Selected Publications Using Fission Track Methods:

 

2002 Moore, T.E. T.A. Dumitru, K.E. Adams, S.N. Witebsky, and A.G. Harris, Origin of the Lisburne Hills-Herald Arch structural belt: Stratigraphic, structural, and fission-track evidence from the Cape Lisburne area, northwestern Alaska, in Tectonic Evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea-Arctic Margin and Adjacent Landmasses, Geological Society of America Special Paper, edited by E.L. Miller, A. Grantz, and S. Klemperer, accepted, in press.
2001 Dumitru, T.A., D. Zhou, E. Chang, S.A. Graham, M.S. Hendrix, E.R. Sobel, and A.R. Carroll, Uplift, exhumation, and deformation in the Chinese Tian Shan, in Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of Central and Eastern Asia: From Continental Assembly to Intra-continental Deformation, Geological Society of America Special Paper, edited by M.S. Hendrix and G.A. Davis, accepted, in press.
2001 Dumitru, T.A., and M.S. Hendrix, Fission track constraints on Jurassic folding and thrusting in southern Mongolia and their relationship to the Beishan thrust belt of northern China, in Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of Central and Eastern Asia: From Continental Assembly to Intracontinental Deformation, Geological Society of America Special Paper, edited by M.S. Hendrix and G.A. Davis, accepted, in press.
2001 Toro, J., P.B. Gans, W.B. McClelland, and T. Dumitru, Deformation and exhumation of nappes in the Mt. Igikpak region, central Brooks Range, Alaska, in Tectonic Evolution of the Bering ShelfÐChukchi SeaÐArctic Margin and Adjacent Landmasses, Geological Society of America Special Paper, edited by E.L. Miller, A. Grantz, and S. Klemperer, accepted, in press.
2001 Stockli, D.F., J.K. Linn, D.J. Walker, and T.A. Dumitru, Trevor A., Miocene unroofing of the Canyon Range during extension along the Sevier Desert Detachment, west central Utah, Tectonics, v. 20, p. 289-307.
2000 Dumitru, T. A., Fission-track geochronology, in Quaternary Geochronology: Methods and Applications, edited by J.S. Noller, J.M., Sowers, and W.R. Lettis, American Geophysical Union Reference Shelf, v. 4, p. 131-156.
2000 Arrowsmith, R., R. BŸrgmann, and T. Dumitru, Uplift and fault slip rates in the southern San Francisco Bay Area from fission tracks, geomorphology, and geodesy, in Quaternary Geochronology: Methods and Applications, edited by J.S. Noller, J.M., Sowers, and W.R. Lettis, American Geophysical Union Reference Shelf, v. 4, p. 505-510.
2000 Stockli, D.F., Farley, K.A., and Dumitru, T.A., Calibration of the apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometer on an exhumed fault block, White Mountains, California, Geology, v. 28, p. 983-986.
1999 Miller, E.L., T.A. Dumitru, R.W. Brown, and P.B. Gans, Rapid Miocene slip on the Snake RangeÐDeep Creek Range fault system, east-central Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 886-905.
1997 Sobel, E., and T.A. Dumitru, Thrusting and exhumation around the margins of the western Tarim basin during the India-Asia collision, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 102, p. 5043-5064.
1996 Tagami, T., and T.A. Dumitru, Provenance and thermal history of the Franciscan accretionary complex: Constraints from zircon fission track thermochronology, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, p. 11,353-11364.
1995 Hannula, K., E.L. Miller, T.A. Dumitru, J. Lee, and C.M. Rubin, Structural and metamorphic relations in the southwestern Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Crustal extension and unroofing of blueschists, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p. 536-553.
1995 Dumitru, T.A., E.L. Miller, P.B. O'Sullivan, J.M. Amato, K.A. Hannula, A.C. Calvert, and P.B. Gans, Cretaceous to Recent extension in the Bering Strait region, Alaska, Tectonics, v. 14, p. 549-563.
1994 Dumitru, T.A., I.R. Duddy, and P.F. Green, Mesozoic-Cenozoic burial, uplift, and erosion history of the west-central Colorado Plateau, Geology , v. 22, p. 499-502.
1994 Hendrix, M.S., T.A. Dumitru, and S.A. Graham, Late Oligocene-Early Miocene unroofing in the Chinese Tian Shan: an early effect of the India-Asia collision, Geology, v. 22, p. 487-490.
1994 BŸrgmann, R., R. Arrowsmith, T. Dumitru, and R. McLaughlin, Rise and fall of the southern Santa Cruz Mountains, California, from fission tracks, geomorphology, and geodesy, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, p. 20,181-20,202.
1994 Gallagher, K., T. Dumitru, and A. Gleadow, Constraints on the vertical motions of eastern Australia during the Mesozoic, Basin Research, v. 6, p. 77-94.
1993 Dumitru, T.A., A new computer-automated microscope stage system for fission-track analysis, Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements, v. 21, p. 575-580.
1991 Dumitru, T.A., P.B. Gans, D.A. Foster, and E.L. Miller, Refrigeration of the western Cordilleran lithosphere during Laramide shallow-angle subduction, Geology, v. 19, p. 1145-1148.
1991 Dumitru, T.A., Major Quaternary uplift along the northernmost San Andreas fault, King Range, northwestern California, Geology, v. 19, p. 526-529.
1991 Dumitru, T.A., Effects of subduction parameters on geothermal gradients in forearcs, with an application to Franciscan subduction in California, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 96, p. 621-641.
1991 Dumitru, T.A., K.C. Hill, D.A. Coyle, I.R. Duddy, D.A. Foster, A.J.W. Gleadow, P.F. Green, B.H. Kohn, G.M. Laslett, and A.B. O'Sullivan, Fission track thermochronology: Application to continental rifting in southeastern Australia, Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Journal, v. 31, p. 131-142.
1990 Dumitru, T.A., Subnormal Cenozoic geothermal gradients in the extinct Sierra Nevada magmatic arc: Consequences of Laramide and post-Laramide shallow-angle subduction, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 95, p. 4925-4942.
1989 Dumitru, T.A., Constraints on uplift in the Franciscan subduction complex from apatite fission track analysis, Tectonics, v. 8, p. 197-220.
1988 Dumitru, T.A., Subnormal geothermal gradients in the Great Valley forearc basin, California, during Franciscan subduction: A fission track study, Tectonics, v. 7, p. 1201-1221.

 

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