Barbara Carrapa - CV
Curriculum Vitae
Barbara Carrapa
Associate Professor
University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences
Gould-Simpson Building, Tucson, AZ 87521-0077
Tel. (520) 621 501, Fax (520) 621-2672
e-mail: bcarrapa@email.arizona.edu
CHRONOLOGY OF EDUCATION
1998-2002
1992-1998
Ph.D., Geology, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Undergraduate and MS studies, Geology, University of Pavia, Italy
Title of Ph.D. Dissertation: Tectonic evolution of an active orogen as reflected by its
sedimentary record, an integrated study of the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (Internal Western Alps,
NW Italy), Ph.D. Thesis, ISBN 90-9016220-8, Amsterdam, 177 pp. Advisers: Jan Wijbrans
(primary), Giovanni Bertotti, Sierd Cloetingh, Paul Andriessen.
Title of Ms. Dissertation: The Gonfolite Lombarda (south Alpine foreland basin) in the Como
area; petrographic-sedimentological study of the Como Conglomerates and the Val Grande
Sandstones, MS Thesis, Earth Science Department, University of Pavia, 222 pp. Adviser:
Andrea DiGiulio.
Major Fields: Sedimentary Geology, Thermochronology, Basin analysis, Geochronology,
Tectonics
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Fall 2014-Spring 2015: Guest Professor, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2010-Present: Associate Professor, University of Arizona
2007-2010: Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
2005-2007: Post-doctoral Research Fellow (DFG: German Research Foundation), Institute of
Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam, Germany
2003-2005: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Institute of Earth and Environmental
Sciences, University of Potsdam, Germany
2003: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Geology, Earth Science Department, Vrije University,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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HONORS and AWARDS
2015: Outstanding faculty award, UA, Dept. of Geosciences
Postoctoral
2006: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, Berlin, Germany. This
award is one of the best-endowed prizes (750 euros/~1M $) for young scientists in the
Federal Republic of Germany. http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/dossier-kovalevskajaaward.html
2003-2005: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Research Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
Undergraduate
1998: Italian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Master’s Thesis Fellowship (Don Bartolomeo
Grazioli Martire di Belfiore Foundation) for the best Thesis of the year in Sedimentology, Milan,
Italy
PUBLICATIONS
Chapters in scholarly books and monographs
(11) DeCelles, P.G., Zandt, G., Beck, S., Currie, C.A., Ducea, M.N., Kapp, P., Gehrels, G.E,
Carrapa, B., Quade, J., Schoenbohm, L.M., 2015, Cyclical orogenic processes in the Cenozoic
Central Andes in DeCelles, P.G., Ducea, M.N., Carrapa, B., and Kapp, P.A., eds., Geodynamics of
a Cordilleran Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina and Northern Chile: Geological
Society of America Memoir 212.
(10) Quade, J., Dettinger, M., DeCelles, P., Carrapa, B., Huntington, K., Murray, K., 2015,
The Growth of the Central Andes 22-26°S, in DeCelles, P.G., Ducea, M.N., Carrapa, B., and
Kapp, P.A., eds., Geodynamics of a Cordilleran Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina
and Northern Chile: Geological Society of America Memoir 212.
(9) Carrapa, B., and DeCelles, P.G., 2015, Regional exhumation and kinematic history of the central
Andes in response to cyclical orogenic processes, in DeCelles, P.G., Ducea, M.N., Carrapa, B., and
Kapp, P.A., eds., Geodynamics of a Cordilleran Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina
and Northern Chile: Geological Society of America Memoir 212, doi:10.1130/2015.1212.
(8) Safipour, R., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Thomson, S., 2015, Exhumation of the Principal
Cordillera and northern Sierras Pampeanas and along strike correlation of the Andean orogenic
front, 2015, in DeCelles, P.G., Ducea, M.N., Carrapa, B., and Kapp, P.A., eds., Geodynamics of a
Cordilleran Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina and Northern Chile: Geological
Society of America Memoir 212, doi 10.1130/2015.1212(10).
(7) Schoenbohm, L.M., Carrapa, B., McPherson, H.M., Pratt, J.R., Reyes-Bywater, S., and
Mortimer, E., 2015, Climate and tectonics along the southern margin of the Puna Plateau, NW
Argentina: Origin of the late Cenozoic Punaschotter conglomerates, in DeCelles, P.G., Ducea,
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M.N., Carrapa, B., and Kapp, P.A., eds., Geodynamics of a Cordilleran Orogenic System: The
Central Andes of Argentina and Northern Chile: Geological Society of America Memoir 212, p.
251–260, doi:10.1130/2015.1212(13).
(6) Schoenbohm, L.M., and Carrapa, B., 2015, Miocene–Pliocene shortening, extension, and mafic
magmatism support small-scale lithospheric foundering in the central Andes, NW Argentina, in
DeCelles, P.G., Ducea, M.N., Carrapa, B., and Kapp, P.A., eds., Geodynamics of a Cordilleran
Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina and Northern Chile: Geological Society of
America Memoir 212, doi:10.1130/2015.1212(09).
(5) DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B., Horton, B., McNabb, J., Boyd, J. and Gehrels, G., Arizaro
Basin, Central Andean Hinterland: Response to Partial Lithospheric Removal?, 2 0 1 5 , in
DeCelles, P.G., Ducea, M.N., Carrapa, B., and Kapp, P.A., eds., Geodynamics of a Cordilleran
Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina and Northern Chile: Geological Society of
America Memoir 212.
(4) Murrell, G.R., Sobel, E.R., Carrapa, B. and Andriessen, P. (2009) Calibration and comparison of
etching and thermal modeling techniques for apatite fission track thermochronology, in
Thermochronological Methods: From Palaeotemperature Constraints to Landscape Evolution
Models, Lisker, K., Ventura, B and Glasmacher, U. (eds.), Geological Society, London, Special
Publications, v. 324; p. 73-85.
(3) Alonso, R.N., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Haschke, M., Hilley, G.E., Schoenbohm, L., Sobel, E. R.,
Strecker, M.R., Trauth, M.H. (2007) Tectonics, climate, and landscape evolution of the southern
Central Andes: The Argentine Puna Plateau and adjacent Regions between 22º and 28ºS lat. in
Oncken, O., Chong, G., Franz, G., Giese, P., Götze, H.-J., Ramos, V., Strecker, M., and Wigger,
P., editors, The Andes - Active Subduction Orogeny: Frontiers in Earth Sciences, Springer Verlag,
Monograph Series 1, 265-283.
(2) Carrapa, B., Wijbrans, J., Bertotti, G. (2004) Detecting differences in cooling/exhumation
pattern within the Western Alpine arc through 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology on detrital minerals
(Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy), in Detrital thermochronology-Provenance analysis,
exhumation and landscape evolution of mountain belts, Eds. Bernet M. & Spiegel, Geological
Society of America, 378, chapter 5.
(1) Carrapa, B., Bertotti, G. and Krijgsma, W. (2003) Subsidence, stress regime and rotation(s) of a
tectonically active sedimentary basin within the Western Alps: the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (Alpine
domain, Northwest Italy), in Tracing Tectonic deformation using the Sedimentary Record, Eds. T.
McCann & A. Saintot, Geological Society of London, 208, 205-227.
Refereed Journal Articles (published, in press or accepted)
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(46) Di Giulio, A., Ronchi, A., Sanfilippo, A., Balgord E., Carrapa, B. and V. A. Ramos, Cretaceous
evolution of the Andean margin between 36°S and 40°S latitude through a multi-proxy provenance
analysis of Neuquén Basin strata (Argentina), Basin Research, in press.
(45) Zhou, R., Schoenbohm, L.M., Sobel, E.R., Carrapa, B., Davis, D.W. (2016), Sedimentary
record of regional deformation and dynamics of the thick-skinned southern Puna Plateau, central
Andes (26–27◦S), EPSL, 433, 317–325.
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(44) Fosdick, J., Carrapa, B. and Gustavo Ortíz (2015), Faulting and erosion in the Argentine
Precordillera during changes in subduction regime: reconciling bedrock cooling and detrital records,
EPSL, 432, 73–83.
(43) Orme, D. A., Reiners, P.W., Hourigan , J.K. and Carrapa, B. (2015), Effects of U-Th zonation
on zircon (U-Th)/He ages from Greater Himalayan sequence rocks, Mt. Everest region, Tibet, G
cube, DOI 10.1002/2015GC005818.
(42) Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Wang, W., Clementz, M.T., Mancin, N., Stoica, M., Kraatz, B.,
Meng, J., Abdulov, S., Chen, F. (2015), Tectono-climatic implications of Eocene Paratethys
regression in the Tajik basin of central Asia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 424, p. 168–
178.
(41) Balgord, E. and Carrapa, B. (2014), Basin evolution of the upper Cretaceous-lower Cenozoic
strata in the Malargüe fold-and-thrust belt: northern Neuquén Basin, Argentina, Basin Research,
Basin Research, 1–24, doi: 10.1111/bre.12106.
(40) Carrapa, B., Shazanee, F. M., Schoenbohm, L.M., Cosca, M., Sobel, E.R., DeCelles, P.G.,
Russell, J. (2014), Multi-dating of modern river detritus from Tajikistan and China: implications
for crustal evolution and exhumation of the Pamir, Lithosphere, doi:10.1130/L360.1.
(39) Orme, D., Carrapa, B. and Kapp, P. (2014), Sedimentology, Provenance, and Geochronology
of the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Eocene Western Xigaze forearc basin, Southern Tibet, Basin
Research, doi: 10.1130/B30999.1.
(38) Carrapa, B., Huntington, K.H., Clementz, M., Bywater -Reyes, S., Quade, J., Schoenbohm, L.
and Canavan, R. (2014), Uplift of the Central Andes of NW Argentina associated with upper crustal
shortening, revealed by multi-proxy isotopic analyses, Tectonics, doi: 10.1002/2013TC003461.
(37) Carrapa, B., Orme, D.A., DeCelles, P.G., Kapp, P. , Cosca, M. , Waldrip, R. (2014), Miocene
burial and exhumation of the India-Asia collision zone in southern Tibet: response to slab dynamics
and erosion, Geology, v. 42, p. 443-446, doi:10.1130/G35350.1.
(36) Canavan, R., Carrapa, B., Clementz, M., Quade, J., DeCelles, P.G., Schoenbohm, L. (2014),
Early Cenozoic uplift of the Puna Plateau, Central Andes, based on stable isotope paleoaltimetry
of hydrated volcanic glass, Geology, v. 42, 447-450, doi:10.1130/G35239.1.
(35) Fan, M. and Carrapa, B. (2014), Late Cretaceous-early Eocene two-stage development of the
Laramide Rocky Mountains, Tectonics, v. 33, doi:10.1002/2012TC003221.
(34) Painter, C., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Stuart, T. and Gehrels, G. (2014), Exhumation of
the North American Cordillera revealed by multi dating minerals from Upper Jurassic-Upper
Cretaceous foreland basin deposits, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:
10.1130/B30999.1.
(33) Carrapa, B., Bywater-Reyes, S., Safipour, R., Sobel, E., Schoenbhom, L., Reiners, P. and
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Stockli, D. (2014), The effect of inherited paleotopography on exhumation of the Central Andes
of NW Argentina, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B30844.1.
(32) Painter, C. and Carrapa, B. (2013), Flexural versus dynamic processes of subsidence in the
North American Cordillera foreland basin, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 40, 1–5,
doi:10.1002/grl.50831.
(31) Painter, C., York, C. and Carrapa., B. (2013), Sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous
Sego Sandstone reveals spatio-temporal changes in the paleogeography of the Western interior
USA, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 83, 323–338.
(30) Peyton, L.S., and Carrapa, B. (2013), An overview of low-temperature thermochronology in
the Rocky Mountain and Its application to petroleum system analysis, in C. Knight and J.
Cuzella, eds., Application of structural methods to Rocky Mountain hydrocarbon exploration and
development, AAPG Studies in Geology, v. 65, p. 37–70.
(29) Peyton, L.S., and Carrapa, B. (2013), An introduction to low-temperature thermochronologic
techniques, methodology, and applications, in C. Knight and J. Cuzella, eds., Application of
structural methods to Rocky Mountain hydrocarbon exploration and development, AAPG Studies
in Geology, v. 65, p. 15–36.
(28) Lukens, C., Carrapa, B., Singer, B. and Gehrels, G. (2012), Miocene exhumation revealed
by detrital minerals of Tajik rivers: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Pamir,
Tectonics, v. 31, doi:10.1029/2011TC003040.
(27) Rhormann, A., Kapp, P., Carrapa, B., Reiners, Guynn, J., P., Ding, L. and Heizler, M.,
(2012), Thermochronologic evidence for low magnitude exhumation in central Tibet in the last
~45 Ma, Geology, 40, v.b2, 1487-190.
(26) Peyton, S.L., Reiners, P.W., Carrapa, B. and DeCelles, P.G., (2012), Low-Temperature
thermochronology of the Laramide Rocky Mountains, Western U.S.A, American Journal of
Science, v. 312, p. 145–212, DOI 10.2475/02.2012.04.
(25) Carrapa, B., Bywater-Reyes, S., DeCelles, P.G., Mortimer, E., and Gerhels, G. (2012),
Cenozoic synorogenic basin evolution in the Eastern Cordillera of northwestern Argentina (25°26°S): Regional implications for Andean orogenic wedge development, Basin Research, v. 23,
1– 20, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00519.x
(24) DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B. and Horton, H. (2011), Cenozoic foreland basin system in the
central Andes of northwestern Argentina: Implications for Andean geodynamics and modes of
deformation, Tectonics, v. 30, doi:10.1029/2011TC002948.
(23) York, C., Painter, C. and Carrapa. B. (2011), Sedimentological and petrophysical
characterization of the Sego Sandstone (NW Colorado, USA): A new scheme to recognize
ancient flood-tidal delta deposits and implications for reservoir potential, Journal of Sedimentary
Research, v. 81, 401-419.
(22) Carrapa., B., Trimble, J., and Stockli, D. (2011), Timing and Magnitude of Deformation and
Exhumation of the Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina Revealed by (U-Th)/He Thermochrology,
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Tectonics, v. 30, TC3003, 30 PP., doi:10.1029/2010TC002707.
(21) Carrapa, B. (2010), Resolving tectonic problems by dating detrital minerals, Geology, v. 38,
191-192.
(20) Bywater, S., Carrapa, B., Clementz, M. and Schoenbohm, L. (2010), The effect of late
Cenozoic aridification on sedimentation in the Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina (Angastaco
Basin), Geology, v. 38, 235-238.
(19) Carrapa, B. (2010), Reply to Comment by Bernet (2010), on Tracing exhumation and
orogenic wedge dynamics in the Alps via detrital thermochronology by Carrapa (2010), Geology,
Forum, v. 38, 227.
(18) Carrapa, B. (2009) Tracing exhumation and orogenic wedge dynamics in the Alps via detrital
thermochronology, Geology, v. 37, 12, 1127-1130.
(17) Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Hain, M.P., Hilley, G.E.,
Mortimer, E., Schoenbohm, L., and Sobel, E.R. (2009), Does the topographic distribution of the
central Andean Puna Plateau result from climatic or geodynamic processes? Geology, v. 37, p.
643–646; doi: 10.1130/G25545A.1.
(16) Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Reiners, P. Gerhels, G. (2009), Apatite triple dating and white
mica 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of syn-tectonic detritus in the Central Andes: a multi-phase
tectono-thermal history, Geology, v. 37, 407-410.
This article was covered in Science (in Editors' Choice: Highlights of the recent literature): Andean
Origins, by Brooks Hanson, Science 15 May 2009 324: 857, doi: 10.1126/science.324_857a.
(15) Carrapa, B., Hauer, J., Schoenbohm, L., Strecker, M., Schmitt, A., Villaneva, A. and Sosa
Gomez, J., 2010, Reply to comment by Davila (2009), on Carrapa et al. (2008), Geological Society
of American Bulletin, v. 122, p. 950-953, doi:10.1130/B30134.1.
(14) Carrapa, B., Hauer, J., Schoenbohm, L., Strecker, M. Schmitt, A., Villaneva, A. and Sosa
Gomez, J. (2008), Dynamics of deformation and sedimentation in the Sierras Pampeanas: An
integrated study of the Neogene Fiambala basin, NW Argentina, Geological Society of America
Bulletin, doi 10.1130/B26111.1.
(13) Carrapa, B. and DeCelles, P.G. (2008), Eocene exhumation and basin development in the
Puna of Northwestern Argentina, Tectonics, v. 27, TC1015, doi:10.1029/2007TC002127.
(12) Mortimer, E. and Carrapa, B. (2007), Footwall drainage evolution in response to increasing
fault displacement: Loreto fault, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Geology, v. 35, 651-654.
(11) DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B. and Gehrels, G.E. (2007), Detrital Zircon U-Pb Ages Provide New
Provenance and Chronostratigraphic Information from Eocene Synorogenic Deposits in
Northwestern Argentina, Geology, v. 35, 323-326.
(11) Mortimer, E., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Schoenbohm, Sobel, E., Gomez, J.S., Strecker,
M.R. (2007), Compartmentalization of a foreland basin in response to plateau growth and
diachronous thrusting: El Cajon-Campo Arenal basin, NW Argentina, Geological Society of
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America Bulletin, v. 119, 637-653.
(10) Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R.N, Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Hilley, G.E., Sobel, E.R., Trauth,
M.H. (2007), Tectonics and Climate of the Southern Central Andes, Annual Review Earth
Planetary Sciences, v. 35, 747-787.
(9) Carrapa, B., Sobel, E.R. and Strecker, M.R. (2006), Orogenic Plateau growth in the Central
Andes: Evidence from sedimentary rock provenance and apatite fission track thermochronology in
the Fiambala Basin, southernmost Puna Plateau margin (NW Argentina), Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, v. 247, 82-100.
(8) Coutand, I., Carrapa, B., Deeken, A., Schmitt, A.K., Sobel. E.R., Strecker, M.R. (2006),
Orogenic plateau formation and lateral growth of compressional basins and ranges: insights from
sandstone petrography and detrital apatite fission-track thermochronology in the Angastaco Basin,
NW Argentina, Basin Research, v. 18, 1–26.
(7) Carrapa, B., Adelmann, D., Hilley, G., Mortimer, E., Strecker, M.R. and Sobel, E.R. (2005),
Oligocene uplift, establishment of internal drainage and development of plateau morphology in the
southern Central Andes, Tectonics, v. 24, doi:10.1029/2004TC001762.
(6) Carrapa, B. and Garcia Castellanos, D. (2005), Western Alpine back-thrusting as subsidence
mechanism in the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (NW Italy), Tectonophysics, v . 406, 197212.
(5) Carrapa, B., Di Giulio, A. and Wijbrans, J. (2004), The early stages of the Alpine collision: an
image from the detrital thermochronology of Upper Eocene-Lower Oligocene sediments in the
Alps-Apennines knot area, Sedimentary Geology, v. 171, 181-203.
(4) Barbieri, C., Carrapa, B., Di Giulio, A., Wijbrans, J. and Murrell, G. (2003), Provenance of
Oligocene syn-orogenic sediments of the Ligurian Alps (NW Italy): inferences on the belt age
and its cooling history, International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 92, 758778.
(3) Carrapa, B., Wijbrans, J. and Bertotti, G. (2003), Episodic exhumation in the Western Alps,
Geology, v. 31, 601-604.
(2) Di Giulio, A., Carrapa, B., Fantoni, R., Gorla, L. & Valdisturlo, A. (2001), Middle Eocene-to
Early Miocene sedimentary evolution of the western-Lombardian segment of the South-Alpine
foredeep
(Italy),
International
Journal
of
Earth
Sciences,
v . 90,
534548.
(1) Carrapa, B., Di Giulio, B. (2001), The Sedimentary record of the exhumation of a granitic
intrusion into a collisional setting: a case study from Southern Alps (Gonfolite Group, Italy),
Sedimentary Geology, v. 139, 217-228.
Electronic journals
(2) Carrapa, B. and Wijbrans, J. (2003), Cretaceous 40Ar/39Ar detrital mica ages in Tertiary
sediments shed a new light on the Eo-Alpine evolution, Journal of the Virtual Explorer, v. 13,
43- 55. Peer reviewed.
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(1) Carrapa, B. (2010), Detrital dating: a powerful approach to resolve tectonics and erosion,
invited review article in Outcrop, Newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists,
November issue. Non peer reviewed.
Work in Progress
DeCelles, P.G., Castaneda, I., Carrapa, B., Liu, J., Quade, J. and Zhang, L., What Goes Up Must
Come Down: Oligocene-1 Miocene Great Lakes in the India-Asia Collision Zone, EPSL, in review.
Stevens, A.L., Balgord, E.A., Carrapa, B., Revised exhumation history of the Wind River Range,
WY and implications for Laramide tectonics, Tectonics, in review.
Carrapa, B., Robert, X., DeCelles, P.G., Orme, D., Schoenbohm, L., Stuart, T., Exhumation of
Mount Everest and asymmetric growth of the Himalaya, Geology, in review.
Carrapa, B., DiGiulio, A., Mancin, N., Gupta, S., Fantoni, R., Stockli, D., Tectonic significance of
Cenozoic deformation, exhumation and basin history in the Western Alps, Tectonics, in review.
Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Cross, E., Ojha, T., Deciphering the record of erosion in the Nepal
Himalaya with low temperature thermochronology, EPSL, in review.
Stevens, A. and Carrapa, B., Detrital apatite fission track thermochronology: statistical treatment
and applications, Chemical Geology, in revision.
Carrapa, B., Hassim, M.F. b., Kapp, P. A. and Gehrels, G.E., Detrital Geochemical Fingerprints of
Rivers along the Indus-Yalu Suture Zone in Tibet: Implications for Timing of Arc Development and
Erosion, GSA Bull., to be submitted.
Leary, R., Orme, D., Laskowski, A., DeCelles, P., Kapp, P., Carrapa, B., Dettinger, M., Alongstrike diachroneity in the deposition of the Kailas Formation in central southern Tibet: Implications
for Indian slab rollback, Geosphere, to be submitted.
Wang, X., Kraatz, B., Meng, J., Carrapa, B., Abdulov, S., Chen, F., Central Asian aridification
during the late Eocene to early Miocene as inferred from preliminary study of shallow marineeolian sedimentary rocks from northeastern Tajik Basin, Science China Earth Sciences, to be
submitted.
McGlue, M.M., Smith, P.H., Zani, H., Carrapa, B., Cohen, A.S., Pepper, M., An Integrated
Actualistic Sedimentary Systems Analysis of the Southern Chaco Foreland Basin, in revision.
Conferences
Carrapa, B., Hassim m-F., Kapp, P. (2015), Detrital Thermochronology of the Indus-Yarlung suture
zone and implications for the tectonic and surface evolution of southern Tibet, AGU, T24B-03.
Stevens, A., Carrapa, B., Larrovere, M., Aciar, R.H. (2015), Inherited weaknesses control
deformation in the flat slab region of Central Argentina, AGU, T23A-2911.
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DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B., Cross, T., Tank, O., Reiners, P. (2015), Along-Strike Variability in
Erosion of the Nepalese Himalayan Thrust Belt, AGU, T13G-09.
Villarreal, D., Robinson, A., Oimahmadov, I., MacDonald, B., Carrapa, B., Gadoev, M. (2015),
Assessing Pre-Cenozoic Shortening of the Southern Pamir, AGU, T21B-2825.
Painter, C., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Gehrels, G., Thomson, S. (2015), Cretaceous Exhumation
of the North American Cordillera Measured through Mineral Multi-Dating: Insights into Basin
Filling Models and Orogenic Architecture, AGU, V52C-04.
Zhou, R., Schoenbohm, L., Sobel, E., Carrapa, B., Davis, D., Glodny, J., Stockli, D. (2015),
Regional Deformation of the Southern Puna Plateau, Central Andes, Recorded by Basin Evolution
and Bedrock Exhumation History, AGU, T21B-2817.
Stevens, A., Balgord, E., Carrapa, B. (2015), Re-analysis of apatite fission track thermochronology
in the Wind River Range produces revised Laramide exhumation history, Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 47, No. 7, p.293.
Chapman, J., Robinson, A., Worthington, J., Carrapa, B., Kapp, P., Gadoev, M., Oimahmadov, I.
(2015), Mesozoic shortening and syn-tectonic sedimentation in the southern Pamir: implications for
gneiss-dome metamorphism and crustal thickening, Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs. Vol. 47, No. 7, p.39.
Orme, D.A., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G. (2014) Evolution of sedimentary basins along the IndusYarlung Suture Zone, southern Tibet: Implications for the timing of the initial stages of the IndiaAsia Collision, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, October 2014.
Invited: Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Orme D. and Kapp P. (2014) Exhumation of the High Himalaya
in the Mt. Everest region and India-Asia collision zone: implications for Himalayan tectonics,
TopoEurope, 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
Orme, D.A. and Carrapa, B. (2014) Rapid Miocene exhumation of the Indus-Yarlung Suture Zone,
Tibet: Evidence from the Xigaze Forearc and Kailas Formation, 14th International Conference of
Thermochronology, Chamonix, France, September 2014.
Invited: Carrapa, B., Shazanee, F.M., Schoenbhom, L.M., Cosca, M., DeCelles, P.G., Sobel, E.R.
(2014) Growth and exhumation of the Pamir orogen revealed by multi-dating of detrital minerals
from Tajikistan and China, 14th International conference on Thermochronological, 14th International
Conference of Thermochronology, Chamonix, France, September 2014.
Stevens, A. and Carrapa, B. (2014) Strengths and challenges of detrital apatite ssion track
thermochronology: A case study from the Andes, 14th International Conference of
Thermochronology, Chamonix, France, September 2014.
Orme, D.A., Carrapa, B., Laskowski, A., Early Cretaceous depositional environments, provenance,
and subsidence history of the basal Xigaze forearc basin, southern, Tibet, Geological Society of
America, Vancouver, October 2014.
Stevens, A., Carrapa., B. (2014) Synorogenic Record of Basin Reorganization in the Sierras
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Pampeanas, La Rioja, Argentina, American Geophysical Union, Abstracts with Program, T23A4632.
Romero-Armenta, M.C., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G. (2014) Low-Temperature
Thermochronology of Laramide Ranges in Montana and Wyoming Provides Information on
Exhumation and Tectonics Associated with Flat-Slab Subduction, American Geophysical Union,
San Francisco, 2014.
Balgord, E., Carrapa, B. (2014) Early foreland basin depo-systems in the south-centra Andes of
Argentina, 32˚S -35˚S, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, No. 6,
p.354.
Romero-Armenta, M.C., Carrapa, B. (2014) Timing of exhumation of Laramide Ranges in
Montana constrained by detrital and in-situ apatite fission track thermochronology, Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, No. 6, p.365.
Invited: Orme, D., A., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Evolution of sedimentary basins along the
Indus-Yarlung suture zone, southern Tibet: Implications for the timing of the initial stages of the
India-Asia collision (2014), Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 46, No.
6, p.450.
Hassim, M.F., Carrapa, B., Kapp, P., Gehrels, G.E. and Cosca, M. (2014) Detrital geochemical
fingerprints of rivers along the Indus-Yarlung suture zone in Tibet: Implications for drainage
evolution, timing of arc development and erosion, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with
Programs. Vol. 46, No. 6, p.573.
Invited: Orme, D.A., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Kapp, P., and Waldrip, R. (2014) Evolution of
sedimentary basins along the Indus-Yarlung Suture Zone, southern Tibet: Insight from
sedimentology and geo-thermochronology, Geological Society of America Penrose Conference
(Linkages and Feedbacks in Orogenic Processes), Asheville, NC, April 2014.
Ronchi, A., DiGiulio, A., Sanfilippo, A., Carrapa, B., Balgord, L., Ramos V. (2014) Tectonic
evolution of the Cretaceous back-arc to foreland Neuquén Basin (Argentina) through a detrital
multi-proxy provenance study, 87° Congresso della Società Geologica Italiana e 90° Congresso
della Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, Milano, Italy, Vol. 31, p. 176.
Fosdick, J.C., Carrapa, B. (2013) Synchronous unroofing and faulting in the Precordillera of
Argentina: thermochronometric constraints on fault-propagation in a thin- to thick-skinned
orogenic system, American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, Abstract 1803286.
Orme, D., Carrapa, B., Kapp, P.A., Geherels, G., Reiners, P.W. (2013) Basin evolution of the
Cretaceous-early Eocene Xigaze forearc, southern Tibet, American Geophysical Union meeting,
San Francisco, Abstract 1777846.
Painter, C.S., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Gehrels, G.E., Thomson, S.N. (2013) From Source to
Sink: Exhumation of the North America Cordillera Revealed by Multi-dating of Detrital Minerals
from Upper Jurassic–Upper Cretaceous Sevier Foreland Basin, American Geophysical Union
meeting, San Francisco, Abstract 1808582.
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Mohd Faiz Hassim, Carrapa, B. and Kapp, P. (2013) Detrital Geochemical Fingerprints Of
Rivers Along The Yalu suture zone In Tibet: Implications For Drainage Evolution, Timing Of
Arc Development And Erosion, American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, Abstract
1810798.
Smith, P., McGlue, M., Zani, H., Carrapa, B. and Cohen, A. (2013) The modern Bermejo
Megafan, Chaco foreland basin (Argentina), Geological Society of America, Abstracts with
Programs, Vol. 45, No. 7, p.590.
Balgord, E. and Carrapa, B. (2013) Timing of foreland basin evolution and hinterland erosion in
the South-Central Andes of Argentina, 36oS, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with
Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.677.
Stevens, A., Balgord, E., Carrapa, B. and Restrepo, J. (2013) Utility of statistical methods and
data presentation in detrital fission track thermochronology, Geological Society of America,
Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.744, Denver 2013.
Invited: Carrapa, B., Orme, D., DeCelles, P.G., Kapp, P., Reiners, P.W., Lippert, P.C.., Leary, R.J.,
Waldtrip, W.R., (2013) Rapid Miocene burial, exhumation and uplift of the suture zone in Tibet:
Evidence from multi-proxy isotopic analyses of the Oligo-Miocene Kailas Formation, Geological
Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p. 889, Denver 2013.
Invited: Kapp, P., DeCelles, P. G., Carrapa, B., Waldrip, R., Ducea, M., Gehrels, G. E., Quade,
J., Reiners, P., Lippert, P., Dupont-Nivet, G., Ding, L. (2013) The Cenozoic Subduction History of
Greater Indian Lithosphere Beneath Tibet, Himalaya Karakoram Tibet-International Symposium,
Tubingen, Germany.
Orme, D., Carrapa, B. Abbey, A.L., Kapp, P.A., Ding, L. (2012) Basin evolution and
exhumation of the Xigaze frearc, Southern Tibet: insight from sedimentology, stratigraphy
and geo-thermochronology, American Geophysical Union meeting, T51E-2641.
Balgord, E. and Carrapa, B. (2012), Basin evolution recorded in Cretaceous stratigraphy within
the Malargüe fold and thrust belt (northern Neuquén Basin, Argentina), Geological Society of
America, Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 44, n. 7, p.174.
Orme, D.A. and Carrapa, B. (2012), Basin evolution and exhumation of the Xigaze Forearc,
southern Tibet: Insight from field stratigraphy and thermochronology, Geological Society
of
America Penrose Conference, Il Ciocco, Italy, March 2012.
Painter, C., Carrapa, B. and DeCelles, P.G. (2012) Detrital thermochronologic lag times in the
Cordilleran foreland basin: a new approach to assessing syn-tectonic vs. anti- tectonic deposition in
foreland basins, American Association Petroleum Geologists, Palm Beach, April, 2012.
Carrapa. B., DeCelles, S., Bywater-Reyes, S., Mortimer, E., Huntington, K. and Clementz, M.
(2011) Cenozoic record of paleotopography and paleoenvironment in the Central Andes of NW
Argentina, 2011 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, 5-9 Dec.
Invited: DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B., Horton, B., McNabb, J. and Boyd, J. (2011) Cordilleran
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Hinterland Basins as Recorders of Lithospheric Removal in the Central Andes, abstract T13I-06,
2011 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, 5-9 Dec.
Schoenbohm, L. and Carrapa, B. (2011) Evidence from the timing of contraction, extension,
sedimentation and magmatism for small-scale lithospheric foundering in the Puna Plateau, NW
Argentina, abstract T13I-07, American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, 5-9 Dec.
Painter, C., Carrapa, B. and DeCelles, P.G. (2011), Thermochronology of Upper Cretaceous and
Paleocene Deposits in the Central Cordilleran Foreland Basin, abstract T14C-06, American
Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, 5-9 Dec.
Safipour, R., DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa. B., Kapp, P., Gerhels, G. and Reiners, P., Shortening in the
Central Andes at the transition to flat slab subduction, abstract T11B-2330, American Geophysical
Union meeting, San Francisco, 5-9 Dec.
Canavan, R., Clementz, M., Carrapa, B., Quade, J., DeCelles, P. and Schoenbhom, L., (2011)
Paleoelevation of the Puna Plateau (Northwest Argentina) inferred from geochemical analyses
of volcanic glass, 2011 Geological Society of America, Minneapolis.
Shazanee, F.M., Carrapa, B., Schoenbohm, L., Sobel, E.R. (2011) The evolution of the Pamir:
Applications of multi geochronology to modern rivers draining the Eastern Pamir, abstract 20-19,
49, 2011 Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountain 63rd annual meeting, Logan, Utah, May
18-20.
Canavan, R., Clementz, M., Carrapa, B., Quade, J., DeCelles, P., Boyd, J. and Schoenbhom, L.
(2010) Paleoelevation of the Puna Plateau (northwestern Argentina) inferred from deuterium
isotopic analyses of volcanic glass, American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco.
Invited: Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Trimble, J. and Stockli, D. (2010) Low-T-thermochronology
applied to syn-tectonic deposits of the Central Andes: Implications for timing and magnitude of
exhumation and plateau evolution, 1 3 t h In te rn a tio n a l c o n fe ren c e o f T h e rm o c h ro n o lo g y
Thermo 2010, Glasgow, Scotland.
Lukens, C. E., Carrapa, B. Singer, B. S. and Geherels, G. (2010) Detrital thermochronology of
Tajik rivers reveals widespread and high magnitude Miocene exhumation in the Pamir, 1 3 t h
In te rn a tio n a l c o n fe re n c e o f T h e rm o c h ro n o lo g y , Thermo 2010, Glasgow, Scotland.
Lukens, C. E., Carrapa, B. , Singer, B. S. and Geherels, G. (2010) Miocene exhumation revealed
by detrital minerals of Tajik rivers: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Pamir, 25th
Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, San Francisco.
Lukens, C. E., Carrapa, B., Schoenbohm, L, Singer, B. S., and Jicha, B. R. (2009), Tectonothermal evolution of the western Pamir Mountains using 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology on modern
river sands, American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco.
Invited: DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B., et al., 2009, Cyclic Behavior in Cordilleran Orogenic
Systems, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs.
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Boyd, J.D., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., McNabb, J.C., Schoenbhom, L., and Horton, B.K.
(2009). The Structural and Tectonic Evolution of the Arizaro Basin of the Puna Plateau in NW
Argentina, American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco.
Summer, B., Spotila, J., Thigpen, J.R., Tranel., L.M., Carrapa, B. and Krugh, W. (2009)
Combining apatite (U-Th)/He and fission-track dating to refine the temporal history of the Teton
Range, Wyoming: Implications for differential uplift history rates and initiation of the Teton
Fault, Geological Society of America, Portland.
Bywater, S., Carrapa, B. and Mortimer, E. (2009) Basin analysis of an evolving foreland basin
in the Eastern Cordillera (Angastaco Basin, NW Argentina), Geological Society of America,
Portland.
Painter, C.S., York, C.C., Carrapa, B. and Boyles, J.M. (2009) Sequence Stratigraphy of the
Sego Sandstone and its Relationship with Sevier Fold and Thrust Belt Tectonics, Geological
Society of America, Portland.
York, C.C., Painter, C.S., Carrapa, B. and Boyle, M. (2009) Sedimentological Characterization
of The Sego Sandstone of Western Colorado and details on flood tidal delta deposits, Geological
Society of America, Portland.
Carrapa, B., Schoenbhom, L., DeCelles, P.G., Clementz, M., Bywater and Hungtington, K.,
(2009) Surface response to lithospheric delamination: an example from the Puna Plateau of NW
Argentina, Geological Society of America, Portland.
Ducea, M., Schoenbhom, L. and Carrapa, B., Mafic volcanism on the Puna Plateau, Northwest
Argentina: Inplications for lithospheric foundering (2009), Geological Society of America,
Portland.
Peyton, S.L., Reiners, P.W., Carrapa, B. and DeCelles, P.G. (2009) Burial and Exhumation
History of the Rocky Mountains from Low-Temperature Thermochronology, Wyoming and
Montana, U.S.A., American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Denver.
Bywater, S., Carrapa, B., Mortimer, E., Clementz, M. and Schoenbohm, L. (2009) Miocene
through Pliocene Angastaco Basin Fill: Implications for the Tectono-Climate Evolution of the
Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Denver.
Schoenbohm, L. and Carrapa, B. (2009) Structural evidence for lithospheric foundering in the
Puna Plateau, NW Argentina, American Geophysical Union, Spring meeting, v. 89, 53, Suppl.
2009AGUSM.T12A.01S.
Carrapa, B., Schoenbohm, L., Clementz, M., Bywater, S. and Quade, J. (2008) Oxygen isotope
evidence from Cenozoic paleosol carbonates on the Puna Plateau of NW Argentina: low or dry in
the Neogene? American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, abstract T42A-03.
Schoenbohm, L., Carrapa, B., Bywater, S., McPherson, H. and Pratt, J. (2008) Climatic and tectonic
controls on deposition of the Punaschotter conglomerate in Neogene marginal basins of the Puna
Plateau (NW Argentina): Evidence from zircon U-Pb geochronology, American Geophysical
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Union, Fall meeting, abstract T41C-04.
Trimble, J., Carrapa., B., Stockli, D. and Stuetz, J. (2008) New Constraints on the Timing and
Magnitude of Deformation and Basin Exhumation in the Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina,
American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, abstract #T53B-1925.
DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B., Horton, B, Starck, D. (2008), Foreland Basin Evolution in NW
Argentina and implications for Timing of Andean Orogenesis, XVII Argentinean Geological
conference, Jujuy, Argentina, October 2008, ISBN 978-987-22403-1-8, p. 1281.
Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Reiners, P.W., Gerhels, G., Bisvas, A. (2008), Apatite triple dating
and white mica 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of syn-tectonic detritus in the Central Andes: a
multi-phase tectono-thermal history, 11th International conference on thermochronometry,
Alaska, September 2008.
Bywater, S., Trimble, J., Carrapa, B., Stockli, D. (2008), Exhumation of the southern Puna
Plateau margin and Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina revealed through apatite fission track
and (U-Th)/He thermochronology. 11th International conference on thermochronometry,
Anchorage, Alaska, September 2008.
Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Reiners, P.W., Gerhels, G., Bisvas, A. (2008), Exhumation and
basin evolution of the Puna Plateau of NW Argentina revealed by a multi geothermochronological approach, Goldschmidt, Vancouver.
Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Gupta, S., Sudo, M. (2007). Using the foreland basin record to
constrain orogenic evolution: a multi thermochronological approach from the Alps, Andes and
North America Cordillera. American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, Abstract. T17-6422.
DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B., Horton, B., Stark, D. (2007). Implications of Paleogene Foreland
Basin Evolution in NW Argentina for Timing of Andean Orogenesis, American Geophysical
Union, Fall meeting, Abstract. S18-3299.
McPherson, H.M., Schoenbohm, L., Schmitt, A.K., Carrapa, B., Bohon, W. (2007) Climate and
Tectonic Controls on Sedimentation and Incision In the Fiambalá Basin, Northwest Argentina.
American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, Abstract. T20- 10091.
Hauer, J., Carrapa, B., Heins, B. (2007) Sedimentology and provenance of Miocene-Pliocene
alluvial fan deposits in the Fiambala Basin, NW Argentina. Geological Society of America,
Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, 6, p. 436.
Zechmeister, M.S., Ferré, E.C., Carrapa, B., Caby, R., Cosca, M.A. and Geissman, J.W. (2007)
Geologic and seismic deformation during unroofing of the Dora Maira Massif; Western Alps,
Italy: tectonic versus climatic control, European Geoscience Union, Vienna, Austria,
Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 9, 05124.
Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Gerhels (2006) A multidisciplinary provenance study of Eocene
sedimentary rocks preserved in the Argentine Puna Plateau: implications for early foreland basin
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development, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, 7, p. 346.
Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Gerhels, G., Mortimer, E. and Strecker, M.R. (2006) Early Tertiary
Exhumation, Erosion and Sedimentation in the Central Andes, NW Argentina, American
Geophysical Union, abstract. AGUFM.T31E.08C.
Carrapa, B. and Strecker, M.R. (2006) Cenozoic orogenic growth in the Central Andes: evidence
from sedimentary rocks provenance and apatite fission track thermochronology along the
southernmost Puna Plateau margin (NW Argentina). Geological Society of America specialty
meeting, Backbone of the Americas, abstract with programs, n.2, abstract 11-3, p. 96.
Coutand, I., Carrapa, B., Deeken, A., Schmitt, A.K., Sobel, E.R., Strecker, M.R. (2006)
Propagation of orographic barriers along an active range front: insights from detrital apatite
fission track thermochronology, Angastaco Basin, Southeastern Central Andes, Geological
Society of America specialty meeting, Backbone of the Americas, abstract with programs, n.2,
abstract 11-5, p. 97.
DeCelles, P.G., Horton, B. and Carrapa., B. (2006) A comparison of North American and South
American retroarc foreland basin systems, Geological Society of America specialty meeting,
Backbone of the Americas, Abstract with programs, n.2, abstract 8-9, p. 87.
Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R., Coutand, I., Carrapa, B., Hilley, G.E., Sobel, E.R, Trauth, M. and
Uba, C. (2006) Tectonics and climate of the Argentine Puna Plateau and adjacent regions,
Geological Society of America specialty meeting, Backbone of the Americas, Abstract with
programs, n.2, abstract 11-1, p. 95.
Carrapa, B. and DeCelles, P.G. (2006) Detrital apatite fission track thermochronology of the
Argentine Puna: implications for early plateau development in Ventura, B., and Lisker, F., eds.,
European Conference on thermochronology, Volume 49: Schriftenreihe der Deutschen
Gesellschaft fuer Geowissenschaften, Bremen, Germany, p. 19.
Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., and Gehrels,G. (2006) Eocene detrital record of the Argentine
Puna: implications for early plateau development, 96thAnnual Meeting Geologische
Vereinigung, Potsdam, Terra Nostra, v. 2006/3, p. 37-38.
Guynn, J., Kapp, P., Volkmer, J., Carrapa, B. and Heizler, M. (2006) Minimal Cenozoic
Denudation of the Central Tibetan Plateau Revealed by low-Temperature Thermochronology Eos
Trans, Geological Society of America, Fall Meeting, Suppl., Abstract T43E-0687(52).
Carrapa, B. and Strecker (2005) The sedimentary record of intramontane basins in the Southern
Central Andes: insight into tectonic versus surface processes interactions in the creation of the
Puna Plateau, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, 7, p. 481.
Carrapa, B. and Decelles, P. (2005) Eocene sedimentation within the Argentine Puna:
implication for early plateau development, Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, v. 37, 7, p. 377.
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Carrapa, B., Barbieri, C., Hauer, J., Sosa Gomez, J., Strecker, M. R. and Schoenbohm, L. (2004)
Interactions Between Tectonics, Sedimentation and Climate in the Intramontane Bolson de
Fiambala Basin: Southern Puna Plateau (NW Argentina), Eos Trans. Geological Society of
America, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T51D-04.
Schoenbohm, L., Strecker, M. R., Carrapa, B., Barbieri,, C. and Wulf, H. (2004) Successive
Shortening and Extensional Faulting on the Southern Margin of the Puna Plateau and Fiambala
Basin, Northwest Argentina, Eos Trans. Geological Society of America, 85(47), Fall Meet.
Suppl. Abstract T51D-05.
Bertotti, G., Carrapa, B., Foeken, J. Juez-Larre', J. and Mosca, P. (2004) Late Orogenic Vertical
Movements in and Around the Ligurian Alps (SW Alps): Coexistence and Migration of KmScale Subsidence and Exhumation, Eos Trans. Geological Society of America, 85(47), Fall Meet.
Suppl., Abstract. T52B-03.
Strecker, M.R., Carrapa, B., Hulley, G.E., Scoenbohm, L., and Sobel, E.R. (2004) Erosional
control of Plateau evolution in the Central Andes, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with
Programs, v. 36, 5, p. 48.
Carrapa, B., Adelmann, D., Strecker, M. and Sobel, E.R. (2004) Oligocene uplift in the southern
central Andes: implications for early plateau development and aridification. Electronic abstract
volume of the Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology Conference, Amsterdam, 8-15 August,
abstract: TEC-19-O.
Coutand, I., Carrapa, B., Strecker, M. & Sobel, E. (2004) Sedimentary, Tectonic and
thermochronological of the southernmost end of the Puna Plateau (NW Argentina): the
intramontane Bolson de Fiambala. Electronic abstract volume of the International Geological
Congress, 22-28 August, Florence, Italy.
Carrapa, B., Di Giulio A. and Wijbrans, J. (2004) 40Ar/39Ar detrital thermochronology on
Eocene-Oligocene sediments of the Alps-Apennines knot area provides insights on the early
stages of the Alpine collision. Proceedings of 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence,
Italy.
Carrapa, B., Strecker, M and Sobel, E. (2004) Sedimentological and structural evolution of the
intramountane Bolson de Fiambalá Basin, 27oS-67oW, NW Sierra Pampeanas, Argentina.
Proceedings of 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy.
Carrapa, B., Wijbrans, J. and Bertotti, G. (2003) Cretaceous 40Ar/39Ar detrital mica ages in
tertiary sediments, solving the debate on the Eo-Alpine evolution? EGS-AGU-EUG Geophysical
Research Abstract, v. 5, abstract 02259.
Carrapa, B., Wijbrans, J. and Bertotti, G. (2002) Episodic exhumation in the European Western
Alps. Geological Society of America annual meeting, abstract (42497) 212-9.
Wijbrans, J., Carrapa, B. and von Eynatten, H. (2002) Looking at the Alpine ranges of Europe
in the past: 40Ar/39Ar dating of white micas from clastic sediments tells a tale of provenance and
exhumation Geological Society of America, annual meeting, abstract (37512) 212-8.
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Carrapa, B., Murrell, G., Wijbrans, J. & Bertotti, G. (2002) Detecting variations in
exhumation/erosion patterns within the Western Alpine Arc through 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology
on detrital minerals (Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy), Italian Geological Society of America,
Abstract volume 81, 93.
Carrapa, B., Wijbrans, J., Bertotti, G. (2002) Is steady state really occurring in the Alps? A case
study: The Tertiary Piedmont Basin Proceedings of the 27th General Assembly of the European
Geophysical Society (EGS) meeting, Nice, France, European Geophysical Society, Geophysical
research abstract, v. 4.
Barbieri C., Carrapa B., Di Giulio A. and Wijbrans J. (2001) A provenance study of a postCollisional transgressive sequence (Molare Formation, Italy) through integrated facies analysis,
mineral Chemistry and 40Ar/39Ar dating. Proceedings of the 11th European Union of Geosciences
(EUG) meeting, Journal of conference abstract OS04: SU, 534.
Carrapa B., Bertotti G., Wijbrans J. and Krijgsman W. (2001) Tectonic and sedimentation in
the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (Alpine domain, Northwest Italy). Proceedings of the 11th European
Union of Geosciences (EUG) meeting; Journal of conference abstact. OS04: SU, 526.
Carrapa, B., Bertotti, G., Wijbrans, J. (2001) Mechanisms involved in the formation of the
Tertiary Piedmont Basin in a collisional setting and relations between source area and basin infill
from 40Ar/39Ar dating. (un)coupled 2000, European Geophysical Society, Journal of the Czech
Geological Society, abstract volume 45, n.3-4.
Carrapa, B., Wijbrans, J. and Bertotti, G. (2001) Tectonic evolution of an active orogen as
reflected by the geochronology of detrital minerals in clastic sediment, European Geophysical
Society, Geophysical research abstract, v.2.
Di Giulio, A., Carrapa, B., Fantoni, R., Gorla L. and Valdisturlo, A. (1999) Timing of Middle
Eocene-Early Miocene depositional events in the western Lombardy South-Alpine foredeep. 4th
workshop on Alpine geological studies, abstract, A, 52, 137-139.
Carrapa, B. and Di Giulio, A. (1999) The sedimentary record of the exhumation of a Granitic
intrusion: a case study from Southern Alps, European Union of Geosciences, Terra Nova
Abstract, 11, 308.
Di Giulio A. and Carrapa, B. (1998) Detrital mode of the Como Cgl. and of the Val Grande Sst.,
Gongolite Group Oligocene-lower Miocene. Italian Annual meeting of Sedimentology, Bologna
(Italy), Giornale di Geologia, Serie 3, v. 87(52), 60.
Scholarly Presentations (in the last 5 years)
November 2015, invited seminar, Exhumation of the Sevier and Laramide regions and implications
for tectonics of the Western US, University of Oregon.
May 5, 2015, invited seminar, Exhumation history of southern Tibet and the Himalaya and tectono17
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climatic implications, University of Grenoble, France.
April 2, 2015, Cenozoic tectonic history of the Central Andes revealed by multi-proxy geochemical
analyses, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
November, 2014, invited seminar: “Applications of thermochronology to tectonic problems:
a case study from the Pamir-Tibet orogenic system” at the University of Bucharest, Romania.
November, 2014, invited seminar: “Applications of thermochronology to tectonic problems:
a case study from the Pamir-Tibet orogenic system” at the University of Milano, Italy.
November, 2014, invited seminar: “Applications of thermochronology to tectonic problems:
a case study from the Pamir-Tibet orogenic system” at the University of Pavia, Italy.
February 2014, invited seminar: “Miocene burial and exhumation of the India-Asia collision zone
in southern Tibet: response to slab dynamics and erosion”, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA.
November 2012, invited seminar: Erosion history of the Pamir revealed by detrital geothermochronology, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
October 2012, invited seminar: Erosion history of the Pamir revealed by detrital geothermochronology, University of Houston, Houston.
October 2012, invited seminar: Timing of contraction, extension, sedimentation and magmatism
explained by lithospheric "drips" in the Central Andes, Argentina, University of Washington,
Seattle.
March, 2010, invited seminar: Resolving the feedback between tectonics and climate using the
detrital record in the Andes and the Pamirs, Stanford University, Palo Alto.
AWARDED GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
(21) 2015-2018, Collaborative Research: Tectonic Significance of Long Run-Out CoarseGrained Facies in the Cordilleran Foreland Basin, NSF-Tectonics EAR-1524151, $220,000.
(20) 2014-2017, Collaborative Research: Investigating Mesozoic Deformation in the Pamir:
Implications for Crustal Thickening in the Pamir and the Evolution of the Tibetan Orogen, NSFTectonics EAR-14501917, $332,241.
(19) 2014-2015, Uplift of Cerro Aconcagua in Argentina and implications for Andean mountain
building, National Geographic Society, #9624-14, $ 25,000.
(18) 2014-2016, Collaborative Research: Did the Pamir Gneiss Domes and Salient form by
Northward Underthrusting of India or Southward Subduction and Rollback of Asia?, NSFTectonics EAR-141974, $206,000.
(17) 2013-2014 Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the Argentine Cordillera from
~33oS to 40oS, Exxon Mobil Research, $33,000,
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(16) 2013-2014 Mesozoic-Cenozoic basin evolution of the Tajik depression and surrounding
regions, $186,697, Exxon Mobil Exploration.
(15) 2012-2015, Collaborative research: Erosion and Exhumation History of the Nepalese
Himalaya Since Early Miocene Time: Constraints on Kinematic History and Geodynamic
Models, NSF-Tectonics, $580,242.
(14) 2011-2016, Collaborative Research: The suturing process: Insight from the India- Asia
collision zone, NSF-Continental dynamics, $293,623 (Carrapa's budget).
(13) 2010-2013, Convergent system analysis (COSA) Long-run-out-project ($72,134)
(12) 2009-2013, Collaborative Research: In pursuit of missing Andean lithosphere:
constraining Late Cenozoic crust-mantle processes in the Puna Plateau, Central Andes, NSFTectonics, EAR-0911577, $326,140.
(11) 2008-2013, Outcrop study of Sego Formation - a "New" analog for tidal sand deposition,
Northwestern Colorado, Shell International Exploration and Production Inc.
$200,000.
(10) 2010, International workshop: Deep intracontinental subduction in the Pamir; NSF
Continental Dynamics, $39,000.
(9) 2009-2011, CO2 sequestration in depleted compartmentalized gas fields. The key to
deploying clean coal technology in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Wyoming Geological
Society/School of Energy Resources, $200,000.
(8) 2008, Indo-Asia collision and the rise of the Pamir: New insights from Tajikistan, National
Geographic Exploratory Research Grant, $25,000.
(7) 2008, Exploring Indo-Asia collision, the rise of the Pamir and dynamics of foreland basin
formation: a record from Tajikistan, Basic Research Grant, A & S, UW, $2,500.
(6) 2008, Indo-Asia collision and the rise of the Pamir: new insights from Tajikistan,
International Travel Grant, A & S, UW, $2,000.
(5) 2007-2010, Collaborative research project: Stratigraphic Signatures of Orogeny: Assessing
the Timing of Initial Andean Crustal Shortening, NSF- Tectonics, EAR-0710724,
$133,718.
(4) 2007-2009, Collaborative research project: Climatic and Tectonic Controls on Sedimentation
and Incision in the Marginal Basins of the Southern Puna Plateau, National Science Foundation
(Tectonics), EAR-0635630, $138,189.
(3) 2007-2011, Foreland basin development in NW Argentina; implications for the timing and
mechanisms of mountain building in the Central Andes, € 750,000 ($ 1,060,392), Sofia
Kovalevskaja Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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(2) 2006-2007, Tertiary orogenic evolution of the southern Central Andes as reflected by the
detrital record preserved in the Puna Plateau and Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina. DFG
(German Research Foundation), CA 481-5-1, $197,000.
(1) 2003-2005, Plateau formation in a non-collisional mountain belt: The intra-Andean Puna
Plateau, NW Argentina, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, $121,660.
SERVICE/OUTREACH (in the last 5 years)
National and International Services
December 2015-converner at AGU of the session: Building the Andes from mantle to surface
dynamics.
June 2015-topical class in geology and plate tectonics to 6th through 8th grade pupils, Middle
School Plana, Voghera (Italy)
Fall 2015-Member of the external departmental review committee for the University of Idaho,
Dept. of Geosciences
2014-Present, Member of the International Thermochronology Standing Committee (TSC)
2013, Member of the AGU Tectonophysics Meeting Committee
Departmental Committees and Services
Spring 2016-Member of the graduate admission committee
Fall 2015-Member of Faculty Performance Evaluation committee
Spring 2014-Graduate admission committee member
Spring 2014-Judge for Geodaze
Fall 2013- Member of the Faculty Performance Evaluation committee
Spring 2013-Graduate policy committee member
Fall 2012-Spring 2013, organizer of the Geosciences colloquium
Fall 2012, Graduate Policy committee member
Spring 2012, Graduate policy committee member
Spring 2012, Ad hoc committee member
Fall 2011-Spring 2012, organizer of the Geosciences colloquium
Spring 2011, Tenure and Promotion committee member
Spring 2011, Member of Faculty Performance Evaluation committee
Spring 2011, Head judge for Geodaze
Spring 2011, Graduate admission committee member
Spring 2011, Special Search committee for Economic Geology
College committee
2013-2015 Review/Audit of annual review/post tenure review
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Service on other dissertation and graduate committees
Graduate Committee Memberships (excluding those chaired)
Daniel Portner (Ph.D. candidate), University of Arizona
Ryan Leary (Ph.D. candidate), University of Arizona
Jack Gibbons (Ph.D. candidate), University of Arizona
James Worthington (Ph.D. candidate), University of Arizona
Drew Laskowski (Ph.D. candidate), University of Arizona
Kate Metcalf (Ph.D. candidate), University of Arizona
Jay Chapman (Ph.D. candidate), University of Arizona
Edward Cross (M.S.), University of Arizona
Robin Canavan (M.S.), University of Wyoming
External Graduate Committee Memberships
Mohammadi Ali (Ph.D. candidate), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Other committees
2004-Present, Reviewer for Nature Geoscience, EPSL, Geology, Tectonics, Sedimentology,
Tectonophysics, GSA Bulletin, Basin Research, G-cubed, Journal of Sedimentary Research,
Lithosphere, Terra Nova, NSF proposals, European Research Council proposals
2013-Present: member of the editorial board for Lithosphere
ADVISING AND MENTORING
Undergraduate
Current
Syn Yee Tan
Muhammad Nur Addeen Amran
Kaitlynn Walker
Sharon Nicole Harris
Leslie Insixiengmay
Past
Mariah Christina Romero (graduated in Summer 2015)
Mohd Faiz Bin Hassim (graduated in Fall 2014, now at Petronas)
Fariq Mustapha Shazanee (graduated in Fall 2011, now at Petronas)
Jan Hauer (University of Potsdam)
Jan Arndt (University of Potsdam)
Graduates
Current
Simon Stickroth (M.S. candidate, UA)
Andrea Stevens (Ph.D. candidate, UA)
Shana Wolff (Ph.D. candidate, UA)
Susana Marison Enrique Gonzales (Ph.D. candidate, UA; co-advised with P.DeCelles)
Past
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Devon Orme (Ph.D., UA); graduated in Summer, 2015, now post-doc at Stanford.
Elizabeth Balgord (Ph.D.); now Assistant Prof. at Weeber University.
Clayton Painter (Ph.D., UA); graduated in 2013, now working for Chevron
Kortyna Cullen (M.S., UA), co-advised; graduated in 2013, now working for Chevron
Claire Lukens (M.S., U. Wyoming); graduated in 2010, current Ph.D. at the University of Wyoming
John Boyd (M.S., U. Wyoming); graduated in 2010, now working for British Petroleum
John Trimble (M.S., U. Wyoming), graduated in 2010, now working for British Petroleum
Carly York (M.S., U. Wyoming), graduated in 2010, now working for an independent consultancy
firm in Laramie, WY
Sharon Bywater (M.S., U. Wyoming), graduated in 2009, current Ph.D. at the University of
Montana
Post-doctoral Advisees:
Dr. Julie Fosdick (Dec 2011-2013, UA); now Assistant Professor at the University of Indiana
Dr. Majie Fan (2008-2010, U Wyoming); now Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at
Arlington
Dr. William Chris Krugh (2007-2010, U Wyoming); now Assistant Professor at UC Riverside
LIST OF ADVISERS/COLLABORATORS (in the last 5 years)
Dr. Paul Andriessen, Ph.D. co-adviser (Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Dr. Thorsten Becker (University of Southern California)
Dr. Giovanni Bertotti, Ph.D. adviser (Delft University, Delft, The Netherlands)
Dr. Mark Clementz (University of Wyoming)
Dr. Sierd Cloetingh, Ph.D. co-adviser (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Dr. Andy Cohen (University of Arizona)
Dr. Mike Cosca (USGS, Denver)
Dr. Peter G. DeCelles (University of Arizona)
Dr. Andrea Di Giulio (University of Pavia, Italy)
Dr. Claudio Faccenna (Roma 3)
Dr. Julie Fosdick (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Dr. Brian Horton (UT Austin)
Dr. Kate Huntington (University of Washington)
Dr. John Geisman (U Texas Dallas)
Dr. Paul Kapp (University of Arizona)
Dr. Brian Kraatz (Western University)
Dr. Jay Quade (University of Arizona)
Dr. Nicoletta Mancin (University of Pavia, Italy)
Dr. Meng Jin (American Museum of Natural History)
Dr. Peter Reiners (University of Arizona)
Dr. Alex Robinson (U Houston)
Dr. Joellen Russell (University of Arizona)
Dr. Lindsay Schoenbohm (University of Toronto, CA)
Dr. Edward Sobel (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Dr. Daniel Stockli (University of Texas at Austin)
Dr. Manfred Strecker, Post-doctoral mentor (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Dr. Sean Willett (ETH, Zurich)
Dr. Jan Wijbrans, Ph.D. adviser (Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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