Tectonics, climate, and mountain topography

Glacial hydrology and erosion patterns: A mechanism for carving glacial valleys

(2011) Frédéric Herman et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Spatial controls on erosion in the Three Rivers Region, southeastern Tibet and southwestern China

(2011) Amanda C. Henck et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Quantifying bedrock-fracture patterns within the shallow subsurface: Implications for rock mass strength, bedrock landslides, and erodibility

(2011) Brian A. Clarke et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Significant increase in relief of the European Alps during mid-Pleistocene glaciations

(2011) Pierre G. Valla et al.   Nature Geoscience

Climatic control of denudation in the deglaciated landscape of the Washington Cascades

(2011) Seulgi Moon et al.   Nature Geoscience

Mass wasting triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is greater than orogenic growth

(2011) Robert N. Parker et al.   Nature Geoscience

Hydrological triggering of the seismicity around a salt diapir in Castellane, France

(2010) Laurent Bollinger et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Frost-cracking control on catchment denudation rates: Insights from in situ produced 10Be concentrations in stream sediments (Ecrins–Pelvoux massif, French Western Alps)

(2010) Romain Delunel et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Uniform erosion rates and relief amplitude during glacial cycles in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, as revealed from OSL-thermochronology

(2010) Frédéric Herman et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Continental-scale erosion and transport laws: A new approach to quantitatively investigate macroscale landscapes and associated sediment fluxes over the geological past

(2010) Martine Simoes et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Bedrock fracture control of glacial erosion processes and rates

(2010) Miriam Dühnforth et al.   GEOLOGY

Alpine glacial topography and the rate of rock column uplift: a global perspective

(2010) V.K. Pedersen et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

GPS and gravity constraints on continental deformation in the Alborz mountain range, Iran

(2010) Yahya Djamour et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

The angular velocities of the plates and the velocity of Earth's centre from space geodesy

(2010) Donald F. Argus et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Geologically current plate motions

(2010) Charles DeMets et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Insights into active tectonics of eastern Taiwan from analyses of geodetic and geologic data

(2010) Wen-Jeng Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Tectonic block motion and glacial isostatic adjustment in southeast Alaska and adjacent Canada constrained by GPS measurements

(2010) Julie L. Elliott et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Exhumation, crustal deformation, and thermal structure of the Nepal Himalaya derived from the inversion of thermochronological and thermobarometric data and modeling of the topography

(2010) Frédéric Herman et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Aysén seismic swarm (January 2007) in southern Chile: analysis using Joint Hypocenter Determination

(2010) Cindy Mora et al.   JOURNAL OF SEISMOLOGY

Triggering of New Madrid seismicity by late-Pleistocene erosion

(2010) E. Calais et al.   NATURE

Long-term stability of global erosion rates and weathering during late-Cenozoic cooling

(2010) Jane K. Willenbring et al.   NATURE

Glaciation as a destructive and constructive control on mountain building

(2010) Stuart N. Thomson et al.   NATURE

A morphotectonic analysis of central Patagonian Cordillera: Negative inversion of the Andean belt over a buried spreading center?

(2010) B. Scalabrino et al.   TECTONICS

GPS velocity field for the Tien Shan and surrounding regions

(2010) Alexander V. Zubovich et al.   TECTONICS

A seismotectonic study of the Southeastern Alaska Region

(2010) Diane I. Doser et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Fore-arc motion and Cocos Ridge collision in Central America

(2009) Peter LaFemina et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

A frost “buzzsaw” mechanism for erosion of the eastern Southern Alps, New Zealand

(2009) T.C. Hales et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Spatial Patterns of Glaciers in Response to Spatial Patterns in Regional Climate

(2009) Kathleen Huybers et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

A viscoelastic and afterslip postseismic deformation model for the 1964 Alaska earthquake

(2009) Hisashi Suito et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Global Bathymetry and Elevation Data at 30 Arc Seconds Resolution: SRTM30_PLUS

(2009) J. J. Becker et al.   MARINE GEODESY

Glacial effects limiting mountain height

(2009) D. L. Egholm et al.   NATURE

Formation of evenly spaced ridges and valleys

(2009) J. Taylor Perron et al.   NATURE

The relative efficacy of fluvial and glacial erosion over modern to orogenic timescales

(2009) Michele N. Koppes et al.   Nature Geoscience

Interseismic strain accumulation measured by GPS in the seismic gap between Constitución and Concepción in Chile

(2009) J.C. Ruegg et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

GPS-derived motion of the Adriatic microplate from Istria Peninsula and Po Plain sites, and geodynamic implications

(2009) John Weber et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Feedbacks among climate, erosion, and tectonics in a critical wedge orogen

(2008) G. H. Roe et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Active faulting and heterogeneous deformation across a megathrust segment boundary from GPS data, south central Chile (36-39°S)

(2008) M. S. Moreno et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Influence of precipitation phase on the form of mountain ranges

(2008) Alison M. Anders et al.   GEOLOGY

Small valley glaciers and the effectiveness of the glacial buzzsaw in the northern Basin and Range, USA

(2008) David Foster et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Deformation rates estimated from earthquakes in the northern Cordillera of Canada and eastern Alaska

(2008) Lucinda J. Leonard et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Active tectonics of the Adriatic region from GPS and earthquake slip vectors

(2008) N. D'Agostino et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Quaternary tectonic response to intensified glacial erosion in an orogenic wedge

(2008) Aaron L. Berger et al.   Nature Geoscience

First seismic record for intra-arc strike-slip tectonics along the Liquiñe-Ofqui fault zone at the obliquely convergent plate margin of the southern Andes

(2008) D. Lange et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Flexural isostatic response of the Alps to increased Quaternary erosion recorded by foreland basin remnants, SE France

(2008) Jean-Daniel Champagnac et al.   TERRA NOVA

The deformation pattern and fault rate in the Tianshan Mountains inferred from GPS observations

(2008) ShaoMin Yang et al.   Science in China. Series D, Earth sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences

Seasonal variations of seismicity and geodetic strain in the Himalaya induced by surface hydrology

(2007) Pierre Bettinelli et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Eocene to present subduction of southern Adria mantle lithosphere beneath the Dinarides

(2007) Richard A. Bennett et al.   GEOLOGY