Cianzo basin, northwestern Argentina

Brian Horton
Research Projects

Assessing the timing of initial Andean crustal shortening, northern Argentina (NSF Tectonics)

Rifting and exhumation of the youngest high-pressure/ultra-high-pressure rocks on Earth (NSF Continental Dynamics)

Development of extensional systems in regions of hot, thick crust: Insight from Tibet (NSF Tectonics)

Basin evolution and structural history of a regional transect through the Middle Magdalena Valley, Eastern Cordillera, and western Llanos basin of Colombia (Ecopetrol - Instituto Colombiano del Petroleo)

CAUGHT: Central Andean Uplift and the Geodynamics of High Topography (NSF Continental Dynamics)

STEEP: St. Elias Erosion-tectonics Project (NSF Continental Dynamics)

Evaluating along-strike variations in surface uplift of the Andes: Constraints from molecular paleoaltimetry in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia (NSF Tectonics)

Select Past Research
Acquisition of a solid-state 193-nm laser-ablation system (NSF Instrumentation and Facilities)

Tectonic and climatic controls on rapid exhumation along the Altiplano-Eastern Cordillera boundary, Bolivia (NSF Tectonics)

Kinematic linkages among extrusion, fold-thrust shortening, and foreland basin evolution during early continental collision, Zagros Mountains, Iran (NSF Tectonics)

Detachment faulting and basin development in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru (NSF Tectonics)