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Field Trip Leader: Brian Horton
Graduate Students
Matt Bourke,
mbourke@ucla.edu, http://www.ess.ucla.edu/gradstudents/bourke/index.asp
Robert
Gillis, bgillis@ess.ucla.edu, http://www.ess.ucla.edu/gradstudents/gillis/index.asp
Melissa
Giovanni, giovanni@ess.ucla.edu, http://www.ess.ucla.edu/gradstudents/giovanni/index.asp
Yann
Gavillot, gavillot@ucla.edu
Brian
Horton
Research Interests
Sedimentary basin
analysis, nonmarine depositional systems, tectonics of fold-thrust belts
and continental plateaus.
My research
focuses on the erosional history of mountain belts as preserved in the
stratigraphic record of sedimentary basins. The primary goal is to
understand the timing, spatial history, and tectonic causes of basin
development and associated orogenic systems. I have current projects
in the Himalaya-Tibet system of Asia, the Zagros mountains of Iran, the
Andes of South America, and the North American Cordillera. In Tibet,
my studies are aimed at quantifying the timing of surface uplift and
amount of contractional and strike-slip deformation associated with
Mesozoic-Cenozoic basin development in the Tibetan plateau prior to and
during the India-Asia collision. In the Zagros fold-thrust belt,
research is focused on deformation and sedimentation related to the recent
continental collision between Arabia and Eurasia. In South America,
I have been studying the Cenozoic foreland basin system on the eastern
slope of the central Andes as well as intermontane basins in the highest,
most remote parts of the Andes (Altiplano plateau of Bolivia and
Cordillera Blanca of Peru). In North America, a project exists in
the proximal foreland basin near the Charleston-Nebo salient of the Sevier
orogenic belt, north-central Utah. These projects all involve intensive
field work, typically several months per year, as well as structural
geology, quantitative basin modeling, sandstone petrographic analyses,
thermochronology (Ar/Ar, (U-Th)/He, and fission-track), stable isotope
geochemistry, and paleomagnetism.
Research Projects
Middle
East
-Kinematic linkages among extrusion, fold-thrust shortening,
and foreland basin evolution during early continental collision, Zagros
Mountains, Iran (National Science Foundation) -with Gary Axen
(UCLA) and Y. Gavillot (UCLA student).
Tibet
-Investigation
of timing and strain magnitude of Late Cretaceous-Tertiary thrusting in
central and northern Tibet (National Science Foundation) -with An
Yin and Mark Harrison (UCLA).
-Linking basin development and growth of
continental plateaus: Controls on stratigraphic architecture in western
China (Petroleum Research Fund).
-Structural-stratigraphic
evolution of the Fenghuo Shan and implications for crustal thickening and
uplift of the Tibetan plateau (National Science Foundation Postdoctoral
Research Fellowship) - with An Yin
(UCLA).
Andes
-Tectonic and climatic controls on rapid exhumation along the Altiplano-Eastern Cordillera boundary, Bolivia (National Science Foundation) - with Bob
Gillis (UCLA student).
-Detachment faulting and basin development in a
convergent setting: The Cordillera Blanca, Peru (National Science
Foundation) - with Brendan McNulty (California State Univ.) and
Melissa Giovanni (UCLA student).
-Timing of basin development, north-central
Altiplano, Bolivia (National Science Foundation) - includes
completed projects by three L.S.U. students (B. Hampton, R. Fink, B.
LaReau).
-Late Cretaceous-Tertiary foreland basin evolution in the
Eastern Cordillera of southern Bolivia (National Science
Foundation) - with Peter DeCelles (Univ. of Arizona) and Peter
Copeland (Univ. of Houston).
North America
-3-D kinematic
evolution of the Charleston-Nebo salient, Sevier fold-thrust belt, Utah
(National Science Foundation) - with Peter DeCelles and Kurt
Constenius (Univ. of Arizona).
Publications
Horton, B.K., 2005, Revised deformation history of the
central Andes: Inferences from Cenozoic foredeep and intermontane basins
of the Eastern Cordillera, Bolivia: Tectonics, v. 24, TC3011, doi:10.1029/2003TC001619.
Garzione, C.N., Dettman, D.L., and Horton, B.K., 2004, Carbonate oxygen isotope
paleoaltimetry: Evaluating the effect of diagenesis on paleoelevation
estimates for the Tibetan plateau: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology, v. 212, p. 119-140.
Horton, B.K., Constenius, K.N., and
DeCelles, P.G., 2004, Tectonic
control on coarse-grained foreland-basin sequences: An example from the
Cordilleran foreland basin, Utah: Geology, v. 32, p.
637-640.
Dupont-Nivet, G., Horton,
B.K., Butler, R.F., Wang, J., Zhou, J., and Waanders, G.L., 2004, Paleogene clockwise tectonic
rotation of the Xining-Lanzhou region, northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Journal of Geophysical Research,
v. 109, B04401, doi:10.1029/2003JB002620.
Horton, B.K., Dupont-Nivet, G., Zhou, J.,
Waanders, G.L. Butler, R.F., and Wang, J., 2004, Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the
Xining-Minhe and Dangchang basins, northeastern Tibetan plateau:
Magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic results: Journal of Geophysical Research,
v. 109, B04402, doi:10.1029/2003JB002913.
Horton, B., 2004, Sedimentary Basins: Geotimes (annual edition of
“Highlights: Discoveries in the Earth Sciences”), http://www.geotimes.org/july04/high_sedbasins.html,
v. 49, p. 20-21.
DeCelles, P.G., and Horton, B.K., 2003, Early to middle Tertiary foreland
basin development and the history of Andean crustal shortening in Bolivia:
Geological Society of America
Bulletin, v. 115, p. 58–77.
Hampton, B.A., Horton, B.K., Fink, R.J., and LaReau,
B.N., 2003, Paleogene basin
development and synorogenic sedimentation in the Altiplano plateau,
southwest Bolivia: Revista
Técnica de Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos, v. 21, p.
229-234.
DeCelles, P.G., and Horton, B.K., 2003, Early to middle Tertiary foreland
basin development and the history of Andean crustal shortening in Bolivia:
Geological Society of America
Bulletin, v. 115, p. 58-77.
Horton, B.K., Hampton, B.A., LaReau, B.N., and Baldellón, E.,
2002, Tertiary provenance history of the northern and central
Altiplano (central Andes, Bolivia): A detrital record of plateau-margin
tectonics: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 72, p. 711-726.
Horton, B.K., Yin, A., Spurlin, M.S., Zhou, J., and Wang, J.,
2002, Paleocene-Eocene syncontractional sedimentation in narrow,
lacustrine-dominated basins of east-central Tibet: Geological Society
of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 771-786.
Horton, B.K., Hampton, B.A., Waanders, G., 2001,
Paleogene synorogenic sedimentation in the Altiplano plateau and
implications for initial mountain building in the central Andes:
Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 1387-1400.
Horton, B.K., and DeCelles, P.G., 2001, Modern and
ancient fluvial megafans in the foreland basin system of the central
Andes, southern Bolivia: Implications for drainage network evolution in
fold-thrust belts: Basin Research, v. 13, p. 43-63.
Lageson, D.R., Schmitt, J.G., Horton, B.K., Kalakay, T.J., and
Burton, B.R., 2001, Influence of Late Cretaceous magmatism on the
Sevier orogenic wedge, western Montana: Geology, v. 29, p.
723-726.
Horton, B.K., 2000, Sediment accumulation on top of the Andean
orogenic wedge: Oligocene to late Miocene basins of the Eastern
Cordillera, southern Bolivia: Reply: Geological Society of America
Bulletin, v. 112, p. 1756-1759.
Horton, B.K., 1999, Erosional control on the geometry and
kinematics of thrust belt development in the central
Andes: Tectonics, v. 18, p. 1292-1304.
Horton, B.K., 1998, Sediment accumulation on top of the Andean
orogenic wedge: Oligocene to late Miocene basins of the Eastern
Cordillera, southern
Bolivia:
Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 1174-1192,
1513.
Horton, B.K., and Schmitt, J.G., 1998, Development and
exhumation of a Neogene sedimentary basin during extension,
Nevada: Geological
Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 163-172.
Horton, B.K., and DeCelles, P.G., 1997, The modern
foreland basin system adjacent to the central
Andes: Geology, v. 25, p. 895-898.
Horton, B.K., and Schmitt, J.G., 1996, Sedimentology of a
lacustrine fan-delta system, Miocene Horse Camp Formation, Nevada, USA:
Sedimentology, v. 43, p. 133-155.
Other Publications
Lundberg, J. G., Marshall,
L. G., Guerrero, J., Horton, B., Malabarba, M. C. and Wesselingh,
F., 1998, The stage for neotropical fish diversification: A history
of tropical South American rivers, in Malabarba, L. R., Reis, R. E., Vari,
R. P., Lucena, C. A. S., and Lucena, Z.M. S., eds, Phylogeny and
classification of neotropical fishes: Museu de CiÍncias e Tecnologia,
Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil, p. 13-48.
Molina Garza, R. S., Geissman, J. W., Gomez, A., Horton,
B.,1998, Paleomagnetic data from Triassic strata, Zuni uplift, New
Mexico: Further evidence of large-magnitude Triassic apparent polar wander
of North America: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, p.
24,189-24,200.
Schmitt, J.G., Haley, J.C., Lageson, D.R., Horton, B.K., and
Azevedo, P.A., 1995, Sedimentology and tectonics of the
Bannack-McKnight Canyon-Red Butte area, southwest Montana: New
perspectives on the Beaverhead Group and Sevier orogenic belt, in Mogk,
D.W., ed., Northwest Geology: Field guide to geologic excursions in
southwest Montana, v. 24, p. 245-313.
Abstracts
2005
Horton, B.K., The role of sedimentary basins in orogenic belts: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37 (INVITED).
Horton, B.K., Constenius, K.N., and DeCelles, P.G., Role of tectonics in regional progradation of coarse-grained sequences: Upper Cretaceous Castlegate Sandstone, Charleston-Nebo salient, Utah: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention (INVITED).
Horton, B.K., Gillis, R.J., Hassanzadeh, J., Stockli, D.F., Axen, G.J., Guest, B., Amini, A., Zamanzadeh, S.M., Fakhari, F., and Grove, M., Tectonic history of Iran: Initial detrital zircon results: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37 (INVITED).
Fakhari, M., Axen, G.J., Horton, B.K., Amini, A., Hassanzadeh, J., Ghavidel-Syooki, M., and Hosseini, S.A., Revised age of the proximal Bakhtiyari Formation and implications for the evolution of the High Zagros: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37.
Giovanni, M.K., Horton, B.K., Peltzer, G., Grove, M., and McNulty, B., Tectonic geomorphology, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, and sedimentology of the Cordillera Blanca normal fault, central Peruvian Andes: Sixth International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, Barcelona, Spain.
Hassanzadeh, J., Malekpour, A., Grove, M., Axen, G.J., Horton, B.K., Stockli, D.F., Farley, K.A., Schmitt, A., Mohajjel, M., Ghazi, A.M., and Babaie, H.A.,Biarjmand core complex: New evidence for Late Cretaceous-Paleocene extensional tectonics along the northern margin of central Iran: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37.
2004
Horton, B.K. , Transitions between flexural and Airy
isostasy and implications for basin development in continental plateaus:
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36 (5), p. 49,
(INVITED).
Horton, B.K., Gillis, R.J., Stockli, D.F., Hassanzadeh,
J., Axen, G.J., and Grove, M., Detrital record of Phanerozoic tectonics in
Iran: Evidence from U-Pb zircon geochronology: Eos, Transactions, American
Geophysical Union, v. 85 (47) (INVITED).
Horton, B.K., Giovanni, M.K., McNulty, B. and Grove, M. ,
Thermochronologic and sedimentologic evidence for variations in exhumation
of the Cordillera Blanca detachment fault system, Peru: Eos, Transactions,
American Geophysical Union, v. 85 (47).
Bourke, M.B., Horton, B.K.,
and K.N. Constenius, K.N., Sedimentary and tectonic analysis of the
Kishenehn basin, northwest Montana, as an analog for Tertiary extensional
basins of the western United States: Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v.36 (5), p. 510.
Gillis, R.J., Horton,
B.K., and Grove, M., Exhumation history and basin development along the
eastern margin of the central Andean Plateau, Bolivia: Geological Society
of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36 (5), p. 433.
Kapp, P.,
Guynn, J.H., and Horton, B.K., Late Cenozoic extension in Tibet:
Characteristics, causes, and implications for crustal flow: Geological
Society of London conference "Channel flow, ductile extrusion and
exhumation of lower-mid crust in continental collision zones", December
6-7, 2004, London.
Minervini, J.M., Horton, B.K., Volkmer, J.E., and Kapp, P.A.,
Depositional systems of the Duba basin during Cenozoic thrusting along the
southern margin of the Lunpola basin system, south-central Tibetan
plateau: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36 (5),
p. 433.
2003
Horton, B.K., Synorogenic strata in
compressional settings: Examples from the central Andes: Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35 (6), p. 642,
(INVITED).
Horton, B.K., Testing the influence of erosion on thrust
belt geometry and kinematics in the Andes: Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v. 35 (6), p. 296, (INVITED).
Horton,
B.K., Sedimentary and geomorphic record of crustal shortening, thickening,
and surface uplift in the Eastern Cordillera of Bolivia: Eos,
Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 84 (46), p. 1087,
(INVITED).
Dupont-Nivet, G., Horton, B.K., Butler, R.F., Wang, J., Zhou, J., and
Waanders, G.L., Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Xining-Lanzhou area
(northeastern Tibetan plateau) constrained by paleomagnetism, basin
analysis and thermochronology: EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, France, TS26
Plate-scale deformation of continental lithosphere, EAE03-A-07547;
TS26-1FR3O-002.
Fink, R.J., and Horton, B.K., A mixed siliciclastic
and carbonate lacustrine system in the central Andes: Cretaceous-Paleocene
El Molino Formation, Bolivia: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Annual Convention, Abstracts with Programs, v. 12, p. A54.
Gillis,
R. J., Horton, B. K., and Grove, M., Exhumation of the Cordillera Real,
Bolivia, based on new geologic mapping and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology:
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35 (6), p.
515.
Gillis, R. J., Horton, B. K., and Grove, M., Assessing
mechanisms of exhumation in the Cordillera Real, Bolivia, based on
regional structural mapping and thermochronology: Eos, Transactions,
American Geophysical Union, v. 84 (46), p. 1383.
Giovanni, M. K.,
Horton, B. K., McNulty, B., and Grove, M., Evolution of the Cordillera
Blanca normal fault, central Peruvian Andes: Evidence from basin analysis
and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical
Union, v. 84 (46), p. 1082.
2002
Horton, B.K., Dupont-Nivet, G., Zhou, J., Wang, J., and
Zhang, H., Improved age constraints for Mesozoic and Cenozoic basin
development in northeastern Tibet based on magnetostratigraphy and
palynology: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 83, p.
1244.
Dupont-Nivet, G., Horton, B.K., Butler, R.F., Wang, J., Zhou, J., and
Zhang, H., Tectonic rotations from Cretaceous to Tertiary red beds of
northeastern Tibet: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 83,
p. 1244.
Dupont-Nivet, G., Horton, B.K., Butler, R.F., Wang, J., Zhou, J., and
Zhang, H., Preliminary paleomagnetic results from Cretaceous to Tertiary
red beds of northeastern Tibet: Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs, v. 34, p. 487.
2001
Horton, B.K., Hampton, B.A., and Waanders, G.L., Initial
foreland basin development in the central Andes, Bolivia: Eos,
Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 82, p. 1161.
Hampton, B.A., and Horton, B.K., Long-term rapid accommodation recorded
by a 7-km-thick fluvial succession, mid-Tertiary Altiplano basin, central
Andes, in J.A. Mason, R.F. Diffendal, Jr., and R.M. Joeckel, eds., Program
with Abstracts, Seventh International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology,
Open-File Report 60, Conservation and Survey Division, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, p. 118.
2000
Horton, B.K., Yin, A., Spurlin, M.S., Zhou, J., and
Wang, J., Paleogene syn-contractional sedimentary basins in the eastern
Tibetan Plateau: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 81, p.
1083-1084.
Horton, B.K., Yin, A., Spurlin, M.S., Zhou, J., and Wang, J., Paleogene
contractional lake basins in the eastern Tibetan Plateau: Possible
evidence for early uplift of Tibet?: Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no.7, p. 471.
Horton, B.K., Zhou, J., Spurlin, M.S., Yin, A., and Wang, J.,
Paleogene(?) deposystems and basin evolution in the eastern Tibetan
Plateau: Nangqian and Xialaxiu basins: Earth Science Frontiers: 15th
Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop, Chengdu, China, v. 7, p. 282-283.
Horton, B. K. and Hampton, B. A., Revised Age of Tertiary foreland
basin deposits in the Bolivian Altiplano plateau and implications for
subsidence history, AAPG Annual Convention, Abstracts with Programs, p.
A69.
Fink, R.J., and Horton, B.K., Regional lithofacies distribution of Late
Cretaceous-early Paleogene strata in the Altiplano and Eastern Cordillera,
Central Andes, Bolivia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, v. 32, no.7, p. 458.
LaReau, B. N., and Horton, B.K., Stratigraphy of the middle Tertiary
Coniri Formation, northern Altiplano plateau, Central Andes, Bolivia:
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no.7, p.
458.
Hampton, B. A. and Horton, B. K., Late Eocene-Oligocene fluvial
deposystems in the north-central Altiplano plateau, Corque syncline,
Bolivia, AAPG Annual Convention, Abstracts with Programs, p. A63.
Hampton, B. A., and Horton, B.K., Tertiary Synorogenic Deposits of the
North-Central Altiplano Plateau, Bolivia: Implications for Erosional
History of the Central Andes: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical
Union, v.81, p. 1136.
Spurlin, M., Yin, A., Harrison, T.M., Horton, B.K., Zhou, J., and Wang,
J., Two phases of Cenozoic deformation in northeastern Tibet: Thrusting
followed by strike-slip faulting: Earth Science Frontiers: 15th
Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop, Chengdu, China, v. 7, p. 294.
Spurlin, M., Yin, A., Harrison, T.M., Horton, B.K., Zhou, J., and Wang,
J., Two phases of Cenozoic deformation in east-central Tibet: Thrusting
followed by right-slip faulting: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical
Union, v. 81, p. 1092.
pre-2000
Horton, B.K., 1999, The role of erosion and critical
taper in the kinematic evolution of the central Andes: Eos, Transactions,
American Geophysical Union, v. 80, p. 1052.
DeCelles, P.G., and Horton, B.K., 1999, Implications of early Tertiary
foreland basin development for orogenesis in the central Andes: Eos,
Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 80, p. 1052.
Horton, B.K., 1999, Erosional control on thrust belt development in the
Bolivian Andes: Fourth International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics,
Goettingen, Germany, p. 334-339.
Horton, B.K., DeCelles, P.G., and Currie, B.S., 1997, Comparison of the
North American Cordilleran retroarc foreland with the modern central
Andean foreland basin system: Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6, p. 203.
Horton, B.K., and Copeland, P., 1996, Miocene deposition on top of the
internally deforming Andean orogenic wedge, Bolivia: Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 7, p. 442.
Horton, B., 1996, Sequence of late Oligocene-Miocene fold-thrust
deformation and development of piggyback basins in the Eastern Cordillera,
southern Bolivia: Third International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, St.
Malo, France, p. 383-386.
Horton, B.K., 1995, Facies associations and sediment source areas of
the Upper Cretaceous Knob Mountain Conglomerate, Beaverhead Group, Montana
and Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 27,
no. 4, p. 14.
Schmitt, J.G., and Horton, B.K., 1995, Lacustrine fan-delta systems of
the Miocene Horse Camp basin, east-central Nevada: Depositional processes
and tectonic controls, in Blair, T.C., and McPherson, J.G., eds., Alluvial
Fans: Processes, forms, controls, facies models, and use in basin
analysis: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Research
Conference, p. 80.
Horton, B.K., Schmitt, J.G., Fryxell, J.E., and Brown, C.L., 1994,
Topographic inversion of a Miocene extensional basin by footwall uplift,
Railroad Valley area, east-central Nevada: Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 7, p. 249.
Schmitt, J.G., and Horton, B.K., 1994, Sedimentology of a Miocene
lacustrine alluvial fan-delta system, east-central Nevada: Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 7, p.
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