Articles in refereed journals

Johnson, C. B., Furlong, K.P., and Kirby, E., 2009, Integrated geomorphic and geodynamic modeling of a potential blind thrust in the San Francisco

Bay area, California: Teconophysics, v. 471, p. 319-328.

Parsons, T., Ji, C., and Kirby, E., 2008, Stress changes from the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and increased hazard in the Sichuan basin: Nature, v.

454, doi: 10.1038/nature07177

Burchfiel, B.C., Royden, L.H., van der Hilst, R.D., Chen, Z., King, R.W., Li, C., Lu, J., Yao, H., and Kirby, E., 2008, A geological and geophysical context

for the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China: GSA Today, v. 18, no. 7, doi: 10.1130/GSATG18A.1

*Harkins, N. and Kirby, E., 2008, Fluvial terrace riser degradation and determination of slip rates on strike-slip faults: An example from the Kunlun fault,

China: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 35,  L05406, doi:10.1029/2007GL033073.

Kirby, E., Anadakrishnan, S., Phillips, F., Marrero, S., 2008, Late Pleistocene slip rate along the Owens Valley fault, eastern California: Geophysical

Research Letters, v. 35, L01304, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031970.

Frankel, K.L., Glazner, A.F., Kirby, E., Monastero, F.C., Strane, M.D., Oskin, M.E., Unruh, J.R., Walker, J.D., Anandakrishnan, S., Bartley, J.M.,

Coleman, D.S., Dolan, J.F., Finkel, R.C., Greene, D., Kylander-Clark, A., Marrero, S., Owen, L.A., and Phillips, F., 2008, Active tectonics of the eastern California shear zone, in Duebendorfer, E.M., and Smith, E.I., eds., Field Guide to Plutons, Volcanoes, Faults, Reefs, Dinosaurs, and Possible Glaciation in Selected Areas of Arizona, California, and Nevada: Geological Society of America Field Guide 11, p. 43–81, doi: 10.1130/2008.fl d011(03).

Kirby, E., Harkins, N., Wang, E., and Burbank, D., 2007, Slip rate gradients on the eastern Kunlun Fault: Tectonics, 26, TC2010,

doi:10.1029/2006TC002033.

Kirby, E., Johnson, C., Furlong, K., and Heimsath, A., 2007, Transient channel incision along Bolinas Ridge, California: Evidence for differential rock

uplift adjacent to the San Andreas fault: Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, 112, F03S07, doi: 10.1029/2006JF000559.

*Harkins, N., Kirby, E., Heimsath, A., Robinson, R., and Reiser, U., Transient fluvial incision in the headwaters of the Yellow River, northeastern Tibet,

China: Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, 112, F03S04, doi:10.1029/2006JF000570.

*Numelin, T., Kirby, E., Walker, J.D., and Didericksen, B., Late Pleistocene slip on a low-angle normal fault, Searles Valley, California: Geosphere, 3,

pg. 163-176, doi: 10.1130/GES00052.1

*Numelin, T., Marone, C., and Kirby, E., 2007, Frictional properties of natural fault gouge from a low-angle normal fault, Panamint Valley, California:

Tectonics, v. 26, TC2004, doi:10.1029/2005TC001916.

*Miller, S.R., Slingerland, R.L., and Kirby, E., 2007, Characteristics of steady-state fluvial topography above fault-bend folds: Journal of Geophysical

Research, Earth Surface, 112, F04004, doi:10.1029/2007JF000772

Kirby E., Burbank, D., Phillips, F., and Reheis, M., 2006, Temporal variations in slip rate of the White Mountain Fault Zone, eastern California: EPSL, v.

248, p. 168-185.

Walker, J.D., Kirby, E., and Andrew, J.A., 2005, Strain transfer and partitioning between the Panamint Valley, Searles Valley, and Ash Hill fault systems,

California: Geosphere, v. 1, no. 3; doi: 10.1130/GES00014.1

*Duvall, A., Kirby, E., and Burbank, D., Tectonic and lithologic controls on channel profiles and processes in coastal California: Journal of Geophysical

Research: Earth Surface, v. 109, F03002, doi:10.1029/2003JF000086

Kirby, E., Whipple, K.X., Tang, W., and Chen, Z., 2003, Distribution of active rock uplift along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences

from bedrock river profiles: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.108, 2217, doi:10.1029/2001JB000861, 2003.

Kirby, E., Reiners, P.W., Krol, M.A., Hodges, K.V., Whipple, K.X., Farley, K.A., Chen, Z., and Tang, W., 2002, Late Cenozoic evolution of the eastern

margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology, Tectonics, v. 21, 1001, doi:10.1029/2000TC001246, 2002.

Kirby, E. and Whipple, K.X., 2001, Quantifying differential rock-uplift rates via stream profile analysis: Geology, v. 29, pp. 415-418.

Kirby, E., Burchfiel, B.C., Whipple, K.X., Tang, W., Berger, G., Sun, Z., and Chen, Z., 2000, Neotectonics of the Min Shan, China: Implications for

mechanisms driving Quaternary deformation along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: GSA Bulletin, v. 112, pp. 375-393.

Whipple, K.X., Kirby, E. and Brocklehurst, S.H., 1999, Geomorphic limits to climatically induced increases in topographic relief: Nature, v. 401, pp. 39-

43.

Kirby, E., Karlstrom, K.E., Andronicos, C.L., and Dallmeyer, R.D., 1994, Tectonic setting of the Sandia pluton: an orogenic 1.4 Ga granite in New

Mexico: Tectonics, v. 14, pp. 185-201.

Nyman, M.W., Karlstrom, K.E., Kirby, E., and Graubard, C., 1994, 1.4 Ga contractional orogeny in western North America: evidence from ca. 1.4 Ga

plutons: Geology, v. 22, pp. 901-904.

* denotes student author

Parts of Books

Koons, P. and Kirby, E., 2007, Topography, Denudation, and Deformation: The role of surface processes in fault evolution, in, Handy, M.R., Hirth, G.,

and Hovius, N., eds., Tectonic Faults: Agents of Change on a Dynamic Earth, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., pg. 205-230.

Buck, W.R., Densmore, A.L., Fredrich, A.F., Hovius, N., Kirby, E., Koons, P.O., Nagel, T., Schlunegger, F., Strecker, M., anc von Blanckenburg, F.,

2007, Environmental Effects of Faulting, in, Handy, M.R., Hirth, G., and Hovius, N., eds., Tectonic Faults: Agents of Change on a Dynamic Earth, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., p. 273-294.

Wobus, C., Whipple, K., Kirby, E., Snyder, N., Johnson, J., Spyropolou, K., Crosby, B., Sheehan, D., 2006, Tectonics from Topography: Procedures,

promise, and pitfalls, in, Willett, S.D., Hovius, N., Brandon, M.T., and Fisher, D., eds., Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution: Geologic Society of America Special Paper 398, p. 55-74, doi:10.1130/2006.2398(04).

Clift, P.D., Carter, A., Krol, M., and Kirby, E., 2002, Constraints on India-Eurasia collision in the Arabian Sea region taken from the Indus Group, Ladakh

Himalaya, India, in, Clift, P.D., Kroon, D., Gaedicke, C. and Craig, J., eds., The Tectonic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region: Geological Society, London, Special Publications, v. 195, p. 97-116.

Other Articles

Kirby, E., Whipple, K.X., and Harkins, N., 2008, Topography reveals seismic hazard: Nature Geoscience, v. 1, p. 485-487, doi: 10.1038/ngeo265.

Niemann, J.D. and Kirby, E., 2003, Geomorphology: Geotimes Annual Highlights Issue, v. 48, no. 7, p. 14-15.

Kirby, E., Karlstrom, K.E., and Andronicos, C.L., 1995, Structural and thermal setting during emplacement of the Sandia pluton: New Mexico

Geological Society Guidebook 46, pp. 219-225.

Karlstrom, K.E., Kirby, E., Connell, S., Read, A.S., Ferguson, C., Osburn, G.R., Ilg, B., Abbott, J., Hitchcock, C., Kelson, K., Noller, J., Sawyer, T.,

Bauer, P., Ralser, S., Love, D., and Nyman, M., 1994 (latest revision: 22, September, 1999), Geology of the Tijeras 7.5-min quadrangle, Bernalillo County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-file Digital Geologic Map OF-DGM 4, scale 1:24,000.

Read, A.S., Connell, S., Karlstrom, K.E., Kirby, E., Ferguson, C., Ilg, B., Pazzaglia, F., Osburn, G.R., Van Hart, D., 1995 (latest revision: 20

September, 1999) Geology of the Sandia Crest quadrangle, Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties, New Mexico, Open-file Digital Geologic Map OF-DGM 6: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, scale 1:24,000.

Timmons, J.M., Karlstrom, K.E., and Kirby, E., 1995, Geology of the Monte Largo Hills area, New Mexico: Structural and metamorphic study of the

eastern aureole of the Sandia pluton: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 46, p. 227-232.

Manuscripts accepted for publication

Manuscripts submitted for publication

Sheehan, T.P., Dawers, N.H., Kirby, E., and Robinson, R., in review, Temporal variation in extensional strain rate within northern Owens Valley,

California: Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Regalla, C., Fisher, D., and Kirby, E., in review, Timing and magnitude of shortening within the inner forearc of the Japan Trench: Journal of

Geophysical Research