Summer School in Dates, Rates, and States

Thermochronology and thermo-mechanical modeling

S. Willett et al, 1993. Geology. Mechanical model for the tectonics of doubly-vergent compresionnal orogens. V. 21, 371-374.

Batt and J. Braun, 1997. Geophysical Journal International. On the thermo-mechanical evolution of compressional orogens, V. 128, 364-382.

J. Braun, vanderBeek and Batt, 2006. Quantitative Thermochronology. Cambridge University Press.

Braun, Jean, 2003, Pecube: a new finite-element code to solve the 3D heat transport equation including the effects of a time-varying, finite amplitude surface topography. Computers & Geosciences, vol. 29, issue 6, pp. 787-794.

Reiners, P.W. and Brandon, M.T., 2006, Using Thermochronology to Understand Orogenic Erosion, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science, v. 34, p. 419-466.
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~reiners/Reiners_and_Brandon_2006_AREPS.pdf

Reiners, P.W., Zhou, Z., Ehlers, T.A., Xu, C., Brandon, M.T., Donelick, R.A., and Nicolescu, S., 2003, Post-orogenic evolution of the Dabie Shan, eastern China, from (U-Th)/He and fission-track dating, American Journal of Science, v. 303, p. 489-518.
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~reiners/ReinersDabieinpress.pdf

Note: Additional publications by Reiners can be accessed at: http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~reiners/pubs.htm


From short term to long-term geomorphologic processes (reader's choice!)

Bookhagen and Burbank (2006) Topography, relief, and TRMM-derived rainfall variations along the Himalaya, GRL, Vol. 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL026037, link to


Bookhagen, Thiede, Strecker (2005): Late Quaternary intensified monsoon phases control landscape evolution in the northwest Himalaya, Geology, Volume 33, 2, pp. 149-152, DOI: 10.1130/G20982.1, link to


Bookhagen, Thiede, Strecker (2005): Abnormal monsoon years and their control on erosion and sediment flux in the high, arid northwest Himalaya, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 231, 1-2, pp. 131-146, link to


Thiede, Bookhagen, Arrowsmith, Sobel, Strecker (2004): Climatic control on rapid exhumation along the Southern Himalayan Front, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 222, 3-4, pp. 791-806, link to


Grujic, Coutand, Bookhagen, Bonnet, Blythe, Duncan (2006): Climatic forcing of erosion, landscape, and tectonics in the Bhutan Himalayas, Geology, Volume 34, 10, pp. 801-804, DOI: 10.1130/G22648.1, link to


Bookhagen, Fleitmann, Nishiizumi, Strecker, Thiede (2006): Holocene monsoonal dynamics and fluvial terrace formation in the northwest Himalaya, India, Geology, Volume 34, 7, pp. 601-604, DOI: 10.1130/G22698.1, link to


Huntington, Blythe, Hodges (2006): Climate change and Late Pliocene acceleration of erosion in the Himalaya, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 252, 1-2, pp. 107-118, link to


Wobus, Hodges, Whipple (2003): Has focused denudation sustained active thrusting at the Himalayan topographic front?, Geology, Volume 31, 10, pp. 861-864, DOI: 10.1130/G19730.1, link to


Blythe, Burbank, Carter, Schmidt, Putkonen (2007): Plio-Quaternary exhumation history of the central Nepalese Himalaya: 1. Apatite and zircon fission track and apatite [U-Th]/He analyses, Tectonics, Vol. 26, TC3002, link to


Monazite geochronology and mineral equilibria modeling

Connolly, J.A.D, (2005) Computation of phase equilibria by linear programming: A tool for geodynamic modeling and its application to subduction zone decarbonation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 236, 524-541.

Williams M.L., Jercinovic MJ, Hetherington CJ. 2007. Microprobe Monazite Geochronology: understanding geologic processes by integrating composition and chronology. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v.35, p.137-175.


Geodesy, fault modeling, and plate motions

Kreemer et al. 2003, An integrated global model of present-day plate motions and plate boundary deformation, Geophys. J. Int. 154, 8-34.


Weber et al. 2001, GPS estimate of relative motion between the Caribbean and South American plates, and geologic implications for Trinidad and Venezuela, Geology, 29, 1, 75-78.


Dixon et al, 2003, Paleoseismology and Global Positioning System: Earthquake-cycle effects and geodetic versus geologic fault slip rates in the Eastern California shear zone, Geology, 31, 1, 55-58.


Marshall, Scott T., Cooke, Michele L. and Susan E. Owen, 2008, Effects of Nonplanar Fault Topology and Mechanical Interaction on Fault-Slip Distributions in the Ventura Basin, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 98, No. 3, pp. 1113-1127, doi: 10.1785/0120070159


Fault modeling

P. A Cowie, S Gupta, N. H Dawers (2000) Implications of fault array evolution for synrift depocentre development: insights from a numerical fault growth model Basin Research 12 (3-4) , 241-261, doi:10.1046/j.1365-2117.2000.00126.x

Marshall, Scott T, Michele Cooke and Susan Owen, 2008. Effects of Non-Planar Fault Topology and Mechanical Interaction on Fault Slip Distributions in the Ventura Basin, CA, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 98, No. 3, doi:10.1785/0120070159.


Landscape Evolution

Landscape Evolution: Denudation, Climate and Tectonics over Different Time and Space Scales Geol. Soc. London, Special Publications 2008; v. 296; doi:10.1144/SP296.0. Edited by K Gallagher, S J Jones and J Wainwright.


Impact Geology

Traces of Catastrophe by B.M. French, on line at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books/CB-954/CB-954.intro.html

Alvarez et al. 1980, Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, Science, 208, 1095-1108.


Stoffler, 1966, Zones of impact metamorphism in the crystalline rocks of the Nordlinger Ries crater, Contrib. Min. and Petrol., 12, 15-24.


Career Development

Preparing for an Academic Career - visit SERC On the Cutting Edge
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/careerprep/index.html for advice about the job search, preparing to teach, moving your research career aheadŠetc.

Professional development guidelines for pre-tenure faculty on the SERC Early Career website: http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/earlycareer/index.html


"Primers" on topics related to the summer school:

-- Phase Equilibria (thermobarometry applications; mineral equilibrium modeling using ThermoCalc, Melts, and more): http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/equilibria/index.html
-- Geochemical Instrumentation and Analysis // introductions to sampling strategies, analytical procedures, strengths/weaknesses of TIMS, SIMS, ICP MS, etc:
http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/geochemsheets/index.html