Department of Geological Sciences
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego, CA 92182-1020
Phone: 619.594.6269 Fax: 619.594.4372
Education:
Ph.D., Geology, 1954, UC Berkeley
Research Interests:
Geotectonics, geochronology, and petrology of southern and Baja California
Publications:
Gastil, R.G., 1954, Late Precambrian volcanism in southeastern Arizona: Am. Jour. Sci., v.252, no.7, pp.436-440.
Gastil, R.G., 1954a, An occurrence of authigenic xenotime: Jour. Sed. Petrology, v.24, no.4, pp.280-281.
Gastil, R.G., 1958, Older Precambrian rocks of the Diamond Butte Quadrangle, Gila County, Arizona: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v.69, no.12, pp.1495-1514.
Knowles, M.K., R.G., Gastil, 1958, Metamorphosed Iron Formation in Southwestern Labrador: Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin, v.LXII, p.265-272.
Gastil, R.G., 1960, Distribution of mineral dates in time and space: Am. Jour. Sci., v.258, pp.1-35.
Gastil, R.G., 1960a, Continents and mobile belts in the light of mineral dating: XXI International Geological Congress, part IX, pp.162-169.
Gastil, R.G., D.M. Knowles, 1960, Geology of the Wabash Lake area, southwestern Labrador, and eastern Quebec, Canada: Geol. Soc.America Bull., v.71, pp.1243-1254.
Gastil, R.G., Roger Blais, D.M. Knowles, Robert Bergeson 1960, The Labrador Geosyncline: XXI International Geological Congress, Copenhagen, Part IX, pp.21-38.
Gastil, R.G., 1962, A working hypothesis for Arizonas older Precambrian history: New Mexico Geological Soc. Bull., v.74, p.803-806.
Bushee, Jonathan, John Holden, Barbara Geyer, and Gordon Gastil, 1963, Lead-alpha dates for some basement rocks of southern California, Geol Soc. America Bull., v.74, p.803-806.
Delisle, Mark, J.R. Morgan, Jay Heldenbrand, and Gordon Gastil, 1965, Lead- alpha dates for some basement rocks of southern California, Geol. Soc. America Bull., v.76, pp.1069-1074.
Gastil, R.G., G.R. Morgan, and M. Delisle, 1967, Some effects of metamorphism on zircons, Geol Soc. America Bull., v.78, pp.879-906.
Gastil, R.G., 1968, Fault systems in northern Baja California and their relation to the origin of the Gulf of California in proceedings of Conference of Geologic Problems of San Andreas Fault System, Stanford U. Publ., Geol Sciences, v.XI, pp.283-286.
Gastil, R.G., 1968, How good is the evidence for 450 miles of offset on the San Andreas Fault in Proceedings of Conference on Geologic Problems of San Andreas Fault System, Stanford U. Publ., Geol. Sciences, v.XI, pp.208-211.
Gastil, R.G., 1969, Geologic evidence relating to the origin of the northern half of the Gulf of California, in Pan-American Symposium on the upper mantle, 1968: Mexico Univ. Nac. Autonoma Inst. Geofisica, v. 2, group 2, p.1-5.
Gastil, R.G., R.P Phillips, and R. Rodriguez-Torres, 1972, The Reconstruction of Mesozoic California, 24th International Geological Congress, Montreal, Section 3, p.217-229.Gastil, R.G., and W. Jensky, 1973, Possible right-lateral strike slip beneath the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in the State of Nayarit, Mexico, Transactions of the Second San Andreas Fault Conference, Stanford Univ. Publ., Geological Sciences, v. XIII, p.171-180.
Gastil, R.G., R.P. Phillips, and E.C. Allison, 1973, Reconnaissance Geologic Map of the State of Baja California: Geological Society of America; accompanies Reconnaissance Geology of the State of Baja California by the same authors, 1975: Geol Soc. America Memoir 140, 170 p.
Gastil, R.G., D.V. Lemone, and W.J. Steward, 1973, Permian fusulinids from near San Felipe, Baja California: American Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull., v.57, p.746-747; also published in Spanish; Bol. Soc. Geol. Mexicana, Tomo XXXVII, p.84-90.
Gastil, R.G., D. Krummehacher, J. Doupont, and J. Bushee, 1974, The West Mexican Batholith Belt: Pacific Geology, v.8, p.73-78.
Gastil, R.G., and J. Lillegraven, co-editors, 1974, The Geology of Peninsular California: AAPG-SEPM-SEG Field Trip Guidebook, 138 p.
Krummenacher, D., R.G. Gastil, J. Bushee, and J. Doupont, 1975, K-Ar Apparent Ages, Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Southern California and Baja California: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v.86, p.760-768.
Gastil, R.G., 1975, Plutonic Zones in the Peninsular Ranges of Southern California and Northern Baja California: Geology, June, p.361-363.
Minch, J.C., R.G. Gastil, J. Robinson, W. Fink, and H.H. James, 1976, Geology of the Vizcaino Peninsular in Aspects of the Geologic History of the Continental Borderland, D.G. Howell (ed.): Pacific Section AAPG Misc. Publ. 24, p.136-195.
Gastil, R.G. and D. Krummenacher, 1975, Reconnaissance Map of Coastal Sonora between Puerto Lobos and Bahia Kino: Geol. soc. America Map and Chart Series MC-16.
Gastil, R.G., D. Krummenacher, J. Doupont, J. Bushee, W. Jensky, and D. Barthelmy, 1976, La Zona Batholitica del sur de California y el Occidente de Mexico: Bol. Soc. Geol. Mexicana XXXVII, p.84-90.
Gastil, R.G., D. Krummenacher, 1977, Reconnaissance geology of coastal Sonora between Puerto Lobos and Bahia Kino: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v.88, p.189-198.
Gastil, R.G., 1977, Subduction, accretion, and batholith emplacement: in plutonism in relation to volcanism and metamorphism, International Geological Correlations Program Circum-Pacific Plutonism Project, Toyama, Japan, p.62-73.
Gastil, Gordon, and Richard Higley, 1977, Guide to San Diego Area Stratigraphy: The Edwin C. Allison Center, San Diego State University, 62 p.
Kuper, H.T., and Gordon Gastil, 1977, Reconnaissance of Marine Sedimentary Rocks of Southwestern San Diego County: in Geology of Southwestern San Diego County, California and Northwestern Baja California (G.T. Ferrand, ed.), San Diego Association of Geologists, p.9-16.
Gastil, G., Morgan, G.J., and Krummenacher, D., 1978, Mesozoic history of peninsular California and related areas east of the Gulf of California: in Mesozoic Palegeography of the Western United States, edited by Howell, D.G. and McDougall, K.A.: Pacific Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, California, U.S.A., p.107-116.
Gastil, R.G., and D. Krummenacher, 1978, A Reconnaissance Geologic Map of West-Central Part of the State of Nayarit, Mexico: Geol. Soc. America Map and Chart Series MC-24.
Gastil, Gordon, Daniel Krummenacher, and W.A. Jensky II, 1979, Reconnaissance Geology of West-Central Nayarit, Mexico: Summary: Geological Society of America Bulletin, Part I, v.90, p.15-18.
Gastil, R.G., 1979, Recent Exploration in the Cedros-Vizcaino area and a field Trip Log; Current problems in the geology of the Cedros-Vizcaino Region, in Baja California Geology (ed. by P.L. Abbott and R.G. Gastil), published by Dept. of Geological Sciences, San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA 92182, p.1-10, 149-158.
Gastil, Gordon, 1979, A Conceptual Hypothesis for the Relation of Differing Tectonic Terranes to Plutonic Emplacement: Geology, v.7, n.11, p.543- 544.
Gastil, G., Krummenacher, D., and Minch, J., 1979: The record of Cenozoic volcanism around the Gulf of California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, Part I, v.90, p.839-857.
Gastil, R.G., 1979a, Recent Exploration in the Cedros-Vizcaino Area, and a Field Trip Log, in Geol. of Baja California (ed. by Abbott, P.L. and Gastil, R.G.) Geol. Soc. America Annual Meeting, San Diego Field Guides and Paper, p.1-10.
Gastil, R.G., 1979b, Current Problems in the Geology of the Cedros-Vizcaino Region, in Geol. of Baja California (ed. by Abbott, P.L. and Gastil, R.G.) Geol. Soc. America Annual Meeting, San Diego, Field Guides and Papers, p.149-156.
Abbott, P.L. and Gastil, R.G. (eds.), 1979, Baja California Geology: Field Trip Guide for Trips 10, 12, 13 and 26, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, November, 1979: published by Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA 92182, 227 p.
Gastil, R.G., G.J. Morgan, and D. Krummenacher, 1980, Tectonic History of Peninsular California and Adjacent Mexico in Rubey Volume No.1, The Tectonic Development of California, edited by Gary Ernst, Freeman Press, San Francisco, p.284-306.
Gastil, R.G., 1981, Volcanic correlations across the Gulf of California: National Geographic Society Research Reports, v.13, p.231-234.
Gastil, R.G., and Miller, R.H., 1981, Lower Paleozoic Strata on the Pacific Plate of North America: Nature, v.292, no.5826, p.828-830.
Gastil, R.G., and Ortlieb, L., 1981, Geology of Coastal sonora between Puerto Lobos and Bahia Kino, Field Guide for Field Trip, No. 2, Geol. Soc. America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Hermosillo, p.59-72.
Gastil, Gordon and Phillips, Richard (co-editors) 1982 Symposium on Subduction of oceonic plates: Geological society of America Bulletin, v.93, p463-513.
Gastil, Gordon, 1983, Mesozoic and Cenozoic granitic rocks of southern California and Western Mexico, in Circum-Pacific Plutonic Terranes, J. Roddick, ed., Geological society of America Memoire 159, p.265-276.
Gastil, R.G., Davis, T., and Criscione, J., 1983, Strontium and Lead Ratios, of Prebatholithic Rocks of Peninsular California, Final Report to National Geographic Society, Open File, 29 p.
Gastil, R.G., and Miller, R.H., 1983, Prebatholithic Terrances of Peninsular California north of the 28th parallel, U.S.A. and Mexico-August 1983 status: in Proceedings of the Circum Pacific Terance Conference (D.G. Howell, ed.), Stanford U. Publications in Geological Sciences 18, p.93-97.
Gastil, R.G., Phillips, R.P., and Minch, J., 1984, the Geology of the Islands, in Biogeography in the Sea of Cotez, (ed.) T.T. Case, and M.C. Cady: Regents of the University of California, p.13-26.
Gastil, G. and Miller, R.H., 1984, Prebatholithic paleogeography of Peninsular California and adjacent Mexico in Geology of the Baja California Peninsular, V.A. Frizzell, Jr., (ed.)(Pacific Section, Society of Economic Mineralogists and Petrologists, v.39.
Gastil, G., 1985, Terranes of Peninsular California and adjacent Sonora, in Tectonostratigraphic Terranes of the Circum-Pacific Region, D.G. Howell, (ed.), Circum Pacific Council for Engergy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, n.1, p.273-283.
Gastil, Gordon, Richard Miller, Gary Girty, Michael Walawander, Melissa Warlaw, James Crocker, Michael Campbell, John Hoobs, James Reed, Judith Diamon and Charles Knaack, 1985, The Basement Terrances of Peninsular California and Adjacent Mexico in Third Circum Pacific Terrane Conference California and Adjacent Mexico in Third Circum Pacific Terrance Conference-Extended Abstracts (Evan Leitch, (ed.), University of Sydney, p.75-78.
Gastil, Gordon, and Kathe Bertine, 1985, Thermal springs and thermal spring related waters and chemical deposits, southern and Baja California: California Division of Oil and Gas, 135 p., 17 plates. (This is available in Open File from the California State Division of Oil and Gas, Sacramento, California).
Gastil, Gordon and Bertine, Kathe, 1986, The relationship between the distribution of shallow thermal water and seismicity in southern California, Geology, p.287-290.
Gastil, R.G. and Bertine, Kathe, 1986, Reply to Comments on the above article by the same authors: Geology, p.287-290.
Gastil, R.G., Miller, R.H., and Campa, U.M., 1986, The Cretaceous paleogeography of Peninsular California and adjacent Mexico, in Symposium on the Cretaceous Paleogeography of western North America, P. Abbott, editor: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, v.46, p.41-50.
Walawender, M.J., Gastil, R.G., J.P. Clinkenbeard, W.V. McCormick, B.G.Eatmon, R.S. Wernicke, M.S. Wardlaw, S.W. Gunn, and B.M. Smith, 1990: Origin and evolution of the zoned La Posta-type plutons, eastern Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern and Baja California in the Nature and Origin of Cordilleran Mogivatism, Anderson, L.T. (ed.), p.19-31.
Gastil, G., Diamond, J., Knaack, C., M. Walawender, M. Marshall, C. Boyles, southern and Baja California in the Nature and Origin of Cordilleran Mogivatism, Anderson, L.T. (ed.): Geological Society of America Memoir 174, Anderson, (ed.), p.19-31 Gastil, R.G., 1190, Zoned plutons of the Peninsular Ranges in southern and Baja California in, Shinizo, M., and Gastil, R.G. (eds.), Advances in Concepts Concerning Zoned Plutons in Japan and Southern and Baja California, Univ. of Tokyo Press, p. 77-90. Cady: Regents of the Univ. of California, p.13-26.
Gastil, G., 1990, Zoned plutons of the Peninsular Ranges in southern and Baja California, in Recent Advances in concepts concerning zoned plutons in Japan and southern and Baja California, G.Gastil and M. Shimizu (eds.), The University Museum, the University of Tokyo, Nature and Culture, n.2, p.77-90.
Gastil, R.G., 1990 The boundary between the magnetite-series and ilmenite series rocks in Peninsular California in Recent Advance in concepts concerning zoned plutons in Japan and southern and Baja California, M. Shimizu and G. Gastil, R.G. (eds.), The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Nature and Culture, N.2, p.91-100.
5M. Shimizu and G. Gastil (editors), 1990, Recent advances in concepts concerning zoned plutons in Japan and southern and Baja California: University Museum, University of Tokyo, Nature and Culture, n. 2, 243 p. Contributions by the editors include Preface p.1-2, and Summary p.243-244.
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