Publications

List of Publications - last 5 years

* indicates a PhD student advised by me ; # a post-doc.

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Manuscripts in review

  1. Ghazoui, Z.*, S. Bertrand, K. Vanneste, Y. Yokoyama, J. Nomade, A.P. Gajurel, P.A. van der Beek, Large post-1505 AD earthquakes in western Nepal revealed by lake sediments, Nature Communications, in review.
  2. Replumaz, A., M. San José, C. Gautheron, A. Margirier, P.A. van der Beek, P.H. Le Loup, C. Kai, G. Wang, Y.-Z. Zhang, P. Valla, M. Balvay, Q. Tritant, Rapid Quaternary incision of the Mekong River, Southeast Tibetan Plateau, Geology, in review.
  3. Rolland, Y., M. Bernet. P.A. van der Beek, C. Gautheron, G. Duclaux, J. Bascou, M. Balvay, L. Héraudet, C. Sue, R.-P. Ménot, Late Paleozoic Ice Age glaciers shaped East Antarctica landscape, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in review.

2018 and in press

  1. Abrahami, R.*, P. Huyghe, P.A. van der Beek, S. Lowick, J. Carcaillet, T. Chakraborty, 2018, Formation and abandonment of the Tista megafan (West Bengal, India) : 10Be cosmogenic and IRSL age constraints, Quaternary Science Reviews, 185, 69-90, doi : 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018. 02.001.
  2. Braun, J., L. Gemignani*, P.A van der Beek, 2018, Extracting information on the spatial variability in erosion rate stored in detrital cooling age distributions in river sands, Earth Surface Dynamics, 6, 257–270, doi : 10.5194/esurf-6-257-2018.
  3. Gemignani, L.*, P.A van der Beek, J. Braun, Y. Najman, M. Bernet, E. Garzanti, J.R. Wijbrans, 2018, Present-day and long-term erosion of the eastern Himalaya as detected by detrital thermochronology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 499, 48-61, doi : 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.07.019.
  4. Govin, G.*, Y. Najman, A. Copley, I. Millar, P.A. van der Beek, P. Huyghe, D. Grujic, J. Davenport, 2018, Timing and mechanism of the rise of the Shillong Plateau in the Himalayan foreland, Geology, 46, 279-282, doi : 10.1130/G39864.1.
  5. Govin, G.*, Y. Najman, G. Dupont-Nivet, I. Millar, P.A. van der Beek, P. Huyghe, P. O’Sullivan, C. Mark, N. Vögeli, in press, Paleo-drainage evolution and rapid exhumation of the Namche Barwa Syntaxis recorded in the Siwaliks of the easternmost Himalaya (Arunachal Pradesh, India), American Journal of Science.
  6. Ketcham, R.A., P.A. van der Beek, J. Barbarand, M. Bernet, C. Gautheron, in press, Reproducibility of thermal history reconstruction from apatite fission-track and (U-Th)/He data, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi : 10.1029/2018GC007555.
  7. Schildgen, T.S., P.A. van der Beek, H.D. Sinclair, R.C. Thiede, 2018, Spatial correlation bias in thermochronologically derived late Cenozoic erosion histories, Nature, 559, 89–93, doi : 10.1038/s41586-018-0260-6. (Related News & Views by E. Kirby)
  8. Schildgen, T.S., P.A. van der Beek, The application of low-temperature thermochronology to the geomorphology of orogenic systems, in : Fission-track Thermochronology and its Application to Geology, M.G. Malusà and P.G. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Springer, Boston MA, pp. 335-350, doi : 10.1007/978-3-319-89421-8_19.
  9. van der Beek, P.A., Mountain relief, climate, and surface processes, in Mountains, Climate, and Biodiversity, C. Hoorn, A. Perrigo and A. Antonelli (Eds.), Wiley, Hoboken NJ, pp. 51-68.
  10. Vögeli, N.*, Huyghe, P., van der Beek, P.A., Najman, Y., Garzanti, E., Chauvel, C., 2018, Weathering regime in the Eastern Himalaya since the mid-Miocene : Indications from detrital geochemistry and clay mineralogy of the Kameng River Section, Arunachal Pradesh, India, Basin Research, 30, 59-74, doi : 10.1111/bre.12242.

2017

  1. Bermúdez, M.A.*, C. Hoorn, M. Bernet, E. Carrillo, P.A. van der Beek, J.I. Garver, J. Mora, K. Mehrkian, 2017, Detrital record of surface uplift and exhumation of the Venezuelan Andes in the Maracaibo and Barinas basins, Basin Research, 29, 370–395, doi : 10.1111/bre.12154.
  2. Mercier, J.*, J. Braun, P.A. van der Beek, 2017, Do along-strike tectonic variations in the Nepal Himalaya reflect different stages in the accretion cycle ? Insight from numerical modelling, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 472, 299–308, doi : 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.04.041.
  3. Mouchené, M.*, van der Beek, P.A., Carretier, S., Mouthereau, F., 2017, Autogenic versus allogenic controls on the evolution of a coupled fluvial megafan/mountainous catchment system : numerical modelling and comparison with the Lannemezan megafan system (Northern Pyrenees, France), Earth Surface Dynamics, 5, 125–143, doi : 10.5194/esurf-5-125-2017.
  4. Mouchené, M.*, van der Beek, P.A., Mouthereau, F., Carcaillet, J., 2017, Controls on Quaternary incision of the Northern Pyrenean foreland : chronological and geomorphological constraints from the Lannemezan megafan, SW France, Geomorphology, 281, 78-93, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.12.027.
  5. Schwartz, S., C. Gautheron, L. Audin, T. Dumont, J. Nomade, J. Barbarand, R. Pinna-Jamme, P.A. van der Beek, 2017, Foreland exhumation controlled by crustal thickening in the Western Alps, Geology, 45, 139-142, doi : 10.1130/G38561.1.
  6. Vögeli, N.*, Najman, Y., van der Beek, P.A., Huyghe, P., Wynn, P., Govin, G., 2017, Lateral variations in vegetation in the Himalaya since the Miocene and implications for climate evolution, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 471, 1-9, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.04.037.
  7. Vögeli, N.*, van der Beek, P.A., Huyghe, P., Najman, Y., 2017. Weathering in the Himalaya, an East- West comparison : Indications from major elements and clay mineralogy, Journal of Geology, 125, 515-529, doi : 10.1086/692652.
  8. Zhang, Y.-Z., A. Replumaz, P.H. Leloup, G.-C. Wang, M. Bernet, P. van der Beek, J.L. Paquette, M.-L. Chevalier, 2017, Cooling history of the Gongga batholith : implications for the Xianshuihe Fault and Miocene kinematics of SE Tibet, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 465, 1-15, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.02.025.

2016

  1. Abrahami, R.*, P.A. van der Beek, P. Huyghe, E. Hardwick, J. Carcaillet, 2016, Decoupling of long-term exhumation and short-term erosion rates in the Sikkim Himalaya, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 433, 76–88, doi : 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.039.
  2. Fillon, C.*, D. Pedreira, P.A. van der Beek, R.S. Huismans, L. Barbero, J.A. Pulgar, 2016, Alpine exhumation of the central Cantabrian Mountains, Northwest Spain, Tectonics, 35, 339-356, doi : 10.1002/2015TC004050.
  3. Nocquet, J.M., C. Sue, A. Walpersdorf, T. Tran, N. Lenôtre, P. Vernant, M. Cushing, F. Jouanne, F. Masson, S. Baize, J. Chéry, P.A. van der Beek, 2016, Present-day uplift of the western Alps, Scientific Reports, 6, 28404, doi : 10.1038/srep28404.
  4. Shen, T., G.-C. Wang, P.-H. Leloup, P.A. van der Beek, M. Bernet, K. Cao, A. Wang, C. Liu, K.-X. Zhang, 2016, Controls on Cenozoic exhumation of the Tethyan Himalaya from fission-track thermochronology and detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology in the Gyirong basin area, southern Tibet, Tectonics, 35, 1713–1734,doi : 10.1002/2016TC004149.
  5. Valla, P., M. Rahn, D.L. Shuster, P.A. van der Beek, 2016, Multi-phase late Neogene exhumation history of the Aar massif, Swiss central Alps, Terra Nova, 28, 383-393, doi : 10.1111/ter.12231.
  6. van der Beek, P.A., C. Litty, M. Baudin, J. Mercier*, X. Robert, E. Hardwick, 2016, Contrasting tectonically-driven exhumation and incision patterns, western versus central Nepal Himalaya, Geology, 44, 327-330,doi : 10.1130/G37579.1.

2015

  1. Cao K., G.-C. Wang, M. Bernet, P. van der Beek, K.-X. Zhang, 2015, Exhumation history of the West Kunlun Mountains, northwestern Tibet : Evidence for a long-lived, rejuvenated orogen, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 432, 391–403, doi : 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.033.
  2. Chirouze, F., P. Huyghe, C. Chauvel, P.A. van der Beek, M. Bernet, J.-L. Mugnier, 2015, Stable drainage pattern and variable exhumation in the western Himalaya since the Middle Miocene, Journal of Geology, 123, 1-20, doi : 10.1086/679305.
  3. Erdös, Z.*, R. Huismans, P.A. van der Beek, 2015, First order control of syntectonic sedimentation on crustal-scale structure of mountain belts, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 120, 5362–5377, doi : 10.1002/2014JB011785.
  4. Fauquette, S., M. Bernet, J.-P. Suc, A.-S. Grosjean, S. Guillot, P.A. van der Beek, S. Jourdan, S.-M. Popescu, G. Jiménez-Moreno, A. Bertini, B. Pittet, P. Tricart, T. Dumont, S. Schwartz, Z. Zheng, E. Roche, G. Pavia, V. Gardien, 2015, Quantifying the Eocene to Pleistocene topographic evolution of the southwestern Alps, France and Italy, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 412, 220-234, doi : 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.12.036.
  5. Glotzbach, C. #, J. Braun, P.A. van der Beek, 2015, A Fourier approach for estimating and correcting the topographic perturbation of low-temperature thermochronological data, Tectonophysics, 649, 115-129, doi : 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.03.005.
  6. Guillon, H., J.-L. Mugnier, J.-F. Buoncristiani, J. Carcaillet, C. Godon, C. Prud’homme, P. van der Beek, R. Vassallo, 2015, Improved discrimination of subglacial and periglacial erosion using 10Be concentration measurements in subglacial and supraglacial sediment load of the Bossons glacier (Mont-Blanc massif, France), Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40, 1202-1215, doi : 10.1002/esp.3713.
  7. Naylor, M., H.D. Sinclair, M. Bernet, P.A. van der Beek, L.A. Kirstein, 2015, Bias in detrital fission track grain-age populations : Implications for reconstructing changing erosion rates, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 422, 94-104, doi : 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.04.020 .
  8. van der Beek, P.A., 2015, Exhumation (Thermochronology), in : Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods, W.J. Rink, J.W. Thompson, A.J.T. Jull, J.B. Paces, and L. Heaman (Eds.), Springer Earth Science Series, pp. 261-264, doi : 10.1007/978-94-007-6304-3_249.
  9. Zhang, Y.-Z., A. Replumaz, G.-C. Wang, P.H. Leloup, C. Gautheron, M. Bernet, P. van der Beek, J.L. Paquette, A. Wang, K.-X. Zhang, M.-L. Chevalier, H.-B. Li, 2015, Timing and rate of exhumation along the Litang fault system, Implication for fault reorganization in South East Tibet, Tectonics, 34, 1219-1243, doi : 10.1002/2014TC003671.

2014

  1. Cao K., Y. Xu, G.-C. Wang, K.-X. Zhang, P.A. van der Beek, Y. Zhiao, C. Wang, S. Jiang, J. Bershaw, 2014, Neogene source-to-sink relations between the Pamir and Tarim Basin : insights from stratigraphy, detrital zircon geochronology, and whole-rock geochemistry, Journal of Geology, 122, 433–454, doi : 10.1086/676478.
  2. Delunel, R.*, P.A. van der Beek, D.L. Bourlès, J. Carcaillet, F. Schlunegger, 2014, Transient sediment supply in a high-altitude Alpine environment evidenced through a 10Be budget of the Etages catchment (French Western Alps), Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 39, 890-899, doi : 10.1002/esp.3494.
  3. Delunel, R.*, D.L. Bourlès, P.A. van der Beek, F. Schlunegger, I. Leya, J. Masarik, E. Paquet, 2014, Snow shielding factors for cosmogenic nuclide dating inferred from long-term neutron detector monitoring. Quaternary Geochronology, 24,16-26, doi : 10.1016/j.quageo.2014.07.003.
  4. Erdös, Z.*, P.A. van der Beek, R. Huismans, 2014, Evaluating balanced section restoration with thermochronology data : a case study from the Central Pyrenees, Tectonics, 33, 617-634, doi : 10.1002/2013TC003481.
  5. Erdös, Z.*, R. Huismans, P.A. van der Beek, 2014, Extensional inheritance and surface processes as controlling factors of mountain belt structure, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 119, 9042-9061, doi : 10.1002/2014JB011408.
  6. Husson, L., M. Bernet, S. Guillot, P. Huyghe, J.L. Mugnier, A. Replumaz, X. Robert, P.A. van der Beek, 2014, Dynamic ups and downs of the Himalaya, Geology, 42, 839-842, doi : 10.1130/G36049.1.
  7. Jelinek, A.R., F. Chemale Jr., P.A. van der Beek, F. Guadagnin, J.A. Cupertino, A.Viana, 2014, Denudation history and landscape evolution of the northern East Brazilian continental margin from apatite fission-track thermochronology, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 54, 158-181, doi : 10.1016/j.jsames.2014.06.001.
  8. Simon-Labric, T.*, G.Y. Brocard, C. Teyssier, P.W. Reiners, P.A. van der Beek, D.L. Shuster, K. Murray, D.L. Whitney, 2014, Low-temperature thermochronologic signature of range-divide migration and breaching in the North Cascades, Lithosphere, 6, 473-482, doi : 10.1130/L382.1