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2018
Gilmore, M.E., McQuarrie, N., Eizenhofer,
P.R. and Ehlers T.A., 2018, Testing the effects of topography, geometry and
kinematics on modeled thermochronometer cooling ages
in the eastern Bhutan Himalaya: Solid
Earth, v. 9, p. 1-29, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-1-2018.
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2017
Rak, A., McQuarrie, N. and Ehlers T.A., 2017, Kinematics, exhumation, and
sedimentation of the north-central Andes (Bolivia): An integrated thermochronometer and thermokinematic
modeling approach: Tectonics, v. 36, doi: 10.1002/2016TC004440. PDF
Tate, G.W., McQuarrie, N., Tiranda,
H., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Harris, R., Willett,
S.D., Reiners, P.W., Fellin,
M.G., Zachariasse, W.J., 2017, Reconciling regional
continuity with local variability in structure, uplift and exhumation of the
Timor orogen: Gondwana Research,
v. 49, p. 364–386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2017.06.008.
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Schepers, G., van Hinsbergen,
D.J.J Spakman, W. Kosters,
M., Boschman, L., and McQuarrie, N., 2017, South-American plate advance and forced Andean
trench retreat as drivers for transient flat subduction
episodes: Nature Communications, v.
8, 15249, 10.1038/ncomms15249. PDF
Garzione, C.N., McQuarrie, N., Perez, N.D., Ehlers, T.A., Beck, S., Kar, N., Eichelberger, N.,
Chapman, A.D., Ward, K.M., Ducea, M., Lease, R.O., Poulsen, C.J., Wagner, L.S., Horton, B.K., Saylor, J.E.,
Zandt, G., 2017, The tectonic evolution of the Central Andean Plateau and
geodynamic implications for the growth of plateaus, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 45, p. 529-559. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-063016-020612. PDF
McQuarrie, N. and Ehlers T.A., 2017, Techniques for
understanding fold-thrust belt kinematics and thermal evolution: in Law, R.D.,
Thigpen, J.R., Merschat, A.J., Stowell,
H.H., (eds) Linkages and Feedbacks in Orogenic Systems, Geological
Society of America Memoir, 213, doi:10.1130/2017.1213(02). PDF
2016
Perez, N. D., Horton, B.
K., McQuarrie, N., Stubner, K., and Ehlers, T. A., 2016, Andean shortening,
inversion and exhumation associated with thin- and thick-skinned deformation in
southern Peru: Geological Magazine,
v., 153, p. 1013-1041, doi:10.1017/S0016756816000121. PDF
2015
Tate, G.W., McQuarrie,
N., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Bakker, R., Harris, R.A. and H. Jiang, 2015,
Australia going down under: Quantifying continental subduction during
arc-continent accretion in Timor-Leste: Geosphere,
v. 11, doi:10.1130/GES01144.1. PDF
Eichelberger, N., McQuarrie,
N., Ryan, J., Karimi, B., Beck, S., Zandt, G., 2015, Evolution of crustal
thickening in the central Andes Bolivia, Earth and
Planetary Science Letters,
v. 426, p. 191-203, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.035. PDF
McQuarrie,
N. and Ehlers T.A., 2015, Influence of thrust belt
geometry and shortening rate on thermochronometer cooling ages: Insights from
the Bhutan Himalaya: Tectonics, 34, doi:10.1002/
2014TC003783. PDF
Chapman, A.D., Ducea, M.N., McQuarrie, N., Coble., M., Petrescu, L., Hoffman, D., 2015,
Constraints on plateau architecture and assembly from deep crustal xenoliths,
northern Altiplano (SE Peru): Geological Society of America
Bulletin
05/2015.
Eichelberger, N., and McQuarrie, N., 2015, Kinematic Reconstruction of the Bolivian
Orocline: Geosphere v. 11, p. 445-462,
doi:10.1130/GES01064.1. PDF
Eichelberger, N., and McQuarrie, N., 2014, 3-D
Finite Strain at the Andean Orocline and Implications for grain-scale
shortening in orogens: Geological
Society of America Bulletin.
doi:10.1130/B30968.1. PDF
2014
Tate, G.W., McQuarrie,
N., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Bakker, R.R., Harris, R., Willett, S., Reiners,
P., Fellin, M.G., Ganerod, M., Zachariasse, J-W., 2014, Resolving spatial
heterogeneities in exhumation and surface uplift in East Timor: constraints of
deformation processes in young orogens: Tectonics
v, 15, p. 1089–1112. doi:10.1002/2013TC003436. PDF
Aben, F.M., Dekkers, M.J., Bakker, R.R., van
Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Zachariasse, J-W., Tate, G.W., McQuarrie, N., Harris, R., Duffy, B., 2014, Untangling inconsistent
magnetic polarity records through an integrated rock magnetic analyses: a case
study on Neogene sections in East Timor: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
v, 33, p. 2531–2544. doi:10.1002/2014GC005294
Karimi, B., McQuarrie,
N., Lin, J-S, Harbert, W., 2014, Determining the Geometry of the North
Anatolian Fault East of the Marmara Sea through Integrated Stress Modeling and
Remote Sensing Techniques: Tectonophysics,
v. 623, p.
14-22 doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2014.03.015. PDF
McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T.,
Long, S.P., Reiners, P.W., Cosca,
M.A., 2014, Variable exhumation rates and variable displacement rates:
documenting a recent slowing of Himalayan shortening in western Bhutan: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 386, p. 161-174, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.045. PDF
2013
Eichelberger,
N., McQuarrie, N., Ehlers, T.A., Enkelmann, E., Barnes, J.B., Lease, R.O., 2013, New
constraints on the chronology, magnitude, and distribution of deformation
within the central Andean orocline: Tectonics, v. 32, p. 1-22, doi:10.1002/tect.20073. PDF
Leier, A., McQuarrie, N., Garzione,
C., Eiler, J., 2013, Oxygen isotope evidence for
multiple pulses of surface uplift in the Central Andes, Bolivia: Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.025.
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McQuarrie,
N., Long,
S.P., Tobgay, T., Nesbit, J.N., Gehrels,
G., Ducea, M., 2013, Documenting basin scale, geometry
and provenance through detrital geochemical data: lessons from Neoproterozoic to Ordovician strata of Bhutan: Gondwana Research, 23, p. 1491-1510, doi 10.1016/j.gr.2012.09.002. PDF
McQuarrie,
N., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2013, Retrodeforming
the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone: Age of collision versus magnitude of
continental subduction: Geology, 41, p.
315-318, doi:10.1130/G33591.1. PDF
2012
Barnes,
J.B., Ehlers T.A., Insel, N., McQuarrie, N., Poulsen C.J., 2012, Linking orography, climate, and
exhumation across the central Andes: Geology, 40, p. 1135-1138, doi:10.1130/G33229.1. PDF
Long,
S.P., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay T., Coutand, I., Cooper, F., Reiners,
P., Wartho, J., Hodges, K., 2012, Variable shortening
rates in the eastern Himalayan thrust belt, Bhutan: insights from multiple thermochronologic
and geochronologic datasets tied to kinematic reconstructions: Tectonics,
31, TC5004, doi:10.1029/2012TC003155. PDF
Robinson,
D.M. and McQuarrie, N. 2012, Pulsed deformation and variable slip rates
in the Central Himalayan Thrust Belt: Lithosphere, 4, p. 449-464, doi: 10.1130/L204.1. PDF
Corrie, S.L., Kohn, M.J., McQuarrie, N., and Long, S.P., 2012,
Flattening the Bhutan Himalaya: Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
349–350, p. 67–74. doi:
10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.001. PDF
van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Lippert, P.C., Dupont-Nivet, G., McQuarrie,
N., Doubrovine, P.V., Spakman,
W., Torsvik, T.H., 2012, Cretaceous opening and
Cenozoic closure of the Greater Indian Basin reconciles India-Asia crustal
shortening and lithospheric convergence records: Proceedings of the National
Academy of Science, 109, p. 7659-7664, doi/10.1073/pnas.1117262109.
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Sak, P.B., McQuarrie, N., Oliver, B.P., Lavdovsky,
N., Jackson, M.S., 2012, Unraveling the central Appalachian fold-thrust belt,
Pennsylvania: the power of sequentially restored balanced cross sections for a
blind fold-thrust belt: Geosphere, 8, doi:10.1130/GES00676.1.
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Tobgay T, McQuarrie, N., Long, S.P., Kohn, M.J., Corrie, S.L., 2012, The age and rate of displacement along
the Main Central Thrust in the western Bhutan Himalaya: Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 319-320, p. 146-158, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.005.
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2011
Gehrels, G.E., Kapp, P., DeCelles,
P.G., Pullen, A., Blakey, R., Weislogel,
A., Ding, L., Guynn, J., Martin, A.,
McQuarrie, N., and Yin, A., 2011, Detrital zircon
geochronology of pre‐Tertiary strata in the Tibetan‐Himalayan
orogeny: Tectonics, 30, TC5016, doi:10.1029/2011TC002868. PDF
McQuarrie,
N., 2011,
Tectonics: Unexpected Andean Earthquakes: Nature Geosciences, 4,
pg. 357-358, DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1167. PDF
Long,
S.P., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., Grujic, D., and Hollister, L., 2011, Geologic map of
Bhutan: The Journal of Maps, 2011, p. 184-192, 1:500,000-scale, doi:10.4113/jom.2011.1159. PDF, MAP
Porter,
R., Zandt, G., McQuarrie, N., 2011, Pervasive lower crustal seismic
anisotropy in southern California: Evidence for underplated
schists, Lithosphere, 3, p. 201-220 doi:10.1130/L126.1. PDF
Long,
S.P., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T.,
Hawthorn, J., 2011, Quantifying Internal Strain and Deformation Temperature in
the Eastern Himalaya, Bhutan: Implications for the Evolution of Strain in
Thrust Sheets: Journal of Structural Geology, 33, p. 579-608, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2010.12.011. PDF
Long,
S.P., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., Rose, C.V., Gehrels, G., and Grujic, D.,
2011, Tectonostratigraphy of the Lesser Himalaya of
Bhutan: Implications for the Stratigraphic Architecture of the Northern Indian
Margin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123, p. 1406-1426, doi: 10.1130/B30202.1. PDF
Long,
S.P., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., and Grujic, D., 2011, Geometry and crustal shortening of the
Himalayan fold-thrust belt in Bhutan: Geological Society of America Bulletin,
123, p. 1427-U244, doi: 10.1130/B30203.1. PDF
2010
Tobgay, T., Long, S.P., McQuarrie, N., Ducea,
M., and Gehrels, G., 2010, Using isotopic and
chronologic data to fingerprint strata: The challenges and benefits of variable
sources to tectonic interpretations, the Paro
Formation, Bhutan Himalaya: Tectonics, 29, TC6023, doi: 10.1029/2009TC002637. PDF
McQuarrie,
N. and Oskin, M., 2010, Palinspastic
restoration of NAVDat and implications for the origin
of magmatism in southwestern North America: Journal
of Geophysical Research, 115, B10401 doi:10.1029/2009JB0006435.
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Leier, A.L., McQuarrie, N., Horton, B.K., and Gehrels, G.E., 2010, Upper Oligocene conglomerate units in
the Altiplano, Central Andes: the record of
deformation and deposition along the margin of a hinterland basin: Journal
of Sedimentary Research, 80, p. 750-762, doi:
10.21 10/jsr.2010.064. PDF
Long,
S.P. and McQuarrie, N., 2010, Placing limits on channel flow: insights
from the Bhutan Himalaya: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 290,
p. 375-390, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.033. PDF
Gotberg, N., McQuarrie, N. and Carlotto,
V., 2010, Comparison of crustal thickening budget and shortening estimates in
southern Peru (12-14 S): Implications for mass balance and rotations in the
"Bolivian orocline": Geological Society
of America Bulletin, 122, p. 727-742, doi:10.1130/B26477.1.
PDF
2009
Lease,
R.O., McQuarrie, N., Oskin, M., Leier, A., 2009, Dextral shear on the Bristol-Granite
Mountains Fault zone: Successful geologic prediction from kinematic
compatibility of the Eastern California Shear zone: Journal of Geology,
117, p. 37-53 DOI: 10.1086/593320. PDF
2008
McQuarrie,
N.,
Ehlers, T.A., Barnes, J., Meade, B., 2008, Temporal variation in climate and
tectonic coupling in the central Andes: Geology, 36, p. 999-1002, doi: 10.1130/G25124A.1 PDF
Sigloch, K., McQuarrie, N., and Nolet,
G., 2008, Two-stage subduction history under North
America inferred from multiple-frequency tomography: Nature Geosciences,
1 doi:10.1038/ngeo231. PDF
McQuarrie,
N.,
Robinson, D., Long, S., Tobgay, T., Grujic, D., Gehrels, G., Ducea, M., 2008, Preliminary stratigraphic and structural
architecture of Bhutan: Implications for the along strike architecture of the
Himalayan system: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272, p. 105-117, doi:
10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.030. PDF
McQuarrie,
N.,
Barnes, J., Ehlers, T.A., 2008, Geometric, kinematic and erosional history of
the central Andean Plateau (15-17 S), northern Bolivia: Tectonics,
27, TC3007, doi:10.1029/2006TC002054. PDF
Barnes,
J.B., Ehlers, T.A., McQuarrie, N., O Sullivan, P.B., Tawackoli, S., 2008, Thermochronometer record of central
Andean plateau growth, Bolivia (19.5 S): Tectonics, 27, TC3003, doi:10.1029/2007TC002174. PDF
2006-2004
Barnes,
J., Ehlers, T.A., McQuarrie, N, O Sullivan, P.B., Pelletier, J.D.,
2006, Eocene to recent variations in erosion across the central Andean
fold-thrust belt, northern Bolivia: implications for plateau evolution: Earth
and Planetary Science Letters, 248, p.
118-133. PDF
McQuarrie,
N. and Wernicke,
B.P., 2005, An Animated Tectonic Reconstruction of Southwestern North America
since 36 MA: Geosphere, 1, p. 147-172. doi: 10.1130/GES00016.1 PDF
McQuarrie,
N.,
Horton, B.K., Zandt, G., Beck, S., and DeCelles,
P.G., 2005, The lithospheric evolution of the central Andean Plateau, Tectonophysics, 399,
p. 15-37. PDF
McQuarrie, N., 2004, Crustal-scale geometry of Zagros
fold-thrust belt, Iran. Journal of Structural Geology 26, p. 519-535. PDF
2003-2000
McQuarrie,
N.,
Stock, J.M., Verdel, C., and Wernicke, B.P., 2003
Cenozoic evolution of the Neotethys and implications
for the causes of plate motions. Geophysical Research Lettters, 30, 2036, doi:10.1029/2003GL017992.
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McQuarrie,
N., 2002, Initial
plate geometry, shortening variations, and evolution of the Bolivian orocline: Geology, 30, p. 867-870. PDF
McQuarrie,
N.,
2002, the kinematic history of the central Andean fold-thrust belt, Bolivia:
implications for building a high plateau: Geological Society of America
Bulletin, 114, p. 950-963. PDF
McQuarrie,
N. and
Davis, G.H., 2002, Crossing the several scales of strain-accomplishing
mechanisms: the central Andean fold-thrust belt: Journal of Structural
Geology, 24, p. 1587-1602. PDF
McQuarrie,
N. and
DeCelles, P.G., 2001, Geometry and structural
evolution of the Central Andean backthrust belt,
Bolivia: Tectonics, 20, p. 669-692. PDF
McQuarrie,
N. and
Chase C.G., 2000, Raising the Colorado Plateau: Geology, 28, p.
91-94. PDF
pre 2000
McQuarrie,
N. and
Rodgers, D.W., 1998, Subsidence of a volcanic basin by flexure and lower
crustal flow -- the eastern Snake River Plain,
Idaho: Tectonics, 17, p. 203-220. PDF