Using thermochronology to understand orogenic erosion

PW Reiners, MT Brandon - Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Erosion of orogenic mountain ranges exhumes deeply buried rocks and controls
weathering, climate, and sediment production and transport at a variety of scales. Erosion …

Quantifying rates of landscape evolution and tectonic processes by thermochronology and numerical modeling of crustal heat transport using PECUBE

J Braun, P Van Der Beek, P Valla, X Robert, F Herman… - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
PECUBE is a three-dimensional thermal–kinematic code capable of solving the heat
production–diffusion–advection equation under a temporally varying surface boundary …

Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting

DW Coltman, P O'Donoghue, JT Jorgenson, JT Hogg… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Phenotype-based selective harvests, including trophy hunting, can have important
implications for sustainable wildlife management if they target heritable traits,,. Here we …

Apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry: methods and applications to problems in tectonic and surface processes

TA Ehlers, KA Farley - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2003 - Elsevier
In the last decade apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry has emerged as an important tool
for quantifying the cooling history of rocks as they pass through the upper 1–3 km of the …

Decoupling of erosion and precipitation in the Himalayas

DW Burbank, AE Blythe, J Putkonen, B Pratt-Sitaula… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
The hypothesis that abrupt spatial gradients in erosion can cause high strain rates in active
orogens has been supported by numerical models that couple erosional processes with …

Interpretation of (U–Th)/He single grain ages from slowly cooled crustal terranes: a case study from the Transantarctic Mountains of southern Victoria Land

PG Fitzgerald, SL Baldwin, LE Webb, PB O'Sullivan - Chemical Geology, 2006 - Elsevier
Low temperature thermochronologic techniques (eg apatite fission track (AFT)
thermochronology and (U–Th)/He dating) constrain near-surface T–t paths and are often …

Comparison of geodetic and geologic data from the Wasatch region, Utah, and implications for the spectral character of Earth deformation at periods of 10 to 10 million …

AM Friedrich, BP Wernicke, NA Niemi… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The Wasatch fault and adjacent fault zones provide an opportunity to compare present‐day
deformation rate estimates obtained from space geodesy with geologic displacement rates …

Eocene onset and late Miocene acceleration of Cenozoic intracontinental extension in the North Qinling range–Weihe graben: Insights from apatite fission track …

J Liu, P Zhang, RO Lease, D Zheng, J Wan, W Wang… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
Intracontinental extension in central China is accommodated by Cenozoic grabens flanking
the Ordos Block, such as the Weihe graben, which accommodate 5–6mm/yr of extension. To …

Crustal thermal processes and the interpretation of thermochronometer data

TA Ehlers - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Many thermochronology studies focus on extracting the thermal history of a sample using
fission-track length distributions and track annealing models (eg, Ketcham 2005, and …

Application of low-temperature thermochronometry to extensional tectonic settings

DF Stockli - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Extension and associated tectonic exhumation have been described across a diverse
spectrum of geodynamic environments, ranging from lithospheric-scale extension along …