Publications

Vasey, D., Cowgill, E. S., Roeske, S.,  Niemi,  N. A., Godoladze, T.,  Skhirtladze, I., Gogoladze, S., in press, Evolution of the Greater Caucasus basement and formation of the Main Caucasus Thrust, Georgia, Tectonics.

Abbey, A. L., Niemi, N.A., 2020. Perspectives on continental rifting processes from spatiotemporal patterns of faulting and magmatism in the Rio Grande rift, USA, Tectonics, 39, e2019TC005635,  doi:10.1029/2019TC005635.

Yakovlev, P.V., Saal, A., Clark, M.K., Hong, C., Niemi, N.A. and Mallick, S., 2019. The geochemistry of Tibetan lavas: Spatial and temporal relationships, tectonic links and geodynamic implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 520, pp.115-126.

Abbey, A.L. and Niemi, N.A., 2018. Low-temperature thermochronometric constraints on fault initiation and growth in the northern Rio Grande rift, upper Arkansas River valley, Colorado, USA. Geology, 46, p. 627-630.

Abbey, A.L., Niemi, N.A., Geissman, J.W., Winkelstern, I.Z. and Heizler, M., 2017. Early Cenozoic exhumation and paleotopography in the Arkansas River valley, southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado. Lithosphere, 10, p. 239-266.

Niemi, N.A. and Clark, M.K., 2017. Long-term exhumation rates exceed paleoseismic slip rates in the central Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California. Geology, 46, p. 63-66.

Staisch, L.M., Niemi, N.A., Clark, M.K. and Chang, H., 2016. Eocene to late Oligocene history of crustal shortening within the Hoh Xil Basin and implications for the uplift history of the northern Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics, 35, p. 862-895.

Sousa, F.J., Farley, K.A., Saleeby, J. and Clark, M., 2016. Eocene activity on the Western Sierra Fault System and its role incising Kings Canyon, California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 439, p. 29-38.

Craddock, W.H., Kirby, E., Zhang, H., Clark, M.K., Champagnac, J.D. and Yuan, D., 2014. Rates and style of Cenozoic deformation around the Gonghe Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Geosphere, 10, p. 1255-1282.

Duvall, A. R., Clark, M. K., Kirby, E., Farley, K. A., Craddock, W. H., Li, C. and Yuan, D. Y., 2013, Low‐temperature thermochronometry along the Kunlun and Haiyuan Faults, NE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence for kinematic change during late‐stage orogenesis, Tectonics, 32, p. 1190-1211.

Niemi, N. A., Buscher, J. T., Spotila, J. A., House, M. A. and Kelley, S. A., 2013, Insights from low-temperature thermochronometry into transpressional deformation and crustal exhumation along the San Andreas fault in the western Transverse Ranges, California, Tectonics, 32, p. 1602-1622.

Niemi, N. A., 2012, Geologic map of the central Grapevine Mountains, Inyo County, California and Esmeralda and Nye counties, Nevada, Geological Society of America Digital Maps and Charts Series, DMC12, 1:48,000, 28 p. text.

Verdel, C., Niemi, N. and van der Pluijm, B., 2011, Thermochronology of the Salt Spring fault: Constraints on the evolution of the South Virgin-White Hills detachment system, Nevada and Arizona, USA, Geosphere, 7, no. 3, p. 774–784.

Duvall, A. R., Clark, M. K., van der Pluijm, B. and Li, C., 2011, Direct dating of Eocene reverse faulting in northeastern Tibet using Ar-dating of fault clays and low-temperature thermochronometry, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 304, p. 520–526.

Lease, R. O., Burbank, D. W., Clark, M. K., Farley, K. A., Zheng, D. and Zhang, H., 2011, Middle Miocene reorganization of deformation along the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Geology, 39, p. 359–362.

Avdeev, B.and Niemi, N. A., 2011, Rapid Pliocene exhumation of the central Greater Caucasus constrained by low-temperature thermochronometry, Tectonics, 30, TC2009.

Clark, M. K., Farley, K. A., Zheng, D., Wang, Z., Duvall, A. R., 2010, Early Cenozoic faulting of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin from apatite (U–Th)/He ages, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 296, p. 78–88.

Zheng, D., Clark, M. K., Zhang, P., Zheng, W. and Farley, K. A., 2010, Erosion, fault initiation and topographic growth of the North Qilian Shan (northern Tibetan Plateau), Geosphere, 6, p. 937–941.

Clark, M. K. and Bilham, R., 2008, Miocene rise of the Shillong Plateau and the beginning of the end of the Eastern Himalaya, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 269, p. 337–351.

Mahan, K. H., Guest, B., Wernicke, B. P. and Niemi, N. A., 2009, Low-temperature thermochronologic constraints on the kinematic history and spatial extent of the Eastern California shear zone, Geosphere, 5, p. 1–13.

Spotila, J. A., House, M. A., Niemi, N. A., Brady, R. J., Oskin M. and Buscher, J. T., 2008, Patterns of bedrock uplift along the San Andreas fault and implications for mechanisms of transpression, in Till, A. B., Roeske, S. M., Sample, J. C., and Foster, D. A., eds., Exhumation Associated with Continental Strike-Slip Systems, Geological Society of America Special Paper 434, p. 15–34.

Clark, M. K., House, M. A., Royden, L. H., Whipple, K. X., Burchfiel, B. C., Zhang, X. and Tang, W., 2005, Late Cenozoic uplift of southeastern Tibet, Geology, 33, p. 525–528.

Clark, M. K., Maheo, G., Saleeby, J. and Farley, K., 2006, The non-equilibrium landscape of the Sierra Nevada, California: Reply, GSA Today, on-line forum.

Farley, K. A., Shuster, D. L., Clark, M. and Maheo, G., 2005, Dating erosion events using He-4/He-3 thermochronometry, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69, A317–A317, Suppl. S.

Clark, M. K., Maheo, G., Saleeby, J. and Farley, K., 2005, The non-equilibrium landscape of the Sierra Nevada, California, GSA Today, 15(9), p. 4–10.

Spotila, J. A., House, M. A., Blythe, A. E., Niemi, N. A. and Bank, G. C., 2002, Controls on the erosion and geomorphic evolution of the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains, southern California, in Barth, A., ed., Crustal Evolution of the Southwestern United States: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 365, p. 205–230.

Farley, K. A. and Clark, M. K., 2006, Progress and problems with apatite (U-Th)/He dating, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, A166–A166, Suppl. S.