Publications

Published

Symanski, K.*, Curry, M.E., Lutz, B., O’Sullivan, P., 2026, Thermal and structural reconstruction of an eroded foreland basin: central Appalachian Basin, USA. Basin Research, doi: 10.1111/bre.70131

Smith, T.M., Gaynor, S.P., Keller, B.C., Curry, M.A.E., Schoene, B., Lapen, T.J., 2026, Patterns of rift basin development and the fidelity of the subsidence record: Insights through Bayesian modeling of rapid tectonic subsidence in a Rio Grande rift basin, Socorro, NM, U.S.A: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 689, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2026.120097

Rudolph, K., Curry, M.A.E., Erratt, D., Biddle, K., 2025, Tectonic Forcing and Large-Scale Sedimentary Cyclicity, 41st Annual Perkins-Rosen Research Conference, Gulf Coast Section of the Society for Sedimentary Geology.

Curry, M.A.E. and van der Beek, P., 2025, Exploring controls on post-orogenic topographic stasis of the Pyrenees with inverse landscape evolution modeling. JGR-Earth Surface, 130(2) doi: 10.1029/2024JF007759

Curry, M. E., Hudec, M. R., Peel, F. J., Fernandez, N., Apps, G., & Snedden, J. W., 2024, Structural restorations of the complete conjugate US‐Mexico Eastern Gulf of Mexico margin. Tectonics, 43(1). doi: 10.1029/2023TC007897. Open access article.   

George, S. W. M., Perez, N. D., Struble, W., Curry, M. E., & Horton, B. K., 2022, Aseismic ridge subduction focused late Cenozoic exhumation above the Peruvian flat slab. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 600, 117754, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117754

Capaldi, T. N., Odlum, M. L., Curry, M. E., & Stockli, D. F., 2022, Variable thermal histories across the Pyrenees orogen recorded in modern river sand detrital geo‐/thermochronology and PECUBE thermokinematic modelling. Basin Research, 34(5), 1781–1806, doi: 10.1111/bre.12685

Curry, M.E., van der Beek, P., Huismans, R.S., Wolf, S.G., Fillon, C., Muñoz, J. A., 2021, Spatio-temporal patterns of exhumation of the Pyrenees revealed by inverse thermo-kinematic modeling of a large thermochronologic dataset. Geology, v. 49, doi: 10.1130/G48687.1

Wolf, S.G., Huismans, R.S., Muñoz, J. A., Curry, M.E., van der Beek, P., 2020, Growth of collisional orogens from small and cold to large and hot – inferences from geodynamic models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 125, doi: 10.1029/2020JB021168.

Curry, M.A.E., van der Beek, P., Huismans, R.S., Wolf, S.G., Muñoz, J. A., 2019, Evolving lithospheric flexure and paleotopography of the Pyrenean Orogen from 3D flexural modeling and basin analysis, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 515, p.  26-37. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.03.009.

Curry, M.A.E., Peel, F., Hudec, M., Norton, I., 2018, Extensional models for the development of passive-margin salt basins, with application to the Gulf of Mexico, Basin Research,  v. 30, p. 1180-1199. doi: 10.1111/bre.12299.

Curry, M.A.E., Barnes, J.B., Colgan, J.P., 2016, Testing fault growth models with low-temperature thermochronology in the northwest Basin and Range, USA. Tectonics, v. 35, p. 2467-2492. doi:10.1002/2016TC004211.

Ellis, M.A. and Barnes, J.B. 2015. A global perspective on the topographic response to fault growth. Geosphere, v. 11, p. 1008-1023. doi: 10.1130/GES01156.1

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Ellis, M.A., Barnes, J.B., Colgan, J.P. 2015. Geomorphic evidence for renewed Plio-Quaternary faulting in the northwest Basin and Range. Lithosphere, v. 7, p. 59-72, doi: 10.1130/L401.1.

Laubach, S.; P. Eichhubl; P. Hargrove; Ellis, M.A.; Hooker, J. 2014. Fault core and damage zone fracture attributes vary along strike owing to interaction of fracture growth, quartz accumulation, and differing sandstone composition. Journal of Structural Geology, v. 68, Part A, 207-226. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2014.08.007.

Ellis, M.A.; S. E. Laubach; P. Eichhubl; J. E. Olson; P. Hargrove. 2012. Fracture development and diagenesis of Torridon Group Applecross Formation, near An Teallach, NW Scotland: millennia of brittle deformation resilience? Journal of the Geological Society, v. 169, 297-310. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492011-086.