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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 ArizonaShow Less
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Courses
- RTRegional Tectonics
- SGStructural Geology
- GFCGeology Field Camp
- PGPhysical Geology
- RSGRegional Structural Geology
Grants
- 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
Active - Lithospheric Dripping in Central Tibet: Underappreciated Factor In Orogenic Plateau Development?
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$443.2K
Active - PIRE: Dust Stimulated Draw-Down of Atmospheric CO2 as a Trigger for Northern Hemisphere Glaciation
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$548.0K
Active - Jura-Cretaceous Sinistral Displacement of Terranes Along the Northern Cordilleran Margin
Co-Investigator (COI)
2018
$237.1K
- 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
- Wind Over Rock: Quantifying the Feedbacks Among Wind Flow, Bedrock Erosion and Tectonic Uplift
Co-Investigator (COI)
2013
$328.6K
- Mesozoic-Cenozoic Basin Evolution of the Tajik Depression and Surrounding Regions
Co-Investigator (COI)
2013
$186.7K
- 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
- Collaborative Research: The suturing process: Insight from the India-Asia collision zone
Principal Investigator (PI)
2011
$1.9M
- 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
- Spatial and temporal radiogenic isotopic trends of magmatism in Cordilleran orogens
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