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1996 B.S. in Geology with an emphasis in Geophysics, University of Arizona 2001 Ph.D. in Geology, University of California, Los Angeles 2002-2008 Assistant Professor of Geosciences, University of Arizona 2008-2014 Associate Professor of Geosciences, University of Arizona 2014 - Professor of Geosciences, University of Arizona

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Courses
  • RT
    Regional Tectonics

  • SG
    Structural Geology

  • GFC
    Geology Field Camp

  • PG
    Physical Geology

  • RSG
    Regional Structural Geology

Grants
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    Collaborative Research: Do Subduction-complex Metamorphic Rocks Record The Thermal Evolution of a Subduction Zone or Periods of Anomalous Tectonic Activity? Baja California

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $305.3K
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    Lithospheric Dripping in Central Tibet: Underappreciated Factor In Orogenic Plateau Development?

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $443.2K
    Active
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    PIRE: Dust Stimulated Draw-Down of Atmospheric CO2 as a Trigger for Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2015

    $548.0K
    Active
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    Jura-Cretaceous Sinistral Displacement of Terranes Along the Northern Cordilleran Margin

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2018

    $237.1K
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    CR: Did the Pamir Gneiss Domes and Salient Form by Northward Underthrusting of India or Southward Subduction and Rollback of Asia?

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2014

    $211.0K
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    Wind Over Rock: Quantifying the Feedbacks Among Wind Flow, Bedrock Erosion and Tectonic Uplift

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2013

    $328.6K
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    Mesozoic-Cenozoic Basin Evolution of the Tajik Depression and Surrounding Regions

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2013

    $186.7K
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    Collaborative Research: P2C2 Tracking Long-Term Glacial-Interglacial Wind Pattern Variability in Central Asia Using Geochemical Analysis of Aerosol..

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2012

    $201.0K
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    Collaborative Research: The suturing process: Insight from the India-Asia collision zone

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2011

    $1.9M
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    Wind Erosion in the Qaidam Basin: Records, Rates, and Broader Implications

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2009

    $100.0K
News
  • How Wind Sculpted the Earth’s Largest Dust Deposit

    2015

  • A Shudder Through the Earth: Learning From Nepal

    2015

  • Wind Can Keep Mountains From Growing

    2011

  • EarthWeek Features Student Research Plus 'Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy'

    2010

  • UA-Led Team Studying 'Baffling' Rock Formations

    2009

  • Creating a Geological Map of World's Largest Mountain Range

    2009

  • Paul Kapp of Geosciences Receives 'Young Scientist' Award

    2008

  • Geological Demolition Derby

    2004

Publications (116)
Recent
  • Jurassic to Neogene quantitative crustal thickness estimates in southern Tibet

    2021

  • Timing and mechanisms of Tibetan Plateau uplift

    2021

  • Climate as the great equalizer of continental-scale erosion

    2021

  • Regional exhumation and tectonic history of the Shanxi Rift and Taihangshan, North China

    2021

  • Was the Himalaya higher during the mid-Miocene?

    2021

  • Evidence for regionally continuous Early Cretaceous sinistral shear zones along the western flank of the Coast Mountains, coastal British Columbia

    2021

  • A wind-albedo-wind feedback driven by landscape evolution

    2020

  • Exhumation history of the north-central Shanxi Rift, North China, revealed by low-temperature thermochronology

    2020

  • A mid-Cretaceous change from fast to slow exhumation of the western Chinese Altai mountains: A climate driven exhumation signal?

    2020

  • Resetting Southern Tibet: The serious challenge of obtaining primary records of Paleoaltimetry

    2020

  • Pre-Oxfordian (?163 Ma) ophiolite obduction in Central Tibet

    2020

  • Mesozoic subduction accretion history in central Tibet constrained from provenance analysis of the Mugagangri Subduction Complex in the Gangon-Nujiang suture zone

    2020

  • The Alichur dome, South Pamir, western India-Asia collisional zone: detailing the Neogene Shakhdara-Alichur syn-collisional gneiss-dome complex and connection to lithospheric processes

    2020

  • A quantitative model-based assessment of stony desert landscape evolution in the Hami Basin, China: Implications for Plio-Pleistocene dust production in eastern Asia

    2020

  • Structural style and kinematics of the Taihang-Luliangshan fold belt, North China: Implications for the Yanshanian orogeny

    2019

  • MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE HIMALAYAN-TIBETAN OROGEN AND WORKING TECTONIC HYPOTHESES

    2019

  • Controls on Yardang Development and Morphology: 1. Field Observations and Measurements at Ocotillo Wells, California

    2018

  • Gangdese culmination model: Oligocene-Miocene duplexing along the India-Asia suture zone, Lazi region, southern Tibet

    2018

  • Development of stratigraphically controlled, eolian-modified unconsolidated gravel surfaces and yardang fields in the wind-eroded Hami Basin, northwestern China

    2018

  • Earliest Cretaceous accretion of Neo-Tethys oceanic subduction along the Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone, Sangsang area, southern Tibet

    2018

  • Cretaceous shortening and exhumation history of the South Pamir terrane

    2018

  • Mesozoic to Cenozoic magmatic history of the Pamir

    2018

  • Accretionary tectonics of back-arc oceanic basins in the South Tianshan: Insights from structural, geochronological, and geochemical studies of the Wuwamen ophiolite melange

    2018

  • The disappearance of a Late Jurassic remnant sea in the southern Qiangtang Block (Shamuluo Formation, Najiangco area): Implications for the tectonic uplift of central Tibet

    2018

  • Tibetan Magmatism Database

    2017

  • Birth, life, and demise of the Andean-syn-collisional Gissar arc: Late Paleozoic tectono-magmatic-metamorphic evolution of the southwestern Tian Shan, Tajikistan

    2017

  • Yardang geometries in the Qaidam Basin and their controlling factors

    2017

  • Tectonic and erosional history of southern Tibet recorded by detrital chronological signatures along the Yarlung River drainage

    2017

  • Reply to comment by Z. Yi et al. on Remagnetization of the Paleogene Tibetan Himalayan carbonate rocks in the Gamba area: Implications for reconstructing the lower plate in the India-Asia collision

    2017

  • Tectonic evolution of the Yarlung suture zone, Lopu Range region, southern Tibet

    2017

  • Remagnetization of the Paleogene carbonates in the Gamba area of southern Tibet: implications for reconstructing the lower plate in the India-Asia collision

    2017

  • Remagnetization of the Paleogene Tibetan Himalayan carbonate rocks in the Gamba area: Implications for reconstructing the lower plate in the India-Asia collision

    2017

  • The Yarlung suture melange, Lopu Range, southern Tibet: Provenance of sandstone blocks and transition from oceanic subduction to continental collision

    2017

  • High-pressure Tethyan Himalaya rocks along the India-Asia suture zone in southern Tibet

    2016

  • Resilience of the Asian atmospheric circulation shown by Paleogene dust provenance

    2016

  • Petrogenesis of Middle-Late Triassic volcanic rocks from the Gangdese belt, southern Lhasa terrane: Implications for early subduction of Neo-Tethyan oceanic lithosphere

    2016

  • Eolian cannibalism: Reworked loess and fluvial sediment as the main sources of the Chinese Loess Plateau

    2016

  • Magmatic history and crustal genesis of western South America: Constraints from U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons in modern rivers

    2016

  • Along-strike diachroneity in deposition of the Kailas Formation in central southern Tibet: Implications for Indian slab dynamics

    2016

  • Late Triassic paleogeographic reconstruction along the Neo-Tethyan Ocean margins, southern Tibet

    2016

  • Structural Analysis of the Hero Range in the Qaidam Basin, Northwestern China, Using Integrated UAV, Terrestrial LiDAR, Landsat 8, and 3-D Seismic Data

    2015

  • Forearc hyperextension dismembered the south Tibetan ophiolites

    2015

  • Lower Cretaceous Xigaze ophiolites formed in the Gangdese forearc: Evidence from paleomagnetism, sediment provenance, and stratigraphy

    2015

  • Reply to comment by W. Liu and B. Xia on “Age and geochemistry of western Hoh-Xil-Songpan-Ganzi granitoids, northern Tibet: Implications for the Mesozoic closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean”

    2015

  • Can a primary remanence be retrieved from partially remagnetized Eocence volcanic rocks in the Nanmulin Basin (southern Tibet) to date the India-Asia collision?

    2015

  • Paleolatitudes of the Tibetan Himalaya from primary and secondary magnetizations of Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rocks

    2015

  • What was the Paleogene latitude of the Lhasa terrane? A reassessment of the geochronology and paleomagnetism of Linzizong volcanic rocks (Linzhou basin, Tibet)

    2015

  • Preface and Acknowledgments

    2015

  • Along-strike variations in crustal seismicity and modern lithospheric structure of the central Andean forearc

    2015

  • Mesozoic shortening and syn-tectonic sedimentation in the southern Pamir: Implications for gneiss-dome metamorphism and crustal thickening

    2015

  • Sedimentology, provenance and geochronology of the upper Cretaceous-lower Eocene western Xigaze forearc basin, southern Tibet

    2015

  • Cyclical orogenic processes in the Cenozoic central Andes

    2015

  • Age and geochemistry of western Hoh-Xil-Songpan-Ganzi granitoids, northern Tibet: Implications for the Mesozoic closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean

    2014

  • Mesozoic tectonic history and lithospheric structure of the Qiangtang terrane: Insights from the Qiangtang metamorphic belt, central Tibet

    2014

  • Paleocene-Eocene foreland basin evolution in the Himalaya of southern Tibet and Nepal: Implications for the age of initial India-Asia collision

    2014

  • Miocene burial and exhumation of the India-Asia collision zone in southern Tibet: Response to slab dynamics and erosion

    2014

  • Northern Lhasa thrust belt of central Tibet: Evidence of Cretaceous--early Cenozoic shortening within a passive roof thrust system?

    2014

  • Asian Winter Monsoons in the Eocene: Evidence from the Aeolian Dust Series of the Xining Basin

    2014

  • Southern Tibetan Oligocene-Miocene adakites: A record of Indian slab tearing

    2014

  • FROM DUST TO DUST: QUATERNARY WIND EROSION OF THE MU US DESERT AND LOESS PLATEAU, CHINA

    2014

  • Evidence for constriction and Pliocene acceleration of east-west extension in the North Lunggar rift region of west central Tibet

    2013

  • Provenance analysis of the Mesozoic Hoh-Xil-Songpan-Ganzi turbidites in northern Tibet: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean

    2013

  • Late Cenozoic evolution of the Lunggar extensional basin, Tibet: Implications for basin growth and exhumation in hinterland plateaus

    2013

  • Metamorphism of the Amdo metamorphic complex, Tibet: implications for the Jurassic tectonic evolution of the Bangong suture zone

    2013

  • Wind as the primary driver of erosion in the Qaidam Basin, China

    2013

  • Climatic and tectonic controls on sedimentation and erosion during the Pliocene-Quaternary in the Qaidam Basin (China)

    2013

  • Influence of pre-Andean crustal structure on Cenozoic thrust belt kinematics and shortening magnitude: Northwestern Argentina

    2013

  • U-Pb geochronology of basement rocks in central Tibet and paleogeographic implications

    2012

  • Major Miocene exhumation by fault-propagation folding within a metamorphosed, early Paleozoic thrust belt: Northwestern Argentina

    2012

  • Thermochronologic evidence for plateau formation in central Tibet by 45 Ma

    2012

  • Basin Response to Active Extension and Strike-Slip Deformation in the Hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau

    2012

  • Restoration of Cenozoic deformation in Asia and the size of Greater India

    2011

  • Detrital zircon geochronology of pre-Tertiary strata in the Tibetan-Himalayan orogen

    2011

  • Metamorphic rocks in central Tibet: Lateral variations and implications for crustal structure

    2011

  • Wind erosion in the Qaidam basin, central Asia: Implications for tectonics, paleoclimate, and the source of the Loess Plateau

    2011

  • Cenozoic anatexis and exhumation of Tethyan Sequence rocks in the Xiao Curia Range, Southwest Tibet

    2011

  • Qaidam Basin and northern Tibetan Plateau as dust sources for the Chinese Loess Plateau and paleoclimatic implications

    2011

  • Oligocene-Miocene Kailas basin, southwestern Tibet: Record of postcollisional upper-plate extension in the Indus-Yarlung suture zone

    2011

  • Basin formation in the High Himalaya by arc-parallel extension and tectonic damming: Zhada basin, southwestern Tibet

    2010

  • Cenozoic crustal extension in southeastern Arizona and implications for models of core-complex development

    2010

  • Palaeolatitude and age of the Indo-Asia collision: palaeomagnetic constraints

    2010

  • THE LATE MIOCENE THROUGH PRESENT PALEOELEVATION HISTORY OF SOUTHWESTERN TIBET

    2009

  • Stable isotopic results from paleosol carbonate in South Asia: Paleoenvironmental reconstructions and selective alteration

    2009

  • Phase-equilibrium constraints on titanite and rutile activities in mafic epidote amphibolites and geobarometry using titanite-rutile equilibria

    2009

  • Gangdese retroarc thrust belt and foreland basin deposits in the Damxung area, southern Tibet

    2008

  • Development of active low-angle normal fault systems during orogenic collapse: Insight from Tibet

    2008

  • Triassic continental subduction in central Tibet and Mediterranean-style closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean

    2008

  • Tibetan basement rocks near Amdo reveal missing Mesozoic tectonism along the Bangong suture, central Tibet

    2007

  • The takena formation of the Lhasa terrane, southern Tibet: The record of a Late Cretaceous retroarc foreland basin

    2007

  • Lower cretaceous strata in the Lhasa Terrane, Tibet, with implications for understanding the early tectonic history of the Tibetan plateau

    2007

  • Cretaceous-Tertiary geology of the Gangdese Arc in the Linzhou area, southern Tibet

    2007

  • Geological records of the Lhasa-Qiangtang and Indo-Asian collisions in the Nima area of central Tibet

    2007

  • Detrital zircon geochronology of carboniferous-cretaceous strata in the lhasa terrane, Southern Tibet

    2007

  • Cretaceous-Tertiary structural evolution of the north central Lhasa terrane, Tibet

    2007

  • Postcollisional calc-alkaline lavas and xenoliths from the southern Qiangtang terrane, central Tibet

    2007

  • High and dry in central Tibet during the Late Oligocene

    2007

  • Late Cretaceous to middle Tertiary basin evolution in the central Tibetan Plateau: Changing environments in response to tectonic partitioning, aridification, and regional elevation gain

    2006

  • Nyainqentanglha Shan: A window into the tectonic, thermal, and geochemical evolution of the Lhasa block, southern Tibet

    2005

  • Cretaceous-Tertiary shortening, basin development, and volcanism in central Tibet

    2005

  • Paleocene-Eocene record of ophiolite obduction and initial India-Asia collision, south central Tibet

    2005

  • Indian punch rifts Tibet

    2004

  • Cenozoic volcanism in Tibet: Evidence for a transition from oceanic to continental subduction

    2003

  • Tectonic evolution of the early Mesozoic blueschist-bearing Qiangtang metamorphic belt, central Tibet

    2003

  • Conjugate strike-slip faulting along the Bangong-Nujiang suture zone accommodates coeval east-west extension and north-south shortening in the interior of the Tibetan Plateau

    2003

  • Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Shiquanhe area of western Tibet

    2003

  • Structural evolution of the Gurla Mandhata detachment system, southwest Tibet: Implications for the eastward extent of the Karakoram fault system

    2002

  • Geochemical characteristics of blueschist and its tectonic significance in the central Qiangtang area, Tibet

    2002

  • Blueschist-bearing metamorphic core complexes in the Qiangtang block reveal deep crustal structure of northern Tibet: Reply

    2001

  • Cenozoic structural and metamorphic evolution of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis (Namche Barwa)

    2001

  • Discovery of blueschists in Gangmar-Taoxing Co area, central Qiangtang, Northern Tibet

    2000

  • Blueschist-bearing metamorphic core complexes in the Qiangtang block reveal deep crustal structure of northern Tibet

    2000

  • Southward propagation of the Karakoram fault system, southwest Tibet: Timing and magnitude of slip

    2000

  • Significant late Neogene east-west extension in northern Tibet

    1999

  • Range-front fault scarps of the Sierra El Mayor, Baja California: Formed above an active low-angle normal fault?

    1999

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