Jeremy Keith Hourigan

About

Jeremy Keith Hourigan is a Professor in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Department at UC Santa Cruz. His expertise lies in thermochronology, structural geology, and tectonics. He is based in the Earth & Marine Sciences building, office A221, and can be contacted via phone at 831-459-2873 or email at hourigan@ucsc.edu. The information provided highlights his research focus on understanding geological processes through the study of thermochronology and structural geology, which are key to interpreting tectonic activity and the thermal history of rocks.

Research topics

• Geology
• Paleontology
• Computer Science
• Geochemistry
• Geography
• Geomorphology
• Physical geography
• Climatology

Selected publications

• Microbial and Geochronologic Constraints on the Neogene Paleotopography of Northern Tibetan Plateau

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2019-01-25 · 48 citations

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  Abstract High topography is the manifestation of the balance between deep and surficial erosional processes. Hence, reconstructions of paleotopography are critical for disentangling records of orogenesis and climate. Here we used a new approach by combining detrital zircon U‐Pb geochronology and tetraether‐based paleothermometry to characterize the Neogene paleotopography of Northern Tibetan Plateau. Detrital zircon U‐Pb data reveal that the Qilian Shan has been uplifted, providing sediments to…

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• Transient glacial incision in the Patagonian Andes from ~6 Ma to present

  Science Advances · 2020 · 29 citations

  Early glaciations in the Patagonian Andes show that fast initial glacial erosion is transient and is not a steady condition.

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• Growth and steady state of the Patagonian Andes

  American Journal of Science · 2019-06-01 · 27 citations

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  Water isotopes are an important tool for reconstructing the amount of atmospheric lifting related to high topography in the geologic past. However, our capacity for meaningful interpretation requires understanding the climatic setting and isolating the influence of orography on water isotopes. Patagonia9s simple, steady climatology and location within the Southern Westerlies makes it an ideal setting for successful application of water isotopes to measuring topography through time. Here we use h…

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• Burial and exhumation of the Hoh Xil Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau: Constraints from detrital (U‐Th)/He ages

  Basin Research · 2019-09-12 · 22 citations

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  Abstract The uplift and associated exhumation of the Tibetan Plateau has been widely considered a key control of Cenozoic global cooling. The south‐central parts of this plateau experienced rapid exhumation during the Cretaceous–Palaeocene periods. When and how the northern part was exhumed, however, remains controversial. The Hoh Xil Basin (HXB) is the largest late Cretaceous–Cenozoic sedimentary basin in the northern part, and it preserves the archives of the exhumation history. We present det…

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• Detrital K-feldspar Pb isotopic evaluation of extraregional sediment transported through an Eocene tectonic breach of southern California's Cretaceous batholith

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2018-12-21 · 13 citations

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Orogeny, orography, and unsteady erosion: evolution of the Himalaya

  NSF · $189k · 2008–2013

Frequent coauthors

• Marty Grove

  33 shared

• M. T. Brandon

  24 shared

• Guangsheng Zhuang

  21 shared

• Glenn R. Sharman

  University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

  21 shared

• Bradley D. Ritts

  20 shared

• David L. Shuster

  Planetary Science Institute

  16 shared

• Gordon B. Haxel

  16 shared

• A. V. Soloviev

  Lomonosov Moscow State University

  13 shared

Education

• Assistant Researcher, Institute for Crustal Studies

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  2005

• Postdoctoral Associate, Geology and Geophysics

  Yale University

  2005

• Doctor of Philosophy, Geological and Environmental Sciences

  Stanford University

  2003

• Bachelor of Arts, Russian

  University of Vermont

  1996

• Bachelor of Science, Geology

  University of Vermont

  1996

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