Douglas West Burbank

Douglas West Burbank

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Data

Born: 24 August, 1951; Connecticut

Business Address: Institute for Crustal Studies, Dept. of Earth Science

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Education

B.A.(1972) Reed College, Portland, Oregon (Literature)

M.S.(1979) University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (Geology)

Ph.D.(1982) Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (Geology)

Academic Positions

2011-Chair, Department of Earth Science

2010-2011Co-Director, Earth Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara

2001-2010Director, Institute for Crustal Studies, UC Santa Barbara

2001-presentProfessor of Earth Sciences, UC Santa Barbara

1997-2000 Professor, Pennsylvania State University

1994-97Professor, University of Southern California

1987-94Associate Professor, University of Southern California

1982-87Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

Academic Honors

1988-89 NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, U.K.

1993-94Crosby Distinguished Lectureship, Mass. Inst. of Technology

1995-96Visiting Professorship, Victoria University, Wellington, N.Z.

1998Fellow of the Geological Society of America

2005Halbouty Visiting Chair in Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M

2006Cox Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University

2008Fellow, American Geophysical Union

2009 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ

2009UCSB Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award

2009 Easterbrook Distinguished Scientist Award (Geol. Soc. Amer.)

2010Member, National Academy of Sciences

Research Interests

Tectonic geomorphology; active tectonics; structural and stratigraphic evolution of fold-and-thrust belts and foreland basins; evolution of collisional mountain ranges; kinematics of folding; basin analysis and modeling; analysis of digital topography; sedimentology; magnetostratigraphy; Quaternary paleoclimatology; glacial geology; geodynamics.

Research in Progress:

(1) Characterizing steady-state and pre-steady state topography in collisional mountains

(2)Calibrating interactions between climate, erosion, and tectonics (Nepalese Himalaya)

(3)Rock strength, climate, and erosion in the Colorado Rockies

(4)Indentation tectonics and geodetic-geologic contrasts (Tien Shan)

(5)Quaternary evolution of thrust faults (New Zealand, Kyrgyzstan)

(6)Neogene tectonics and plateau growth of the Tibetan and Puna Plateaus

(7)Miocene to Recent paleoerosion rates in the Eastern Andes (NW Argentina)

(8)Calibrating orogenic deformation with detrital ages (Nepal, Tibet, Argentina)

Field Experience

Neotectonics and tectonic geomorphology: NW Himalaya, Pakistan and India; Kyrgyz Republic; eastern & central California; New Zealand, Nepal, Tibet, Tien Shan, NW Argentina

Quaternary mapping and glacial geology: Washington Cascades; Sierra Nevada; Ladakh, Karakoram, & Nepal, North-Central China; NW Wyoming; Mt. Everest, Tien Shan.

Fold-and-thrust belt structure and foreland-basin sedimentation: Pakistan & India; Pyrenean basins, Spain; Alpine molasse: Switzerland & France; Cordillera; Kyrgystan, New Zealand, China, Andes

Structural mapping: Andes (Argentina) Pyrenees, New Zealand, Everest, NW Himalaya; southern California, Nepal, Tien Shan, Southern Alps, New Zealand, Tibet

Magnetic stratigraphy: foreland & intermontane basins of NW Himalaya, Rockies, northern Spain, Switzerland, France, and Germany; southern California, Tien Shan, Tibet, Tarim

Fission-track & U-Th/He dating and rock-uplift studies: Teton Range; NW Himalaya; Mt. Everest; Transverse Ranges, Tien Shan, Tibet, Nepalese Himalaya, Fiordland

Publications: Books

Burbank, D.W., and Anderson, R.S., 2001, Tectonic Geomorphology: Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, 274 pp.

Burbank, D.W., and Anderson, R.S., Fall 2011, Tectonic Geomorphology (Second edition: Wiley)

Research Papers and Book Chapter

In review/revision:

In Press: graduate advisees (italics); postdocs (*)

Published:

Godard*, V., Burbank, D.W., Bourlès, D.L.,Bookhagen, B.,Braucher, R., andFisher, G.B., 2012, Impact of glacial erosion on 10Be concentrations in fluvial sediments of the Marsyandi catchment, central Nepal: J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JF002230,

Lease, R. O., Burbank, D.W., Zhang, H., Liu, J., and Yuan, D., 2012, Cenozoic shortening budget for the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau: Is lower crustal flow necessary?:Tectonics, v.31, doi:10.1029/2011TC003066.

Li, T., Chen, J.,Thompson, J.A.,Burbank, D.W., and Xiao, W.,2012, Equivalency of geologic and geodetic rates in contractional orogens: new insights from the Pamir Frontal Thrust: Geophysical Research Letters,doi:10.1029/2012GL051782.

Lease, R.O., Burbank, D.W., Hough, B., Wang, Z., and Yuan, D., 2012, Pulsed Miocene range growth in northeastern Tibet: Insights from Xunhua basin magnetostratigraphy and provenance, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi: 10.1130/B30524.1, pp. 21.

Pratt-Sitaula, B., Burbank, D. W., Heimsath, A. M., Humphrey, N. F., Oskin, M., and Putkonen, J., 2011, Topographic control of asynchronous glacial advances: A case study from Annapurna, Nepal: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 38, L24502, doi:24510.21029/22011GL049940.

Goode, J. K., Burbank, D. W., and Bookhagen, B., 2011, Basin width control of faulting in the Naryn Basin, south-central Kyrgyzstan: Tectonics, v. 30, TC6009, doi:6010.1029/2011TC002910.

Clarke, B. A., and Burbank, D. W., 2011, Quantifying bedrock-fracture patterns within the shallow subsurface: Implications for rock mass strength, bedrock landslides, and erodibility: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 116, F04009, doi.org/10.1029/2011JF001987 (22 pp).

Godard*, V., andBurbank, D., 2011, Mechanical analysis of controls on strain partitioning in the Himalayas of central Nepal, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, B10402, doi:10.1029/2011JB0082 (19 pp).

Rood, D. H., Burbank, D. W., Herman, S. W., and Bogue, S., 2011, Rates and timing of vertical-axis block rotations across the central Sierra Nevada-Walker Lane transition in the Bodie Hills, California/Nevada: Tectonics, v. 30, TC5013, doi:5010.1029/2010TC002754. (23 pp).

Clarke, B.A., and Burbank, D.W., 2011, Quantifying bedrock-fracture patterns within the shallow subsurface: Implications for rock-mass strength, bedrock landslides, and erodibility: Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2011JF00198.

Amos, C.B., Lapwood, J.J., Nobes, D.C., Burbank, D.W., Rieser, U., and Wade, A., 2011, Paleoseismic Constraints on Holocene Surface Ruptures along the Ostler Fault, Southern New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v. 52, p. 367-378.

Goode, J.K., and Burbank, D.W., 2011,Minor Channels on Growing Folds and their Bearing on Fold Kinematics: Journal of Geophysical Research –Solid Earth,116, B04407, doi:10.1029/2010JB007617.

Rood, D.H., Burbank, D.W., and Finkel, R. C., 2011, Chronology of Glaciations in the Sierra Nevada, California, from 10Be Surface Exposure Dating: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 30, p. 646-661.

Lease, R.O., Burbank, D.W., Clark, M.K., Farley, K.A., Zheng, D., and Zhang, H., 2011, Middle Miocene reorganization of deformation along the northeastern Tibetan Plateau , Geology, doi: 10.1130/G31356.1

Rood, D.H., Burbank, D.W., and Finkel, R. C., 2011, Spatiotemporal Patterns of Fault Slip Rates Across the Central Sierra Nevada Frontal Fault Zone: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 301, p. 457-468; doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.006.

Rood, D. H., Burbank, D. W., and Finkel, R. C., 2011, Chronology of glaciations in the Sierra Nevada, California, from 10Be surface exposure dating: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 30, p. 646-661.

Harkins, N., Kirby*, E., Shi, X., Wang, E., Burbank, D., and Chun, F., 2010, Millennial slip rates along the eastern Kunlun fault: Implications for the dynamics of intracontinental deformation in Asia: Lithosphere, v. 2, p. 247-266.

Hough, B. G., Garzione, C. N., Wang, Z., Lease, R. O., Burbank, D. W., and Yuan, D., 2011, Stable isotope evidence for topographic growth and basin segmentation: Implications for the evolution of the NE Tibetan Plateau: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 122, doi:10.1130/B30090.1.

Clarke, B. A., and Burbank, D. W., 2010, Bedrock fracturing, threshold hillslopes, and limits to the magnitude of bedrock landslides: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 297, p. 577-586.

Gabet*, E. J., Wolff-Boenisch, D., Langner, H., Burbank, D. W., and Putkonen, J., 2010, Geomorphic and climatic controls on chemical weathering in the High Himalayas of Nepal: Geomorphology, v. 122, p. 205-210.

Bookhagen*, B., and Burbank, D. W., 2010, Toward a complete Himalayan hydrological budget: Spatiotemporal distribution of snowmelt and rainfall and their impact on river discharge: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 115, p. F03019, doi:10.1029/2009JF001426.

Amos, C. B., D. W. Burbank, and S. A. L. Read, 2010, Along-strike growth of the Ostler fault, New Zealand, and consequences for drainage deflection above a non-propagating thrust, Tectonics, 29, TC4021, doi:4010.1029/2009TC002613.

Lu, H., Burbank, D. W., and Li, Y., 2010, Alluvial sequence in the north piedmont of the Chinese Tian Shan over the past 550†kyr and its relationship to climate change: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 285, p. 343-353.

Wallace, S.C., Nobes, D.C., Davis, K.J., and Burbank, D.W., 2010, Three-dimensional GPR imaging of the Benmore Anticline and step-over of theOstler Fault, South Island, New Zealand: Geophysical Journal International, v. 180, 465-474.

Najman, Y., Bickle, M., Garzanti, E., Pringle, M., Barfod, D., Brozovic, N., Burbank, D., and Ando, S., 2009, Reconstructing the exhumation history of the Lesser Himalaya, NW India, from a multitechnique provenance study of the foreland basin Siwalik Group: Tectonics, v. 28, p. TC5018, doi:10.1029/2009TC00250.

Goode, J. K., and Burbank, D. W., 2009, Numerical study of degradation of fluvial hanging valleys due to climate change: J. Geophys. Res., v. 114, p. F01017, doi:10.1029/2007JF000965.

Lu, H., Burbank, D. W., Li, Y., and Liu, Y., 2009, Late Cenozoic structural and stratigraphic evolution of the northern Chinese Tian Shan foreland: Basin Research, v. 21, p. 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00412.x.

Wolff-Boenisch, D., Gabet, E. J., Burbank, D. W., Langner, H., and Putkonen, J., 2009, Spatial variations in chemical weathering and CO2 consumption in Nepalese High Himalayan catchments during the monsoon season: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 73, p. 3148-3170.

Heermance, R. V., Chen, J., Burbank, D. W., and Miao, J., 2008, Evidence for pulsed deformation during the structural development of the active Kashi foreland, northwest China: Tectonics, v. 27, p. TC6012, doi:10.1029/2007TC002226.

Gabet*, E.J., Burbank, D.W., Pratt-Sitaula, B., Putkonen, J., and Bookhagen*, B., 2008, Modern erosion rates in the High Himalayas of Nepal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 267, 482-494.

Amidon, W. H., K. A. Farley, D. W. Burbank, and B. Pratt-Sitaula (2008), Anomalous cosmogenic 3He production and elevation scaling in the high Himalaya, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 265, 287-301.

Burbank, D.W., I.D. Brewer, E.R. Sobel and M.E. Bullen, 2007, Single-crystal dating and the detrital record of orogenesis, in Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins: A Tribute to Peter Friend,Nichols, G., Williams, E., Paola, C. (eds.): John Wiley and Sons, p. 253-281.

Heermance, R.V., Chen, J., Burbank, D.W., and Wang, C., 2007, Chronology and tectonic controls of Late Tertiary deposition in the southwestern Tian Shan foreland, NW China: Basin Research, v. 19, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00339.x, pp. 34.

Craddock, W. H., D. W. Burbank, B. Bookhagen*, and E. J. Gabet* (2007), Bedrock channel geometry along an orographic precipitation gradient in the upper Marsyandi River valley in central Nepal, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 112, F03007, doi:03010.01029/02006JF000589.

Oskin*, M., and D. W. Burbank (2007), Transient landscape evolution of basement-cored uplifts: Example of the Kyrgyz Range, Tian Shan, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, F03S03, doi:10.1029/2006JF000563.

Pratt-Sitaula, B., M. Garde, D. W. Burbank, M. Oskin*, A. Heimsath, and E. Gabet* (2007), Bedload-to-suspended load ratio and rapid bedrock incision from Himalayan landslide-dam lake record, Quaternary Research, 68, 111-120.

Farr, T. G., Rosen, P.A.,Caro, E., Crippen, R., Duren, R., Hensley, S., Kobrick, M., Paller, M., Rodriguez, E., Roth, L., Seal, D., Shaffer, S., Shimada, J., Umland, J., Werner, M., Oskin*, M., Burbank, D., and Alsdorf, D. (2007), The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, Rev. Geophys., 45, RG2004, doi:10.1029/2005RG000183.

Whipp D. M. Jr., T. A. Ehlers, A. E. Blythe, K. W. Huntington, K. V. Hodges, D. W. Burbank (2007), Plio-Quaternary exhumation history of the central Nepalese Himalaya: 2. Thermokinematic and thermochronometer age prediction model, Tectonics, 26, TC3003, doi:10.1029/2006TC001991.

Blythe, A. E., D. W. Burbank, A. Carter, K. Schmidt, and J. Putkonen (2007), Plio-Quaternary exhumation history of the central Nepalese Himalaya: 1. Apatite and zircon fission track and apatite [U-Th]/He analyses, Tectonics, 26, TC3002, doi:10.1029/2006TC001990.

Amos, C. B., and D. Burbank (2007), Channel width response to differential uplift, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, F02010, doi:02010.01029/02006JF000672.

Chen, J., R. Heermance, D. W. Burbank, K. M. Scharer, J. Miao, and C. Wang (2007), Quantification of growth and lateral propagation of the Kashi anticline, southwest Chinese Tian Shan, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B03S16, doi:10.1029/2006JB004345.

Kirby*, E., N. Harkins, X. S. E. Wang, C. Fan, and D. Burbank (2007), Slip rate gradients along the eastern Kunlun fault, Tectonics, 26, TC2010, doi:2010.1029/2006TC002033.

Amos, C. B., D. W. Burbank, D. C. Nobes, and S. A. L. Read, 2007, Geomorphic constraints on listric thrust faulting: Implications for active deformation in the Mackenzie Basin, South Island, New Zealand,J. Geophys. Res.,112, B03S11, doi:10.1029/2006JB004291.24 pp.

Lease, R., Burbank, D.W., Gehrels, G.E., Wang, Z., and Yuan, D., 2007, Signatures of mountain building: Detrital zircon U-Pb ages from northeast Tibet, Geology, v. 35; no. 3; p. 239–242; doi: 10.1130/G23057A.1.

Kirby*, E., Burbank, D., Reheis, M., and Phillips, F. M., 2006, Temporal variations in slip rate of the White Mountain Fault Zone, Eastern California: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 248, p. 168-185.

Brewer, I. A. and D. Burbank 2006, Thermal and kinematic modeling of bedrock and detrital cooling ages in the Central Himalaya: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 111: B09409, doi:10.1029/2004JB003304.

Bookhagen*, B., and Burbank, D.W., 2006, Topography, relief, and TRMM-derived rainfall variations along the Himalaya: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL026037.

Scharer, K. M., Burbank, D. W. Chen, J., Weldon, R. J. II, 2006, Kinematic models of fluvial terraces over active detachment folds: constraints on the growth mechanism of the Kashi-Atushi fold system, Chinese Tian Shan: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118; no. 7/8; p. 1006–1021; doi: 10.1130/B25835.1

Sobel, E.R., Oskin*, M., Burbank, D.W., Mikolaichuk, A., 2006, Exhumation of basement-cored uplifts: Example of the Kyrgyz Range quantified with apatite fission-track thermochronology: Tectonics, v.25,TC2008, 10.1029/2005TC001809.

Brewer, I.D., Burbank, D.W., and Hodges, K.V., 2006, Downstream development of a detrital cooling-age signal: Insights from 40Ar/39Ar muscovite thermochronology in the Nepalese Himalaya, in Willett, S.D., Hovius, N., Brandon, M.T., and Fisher, D., eds., Tectonics, climate, and landscape evolution: Geological Society of America Special Paper 398, Penrose Conference Series, p.321–338, doi: 10.1130/2006.2398(20).

Barros, A.P., Chiao, Sen, Timothy J. Lang, T.J., Burbank, D.W., and Putkonen, J., 2006, From Weather to Climate – Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Storms and Implications for Erosion Processes in the Himalaya, in Willett, S.D., Hovius, N., Brandon, M.T., and Fisher, D., eds., Tectonics, climate, and landscape evolution: : Geological Society of America Special Paper 398, p. 17–38, doi: 10.1130/2006.2398(02).

Amidon, W. H., Burbank, D.W., and Gehrels, G.E., (2005), Construction of foreland mineral populations: insights from mixing of U-Pb zircon ages in Himalayan rivers: Basin Research, v. 17, p. 463-485. doi: 410.1111/j.1365-2117.2005.00279.x.

Oskin*, M., and Burbank, D., 2005, Alpine landscape evolution dominated by cirque retreat: Geology, v. 33, p. 933–936; doi: 10.1130/G21957.1.

Niemi*, N.A., Oskin*, M., Burbank, D.W., and Heimsath, A.M., and Gabet, E., 2005, Modeling the effects of bedrock landsliding on cosmogenically determined erosion rates: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 237, p. 480– 498.

Davis, K., Burbank, D.W., Fisher, D., Wallace, S., and Nobes, D., 2005, Thrust-fault growth and segment linkage in the active Ostler fault zone, New Zealand: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 27, p. 1528-1546.

Amidon, W H., D W. Burbank, and G E. Gehrels, 2005, U-Pb zircon ages as a sediment mixing tracer in the Nepal Himalaya: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 235, 244-260.

Sarna-Wojcicki, A. M., Reheis, M. C., Pringle, M. S., Fleck, R. J., Burbank, D.W., Meyer, C. E., Slate, J. L., Wan, E., Budahn, J. R., Troxel, B., and Walker, J. P., 2005, Tephra layers of Blind Spring Valley and related upper Pliocene and Pleistocene tephra layers, California, Nevada, and Utah: isotopic ages, correlation, and magnetostratigraphy: United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1701, pp. 63.

Burbank, D.W., 2005, Cracking the Himalaya: Nature (News and Views), v. 434, p. 963-964.

Lavé*, J., and Burbank, D. W., 2004, Denudation Processes and Rates in the Transverse Ranges, Southern California: Erosional Response of a Transitional Landscape to External and Anthropogenic Forcing: Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, v. 109, F01006, 10.1029/2003JF000023.

Gabet*, E.J., Burbank, D.W., Putkonen, J.K., Pratt-Sitaula, B.A., and Ojha, T., 2004, Rainfall thresholds for landsliding in the Himalayas of Nepal: Geomorphology, v. 63, p. 131-143.

Scharer, K. M., Burbank, D. W., Chen, J., Weldon, R. J.,Rubin, C., Zhao, R., and Shen, J., 2004, Detachment folding in the Southwestern Tian Shan - Tarim foreland, China: Shortening estimates and rates: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 26, p. 2119-2137.

Gabet*, E., Pratt-Sitaula, B., and Burbank, D. W., 2004, Climatic controls on hillslope angle and relief in the Himalayas: Geology, v. 32, p. 629-632.

Duvall, A., Kirby*, E., and Burbank, D., 2004, Tectonic and lithologic controls on bedrock channel profiles and processes in coastal California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 109, p. F03002, doi:10.1029/2003JF000086.

Pratt-Sitaula, B., Burbank, D.W., Heimsath, A., Ojha, T., 2004, Landscape disequilibrium on 1000 to 10,000 year scales: Marsyandi River, Nepal, central Himalaya: Geomorphology, v. 58, p. 223-241.

Burbank, D.W., Blythe, A.E., Putkonen, J., Pratt-Sitaula, B., Gabet*, E., Oskin*, M., Barros, A., and Ojha, T.P., 2003, Decoupling of erosion and precipitation in the Himalayas: Nature, v. 426, 652-655.

Brewer, I.A., Burbank, D.W, and Hodges, K.V., 2003, Modelling detrital cooling-age populations: insights from two Himalayan catchments: Basin Research, v. 15, p. 305-320.

Bullen, M.E., Burbank, D. W., and Garver, J. I., 2003, Building the Northern Tien Shan: Integrated Thermal, Structural, and Topographic Constraints: Journal of Geology, v. 111, 149-165.

Pan, B., Burbank, D., Wang, Y., Wu, G., Li, J., and Guan, Q., 2003, A 900 k.y. record of strath terrace formation during glacial-interglacial transitions in northwest China: Geology, v. 31, no. 11, p. 957-960.

Solomon, S., Baker, V.R., Bloxham, J., Booth, J., Donnellan, A., Elachi, C., Evans, D., Rignot, E., Burbank, D., Chao, B., Chave, A., Gillespie, A., Herring, T., Jeanloz, R., LaBrecque, J., Minster, B., Pitman, W., Simons, M., Turcotte, D.L., and Zoback, M.L., 2003, Plan for living on a restless planet sets NASA's Solid Earth agenda: EOS (Transactions of the American Geophysical Union), v. 84, p. 485-492.

Formento-Trigilio, M.L., D.W. Burbank, A. Nicol, J. Shulmeister, and U. Rieser, 2003, River response to an active fold-and-thrust belt in a convergent margin setting, North Island, New Zealand, Geomorphology, v. 49, p. 125-152.

Meigs*, A., Yule, D., Blythe, A., and Burbank, D., 2003, Implications of distributed crustal deformation for exhumation in a portion of a transpressional plate boundary, Western Transverse Ranges, southern California: Quaternary International, v. 101-102, p. 169-177.

Pratt, B., Burbank, D.W., Heimsath, A., and Ojha, T., 2002, Impulsive alluviation during early Holocene strengthened monsoons, central Nepal Himalaya: Geology, v. 30, p. 911-914.

Burbank, D.W., 2002, Rates of erosion and their implications for exhumation: Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 66(1), p. 25-52.

Chen, J., Burbank, D. W., Scharer, K., Sobel, E., Yin, J., Rubin, C. M., and Zhao, R., 2002, Magnetostratigraphy of the Upper Cenozoic strata in the southwestern Chinese Tian Shan: rates of Pleistocene folding and thrusting: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 195, p. 113-130.

Bullen, M.E., Burbank, D.W., Abdrakhmatov, K.Y., and Garver, J., 2001, Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the northwestern Tien Shan: Constraints from magnetostratigraphy, detrital fission track, and basin analysis: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, No. 12, pp. 1544–1559.

Abdrakhmatov, K. E., Weldon, R., Thompson, S., Burbank, D., Rubin, C., Miller, M., and Molnar, P., 2001, Origin, direction, and rate of modern compression in the central Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan: Geologiya I Geofizika (Russian Geology and Geophysics, v. 42, p. 1585-1609.

White, N.M , Parrish, R.R., Bickle, M. J., Najman, Y. M. R., Burbank, D.W., and Maithani, A., 2001, Metamorphism and exhumation of the NW Himalaya constrained by U-Th-Pb analyses of detrital monazite grains from early foreland basin sediments: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 158, p. 625-635.

Chen Jie, Ding Guoyu, D.W. Burbank, K. M. Scharer, C. Rubin, E. Sobel, Qu Guosheng, Shen Jun, Yin Jinhui, Zhao Ruibing, 2001, Late Cenozoic Tectonics and Seismicity in the Southwestern Tian Shan, China. Earthquake Research in China (Chinese with English abstract), v. 17, p. 134-155.

Shen, J., Wang, Y., Zhao, R., Li, J., Burbank, D., and Sharer, K., 2001, Surveying of the deformed terraces and crust shortening rate in the northwestern Tarim Basin: Chinese Science Bulletin, v. 46, p. 1043-1046.

Brozovic, N., and Burbank, D.W., 2000, Dynamic fluvial systems and gravel progradation in the Himalayan foreland: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 112, p. 394-412.

Blythe, A. E., Burbank, D. W., Farley, K., and Fielding, E. J., 2000, Structural and topographic evolution of the central Transverse Ranges, California, from apatite fission-track, (U-Th)/He and digital elevation model analyses: Basin Research, v. 12, p. 97-114.

López-Blanco, M., M. Marzo, D.W. Burbank, J. Vergés, E. Roca, P. Anadón, and J. Piña, 2000, Tectonic and climatic controls on the development of foreland fan deltas: Montserrat and Sant Llorenç del Munt systems (Middle Eocene, Ebro Basin, NE Spain): Sedimentary Geology, v. 138. P. 17-39.

Barros, A.P., Joshi, M., Putkonen, J., and Burbank, D.W., 2000, A study of the 1999 monsoon rainfall in a mountainous region in central Nepal using TRMM products and rain gauge observations: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 27, p. 3683-3686.

Burbank, D.W., J.K. McLean, M. Bullen, K. Y. Abdrakhmatov, M. G. Miller, 1999, Partitioning of intermontane basins by thrust-related folding, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan: Basin Research, v. 11, 75-92.

Burbank, D.W., and Pinter, N., 1999, Landscape evolution: the interactions of tectonics and surface processes: Basin Research, v. 11, 1-6.

Kempf, O., Matter, A., Burbank, D.W., Mange, M., 1999, Depositional and structural evolution of a foreland basin margin in a magnetostratigraphic framework: the eastern Swiss Molasse Basin: International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 88, 253-275.

Leland, J., Reid, M.R., Burbank, D.W., Finkel, R., Caffee, M., 1998, Late Pleistocene history of bedrock incision and differential uplift along the Indus River near Nanga Parbat, Pakistan Himalaya, from 10Be and 26Al exposure age dating of bedrock straths: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 54, p. 93-105.