James Dolan

Summary Statement of Research Interests

I’m an active tectonicist and earthquake geologist interested in the behavior of faults and fault systems, the earthquakes they produce, and the resulting seismic hazards. My students and I use a wide range of techniques to study these issues, including everything from hard-core, boots-on-the-ground structural, paleoseismologic, and geomorphologic field work, to the acquisition and analysis of aerial lidar and shallow geophysical data, to the use of advanced image correlation techniques in change-detection analysis of the landscape. Specific recent research efforts focus on generating incremental fault slip rates and paleo-earthquake ages and displacements from active faults in a number of different plate boundaries, aimed at understanding how relative plate motions spanning tens to a few hundred meters are accommodated on crustal faults and fault systems; analysis of how seismic fault slip is made manifest in the geomorphology, including analysis of patterns of distributed deformation in large earthquakes and documentation of the interplay between fluvial processes and active faulting that generates records of terrace development and offset; the behavior, structural expression, and evolution of blind thrust faults and their associated folds; and the use of all these data in the development of next-generation seismic hazard models and as inputs into geodynamical models aimed at understanding the mechanics of relative plate motion.

Research Keywords

– Active Tectonics
– Fault System Behavior
– Constancy (or lack thereof) of rates from individual faults to plate boundaries
– Tectonic Geomorphology
– Paleoseismology
– Image correlation in surface change detection analysis
– Prediction of surface deformation patterns in future large earthquakes
– Structure and Earthquake Behavior of blind thrust faults and their associated folds
– Fault structural evolution
– Seismic hazard assessment strategies

Research Specialties

Tectonics and Geophysics.

Book Chapters

• Grindlay, N. R., Mann, P., Dolan, J. F., Van-Gestel, J. (2005). Neotectonics and subsidence of the northern Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands margin in response to oblique subduction of high-standing ridges: in Mann, P., ed., Active Tectonics and seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas, Geological Society of America Special Paper 385. (Vol. 385) pp. 31-60. Active Tectonics ands seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas/Geological Society of America.
• Dolan, J. F., Wald, D. (1998). The 1943-1953 north-central Caribbean earthquake sequence: Active tectonic setting, seismic hazards, and implications for Caribbean-North America plate motions: GSA Special Paper 326 Active tectonics of the north-central Caribbean, (eds.) Dolan, J. F., and P. Mann. (Vol. 326) pp. 143-169. Geological Society of America.
• Dolan, J. F., Mullins, H. T., Wald, D. (1998). Active tectonics of the north-central Caribbean: Oblique collision, strain partitioning, and opposing subducted slabs: GSA Special Paper 326 Active tectonics of the north-central Caribbean, (eds.) Dolan, J. F., and P. Mann. (Vol. 326) pp. 1-61. Geological Society of America.
• Dolan, J. F., Mann, P., Monechi, S., de Zoeten, R., Heubeck, C., Shiroma, J. (1991). Sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and tectonic synthesis of Eocene-Miocene sedimentary basins, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, in Mann, P, Draper, G., and Lewis, J., eds., Geologic and Tectonic Development of the North America-Caribbean Plate Boundary in Hispaniola. (Vol. Special Paper 262) pp. 217-264. Geological Society of America.
• Dolan, J. F., Beck, C., Ogawa, Y., Klaus, A. (1990). Eocene-Oligocene sedimentation in the Tiburon Rise/ODP Leg 110 area: An example of significant upslope flow of distal turbidity currents: in Mascle, A., and Moore, J. C., eds., Scientific Results of the Ocean Drilling Program, v. 110B. (Vol. 110B) pp. 47-83. Scientific Results of the Ocean Drilling Program.
• Beck, C., Ogawa, Y., Dolan, J. F. (1990). Eocene paleogeography of the southeastern Caribbean: Relations between sedimentation on the Atlantic abyssal plain at Site 672 and evolution of the South American margin, in Moore, J. C., and Mascle, A., eds., Scientific Results of the Ocean Drilling Program, v. 110B. (Vol. 110B) pp. 7-15. Scientific Results of the Ocean Drilling Program.
• Dolan, J. F. (1987). The relationship between the R2 seismic reflector and a zone of abundant detrital and authigenic smectite, DSDP 610, Rockall Plateau region, north Atlantic: in Kidd, R., and Ruddiman, W., eds., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 94: Washington, D. C. (U. S. Government Printing Office). (Vol. 94) pp. 1109-1115. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP Leg 94).

Journal Article

• Dolan, J. F. (2024). Progressive Strain Localization with Structural Evolution of Faults and Implications for Earthquake Characteristics. Nature Geoscience.
• Cawood, T. K., Dolan, J. F. (2024). An exploration of potentially reversible controls on millennial-scale variations in the slip rate of seismogenic faults: Linking structural observations with variable earthquake recurrence patterns. Seismica. doi
• Fougere, D. M., Dolan, J. F., Rhodes, E. J., McGill, S. F. (2024). Refined Holocene Slip Rate for the Western and Central Segments of the Garlock Fault: Record of Alternating Millennial-Scale Periods of Fast and Slow Fault Slip. Seismica. doi
• Gauriau, J., Dolan, J. F. (2024). Comparison of geodetic slip-deficit and geologic fault slip rates reveals that variability of elastic strain accumulation and release rates on strike-slip faults is controlled by relative structural complexity of plate-boundary fault systems. seismica. doi
• Dolan, J. F., Van Dissen, R. J., Rhodes, E. J., Zinke, R., Hatem, A. E., McGuire, C. C., Langridge, R. M., Grenader, J. R. (2024). One tune, many tempos: Faults trade off slip in time and space to accommodate relative plate motions. Earth & Planetary Science Letters. doi
• Gauriau, J., Barbot, S., Dolan, J. F. (2023). Islands of chaos in a sea of periodic earthquakes. Earth & Planetary Science Letters. Vol. 618 doi
• Ivester, A. H., Rhodes, E. J., Dolan, J. F., Van Dissen, R. J., Gauriau, J., Little, T., McGill, S. F., Tuckett, P. J. (2022). A method to evaluate the degree of bleaching of IRSL signals in feldspar: The 3ET method. Quaternary Geochronology. Vol. 72 doi
• Gauriau, J., Dolan, J. F. (2021). Relative Structural Complexity of Plate-Boundary Fault Systems Controls Incremental Slip-Rate Behavior of Major Strike-Slip Faults. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Vol. 22 (11), pp. e2021GC009938.
• Zinke, R., Dolan, J. F., Rhodes, E. J., Van Dissen, R. J., Hatem, A. E., McGuire, C. P., Brown, N. D., Grenader, J. R. (2021). Latest Pleistocene–Holocene Incremental Slip Rates of the Wairau Fault: Implications for Long-Distance and Long-Term Coordination of Faulting Between North and South Island, New Zealand. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Vol. 22 (9)
• Bemis, S. P., Scharer, K., Dolan, J. F. (2021). The San Andreas Fault Paleoseismic Record at Elizabeth Lake: Why are There Fewer Surface-Rupturing Earthquakes on the Mojave Section?. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 111 (3), pp. 1590-1613.
• Milliner, C., Donnellan, A., Aati, S., Avouac, J., Zinke, R., Dolan, J. F., Wang, K., Bürgmann, R. (2021). Bookshelf Kinematics and the Effect of Dilatation on Fault Zone Inelastic Deformation: Examples From Optical Image Correlation Measurements of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth.
• Hatem, A. E., Dolan, J. F., Zinke, R. W., Langridge, R. M., McGuire, C. P., Rhodes, E. J., Van Dissen, R. J. (2020). Holocene to latest Pleistocene incremental slip rates from the east-central Hope fault (Conway segment) at Hossack Station, Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand: Towards a dated path of earthquake slip along a plate boundary fault. Geosphere. Vol. 16 (6), pp. 1558-1584.
• Ponti, D. J., Dolan, J. F., co-authors, +. (2020). Documentation of Surface Fault Rupture and Ground-Deformation Features Produced by the 4 and 5 July 2019 6.4 and 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 91 (5), pp. 2942-2959.
• DuRoss, C. B., Gold, R. B., Dawson, T., Scharer, K. M., Kendrick, K. J., Dolan, J. F., co-authors, +. (2020). Surface displacement distributions for the July 2019 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake ruptures. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 110 (4), pp. 1400-1418.
• Van Dissen, R., Abbott, E., Zinke, R., Ninis, D., Dolan, J. F., Little, T., Rhodes, E., Litchfield, N., Hatem, A. (2020). Slip rate variations on major strike-slip faults in central New Zealand and potential impacts on hazard estimation. Proceedings of the 2020 New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Annual Technical Conference.
• Hatem, A. E., Dolan, J. F., Zinke, R. W., Van Dissen, R. J., McGuire, C. M., Rhodes, E. J. (2019). A 2000 Yr Paleoearthquake Record along the Conway Segment of the Hope Fault: Implications for Patterns of Earthquake Occurrence in Northern South Island and Southern North Island, New Zealand. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 109 (6), pp. 2216-2239.
• Wolfe, F. D., Shaw, J. H., Plesch, A., Ponti, D. J., Dolan, J. F., Legg, M. R. (2019). The Wilmington Blind-Thrust Fault: An Active Concealed Earthquake Source beneath Los Angeles, California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 109 (5), pp. 1890-1906.
• Zinke, R., Hollingsworth, J. C., Dolan, J. F., Van Dissen, R. (2019). 3D surface deformation in the 2016 MW 7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand earthquake from optical image correlation: Implications for strain localization and long-term evolution of the Pacific-Australian plate boundary. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Vol. 20 (3), pp. 1609-1628.
• Zinke, R., Dolan, J. F., Rhodes, E. J., Van Dissen, R. J., McGuire, C. P., Hatem, A. E., Brown, N. D., Langridge, R. M. (2019). Multi-millennial incremental slip rate variability of the Clarence fault at the Tophouse Road site, Marlborough fault system, New Zealand. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 46 (2), pp. 717-725.
• Hatem, A. E., Dolan, J. F. (2018). A model for the initiation, evolution, and continued activity of the Garlock fault, California. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. pp. doi.org/10.1029/2017GC007.
• Dolan, J. F., Meade, B. J. (2017). A comparison of geodetic and geologic rates prior to large strike-slip earthquakes: A diversity of earthquake cycle behaviors?. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. pp. doi.org/10.1002/2017GC007.
• Zinke, R., Dolan, J. F., Rhodes, E. J., Van Dissen, R., McGuire, C. P. (2017). Highly variable latest Pleistocene–Holocene incremental slip rates on the Awatere fault at Saxton River, South Island, New Zealand, revealed by lidar mapping and luminescence dating. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 44, pp. doi:10.1002/2017GL075048.
• Ellis, S., Van Dissen, R., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Reyners, M., Dolan, J. F., Nicol, A. (2017). Detecting hazardous cryptic faults by mapping discontinuities at seismogenic depths. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Vol. 463, pp. 333-343, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.20.
• Langridge, R. M., Ries, W. F., Dolan, J. F., Schermer, E., Siddoway, C. (2017). Slip rate estimates for the Alpine fault (Calf Paddock), New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. Vol. 60 (2), pp. 73-88, doi: 10.1080/00288306.201.
• Bergen, K. J., Shaw, J. H., Leon, L. A., Dolan, J. F., Pratt, T. L., Ponti, D. J., Morrow, E., Barrera, W., Rhodes, E. J., Murari, M. K., Owen, L. A. (2017). Accelerating slip rates on the Puente Hills blind-thrust fault system beneath metropolitan Los Angeles, California. Geology. Vol. 45 (3), pp. 227-230, doi:10.1130/G38520.1.
• DeVries, P. M., Krastev, P. G., Dolan, J. F., Meade, B. J. (2017). Viscoelastic block models of the North Anatolian Fault System: A unified earthquake cycle representation of pre- and postseismic geodetic observations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 107 (1), pp. 403-417, doi: 10.1785/0120160059.
• Milliner, C., Dolan, J. F., Hollingsworth, J. C., Leprince, S., Ayoub, F. (2016). Comparison of near-field and off-fault deformation patterns of the 1992 Mw = 7.3 Landers and 1999 Mw = 7.1 Hector Mine earthquakes: Implications for controls on distribution of surface strain. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 43 (19), pp. doi:10.1002/2016GL069841.
• Dolan, J. F., McAullife, L. J., Rhodes, E. J., McGill, S. F., Zinke, R. (2016). Extreme multi-millenial slip rate variations on the Garlock fault, California: Strain super-cycles, potentially time-variable fault strength, and implications for system-level earthquake occurrence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Vol. 446, pp. 123-136, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.04.011.
• Milliner, C. W., Sammis, C., Allam, A. A., Dolan, J. F., Hollingsworth, J., Leprince, S., Ayoub, F. (2016). The fractal nature of coseismic slip and the relation to fault structure. Nature Scientific Reports. Vol. 6, pp. DOI: 10.1038/srep27201.
• Xu, X., Tong, X., Sandwell, D. T., Milliner, C. W., Dolan, J. F., Hollingsworth, J., Leprince, S., Ayoub, F. (2016). Refining the shallow slip deficit. Geophysical Journal International. Vol. 204, pp. 1867-1886, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv563.
• Zinke, R., Dolan, J. F., Van Dissen, R., Grenader, J. R., Rhodes, E. J., McGuire, C. P., Langridge, R. M., Nicol, A., Hatem, A. E. (2015). Progressive geomorphic and structural manifestation of fault slip as a function of cumulative displacement: A comparison of the Wairau and Awatere faults, South Island, New Zealand. Geology. Vol. 43 (11), pp. 1019-1022, doi:10.1130/G37065.1.
• Frankel, K. L., Owen, L. A., Dolan, J. F., Knott, J. R., Lifton, Z. M., Finkel, R. C., Wasklewicz, T. (2015). Timing and rates of Holocene normal faulting along the Black Mountains fault zone, Death Valley. Lithosphere. pp. doi:10.1130/L464.1.
• McAuliffe, L., Dolan, J. F., Rhodes, E. J., Hubbard, J. F., Shaw, J. H., Pratt, T. L. (2015). Paleoseismologic evidence for large-magnitude (Mw=7.5) earthquakes on the Ventura blind thrust fault: Implications for multi-fault ruptures in the Transverse Ranges of southern California. Geosphere. Vol. 11 (5), pp. 1629-1650, doi:10.1130/GES01123.1.
• Milliner, C. W., Dolan, J. F., Hollingsworth, J., Leprince, S., Ayoub, F., Sammis, C. G. (2015). Quantifying near-field and off-fault deformation patterns of the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers earthquake. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Vol. 16, pp. 1577-1598, doi:10.1002/ 2014GC005693.
• Zinke, R., Hollingsworth, J., Dolan, J. F. (2014). Surface slip and off-fault deformation patterns in the 2013 Mw 7.7 Balochistan, Pakistan earthquake: Implications for controls on the distribution of near-surface coseismic slip. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Vol. 15 (12), pp. 5034-5050, doi:10.1002/ 2014GC005538.
• Hubbard, J., Shaw, J. H., Dolan, J. F., Pratt, T. L., McAuliffe, L., Rockwell, T. K. (2014). Structure and seismic hazard of the Ventura Avenue anticline and Ventura fault, California: Prospect for large, multisegment ruptures in the western Transverse Ranges. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 104 (3), pp. 1070-1087, doi: 10.1785/0120130125.
• Dolan, J. F., Haravitch, B. (2014). How well do surface slip measurements track slip at depth in large strike-slip earthquakes? The importance of structural maturity in controlling on-fault versus off-fault deformation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Vol. 388, pp. 38-47, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.043.
• Miller, M. S., Zhang, P., Dolan, J. F. (2014). Moho structure across the San Jacinto fault zone: insights into strain localization at depth. Lithosphere. Vol. 6 (1), pp. 43-47.
• McAuliffe, L., Dolan, J. F., Kirby, E., Rollins, C., Haravitch, B., Alm, S., Rittenour, T. M. (2013). Paleoseismology of the southern Panamint Valley fault: Implications for regional earthquake occurrence and seismic hazard in southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. Vol. 118 (9), pp. 5126-5146, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50359.
• Madden Madugo, C., Dolan, J. F., Hartleb, R. D. (2012). New paleoearthquake ages from the western Garlock fault: Implications for regional earthquake occurrence in southern California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 102, pp. 2282-2299, doi: 10.1785/0120110310.
• Ganev, P. H., Dolan, J. F., McGill, S. F., Frankel, K. L. (2012). Constancy of geologic slip rate along the central Garlock fault: Implications for strain accumulation and release in southern California. Geophysical Journal International. pp. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246x..
• Roder, B., Lawson, M., Rhodes, E. J., Dolan, J. F., McAuliffe, L., McGill, S. (2012). Assessing the potential of luminescence dating for slip rate studies on the Garlock fault, Mojave Desert, California, USA. Quaternary Geochronology. Vol. 10, pp. 285-290, doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2012.
• Frankel, K. L., Dolan, J. F., Owen, L. A., Ganev, P., Finkel, R. C. (2011). Spatial and temporal constancy of seismic strain release along an evolving segment of the Pacific-North America plate boundary. Earth & Planetary Science Letters. Vol. 304, pp. 565-576.
• Kozaci, Ö., Dolan, J. F., Yönlü, Ö., Hartleb, R. D. (2011). Paleoseismologic evidence for the relatively regular recurrence of infrequent, large-magnitude earthquakes on the eastern North Anatolian fault at Yaylabeli, doi: 10.1130/L118.1. Lithosphere.
• Owen, L. A., Frankel, K. L., Knott, J. R., Reynhout, S., Finkel, R. C., Dolan, J. F., Lee, J. (2011). Beryllium-10 terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating of Quaternary landforms in Death Valley. Geomorphology. Vol. 125, pp. 541-557; doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.10.024.
• Frost, E., Dolan, J. F., Ratschbacher, L., Hacker, B., Seward, G. (2011). Direct observation of fault zone structure at the brittle-ductile transition along the Salzach-Ennstal-Mariazell-Puchberg fault system, Austrian Alps. Journal of Geophyscial Research. Vol. 116, pp. B02411; doi: 10.1029/2010JB007719.
• Pratt, T. L., Dolan, J. F. (2010). Comment on “Near-surface location, geometry, and velocities of the Santa Monica fault zone, Los Angeles, California”. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 100 (5a), pp. 23292337; doi: 10.1785/0120090142.
• Ganev, P. N., Dolan, J. F., Blisniuk, K., Oskin, M., Owen, L. A. (2010). Paleoseismologic evidence for multiple Holocene earthquakes on the Calico fault: Implications for earthquake clustering in the Eastern California Shear Zone. Lithosphere. Vol. 2 (4), pp. 287-298, doi: 10.1130/L82.1; Data Repository 20102.
• Ganev, P. N., Dolan, J. F., Frankel, K. L., Finkel, R. C. (2010). Rates of extension along the Fish Lake Valley fault and transtensional deformation in the Eastern California shear zone–Walker Lane belt. Lithosphere. Vol. 2, pp. 33-49; doi: 10.1130/L51.1; Data Repository 2009285.
• Leon, L. A., Dolan, J. F., Shaw, J. H., Pratt, T. L. (2009). Evidence for large-magnitude Holocene earthquakes on the Compton blind thrust fault, Los Angeles, California. Journal of Geophyscial Research. pp. doi:10.1029/2008JB006129.
• Frost, E., Dolan, J. F., Sammis, C. G., Ratschbacher, L., Hacker, B. R., Cole, J. (2009). Progressive strain localization in a major strike-slip fault exhumed from mid-seismogenic depths: Structural observations from the Salzach-Ennstal-Mariazell-Puchberg fault system, Austria. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 114 (B04406), pp. doi:10.1029/2008JB005763.
• Elliott, A. J., Dolan, J. F., Oglesby, D. D. (2009). Evidence from coseismic slip gradients for dynamic control on rupture propagation and arrest through stopovers: Jour. Geophys. Res. – Solid Earth. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 114 (B02313), pp. doi:10.1029/2008JB005969.
• Kozaci, Ö., Dolan, J. F., Finkel, R. C. (2009). Late Holocene Slip Rate for the central North Anatolian Fault, from Tahtakorpru, Turkey, from Cosmogenic 10Be Geochronology: Implications for the Constancy of Fault Loading and Strain Release Rates. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 114, pp. doi:10.1029/2008JB005760.
• Plesch, A., Shaw, J. H., Benson, C., Bryant, W. A., Carena, S., Cooke, M., Dolan, J. F., 21 others, a. (2007). Community Fault Model (CFM) for Southern California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 97, pp. 1793-1802, doi: 10.1785/0122.
• Cole, J., Hacker, B. R., Ratschbacher, L., Dolan, J. F., Seward, G., Frost, E., Frank, W. (2007). Localized ductile shear below the seismogenic zone: Structural analysis of an exhumed strike-slip fault, Austrian Alps. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 112, pp. doi:10.1029/2007JB004975.
• Kozaci, O., Dolan, J. F., Finkel, R. C., Hartleb, R. D. (2007). A 2000-year slip rate for the North Anatolian fault, Turkey, from cosmogenic 36Cl geochronology: Implications for the constancy of fault loading and slip rates. Geology. Vol. 35, pp. 867-870; doi:10.1130/G23187A.1.
• Leon, L. A., Christofferson, S. A., Dolan, J. F., Shaw, J. H., Pratt, T. L. (2007). Earthquake-by-earthquake fold growth above the Puente Hills blind thrust fault, Los Angeles, California: Implications for fold kinematics and seismic hazard. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 112 (B03S03), pp. doi:10.1029/2006JB004461.
• Dolan, J. F., Bowman, D. D., Sammis, C. G. (2007). Long-range and long-term fault interactions in southern California. Geology. Vol. 35, pp. 855-858.
• Frankel, K. L., Dolan, J. F., Finkel, R. C., Owen, L. A., Hoeft, J. S. (2007). Spatial variations in slip rate along the Death Valley-Fish Lake Valley fault system determined from LiDAR topographic data and cosmogenic 10Be geochronology. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 34 (L18303), pp. doi:10.1029/2007GL030549.
• Frankel, K. L., Dolan, J. F. (2007). Characterizing arid-region alluvial fans with airborne laser swath mapping digital topographic data. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface. pp. doi:10.1029/2006JF000644.
• Dolan, J. F., Avouac, J. (2007). Introduction to special section: Active Fault-Related Folding: Structural Evolution, Geomorphologic Expression, Paleoseismology, and Seismic Hazards. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 112, pp. doi:10.1029/2007JB004952.
• Frankel, K. L., Brantley, K., Dolan, J. F., Finkel, R. C., others, s. (2007). Cosmogenic 10Be and 36Cl geochronology of offset alluvial fans along the northern Death Valley fault zone: Implications for transient strain in the eastern California shear zone. Journal of Geophysical Research. pp. doi:10.1029/2006JB004350.
• Hartleb, R. D., Dolan, J. F., Kozaci, O., Akyuz, S., Seitz, G. (2006). A 2,500-year-long paleoseismologic record of large, infrequent earthquakes on the North Anatolian fault at Cukurcimen, Turkey. Bulletin of Geological Society of America. Vol. 118, pp. 823-840.
• Dolan, J. F., Bowman, D. D. (2004). Tectonic and seismologic setting of the September 22, 2003 Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, earthquake: Implications for earthquake hazard in northern Hispaniola. Seismological Research Letters. Vol. 75, pp. 587-597.
• Hartleb, R. D., Dolan, J. F., Akyuz, S., Yerli, B. (2003). A 2,000 year record of earthquake occurrence along the central North Anatolian fault, from trenches at Alayurt, Turkey. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 93 (5), pp. 1935-1954.
• Dolan, J. F., Christofferson, S. A., Shaw, J. H. (2003). Recognition of paleoearthquakes on the Puente Hills blind thrust fault, Los Angeles, California. Science. Vol. 300, pp. 115-118.
• Shaw, J. H., Plesch, A., Dolan, J. F., Pratt, T. L., Fiore, P. (2002). Puente Hills blind-thrust system, Los Angeles basin, California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 92, pp. 2946-2960.
• Dolan, J. F. (2002). Shallow folding imaged above the Puente Hills blind-thrust fault, Los Angeles, California. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 29, pp. 18-1 to 18-4, doi: 10.1029/2001GL014313.
• Hartleb, R. D., Dolan, J. F., Akyuz, S., Dawson, T., Tucker, A. Z., Yerli, B., Rockwell, T. K., Toraman, E., Cakir, Z., Dikbas, A., Altunel, E. (2002). Surface rupture and slip distribution along the Karadere segment of the 17-August-1999 Izmit, Turkey, earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 92, pp. 67-78.
• Harris, R. A., Dolan, J. F., Hartleb, R. D., Day, S. M. (2002). The 1999 Izmit, Turkey earthquake — A test of the dynamic stress transfer model for intra-earthquake triggering. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 92, pp. 245-255.
• Barka, A., Akyüz, H. S., Altunel, E., Sunal, G., Cakir, Z., Dikbas, A., Yerli, B., Armijo, R., Meyer, B., de Chabalier, J., Rockwell, T., Dolan, J., Hartleb, R., Dawson, T., Christofferson, S., Tucker, A., Fumal, T., Langridge, R., Stenner, H., Lettis, W., Bachhuber, J., Page, W. (2002). Surface rupture and slip distribution of the 17 August 1999 Izmit earthquake (Mw 7.4), North Anatolian fault. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 92, pp. 43-60.
• Dolan, J. F., Rockwell, T. K. (2001). Paleoseismologic evidence for a very large (Mw>7), recent surface rupture on the eastern San Cayetano fault, Ventura County, California: Was this the source of the damaging December 21, 1812 earthquake?. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 91, pp. 1417-1432.
• Tucker, A. Z., Dolan, J. F. (2001). Paleoseismologic evidence for a >8 ka age for the most recent surface rupture on the eastern Sierra Madre fault, northern Los Angeles metropolitan region. Bulletin of Seismological Society of America. Vol. 91, pp. 232-249.
• Borrero, J., Dolan, J. F., Synolakis, C. (2001). Tsunamis within the eastern Santa Barbara Channel. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 28, pp. 643-646.
• Weaver, K. D., Dolan, J. F. (2000). Paleoseismology and seismic hazards of the Raymond fault, Los Angeles County, California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 90, pp. 1409-1428.
• Dolan, J. F., Sieh, K. E., Rockwell, T. K. (2000). Late Quaternary activity and seismic potential of the Santa Monica fault system, Los Angeles, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin. Vol. 112, pp. 1559-1581.
• Dolan, J. F., Stevens, D., Rockwell, T. K. (2000). Paleoseismologic evidence for an early to mid-Holocene age of the most recent surface rupture on the Hollywood fault, Los Angeles, California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 90, pp. 334-344.
• Mann, P., Grindlay, N. R., Dolan, J. F. (1999). Subduction to strike-slip transitions on plate boundaries. GSA Today. Vol. 9, pp. 14-16.
• van Gestel, J., Mann, P., Grindlay, N., Dolan, J. F. (1999). Three-phase tectonic evolution of the northern margin of Puerto Rico as inferred from an integration of seismic reflection, well, and outcrop data. Marine Geology. Vol. 161, pp. 257-286.
• Field, E., Jackson, D., Dolan, J. F. (1999). A new look at earthquake occurrence in southern California: No deficit or huge earthquakes required. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 89, pp. 559-578.
• Pratt, T. L., Dolan, J. F., Odum, J. K., Stephenson, W. J., Williams, R. A., Templeton, M. E. (1998). Multi-scale seismic imaging of active fault zones for seismic hazard assessment: A case study of the Santa Monica fault zone, Los Angeles, California. Geophysics. Vol. 63, pp. 479-489.
• van Gestel, J., Mann, P., Dolan, J. F., Grindlay, N. R. (1998). Structure and tectonics of the upper Cenozoic Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands carbonate platform as determined from seismic reflection studies. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 103, pp. 30,505-30,530.
• Walls, C., Rockwell, T., Mueller, K., Bock, Y., Williams, S., Pfanner, J., Dolan, J. F., Fang, P. (1998). Escape tectonics in the Los Angeles metropolitan region and implications for seismic risk. Nature. Vol. 394, pp. 356-360.
• Dolan, J. F., Sieh, K. E., Rockwell, T. K., Guptill, P., Miller, G. (1997). Active tectonics, paleoseismology, and seismic hazards of the Hollywood fault, northern Los Angeles basin, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin. Vol. 109, pp. 1595-1616.
• Dolan, J. F., Pratt, T. L. (1997). High-resolution seismic reflection imaging of the Santa Monica fault zone, west Los Angeles, California. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 24, pp. 2051-2054.
• Dolan, J. F., Wald, D. (1997). Comment on “The 1946 Hispaniola earthquakes and the tectonics of the North America-Caribbean plate boundary zone, northeastern Hispaniola”. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 102, pp. 785-792.
• Grindlay, N. R., Mann, P., Dolan, J. F. (1997). Researchers investigate submarine faults north of Puerto Rico. EOS (Transactions of the American Geophysical Union). Vol. 78, pp. 404-405.
• Dolan, J. F., Sieh, K. E., Rockwell, T. K., Yeats, R. S., Shaw, J. H., Suppe, J., Huftile, G., Gath, E. (1995). Prospects for larger or more frequent earthquakes in greater metropolitan Los Angeles, California: Science, v. 267, p. 199-205. Science. Vol. 267, pp. 199-205.
• Hummon, C., Schneider, C., Yeats, R. S., Dolan, J. F., Sieh, K. E., Huftile, G. (1994). The Wilshire fault: Earthquakes in Hollywood?. Geology. Vol. 22, pp. 291-294.
• Mullins, H. T., Breen, N. A., Dolan, J. F., others, s. (1991). Carbonate platforms along the southeast Bahamas-Hispaniola collision zone. Marine Geology. Vol. 105, pp. 169-209.
• Heubeck, C., Mann, P., Dolan, J. F., Monechi, S. (1991). Diachronous uplift and recycling of sedimentary basins during Cenozoic tectonic transpression, northeastern Caribbean plate margin. Sedimentary Geology. Vol. 70, pp. 1-32.
• Mullins, H. T., Dolan, J. F., others, s. (1991). Retreat of carbonate platforms: Response to tectonic processes. Geology. Vol. 19, pp. 1089-1092.
• Witschard, M., Dolan, J. F. (1990). Contrasting structural styles in siliciclastic and carbonate rocks of an offscraped sequence: The Peralta accretionary prism, Hispaniola. Geological Society of America Bulletin. Vol. 102, pp. 792-806.
• Dolan, J. F., Beck, C., Ogawa, Y. (1989). Upslope deposition of extremely distal turbidites: An example from the Tiburon Rise, west-central Atlantic. Geology. Vol. 17, pp. 990-994.
• Dolan, J. F. (1989). Eustatic and tectonic controls on deposition of hybrid siliciclastic/carbonate basinal sequences: A discussion with examples. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. Vol. 73, pp. 1233-1246.
• Beck, C., Dolan, J. F., Ogawa, Y., Vrolijk, P. (1989). Deep Cenozoic sediments in front of the Barbados Ridge Complex, ODP Site 672: Hemipelagites, turbidites, and possible contourites in the western central Atlantic Ocean. l’Institut Francais du Petrole. Vol. 44, pp. 551-566.
• Moore, J., Mascle, A., Taylor, E., Andreieff, P., Alvarez, F., Barnes, R., Beck, C., Behrmann, J., Blanc, G., Clark, M., Brown, K., Dolan, J., Fisher, A., Gieskes, J., Hounslow, M., McLellan, P., Moran, K., Ogawa, Y., Sakai, T., Schoonmaker, J., Vrolijk, P., Wilkens, R., Williams, C. (1988). Tectonics and hydrogeology of the northern Barbados Ridge: results from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 110. Geological Society of America Bulletin. Vol. 100, pp. 1578-1593.
• Mascle, A., Moore, J. C., nine others, a., Dolan, J. F., others, e. (1987). Expulsion of fluids from depth along a subduction-zone decollement horizon. Nature. Vol. 326, pp. 785-788.
• Kidd, R., Ruddiman, W., Dolan, J. F., others, e. (1983). Sediment drifts and intra-plate tectonics in the north Atlantic. Nature. Vol. 306, pp. 532-533.

Proceedings

• Dolan, J. F., Beck, C., Ogawa, Y., Clark, M., Moore, C., Mascle, A., Taylor, E. (1987). Anomalously coarse-grained siliciclastic sediments on the Tiburon Rise, western Atlantic: Proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. pp. 144-148. Proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists 1987 Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.

Other

• Frankel, K. L., incl. James F. Dolan, a. (2008). Frankel, K.L., Glazner, A.F., Kirby, E., Monastero, F.C., Strane, M.D., Oskin, M.E., Unruh, J.R., Walker, J.D., Anandakrishnan, S., Bartley, J.S., Coleman, D.S., Dolan, J.F., Finkel, R.C., Greene, D., Kylander-Clark, A., Morrero, S., Owen, L.A., and Phillips, F., 2008, Active tectonics of the eastern California shear zone: in Dubendorfer, E. and Smith, G., eds., Geologic excursions in the southern North America Cordillera: Geological Society of America Field Guide 11, p. 43-81, doi: 10.1030/2008. Geological Society of America Bulletin Field Guide 11.
• Dolan, J. F. (2006). Greatness thrust upon them. Nature (News & Views).
• Dolan, J. F., Sieh, K. E. (1992). Tectonic geomorphology of the northern Los Angeles basin: Seismic hazards and kinematics of young fault movement: in Ehlig, P. L., and Steiner, E. A., eds., Engineering Geology Field Trips: Orange County, Santa Monica Mountains, and Malibu, Guidebook and Volume. Association of Engineering Geologists.

• Geological Society of America Strcuture & Tectonics Division 2020 Outstanding Paper Award, 2021-2022