Ann E. Blythe
Assistant Research Professor
Education
B.S., Cornell University (Biology) 1981
M.S., University of Pennsylvania (Geology) 1984
Ph.D., Cornell University (Geology) 1992
Research Interests
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Fission-track thermochronology, neotectonics and geomorphology,
landscape evolution, active tectonics and
structural geology
Current Projects
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Geomorphic-geodynamic coupling in Central Nepal - NSF Cont. Dynamics
Project
(with Doug Burbank, Ana Barros, Arjun Heimsath, Kip Hodges, Neil Humphrey,
Jerome Lave, and Jaakko Putkonen)
to find out more about this project click here
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Low temperature thermochronology on the San Andreas Fault Observatory at
Depth (SAFOD) pilot hole
(with Matt d'Alessio and Roland Burgmann, U.C.Berkeley)
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Topographic evolution of the Bhutan Himalaya
(with Chris Duncan, UMass, and Jeff Masek, U. of Maryland)
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Structural and topographic evolution of the central Transverse Ranges
(with Doug Burbank, Eric Fielding, Martha House, and Ken Farley)
Courses Taught
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Hydrogeology, Intro Field Geology, Physical Geology (Occidental College)
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Remote Sensing (Colorado College)
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Remote Sensing and Geomorphology (USC)
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Structural Geology (with Phil Gans at UCSB)
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Physical Geology, Historical Geology, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy,
and Tectonics (Whittier College)
Publications
Blythe, A.E., d’ÄôAlessio, M., and Burgmann, R.,
2004, Constraining the exhumation
and burial history of the SAFOD pilot hole with fission track and (U-Th)/He
thermochronometry. Geophysical Research Letters, v. 31, L15S16,
doi:10.1029/2003GLO19407.
Burbank, D.W., Blythe, A.E.,
Putkonen, J., Pratt-Sitaula, B., Gabet, E., Oskin, M., Barros, A., and Ohja,
T., 2003, Decoupling of erosion and precipitation in the Himalayas: Nature, v.
426, pp. 652-655.
d’ÄôAlessio, M., Blythe, A.E., and
Burgmann, R., 2003, No frictional heat along the San Gabriel fault, California:
Evidence from fission track thermochronology: Geology, v. 31 , pp. 541-544.
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, pp. 169-177.
Blythe, A.E., House, M.A., and
Spotila, J., 2002, Low-temperature thermochronology of the
San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains, southern California: Constraining
structural evolution, in
Barth, A., ed., Geological Society of America Special Paper 365, ch. 11, pp.
231-250 : Boulder, Geological Society of America.
Spotila, J.A., House, M.A., Blythe,
A.E., Neimi, N., and Bank, G.C., 2002, Controls on
the erosion and geomorphic evolution of the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains, southern California, in Barth, A., ed., Geological Society of
America Special Paper 365, ch. 10, pp. 205 -230: Boulder, Geological Society of
America.
Grimmer, J.C., Jonckheere, R., Enkelmann,
E., Ratschbacher, L., Hacker, B.R.,
Blythe, A.E., Wagner, G.A., Wu, Q., Liu, S., and Dong, S., 2002,
Cretaceous-Cenozoic history of the southern Tan-Lu fault zone: Apatite
fission-track and structural constraints from the Dabie Shan (eastern China):
Tectonophysics, v. 359, p. 225-253.
Blythe, A.E., Burbank, D.W.,
Farley, K.A, and Fielding, E., 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.
Lee, J., Hacker, B.R., Dinklage, W.S.,
Wang, Y., Gans, P.B., Calvert, A., Blythe, A.E., and McClelland, W.,
2000, Evolution of the Kangmar Dome, southern Tibet: Structural, petrologic,
and thermochronologic constraints, Tectonics, v. 19, p. 872-895.
Wells, M.L., Snee, L., and Blythe,
A.E., 2000, Dating of extensional shearing, an example from the Raft River
Mountains, Basin and Range, western United States: Journal of Geophysical
Research, v. 105, p. 16,303-16,327.
Blythe, A.E., 1998, Active
tectonics and ultrahigh pressure rocks, in Hacker, B. and
Liou, J., (eds.), "When Continents Collide: Geodynamics and Geochemistry
of Ultrahigh - Pressure Rocks", Chapman and Hall, p. 141-160.
Blythe, A.E., and Kleinspehn, K.,
1998, Tectonically versus climatically driven Cenozoic exhumation of the
Eurasian plate margin, Svalbard: fission-track analyses, Tectonics, v. 17, p.
621-639.
Blythe,
A.E., Bird, J. M., and Omar, G. I., 1998, Constraints on the cooling
history of the central Brooks Range, Alaska, from fission-track and 40Ar/39Ar
analyses, in Oldow, J. S., and Avˆ© Lallemant, H. G., eds., Architecture of the
Central Brooks Range Fold and Thrust Belt, Arctic Alaska: Boulder, Colorado,
Geological Society of America Special Paper 324, p. 163-177.
Blythe, A.E., Murphy, J. M., and
O'Sullivan, P. B., 1997, Tertiary cooling and deformation in the south-central
Brooks Range, Alaska: evidence
from zircon and apatite fission track analyses: Journal of Geology, v. 105, p.
583-599.
O'Sullivan, P. B., Murphy, J. M., Blythe,
A.E., 1997, Late
Mesozoic and Cenozoic thermotectonic evolution of the Central Brooks Range and adjacent
North Slope Foreland Basin, Alaska:
including fission track results from the Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect
(TACT), Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 102, p. 20821-20845.
Blythe, A.E., Bird, J.M., and
Omar, G.I., 1996, Deformational history of the central Brooks Range, Alaska:
results from fission track and 40Ar/39Ar analyses,
Tectonics, v. 15, p. 440-455.
Wirth, K. R., Bird, J. M., Blythe,
A.E., Harding, D. J., and Heizler, M. T., 1993, Age and evolution of
Western Brooks Range Ophiolites, Alaska: results from 40Ar/39Ar
thermochronometry, Tectonics, v. 12, no. 2, p. 410.
Blythe, A.E., Sugar, A., and
Phipps, S. P., 1988, Structural profiles of the Ouachita Mountains, Western
Arkansas, AAPG Bulletin, v. 72, no. 7, p. 810-819.
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