Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

• Leonard, J.S., Whipple, K.X., Heimsath, A.M., (2024), Controls on topography and erosion of the north-central Andes: Geology, doi: 10.1130/G51618.1. [article link]

• Moumeni, M., Delchairo, M., Della Seta, M., Nozaem, R., Ballato, P., Leonard, J.S., Clementucci, R., Rouhi, J., (2024), Interplay between tectonics and surface processes in the evolution of mountain ranges: Insights from landscape dynamics, uplift, and active deformation of the Talesh Mountains (NW Iranian Plateau): Geomorphology, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.109029. [article link]

• Leonard, J.S., Whipple, K.X., Heimsath, A.M., (2023), Isolating climatic, tectonic, and lithologic controls on mountain landscape evolution: Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add8915. [article link]

• Forte, A.M., Leonard, J.S., Whipple, K.X., Rossi, M.W., Heimsath, A.M., Sukhishvili, L., Godoladze, T., Fakhraddin, K, (2022), Low variability, snowmelt runoff inhibits coupling of climate, tectonics, and topography in the Greater Caucasus: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117525. [article link]

• Leonard, J.S., Whipple, K.X., (2021), Influence of Spatial Rainfall Gradients on River Longitudinal Profiles and the Topographic Expression of Spatially and Temporally Variable Climates in Mountain Landscapes: Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, doi: 10.1029/2021JF006183. [article link]
  Eos Research Spotlight – “High Mountain Rain has Scientists Rethinking River Basics”. doi:10.1029/2022EO220051 [article link]

• Fosdick, J.C., VanderLeest, R.A., Bostelmann, J.E., Leonard, J.S., Ugalde, R., Oyarzún J.L., Griffin, M., (2020), Revised timing of Cenozoic Atlantic incursions and changing hinterland sediment sources during Patagonian orogenesis: Lithosphere, doi: 10.2113/2020/8883099. [article link]

• Sukhishvili, L., Forte A.M., Merebashvili, G., Leonard, J.S., Whipple, K.X., Javakhishvili, Z. Heimsath, A.M., Godoladze, T., (2020), Active deformation and Plio-Pleistocene fluvial reorganization of the Western Kura Fold-Thrust Belt, Georgia: Implications of the evolution of the Greater Caucasus Mountains and seismic hazard: Geological Magazine, doi: 10.1017/S0016756820000709. [article link]

• VanderLeest, R.A., Fosdick, J.C., Leonard, J.S., Morgan, L.E., (2020), Detrital record of the Late Oligocene – Early Miocene mafic volcanic arc in the Southern Patagonian Andes (~51°S) from single-clast geochronology and trace element geochemistry: Geodynamics, doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2020.101751. [article link]

• Leonard, J.S., Fosdick, J.C., VanderLeest, R.A., (2020), Erosional and Tectonic Evolution of a Retroarc Orogenic Wedge as Revealed by Sedimentary Provenance: Case of the Oligocene – Miocene Patagonian Andes: Frontiers in Earth Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00353. [article link]

Disstertation and Thesis

• Leonard, J.S., (2022), Advances in Quantifying Climatic Influences on Mountain Landscape Evolution with Applications to the Tectonic Geomorphology of the Northern-Central Andes, Ph.D. Dissertation. Arizona State University
  Committee: Kelin X Whipple (chair), J. Ramon Arrowsmith, Philip R. Christensen, Adam M. Forte, Arjun M. Heimsath, Kip V. Hodges

• Leonard, J.S., (2017), Miocene Growth of the Patagonian Andes Revealed by Sedimentary Provenance of the RíoGuillermo Formation, Magallanes-Austral Basin, Chile and Argentina (51°30’S), M.S. Thesis. Indiana University - Bloomington
  Committee: Julie C. Fosdick (chair), Douglas A. Edmonds, Kaj M. Johnson