2021

Arkle, J.C., Weber, J., Enkelmann, E., Owen, L.A., Govers, R., Jess, S., Denison, C., O’Sullivan, P.B., and Donelick, R.A. (2021). Exhumation of the Costal Metamorphic Belt above the Subduction-to-Transform Transition, in the Southeast Caribbean Plate Corner. Tectonics, 40, e2020TC006414.

 

Karlsson, K.W., Rockwell, T.K., Fletcher, J.M., Figueiredo, P.M., Rosas, J.F.C., Gontz, A.M., Naik, S.P., Lacan, P., Spelz, R.M., Owen, L.A., Villa, I.A.P., and Loya, R.L. (2021). Large Holocene ruptures on the Cañada 1 David Detachment, Baja California, Mexico; Implications for the seismogenesis of low-angle normal faults. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 117070.

 

Yan, Q., Owen, L.A., Zhang, Z., Wang, H., Wei, T., Jiang, N., Zhang, R. (2021). Divergent evolution of glaciation across High-Mountain Asia during the last four glacial-interglacial cycles. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL092411.

 

Costa, C.H., Owen, L.A., Johnson, W.J., Kirby, E. (2021). Quaternary activity and seismogenic potential of the Sierra Chica Fault System, Pampean Ranges of Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 110, 103328.

 

Rimando, J., Schoenbohm, L.M., Ortiz, G., Alvarado, P., Venerdini, A., Owen, L.A., Seagren, E., Figueiredo, P.M. and Hammer, S. (2021). Late Quaternary intraplate deformation: the Las Chacras fault Zone, West-Central Argentina. Tectonics. 40, e2020TC006509.

 

Seong, Y.B., Owen, L.A., Carling, P.A., Li., H.S., Lee, H.-H., and Lee, C.-H. (2021). An argument critical of the “Existence of a LGM-glacier on Mt. Kimgang. Journal of the Korean Geographical Society, 56, 1, 123-128.

 

Counts, R.C., Van Arsdale, R., Woolery, E., Murari, M.K. and Owen, L.A.  (2021). Late Holocene Faulting in the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone of western Kentucky: A northern extension of New Madrid Activity? Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 111, 1154-1179.

 

Angster, S., Wesnousky, S., Figueiredo, P., Owen, L.A., and Sawyer, T. (2021). Characterizing strain between rigid crustal blocks in the southern Cascadia forearc: Quaternary faults and folds of the northern Sacramento Valley, California. Geology, 49, 387-391, doi.org/10.1130/G48114.1

 

Özpolat, E.*, Şahiner, E., Özcan, O., Demir, T., and Owen, L.A. (2021). Late Holocene landscape evolution of the Seyhan Delta and its foredunes in the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey. The Holocene, published online, doi.org/10.1177/0959683620988047

 

Valentino, J.D.*, Spotila, J.A., Owen, L.A., Cesta, J.M.*, and Caffee, M.W. (2021). Timing and extent of Quaternary glaciation in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska. Quaternary Research, 101, 205-224, doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.106

 

Orr, E.N.*, Owen, L.A., Saha, S., and Caffee, M.C. (2021). Climate-driven late Quaternary fan surface abandonment in the NW Himalaya. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 548, 63-80, doi.org/10.1130/2020.2548(04)

 

Pierce, I.K.D.*, Wesnousky, S.G., Owen, L.A., Bormann, J.M., Li, X., and Caffee, M.W. (2021). Accommodation of plate motion in an incipient strike-slip system: The Central Walker Lane. Tectonics, 40, e2019TC005612, doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005612

 

Orr, E.N.*, Owen, L.A., Saha, S.*, Hammer, S.J., and Caffee, M.C. (2021). Rockwall slope erosion in the NW Himalaya. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126, e2020JF005619, doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005619

 

Young, R.A., Gordon, L.M., Owen, L.A., and Huot, S. (2021). Newly documented glacial advance near the beginning of the Younger Dryas in western New York State: depositional mechanism and implications for Lakes Iroquois and Agassiz. Geosphere, 17, 1, 271-305.

 

Xu, J., Arrowsmith, J.R., Chen, J., Schoenbohm, L.M., Li, T., Yuan, Z., and Owen, L.A. (2021). Evaluating young fluvial terrace riser degradation using a nonlinear transport model: With application to the Kongur Normal Fault in the Pamir, northwest China. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 46, 280-295.

 

Teller, J. and Owen, L.A. (2021). Age of the Gimli beach of Lake Agassiz based on new OSL dating. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36, 56-65.

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2020

Dietsch, C. Hedrick, K., Owen, L.A. and Caffee, M.C. (2020). Tracking denudation and sediment production and transport with cosmogenic 10Be in arid, high-altitude Himalayan half-grabens, Zanskar, northern India. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45, 3103-3119.

 

Hong, S., Lee, M.K., Seong, Y.B., Owen, L.A., Rhee, H.H., Lee, J.I., and Yoo, K.-C. (2020). Holocene sea-level history and tectonic implications derived from luminescence dating of raised beaches in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica. Geoscience Journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-020-0031-x.

 

Tian, Y., Owen, L.A. and Xu, C. (2020). Geomorphometry and statistical analysis of landslides triggered by the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake and its Mw 7.3 aftershock Nepal. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, Article 572449.

 

Seagren, E.G., Schoenbohm, L.M., Owen, L.A., Figueiredo, P., Hammer, S., Rimando, J.M., Wang, Y., and Bohon, W. (2020). Lithology, topography, and spatial variability in controls of fluvial erosion in the south-central Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 551, 116555.

 

Wesnousky, S.G. and Owen, L.A. (2020). Development of the Truckee River terraces on the northeastern flank of the Sierra Nevada. Geomorphology, 370, 107399.

 

Struth, L., Giachetta, E., Willett, S.D., Owen, L.A., and Tesón, E. (2020). Quaternary drainage network reorganization in the Colombian Eastern Cordillera Plateau. Earth Surface Processes and Landform, 45, 1789-1804.

 

Bacon, S.N., Jayko, A.S., Owen, L.A., Lindvall, S.C., Rhodes, E.J., Schumer, R.A., and Decker, D.L. (2020). A 50,000-year record of lake-level variations and overflow from Owens Lake, eastern California, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 238, 106312.

 

Yan Q., Owen, L.A., Zhang, Z., Jiang, N., and Zhang, R. (2020). Deciphering the evolution and forcing mechanism of glaciation over the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen during the past 20,000 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 541, 116295.

 

Saha, S., Owen, L.A., Orr, E.N., and Caffee, M.C. (2020). A statistical and numerical modeling approach for spatiotemporal reconstruction of glaciations in the Central Asian mountains. MethodsX, 7, 100820, doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2020.100820

 

Tian, Y.*, Owen, L.A., Xu, C., Na, S., Xu, X., Figueiredo, P.M.#, Kang, W., Guo, P., Wang, S., Liang, X., and Maharjan, S.B. (2020). Landslide development within 3 years after the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal. Landslides, DOI 10.1007/s10346-020-01366-x.

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2019

Orr, E.N., Owen, L.A., Saha, S., and Caffee, M.C. (2019). Rates of bedrock slope erosion in the upper Bhagirathi catchment, Garhwal Himalaya, northern India. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 44, 3108-3127.

 

Li, T., Schoenbohm, L., Chen, J., Yuan, Z., Feng, W., Li, W., Xu, J., Owen, L.A., Sobel, E., Zhang, B., Zheng, W., and Zhang, P. (2019). Cumulative and coseismic (during the 2016 Mw 6.6 Aketao earthquake) deformation of the dextral-slip Muji Fault, northeastern Pamir orogen. Tectonics, 38, 3975-3989.

 

Fame, M., Spotila, J.A., Owen, L.A., and Shuster, D.L. (2019). Consistent slow exhumation in a late Cenozoic glaciated landscape: The Presidential and Carter ranges of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, USA. Geomorphology, 345, article 106842.

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Saha, S., Owen, L.A., Orr, E.N., and Caffee, M.W. (2019). High-frequency Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen. Quaternary Science Reviews, 220, 372-400.

 

Imrecke, D.B., Robinson, A.C., Owen, L.A., Chen, J., Schoenbohm, L., Hedrick, K., Lapen, T., Li. W and Yuan, Z. (2019). Mesozoic evolution of the Eastern Pamir. Lithosphere, 11, 560-580.

 

Xie, S., Gallant, E.*, Wetmore, P.H., Figueiredo, P.M., Owen, L.A., Rasmussen, C., Malservisi, R. and Dixon, T.H. (2019). A new geological slip rate estimate for the Calico Fault, eastern California: implications for geodetic versus geologic rate estimates in the Eastern California Shear Zone. International Geology Review, 61, 1642-1665, doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2018.1531272.

 

Khalifa, A., Çakir, Z., Owen, L.A., and Kaya, S. (2019). Evaluation of the relative tectonic activity of the Adıyaman Fault within the Arabian-Anatolian plate boundary (eastern Turkey). Geologica Acta, 17.6, 1-17.

 

Rimando, J.M.*, Schoenbohm, L.M., Costa, C.H., Owen, L.A., Cesta, J.M., Richard, A.D. and Gardini, C.E. (2019). Late Quaternary activity of the La Rinconada fault zone, San Juan, Argentina. Tectonics, 38, 916-940.

 

2018

Luo, M. Chen, J., Liu, J., Qin, J., Owen, L.A., Han, F. Yang, H., Wang, H., Zhang, B., Yin, J. and Li, Y (2018). A test of rock surface luminescence dating using glaciofluvial boulder from the Chinese Pamir. Radiation Measurements, 120, 290-297

 

Tankersley, K., Dunning, N.P., Owen, L.A. and Sparks, J. (2018). Geochronology and paleoenvironmental framework for the oldest archaeological site in the West Indies, Banwari Trace, Trinidad. Latin American Antiquity, 29, 681-695.

 

Yan, Q., Owen, L.A., Wang, H. Zhang, Z. and Sun, J. (2018). Climate constrains glacier advance over High Mountain Asia during the last glacial maximum. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 45, 9024-9033.

 

Scarborough, V.L., Samantha G. Fladd, S.G., Dunning, N.P., Plog, S., Owen, L.A., Carr, C., Tankersley, K.B., McCool, J.-P., Watson, A.S., Haussner, E.A., Crowley, B., Bishop, K.J., Lentz, D.L. and Vivian, R.G., (2018). Water Uncertainty and Ritual Predictability at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Antiquity, 636, 870-889.

 

Tankersley, K.B., Dunning, N.P., Owen, L.A., Huff, W.D., Park. J.H. and Changjoo, K. (2018). Platinum anomalies at three late Holocene high magnitude volcanic events in Western Hemisphere sediments. Nature Scientific Reports 8, 11298, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-29741-8.

 

McCool, J.-P.P., Fladd, S.G., Scarborough, V.L., Plog, S., Dunning, N.P., Owen, L.A., Watson, A.S., Bishop, K.J., Crowley, B.E., Haussner, E.A., Tankersley, K.B., Lentz, D., Carr, C. and Thress, J.L. (2018). Soil Analysis in Discussions of Agricultural Feasibility for Ancient Civilizations: A Critical Review and Reanalysis of the Data and Debate from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. PLOS One, 13(6), e01982920.

 

Costa, C., Owen, L.A., Ricci, W., Johnson, W.J. and Halperin, A.D. (2018). Holocene activity and seismogenic capability of intraplate thrusts: Insights from the Pampean Ranges, Argentina. Tectonophysics, 737, 57-70.

 

Khalifa, A., Çakir, Z., Owen, L.A. and Kaya, S. (2018). Morphotectonic analysis of the East Anatolian Fault, Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Science, 27, 110-126.

 

Saha, S., Owen, L.A., Orr, E.N. and Caffee, M.W. (2018). Timing and nature of Holocene glacier advances at the northwestern end of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen. Quaternary Science Reviews, 187, 177-202.

 

Fame, M.L., Spotila, J.A., Owen, L.A., Dortch, J.M. and Shuster, D.L. (2018). Spatially heterogeneous post-Caledonian burial and exhumation across the Scottish Highlands. Lithosphere, 10, 406-425.

 

Orr, E.N., Owen, L.A., Saha, S., Caffee, M.W., and Murari, M.K. (2018). Quaternary glaciation of the Lato Massif, Zanskar Range of NW Himalaya. Quaternary Science Reviews, 183, 140-156.

 

Fame, M.L., Owen, L.A., Spotila, J.A., Dortch, J.M. and Caffee, M.W. (2018). Tracking paraglacial sediment with cosmogenic 10Be using an example from the northwest Scottish Highlands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 182, 20-36.

 

Jonell, T.N., Owen, L.A., Carter, A., Schwenniger, J.-L. and Clift, P.D. (2018). Quantifying episodic erosion and transient storage on the western margin of the Tibetan Plateau, upper Indus River. Quaternary Research, 89, 281-306.

 

Gray, H.J., Shobe, C.M., Hobley, D.E.J., Tucker, G.E., Duvall, A.R., Harbert, S.A. and Owen, L.A. (2018). Off-fault deformation-rate of the southern San Andreas Fault inferred from landscape modeling of sheared drainages. Geology, 46, 59-62.

 

Tankersley, K.B., Huff, W.D., Dunning, N.P., Owen, L.A., and Scarborough, V.L. (2018). Volcanic minerals in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico and their archaeological significance. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 17, 404-421.

 

Owen, L.A. (2018). Earth surface processes and landscape evolution in the Himalaya: a framework for sustainable development and geohazard mitigation. Geological Society Special Publication, 462, 169-188.

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2017

Owen, L.A. (2017). Earth surface processes and landscape evolution in the Himalaya: a framework for sustainable development and geohazard mitigation. Geological Society Special Publication, 462, doi.org/10.1144/SP462.9.

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Pierce, I.K.D., Wesnousky, S.G., and Owen, L.A. (2017). Terrestrial cosmogenic surface exposure dating of moraines at Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada of California, and slip rate estimate for the West Tahoe Fault. Geomorphology, 298, 63-71.

 

Arkle, J.C., Owen, L.A., Weber, J., Caffee, M.W., Hammer, S. (2017). Transient Quaternary erosion and tectonic inversion of the Northern Range, Trinidad. Geomorphology, 295, 337-353.

 

Struth, L., Teixell, A., Owen, L.A. and Babault, J. (2017). Plateau reduction by drainage divide migration in the Eastern Cordillera of Columbia defined by morphometry and 10Be terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 42, 1155-1170.

 

Orr, E.N., Owen, L.A., Murari, M.K., Saha, S. and Caffee, M.W. (2017). The timing and extent of Quaternary glaciation of Stok, northern Zanskar Range, Transhimalaya of northern India. Geomorphology, 284, 142–155.

 

Hedrick, K., Owen, L.A., Chen, J., Robinson, A., Yuan, Z., Yang, X., Imrecke, D.B., Li W., Caffee, M.W. and Schoenbohm, L.M., and Zhang, B. (2017). Quaternary history and landscape evolution of a high-altitude intermountain basin, Waqia Valley, Chinese Pamir. Geomorphology, 284, 156-174.

 

Bergen, K.J., Shaw, J.H., Leon, L.A., Dolan, J.F, Pratt, T.L., Ponti, D.J., Morrow, E., Barrera, W., Rhodes, E.J., Murari, M.K. and Owen, L.A. (2017). Accelerating slip rates on the Puente  Hills blind thrust fault system beneath metropolitan Los Angeles, California, USA. Geology, 45, 227-230.

 

Tankersley, K.B., Owen, L.A., Dunning, N.P., Fladd, S.G., Bishop, K.J., Lentz, D.L. and Slotten, V. (2017).  Micro-flotation removal of coal contaminants from archaeological radiocarbon samples from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 12, 66-73.

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Burgette, R.J., Weldon, R.J., Abdrakhmatov, K.Y., Ormukov, C. Owen, L.A. and Thompson, S.C. (2017). Timing and process of river and lake terrace formation in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 159,15-34.

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2016

Solomina, O., Bradley, R., Jomelli, V., Geirsdottir, A., Kaufman, D., Koch, J., McKay, N.P., Masiokas, M., Miller, G., Nesje, A., Nicolussi, K., Owen, L.A., Putnam, A.E., Wanner, H., Wiles, G. and Yan, B. (2016). Glacier fluctuations during the past 2000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 149, 61-90.

 

Tankersley, K.B., Dunning, N.P, Thress, J., Owen, L.A., Huff, W.D., Fladd, S.G., Bishop, K.J., Plog, S., Watson, A.S., Carr, C. and Scarborough, V.L. (2016). Evaluating soil salinity and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports, 9, 94-104.

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Wesnousky, S.G., Briggs, R.W., Caffee, M., Ryerson, R., Finkel, R. and Owen, L.A. (2016). Terrestrial cosmogenic surface exposure dating of glacial and associated landforms in the Ruby Mountains of Central Nevada and along the northeastern flank of the Sierra Nevada. Geomorphology, 268, 72-81.

 

Saha, S., Sharma, M., Murari, M.K#., Owen, L.A. and Caffee, M.C. (2016). Geomorphology, sedimentology and age of drumlins/streamlined subglacial landforms in the NW Himalaya of Northern India. Boreas, 45, 284-303.

 

Valentino, J., Spotila, J., Owen, L.A. and Buscher, J. (2016). Rock uplift at the transition from flat-slab to normal subduction: the Kenai Range, southeast Alaska. Tectonophysics, 5671, 63-75.

 

Frankel, K.L., Owen, L.A., Dolan, J.F., Knott, J.R., Lifton, Z.M., Finkel. R.C. and Wasklewicz, T. (2016). Timing and rates of Holocene normal faulting along the Black Mountains fault zone, Death Valley, USA. Lithosphere, 8, 3-22.

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2015

Pastor, A., Babault, J., Owen, L.A., Teixell, A. and Arboleya, M.-L. (2015). Extracting dynamic topography using river longitudinal profiles in the Middle Atlas and the High Plateaus of Morocco. Tectonophysics, 663, 95-109.

 

Tankersley, K.B., Murari, M., Crowley, B.E., Owen, L.A., Mortensen, L. and Storrs, G. (2015). Quaternary Chronostratigraphy and Paleoecology of Big Bone Lick, Kentucky. Quaternary Research, 83, 479-487.

 

Dietsch, C., Dortch, J.M.*, Reynhout, S.A.*, Owen, L.A. and Caffee, M.W. (2015). Very slow erosion rates and landscape preservation across southernwestern Ladakh Range, India. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40, 389-402.

 

Solomina, O., Bradley, R.S., Hodgson, D.A., Ivy-Ochs, S., Jomelli, V., Mackintosh, A.N., Nesje, A., Owen, L.A., Wanner, H., Wiles, G.C. and Young, N.E. (2015). Holocene glacier fluctuations. Invited review. Quaternary Science Reviews, 111, 9-34.

 

Counts, R.*, Murari, M.K., Owen, L.A., Mahan, S.A. and Greenan, M. (2015). Late Quaternary chronostratigraphic framework of terraces and alluvium along the lower Ohio River, southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 110, 72-91.

 

Fuchs, M., Reverman, R. Owen, L.A. and Frankel, K.L. (2015). Reconstructing the timing of flash-floods using 10Be surface exposure dating at Leidy Creek alluvial fan and valley, White Mountains, California-Nevada, USA. Quaternary Research, 83, 178-186.

 

Robinson, A.C., Owen, L.A., Chen, J., Schoenbohm, L.M., Hedrick, K.A., Blisniuk, K., Sharp, W.D., Imrecke, D.B., Li. W., Yuan, Z., Caffee, M.W. and Mertz-Kraus, R., (2015). No late Quaternary strike-slip motion on the northern Karakoram fault. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 409, 290-298.