abstract

• Sullivan, Z., Camilleri, P. A., and Deibert, J.E.,  2012, Estimates of offset of Quaternary alluvial fan surfaces along normal faults bounding the central and northern Grant Range and Railroad Valley in east-central Nevada:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 44., p. 249. Abstract

• Camilleri, P. A., Deibert, J.E., and Breeden, S., 2011, Preliminary geologic mapping and Quaternary faulting of the western margin of the Grant Range, east-central Nevada:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 43, p. 277. Abstract

• Camilleri, P. A., 2010, Geologic map of the northern Pequop Mountains, Elko County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map 171, scale 1:48 000, 1 sheet, 15 p. text.   Text PDF    Map PDF

• Camilleri, P. A., 2010, Geologic map of the Wood Hills, Elko County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map 172, scale 1:48 000, 1 sheet, 16 p. text .   Text PDF    Map PDF

• Cranham, G. T., Camilleri, P.A., and Jaffe, G.R., 2010, Geologic overview of the San Onofre Mountains, Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, San Diego County, California, in Rosenberg, P. S., and Ziegler, C. L., ed., Geology and natural history of Camp Pendleton [second edition]: San Diego Association of Geologists, Sunbelt Publications, p. 13-28, 1:40,000 scale fold-out geologic map.  

• Camilleri, P. A., 2009, Growth, behavior, and textural sector zoning of biotite porphyroblasts during regional metamorphism and the implications for interpretation of inclusion trails: Insights from the Pequop Mountains and Wood Hills, Nevada, U.S.A.: Geosphere, v. 5, issue no. 3., p. 215-251.  PDF

• 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. Abstract

• 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.   PDF

• 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. Abstract

• 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. Abstract

• 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. Abstract

• 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. PDF

• 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.  Abstract

• 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. PDF

• 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.  PDF
  

• 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. PDF

• 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. PDF

• 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.

• 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. PDF