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*Midttun, N., N. A. Niemi, B. Gallina, in press, Stratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene Titus Canyon Formation, Death Valley, California, and Eocene extensional tectonism in the Basin and Range, Geosphere.

Lacroix, B., A. Lahfid, C. Ward, N. A. Niemi, A. Chapman, W. Jarvis, P. D. Kempton, 2022, Raman thermometry and (U‐Th)/He thermochronometry reveal Neogene transpressional exhumation in the Nacimiento block of central California, USA, Geology, doi:10.1130/G49882.1. Link to article

†Kelson, J., S. Petersen, N. Niemi, B. Passey, A. Curley, 2022, Looking upstream with clumped and triple oxygen isotopes of estuarine oyster shells in the early Eocene of California, Geology, v. 50, p. 755–759, doi:10.1130/G49634.1. Link to article

*Trexler, C. C., E. Cowgill, N. A. Niemi, D. A. Vasey, T. Godoladze, 2022, Tectonostratigraphy and major structures of the Georgian Greater Caucasus: Implications for structural architecture, along-strike continuity, and orogen evolution, Geosphere, doi:10.1130/GES02385.1 Link to article OA

*Townsend, K. F., M. K. Clark, N. A. Niemi, 2021, Reverse faulting within a continental plate boundary transform system, Tectonics, v. 40, e2021TC006916, doi:10.1029/2021TC006916. Link to article

Pradel, D., Lobbestael, A., Brooks, C. N., Dobson, R., Marion, N., Oommen, T., Esser, A. J., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Zekkos, D., Clark, M., Townsend, K., Niemi, N., Midttun, N., Hille, M., 2021, The May 19, 2020, failure of Edenville Dam near Midland, Michigan, Geo-Extreme 2021: Case Histories and Best Practices, American Society of Civil Engineers Geotechnical Special Publications, v. 328 , p. 266 - 274, doi:10.1061/9780784483688.026. Link to article

Pradel, D., A. Lobbestael, A. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, C. Brooks, C. Champagne, M. Clark, R. Dobson, D. Edmonds, A. Esser, W. Gong, M. Hille, J. Manousakis, N. Marion, H. Martin, N. Midttun, N. Niemi, T. Oommen, K. Townsend, B. Yanites, D. Zekkos, 2021, Edenville and Sanford Dam Failures: Field Reconnaissance Report, American Society of Civil Engineers Geotechnical Special Publications, v. 327 , 164 pp., doi:10.1061/9780784415764. Link to book

Cooke, M. L., M. Breitbart, E. Cooperdock, N. Levin, N. Niemi, C. Bell, L. Stevens, and K. Viskupic, 2021, First-year graduate courses foster inclusion, Nature Geoscience, v. 14, p. 539-540, doi:10.1038/s41561-021-00800-6. Link to view-only version of article

†Stahl, T. A., N. A. Niemi, J. Delano, F. Wolfe, M. Bunds, and A. Howell, 2021, Diffuse tectonic deformation in the Drum Mountains fault zone, Utah, USA: testing the utility of legacy aerial photograph-derived topography, Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 8, 600729, doi:10.3389/feart.2020.600729. Link to article OA

Hoareau, G., N. Crognier, B. Lacroix, C. Auborg, N. Roberts, N. Niemi, M. Branellec, N. Beaudoin, I. S. Ruiz, 2020, Conditions of vein formation during the last pulse of shortening in the South Pyrenean Frontal Thrust (Spain) from calcite U-Pb dating and clumped isotopes, v. 533, 116636, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116636. Link to article

*Tye, A., N. A. Niemi, R. Safarov, F. Kadirov, G. Babayev, 2020, Sedimentary response to collisional orogeny recorded in detrital zircon provenance of Greater Caucasus foreland basin sediments, Basin Research, doi:10.1111/bre.12499. Link to article

*Staisch, L. M., N. A. Niemi,, M. K. Clark, H. Chang, 2020, The Cenozoic evolution of crustal shortening and left-lateral shear in the central East Kunlun Shan: implications for the uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau, Tectonics, v. 39, e2020TC006065, doi: 10.1029/2020TC006065. Link to article

Lacroix, B., J. Hughes, A. Lahfid, J. Spanberg, B. Putlitz, C. Ward, N. Niemi, P. Kempton, 2020, Structure and origin of the gold mineralization in the Nacimiento Block: The Los Burros deposits (Central California), Ore Geology Reviews, v. 125, 103668, doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103668. Link to article

Zotto, S., D. Moecher, N. Niemi, J. Thigpen, S. Samson, 2020, Persistence of Grenville dominance in Laurentian detrital zircon age systematics explained by sedimentary recycling: Evidence from detrital zircon double-dating and detrital monazite textures and geochronology, Geology, v. 48, doi:10.1130/G47530.1. Link to article

*Vasey, D., E. S. Cowgill, S. Roeske, N. A. Niemi, T. Godoladze, I. Skhirtladze, S. Gogoladze, 2020, Evolution of the Greater Caucasus basement and formation of the Main Caucasus Thrust, Georgia, Tectonics, v. 38, doi:10.1029/2019TC005828. Link to article

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

†Stahl, T. A., N. A. Niemi, M. P. Bunds, J. Andreini, J. D. Wells, 2019, Paleoseismic patterns of Quaternary tectonic and magmatic surface deformation in the eastern Basin and Range, USA, Geosphere, v. 16, doi:10.1130/GES02156.1. Link to article OA

*Yakovlev, P. V., A. Saal, M. K. Clark, H. Chang, N. A. Niemi, M. Soumen, 2019, The geochemistry of Tibetan lavas: spatial and temporal relationships, tectonic links and geodynamic implications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 520, p. 115-126, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.04.032. Link to article

*Tye, A. R., A. S. Wolf, N. A. Niemi, 2019, Bayesian population correlation: A probabilistic approach to inferring and comparing population distributions for detrital zircon ages, Chemical Geology, v. 518, p. 67-78, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.03.039. Link to article

†Lacroix, B., N. A. Niemi, 2018, Investigating the effect of burial histories on the clumped isotope thermometer: an example from the Green River and Washakie Basins, Wyoming, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 247, p. 40-58, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2018.12.016. Link to article

He, P., E. A. Hetland, N. A. Niemi, Q. Wang, Y. Wen, K. Ding, 2018, The 2016 MW 6.5 Nura earthquake in the Trans Alai range, northern Pamir: Possible rupture on a back-thrust fault constrained by Sentinel-1A radar interferometry, Tectonophysics, v. 749, p. 62-71, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2018.10.025. Link to article

*Abbey, A. L., N. A. Niemi, 2018, Low-temperature thermochronometric constraints on fault initiation and growth in the northern Rio Grande rift, upper Arkansas River valley, Colorado, USA, Geology, v. 46, p. 627-630, doi:10.1130/G40232.1. Link to article

Cowgill, E., N. Niemi, A. Forte, C. Trexler, 2018, Reply to comment by Vincent et al., Tectonics, v. 37, p. 1017-1028, doi:10.1002/2017TC004793. Link to article OA

Niemi, N. A., M. K. Clark, 2018, Long-term exhumation rates exceed paleoseismic slip rates in the central Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, Geology, v. 46, p. 63-66, doi:10.1130/G39388.1. Link to article

*Abbey, A. L., N. A. Niemi, J. W. Geissman, I. Z. Winkelstern, M. Heizler, 2017, Early Cenozoic exhumation and paleotopography in the Arkansas River valley, southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado. Lithosphere, v. 10, p. 239-266, doi:10.1130/L673.1. Link to article OA

†Stahl, T., N. A. Niemi, 2017, Late Quaternary faulting in the Sevier Desert driven by magmatism, Scientific Reports, v. 7, 44372, doi:10.1038srep44372. Link to article OA

Cowgill, E. S., A. M. Forte, N. A. Niemi, B. Avdeev, A. Tye, C. C. Trexler, Z. Javakishvirli, M. Elashvili, T. Godoladze, 2016, Relict basin closure and crustal shortening budgets during continental collision: An example from Caucasus sediment provenance, Tectonics, v. 35, 2918-2947, doi:10.1002/2016TC004295. Link to article OA

†Gallen, S. F., M. K. Clark, J. W. Godt, K. Roback, and N. A. Niemi, 2016, Application and evaluation of a rapid response earthquake-triggered landslide model to the 25 April 2015 MW 7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, Tectonophysics, v. 714-715, p. 173-187, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.10.031. Link to article

Chang, H., L. Li, P. Molnar, and N. A. Niemi, 2016, Activation of a minor graben and pull-apart basin just east of Bukadaban during the 2001 Kunlun Earthquake (MW = 7.8), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 106, p. 2922-2926, doi:10.1785/0120160135. Link to article

*Staisch, L. M., N. A. Niemi, M. K. Clark, and H. Chang, 2016, Eocene - late Oligocene history of crustal shortening within the Hoh Xil Basin and implications for the uplift history of the northern Tibetan Plateau, Tectonics, v. 35, p. 862–895, doi:10.1002/2015TC003972. Link to article OA

Mumladze, T., A. M. Forte, E. Cowgill, C. C. Trexler, N. A. Niemi, M. B. Yıkılmaz, and L. H. Kellogg, 2015, Subducted, detached and torn slabs beneath the Greater Caucasus, GeoResJ, v. 5, p. 36-46, doi:10.1016/j.grj.2014.09.004. Link to article OA

Niemi, N. A., 2014, Geomorphology: Quake, rubble and roll, Nature Geoscience, v. 7, p. 859-860, doi:10.1038/ngeo2297. Link to article

Geissman, J. W., C. Faccenna, and N. A. Niemi, 2014, An update on Tectonics, Eos, v.95, no. 42, p. 382. Link to article OA

*Staisch, L. M., N. A. Niemi, H. Chang, M. K. Clark, D. B. Rowley, and B. Currie, 2014, A Cretaceous-Eocene depositional age for the Fenghuoshan Group, Hoh Xil Basin: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the northern Tibet Plateau, Tectonics, v. 33, p. 281-301, doi:10.1002/2013TC003367. Link to article OA

Niemi, N. A., J. T. Buscher, J. A. Spotila, M. A. House, and S. A. Kelley, 2013, Insights from low-temperature thermochronometry into transpressional deformation and crustal exhumation along the San Andreas fault in the western Transverse Ranges, California, Tectonics, v. 32, p. 1602-1622, doi:10.1002/2013TC003377. Link to article OA

*Lechler, A. R., N. A. Niemi, M. T. Hren, and K. C Lohmann, 2013, Paleoelevation estimates for the northern and central proto-Basin and Range from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry, Tectonics, v. 32, p. 1-22, doi:10.1002/tect.20016. Link to article OA

Niemi, N. A., 2013, Detrital zircon age distributions as a discriminator of tectonic versus fluvial transport; an example from the Death Valley extended terrane, Geosphere, v. 9, p. 126-137, doi:10.1130/GES00820.1. Link to article

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, doi:10.1130/2012.DMCH012. Link to map OA

†Verdel, C., B. van der Pluijm and N. Niemi, 2012, Variation of illite/muscovite 40Ar/39Ar age spectra during progressive low-grade metamorphism: An example from the US Cordillera, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 164, p. 521–536, doi:10.1007/s00410-012-0751-7. Link to article

*Lechler, A. R. and N. A. Niemi, 2012, The influence of snow sublimation on the isotopic composition of spring and surface waters in the southwestern US: implications for stable isotope-based paleoaltimetry and hydrologic studies, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 124, no. 3–4, p. 318–334. Link to article

*Lechler, A. R. and N. A. Niemi, 2011, Controls on the spatial variability of modern meteoric δ18O: empirical constraints from the western US and east Asia and implications for stable isotope studies, American Journal of Science, v. 311, p. 664–700. Link to article

†Verdel, C., N. Niemi, and B. van der Pluijm, 2011, Variations in the illite-muscovite transition related to metamorphic conditions and detrital muscovite content: Insight from the Paleozoic passive margin of the S.W. US, Journal of Geology, v. 119, no. 4, p. 419–437. Link to article

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

*Avdeev, B., N. A. Niemi, and M. K. Clark, 2011, Doing more with less: Bayesian estimation of erosion models with detrital thermochronometric data, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 305, p. 385–395. Link to article

*Avdeev, B.and N. A. Niemi, 2011, Rapid Pliocene exhumation of the central Greater Caucasus constrained by low-temperature thermochronometry, Tectonics, v. 30, TC2009, doi:10.1029/2010TC002808. Link to article OA

*Lechler, A. R. and N. A. Niemi, 2011, Sedimentologic and isotopic constraints on the Paleogene paleogeography and paleotopography of the southern Sierra Nevada, California, Geology, v. 39, p. 379–382, doi: 10.1130/G31535.1. Link to article

Mahan, K. H., B. Guest, B. P. Wernicke and N. A. Niemi, 2009, Low-temperature thermochronologic constraints on the kinematic history and spatial extent of the Eastern California shear zone, Geosphere, 5, p. 1–13, doi: 10.1130/GES00226.1. Link to article

Hill, E. M., J. L Davis, P. Elósegui, B. P. Wernicke, E. Malikowski, and N. A Niemi, 2009, Characterization of site-specific GPS errors using a short-baseline network of braced monuments at Yucca Mountain, southern Nevada, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B11402, doi:10.1029/2008JB006027. Link to article OA

Wernicke, B. P., J. L. Davis, N. A. Niemi, P. Luffi, and S. Bisnath, 2008, Active megadetachment beneath the Cordilleran orogen, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B11409, doi:10.1029/2007JB005375. Link to article OA

Niemi, N. A., M. Oskin, and T. K. Rockwell, 2008, The Southern California Earthquake Center Vertical Motion Database, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, Q07010, doi:10.1029/2008GC002017. Link to article OA

Renik, B., N. Christie-Blick, B. W. Troxel, L. A. Wright, and N. A. Niemi, 2008, Re-evaluation of the middle Miocene Eagle Mountains Formation, with implications for extreme extension across the Death Valley region, California, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 78, p. 199–219. Link to article

Spotila, J. A., M. A House, N. A. Niemi, R. J. Brady, M. Oskin, and J. T. Buscher, 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. Link to article

Plesch, A., J. H. Shaw, C. Benson, W. A. Bryant, S. Carena, M. Cooke, J. Dolan, G. Fuis, E. Gath, L. Grant, E. Hauksson,T. Jordan, M. Kamerling, M. Legg, S. Lindvall, H. Magistrale, C. Nicholson, N. Niemi, M. Oskin, S. Perry, G. Planansky, T. Rockwell, P. Shearer, C. Sorlien, M. P. Suss, J. Suppe, J. Treiman, and R. Yeats, 2007, Community Fault Model (CFM) for Southern California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 97, p. 1793–1802. Link to article

Guest, B., N. Niemi, and B. Wernicke, 2007, Stateline fault system, Eastern California shear zone: amount and rate of late Cenozoic slip, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 119, p. 1337–1347. Link to article

Spotila, J. A., N. Niemi, R. Brady, M. House, J. Buscher, and M. Oskin, 2007, Long-term continental deformation associated with transpressive plate motion: the San Andreas fault, Geology, v. 35, p. 967–970. Link to article

Davis, J. L., B. P. Wernicke, S. Bisnath, N. A. Niemi, and P. Elósegui, 2006, Subcontinental-scale crustal velocity changes along the Pacific-North America plate boundary, Nature, v. 441, p. 1131–1134. Link to article

Niemi, N. A., M. Oskin, D. W. Burbank, A. M. Heimsath, and E. J. Gabet, 2005, Effects of bedrock landslides on cosmogenically determined erosion rates, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 237, p. 480–498. Link to article

Wernicke, B., J. L. Davis, R. A. Bennett, J. E. Normandeau, A. M. Friedrich, and N. A. Niemi, 2004, Tectonic implications of a dense continuous GPS velocity field at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 109, B12404, doi:10.1029/2003JB002832. Link to article OA

Niemi, N. A., B. P. Wernicke, A. M. Friedrich, M. Simons, R. A. Bennett, and J. L. Davis, 2004, BARGEN continuous GPS data across the eastern Basin and Range province, and implications for fault system dynamics, Geophysical Journal International, v. 159, p. 842–862, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02454.x. Link to article

Bennett, R. A., B. P. Wernicke, N. A. Niemi, A. M. Friedrich, and J. L. Davis, 2003, Contemporary strain rates in the northern Basin and Range province from GPS data, Tectonics, v. 22, 1008, doi:10.1029/2001TC001355. Link to article OA

Friedrich, A. M., B. P. Wernicke, N. A. Niemi, R. A. Bennett, and J. L. Davis, 2003, Comparison of geodetic and geologic data from the Wasatch region, Utah, and implications for the spectral character of Earth deformation at periods of 10 to 10 million years, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 108, 2199, doi:10.1029/2001JB000682. Link to article OA

Spotila, J. A., M. A. House, A. E. Blythe, N. A. Niemi, and G. C. Bank, 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. Link to article

Niemi, N. A., B. P. Wernicke, R. J. Brady, J. B. Saleeby, and G. C. Dunne, 2001, Distribution and provenance of the middle Miocene Eagle Mountain Formation, and implications for regional kinematic analysis of the Basin and Range province: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 419–442. Link to article

Wernicke, B. P., A. M. Friedrich, N. A. Niemi, R. A. Bennett, and J. L. Davis, 2000, Dynamics of plate boundary fault systems from Basin and Range Geodetic Network (BARGEN) and geologic data, GSA Today, v. 10, p. 1–7. Link to article

Wernicke, B. P., J. L. Davis, R. A. Bennett, P. Elósegui, M. J. Abolins, R. A. Brady, M. A. House, N. A. Niemi, and J. K. Snow, 1998, Anomalous tectonic strain accumulation in the Yucca Mountain area, Nevada, Science, v. 279, p. 2096–2098. Link to article