Leigh Royden
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Leigh Royden's Degrees
- PhD Geology Stanford University
- Masters Geology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leigh "Wiki" H. Royden is an American Geologist. Early life Royden was born in Palo Alto, California. Royden's father was Halsey Royden, a mathematician. Education Royden received an A.B. degree in physics from Harvard University and a PhD in geology and geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
Leigh Royden's Published Works
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Published Works
- Topographic ooze: Building the eastern margin of Tibet by lower crustal flow (2000) (1338)
- The Geological Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau (2008) (1204)
- The South Tibetan Detachment System, Himalayan Orogen: Extension Contemporaneous With and Parallel to Shortening in a Collisional Mountain Belt (1992) (864)
- Tectonics of the Longmen Shan and Adjacent Regions, Central China (1995) (790)
- Rifting process and thermal evolution of the continental margin of Eastern Canada determined from subsidence curves (1980) (742)
- Surface uplift, tectonics, and erosion of eastern Tibet from large‐scale drainage patterns (2004) (724)
- Evolution of retreating subduction boundaries formed during continental collision (1993) (665)
- The tectonic expression slab pull at continental convergent boundaries (1993) (617)
- A geological and geophysical context for the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008, Sichuan, People's Republic of China (2008) (599)
- Late Cenozoic uplift of southeastern Tibet (2005) (561)
- North-south extension within the convergent Himalayan region (1985) (511)
- An integral approach to bedrock river profile analysis (2013) (492)
- Segmentation and configuration of subducted lithosphere in Italy: An important control on thrust-belt and foredeep-basin evolution (1987) (483)
- Global Positioning System measurements from eastern Tibet and their implications for India/Eurasia intercontinental deformation (2000) (455)
- The Pannonian Basin : a study in basin evolution (1988) (422)
- Motion of the Pacific plate relative to Eurasia and its potential relation to Cenozoic extension along the eastern margin of Eurasia (1995) (403)
- Coupling and decoupling of crust and mantle in convergent orogens: Implications for strain partitioning in the crust (1996) (396)
- Late Cenozoic Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang, Red River, and Dali Fault Systems of Southwestern Sichuan and Central Yunnan, China (1998) (364)
- Simultaneous Miocene Extension and Shortening in the Himalayan Orogen (1992) (349)
- Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean (2014) (346)
- Core complex geometries and regional scale flow in the lower crust (1990) (319)
- Late Cenozoic extension in northeastern Greece: Strymon Valley detachment system and Rhodope metamorphic core complex (1993) (278)
- Dynamic topography produced by lower crustal flow against rheological strength heterogeneities bordering the Tibetan Plateau (2005) (276)
- Intracrustal detachment within zones of continental deformation (1989) (274)
- Geology of the Haiyuan Fault Zone, Ningxia‐Hui Autonomous Region, China, and its relation to the evolution of the Northeastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau (1991) (257)
- Continental Margin Subsidence and Heat Flow: Important Parameters in Formation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons (1980) (253)
- Late Cenozoic Tectonics of the Pannonian Basin System: Chapter 3 (1988) (242)
- Geodetic measurement of crustal motion in southwest China (1997) (228)
- The influence of large landslides on river incision in a transient landscape: Eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau (Sichuan, China) (2007) (223)
- Large-scale crustal deformation of the Tibetan Plateau (2001) (222)
- Solutions of the stream power equation and application to the evolution of river longitudinal profiles (2013) (216)
- Evolution of the Pannonian Basin System: 1. Tectonics (1983) (209)
- Use of a regional, relict landscape to measure vertical deformation of the eastern Tibetan Plateau (2006) (202)
- Evolution of the Pannonian Basin System: 2. Subsidence and thermal history (1983) (191)
- Lithospheric Extension Near Lake Mead, Nevada: A Model for Ductile Flow in the Lower Crust (1991) (179)
- Slab segmentation and late Cenozoic disruption of the Hellenic arc (2011) (178)
- The formation of the intra-Carpathian basins as determined from subsidence data (1980) (178)
- Regional incision of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau (2010) (176)
- Transform faulting, extension, and subduction in the Carpathian Pannonian region (1982) (174)
- Anomalously fast convergence of India and Eurasia caused by double subduction (2015) (169)
- Are systematic variations in thrust belt style related to plate boundary processes? (The western Alps versus the Carpathians) (1989) (168)
- THE STEADY STATE THERMAL STRUCTURE OF ERODING OROGENIC BELTS AND ACCRETIONARY PRISMS (1993) (158)
- The Vienna Basin: A Thin-Skinned Pull-Apart Basin (1985) (157)
- Amount and style of late Cenozoic deformation in the Liupan Shan area, Ningxia autonomous region, China (1991) (154)
- Geology of Panamint Valley ‐ Saline Valley Pull‐Apart System, California: Palinspastic evidence for low‐angle geometry of a Neogene Range‐Bounding Fault (1987) (150)
- Flexure of Lithosphere Beneath Apennine and Carpathian Foredeep Basins: Evidence for an Insufficient Topographic Load (1984) (149)
- Disruption of the Hellenic arc: Late Miocene extensional detachment faults and steep Pliocene‐Quaternary normal faults—Or what happened at Corinth? (2007) (147)
- The role of crustal strength variations in shaping orogenic plateaus, with application to Tibet (2008) (143)
- Late Paleozoic Deformation of Interior North America: The Greater Ancestral Rocky Mountains (1996) (140)
- The thermal structure of collisional orogens as a response to accretion, erosion, and radiogenic heating (1998) (133)
- The Kangmar Dome: A Metamorphic Core Complex in Southern Xizang (Tibet) (1990) (132)
- Trench motion, slab geometry and viscous stresses in subduction systems (2006) (131)
- The metamorphic signature of contemporaneous extension and shortening in the central Himalayan Orogen; data from the Nyalam transect, southern Tibet (1993) (130)
- Thermal modeling of extensional tectonics: application to pressure- temperature-time histories of metamorphic rocks (1988) (122)
- Early Middle Paleozoic Intraplate Orogeny in the Ogcheon Belt (South Korea)' A New Insight on the Paleozoic Buildup of East Asia (Paper 91TC00866) Dominique Cluzel, Laurent Jolivet, and Jean-Paul Cadet 113 (1991) (122)
- U‐Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Symvolon granodiorite: Implications for the thermal and structural evolution of the Rhodope metamorphic core complex, northeastern Greece (1995) (121)
- Deflection, gravity anomalies and tectonics of doubly subducted continental lithosphere: Adriatic and Ionian seas (1988) (117)
- Flexural behavior of the continental lithosphere in Italy - Constraints imposed by gravity and deflection data (1988) (114)
- Bounds on the Holocene Slip Rate of the Haiyuan Fault, North-Central China (1988) (113)
- Thin-skinned N-S extension within the convergent Himalayan region: gravitational collapse of a Miocene topographic front (1987) (99)
- Geologic thermobarometry of retrograded metamorphic rocks: An indication of the uplift trajectory of a portion of the northern Scandinavian caledonides (1984) (97)
- Cenozoic Extension in Bulgaria and Northern Greece: the Northern Part of the Aegean Extensional Regime (2000) (95)
- Seismic investigation of the transition from continental to oceanic subduction along the western Hellenic Subduction Zone (2012) (93)
- Tectonic of Asia 50 years after the death of Emile Argand (1991) (84)
- Thermobarometric and40Ar/39Ar geochronologic constraints on Eohimalayan metamorphism in the Dinggyê area, southern Tibet (1994) (84)
- Bending and unbending of an elastic lithosphere: The Cenozoic history of the Apennine and Dinaride foredeep basins (1994) (82)
- Lower crustal flow in an extensional setting: Constraints from the Halloran Hills region, eastern Mojave Desert, California (1994) (81)
- High-resolution seismic imaging of the western Hellenic subduction zone using teleseismic scattered waves (2009) (78)
- Mid-Tertiary Stratigraphy and Paleogeographic Evolution of Hungary (1986) (77)
- Spatial and temporal evolution of foredeep basins: lateral strength variations and inelastic yielding in continental lithosphere (1992) (75)
- The Interdependence of Deformational and Thermal Processes in Mountain Belts (1996) (72)
- Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ningxia-Hui Autonomous Region, China (1990) (70)
- Kinematic links between subduction along the Hellenic trench and extension in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece: A multidisciplinary analysis (2011) (70)
- Low-latitude arc–continent collision as a driver for global cooling (2016) (69)
- Constraints on Cenozoic tectonics in the southwestern Longmen Shan from low-temperature thermochronology (2013) (66)
- The dynamics of double slab subduction (2017) (59)
- Crustal rheology and faulting at strike‐slip plate boundaries: 2. Effects of lower crustal flow (2000) (57)
- Antler orogeny: A Mediterranean-type orogeny (1991) (57)
- Carpathian Foreland Fold and Thrust Belt and Its Relation to Pannonian and Other Basins (1982) (57)
- Dynamics of the Ryukyu/Izu-Bonin-Marianas double subduction system (2017) (55)
- Subduction Orogeny and the Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Mediterranean Arcs (2018) (51)
- A technique for analyzing the thermal and uplift histories of eroding orogenic belts: A Scandinavian example (1984) (51)
- Elastic strength of the Slave craton at 1.9 Gyr and implications for the thermal evolution of the continents (1990) (49)
- Crustal rheology and faulting at strike‐slip plate boundaries: 1. An analytic model (2000) (46)
- Subsidence, Thermal, and Maturation History of the Great Hungarian Plain: Chapter 26 (1988) (44)
- Subduction with Variations in Slab Buoyancy: Models and Application to the Banda and Apennine Systems (2009) (39)
- Episodicity in foredeep basins (1992) (39)
- Southern Tibet Detachment System at Khula Kangri, Eastern Himalaya: A Large‐Area, Shallow Detachment Stretching into Bhutan? (1999) (39)
- Constraints on unroofing rates in the High Himalaya, eastern Nepal (1991) (38)
- Paleocene latitude of the Kohistan–Ladakh arc indicates multistage India–Eurasia collision (2020) (37)
- Unraveling topography around subduction zones from laboratory models (2012) (34)
- The Sub-Balkan graben system of central Bulgaria (1996) (34)
- Early Cenozoic Tectonics and Paleogeography of the Pannonian and Surrounding Regions: Chapter 1 (1988) (33)
- Slab interactions in 3-D subduction settings: The Philippine Sea Plate region (2018) (33)
- Bounds on the Average Recurrence Interval of Major Earthquakes Along the Haiyuan Fault In North-Central China (1988) (31)
- Variations in the geometry and amount of slip on the Haiyuan (Nanxihaushan) fault zone, China and the surface rupture of the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake (2013) (30)
- Variations in Extensional Styles at Depth Across the Pannonian Basin System: Chapter 17 (1988) (27)
- Flexure of the continental lithosphere beneath Apennine and Carpathian foredeep basins (1984) (26)
- Flexure of the continental lithosphere beneath Apennine and Carpathian foredeep basins (1984) (23)
- Extensional development of Gabo Valley, southern Tibet (1991) (22)
- Dominant influence of volcanic loading on vertical motions of the Hawaiian Islands (2015) (20)
- A simple method for analyzing subsidence and heat flow in extensional basins (1986) (19)
- Hotspot swells and the lifespan of volcanic ocean islands (2020) (17)
- Late Cenozoic extension in northeastern Greece: Strymon valley detachment system and Rhodope metamorphic core complex: Comment and Reply (1994) (17)
- Old, strong continental lithosphere with weak Archaean margin at ~1.8 Ga, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa (2004) (17)
- Principles and processes (1991) (14)
- Late Paleozoic deformation of interior North America; the greater ancestral Rocky Mountains; discussion and reply (1998) (14)
- Crustal development within a retreating subduction system: The Hellenides (2018) (13)
- Isostatic constraints on the assembly, stabilization, and preservation of cratonic lithosphere (2004) (11)
- Extremal bounds on geotherms in eroding mountain belts from metamorphic pressure-temperature conditions (1987) (10)
- GPS monitoring of the crustal motion in southwestern China (1999) (9)
- The Neogene intra-Carpathian basins (1981) (8)
- Flexural uplift of the Stara Planina range, central Bulgaria (1996) (7)
- Geology of the Wilson Cliffs-Potosi Mountain Area, Southern Nevada (1997) (7)
- Subduction Dynamics and Mantle Pressure: 2. Towards a Global Understanding of Slab Dip and Upper Mantle Circulation (2020) (7)
- Thin-Skinned Extension of Vienna Basin: ABSTRACT (1984) (6)
- Subduction Dynamics and Mantle Pressure: 1. An Analytical Framework Relating Subduction Geometry, Plate Motion, and Asthenospheric Pressure (2020) (5)
- Sub-regional Dynamic Topography and Deformation of the Lower Crust by Decoupled Channel Flow in Tibet (2001) (4)
- Late Cenozoic extension and exhumation of mid-crustal rocks at Gonga Shan, eastern Tibet (2003) (3)
- An Erosional Record of Tibetan Plateau Uplift and Monsoon Strengthening in the Asian Marginal Seas (2003) (3)
- Late Cenozoic uplift of southeastern Tibet: Implications for lower crustal flow (2003) (2)
- Correction to “The steady state thermal structure of eroding orogenic belts and accretionary prisms” by Leigh Royden (1993) (2)
- Extremal bounds on geotherms in uplifting and eroding mountain belts from metamorphic pressure-temperature conditions (1985) (2)
- Effects of unknowns on thermal history reconstruction of orogenic belts (1986) (2)
- Neotectonic and active diverging rates of extension in the northern and southern Hellenides across the Central Hellenic Shear Zone (2011) (1)
- Long and short-term erosion and river incision on the eastern margin of the Tibetan plateau, a transient landscape (2005) (1)
- Plate Tectonics. (Book Reviews: Continental and Oceanic Rifts) (1982) (1)
- Deformation and topography above the lateral transition from continental to oceanic subduction in three-dimensional laboratory models: what can we learn on the Hellenic subduction? (2012) (1)
- Pliocene uplift, river incision and faulting in the Red River region, Yunnan Province, China (2003) (1)
- Foreland Fold and Thrust Belt of Carpathians and Its Relation to Pannonian and Related Basins: ABSTRACT (1980) (1)
- Plate motion and deformation (1991) (1)
- The Pannonian Basin: A Study in Basin Evolution: Reply (1) (1990) (1)
- Imaging the Southern Hellenic Subduction Zone Through Migration of Scattered Teleseismic Body Waves (2007) (1)
- The evolution of the intra-Carpathian basins and their relationship to the Carpathian mountain system (1982) (1)
- High-resolution seismic imaging of mantle-wedge structure across northern and southern segments of the western Hellenic subduction zone (2009) (1)
- How to prepare author-produced copy for JGr papers (1991) (1)
- New paleomagnetic results from Ladakh, Western Himalaya support multi-stage collision scenario between India and Eurasia. (2014) (1)
- Westward-derived conglomerates in Moenkopi formation of Southeastern California, and their probable tectonic significance (1983) (1)
- Birch Lecture: Uplift and Evolution of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau (2005) (0)
- The dynamics of double slab subduction from numerical and semi-analytic models (2015) (0)
- Abstract: The Expression of Convergence Rate and Slab Pull in Foreland Basins (1992) (0)
- Paleomagnetic results from the western Himalaya indicate multi-stage India-Eurasia collision (2021) (0)
- Cenozoic Normal Faulting in the Longmen Shan, Eastern Tibet (2008) (0)
- Abstract: Late Cenozoic Orogenic Belts of the Mediterranean Region and their North American Counterparts (1992) (0)
- Abstract: Eastern European Mountain Belts - The Highs and Lows (1992) (0)
- A re-assessesment of the shallow paleomagnetic inclinations of the Western Cyclades, Greece (2017) (0)
- HIMALAYA, EASTERN NEPAL (2007) (0)
- Continental Collisions (Stephan Mueller Medal Lecture) (2013) (0)
- Some Aspects of Crustal Deformation and Subduction Zone Dynamics within the Mediterranean Region. (2002) (0)
- Subduction dynamics and mantle pressure: Towards a global understanding of slab dip angles (2019) (0)
- Triassic Arc Songpan Ganze Yangtze Platform Eastern Tibetan Plateau Sichuan Basin N (0)
- Plate tectonics. (1982) (0)
- Mio-Pliocene Extension in Central, Onshore Greece: Initial Field Investigations in the Aliveri-Kymi Basin, Evia (2006) (0)
- Predicting the Eastern Mediterranean Basin (2011) (0)
- Geology of the southern Ningxia autonomous region, China, and its relationship to the evolution of the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau (1987) (0)
- Chapter 3 long term dynamics of the solid earth (1989) (0)
- Report of the panel on plate motion and deformation, section 2 (1991) (0)
- Untangling Slab Dynamics Using 3-D Numerical and Analytical Models (2016) (0)
- Seismic Characterization of the Transition from Continental to Oceanic Subduction along the western Hellenic Subduction Zone (2010) (0)
- 3-D subduction dynamics in the western Pacific: Mantle pressure, plate kinematics, and dynamic topography. (2017) (0)
- Thin-skinned extension of Vienna basin (1984) (0)
- Lack of Young Subsidence in the East Tibetan Foreland: Implications for Crustal Thickening Processes at Depth (2008) (0)
- Isostatic constraints on lithospheric thermal evolution : Application to the proterozoic orogen of the southwestern United States (2013) (0)
- PALEOCENE LATITUDE OF THE KOHISTAN-LADAKH ARC INDICATES MULTI-STAGE INDIA-EURASIA COLLISION (2020) (0)
- Afterword: A General Approach to Basin Analysis (1988) (0)
- Constraints on unroofing rates, eastern Nepal (1990) (0)
- Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene Climate Change Linked to Tectonic Eevolution of Neo-Tethyan Subduction Systems (2015) (0)
- Characterizing plume-plate interactions at ocean hotspots from the vertical motion history of volcanic ocean islands (2021) (0)
- Global subduction dynamics: links between slab dip angles, dynamic pressure, and lower mantle mass flux (2018) (0)
- Mantle Plume – Spreading Ridge Interaction: A Comparative Study of the Red Sea and Reykjanes Ridges (2020) (0)
- A Plate Tectonic Explanation for Anomalously Fast Convergence of India and Eurasia (Invited) (2013) (0)
- Subduction of Indian Continental Lithosphere (2012) (0)
- The Interdependence of Plate Coupling Processes, Subduction Rate, and Asthenospheric Pressure Drop across Subducting Slabs (2015) (0)
- The aegean: A natural laboratory for tectonics - neotectonics (2013) (0)
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