.

Andrew Leier
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Geosciences
209 Guyot Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone: (609) 258-9836
E-Mail: aleier@princeton.edu

With the Columbus Blue Jackets, preparing to score

 

 


PUBLICATIONS

Submitted to peer-reviewed journals or in preparation

Leier, A.L., and Quade, J., in prep, Oxygen and carbon isotopes of modern and ancient soil carbonates from the Lhasa terrane of the Tibetan plateau: Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

 

Leier, A.L., Kapp, P., Gehrels, G.E., and DeCelles, P.G., 2007, Detrital zircon geochronology of Carboniferous-Cretaceous strata in the Lhasa terrane, southern Tibet (pdf): Basin Research, v.19, p.361-378.

 

Leier, A.L., Kapp, P., DeCelles, P.G., and Gehrels, G.E., 2007, Lower Cretaceous strata in the Lhasa terrane, Tibet, with implications for understanding the early tectonic history of the Tibetan plateau (pdf): Journal of Sedimentary Research, 77, p.809-825.

 

Kapp, P., DeCelles, P.G., Leier, A.L., Fabijanic, J.M., He, S., Pullen, A., and Gehrels, G.E., 2007, The Gangdese retro-arc thrust belt revealed (pdf): GSA Today, v.17, p.4-9.

 

Leier, A.L., Chesley, J.T., and DeCelles, P.G., in prep, Seawater 187Os/188Os: the Central Andean disconnect: Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

 

Leier, A.L., DeCelles, P.G., Kapp, P., and Gehrels, G.E., 2007, The Takena Formation of the Lhasa terrane, Southern Tibet: the record of a retro-arc foreland basin (pdf): Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.119, p.31-48.

 

Fildani, A., Shultz, M.R., Graham, S.A., and Leier, A., 2007, Punta Barrosa Formation at Marina’s cliff, southern Chile: a deepwater amalgamated sheet system, in Nilsen, T., Shew R., Steffens G., and Studlick, J., eds., Deep-water outcrops of the world atlas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication.

 

Leier, A.L., DeCelles, P.G., and Pelletier, J.D., 2005, Mountains, Monsoons and Megafans (pdf): Geology, v.33, p.289-292.

 

Presentations at national meetings with published abstracts

Leier, A.L., Johnston, S., and McQuarrie, N., 2007, Using oxygen isotope values of modern and ancient carbonate to reconstruct the paleoelevation history of the Inter-Andean Valley, Ecuador (pdf): GSA Abstracts with Program, v.39.

Leier, A.L., Long, S., and McQuarrie, N., 2006, Oligo-Miocene deposition along the eastern margin of the Altiplano plateau, Salla, Bolivia (pdf), EOS Trans. AGU, 87 (52), Fall Meeting Suppl. Astract .

Long, S., Leier, A.L., and McQaurrie, N., 2006, New Constraints on the spatial and temporal evolution of the central Andean Huarina backthrust belt south of La Paz, Bolivia, GSA, Abstracts with Programs.

Leier, A.L., Quade, J., DeCelles, P.G., and Kapp, P., 2006, Diagenetically altered oxygen isotope values of nonmarine carbonate in the Lhasa terrane with implications for paleoelevation studies of Tibet (pdf): GSA, Abstracts with Programs.

Leier, A.L., Eisenberg, D.A., Kapp, P., and DeCelles, P.G., 2004, Evidence of Cretaceous foreland basins systems in the Lhasa Terrane and implications for the tectonic evolution of southern Tibet (pdf), Eos Trans. AGU 85 (47) Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T53A-467.

Leier, A.L., 2004, Mountains, monsoons and fluvial megafans (pdf), GSA, Abstracts with Programs., v.36, no5, p.373.

DeCelles, P.G., Kapp, P., Leier, A., Quade, J., and Fan, M., 2004, Cretaceous-Tertiary basin evolution of the Lhasa terrane of southern Tibet: Responses to terrane collision, arc-trench tectonics, and progressive underthrusting of Greater India, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p.50.

Kapp, P., DeCelles, P.G., Leier, A., He, S., and Ding, L., 2004, The Gangdese retroarc fold-thrust belt revealed, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p.49.

Leier, A, 2003, An Early Cretaceous-Paleocene Fluvial Megafan in the Western Interior Foreland Basin, Northwestern Wyoming, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v.35, no.6, p.412.

He, S., Leier, A., and Kapp, P., 2003, Upper Crustal deformation in Southern Tibet before and during the Indo-Asian Collision, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v., 35, no.6, p.30.

Leier, A.L., He, S., Kapp, P., and Ding, L., 2002, Jurassic-Cretaceous deposits of the central Lhasa terrane: implications for the tectonic evolution of southern Asia prior to the Indo-Asian collision, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v., 34, no.6, p.412.

Leier, A., 2002, Intracratonic peripheral bulge depozones and their importance in understanding the lithospheric rheology and evolution of intacratonic basins: an example from the Michigan Basin, EOS Trans. AGU, 83 (47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T61A-1221.

Leier, A. and Steidtmann, J.R., 2000, Sedimentology and stratigraphy of a Late Cretaceous shoreline system deposited proximally to the Sevier Thrust Belt: the Bacon Ridge Sandstone, Teton County, Wyoming: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v.32, no.7, p. A308.

Leier, A. and Steidtmann, J.R., 2000, The aggradation of shoreline sandstones in a region of high subsidence and high sediment-supply, AAPG Annual Convention, Official Program, p. A85.

Leier, A. and Cotter, E., 1996, Marine influence and Incised-Valley-Fills in the ‘fluvial’ Sherman Creek Member of the Catskill Formation, central Pennsylvania, GSA Northeastern Section Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no.3, p.76.

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