Stevens, Calvin

Stevens, Calvin

Date Updated

4-14-2020

Department

Geology

Academic Rank

Professor Emeritus

Year Retired from SJSU

1998

Facebook or Website URL

Cal Stevens https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/cowboyslives

Educational Background

University of Southern California, 1963 PhD

University of Colorado, 1958 MA

University of Colorado, 1956 BA

Teaching Experience

SJSU, 1963-2002

Administrative and Professional Experience

Chairman Geology Dept., 1976-1982

Selected Publications

  • Stevens, C.H. and Stone, P., 2019, Mississippian sedimentary facies patterns in east-central California and implications for development of the Permian Last Chance Thrust: In SEPM Special Publication no . 113, Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic Tectono-stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of Western Pangea.
  • Nestell, M. and Stevens, C.H., 2019, Fusulinids: Elsevier Publishing Co.
  • Attia, S., Paterson, S.R., Cao, W., Chapman, A.D., Saleeby, J., Dunne, G.C., Stevens, C.H., and Memeti, V., 2018, Late Paleozoic tectonic assembly of the Sierra Nevada prebatholithic framework and western Laurentian provenance links based on synthesized detrital zircon geochronology: Geologic Society of America Special Paper 540.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Peters, D.A., 2018, Geology of the Mississippian Kearsarge Formation in east-central California and its importance in interpretation of the effects of an Antler-age deformational event on its foreland basin: Stratigraphy, v. 15, no. 2, p.91- 102.
  • Stone, P., Miller, D.M., Stevens, C.H., Rosario, J., Vazquez, J.A, Wen, E., Priest, S.S., and Valin, Z.C., 2017, Geologic map of the Providence Mountains in parts of the Fountain Peak and adjacent 7.5’ quadrangles, San Bernardino County, California: USGS Scientific Investigations Map 3376 (with pamphlet).
  • Stevens, C.H. and Clites, E.C., 2016, Transfer of the Calvin H. Stevens coral collection to the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, California: Journal of Paleontology, v. 90, #1, p. 182.
  • Stevens, C.H., Stone, P., and Magginetti, R.T., 2015, Regional implications of new chronostratigraphic and paleogeographic data from the Early Permian Darwin Basin, east- central California: Stratigraphy, v. 12, #2, p. 149-166.
  • Stevens, C.H., Stone, P., Magginetti, R.T., and Ritter, S.M., 2015, Stratigraphy and paleogeographic significance of a Late Pennsylvanian to Early Permian channeled slope sequence in the Darwin Basin, southern Darwin Hills, east-central California: Stratigraphy, v. 12, #2, p. 185-196.
  • Stevens, C.H., Magginetti, R.T., and Stone, P., 2015, Architecture and evolution of an Early Permian carbonate complex on a tectonically active island in east-central California: Stratigraphy, v. 12, #2, p. 167-183.
  • Stevens, C.H., 2015, Tubular calcareous nodules from the Pennsylvanian Minturn Formation of Colorado: The Mountain Geologist, v. 52, #2, p. 71-77.
  • Fedorowski, J. and Stevens, C.H., 2014, Late Carboniferous colonial Rugosa (Anthozoa) from Alaska: Geologica Acta, v. 12, #3, p. 239-267.
  • Stone, P., Stevens C.H., Belasky, P., Montanez, I.P., Martin, L.G., Wardlaw, B.R., Sandberg, C.A., Wan, E., Olson, H.A., and Priest, S.S., 2014, Geologic map and Upper Paleozoic Stratigraphy of the Marble Canyon area, Cottonwood Canyon Quadrangle, Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3298, with pamphlet 59 p. https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3298
  • Fedorowski, J., Stevens, C.H., and Katvala, E., 2014, New Late Carboniferous Heritschioidinae (Rugosa) from the Kuiu Island area and the Brooks Range, Alaska: Geologica Acta, v. 12, #1, p. 29-52.
  • Stevens, C.H., Poole, F.G., and Amaya-Martinez, R., 2014, Late Paleozoic fusulinids from Sonora, Mexico: Importance for interpretation of depositional setting, biogeography, and paleotectonics: Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas, v. 31, #1, pl. 14-27.
  • Fedorowski, J., Bamber, E.W., and Stevens, C.H., 2014, A revision of Heritschioides Yabe, 1950 (Anthozoa, Rugosa), latest Mississippian and earliest Pennsylvanian of western North America: Palaeontologia Electronica, Article Number 17.1.11A, 20p.
  • Stone, P., Stevens, C.H., Howard, K.A., and Hoisch, T.D., 2013, Stratigraphy and paleogeographic significance of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Bird Spring Formation in the Ship Mountains, southeastern California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5109, 40p with map.
  • Nestell, M.K. and Stevens, C.H., 2013, Mixed Tethyan and McCloud Belt rugose corals and fusulinids in an Upper Triassic conglomerate, central Oregon: Journal of Paleontology, v. 87, #5, p. 909-921.
  • Stevens, C.H., Stone, P., and Blakely, R.J., 2013, Structural evolution of the East Sierra Valley System (Owens Valley and vicinity), California: A geological and geophysical synthesis: Geosciences 2013, 3, 176-215; doi: 10.3390/geosciences 3020176.
  • Stevens, C.H., 2012, Distribution and diversity of Carboniferous and Permian colonial rugose coral faunas in Western North America: Clues for placement of allochthonous terranes: Geosciences, 2012, 2, 42-63; doi: 10.3390/geosciences 2020042.
  • Kawamura, T., and Stevens, C.H., 2012, Middle Pennsylvanian rugose corals from the Baird Formation, Klamath Mountains, northwestern California: Journal of Paleontology, v. 86, #3, p. 513-520.
  • Stevens, C.H., Fedorowski, J., and Kawamura, T., 2012, New unusual skeletal structure in an Upper Carboniferous rugose coral, Klamath Mountains, northern California: Journal of Paleontology, v.86, #1, p. 120-125.
  • Stevens, C.H., 2010, New Early Permian colonial rugose corals from the central Cordilleran Miogeocline: U.S.A. Journal of Paleontology, v. 84, #3, p. 529-537.
  • Stevens, C.H., 2010, Distribution of three key Early Permian fossil groups in western USA and northern Mexico and their relevance to interpretation of paleotectonic features along the southwestern margin of Laurentia: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, v. 288, p. 103-107.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Belasky, P., 2009, Nature of Permian faunas in western North America: A key to the understanding of the history of allochthonous terranes: In Ferrare, D.M., and Guiseppi, A.R., eds., Chapt. 10, p. 276-310, Geomorphology and Plate Tectonics, Nova Sci. Pub. Inc.
  • Stone, P., Swanson, B.J., Stevens, C.H., Dunne, G.C., and Priest, S.S., 2009, Geologic map of the southern Inyo Mountains and vicinity, Inyo County, California. U.S.: Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3094, pamphlet 22p.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Stone, P., 2009, New Permian durhaminid corals from east-central California: Journal of Paleontology, v. 83, p. 946-953.
  • Stevens, C.H., 2009, New occurrences of Permian corals from the McCloud Belt in western North America: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 12, issue 2; 7A, 16 p.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Stone, P., 2009, New fusulinids from Lower Permian turbidites at Conglomerate Mesa, southeastern Inyo Mountains, east-central California: Journal of Paleontology, v. 83, p. 399-404.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Stone P., 2009, New Permian fusulinids from Conglomerate Mesa, southeastern Inyo Mountains, east-central California: Journal of Paleontology, v. 83, p. 9-29.
  • Stevens, C.H., 2008, Fasciculate rugose corals from Gzhelian and Lower Permian strata, Pequop Mountains, northeast Nevada: Journal of Paleontology, v. 82, p. 1190-1200.
  • Stevens, C.H., 2008, Permian colonial rugose corals from the Wrangellian terrane in Alaska: Journal of Paleontology, v. 82, p. 1043-105
  • Wrucke, C.T., Stone, P., and Stevens, C.H., 2008, Geologic map of the Warm Spring Canyon area, Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, California: U.S. Geologic Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2974, version 1.1.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Stone, P., 2007, The Pennsylvanian-Early Permian Bird Spring shelf, southeastern California: Fusulinid biostratigraphy, paleogeographic evolution, and tectonic implications: Geological Society of America Special Paper 429, 82 p.
  • Fedorowski, J., Bamber, E.W., and Stevens, C.H., 2007, Lower Permian colonial rugose corals, western and northwestern Pangaea: Taxonomy and Distribution: NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 231 p.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Stone, P., 2006, Submarine gravity slides on Paleozoic continental slope at the western edge of the Great Basin, east-central California: A mechanism for development of unconformities in slope environments: Stratigraphy, v. 3, no. 2, p. 139-149.
  • Belasky, P. and Stevens, C.H., 2006, Permian faunas of westernmost North America: Paleobiogeographic constraints on Permian positions of Cordilleran terranes: In, Haggart, J.W., Enkin, R.J., Monger, J.W.H., eds., Paleogeography of the North American Cordillera: Evidence for and against large-scale displacements: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 46, p. 71-80.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Pelly, T., 2006, Development and dismemberment of a Middle Devonian continental- margin submarine fan system in east-central California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, p.159-170.
  • Stevens, C.H., Stone, P., and Miller, J.S., 2005, A new reconstruction of the Paleozoic continental margin of southwestern North America: Implications for the nature and timing of continental truncation and the possible role of the Mojave-Sonora megashear hypothesis: Development, assessment, and alternatives: In, Anderson, T.H., Nourse, J.A., McKee, J.W., and Steiner, M.B., eds., Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, p. 597-618.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Stone, P., 2005, Interpretation of the Last Chance thrust, Death Valley region, California, as an Early Permian decollement in a previously undeformed shale basin: Earth Sciences Reviews, v. 73, p. 79-101.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Stone, P., 2005, Structure and regional significance of the Late Permian(?) Sierra Nevada-Death Valley thrust system, east-central California: Earth Science Reviews, v. 73, p. 103-113.
  • Rigby, J.K., Linder, G.A., and Stevens, C.H., 2004, A new occurrence of the “Hydrozoan” Radiotrabeculopora reticulata Fan, Rigby, and Zhang, 1991, in the Permian of California: Journal of Paleontology, v. 78, p. 410-413.
  • Stevens, C.H., Stone, P., and Greene, D.C., 2003, Reply to Discussion of “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”: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 1309-1311.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Stone, P., 2002, 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: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 1210-1221.
  • Belasky, P., Stevens, C.H., and Hanger, R.A., 2002, Early Permian location of western North American terranes based on brachiopod, fusulinid, and coral biogeography: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, v. 179, p. 245-266.
  • Greene, D.C. and Stevens, C.H., 2002, Geologic Map of Paleozoic Rocks in the Mount Morrison pendant, Eastern Sierra Nevada, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Map Sheet 53.
  • Stevens, C.H., Stone, P., Miller, R.B., Andersen, D.W., and Metz, J., 2001, Emplacement of the Santa Rita Flat pluton as a pluton-scale saddle reef: Comment: Geology, v. 29, p. 1157-1158.
  • Stevens, C.H., Stone, P., and Ritter, S.M., 2001, Conodont and fusulinid biostratigraphy and history of the Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Keeler Basin, east-central California: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 46, p. 99-142.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Greene, D.C., 2000, Geology of Paleozoic rocks in the Sierra Nevada roof pendants, California: In, Lageson, D.R., Peters, S.G., and Lahren, M.M., eds., Great Basin and Sierra Nevada: Geological Society of America Field Guide 2, p. 237-254.
  • Stone, P., Stevens, C.H., Spinosa, C., Furnish, W.M., Glenister, B.F., and Wardlaw, B.R., 2000, Stratigraphic relations and tectonic significance of rocks near the Permian-Triassic boundary, southern Inyo Mountains, California: Geological Society of America Map and Chart Series MCH086, 32p., 2 maps.
  • Fedorowski, J., Bamber, E.W., and Stevens, C.H., 1999, Permian corals of the Cordillera-Arctic-Uralian realm: Acta Geologica Polonica, v. 49, p. 159-173.
  • Stevens, C.H. and Greene, D.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.
  • Wrucke, C.T., and Stevens, C.H., 1998, The Butte Valley Fault in the Panamint Range and the Layton Wells Thrust in the Slate Range: Their relations to faults south of the Garlock Fault: San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, v. 45, no. 1-2, p. 59-61.
  • Stevens, C.H., Klingman, D.S., Sandberg, C.A., Stone, P., Belasky, P., Poole, F.G., and Snow, J.K., 1996, Mississippian stratigraphic framework of east-central California and southern Nevada with revision of the Upper Devonian and Mississippian stratigraphic units in Inyo County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1988-J, 39 p.

Personal Commentary

I still normally work 5 days a week at SJSU pursuing geologic research.

Date completed: 11/09; updated 12/07/10, 5/07/12

Stevens, Calvin

Share

COinS