June 2017 Geology Paper

Bear grass in the Priest River complex, northern Idaho.

With my University of Montana colleagues Rebecca Bendick and Julie Baldwin, I published a paper in the June 2017 issue of Geology.

How do metamorphic core complexes, which form through extension (stretching) of the crust, develop in a fundamentally compressional tectonic setting, such as the northern U.S. Rockies? We developed a numerical model that allows just that, and then evaluated it using data from natural core complexes.

The paper is titled "Synconvergent exhumation of metamorphic core complexes in the northern North American Cordillera." Get the PDF!