Education B.S., Geology, 1993, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich M.S., Geology, 1995,Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich Ph.D., Geology, 1999,Stanford University, California Research Interests - Tectonics and Thermochronology My research focuses primarily on the integrated application of thermochronology and geochronology to tectonic problems to better understand the dynamics and thermal aspects of geodynamic processes. In particular, I'm interested in combining structural geology with (U-Th)/He, fission track and 40 Ar/39Ar low-temperature thermochronology to elucidate the spatial and temporal distribution of deformation in continental rifting, orogen-parallel extension and lateral extrusion tectonics, and the timing and strain distribution of intraplate deformation and strain partitioning in extensional and contractile fault systems. These geochronological and thermochronological methods are a powerful way to more comprehensively understand the complex interplay of deformation, magmatism, metamorphism, and sedimentary processes through time. Link to (U-Th)/He laboratory Current Opportunities 
M.S. and Ph.D. projects and funding available!!!!!Current Research Projects
I'm currently involved in several KU and collaborative projects in the fields of regional tectonics and thermochronology, investigating the temporal and thermal aspects of deformation in extensional and contractional geodynamic settings. For the past six years I have studied the spatial and temporal distribution and magnitude of extensional and strike-slip faulting in the northern Basin and Range province, the northern Gulf of California, and Sonora. One of the key aspects of this research is the temporal differentiation of strain partitioning within the diffuse North America-Pacific plate boundary. A more recent focus of my research is the tectonics of the Middle East, especially the continent-continent collision in northern and southern Iran, and the timing and structural configuration of initial rifting along the margins of the Red Sea in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. As part of a larger collaborative effort with UCLA and Univ. Tehran, we have investigated the incipient continental collision in the Alborz Mountains of northern Iran and its implications for ultra-fast subsidence in the south Caspian basin, Tertiary intra-arc rifting in north-central Iran, and dating of salt diapirism in the Zagros fold-thrust belt north of the Strait of Hormoz. A new project is trying to investigate the timing of east-west extension and crustal extrusion in southern Tibet. The Neogene geodynamics of the Tibetan-Himalayan orogenic belt, and the Tibetan Plateau in particular, is central to the understanding of how plateaus form and collapse and how continental crust deforms. In addition, I'm currently involved in several collaborations such as (1) the quantification of late Tertiary denudation of the Colorado Plateau, (2) Rifting in the Sea of Ochotsk, Siberia, (3) Timing and magnitude of deformation within thin- and thick-skinned Andean fold-thrust belts in Bolivia and northern Argentina, and (4) 3-D geometry of isotherms in an actively deforming out-of-sequence basement thrust block in the western Alps, Mt. Blanc. Etc. Current Students T.J. Dewane, Ph.D. student, Cenozoic E-W Extension in the Southern Tangra Yum Co Rift, Central Tibet Travis Glauser, MS student, Thermochronometric investigation of multiple unconformities and post-depositional thermal history of a fault block in the northern Western Desert, Egypt Chris Hager, Ph.D. student, Neogene to Recent E-W Extension in the Xainza and Pum-Qu rifts, Central Tibet Markella Hoffman, Ph.D. student, Incision and exhumation history of the Colorado Plateau in the Canyonlands to Book Cliffs Region, Utah John Lee, M.S. student, Neogene Exhumation and Incision of the Grand Canyon Region, Arizona Catherine Shirvell, Ph.D. student, TBA Jeff Schroeder, Ph.D. student, Late Cenozoic to Recent Fault Slip Distribution in Northern Fish Lake Valley, Nevada Eugene Szymanski, Ph.D. student, Tertiary Extension along the Central Saudi Arabian Red Sea Rift Margin Melissa Wolfe, M.S. student, He Diffusion in Rutile and Calibration of Rutile (U-Th)/He Thermochronology on the KTB Ultra-Deep Borehole Alec Waggoner, KU Senior, Thermochronology of the Nyainqentanglha Range and the Development of Monazite (U-Th)/He Dating Teaching Mineralogy and Structure of the Earth (Geol 311) Optical Mineralogy (Geol 312) Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (Geol 512) Field Camp (Geol 561) Plate Tectonics (Geol 591) Field Trip in Regional Geology (Geol 592) Thermochronology (Geol 714) Advanced Thermochronology (Geol 791) Microstructures and Petrofabrics (Geol 991) Publications Shirvell, C, Stockli, D.F., Axen, G., and Grove., M., 2006, Miocene-Pliocene exhumation along the West Salton Detachment System (WSDS), southern California, from (U-Th)/He thermochronometry of apatite and zircon. Tectonics in review. Stockli, D.F. and Surpless, B. E., in review, Pliocene exhumation of the Carson Range, Nevada: Implications for normal faulting in the Lake Tahoe area. Geology revised and in review. Blackburn T.J., Stockli, D.F., and J.D. Walker, 2006, (U-Th)/He dating of magnetite and its application to basalt geochronology. Earth Planetary Science Letters, in review. Lackey, J.S., Valley, J.W., Chen, J.H., Stockli, D.F., and House, M.A., 2006, The Oxygen Isotope Record of Magma Sources, Alteration, and Cryptic Crustal Boundaries in the Central Sierra Nevada Batholith. Journal of Petrology, in review. Bradley, D.B., Stockli, D.F., and Lee, J., Kinematic evolution of the Coaldale Fault and implications for the Mina Deflection, Nevada. Geological Society of America Bulletin, in review. Blackburn T.J., and Stockli, D.F., 2006, Comment on “U–Th/He age of phenocrystic garnet from the 79 AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius” by Sarah Aciego, B.M. Kennedy, Donald J. DePaolo, John N. Christensen, and Ian Hutcheon [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 216 (2003) 209–219]. Earth Planetary Science Letters, in press. Schmitt, A.K, Stockli, D.F., and Hausback, B.P., Magma evolution and eruption age of Tres Vírgenes (Baja California) constrained by combined 230Th/238U and (U, Th)/He dating of zircon. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, in press. Tincher., C. and Stockli, D.F., Cenozoic Volcanism and Tectonics in the Queen Valley Area, Esmeralda County, Western Nevada. Submitted to Geological Society of America Special Paper (invited), in press. Guest, B., Stockli, D.F., Grove, M., Axen, G.J., Lam. P.S., Hassanzadeh. J., Thermal Histories from the Central Alborz Mountains, northern Iran: Implications for the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Deformation in northern Iran. Geological Society of America Bulletin, in press. Brichau, S., Ring, U., Carter, A., Ketcham, R., Stockli, D.F., and Brunel, M., 2006, Constraining the long-term evolution of the slip rate for a major extensional fault system in the central Aegean, Greece, using thermochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 241, p.293-306. Stockli, D.F., 2005, Application of low-temperature thermochronometry to extensional tectonic settings. In: Reiners, P., and Ehlers, T. (eds.), Thermochronometry. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, vol. 58, p. 420-461. Stockli, D.F., and Farley, K.A., 2002, Empirical constraints on the titanite (U-Th)/He partial retention zone from the KTB drill hole. Chemical Geology, 207, p. 223-236. Davidson, J., Hassanzadeh, J., Berzins, R., Stockli, D. F., Bashukooh, B., Turin, B., and Pandamouz, A., 2004, The Geology of Damavand Volcano, Alborz Mountains, Northern Iran. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, p. 16-29. King, E.M., Valley, J.W., Stockli, D.F., and Wright, J. E., 2004, Oxygen isotope trends of granitic magmatism in the Great Basin: Location of the Precambrian craton boundary as reflected in zircons. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.116, p. 451–462 Stockli, D.F., Dumitru, T.A., McWilliams, M.O., and Farley, K.A., 2003, Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the White Mountains, California and Nevada. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 788–816. Tagami, T., Farley, K.A., and Stockli, D.F., (U-Th)/He geochronology of zircon using Nd-YAG laser heating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 207, p. 57-67. Farley, K.A. and Stockli, D.F., 2002, (U-Th)/He Dating of Phosphates: Apatite, Monazite, and Xenotime. In: Kohn, M., Rakovan, J., and Hughes, J.M. (eds.), Phosphates. Reviews of Mineralogy, v. 15, p. 559-578. Surpless, B.E., Stockli, D.F., Dumitru, T.A., and Miller, E.L., 2002, Two phase westward encroachment of Basin and Range extension into the northern Sierra Nevada. Tectonics, vol. 21, 1, 10.1029/2000TC001257. Stockli, D.F. , Surpless, B.E., Dumitru, T.A., and Farley, K.A., 2002, Thermochronological constraints on the timing and magnitude of Miocene and Pliocene extension in the central Wassuk Range, western Nevada. Tectonics, v. 21, 4, 10.1029/2001TC001295. Stockli, D.F. , Surpless, B.E., Dumitru, T.A., and Farley, K.A., 2002, Thermochronological constraints on the timing and magnitude of Miocene and Pliocene extension in the central Wassuk Range, western Nevada. Tectonics, vol. 21, 4, 10.1029/2001TC001295. Stockli, D.F. , Linn, J.K., Walker, J.D., and Dumitru, T.A., 2001, Miocene unroofing of the Canyon Range during extension along the Sevier Desert Detachment, west-central Utah. Tectonics, v. 20, no. 3, p. 289-307. Axen, G.J., Lam, P.S., Grove, M., Stockli, D.F. , Hassanzadeh, J., 2001, Exhumation of the west-central Alborz Mountains, Iran, Caspian subsidence, and collision-related tectonics. Geology, v. 29, no. 6, p.559-562. Mancktelow, N.S., Stockli, D.F., Grollimund, B., Miller, W., Fenschuh, B., Viola, G., Seward, D., and Villa, I.M., 2001, The DAV and Periadriatic fault systems in the Eastern Alps south of the Tauern window. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), 90, p. 593-622. Stockli, D.F. , Farley, K.A. and Dumitru, T.A., 2000, Calibration of the (U-Th)/He thermochronometer on an exhumed normal fault block in the White Mountains, eastern California and western Nevada. Geology, v. 28; no. 11, p.983-986. House, M.A, Farley, K.A., and Stockli, D.F ., 2000, Helium chronometry of apatite and titanite using Nd-YAG laser heating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 183, p. 365-368. Axen, G. J., Stockli, D. F., Grove, M., Lovera, O. M., Rothstein, D.A., Fletcher, J. M., Farley, K.A., and Abbott, P. L., 2000, Thermal evolution of Monte Blanco dome: Late Neogene low-angle normal faulting during Gulf of California rifting and late Eocene denudation of the eastern Peninsular Ranges. Tectonics, v. 19, no. 2, p. 197-212. Leech, M. L. and Stockli, D. F., 2000, The late exhumation history of the ultrahigh-pressure Maksyutov Complex, south Ural Mountains, from new apatite fission track data. Tectonics, v. 19, no. 1, p. 153-167. Stockli, D.F. , 1999, Regional timing and spatial distribution of Miocene extension in the northern Basin and Range Province. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, 239 p. Dumitru, T. A. and Stockli, D. F., 1999, A better way to separate apatite from zircon using constriction tubes. In: Van den Haute, P. and De Corte, F. (eds.), Advances in Fission-Track Geochronology, p. 325-330. |
