@article{WangKirbyFurlongetal.2012,
  author    = {Wang, E. and Kirby, E. and Furlong, K. P. and van Soest, M. and Xu, G. and Shi, X. and Kamp, P. J. J. and Hodges, K. V.},
  title     = {Two-phase growth of high topography in eastern Tibet during the Cenozoic},
  series = {NATURE GEOSCIENCE},
  volume    = {5},
  journal   = {NATURE GEOSCIENCE},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP},
  address   = {NEW YORK},
  issn      = {1752-0894},
  doi       = {10.1038/NGEO1538},
  pages     = {640 -- 645},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {High topography in eastern Tibet is thought to have formed when deep crust beneath the central Tibetan Plateau flowed towards the plateau margin, causing crustal thickening and surface uplift(1,2). Rapid exhumation starting about 10-15 million years ago is inferred to mark the onset of surface uplift and fluvial incision(3-6). Although geophysical data are consistent with weak crust capable of flow(7,8), it is unclear how the timing(9) and amount of deformation adjacent to the Sichuan Basin during the Cenozoic era can be explained in this way(10,11). Here we use thermochronology to measure the cooling histories of rocks exposed in a section that stretches vertically over 3 km adjacent to the Sichuan Basin. Our thermal models of exhumation-driven cooling show that these rocks, and hence the plateau margin, were subject to slow, steady exhumation during early Cenozoic time, followed by two pulses of rapid exhumation, one beginning 30-25 million years ago and a second 10-15 million years ago that continues to present. Our findings imply that significant topographic relief existed adjacent to the Sichuan Basin before the Indo-Asian collision. Furthermore, the onset of Cenozoic mountain building probably pre-dated development of the weak lower crust, implying that early topography was instead formed during thickening of the upper crust along faults. We suggest that episodes of mountain building may reflect distinct geodynamic mechanisms of crustal thickening.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BennettFriedrichFurlong2004,
  author    = {Bennett, Richard A. and Friedrich, A. M. and Furlong, K. P.},
  title     = {Codependent histories of the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault zones from inversion of fault displacement rates},
  issn      = {0091-7613},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {The displacement histories of the San Jacinto and southernmost San Andreas fault zones are constrained by offset data with ages in the range of 5 Ma to 5 ka. Apparent discrepancies between long- and short-term average displacement rates can be reconciled with a time-variable rate model. In this model, the displacement rate on the San Andreas decelerated from similar to35 mm/yr at 1.5 Ma to as low as 9 +/- 4 mm/yr by 90 ka. Over this same time period, the rate on the San Jacinto fault zone accelerated from an initial value of zero to a rate of 26 +/- 4 mm/yr. The data also imply that the rate of the San Andreas fault accelerated since ca. 90 ka, from similar to9 mm/yr to the modern rate of 27 +/- 4 mm/yr, whereas the San Jacinto decelerated from 26 +/- 4 mm/yr to the modern rate of 8 +/- 4 mm/yr. The time scale of these changes is significantly longer than the earthquake cycle, but shorter than time scales characteristic of lithospheric-scalle dynamics. The emergence of the San Jacinto fault zone ca. 1.5 Ma coincided with the development of a major restraining bend in the San Andreas fault zone, suggesting that the formation of new subparallell faults could be driven by conditions that inhibit displacement on preexisting faults},
  language  = {en}
}