PUBLICATIONS
Books
Kearey, P., Klepeis, K.A. & Vine, F. , 2007, Global Tectonics, third edition, Blackwell
Science, Oxford, in press. Projected publication January, 2008.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
Klepeis, K.A., King, D.S., De Paoli, M., Clarke, G.L., and Gehrels, G., 2007, Interaction
of strong lower and weak middle crust during lithospheric extension in western New
Zealand. Tectonics, in press.
Klepeis, K.A. and King, D.S., 2007, Evolution of the middle and lower crust during the
transition from contraction to extension in Fiordland, New Zealand. In Crustal Cross
sections (Miller, R., Snoke, A. eds.), Geological Society of America Special Paper, in
press.
Crawford, M.L., Klepeis, K.A., Gehrels, G.E., Lindline, J., 2007, Mid-Cretaceous-Recent
crustal evolution in the central Coast Orogen, British Columbia and southeastern
Alaska. In Crustal Cross sections (Miller, R., Snoke, A. eds.), Geological Society of
America Special Paper, accepted pending revisions.
*Marcotte, S.B., Klepeis, K.A., Clarke, G.L., Gehrels, G. & Hollis, J.A., 2005, Intra-arc
transpression in the lower crust and its relationship to magmatism in a Mesozoic
magmatic arc. Tectonophysics, 407, 135-163.
Clarke, G.L., Daczko, N.R., Klepeis, K.A., Rushmer, T. 2005, Roles for fluid and/or melt
advection in forming high-P mafic migmatites, Fiordland, New Zealand, J. of
Metamorphic Geology, 23, 557–567.
Flowers, R.M., Bowring, S.A., Tulloch, A.J., Klepeis, K.A., 2005, Tempo of burial and
exhumation within the deep roots of a magmatic arc, Fiordland, New Zealand,
Geology, 33(1), 17–20.
Stevenson, J., Daczko, N., Clarke, G., Pearson, N., & Klepeis, K., 2005, Direct
observation of adakite melts generated in the lower continental crust, Fiordland, New
Zealand, Terra Nova, 17, 73-79.
Klepeis, K.A., G. L. Clarke, G. Gehrels, J. Vervoort, 2004, Processes controlling vertical
coupling and decoupling between the upper and lower crust of orogens: results from
Fiordland, New Zealand, J. of Structural Geology, 26(4), 765-791.
Klepeis, K.A. and Clarke, G.L., 2004, Evolution of an exposed lower crustal attachment
zone in Fiordland, New Zealand, In: Vertical coupling and decoupling in the
lithosphere, Grocott, J., McCaffrey, K., Taylor, G., Tikoff, B. (eds), Geological
Society, London, Special Publications, 227, 197-229.
Schröter, F.C., J. A. Stevenson, N. R. Daczko, G. L. Clarke, N. J. Pearson, & K.A.
Klepeis, 2004, Trace element partitioning during high-P partial melting and melt-rock
interaction; an example from northern Fiordland, New Zealand, J. of Metamorphic
Geology,22, 443-457.
Hollis, J.A., Clarke, G.L., Klepeis, K.A., Daczko, N.R., and Ireland, T.R., 2004, The
regional significance of Cretaceous magmatism and metamorphism in Fiordland,
New Zealand, from U-Pb zircon geochronology, J. of Metamorphic Geology,22, 607627.
Klepeis, K.A, Clarke, G.L., Rushmer, T., 2003, Magma transport and coupling between
deformation and magmatism in the continental lithosphere, GSA Today, 13(1), 4-11.
Hollis, J.A., Clarke, G.L., Klepeis, K.A., Daczko, D.A., Ireland, T.R., 2003,
Geochronology and Geochemistry of high-pressure granulites of the Arthur River
Complex, Fiordland, New Zealand: Cretaceous Magmatism and Metamorphism on
the Palaeo-Pacific Margin. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21, 299-313.
*Claypool, A, Klepeis, K., *Dockrill, B., Clarke, G., Zwingmann, H., 2002, Structure and
kinematics of oblique continental convergence in Northern Fiordland, New Zealand,
Tectonophysics, 359(3-4), 329-358.
*Daczko, N., K.A. Klepeis, and G.L. Clarke, 2002a, Thermomechanical evolution of the
crust during convergence and deep crustal pluton emplacement in the Western
Province of Fiordland, New Zealand, Tectonics, 21, 1-18.
* Daczko, N.R., Stevenson, J.A., Clarke, G.L. & Klepeis, K.A., 2002b. Successive
hydration and dehydration of high-P mafic granofels involving clinopyroxene-kyanite
symplectites, Mt. Daniel, Fiordland, New Zealand, Journal of Metamorphic Geology,
20, 669-682.
*Daczko, N., K.A. Klepeis, and G.L. Clarke, 2002c. Kyanite-paragonite-bearing
assemblages, northern Fiordland, New Zealand: rapid cooling of the lower crustal
root to a Cretaceous magmatic arc, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 887-902.
*Daczko, N., K.A. Klepeis, and G.L. Clarke, 2001a, Evidence of early Cretaceous
collisional-style orogenesis in northern Fiordland, New Zealand and its effects on the
evolution of the lower crust, J. of Structural Geology, 23, 693-713.
*Daczko, N., G.L. Clarke, K.A. Klepeis, 2001b, The transformation of two-pyroxeneamphibole granulite to garnet granulite; simultaneous melting and fracturing of the
lower crust. Fiordland, New Zealand, J. of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 547-560.
Clarke, G.L., Klepeis, K.A., and Daczko, N., 2000, Cretaceous high-P granulites at
Milford Sound, New Zealand; metamorphic history and emplacement in a convergent
margin setting, J. of Metamorphic Geology; 18 (4), 359-374.
Klepeis, K.A., Daczko, N. R., and Clarke, G.L., 1999, Kinematic vorticity and tectonic
significance of superposed mylonites in a major lower crustal shear zone, northern
Fiordland, New Zealand, J. of Structural Geology, 21(10), 1385-1405.
Crawford, M.L., K. A. Klepeis, G. Gehrels, and C. Isachsen, 1999, Batholith
emplacement at mid-crustal levels and its exhumation within an obliquely
convergent margin, Tectonophysics, 312, 57-78.
Klepeis, K.A. and M.L. Crawford, 1999, High temperature, arc-parallel normal faulting
at the roots of an obliquely convergent orogen, Geology, 27 (1), 7-10.
Klepeis, K.A., M.L. Crawford, and G. Gehrels, 1998, Structural history of the crustalscale Coast shear zone near Portland Canal, Coast Mountains orogen, southeast
Alaska and British Columbia, J. of Structural Geology, 20(7), 883-904.
Klepeis, K.A., and J.A. Austin, 1997, Contrasting styles of superposed deformation in the
southernmost Andes, Tectonics, 16(5), 755-776.
Klepeis, K.A., and L.A. Lawver, 1996, Tectonics of the Antarctic-Scotia plate boundary
near Elephant and Clarence islands, West Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res., 101(B9),
20,211-20,231.
Goldstein, A. J. Pickens, K. Klepeis, and F. Linn, 1995, Finite strain heterogeneity and
volume loss in slates of the Taconic allochthon, Vermont, U.S.A., J. of Structural
Geology, 17(9), 1207-1216.
Klepeis, K.A., 1994, Relationship between uplift of the metamorphic core of the
southernmost Andes and shortening in the Magallanes foreland fold and thrust belt,
Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Tectonics, 13, 882-904.
Klepeis, K.A., 1994, The Magallanes and Deseado Fault Zones: Major segments of the
South American-Scotia transform plate boundary in southernmost South America,
Tierra del Fuego, J. Geophys. Res., 99(B11), 22,001-22,014.
Cunningham, D., K.A. Klepeis, I.W.D. Dalziel, and W.A. Gose, 1991, The Patagonian
Orocline: New Paleomagnetic Data From the Andean Magmatic Arc in Tierra del
Fuego, Chile, J. Geophys. Res., 96(B10), 16,061-16,067.
* Student authored papers