Dr. Daniel F. Stockli Associate Professor Thermochronolgy and Tectonics

Professional Experience &bull Research Interests • Research Projects • Teaching • Graduate Students •
Recent Grants • Publications • (U-Th)/He Laboratory • Prospective Graduate Students •

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Daniel F. Stockli, Associate Professor
Director of KU (U-Th)/He Laboratory and Co-Director of IGL
Department of Geology
University of Kansas

1475 Jayhawk Boulevard
120 Lindley Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045-7613

stockli@ku.edu

(785) 864-4995 Lindley Office
(785) 864-7714 IGL Office
(785) 864-7709 IGL/He Lab
(785) 864-5276 Fax

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

Professional Experience

• Herbette Visiting Professorship University of Lausanne, Switzerland (Fall 2007)
• Associate Professor (thermochronology/tectonics) at University of Kansas (since 2006)
• Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (since 2005)
• Assistant Professor (thermochronology/tectonics) at University of Kansas (2001-2006)
• Texaco Postdoctoral scholar at California Institute of Technology (1999-2001)
• Curator of mineral separation facilities at Stanford University (1998-1999)
• Teaching and Research Assistant at Stanford University (1995-1999)
• Teaching and Laboratory Assistant, ETH Zurich (1993-1995)

• Associate Editor for Geology (since 2005)
• Editor, On Track (International fission-track newsletter) (1996–1997)

Research Interests - Thermochronology and Tectonics

My research focuses on the integrated application of thermochronology and geochronology to tectonic and geological problems to better understand the temporal and thermal aspects of tectonic, petrologic, stratigraphic, and geomorphologic processes. In particular, I am interested in combining structural geology with (U-Th)/He, fission track and 40Ar/39Ar low-temperature thermochronology to elucidate the spatial and temporal distribution of deformation in intra-continental rifting, orogen-parallel extension, and continental rupture leading to seafloor spreading as well as collisional tectonics.

I am currently spearheading several independent 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, involving several KU graduate and undergraduate students (see student websites). In recent years, my research program has focused on the spatial and temporal evolution of extensional and transcurrent faulting in the northern and central Basin and Range, central Tibet, northern Gulf of California and Salton Trough), and northern Labrador. Recently, we have started investigating the initial rifting and opening of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia in a unique collaboration with the Saudi Geological Survey; a collaboration that is also fostering continuing geosciences education for Saudi scientists. Other ongoing projects deal with the tectonic and erosional (climate) exhumation of rock along convergent margins (Chile/Argentina) and collisional orogens (Iran (Alborz and Zagros) and Alps. In recent years, we have also started to work on the application of (U-Th)/He thermochronometry to ultrahigh-pressure and high-pressure rocks in the Aegean, Alps, and the Erzgebirge to elucidate the exhumation of bueschists and eclogites.

Besides these regional tectonic projects, an important recent aspect of my research program is the development, expansion, and refinement of novel geo- and thermochronometric techniques. I have been involved in the development and application of (U-Th)/He dating since its development in the late 1990s. My research group and I have tackled the development and calibration of several new (U-Th)/He geo- and thermochronometers, such as monazite, rutile, and magnetite as a part of a larger effort to expand our capabilities to reconstruct thermal histories in a more comprehensive way by analyzing a suite of silicate, oxide, and phosphate minerals. We have recently also focus on the geochronometry of young (<100 ka) felsic to intermediate volcanic rock (disequilibrium-corrected (U-Th)/He dating) and continental and oceanic basaltic rocks (magnetite and maghemite (U-Th)/He dating).

(U-Th)/He Laboratory

Current Research Projects

	Aegean, Alps, and Chile/Argentina Andes Links and Info.... Coming Soon!

Current Research Opportunities

M.S. and Ph.D. projects and funding available!!!!!

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)

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
• 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

Recent Students

• John Lee, M.S. 2007, Neogene Exhumation and Incision of the Grand Canyon Region, Arizona. Now a Ph.D. student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Terrence Blackburn - M.S. 2006, (U-Th)/He Dating of Xenoliths from Kimberlites and basaltic volcanic fields. Now a Ph.D. student at MIT.
• Christopher Tincher, M.S. 2005, Cenozoic Volcanism and Tectonics in the Queen Valley Area, western Nevada. Now working for Encana, Denver.
• David Bradley, M.S. 2005, Kinematics and slip rates of the Coaldale Fault, Nevada”.
• Juan Pablo Centeno - M.S. (2004). Thesis: “Exhumation of the Torngat Mountains, northern Labrador, Canada. Now working for Drilling Company in Glenwood Springs, CO.
• Alec Waggoner, KU Senior, Thermochronology of the Nyainqentanglha Range and the Development of Monazite (U-Th)/He Dating. Now a M.S. student a Syracuse University

Recent Grants

• 2007 NSF Petrology and Geochemistry. Magnetite (U-Th-Sm)/He Geochronology - A Novel Technique for Dating Continental and Oceanic Basalts, $200,000.
• 2007 Navy Geothermal Program. Thermochronometric Constraints on the Connection between Advection of Heat through Faulting and Nature of Geothermal Resource for the Hawthorne/Wassuk Range area, Nevada. $134,000.
• 2007 NSF Tectonics. Timing and Kinematics of Cenozoic of E-W Extension in Central Tibet Transition in the Strain Field of the Tibetan Plateau. Supplement $21,042
• 2007 Apache Egypt Oil. Thermochronometric Investigation of the SOKAR-1X Unconformity. $69,523.
• 2006 NSF EarthScope. GeoFrame Walker Lane initiative workshop proposal. $29, 814.
• 2006 NSF Petrology and Geochemistry. Development and calibration of rutile (U-Th)/He geo-and thermochronometry. $ 174,122.
• 2005 NSF Instrumentation and Facilities. Technician Support: (U-Th)/He laboratory at the University of Kansas [Phase I]. $203,374.
• 2005 KU General Research Fund Grant. Timing of ancient earthquakes by radiometric dating of frictional seismic melts – Development of zircon (U-Th)/He dating of pseudotachylites. $7,588.
• 2004 NSF Tectonics. Collaborative Research: Collaborative Research: Exhumation of the Colorado Plateau--spatial and temporal distribution and implications for landscape evolution. $118,818.
• 2004 Geo-83 Geothermal Consortium. Late Neogene structural and volcanic evolution of the northern Fish Lake Valley pull-apart basin, Esmeralda County, Nevada. $21,923.
• 2003 NSF MARGINS. Collaborative Research: Integrated thermochronological & structural investigation of the Saudi Arabian Red Sea rift margin: Implications for the rupturing of continental lithosphere. $189,287.
• 2003 NSF Tectonics. Timing and Kinematics of Cenozoic of E-W Extension in central Tibet Important Transition in the Strain Field of the Tibetan Plateau. $229,909.
• 2002 NSF Tectonics. Collaborative Research: Late Cenozoic to Recent Fault Slip Distribution in the Central Walker Lane Belt, Western Nevada. Award Amount: $162,961.

Recent Publications

Brichau, S. and Stockli, D.F., Overestimation of thermochronometrically-derived fault slip rates due to structural repetition of lower plate rocks in metamorphic core complexes. Geology in review.

Gavillot, Y., Stockli, D.F., Axen, G.J., Horton, B.K., and Mohammad, Timing of thrust activity in the High Zagros fold-thrust belt, Iran from (U-Th)/He thermochronometry. Tectonics in review.

Christie, M., Tsoflias, G., Stockli, D.F., and Black, R., Assessing fault displacement and off-fault deformation in an extensional tectonic setting using 3-D ground-penetrating radar imaging. Journal of Applied Geophysics in review.

Frankovic, A. and Stockli, D.F., The Bilbao Anticline, AAPG Bulletin in review.

Restrepo, S.A., Foster, D.A., Stockli, D.F., and Parra, L., Long-term erosion and exhumation of the “Altiplano Antioqueño”, Northern Andes (Colombia) from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology. Geology in review.

Shirvell, C.*, Stockli, D.F., Axen, G.J., and Grove, M., 2008, Miocene-Pliocene Exhumation along the West Salton Detachment Fault (WSDF), Southern California, from (U-Th)/He Thermochronometry of Apatite and Zircon. Tectonics, in review.

Lee, J., Stockli, D.F., Owen, L.A., and Finkel, R., Exhumation of the Inyo Mountains, California: Implications for the Timing of Extension Along the Western Boundary of the Basin Range Province and Dextral Slip Rates Across the Eastern California Shear Zone. Geological Society of America Bulletin in review.

Lackey, J.S., Valley, J.W., Chen, J.H., Stockli, D.F., and House, M.A., 2008, The Oxygen Isotope Record of Magma Sources, Alteration, and Cryptic Crustal Boundaries in the Central Sierra Nevada Batholith. Journal of Petrology, accepted pending revisions.

Lee, J., Garwood, J., Stockli, D.F., and Gosse, J., Quaternary faulting in Queen Valley, California-Nevada: Kinematics of Fault Slip Transfer in the Eastern California Shear Zone-Walker Lane Belt. Geological Society of America Bulletin in press.

Ritts, B.D., Yongjun, Y., Graham, S.A., Sobel, E.R., Abink, O.A., and Stockli, D.F., 2008, From Sea Level to High Elevation in 15 Million Years: Uplift History of the Northern Tibetan Plateau Margin in the Altun Shan. American Journal of Science, in press.

Tincher., C.* and Stockli, D.F., 2008, Cenozoic Volcanism and Tectonics in the Queen Valley Area, Esmeralda County, Western Nevada. Geological Society of America Special Paper, in press.

Horton, B.K., Hassanzadeh, J., Stockli, D.F., Axen, G.J., Gillis, R.J., Guest, B., Amini, A., Fakhari, M., Zamanzadeh, M.S., and Grove, G., 2008, Detrital zircon provenance of Neoproterozoic to Cenozoic deposits in Iran: Implications for chronostratigraphy and collisional tectonics. Tectonophysics, in press.

Hassanzadeh, J., Stockli, D.F., Horton, B.K., Axen, G.J., Stockli, L.D., Grove. M., Schmitt, A., and Walker, J.D., 2008, U-Pb zircon geochronology of Pan-African granitoids in Iran: Implications for paleogeography, metallogeny, and exhumation history of Iranian basement. Tectonophysics, in press.

Oldow, J.S., Geissman, J.W., and Stockli, D.F., 2008, Evolution of late Neogene transtension in structural stepovers linking the central Walker Lane and northern Eastern California Shear Zone, western Great Basin. International Geology Review, vol. 50, p. 1–21.

Kapp, P., Taylor, M., Stockli, D.F., and Ding, L., 2008, Development of active low-angle normal fault systems during orogenic collapse: Insight from Tibet. Geology, vol. 36, p. 7–10.

Biswas, S., Coutand, I., Grujic, D., Hager, C.*, Stockli, D.F., and Grasemann, B., 2007, Exhumation of the Shillong plateau and its influence on east Himalayan tectonics. Tectonics, vOL. 26, TC6013, doi:10.1029/2007TC002125

Blackburn T.J.*, Stockli, D.F., and J.D. Walker, 2007, Magnetite (U–Th)/He dating and its application to the geochronology of intermediate to mafic volcanic rocks. Earth Planetary Science Letters, vol. 259, p. 360–371.

Brichau, S.*, Ring, U., Carter, A., Monie, P., Bolhar, R., Stockli, D.F., and Brunel, M., 2007, Extensional faulting on Tinos Island, Aegean Sea, Greece: How many detachments? Tectonics, vol. 26, TC4009, doi:10.1029/2006TC001969.

Stockli, D.F., Szymanski, E., Johnson, P., Kattan, F.H., Kadi, K., Al Shamari, A., Omar, G., and Brichau, S., 2006, Margins Newsletter, vol. 17, p. p. 10-12.

Reilinger, R., McClusky, S., Stockli, D., and Nyblade, A., 2006, MARGINS, Rupturing Continental Lithosphere, Northern and Central Red Sea. Margins Newsletter, vol. 17, p. 8-9.

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, vol. 250, p. 402–403.

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, vol. 158, p. 281–295.

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, v. 118, p. 1507–1521, doi: 10.1130/B25819.1.

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.


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.