Dr. John Shervais
Geosciences
Emeritus Professor

Educational Background
Biography
I am an igneous petrologist/geochemist, focusing largely on mafic-ultramafic rocks, with major interests in tectonics, convergent margin systems, and mantle plumes. I have carried out research in the Alps, the Appalachians, the Hindu Kush/Karakoram, the Caucasus, the Pyrenees, and the western Cordillera of North America. This involved work on ophiolites, alpine peridotite massifs, subduction accretionary complexes, island arc volcanism, continental volcanics, high-pressure metamorphic rocks, and Proterozoic basement complexes, including my dissertation project in the Ivrea zone of the western Italian Alps. I also worked on lunar highland crust and mare volcanics for over a decade, funded by the NASA Planetary Science program. I have spent over 25 years working on continental volcanic rocks of the Snake River Plain. From 2009 to 2013 I was the Principal Investigator and Project Director for Project Hotspot, which drilled three deep (2 km) core holes in the Snake River Volcanic Province, along the track of the Yellowstone hotspot mantle plume. This $7.4M project, funded by the Department of Energy, the International Continental Drilling Program, and the US Air Force, had two goals: understanding volcanic and tectonic processes associated with mantle plumes under continental crust, and testing innovative approaches to geothermal energy exploration. This project led to our most recent effort, the Snake River Plain Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis project, funded by the Department of Energy ($3.2M). This project involves 10 PI’s from other universities, Federal Agencies, and private enterprise. Most recently, I participated in three IODP (International Ocean Discovery Program) expeditions: two to the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc system and one to the South Atlantic, all on the drillship JOIDES Resolution. Expedition 352 (2014) looked at infant arc volcanism in the Izu-Bonin arc segment to study subduction initiation along an oceanic transform fault. Expedition 366 (2016) cored serpentine mud volcanoes in the Mariana fore-arc, which sample the underlying crust and mantle. Expedition 391/397T focuses on the Walvis Ridge Hotspot and its relation to the Etendeka Large Igneous Province. All three expeditions involved two months at sea working as part of an international team of up to 30 scientists. Work on these samples is continuing, funded by NSF-OCE.
Teaching Interests
Igneous petrology, mineralogy, volcanology, ore deposits, geothermal systems and exploration.
Research Interests
Large igneous provinces, mantle plumes, mantle processes, ophiolites, subduction zone processes, tectonics.
Awards
Fulbright Fellow, 2017
US-Austria Fulbright Commission
Guest Professor, 2017
Karl-Franzens Universitat Graz
Fellow, Geological Society of America, 1993
NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1980
Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
University of California Regent's Fellow, 1976
Publications | Abstracts
- Shervais, J.W, Johnson, K.T, (2019). IODP Expeditions 366 and 352: Subduction Initiation Peridotites and Boninite Genesis: AGU Fall Meeting 2019. American Geophysical Union *
- Kurz, W., Shervais, J.W, (2019). Izu-Bonin forearc tectonics subsequent to Pacific Plate subduction initiation: resolving a 15 Ma hiatus enigma: AGU Fall Meeting 2019. *
- Glen, J.M, Shervais, J.W, (2019). Structural Framework of the Camas Prairie Geothermal System, Southcentral Idaho: AGU Fall Meeting 2019. *
- Shervais, J.W, Glen, J., Newell, D.L, (2019). PLAY FAIRWAY ANALYSIS IN GEOTHERMAL EXPLORATION: CASE STUDY IN SNAKE RIVER PLAIN VOLCANIC PROVINCE: GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA-2019. *
- Scholpp, J., Shervais, J.W, (2019). EVIDENCE FOR OPEN-SYSTEM PROCESSES DURING EARLY SUBDUCTION ZONE MAGMATISM: GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA-2019. Geological Society of America *
- Shervais, J.W, (2017). Chemostratigraphy of Subduction Initiation: Boninite and Forearc Basalt from IODP Expedition 352: EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. *
- Coulthard, Jr, D.A, Shervais, J.W, (2017). Fore-arc basalt to boninite magmatism: Characterizing the transition from decompression to fluid flux melting after subduction initiation. *
- Shervais, J.W, (2017). The Snake River Plain Volcanic Province: Insights from Project Hotspot. American Geophysical Union *
- Niles, D., Shervais, J.W, (2016). 187Os/188Os of boninites from the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc, IODP Exp 352: AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. *
- Chapman, T., Shervais, J.W, (2016). A tale of phenocrysts: trace element contents of boninites and forearc basalts from IODP Expedition 352: AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. *
- Sanatan, K.A, Shervais, J.W, (2016). Characterizing the Evolution of Slab Inputs in the Earliest Stages of Subduction: Preliminary Evidence from Fluid-Mobile Elements for Izu-Bonin Boninites Recovered During IODP Expedition 352. *
- Shervais, J.W, (2016). Chemostratigraphy of subduction initiation: IODP Expedition 352 boninite and FAB. *
- Ryan, J.G, Shervais, J.W, (2016). Fine-Scale Shipboard Resolution Among Mafic Igneous Rock Sequences Recovered During Ocean Drilling: Quantitative PXRF Determination of Key Elements on Rock Surfaces and Powders During IODP Expedition 352. *
- Prytulak, J., Shervais, J.W, (2016). Isotopic Constraints on Subduction Initiation and Evolution: IODP Exp. 352 (Bonin Forearc). Goldschmidt Abstracts *
- Shervais, J.W, (2015). Distribution of lithium in the Cordilleran Mantle wedge: AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. *
- Godard, M., Shervais, J.W, (2015). Geochemistry of the Bonin Fore-arc Volcanic Sequence: Results from IODP Expedition 352: AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. *
- Robertson, A., Shervais, J.W, (2015). Origin of ophiolite complexes related to intra-oceanic subduction initiation: implications of IODP Expedition 352 (Izu-Bonin fore arc): EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts *
- Kurz, W., Shervais, J.W, (2015). Post-magmatic tectonic deformation of the outer Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc system: initial results of IODP Expedition 352: EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. *
- Shervais, J.W, (2015). Source Evolution After Subduction Initiation as Recorded in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Fore-arc Crust: AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts *
- Shervais, J.W, Jean, M., (2015). SSZ Ophiolite Peridotites as Analogues for Supra-Subduction Zone Mantle: AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. *
- Shervais, J.W, Evans, J.P, (2013). Evaluation of the geothermal potential of the Snake River Plain, Idaho, based on three exploratory coreholes. Geological Society of America, Abstracts *
- POTTER, K.E, LINK, P.K, Shervais, J.W, Janecke, S.U, (2013). Volcanogenic detrital zircons from the Kimama Drill core (Project Hotspot): Evidence for source evolution in the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain magmatic system, central Snake River plain, ID. 2013 GSA Annual Meeting in Denver
- Liddell, W.D, Shervais, J.W, (2009). Applied geosciences in the modern geology curriculum. Geol Soc Am. Abstr. w/Prog
- Shervais, J.W, (2008). Alkali Anorthosite 14305,303: Evidence of magma mixing using trace element data from zoned plagioclase. 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Shervais, J.W, Snow, C.A, (2001). Plagioclase Dissolution in the Lunar Magma Ocean: A New Model for the Origin of Lunar Ferroan Anorthosites and the Rapid Growth of Highlands Crust. Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIII
- Shervais, J.W, Snow, C.A, (2001). Plagioclase Dissolution in the Lunar Magma Ocean: A New Model for the Origin of Lunar Ferroan Anorthosites and the Rapid Growth of Highlands Crust. Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIII
- Shervais, J.W, McGee, J.J, (1999). Ancient Crust Formation at the Apollo 14 Site. Lunar and Planetary Science XXX
- Shervais, J.W, McGee, J.J, (1998). Alkali suite anorthosites and norites: Flotation cumulates from pristine KREEP with magma mixing and the assimilation of older anorthosite. Lunar and Planetary Science XXIX
- Shervais, J.W, McGee, j.j, (1998). Magma mixing in the petrogenesis alkali suite anorthosites: reverse zoning in plagioclase, 14305,303. Lunar and Planetary Science XXIX
- Shervais, J.W, McGee, J.J, (1998). Major element geochemistry of Apollo 14 highland clasts by fused bead electron microprobe analysis: 14305 and 14321. Lunar and Planetary Science XXIX
- Shervais, J.W, McGee, J.J, (1998). Modeling crystallization of Alae lava lake, Hawaii, and relevance for lunar crustal petrogenesis. Lunar and Planetary Science XXIX
- Shervais, J.W, McGee, J.J, (1997). KREEP in the lunar highlands: Ion Microprobe Studies of Lunar Highland Cumulate Rocks. Lunar and Planetary Science XXVIII
- Shervais, J.W, McGee, J.J, (1997). Petrogenesis of alkali suite anorthosites and norites in the western lunar highlands: flotation cumulates from pristine KREEP, magma-mixing, and assimilation of older anorthosites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science
- Shervais, J.W, Shroff, G., Thompson, C.B, (1996). A Petrologic Survey Of Six Rock Fragments From The Apollo 14 Bulk Sample: 14430, 14436, 14440, 14443, 14444, 14451. Lunar and Planetary Science XXVII
- Shervais, J.W, Stuart, J.B, (1995). Ion Microprobe Studies of Lunar Highland Cumulate Rocks: New Results. Lunar and Planetary Science XXVI
- Shervais, J.W, (1994). Ion Microprobe Studies of Lunar Highland Cumulate Rocks: Preliminary Results. Lunar and Planetary Science XXV
- Shervais, J.W, Vetter, S.K, (1992). Major element chemistry of Apollo 14 mare basalt clasts and highland plutonic clasts from lunar breccia 14321: comparison with neutron activation results. Lunar and Planetary Science XXIII
- Vetter, S.K, Shervais, J.W, (1992). Whole rock major element chemistry of KREEP basalt clasts in lunar breccia 15205: Implications for the petrogenesis of volcanic KREEP basalts. Lunar and Planetary Science XXIII
- Shervais, J.W, Vetter, S.K, (1991). Auto-metasomatism of the western lunar highlands: result of closed system fractionation and mobilization of a KREEPy trapped liquid. Lunar and Planetary Science XXII
- Shervais, J.W, Erhlich, R., (1991). Polytopic vector analysis: application to lunar petrogenesis. Lunar and Planetary Science XXII
- Shervais, J.W, (1990). Lunar mare volcanism: mixing of distinct mantle source regions with KREEP-like component. Lunar and Planetary Science XXI
- Shervais, J.W, (1990). The western highland province at the Apollo 14 site. Lunar and Planetary Science XXI
- Vetter, S.K, Shervais, J.W, (1989). A dynamic melting model for the origin of Apollo 15 olivine normative and quartz normative basalts. Lunar and Planetary Science XX
- Shervais, J.W, Vetter, S.K, (1989). Melt rock components in KREEPy breccia 15205 - Petrology and mineral chemistry of KREEP basalts and quartz-normative mare basalts. Lunar and Planetary Science XX
- Shervais, J.W, Vetter, S.K, Lindstrom, M.M, (1988). Heterogeneity in small aliquots of Apollo 15 olivine normative basalt: implications for breccia clast studies. Lunar and Planetary Science XIX
- Vetter, S.K, Shervais, J.W, Lindstrom, M.M, (1987). Petrology of mare basalt and highland clasts from breccia 15498. Lunar and Planetary Science XVIII
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Lindstrom, M.M, (1985). Olivine vitrophyres - A non-pristine high-Mg component in lunar breccia 14321. Lunar and Planetary Science XVI
- Salpas, P.A, Shervais, J.W, Knapp, S.A, Taylor, L.A, (1985). Petrogenesis of lunar granites: The result of apatite fractionation. Lunar and Planetary Science XVI
- Shervais, J.W, Knapp, S.A, Taylor, L.A, Lindstrom, M.M, (1985). Petrology and geochemistry of microbreccia clasts and matrix in lunar breccia 14321. Lunar and Planetary Science XVI
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Korotev, R.L, (1985). Petrology and mineral chemistry of some African eclogites and evolution of sub-continental mantle and continental crust. Lunar and Planetary Science XVI
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, (1984). Consortium breccia 14321: Petrology of mare basalts and olivine vitrophyres. Lunar and Planetary Science XV
- Knapp, S.A, Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, (1984). Consortium breccia 14321: Petrology of the pristine highland clasts. Lunar and Planetary Science XV
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Laul, J.C, Smith, M.R, (1984). Petrology and geochemistry of pristine high¬land clasts in consortium breccia 14305. Lunar and Planetary Science XV
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Laul, J.C, (1984). Very High Potassium (VHK) basalt: a new type of alumi¬nous mare basalt from Apollo 14. Lunar and Planetary Science XV
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Hunter, R.H, Laul, J.C, (1983). Ancient Highlands Volcanism: the Gabbronorite connection. Lunar and Planetary Science XIV
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, (1983). Micrographic Granite: More from Apollo 14. Lunar and Planetary Science XIV
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, (1983). Texturally-pristine clasts from Apollo 14: Implications for igneous processes. Lunar and Planetary Science XIV
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Books
- Wright, J.E, Shervais, J.W, (2008). Ophiolites, Arcs, and Batholiths: A Tribute to Cliff Hopson. Geological Society of America Special Paper 438
- Shervais, J.W, Jean , M., (2025). Forearc volcanism and mantle peridotites of the Coast Range ophiolite, Stonyford, California, USA: Field Trip Guides for the 2025 GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting. Geological Society of America
- Shervais, J.W, Seymore, A.S, (2025). Geochemistry of Volcanogenic Sandstones of the Coast Range Ophiolite and Late Jurassic Great Valley Series, Stonyford, California.: he virtue of fieldwork in volcanology, sedimentology, structural geology, and tectonics, celebrating the career of Cathy Busby. . Geological Society of America, Special Publication 563
- Fryer, P., Shervais, J.W, (2018). Expedition 366 methods: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Fryer, P., Shervais, J.W, (2018). Expedition 366 summary: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Fryer, P., Shervais, J.W, (2018). Site 1200: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Fryer, P., Shervais, J.W, (2018). Site U1491: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Fryer, P., Shervais, J.W, (2018). Site U1492: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Fryer, P., Shervais, J.W, (2018). Site U1496: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Fryer, P., Shervais, J.W, (2018). Site U1497: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Fryer, P., Shervais, J.W, (2018). Site U1498: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Fryer, P., Shervais, J.W, (2018). Sites U1493, U1494, and U1495: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Snow, C.A, Shervais, J.W, (2015). The Cuesta Ridge Ophiolite, San Luis Obispo, CA: Implications for the origin of the Coast Range Ophiolite: Late Jurassic Development of the Laurasian Margin. Geological Society of America Special Paper 513
- Reagan, M., Shervais, J.W, (2015). Expedition 352 methods: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Reagan, M., Shervais, J.W, (2015). Expedition 352 summary: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Reagan, M., Shervais, J.W, (2015). Site U1439: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Reagan, M., Shervais, J.W, (2015). Site U1440: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Reagan, M., Shervais, J.W, (2015). Site U1441: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Reagan, M., Shervais, J.W, (2015). Site U1442: Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program
- Shervais, J.W, (2011). Serpentinite Matrix Mélange: Implications of Mixed Provenance for Mélange Formation: Melanges: Processes of Formation and Societal Significance. Geological Society of America Special Paper 480
- Metcalf, R.V, Shervais, J.W, (2008). Supra-Subduction Zone (SSZ) Ophiolites: Is There Really An "Ophiolite Conundrum"?: Ophiolites, Arcs, and Batholiths: A Tribute to Cliff Hopson. Gelogical Society of America Special Paper
- Shervais, J.W, (2008). Tonalites, Trondhjemites, and Diorites of the Elder Creek Ophiolite, California: Low Pressure Slab Melting and Reaction with the Mantle Wedge: Ophiolites, Arcs, and Batholiths: A Tribute to Cliff Hopson. Geological Society of America Special Paper
- Shervais, J.W, Kimbrough, D.L, Renne, P., Murchey, B., Hanan, B.B, (2006). Multi-stage Origin of the Coast Range Ophiolite, California and Oregon: Implications for the Life Cycle of Supra-subduction Zone Ophiolites: Phase Relations, High Pressure terranes, P-T-ometry, and Plate Pushing: a tribute to W.G. Ernst. Bellwether Publishing Ltd
- Shervais, J.W, (2006). Significance of Subduction-related Accretionary Complexes in Early Earth Processes: Early Earth Processes. , Geological Society of America, Special Paper
- Shervais, J.W, Kauffman, J.D, Gillerman, V.S, Othberg, K.L, Vetter, S.K, Hobson, V.R, Zarnetske, M., Cooke, M.F, Matthews, S.H, Hanan, B.B, (2005). Basaltic Volcanism of the Central and Western Snake River Plain: A Guide to Field Relations Between Twin Falls and Mountain Home, Idaho: Guide to Field trips in the western United States. Field Guide volume 6, Geological Society of America
- Shervais, J.W, Kolesar, P., Andreasen, K., (2004). Field and Chemical Study of Serpentinization – Stonyford, California: Chemical Fluxes and Mass Balance: Serpentine and serpentinites: mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, ecology, geophysics, and tectonics (a tribute to Robert G. Coleman), International Book Series. Bellwether Publishing Ltd.
- Shervais, J.W, Shroff, G., Vetter, S.K, Matthews, S., Hanan, B.B, McGee, J.J, (2002). Origin of the western Snake River Plain: Implications from stratigraphy, faulting, and the geochemistry of basalts near Mountain Home, Idaho: Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution of the Snake River Plain Volcanic Province. Idaho Geological Survey Bulletin
- Dennis, A.J, Shervais, J.W, (2000). Newberry, South Carolina Eclogite: Structural setting and style of occurrence: A Compendium of Field Trips of South Carolina Geology. South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey
- Dennis, A.J, Shervais, J.W, Maher, H.D, (2000). Outline of the Geology of Appalachian Basement Rocks Underlying the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC: 2000 Annual Field Trip Guidebook. Savannah River Site: Environmental Remediation Systems in Unconsolidated Upper Coastal Plain Sediments - Stratigraphic and Structural Considerations, Carolina Geological Society
- Mukasa, S.B, Shervais, J.W, (1999). Growth of subcontinental lithosphere: evidence from repeated dike injections in the Balmuccia Iherzolite massif, Italian Alps: Composition, Deep Structure and Evolution of Continents, Developments in Geotectonics. Elsevier Science
- Shervais, J.W, (1999). Highlands crust at the Apollo 14 site: Surfing the Fra Mauro shoreline: Planetary Geology and Geochemistry. Geological Society of America, International Book Series
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Shervais, J.W, Scholpp, J.L, Widdowson, M., Nelson, W.R, Potter, K., Homrighausen, S., White, D., Buchs, D., Heaton7, D.E, Avery, A., Bhutani, R., Duncan, R.A, Class, C., Tshiningayamwe, M., Kubota, Y., Wang, X., Wu, T., Sager, W.W, Hoernle, K., Höfig, T., (2025). Eruption, Emplacement and Internal Architecture of Massive and Super-Massive Inflated Submarine Basalt Lava Flows, Walvis Ridge Hotspot Track, IODP Expeditions 391/397T. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26:6, doi: doi.org/10.1029/2024GC012145
- Choi, S., Mukasa, S.B, Shervais, J.W, Puchtel, I.S, (2024). Re−Os Isotope and PGE Abundance Systematics of Coast Range Ophiolite Peridotites and Chromitite, California: Insights into Fore-Arc Magmatic Processes. Lithosphere , 2024:3, 1-18. doi: 10.2113/2024/lithosphere_2024_154
- Shervais, J.W, Potter, K., (2024). Timescales of Mafic Magmatic Fractionation Documented by Paleosecular Variation in Basalt Drill Core, Snake River Plain Volcanic Province, Idaho. Geological Society of America Bulletin , 1–11. doi: 10.1130/B37413.1
- Shervais, J.W, DeAngelo, J., Glen, J.M, Nielson, D.L, Garg, S., Dobson, P., Gasperikova, E., Sonnenthal, E., Liberty, L.M, Newell, D.L, others, , (2024). Geothermal play fairway analysis, part 1: Example from the Snake River Plain, Idaho. Geothermics, 117, 102865. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102865
- DeAngelo, J., Shervais, J.W, Glen, J.M, Nielson, D., Garg, S., Dobson, P.F, Gasperikova, E., Sonnenthal, E., Liberty, L.M, Siler, D.L, Newell, D.L, (2024). Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis, Part 2: GIS methodology. Geothermics, 117, 102882. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102882
- Dennis, A., Shervais, J.W, Maher, Jr, H., (2024). Structural inheritance in Carolinia, external to the excised Rheic suture: Savannah River Site, South Carolina, USA. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 542:1, SP542--2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1144/SP542-2022-359
- Thoram, S., Sager, W.W, Gaastra, K., Tikoo, S.M, Carvallo, C., Avery, A., Del Gaudio, A.V, Huang, Y., Hoernle, K., H\"ofig, T. W., , Bhutani, R., Buchs, D.M, Class, C., Dai, Y., Valle, G.D, Fielding, S., Han, S., Heaton, D.E, Homrighausen, S., Kubota, Y., Li, C., Nelson, W.R, Petrou, E., Potter, K., Pujatti, S., Scholpp, J., Shervais, J.W, Tshiningayamwe, M., Wang, X.J, Widdowson, M., (2023). Nature and origin of magnetic lineations within Valdivia Bank: ocean plateau formation by complex seafloor spreading. Geophysical Research Letters, 50:13, e2023GL103415. doi: https://doi. org/10.1029/2023GL103415
- Lachmar, T.E, Neupane, G., Garg, S.K, Dobson, P.F, Smith, C.J, Newell, D.L, Shervais, J.W, Evans, J.P, Mink, L.L, (2023). Validation of Play Fairway Analysis of the geothermal potential of Camas Prairie, south-central Idaho, by an exploration well. Geothermal Energy, 11:1, 21. doi: 10.1186/s40517-023-00264-4
- Albers, E., Shervais, J.W, Hansen, C.T, Ichiyama, Y., Fryer, P., (2022). Shallow depth, substantial change: fluid-metasomatism causes major compositional modifications of subducted volcanics (Mariana forearc) . Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.826312
- Shervais, J.W, (2022). The Petrogenesis of Modern and Ophiolitic Lavas Reconsidered: Ti-V and Nb-Th . Geoscience Frontiers, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2021.101319
- Scholpp, J.L, Ryan, J.G, Shervais, J.W, Stremtan, C., Rittner, M., Luna, A., Hill, S.A, Atlas, Z.D, Mack, B.C, (2021). Petrologic evolution of boninite lavas from the IBM fore-arc, IODP expedition 352: Evidence for open-system processes during early subduction zone magmatism. American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials, 107:4, 572–586. doi: 10.2138/am-2021-7733
- Coulthard, Jr, D.A, Reagan, M.K, Shimizu, K., Bindeman, I.N, Brounce, M., Almeev, R.R, Ryan, J., Chapman, T., Shervais, J.W, Pearce, J.A, (2021). Magma Source Evolution Following Subduction Initiation: Evidence From the Element Concentrations, Stable Isotope Ratios, and Water Contents of Volcanic Glasses From the Bonin Forearc (IODP Expedition 352). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22:1, e2020GC009054. doi: 10.1029/2020GC009054
- Shervais, J.W, Reagan, M.K, Godard, M., Prytulak, J., Ryan, J.G, Pearce, J.A, Almeev, R.R, Li, H., Haugen, E., Chapman, T., Kurz, W., Nelson, W.R, Heaton, D.E, Kirchenbaur, M., Shimizu, K., Sakuyama, T., Vetter, S.K, Li, Y., Whattam, S., (2021). Magmatic Response to Subduction Initiation, Part II: Boninites and Related Rocks of the Izu-Bonin Arc From IOPD Expedition 352. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22:1, e2020GC009093. doi: 10.1029/2020GC009054
- Whattam, S.A, Shervais, J.W, Reagan, M.K, Coulthard, Jr, D.A, Pearce, J.A, Jones, P., Seo, J., Putirka, K., Chapman, T., Heaton, D., others, , (2020). Mineral compositions and thermobarometry of basalts and boninites recovered during IODP Expedition 352 to the Bonin forearc. American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials, 105:10, 1490--1507. doi: doi.org/10.2138/am-2020-6640
- Fryer, P., Wheat, C.G, Williams, T., Kelley, C., Johnson, K., Ryan, J., Kurz, W., Shervais, J.W, Albers, E., Bekins, B., others, , (2020). Mariana serpentinite mud volcanism exhumes subducted seamount materials: implications for the origin of life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, A378:2165, 20180425. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0425
- Izawa, M., Banerjee, N.R, Shervais, J.W, Flemming, R.L, Hetherington, C.J, Muehlenbachs, K., Schultz, C., Das, D., Hanan, B.B, (2019). Titanite mineralization of Microbial Bioalteration textures in Jurassic Volcanic Glass, Coast Range Ophiolite, California. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 315. doi: doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00315
- Kurz, W., Micheuz, P., Christeson, G., Reagan, M., Shervais, J.W, Kutterolf, S., Robertson, A., Krenn, K., Michibayashi, K., Quandt, D., (2019). Post-magmatic tectonic evolution of the outer Izu-Bonin forearc revealed by sediment basin structure and vein microstructure analysis: implications for a 15 Ma hiatus between Pacific Plate subduction initiation and forearc extension. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, doi: doi.org/10.1029/ 2019GC008329
- Lachmar, T.E, Freeman, T.G, Kessler, J.A, Batir, J.F, Evans, J.P, Nielson, D.L, Shervais, J.W, Chen, X., Schmitt, D.R, Blackwell, D.D, (2019). Evaluation of the geothermal potential of the western Snake River Plain based on a deep corehole on the Mountain Home AFB near Mountain Home, Idaho. Geothermal Energy, 7:1, 26. doi: doi.org/10.1186/s40517-019-0142-7
- Li, H., Taylor, R., Prytulak, J., Shervais, J.W, Ryan, J., Godard , M., Reagan, M., Pearce, J., (2019). Radiogenic isotopes document the start of subduction in the western Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Elsevier, 518, 197-210. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.04.041
- Reagan, M.K, Heaton, D.E, Schmitz, M.D, Pearce, J.A, Shervais, J.W, Koppers, A.A, (2019). Forearc ages reveal extensive short-lived and rapid seafloor spreading following subduction initiation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters/Elsevier , 506, 520 - 529.
- Shervais, J.W, Reagan, M.K, Haugen, E., Almeev, R.R, Pearce, J.A, Prytulak, J., Ryan, J.G, Whattam, S.A, Godard, M., Chapman, T., Li, H., Kurz, W., Nelson, W.R, Heaton, D., Kirchenbaur, M., Shimizu, K., Sakuyama, T., Li, Y., Vetter, S.K, (2019). Magmatic Response to Subduction Initiation, Part I: Forearc basalts of the Izu-Bonin Arc from IODP Expedition 352. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems /AGU, 20:1, 314-338. doi: DOI:10.1029/2018GC007731
- Potter, K.E, Champion, D.E, Duncan, R.A, Shervais, J.W, (2019). Volcanic stratigraphy and age model of the Kimama deep borehole (Project Hotspot): Evidence for 5.8 million years of continuous basalt volcanism, central Snake River Plain, Idaho:. Geosphere , 15, doi: doi:10.1130/GES01679.1
- Jean, M.M, Christiansen, E.H, Champion, D.E, Vetter, S.K, Phillips, W.M, Schuth, S., Shervais, J.W, (2018). Caldera Life-cycles of the Yellowstone Hotspot track: Death and Rebirth of the Heise Caldera. Journal of Petrology, doi: doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egy074
- Potter, K.E, Shervais, J.W, Christiansen, E.H, Vetter, S.K, (2018). Evidence for Cyclical Fractional Crystallization, Recharge, and Assimilation in Basalts of the Kimama Drill Core, Central Snake River Plain, Idaho: 5.5-Million-Years of Petrogenesis in a Mid-crustal Sill Complex. Frontiers in Earth Science, 6, 1-17. doi: doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00010
- Lachmar, T.E, Freeman, T., Sant, C., Walker, J., Batir, J., Shervais, J.W, Evans, J.P, Nielson, D., Blackwell, D., (2017). Effect of an 860-m thick cold, freshwater aquifer on the geothermal potential along the axis of the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho. Geothermal Energy, 5:28, 1-16.
- Jean, M.M, Shervais, J.W, (2017). The distribution of fluid mobile and other incompatible trace elements in orthopyroxene from mantle wedge peridotites. Chemical Geology, Springer Verlag , 457, 118-130. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.03.017
- Kessler, J.A, Bradbury, K.K, Evans, J.P, Pulsipher, M.A, Schmidt, D., Shervais, J.W, Rowe, F.E, Varriale, J., (2017). Geology and In Situ Stress of the MH-2 Borehole, Idaho, U.S.A.: Insights Into Western Snake River Plain Structure From Geothermal Exploration Drilling. Lithosphere
- Reagan, M.K, Pearce, J.A, Petronotis, K., Almeev, R.R, Avery, A.J, Carvallo, C., Chapman, T., Christeson, G.L, Ferré, E.C, Godard, M., Heaton, D.E, Kirchenbaur, M., Kurz, W., Kutterolf, S., Li, H., Li, Y., Michibayashi, K., Morgan, S., Nelson, W.R, Prytulak, J., Python, M., Robertson, A.H, Ryan, J.G, Sager, W.W, Sakuyama, T., Shervais, J.W, Shimizu, K., Whattam, S.A, (2017). Subduction initiation and ophiolite crust: new insights from IODP drilling. International Geology Review, 0:0, 1-12.
- Bradbury, K.K, Davis, C.R, Shervais, J.W, Janecke, S.U, Evans, J.P, (2015). Composition, Alteration, and Texture of Fault-Related Rocks from Safod Core and Surface Outcrop Analogs: Evidence for Deformation Processes and Fluid-Rock Interactions. Pure and Applied Geophysics / Springer Verlag, 172, 1053-1078. doi: 10.1007/s00024-014-0896-6
- Shervais, J.W, Janecke, S.U, (2015). Composition, Alteration, and Texture of Fault-Related Rocks from Safod Core and Surface Outcrop Analogs: Evidence for Deformation Processes and Fluid-Rock Interactions. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 172:5, 1053–1078.
- Shervais, J.W, Arndt, N., Goodenough, K.M, (2015). Drilling the Solid Earth: Global Geodynamic Cycles and Earth Evolution. International Journal of Earth Sciences / Springer Verlag, 104:6, 1573-1587. doi: DOI: 10.1007/s00531-014-1073-y
- Liberty, L.M, Schmitt, D.R, Shervais, J.W, (2015). Seismic imaging through the volcanic rocks of the Snake River Plain: Insights from Project Hotspot. Geophysical Prospecting, 63:4, 919–936. doi: DOI: 10.1111/1365-2478.12277
- Shervais, J.W, Evans, J.P, Schmitt, D.R, Christiansen, E.H, Prokopenko, A., (2014). Drilling into the track of the Yellowstone hot spot. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 95:10, 85--86.
- Shervais, J.W, Evans, J.P, Toy, V.G, Eichelberger, J.C, Clarke, A.B, Kirkpatrick, J.D, (2014). Drilling to investigate active tectonics and magmatism. Scientific Drilling , 18, 19-33. doi: doi:10.5194/sdwr-2-1-2014
- Shervais, J.W, Evans, J.P, Schmitt, D., Christiansen, E.H, Prokopenko, A., (2014). HOTSPOT: The Snake River Scientific Drilling Project. EOS, 95:10, 85-86. doi: DOI:10.1002/2014EO100001
- Jean, M.M, Shervais, J.W, Champion , D.E, Vetter , S.K, (2013). Late Pliocene to Quaternary Basalts from the Wendell RASA test well: Assimilation–Fractionation–Recharge processes of the central Snake River Plain, Idaho. Geosphere, Geological Society of America , doi: 10.1130/GES00914.1
- Carmody, L., Barry, P.H, Shervais, J.W, Kluesner, J.W, Taylor, L.A, (2013). Oxygen Isotopes in Subducted Oceanic Crust: A New Perspective from Siberian Diamondiferous Eclogites. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi: DOI:10.1002/ggge.20220
- Wakabayashi, J., Shervais, J.W, (2012). Introduction: Initiation and Termination of Subduction: Rock record, geodynamic models, and modern plate boundaries. Geological Society of America, 4:6, 467-468. doi: 10.1130/LINT1.1 *
- Shervais, J.W, Choi, S., (2012). Subduction Initiation along Transform Faults: the proto-Franciscan subduction zone. Lithosphere, 4:6, 484-496. doi: 10.1130/L153.1
- Shervais, J.W, Jean, M.M, (2012). Inside the Subduction Factory: Fluid mobile trace elements in the mantle wedge above a subduction zone. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 95, 270-285. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.07.006
- Jean, M.M, Shervais, J.W, Choi, S., Mukasa, S.B, (2010). Melt Extraction and Melt Refertilization in Mantle Peridotite of the Coast Range Ophiolite: An LA-ICP-MS Study. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 159:1, 113-136. doi: 10.1007/s00410-009-0419-0
- Shervais, J.W, Vetter, S.K, (2009). High-K Alkali Basalts of the Western Snake River Plain: Abrupt Transition from Tholeiitic to Mildly Alkaline Plume-Derived Basalts, Western Snake River Plain, Idaho. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
- Nude, P.M, Shervais, J.W, Attoh, K., Vetter, S.K, Barton, C., (2009). Petrology and geochemistry of nepheline syenite and related carbonate-rich rocks in the Pan-African Dahomeyide orogen, southeastern Ghana, West Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.03.010
- Choi, S., Mukasa, S.B, Shervais, J.W, (2008). Initiation of Franciscan Subduction along a Large-offset Fracture Zone: Evidence from Mantle Peridotites, California, California. Geology, 36:8, 595-598. doi: 10.1130/G24993A.1
- Shervais, J.W, Hanan, B.B, (2008). Lithospheric topography, tilted plumes, and the track of the Snake River-Yellowstone Hotspot. Tectonics, 27, doi: 10.1029/2007TC002181
- Choi, S., Shervais, J.W, Mukasa, S.B, (2008). Supra-Subduction and Abyssal Mantle Peridotites of the Coast Range Ophiolite, California. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 155, 551-576. doi: 10.1007/s00410-008-0300-6
- Hanan, B.B, Shervais, J.W, Vetter, S.K, (2008). Yellowstone plume-continental lithosphere interaction beneath the Snake River Plain. Geology, 36, 51-54. doi: 10.1130/G23935A.1
- Shervais, J.W, Vetter, S.K, Hanan, B.B, (2006). A Layered Mafic Sill Complex beneath the Eastern Snake River Plain: Evidence from Cyclic Geochemical Variations in Basalt. Geology, 34, 365-368.
- Shervais, J.W, Kolesar, P., Andreasen, K., (2005). Field and Chemical Study of Serpentinization – Stonyford, California: Chemical Fluxes and Mass Balance. International Geology Review, 47, 1-23.
- Shervais, J.W, Murchey, B., Kimbrough, D.L, Renne, P., Hanan, B.B, (2005). Radioisotopic and Biostratigraphic Age Relations in the Coast Range Ophiolite, Northern California: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of the Western Cordillera. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117:5/6, 633-653.
- Shervais, J.W, Zoglman-Schuman, M.M, Hanan , B.B, (2005). The Stonyford Volcanic Complex: A Forearc Seamount in the Northern California Coast Ranges. Journal of Petrology, 46:10, 2091-2128. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egi048
- Shervais, J.W, Kimbrough, D.L, Renne, P., Murchey, B., Hanan, B.B, (2004). Multi-stage Origin of the Coast Range Ophiolite, California and Oregon: Implications for the Life Cycle of Supra-subduction Zone Ophiolites. International Geology Review, 46, 289-315.
- Dennis, A.J, Shervais, J.W, Mauldin, J., Maher, JR, H.D, Wright, J.E, (2004). Petrology and Geochemistry of Neoproterozoic Volcanic Arc Terranes Beneath the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Savannah River Site, South Carolina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 116, 572-593.
- Shervais, J.W, Dennis, A.J, McGee, J.J, Secor, D.T, (2003). Deep in the heart of Dixie: Pre-Alleghanian eclogite and HP granulite metamorphism in the Carolina terrane, South Carolina, USA. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21:1, 65-80.
- Shervais, J.W, (2001). Birth, Death, and Resurrection: The Life Cycle of Suprasubduction Zone Ophiolites. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2
- Shervais, J.W, Mukasa, S.B, (1999). Growth of subcontinental lithosphere: evidence from repeated dike injections in the Balmuccia lherzolite massif, Italian Alps. Lithos, 48, 287-316.
- Shervais, J.W, (1999). Highlands crust at the Apollo 14 site: Surfing the Fra Mauro shoreline. International Geology Review, 41, 141-153.
- Shervais, J.W, McGee, J.J, (1999). KREEP cumulates in the western lunar highlands: Ion & electron microprobe study of Alkali anorthosites and norites from Apollo 14. American Mineralogist, 84:5/6, 806-820.
- Shervais, J.W, McGee, J.J, (1999). Petrology of the western Highlands Province: Ancient crust formation at the Apollo 14 site. Journal Geophysical Research, 104:E3, 5891-5920.
- Shervais, J.W, Shah, M.T, (1999). The Dir-Utror metavolcanic sequence, Kohistan arc terrane, northern Pakistan. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 17/4, 459-475.
- Shervais, J.W, McGee, J.J, (1998). Ion & electron microprobe study of Mg suite troctolites, norite, and anorthosites from Apollo 14: Evidence for urKREEP assimilation during Petrogenesis of Apollo 14 Mg-suite rocks. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 62:17, 3009-3023.
- Shah, M.T, Shervais, J.W, (1997). Oxygen isotope geochemistry of the Dir metavolcanic sequence and associated copper mineralization in Kohistan arc terrane, northern Pakistan. The Nucleus, 34, 49-55.
- Dennis, A.J, Shervais, J.W, (1996). The Carolina terrane in northwestern South Carolina: Insights into the development of an evolving island arc: Avalonian and Related Terranes of the Circum-Atlantic. Geol. Soc. America Special Publication, 304, 237-256.
- Shervais, J.W, Shelley, S.A, Secor, D.T, (1996). The Carolina terrane: A rifted volcanic arc in the southeastern Piedmont: Avalonian and Related Terranes of the Circum-Atlantic. Geol. Soc. America Special Publication, 304, 219-236.
- Khattak, M.K, Stakes, D.S, Shervais, J.W, (1995). P-T-t paths of garnets from the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif, the Kohistan and the Ladakh island arc terranes, northern Pakistan. Geol. Bull. Univ. Peshawar, 28, 97-108.
- Khattak, M.K, Stakes, D.S, Shervais, J.W, Arif, M., Shah, M.T, (1995). Stable isotope thermometry of the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif and the Kohistan-Ladakh island arc, northern Pakistan. Geol. Bull. Univ. Peshawar, 28, 97-108.
- Shah, M.T, Ikrammudin, M., Shervais, J.W, (1994). Behaviour of Tl relative to K, Rb, Sr, and Ba in mineralized and unmineralized metavolcanics from the Dir area, northern Paksitan. Mineralum Deposita, 29, 422-426.
- Shah, M.T, Shervais, J.W, Ikrammudin, M., (1994). The Dir meta-volcanic sequence: calc-alkaline magmatism in the Kohistan arc terrane, northern Pakistan. Geol. Bull. Univ. Peshawar, 27, 9-27.
- Shervais, J.W, Vetter, S.K, (1992). Continental Basalts of the Boise River Group near Smith Prairie, Idaho. Journal of Geophysical Research, 97:B6, 9043-9061.
- Shervais, J.W, Shah, M.T, Majid, M., Hamidullah, S., (1992). Petrochemistry of amphibolites from the Shergarh Sar area, Allai Kohistan, N. Pakistan. Kashmir Journal of Geology, 10, 123-139.
- Shervais, J.W, Dennis, A.J, (1992). Reply to Comment on "Arc rifting of the Carolina terrane in northwestern South Carolina". Geology, 20, 473-474.
- Dennis, A.J, Shervais, J.W, (1991). Arc rifting of the Carolina terrane in northwestern South Carolina. Geology, 19, 226-229.
- Mukasa, S.B, Shervais, J.W, Wilshire, H.G, Nielsen, J.E, (1991). Intrinsic Nd, Pb, and Sr isotopic heterogeneities exhibited by the Lherz alpine peridotite massif, French Pyrenees. Journal of Petrology, Special Lherzolites Issue, 117-134.
- Shervais, J.W, Mukasa, S.B, (1991). The Balmuccia Orogenic Lherzolite Massif, Italy. Journal of Petrology, Special Lherzolites Issue, 155-174.
- Shervais, J.W, (1990). Island arc and ocean crust ophiolites: contrasts in the petrology, geochemistry, and tectonic style of ophiolite assemblages in the California coast ranges: Ophiolites: Oceanic Crustal Analogues. The Geological Survey Department, Nicosia, Cyprus, 507-520.
- Shervais, J.W, Hanan, B.B, (1989). Jurassic volcanic glass from the Stonyford volcanic complex, Franciscan assemblage, northern California coast ranges. Geology, 17, 510-514.
- Sacks, P.E, Maher, H.D, Secor, Jr, D.T, Shervais, J.W, (1989). The Burks Mountain complex, Kiokee belt, southern Appalachian Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia. Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper , 231, 75-86.
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Lugmair, G.W, Clayton, R.N, Mayeda, T.K, Korotev, R.L, (1988). Early proterozoic oceanic crust and the evolution of subcontinental mantle: eclogites and related rocks from southern Africa. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 100, 411-423.
- Shervais, J.W, Kimbrough, D.L, (1987). Alkaline and transitional subalkaline metabasalts in the Franciscan complex melange: Mantle metasomatism and alkaline magmatism. Geol. Soc. America Special Paper, 215, 167-182.
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Laul, J.C, (1987). Magma-mixing and kimberlite genesis: evidence from eastern U.S.A. kimberlites: Mantle metasomatism and alkaline magmatism. Geol. Soc. America Special Paper, 215, 101-114.
- Shih, C.Y, Nyquist, L.E, Bogard, D., Bansal, B.M, Weismann, H., Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, (1986). Age and Petrogenesis of VHK basalts. Journal of Geophysical Research, 91, Supl., D214-D228.
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Jarosewich, E., Laul, J.C, (1986). Maryville Meteorite - the 1983 fall of an L6 Chondrite. Meteoritics, 21, 33-45.
- Salpas, P.A, Taylor, L.A, Shervais, J.W, (1986). The Blue Ball, Arkansas, kimberlite: Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry. Journal of Geology, 94, 891-.
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Lindstrom, M.M, (1985). Apollo 14 Mare basalts: Petrology and geochemistry of clasts from consortium breccia 14321, Proc. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 15th. Journal of Geophysical Research , 90, C375-C395.
- Shervais, J.W, Kimbrough, D.L, (1985). Geochemical evidence for the tectonic setting of the Coast Range Ophiolite: A composite island arc-oceanic crust terrane in western California. Geology, 13, 35-38.
- Shervais, J.W, Kimbrough, D.L, (1985). Geochemical evidence for the tectonic setting of the Coast Range Ophiolite: Reply. Geology, 13, 828-829.
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Laul, J.C, Shih, C.Y, Nyquist, L.E, (1985). Mare basalt petrogenesis: An important link in very high potassium (VHK) basalt. Journal of Geophysical Research, 90, Supl., D3-D18.
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Lindstrom, M.M, (1985). Apollo 14 Mare basalts: Petrology and geochemistry of clasts from Consortium Breccia 14321. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 90:S02, doi: 10.1029/jb090is02p0c375
- Lindstrom, M.M, Knapp, S.A, Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, (1984). Magnesian anorthosites and associated troctolites and dunite from Apollo 14 breccias, Proc. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 15th. Journal of Geophysical Research, Supplement, 89, C41-C49.
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Laul, J.C, Smith, M.R, (1984). Pristine highland clasts in consortium breccia 14305: Petrology and Geochemistry, Proc. Lunar Planet. Sci, Conf. 15th. Journal of Geophysical Research, 89, C25-C40.
- Stakes, D.S, Shervais, J.W, Hopson, C.A, (1984). The volcano-tectonic cycle of the FAMOUS and AMAR valleys, Mid-Atlantic Ridge 36 47' N): Evidence from basalt glasses and phenocryst compositions for a steady-state magma chamber beneath the valley mid-sections. Journal of Geophysical Research, 89:B8, 6995-7028.
- Shervais, J.W, Durazzo, A., Taylor, L.A, (1984). Ultramafic lamprophyre in a carbonate platform environment: Mt. Queglia, Abruzzo, Italy. Nues. Jahr. fur Mineral. Abh., 150:2, 199-217.
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, Laul, J.C, (1983). Ancient Crustal Components in the Fra Mauro Breccias. Implications for igneous processes: Proc. Lunar Planetary Sci. Conf. 14th. Journal of Geophysical Research, 88, Supl., B177-B192..
- Taylor, L.A, Shervais, J.W, Hunter, R.H, Shih, C.Y, Nyquist, L., Bansal, B.M, Wooden, J., Laul, J.C, (1983). Pre-4.2 AE Mare-basalt Volcanism in the Lunar Highlands. Earth, Planetary Science Letters, 66, 33-47.
- Shervais, J.W, Howard, K.A, McKee, E.H, (1982). Canyon-filling lavas and lava dams on the Boise River, and their significance for evaluating downcutting during the last two million years: The Cenozoic Geology of Idaho. The Geological Survey of Idaho, Bulletin , Bulletin 26, 725 PP.
- Shervais, J.W, (1982). Ti-V plots and the petrogenesis of modern and ophiolitic lavas. Earth, Planetary Science Letters, 59, 101-118.
- Shervais, J.W, (1979). Thermal emplacement model for the Alpine lherzolite massif at Balmuccia, Italy. Journal of Petrology, 20, 795-820.
- Wilshire, H.G, Shervais, J.W, (1975). Al-augite and Cr-diopside suite ultramafic xenoliths in basaltic rocks from the western United States. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth , 9, 257-272.
- Shervais, J.W, Wilshire, H.G, Schwarzman, E.C, (1973). Garnet Clinopyroxenite xenolith from Dish Hill, California. Earth, Planetary Science Letters , 19, 120-130.
- Jean, M.M, Hanan , B.B, Shervais, J.W, Yellowstone Hotspot – Continental Lithosphere Interaction. Elsevier Science, 389, 119-131. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.12.012
Professional Journal
- Garg, S., Gasperikova, E., Nielson, D.L, Shervais, J.W, (2017). Mountain Home Geothermal Area: Natural State Model. Geothermal Resources Council, 41, 2731-2742.
- Shervais, J.W, Glen, J.M, Liberty, L.M, Dobson, P., Gasperikova, E., Sonnenthal, E., Visser, C., Nielson, D., Garg, S., Evans, J.P, Siler, D., DeAngelo, J., Athens, N., Burns, E., (2015). Snake River Plain Play Fairway Analysis - Phase 1 Report . Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 39
- Nielson, D.L, Shervais, J.W, Liberty, L.M, Garg, S., Glen, J., Visser, C., Dobson, P., Gasperikova, E., Sonnenthal, E., (2015). Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis Of The Snake River Plain, Idaho.. Proceedings Fortieth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, 40, SGP-TR-204.
- Nielson, D.L, Shervais, J.W, (2014). Conceptual Model for Snake River Plain Geothermal Systems.. Proceedings Thirty-Ninth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, 39, SGP-TR-202.
- Shervais, J.W, Nielson, D.L, Evans, J.P, Lachmar, T.E, Christiansen, E.H, Morgan, L., Shanks, W.P, Delahunty, C., Schmitt, D.R, Liberty, L.M, Blackwell, D.D, (2012). Hotspot: The Snake River Geothermal Drilling Project -- Initial Report. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 36, 767-772.
- Delahunty, C., Nielson, D.L, Shervais, J.W, (2012). Coring of three deep geothermal holes, Snake River Plain, Idaho. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 36, 641-647.
- Breckenridge, R.P, Shervais, J.W, Nielson, D.L, Wood, T.R, (2012). Exploration and Recourse Assessment at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho Using an Integrated Team Approach. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 36, 615-619.
- Nielson, D.L, Delahunty, C.C, Shervais, J.W, (2012). Geothermal Systems in the Snake River Plain, Idaho, Characterized by the Hotspot Project. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 36, 727-730.
- Lachmar, T.E, Freeman, T., Shervais, J.W, Nielson, D.L, (2012). Preliminary Results: Chemistry and Thermometry of Geothermal Water from MH-2B Test Well. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 36, 689-692.
- Shervais, J.W, Evans, J.P, Christiansen, E.H, Schmitt, D.R, Kessler, J.A, Potter, K.E, Jean, M.M, Sant, C.J, Freeman, T., (2011). Project Hotspot – The Snake River Scientific Drilling Project. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 35, 995-1003.
- Potter, K.E, Bradshaw, R., Shervais, J.W, Sant, C.J, King, J., Christiansen, E.H, (2011). Project Hotspot: Insight into the Subsurface Stratigraphy and Geothermal Potential of the Snake River Plain. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 35, 967-971.
- Sant, C.J, Shervais, J.W, (2011). Project Hotspot: Preliminary Analysis of Secondary Mineralization in Basaltic Core, Central Snake River Plain. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 35, 987-989.
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Publications | Technical Reports
AES Reports
- Shervais, J.W, (2018). Provisional Conceptual Model of the Camas Prairie (ID) Geothermal System from Play Fairway Analysis. Idaho National Lab.(INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States) *
Research Reports
- Shervais, J.W, (1979). Petrology and structure of the Alpine lherzolite massif at Balmuccia, Italy. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara
Other Reports
- Shervais, J.W, (2018). Whole rock geochemistry of Forearc Basalts from IODP Expedition 352. PANGAEA
- Walton, A.W, Brigham-Grette, J., Shervais, J.W, (2010). Developing the U.S. Initiative in Continental Scientific Drilling. DOSECC Workshop Report 2 *
- Walton, A.W, Miller, K.G, Koeberl, C., Shervais, J.W, Colman, S., Hickman, S., Clyde, W., (2009). The Future of Continental Scientific Drilling: US Perspective. DOSECC Workshop Report 1 *
- Shervais, J.W, Branney, M.J, Geist, D.J, Hanan, B.B, Hughes, S.S, Prokopenko, A.A, Williams, D.F, (2006). HOTSPOT: The Snake River Scientific Drilling Project – Tracking the Yellowstone Hotspot Through Space and Time. Scientific Drilling *
- Vetter, S.K, Shervais, J.W, (1991). Dynamic melting in the genesis of mare basalts. LPI Workshop on Mare Basalts
- Shervais, J.W, (1989). Geochemistry of Igneous Rocks from Marin Headlands. Field Trip Guidebook T105, 28th International Geologic Congress
- Shervais, J.W, (1989). Highland Crust at the Apollo 14 Site: A Review: Workshop on Moon in Transition: Apollo 14, KREEP, and Evolved Lunar Rocks. Lunar and Planetary Institute,
- Shervais, J.W, Knapp, S., Taylor, L.A, (1984). Breccia Guidebook 14321. NASA Planetary Materials Branch, Publication No. 69, JSC 19492, Lyndon Johnson Space Center
- Shervais, J.W, Taylor, L.A, (1983). Breccia Guidebook 14305. NASA Planetary Materials Branch, Publication No. 68, JSC 19267, Lyndon Johnson Space Center
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- Shervais, J.W, (2006). Geologic Map of the Dietrich Quadrangle, Lincoln County, Idaho. Idaho Geological Survey, DWM-66, 1:24,000.
- Cooke, M.F, Shervais, J.W, Kauffman, J.D, Othberg, K.L, (2006). Geologic Map of the Dietrich Butte Quadrangle, Lincoln County, Idaho. Idaho Geological Survey, DWM-63, 1:24,000.
- Shervais, J.W, Matthews, S.H, Kauffman, J.D, Othberg, K.L, (2006). Geologic Map of the Owinza Butte Quadrangle, Jerome and Lincoln Counties, Idaho. Idaho Geological Survey, DWM-65, 1:24,000.
- Shervais, J.W, Cooke, M.F, Kauffman, J.D, Othberg, K.L, (2006). Geologic Map of the Owinza Quadrangle, Lincoln County, Idaho. Idaho Geological Survey, DWM-64, 1:24,000.
- Matthews, S.H, Shervais, J.W, (2006). Geologic Map of the Shoshone SE Quadrangle, Jerome and Lincoln Counties, Idaho. Idaho Geological Survey, DWM-62, 1:24,000.
- Matthews, S.H, Shervais, J.W, Kauffman, J.D, Othberg, K.L, (2006). Geologic Map of the Star Lake Quadrangle, Jerome and Lincoln Counties, Idaho. Idaho Geological Survey, DWM-67, 1:24,000.
- Kauffman, J.D, Othberg, K.L, Shervais, J.W, Cooke, M.F, (2005). Geologic Map of the Shoshone Quadrangle, Lincoln County, Idaho. Idaho Geological Survey, DWM-44, 1:24,000.
- Howard, K., Shervais, J.W, (1973). Geologic map of Smith Prairie, Elmore County, Idaho. U. S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Investigations I-818.
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