Richard Heermance

• Luo, Z., Nie, J., Moe, A.E., Heermance, R.V., Garzione, C., Herbert, T.D., Wang, Z., Li, H., Zhang, R., Zhao, X. (accepted), Joint insolation and ice sheet/CO2 forcing on northern China precipitation during Pliocene warmth, Science Bulletin.

• Su, Q., Nie, J., Meng, Q., Heermance, R., Gong, L., Luo, Z., Wang, Z., Zhang, R., and Garzione, C. (2019). Central Asian drying at 3.3 Ma linked to tropical forcing? Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 10561– 10567.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084648

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• Su, Q., Nie, J., Luo, Z., Li, M., Heermance, R., and Garzione, C. (2019), Detection of Strong Precession Cycles from the Late Pliocene Sedimentary Records of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008447.

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• Heermance, R. V., Pearson, J., Moe, A., Langtao, L., Jianhong, X., Jie, C., Richter, F., Garzione, C. N., Junsheng, N., and Bogue, S., (2018), Erg deposition and development of the ancestral Taklimakan Desert (western China) between 12.2 and 7.0 Ma: Geology, v. 46, no. 10, 919-922.

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• Luo, Z., Su, Q., Wang, Z., Heermance, R. V., Garzione, C., Li, M., Ren, X., Song, Y., and Nie, J. (2018), Orbital forcing of Plio-Pleistocene climate variation in a Qaidam Basin lake based on paleomagnetic and evaporite mineralogic analysis: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, no. 510, p. 31-39.

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• Heermance, R. V., and D. Yule (2017), Holocene slip rates along the San Andreas Fault System in the San Gorgonio Pass and implications for large earthquakes in southern California, Geophysical Research Letters, 44(11), 5391-5400.

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• Gavillot, Y., A. Meigs, D. Yule, R. Heermance, T. Rittenour, C. Madugo, and M. Malik (2016), Shortening rate and Holocene surface rupture on the Riasi fault system in the Kashmir Himalaya: Active thrusting within the Northwest Himalayan orogenic wedge, Geological Society of America Bulletin 128, 1070-1094.

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• Lifton, N., C. Beel, C. Hättestrand, C. Kassab, I. Rogozhina, R. Heermance, M. Oskin, D. Burbank, R. Blomdin, N. Gribenski, M. Caffee, J. Heyman, M. Ivanov, Y. Li, Y. L, D. Petrakov, R. Usubaliev, A. Codilean, Y. Chen, J. Harbor, A. Stroeven (2014). Constraints on the late Quaternary glacial history of the Inylchek and Sary-Dzaz valleys from in situ cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al, eastern Kyrgyz Tian Shan Quaternary Science Reviews 101, 77-90.

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• Heermance, R.V., A. Pullen, P. Kapp, C. Garzione, S. Bogue, L. Ding, P. Song  (2013).  Climatic and tectonic controls on sedimentation and erosion during the Plio-Quaternary in the Qaidam Basin (China), Geological Society of America Bulletin 125, no 5-6, 833-856.

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• Rohrmann, A., R. V. Heermance, P. Kapp, F. Cai (2013), Wind as the primary driver of erosion in the Qaidam Basin, China, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 374, 1-10.

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• DeVecchio, D.E., R.V. Heermance, M. Fuchs, and L.A. Owen (2012). Climate-controlled landscape evolution in the Western Transverse Ranges, California: Insights from Quaternary geochronology of the Saugus Formation and strath terrace flights, Lithosphere, doi: 10.1130/L176.1.

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• Pullen, A., P. Kapp, A.T. McCallister, H. Chang, G.E. Gehrels, C.N. Garzione, R.V. Heermance, and L. Ding (2011) Qaidam Basin and northern Tibetan Plateau as dust sources for the Chinese Loess Plateau and paleoclimatic implications: Geology 39, no. 11, 1031-1034, doi:10.1130/G32296.1.

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• Kapp, P., J.D. Pelletier, A. Rohrmann, R. Heermance, and J. Russell (2011), Wind erosion in the Qaidam basin, central Asia: Implications for tectonics, paleoclimate, and the source of the Loess plateau, Geological Society of America Today 21, Issue 4/5, April/May 2011.

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• Heermance, R. V., J. Chen, D. B. Burbank, J. Miao (2008), Temporal constraints and pulsed Late Cenozoic deformation during the structural disruption of the active Kashi foreland, northwest China, Tectonics 27, TC6012, doi:10.1029/2007TC002226.

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• Heermance, R., J. Chen, D. Burbank, C. Wang (2007), Chronology and tectonic controls of Late Tertiary deposition in the southwestern Tian Shan foreland, NW China, Basin Research 19, 599-632.

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• Chen, J., R. Heermance, K. M. Scharer, D. W. Burbank, M. Jijun, C. S. Wang (2007), Quantification of growth and lateral propagation of the Kashi anticline, Southwest Chinese Tian Shan. Journal of Geophysical Research., 112, doi:10.1029/2006JB004345.

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• Sobel, E. R., Chen, J., Heermance, R. V., (2006), Late Oligocene - Early Miocene initiation of shortening in the Southwestern Chinese Tian Shan: Implications for Neogene shortening rate variations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 247, 70-81.

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• Heermance, R. V. and J. P. Evans (2006), Geometric evolution of the Chelungpu fault: the mechanics of shallow frontal ramps and fault imbrication , Journal of Structural Geology, 28, 929–938

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•  Heermance, R. V., Z. K. Shipton and J. P. Evans (2003), Fault structure control on fault slip and ground motion during the 1999 rupture of the Chelungpu fault, Taiwan, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 93, 1034-1050.