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Recognition of Ancient Channels and Archaeological Sites in the Mesopotamian Floodplain Using Satellite Imagery and Digital Topography (2020)
Book Chapter
Jotheri, J., & Allen, M. B. (2020). Recognition of Ancient Channels and Archaeological Sites in the Mesopotamian Floodplain Using Satellite Imagery and Digital Topography. In D. Lawrence, M. Altaweel, & G. Philip (Eds.), New agendas in remote sensing and landscape archaeology in the Near East : studies in honour of Tony J. Wilkinson (283-305). Archaeopress

Early Devonian mafic igneous rocks in the East Kunlun Orogen, NW China: Implications for the transition from the Proto- to Paleo-Tethys oceans (2020)
Journal Article
Dong, J., Song, S., Su, L., Allen, M. B., Li, Y., & Wang, C. (2020). Early Devonian mafic igneous rocks in the East Kunlun Orogen, NW China: Implications for the transition from the Proto- to Paleo-Tethys oceans. Lithos, 376-377, Article 105771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105771

The tectonic evolution of the Proto- and Paleo-Tethys oceans had a significant influence on ocean-continent distributions in East Asia in the Phanerozoic, and major implications for continental growth in the region. However, it remains ambiguous when... Read More about Early Devonian mafic igneous rocks in the East Kunlun Orogen, NW China: Implications for the transition from the Proto- to Paleo-Tethys oceans.

Landslides of the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake, northern China (2020)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Liu-Zeng, J., Allen, M. B., Zhang, W., & Du, P. (2021). Landslides of the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake, northern China. Landslides, 18, 935-953. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-020-01512-5

The great M ~ 8 1920 Haiyuan earthquake (HYEQ) was one of the largest and most deadly earthquakes in China in the last century, with ~ 234,000 deaths. The earthquake occurred within the Loess Plateau of northern China, where Quaternary loess deposits... Read More about Landslides of the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake, northern China.

Cretaceous exhumation of the Triassic intracontinental Xuefengshan Belt: Delayed unroofing of an orogenic plateau across the South China Block? (2020)
Journal Article
Chu, Y., Lin, W., Faure, M., Allen, M. B., & Feng, Z. (2020). Cretaceous exhumation of the Triassic intracontinental Xuefengshan Belt: Delayed unroofing of an orogenic plateau across the South China Block?. Tectonophysics, 793, Article 228592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228592

A large plateau can be produced by crustal thickening in convergent zones such as continental collision belts and Andean-type subduction zones, but the life cycles of such plateaux are not well-understood. In particular, it is not clear how long they... Read More about Cretaceous exhumation of the Triassic intracontinental Xuefengshan Belt: Delayed unroofing of an orogenic plateau across the South China Block?.

Kinematic Variation Within the Fars Arc, Eastern Zagros, and the Development of Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt Curvature (2020)
Journal Article
Edey, A., Allen, M., & Nilfouroushan, F. (2020). Kinematic Variation Within the Fars Arc, Eastern Zagros, and the Development of Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt Curvature. Tectonics, 39(8), Article e2019TC005941. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019tc005941

We analyze deformation of the Fars Arc in the eastern Zagros, Iran, including earthquake slip vectors, GPS velocities, paleomagnetism data, and fold orientations, to understand how this fold‐and‐thrust belt works and so better understand the generic... Read More about Kinematic Variation Within the Fars Arc, Eastern Zagros, and the Development of Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt Curvature.

Geomorphic expressions of collisional tectonics in the Qilian Shan, north eastern Tibetan Plateau (2020)
Journal Article
Groves, K., Saville, C., Hurst, M. D., Jones, S. J., Song, S., & Allen, M. B. (2020). Geomorphic expressions of collisional tectonics in the Qilian Shan, north eastern Tibetan Plateau. Tectonophysics, 788, Article 228503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228503

The Qilian Shan, north eastern Tibetan Plateau, is an area of active deformation caused by convergence in the India-Eurasia collision zone. Geomorphic indices capture the landscape response to competition between tectonics and climate, reflecting the... Read More about Geomorphic expressions of collisional tectonics in the Qilian Shan, north eastern Tibetan Plateau.

Basin-scale fluvial correlation and response to the Tethyan marine transgression: an example from the Triassic of central Spain (2020)
Journal Article
Franzel, M., Jones, S. J., Meadows, N., Allen, M. B., McCaffrey, K., & Morgan, T. (2021). Basin-scale fluvial correlation and response to the Tethyan marine transgression: an example from the Triassic of central Spain. Basin Research, 33(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12451

The relationships between large‐scale depositional processes and the stratigraphic record of alluvial systems, e.g. the origin and distribution of channel stacking patterns, changing architecture and correlation of strata, are still relatively poorly... Read More about Basin-scale fluvial correlation and response to the Tethyan marine transgression: an example from the Triassic of central Spain.

Distinct sources 1 for high-K and adakitic magmatism in SE Iran (2020)
Journal Article
Kheirkhah, M., Neill, I., Allen, M. B., Emami, M. H., & Ghadimid, A. S. (2020). Distinct sources 1 for high-K and adakitic magmatism in SE Iran. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 196, Article 104355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104355

Research into Arabia-Eurasia collision zone magmatism in Kerman Province, SE Iran, has largely focused on Late Cenozoic adakitic stocks or domes, with debate around lower crustal or subducted slab origins. Contemporary hawaiite-trachyandesite lava fl... Read More about Distinct sources 1 for high-K and adakitic magmatism in SE Iran.

Landslide characteristics in the Loess Plateau, northern China (2020)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Allen, M. B., Zhang, W., Li, W., & He, H. (2020). Landslide characteristics in the Loess Plateau, northern China. Geomorphology, 359, Article 107150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107150

Landslides play an important role in landscape evolution of the Loess Plateau, northern China, but they have not been systematically analysed across the region. The contribution to regional rates of erosion and sediment budgets is poorly known as a c... Read More about Landslide characteristics in the Loess Plateau, northern China.

Diachronous Tibetan Plateau landscape evolution derived from lava field geomorphology (2020)
Journal Article
Law, R., & Allen, M. B. (2020). Diachronous Tibetan Plateau landscape evolution derived from lava field geomorphology. Geology, 48(3), 263-267. https://doi.org/10.1130/g47196.1

Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau is important for understanding continental tectonics because of the plateau’s exceptional elevation (~5 km above sea level) and crustal thickness (~70 km). Patterns of long-term landscape evolution can constrain tecto... Read More about Diachronous Tibetan Plateau landscape evolution derived from lava field geomorphology.