Publications
Manuscripts
Fan, S., Murphy, M.A., and Whipp, D.M., Development of strain-partitioning regional structures facilitated by mechanical heterogeneity and arcuate wedge shape in the Himalaya (in revision for Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth)
Fan, S., Murphy, M.A., Taylor, M.H., Bemis, S.P., Styron, R., et al., Inherited heterogeneities control active oblique splay fault system in the thrust wedge of the western Nepal Himalaya (in preparation)
Fan, S., Morell, K., Murphy, M.A., Ding, X., et al., Orographic Climate and Crustal Duplexing in the Formation of High-Elevation, Low-Gradient Orogenic Plateaus: Implications for Dynamic Transient Landscape and Erosion (in preparation)
Fan, S., Morell, K., Fisher, D., Low-Temperature Thermochronology Reveals Paleogene to Recent Exhumation Related to Upper Plate Thrust Faulting above the Downdip Edge of the Seismogenic Zone, Kodiak Island, Alaska Subduction Zone (in preparation)
Published Papers
2023
Bian, S., Tan, X., Liu, Y., Fan, S., Gong, J., Zhou, C., Shi, F., and Murphy, M. A., 2023, Orographic rainfall drives the Himalaya drainage divide to move north: Geomorphology, p. 108952, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108952.
Penserini, B. D., Morell, K. D., Codilean, A. T., Fülöp, R. H., Wilcken, K. M., Yanites, B. J., Kumar, A., Fan, S., and Mearce, T., 2023, Magnitude and timing of transient incision resulting from large‐scale drainage capture, Sutlej River, Northwest Himalaya: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5705.
Wang, S., Zhang, S., Fan, S., Liu, Y., Wang, S., Song, L., 2023. Back-arc suture zone along the north margin of the eastern Cimmerian continent. Lithos 456-457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107290.
2022
Fan, S., Murphy, M. A., Whipp, D. M., Saylor, J. E., Copeland, P., Hoxey, A. K., Taylor, M. H., and Stockli, D. F., 2022, Megathrust Heterogeneity, Crustal Accretion, and a Topographic Embayment in the Western Nepal Himalaya: Insights From the Inversion of Thermochronological Data: Tectonics, v. 41, no. 7, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021tc007071. PDF
- AGU Research Spotlight. News coverage:
Derouin, S. (2022), Uncovering the formation of the western Nepal embayment, Eos, 103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220408. Published on 24 August 2022.
Wang, S., Liu, Y., Fan, S., Tang, W., and Wu, Z., 2022, Branches of the Karakoram fault in Eastern Pamir: International Geology Review, p. 1-19, https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2022.2053887. PDF
2021
Fan, S., and Murphy, M. A., 2021, Three-dimensional strain accumulation and partitioning in an arcuate orogenic wedge: An example from the Himalaya: GSA Bulletin, v. 133, no. 1-2, p. 3-18, https://doi.org/10.1130/b35528.1. PDF
Baltz, T., Murphy, M., Fan, S., and Chamlagain, D., 2021, Geometry, kinematics, and magnitude of extension across the Thakkhola Graben, Central Nepal Himalaya: Journal of Nepal Geological Society, v. 62, p. 1-17, https://doi.org/10.3126/jngs.v62i0.38691. PDF
Wang, S., Fu, X., Liu, Y., Fan, S., Wang, J., and Wu, Z., 2021, Bitu ophiolite in eastern Tibet: The last piece of the jigsaw puzzle in the Paleotethyan regime along the eastern Cimmerian continental margin: Lithos, v. 406-407, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106520. PDF
2019
Wu, C., Liu, C., Fan, S., Zuza, A. V., Ding, L., Liu, W., Ye, B., Yang, S., and Zhou, Z., 2019, Structural analysis and tectonic evolution of the western domain of the Eastern Kunlun Range, northwest Tibet: GSA Bulletin, v. 132, no. 5-6, p. 1291-1315, https://doi.org/10.1130/b35388.1. PDF
2017
Fan, S., Ding, L., Murphy, M. A., Yao, W., and Yin, A., 2017, Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic evolution of the Lhasa Terrane in the Xainza area of southern Tibet: Tectonophysics, v. 721, p. 415-434, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.10.022. PDF
Conference Abstracts
Fan, S., Morell, K., Fisher, D., Low-Temperature Thermochronology Reveals Paleogene to Recent Exhumation Related to Upper Plate Thrust Faulting above the Downdip Edge of the Seismogenic Zone, Kodiak Island, Alaska Subduction Zone: AGU Fall Meeting 2023
Fan, S., Morell, K., Murphy, M., Dal Zilio, L., Ding, X., Orographic Climate and Crustal Duplexing in the Formation of High-Elevation, Low-Relief Orogenic Plateaus: Implications for Dynamic Transient Landscape and Erosion: AGU Fall Meeting 2023
Fan, S., Murphy, M.A., and Whipp, D.M., 2022, Geodynamics of strain partitioning facilitated by mechanical heterogeneity and oblique convergence in the arcuate Himalaya, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Denver, Colorado, USA, Vol 54, No. 5, https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-378494
Fan, S., Murphy, M. A., Whipp, D. M., Saylor, J. E., Copeland, P., Hoxey, A. K., Taylor, M. H., and Stockli, D. F., 2021, Megathrust Heterogeneity, Crustal Accretion, and a Topographic Embayment in Western Nepal Himalaya: Insights from the Inversion of Thermochronological Data: AGU Fall Meeting 2021, AGU.
Kuhn, B., Fan, S., Murphy, M. A., Daniel, M., and Hoxey, A. K., 2021, Active Faulting, Seismicity and Their Relationship With Megathrust Ramps and Inherited Structures in Western Nepal: Insights From a Three-Dimensional Model: AGU Fall Meeting 2021, AGU.
Daniel, M., Murphy, M. A., Taylor, M. H., Bemis, S. P., Styron, R., Fan, S., Kuhn, B., Hoxey, A. K., Curtis, E., and Adhikari, B. R., 2021, Utilizing Deformation Along the Western Nepal Fault System to Characterize the Initiation, Kinematics, and Development of a Splay Fault in a Thrust Wedge: AGU Fall Meeting 2021, AGU.
Curtiss, E. R., Bemis, S. P., Vadman, M., Murphy, M. A., Taylor, M. H., Styron, R., Hoxey, A. K., Fan, S., Daniel, M., and Adhikari, B. R., 2021, Paleoseismic Excavations Across a Releasing Bend of the Western Nepal Fault System Reveal Previously Undocumented Earthquakes: AGU Fall Meeting 2021, AGU.
Hoxey, A. K., Taylor, M. H., Murphy, M. A., Bemis, S. P., Styron, R., Curtis, E., Daniel, M., Fan, S., Adhikari, B. R., and Chamlagain, D., 2021, Active Faulting in the High Himalaya of West Nepal: Quaternary Slip Rates Along the Western Nepal Fault System: AGU Fall Meeting 2021, AGU.
Hoxey, A. K., Taylor, M. H., Murphy, M. A., Bemis, S. P., Styron, R. H., Fan, S., Adhikari, B. R., and Chamlagain, D., 2020, Active Deformation and its Topographic Expression in the High Himalaya of West Nepal: AGU Fall Meeting 2020, AGU.
Hoxey, A. K. R., Taylor, M. H., Murphy, M. A., Bemis, S. P., Styron, R. H., Fan, S., Adhikari, B. R., Chamlagain, D., 2020, Topographic expression of transform faulting in the high Himalaya of west Nepal: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, online, Volume 52, No. 6, https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2020AM-353737
Fan, S., and Murphy, M. A., 2019, 3D strain partitioning and accumulation in an arcuate orogenic wedge: An example from the Himalaya: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Volume 51, No. 5, p. 292-214, https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2019AM-335529.
Fan, S., and Murphy, M. A., 2018, Along-strike strain variations in the western and central Himalayan orogen: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, Volume 50, No. 6, p. 197-121, https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2018AM-324135.