Prof. Manfred Strecker, PhD

2015                             Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of America 

2015                             Adjunct Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

2009 -                           Adjunct Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

2009                             Blaustein Research Professor at Stanford University (six months)

2005-2006                  A. Cox Professor at Stanford University

Since 1995                 Full Professor, Chair of Geology, Universität Potsdam, Germany

1993-1995                  Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University

1991                             Habilitation thesis, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

1987-1993                 Hochschulassistent, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

1987                             Ph.D. in Geology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

1986-1987                 Research Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

1984-1985                 Research Assistant, Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina

2020

Rodriguez Piceda, C., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Gomez Dacal, M.L., Bott, J., Prezzi, C., Strecker, M.R.Lithospheric density structure of the southern Central Andes constrained by 3D data‑integrative gravity modelling. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s00531-020-01962-1

Mey, J., D’Arcy, M., Schildgen, T.F., Lundbek Egholm, D., Wittmann, H., Strecker, M.R. Temperature and precipitation in the southern Central Andes during the last glacial maximum, Heinrich Stadial 1, and the Younger Dryas. Quaternary Science Reviews 248, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106592

van der Veen, I., Peterse, F., Davenport, J., Meese, B., Bookhagen, B., France-Lanord, C., Kahmen, A., Hassenruck-Gudipati, H.J., Gajurei, A., Strecker, M.R., Sache, D. Validation and calibration of soil d 2 H and brGDGTs along (E-W) and strike (N-S) of the Himalayan climatic gradient. Geochemica et Cosmochemica Acta 290:408-423, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.09.014

Arnous, A., Zeckra, M., Venerdini, A., Alvarado, P., Arrowsmith, R., Guillemoteau, J., Landgraf, A., Gutierrez, A.A., Strecker, M.R. Neotectonic Activity in the Low-Strain Broken Foreland (Santa Bárbara System) of the North-Western Argentinean Andes (26°S). Lithosphere 2020(1), 2020. DOI: 10.2113/2020/8888588

Montero-López, C., Hongn, F.D., Lopez-Steinmetz, R.L., Aramayo, A., Pingel, H., Strecker, M.R., Cottle, J., Bianchi, C. Development of an incipient Paleogene topography between the present-day Andean plateau (Puna) and the Eastern Cordillera, southern Central Andes, NW Argentina. Basin Research, 2020. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12510

Glerum, A., Brune, S., Stamps, D.S., Strecker, M.R. Victoria continental microplate dynamics controlled by the lithospheric strength distribution of the East African Rift. Nature Communications 11(1), 2020. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16176-x

Savi, S., Tofelde, S., Wickert, A., Bufe, A., Schildgen, T.F., Strecker, M.R. Interactions between main channels and tributary alluvial fans: channel adjustments and sediment-signal propagation. Earth Surface Dynamics 8(2):303-322, 2020. DOI: 10.5194/esurf-8-303-2020

Pingel, H., Strecker, M.R., Mulch, A., Alonso, R.N., Cottle, J., Rohrmann, A. Late Cenozoic topographic evolution of the Eastern Cordillera and Puna Plateau margin in the southern Central Andes (NW Argentina). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 535, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116112

Olen, S., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R. Corrigendum to “Role of climate and vegetation density in modulating denudation rates in the Himalaya” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 445 (2016) 57–67]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 540: 116252, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116252

Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Pedoja, K., Strecker, M.R. Corrigendum: TerraceM-2: A Matlab® Interface for Mapping and Modeling Marine and Lacustrine Terraces. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 2020. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.00008

Payrola Bosio, P., del Papa, C., Aramayo, A., Pingel, H., Hongn, F.D., Sobel, E.R., Zeilinger, G., Strecker, M.R., Zapata, S., Cottle, J., Salada Paz, N., Glodny, J. Episodic out-of-sequence deformation promoted by Cenozoic fault reactivation in NW Argentina. Tectonophysics 776:228276, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228276

Riedl, S., Melnick, D., Mibei, G., Njue, L, Strecker, M.R. Continental rifting at magmatic centres: structural implications from Late Quaternary Menengai Caldera, central Kenya Rift. Journal of the Geolocial Society 177(1):jgs2019-021, 2020. DOI: 10.1144/jgs2019-021

2019

Garcia, V.H., Hongn, F.D., Yagupsky, D., Pingel, H., Kinnaird, T.C., Winocur, D., Cristallini, E., Robinson, R., Strecker, M.R. Late Quaternary tectonics controlled by fault reactivation. Insights from a local transpressional system in the intermontane Lerma Valley, Cordillera Oriental, NW Argentina. Journal of Structural Geology 128, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2019.103875

von Blanckenburg, F., Mulch, A., Strecker, M.R., Mosbrugger, V. Gustav Steinmann Medal awarded to Prof. Dr. C. Page Chamberlain, has works published, Geoscientist. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 170(2):110-111, 2019. 

Ibarra, F., Liu, S. Meeßen, C., Prezzi, C., Sippel, J., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Sobolev, S., Strecker, M.R. 3D data-derived lithospheric structure of the Central Andes and its implications for deformation: Insights from gravity and geodynamic modelling. Tectonophysics 766, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2019.06.025

Melnick, D., Hillemann, C., Jara-Muñoz, J., Garrett, E., Cortés-Aranda, J., Molina, D., Tassara, A., Strecker, M.R. Hidden Holocene Slip Along the Coastal El Yolki Fault in Central Chile and Its Possible Link With Megathrust Earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth 124(7):7280-7302, 2019. DOI: 10.1029/2018JB017188

Gholamrezaie, E., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Bott, J., Heidbach, O., Strecker, M.R. 3-D crustal density model of the Sea of Marmara. Solid Earth 10(3):785-807, 2019. DOI: 10.5194/se-10-785-2019

Teshebaeva, K., Echtler, H., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R. Deep‐seated gravitational slope deformation (DSGSD) and slow moving landslides in the southern Tien Shan Mountains: new insights from InSAR, tectonic, and geomorphic analysis. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 44(12), 2019. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4648

Georgieva, V., Gallagher, K., Sobczyk, A., Sobel, E.R., Schildgen, T.F., Ehlers, T.A., Strecker, M.R. Effects of slab-window, alkaline volcanism, and glaciation on thermochronometer cooling histories, Patagonian Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 511:164-176, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.01.030

Pingel, H., Schildgen, T.F., Strecker, M.R., Wittmann, H. Pliocene–Pleistocene orographic control on denudation in northwest Argentina. Geology 47(4):359-362, 2019. DOI: 10.1130/G45800.1

Pingel, H., Alonso, R.N., Altenberger, U., Cottle, J., Strecker, M.R. Miocene to Quaternary basin evolution at the southeastern Andean Plateau (Puna) margin (~24°S lat, Northwestern Argentina). Basin Research 31(4):808-826, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12346

Ballato, P., Brune, S., Strecker, M.R. Sedimentary loading–unloading cycles and faulting in intermontane basins: Insights from numerical modeling and field observations in the NW Argentine Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 506:388-396, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.10.043

D’Arcy, M., Schildgen, T.F., Strecker, M.R., Wittmann, H., Duesing, W., Mey, J., Tofelde, S., Weißmann, P., Alonso, R.N. Timing of past glaciation at the Sierra de Aconquija, northwestern Argentina, and throughout the Central Andes. Quaternary Science Reviews 204:37-57, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.11.022

2018

Berndt, C., Yildirim, C., Ciner, A., Strecker, M.R., Ertunc, G., Akif Sankaya, M., Ozcan, O., Ozturk, T., Güneç Kıyak, N. Quaternary uplift of the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau: New OSL dates of fluvial and delta-terrace deposits of the Kızılırmak River, Black Sea coast, Turkey. Quaternary Science Reviews 201:446-469, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.029

Wolff, C., Strecker, M.R., Tjallingii, R., Cheng, H., Dudashvili, A., Fohlmeister, J., Plessen, B. Central Asian climate variability of the last 200 years using trace elements on a speleothem of the South Fergana Region. In book: NOVEL METHODS AND RESULTS OF LANDSCAPE RESEARCH IN EUROPE, CENTRAL ASIA AND SIBERIA (pp.242), 2018. DOI: 10.25680/5250.2018.88.25.045

Eugster, P., Thiede, R.C., Scherler, D., Stübner, K., Sobel, E.R., Strecker, M.R. Segmentation of the Main Himalayan Thrust Revealed by Low-Temperature Thermochronometry in the Western Indian Himalaya. Tectonics 37(8):2710-2726, 2018. DOI: 10.1029/2017TC004752

Tofelde, S., Duesing, W., Schildgen, T.F., Wickert, A.D., Wittmann, H., Alonso, R.N., Strecker, M.R. Effects of deep-seated versus shallow hillslope processes on cosmogenic 10 Be concentrations in fluvial sand and gravel: The effect of hillslope processes on 10Be concentrations. Earth and Surface Processes and Landforms 43(15):3086-3098, 2018. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4471

Garcin, Y., Deschamps, P., Ménot, G., de Saulieu, G., Schefuß, E., Sebag, D., Dupont, L.M., Oslisly, R., Brademann, B., Mbusnum, K.G., Michel, O.J., Ako Ako, A., Epp, L.S., Tjallingii, R., Strecker, M.R., Brauer, A., Sachse, D. Reply to Giresse et al.: No evidence for climate variability during the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Western Central Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(29):E6674-E6675, 2018. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1808481115

Ballato, P., Parra, M., Schildgen, T.F.. Dunkl, I., Yildirim, C., Özsayin, E., Sobel, E.R., Echtler, H., Strecker, M.R. Multiple Exhumation Phases in the Central Pontides (N Turkey): New Temporal Constraints on Major Geodynamic Changes Associated With the Closure of the Neo-Tethys Ocean. Tectonics 37(6):1831-1857, 2018. DOI: 10.1029/2017TC004808

Garcin, Y., Deschamps, P., Ménot, G., de Saulieu, G., Schefuß, E., Sebag, D., Dupont, L.M., Oslisly, R., Brademann, B., Mbusnum, K.G., Michel, O.J., Ako Ako, A., Epp, L.S., Tjallingii, R., Strecker, M.R., Brauer, A., Sachse, D. Reply to Clist et al.: Human activity is the most probable trigger of the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Western Central Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(21):E4735-E4736, 2018. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1805582115

Garcin, Y., Deschamps, P., Ménot, G., de Saulieu, G., Schefuß, E., Sebag, D., Dupont, L.M., Oslisly, R., Brademann, B., Mbusnum, K.G., Michel, O.J., Ako Ako, A., Epp, L.S., Tjallingii, R., Strecker, M.R., Brauer, A., Sachse, D., Yaoundé, Y. Early anthropogenic impact on Western Central African rainforests 2,600y ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(13):3261-3266, 2018. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1715336115

Gholamrezaie, E., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Sippel, J., Strecker, M.R. Variability of the geothermal gradient across two differently aged magma-rich continental rifted margins of the Atlantic Ocean: The Southwest African and the Norwegian margins. Solid Earth 9(1):139-158, 2018. DOI: 10.5194/se-9-139-2018

Meeßen, C., Sippel, J., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Heine, C., Strecker, M.R. Crustal Structure of the Andean Foreland in Northern Argentina: Results From Data-Integrative Three-Dimensional Density Modeling. Journal of Geopyhsical Research: Solid Earth 123(2):1875-1903, 2018. DOI: 10.1002/2017JB014296

Kuebler, S., Friedrich, A.M., Gold, R.D., Strecker, M.R. Historical coseismic surface deformation of fluvial gravel deposits, Schafberg fault, Lower Rhine Graben, Germany. International Journal of Earth Sciences 107(2):571-585, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s00531-017-1510-9

Montero-López, C., del Papa, C., Hongn, F.D., Strecker, M.R., Aramayo, A. Synsedimentary broken-foreland tectonics during the Paleogene in the Andes of NW Argentine: new evidence from regional to centimeter-scale deformation features. Basin Research 30:142-159, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12212

2017

Patyniak, M., Landgraf, A., Dzhumabaeva, A., Abdrakhmatov, K., Rosenwinkel, S., Korup, O., Preusser, F., Fohlmeister, J., Arrowsmith, R., Strecker, M.R. Paleoseismic Record of Three Holocene Earthquakes Rupturing the Issyk‐Ata Fault near Bishkek, North Kyrgyzstan. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 107(6):2721-2737, 2017. DOI: 10.1785/0120170083

Castino, F., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R. Oscillations and trends of river discharge in the southern Central Andes and linkages with climate variability. Journal of Hydrology 555:108-124, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.10.001

Tofelde, S., Schildgen, T.F., Savi, S., Pingel, H., Wickert, A.D., Bookhagen, B., Wittmann, H., Alonso, R.N., Cottle, J., Strecker, M.R. 100 kyr fluvial cut-and-fill terrace cycles since the Middle Pleistocene in the southern Central Andes, NW Argentina. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 473:141-153, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.06.001

Bernhardt, A., Schwanghart, W., Hebbeln, D., Stuut, J.B., Strecker, M.R. Immediate propagation of deglacial environmental change to deep-marine turbidite systems along the Chile convergent margin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 473:190-204, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.05.017

Mey, J., Scherler, D., Wickert, A.D., Lundbek Egholm, D., Tesauro, M., Schildgen, T.F., Strecker, M.R.Glacial isostatic uplift of the European Alps. Nature Communications 8, 2017. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16138

Garcin, Y., Schildgen, T.F., Torres Acosta, V., Melnick, D., Guillemoteau, J., Willenbring, J.K., Strecker, M.R.Short-lived increase in erosion during the African Humid Period: Evidence from the northern Kenya Rift. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 474:528-528, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.07.027

Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Zambrano, P., Rietbrock, A., González, J., Argandona, B., Strecker, M.R.Quantifying offshore fore-arc deformation and splay-fault slip using drowned Pleistocene shorelines, Arauco Bay, Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 122(6):4529-4558, 2017. DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013339

Heidarzadeh, G., Ballato, P., Hassanzadeh, J., Reza Ghassemi, M., Strecker, M.R. Lake overspill and onset of fluvial incision in the Iranian Plateau: Insights from the Mianeh Basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 469:135-147, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.04.019

Guzmán, S., Strecker, M.R., Marti, J., Petrinovic, I.A., Schildgen, T.F., Grosse, P., Montero-López, C., Neri, M., Carniel, R., Hongn, F.D., Muruaga C., Sudo, M. Construction and degradation of a broad volcanic massif: The Vicuña Pampa volcanic complex, southern Central Andes, NW Argentina. Geological Society of American Bulletin 129(5-6):750-766, 2017. DOI: 10.1130/B31631.1

Melnick, D., Yildirim, C., Hillemann, C., Garcin, Y., Ciner, A., Perez-Gussinye, M., Strecker, M.R. Slip along the Sultanhanı Fault in Central Anatolia from deformed Pleistocene shorelines of palaeo-lake Konya and implications for seismic hazards in low-strain regions. Geophysical Journal International 209(3):1431-1454, 2017. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggx074

Castino, F., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R. Rainfall variability and trends of the past six decades (1950–2014) in the subtropical NW Argentine Andes. Climate Dynamics 48(3-4):1049-1067, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3127-2

Sippel, J., Meeßen, C., Cacace, M., Mechie, J., Fishwick, S., Heine, C., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Strecker, M.R. The Kenya rift revisited: Insights into lithospheric strength through data-driven 3-D gravity and thermal modelling. Solid Earth 8(1):45-81, 2017. DOI: 10.5194/se-8-45-2017

Ballato, P., Cifelli, F., Heidarzadeh, G., Reza Ghassemi, M., Wickert, A.D., Hassanzadeh, J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Balling, P., Sudo, M., Zeilinger, G., Schmitt, A.K., Mattei, M., Strecker, M.R. Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the northern Iranian Plateau: Insights from middle-late Miocene foreland-basin deposits. Basin Research 29(4):417-446, 2017. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12180

Wolff, C., Plessen, B., Dudashvili, A., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Cheng, H., Edwards, L.R., Strecker, M.R. Precipitation evolution of Central Asia during the last 5000 years. The Holocene 27(1):142-154, 2017. DOI: 10.1177/0959683616652711

Streit, R., Burbank, D., Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R.N., Cottle, J.M., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C. Controls on intermontane basin filling, isolation and incision on the margin of the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina (similar to 23 degrees S). Basin Research 29(FEB):131-155, 2017. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12141

Radeff, G., Schildgen, T.F., Cosentino, D., Strecker, M.R., Cipollari, P., Darbas, G., Gürbüz, K. Sedimentary evidence for late Messinian uplift of the SE margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau: Adana Basin, southern Turkey. Basin Research 29(FEB):488-514, 2017. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12159

Kuebler, S., Streich, R., Lück, E., Hoffmann, M., Friedrich, A.M., Strecker, M.R. Active Faulting in a Populated Low-Strain Setting (Lower Rhine Graben, Central Europe) Identified by Geomorphic, Geophysical, and Geological Analysis. Geological Society London Special Publications 432:127-146, 2017. DOI: 10.1144/SP432.11

2016

Mey, J., Scherler, D., Wickert, A.D., Lundbek Egholm, D., Tesauro, M., Schildgen, T.F., Strecker, M.R.Glacial isostatic uplift of the European Alps. Nature Communications 7(1):1-9, 2016. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13382

Dey, S., Thiede, R.C., Schildgen, T.F., Wittmann, H., Scherler, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R. Holocene internal shortening within the northwest Sub-Himalaya: Out-of-sequence faulting of the Jwalamukhi Thrust, India. Tectonics 35(11):2677-2697, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/2015TC004002

Castino, F., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R. River Discharge Dynamics in the Southern Central Andes and the 1976-77 Global Climate Shift: Discharge dynamics in the Central Andes. Geophysical Research Letters 43(22):11679-11687, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070868

Savi, S., Schildgen, T.F., Tofelde, S., Wittmann, H., Scherler, D., Mey, J., Alonso, R.N., Strecker, M.R.Climatic controls on debris-flow activity and sediment aggradation: The Del Medio fan, NW Argentina: Climatic controls on fan aggradation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 121(12):2424:2445, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/2016JF003912

Rohrmann, A., Sachse, D., Mulch, A., Pingel, H., Tofelde, S., Alonso, R.N., Strecker, M.R. Miocene orographic uplift forces rapid hydrological change in the southern central Andes. Scientific Report 6, 2016. DOI: 10.1038/srep35678

Dey, S., Thiede, R.C., Schildgen, T.F., Wittmann, H., Scherler, D., Bookhagen, B., Jain, V., Strecker, M.R.Climate-driven sediment aggradation and incision since the late Pleistocene in the NW Himalaya, India. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 449:321-331, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.050

Nieto-Moreno, V., Rohrmann, A., van der Meer, M.T.J., Sinninghe-Damste, J.S., Sachse, D., Tofelde, S., Niedermeyer, E.M., Strecker, M.R., Mulch, A. Elevation-dependent changes in n-alkane δD and soil GDGTs across the South Central Andes. Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters 453:234-242, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.049

Mortimer, E., Kirstein, L, Stuart, F.M., Strecker, M.R. Spatio-temporal trends in normal-fault segmentation recorded by low-temperature thermochronology: Livingstone fault scarp, Malawi Rift, East African Rift System. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 455:62-72, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.08.040

Olen, S., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R. Role of climate and vegetation density in modulating denudation rates in the Himalaya. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 445:57-67, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.047

Georgieva, V., Melnick, D., Schildgen, T.F., Ehlers, T.A., Lagabrielle, Y., Enkelmann, E., Strecker, M.R.Tectonic control on rock uplift, exhumation, and topography above an oceanic ridge collision: Southern Patagonian Andes (47°S), Chile: Neotectonics and Topography in Patagonia. Tectonics 35(6):1317-1341, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/2016TC004120

Landgraf, A., Dzhumabaeva, A., Abdrakhmatov, K., Strecker, M.R., Macaulay, E.A., Arrowsmith, R., Sudhaus, H., Preusser, F., Rugel, G., Merchel, S. Repeated large-magnitude earthquakes in a tectonically active, low-strain continental interior: the northern Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 121(5):3888-3910, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/2015JB012714

Pingel, H., Mulch, A., Alonso, R.N., Cottle, J., Hynek, S.A., Poletti, J., Rohrmann, A., Schmitt, A.K., Stockli, D.F., Strecker, M.R. Surface uplift and convective rainfall along the southern Central Andes (Angastaco Basin, NW Argentina). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 440:33-42, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.009

Bernhardt, A., Hebbeln, D., Regenberg, M., Lückge, A., Strecker, M.R. Shelfal sediment transport by an undercurrent forces turbidity-current activity during high sea level along the Chile continental margin. Geology 44(4):295-298, 2016. DOI: 10.1130/G37594.1

Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Strecker, M.R. TerraceM: A MATLAB (R) tool to analyze marine and lacustrine terraces using high-resolution topography. Geosphere Vol. 12(1):176-195, 2016. DOI: 10.1130/GES01208.1

Mortimer, E.J., Paton, D., Scholz, C.A., Strecker, M.R. Implications of structural inheritance in oblique rift zones for basin compartmentalization: Nkhata Basin, Malawi Rift (EARS). Marine and Petroleum Geology 72:110-121, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2015.12.018

Eugster, P., Scherler, D., Thiede, R.C., Codilean, A.T., Strecker, M.R. Rapid Last Glacial Maximum deglaciation in the Indian Himalaya coeval with midlatitude glaciers: New insights from 10Be-dating of ice-polished bedrock surfaces in the Chandra Valley, NW Himalaya. Geophysical Research Letters 43(4):1589-1597, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066077

Schildgen, T.F., Robinson, R., Savi, S., Philipps, W.M., Spencer, J.Q.G., Bookhagen, B., Scherler, D., Tofelde, S., Alonso, R.N., Kubik, P.W., Biniie, S.A., Strecker, M.R. Landscape response to late Pleistocene climate change in NW Argentina: Sediment flux modulated by basin geometry and connectivity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 121(2):392-414, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/2015JF003607

Radeff, G., Cosentino, D., Cipollari, P., Schildgen, T.F., Iadanza, A., Strecker, M.R., Darbas, G., Gürbüz, K. Stratigraphic architecture of the Upper Messinian deposits of the Adana Basin (Southern Turkey):implications for the Messinian salinity crisis and the Taurus petroleum system, Italian Journal of Geosciences, 135(3):408-424, 2016. 

2015

Ballato, P., Landgraf, A., Schildgen, T.F., Stockli, D.F., Fox, M., Ghassemi, M. R., Kirby, E., Strecker, M.R. The growth of a mountain belt forced by base-level fall: Tectonics and surface processes during the evolution of the Alborz Mountains, N Iran. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 425, 204-218. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.05.051.

Bernhardt, A., Melnick, D., Hebbeln, D., Lueckge, A., Strecker, M.R. Turbidite paleoseismology along the active continental margin of Chile - Feasible or not? Quaternary Science Reviews 120, 71-92. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.001

Bernhardt, A., Melnick, D., Jara-Muñoz, J., Argandoña, B., González, J., Strecker, M.R., Differential development of the BioBío submarine canyon and its tributary, offshore Chile: Implications for canyon activity during sea-level highstand. Geosphere (GSA), (in press)

Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Strecker, M.R., TerraceM: a MATLAB® tool to analyze marine and lacustrine terraces using high-resolution topography. Geosphere (GSA), (in press)

Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Brill, D., Strecker, M.R. Segmentation of the 2010 Maule Chile earthquake rupture from a joint analysis of uplifted marine terraces and seismic-cycle deformation patterns. Quaternary Science Reviews 113, 171-192, SI. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.01.005. 

Mey, J., Scherler, D., Zeilinger, G., Strecker, M.R. Estimating the fill thickness and bedrock topography in intermontane valleys using artificial neural networks. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 120 (in press)

Olen, S., Bookhagen, B., Hoffmann, B., Sachse, D., Adhikari, D., Strecker, M.R., Understanding erosion rates at the Himalayan orogenic front: A case study from the Arun Valley, Nepal. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 120 (in press)

Radeff, G. Schildgen, T., Cosentino, D., Strecker, M.R., Cipollari, P., Darbaş, G., Gürbüz, K. Sedimentary evidence for late Messinian uplift of the SE margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau: Adana Basin, southern Turkey. Basin Research (accepted)

Radeff, G., Cosentino, D., Cipollari, P., Schildgen, T. F., Iadanza, A., Strecker, M.R., Darbas, G. & Gürbüz, K. Stratigraphic architecture of the Upper Messinian deposits of the Adana Basin (Southern Turkey): implications for the Messinian salinity crisis and the Taurus petroleum system. Italian Journal of Geosciences,10.3301/IJG.2015.18.

Scherler, D., Bookhagen, B., Wulf, H., Preusser, F., Strecker, M.R. Increased late Pleistocene erosion rates during fluvial aggradation in the Garwhal Himalaya, northern India. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in press. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.034 /GES01063.1 (in press)

Streit, R. L., D. W. Burbank, M.R. Strecker, R. N. Alonso, J. M. Cottle, A. R. Kylander‐Clark. Controls on intermontane basin filling, isolation, and incision on the margin of the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina (~23 S), Basin Research. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12141

Torres Acosta, V., Bande, A., Sobel, E.R., Parra, M., Schildgen, T.F., Stuart, F., Strecker, M.R. Cenozoic extension in the Kenya Rift from low-temperature thermochronology: Links to diachronous spatiotemporal evolution of rifting in East Africa. Tectonics (accepted)

Torres Acosta, V., Schildgen, T.F., Clarke, B.A., Scherler, D., Bookhagen, B., Wittmann, H., von Blanckenburg, F., Strecker, M.R. The effect of vegetation cover on millennial-scale landscape denudation rates in East Africa, 7, 4, p. 408-420. doi: doi.org/10.1130/L402.1

Wichura, H., Jacobs, L.L., Lin, A., Polcyn, M.J., Manthi, F.K., Winkler, D.A., Strecker, M.R., Clemens, M. A 17-My-old whale constrains onset of uplift and climate change in East Africa. PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, 13, 3910-3915. doi:10.1073/pnas.1421502112

2014

Ballato, P., Strecker M.R., 2014. Assessing tectonic and climatic causal mechanisms in foreland-basin stratal architecture: insights from the Alborz Mountains, northern Iran. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 39, p. 110-125

Montero-Lopez, C., Strecker, M.R., Schildgen, T.F., Hongn, F., Guzman, S., Bookhagen, B., Sudo, M., 2014. Local high relief at the southern margin of the Andean plateau by 9 Ma: Evidence from ignimbritic valley fills and river incision. Terra Nova, 26, 454-460.

Pingel, H., Alonso, R., Mulch, A., Rohrmann, A., Sudo, M., Strecker, M.R., 2014. Pliocene orographic barrier uplift in the southern Central Andes. Geology, 42(8), 691-694

Rohrmann, A., Strecker, M.R., Bookhagen, B., Mulch, A., Sachse, D., Pingel, H., Alonso, R.N., Schildgen, T.F., Montero, C., 2014. Can stable isotopes ride out the storm? The role of convection for water isotopes in models, records, and paleoaltimetry studies in the central Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 407, 187-195.

Scherler, D., H. Munack, J. Mey, P. Eugster, H. Wittmann, A. T. Codilean, P. Kubik, and M. R. Strecker, 2014. Ice dams, outburst floods, and glacial incision at the western margin of the Tibetan Plateau: A >100 k.y. chronology from the Shyok Valley, Karakoram, Geol. Soc. Am. Bulletin, 126(5/6), 738–758, doi:10.1130/B30942.1.

2013
 
Ballato, P., Stockli, D.F., Ghassemi, M.R., Landgraf, A., Strecker, M.R., Hassanzadeh, J., Friedrich, A., Tabatabaei, S.H., 2013. Accommodation of transpressional strain in the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone: new constraints from (U-Th)/He thermochronology in the Alborz mountains, north Iran. Tectonics 32, 1-18.
 
del Papa, C., Hongn, F., Powell, J., Payrola, P., Do Campo, M., Strecker, M.R., Petrinovic, I., Schmitt, A.K., Pereyra, R., 2013. Middle Eocene-Oligocene broken-foreland evolution in the Andean Calchaqui Valley, NW Argentina: insights from stratigraphic, structural and provenance studies. Basin Research 25, 574-593.
 
Donner, S., Roessler, D., Krueger, F., Ghods, A., Strecker, M.R., 2013. Segmented seismicity of the M (w) 6.2 Baladeh earthquake sequence (Alborz Mountains, Iran) revealed from regional moment tensors. Journal of Seismology 17, 925-959.
 
Landgraf, A., Zielke, O., Arrowsmith, J.R., Ballato, P., Strecker, M.R., Schildgen, T.F., Friedrich, A.M., Tabatabaei, S.H., 2013. Differentiating simple and composite tectonic landscapes using numerical fault slip modeling with an example from the south central Alborz Mountains, Iran. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 118, 1792-1805.
 
Ozsayin, E., Ciner, T.A., Rojay, F.B., Dirik, R.K., Melnick, D., Fernandez-Blanco, D., Bertotti, G., Schildgen, T.F., Garcin, Y., Strecker, M.R., Sudo, M., 2013. Plio-Quaternary extensional tectonics of the Central Anatolian Plateau: a case study from the Tuz Golu Basin, Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 22, 691-714.
 
Pingel, H., Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R.N., Schmitt, A.K., 2013. Neotectonic basin and landscape evolution in the Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina, Humahuaca Basin (similar to 24 degrees S). Basin Research 25, 554-573.

Sobel, E.R., Chen, J., Schoenbohm, L.M., Thiede, R., Stockli, D.F., Sudo, M., Strecker, M.R., 2013. Oceanic-style subduction controls late Cenozoic deformation of the Northern Pamir orogen. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 363, 204-218.

Thiede, R.C., Sobel, E.R., Chen, J., Schoenbohm, L.M., Stockli, D.F., Sudo, M., Strecker, M.R., 2013. Late Cenozoic extension and crustal doming in the India-Eurasia collision zone: New thermochronologic constraints from the NE Chinese Pamir. Tectonics 32, 763-779.

Yildirim, C., Melnick, D., Ballato, P., Schildgen, T.F., Echtler, H., Erginal, A.E., Kiyak, N.G., Strecker, M.R., 2013a. Differential uplift along the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau: inferences from marine terraces. Quaternary Science Reviews 81, 12-28.

Yildirim, C., Schildgen, T.F., Echtler, H., Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Ciner, A., Niedermann, S., Merchel, S., Martschini, M., Steier, P., Strecker, M.R., 2013b. Tectonic implications of fluvial incision and pediment deformation at the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau based on multiple cosmogenic nuclides. Tectonics 32, 1107-1120.

2012

Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R., 2012. Spatiotemporal trends in erosion rates across a pronounced rainfall gradient: Examples from the southern Central Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 327, 97-110.

Cosentino, D., Schildgen, T.F., Cipollari, P., Faranda, C., Gliozzi, E., Hudackova, N., Lucifora, S., Strecker, M.R., 2012. Late Miocene surface uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Central Taurides, Turkey. Geological Society of America Bulletin 124, 133-145.

Garcin, Y., Melnick, D., Strecker, M.R., Olago, D., Tiercelin, J.-J., 2012. East African mid-Holocene wet-dry transition recorded in palaeo-shorelines of Lake Turkana, northern Kenya Rift. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 331, 322-334.

Insel, N., Grove, M., Haschke, M., Barnes, J.B., Schmitt, A.K., Strecker, M.R., 2012. Paleozoic to early Cenozoic cooling and exhumation of the basement underlying the eastern Puna plateau margin prior to plateau growth. Tectonics 31.

Melnick, D., Garcin, Y., Quinteros, J., Strecker, M.R., Olago, D., Tiercelin, J.-J., 2012. Steady rifting in northern Kenya inferred from deformed Holocene lake shorelines of the Suguta and Turkana basins. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 331, 335-346.

Scherler, D., Strecker, M.R., 2012. Large surface velocity fluctuations of Biafo Glacier, central Karakoram, at high spatial and temporal resolution from optical satellite images. Journal of Glaciology 58, 569-580.

Schildgen, T.F., Cosentino, D., Bookhagen, B., Niedermann, S., Yildirim, C., Echtler, H., Wittmann, H., Strecker, M.R., 2012a. Multi-phased uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 317, 85-95.

Schildgen, T.F., Cosentino, D., Caruso, A., Buchwaldt, R., Yildirim, C., Bowring, S.A., Rojay, B., Echtler, H., Strecker, M.R., 2012b. Surface expression of eastern Mediterranean slab dynamics: Neogene topographic and structural evolution of the southwest margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey. Tectonics 31.

2011

Ballato, P., Uba, C.E., Landgraf, A., Strecker, M.R., Sudo, M., Stockli, D.F., Friedrich, A., Tabatabaei, S.H., 2011. Arabia-Eurasia continental collision: Insights from late Tertiary foreland-basin evolution in the Alborz Mountains, northern Iran. Geological Society of America Bulletin 123, 106-131.

Deeken, A., Thiede, R.C., Sobel, E.R., Hourigan, J.K., Strecker, M.R., 2011. Exhumational variability within the Himalaya of northwest India. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 305, 103-114.

Hain, M.P., Strecker, M.R., Bookhagen, B., Alonso, R.N., Pingel, H., Schmitt, A.K., 2011. Neogene to Quaternary broken foreland formation and sedimentation dynamics in the Andes of NW Argentina (25 degrees S). Tectonics 30.

Hintersberger, E., Thiede, R.C., Strecker, M.R., 2011. The role of extension during brittle deformation within the NW Indian Himalaya. Tectonics 30.

Scherler, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R., 2011a. Hillslope-glacier coupling: The interplay of topography and glacial dynamics in High Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 116.

Scherler, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R., 2011b. Spatially variable response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change affected by debris cover. Nature Geoscience 4, 156-159.

Sobel, E.R., Schoenbohm, L.M., Chen, J., Thiede, R., Stockli, D.F., Sudo, M., Strecker, M.R., 2011. Late Miocene-Pliocene deceleration of dextral slip between Pamir and Tarim: Implications for Pamir orogenesis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 304, 369-378.

Yildirim, C., Schildgen, T.F., Echtler, H., Melnick, D., Strecker, M.R., 2011. Late Neogene and active orogenic uplift in the Central Pontides associated with the North Anatolian Fault: Implications for the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey. Tectonics 30.

2010

Ballato, P., Mulch, A., Landgraf, A., Strecker, M.R., Dalconi, M.C., Friedrich, A., Tabatabaei, S.H., 2010. Middle to late Miocene Middle Eastern climate from stable oxygen and carbon isotope data, southern Alborz mountains, N Iran. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 300, 125-138.

Carrapa, B., Hauer, J., Schoenbohm, L., Strecker, M.R., Schmitt, A.K., Villanueva, A., Sosa Gomez, J., 2010. Dynamics of deformation and sedimentation in the northern Sierras Pampeanas: An integrated study of the Neogene Fiambala basin, NW Argentina: Reply. Geological Society of America Bulletin 122, 950-953.

Hintersberger, E., Thiede, R.C., Strecker, M.R., Hacker, B.R., 2010. East-west extension in the NW Indian Himalaya. Geological Society of America Bulletin 122, 1499-1515.

Montero Lopez, M.C., Hongn, F.D., Strecker, M.R., Marrett, R., Seggiaro, R., Sudo, M., 2010. Late Miocene-early Pliocene onset of N-S extension along the southern margin of the Central Andean Puna Plateau: Evidence from magmatic, geochronological and structural observations. Tectonophysics 494, 48-63.

Mora, A., Parra, M., Strecker, M.R., Sobel, E.R., Zeilinger, G., Jaramillo, C., Ferreira Da Silva, S., Blanco, M., 2010. The eastern foothills of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia: An example of multiple factors controlling structural styles and active tectonics. Geological Society of America Bulletin 122, 1846-1864.

Mulch, A., Uba, C.E., Strecker, M.R., Schoenberg, R., Chamberlain, C.P., 2010. Late Miocene climate variability and surface elevation in the central Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 290, 173-182.

Parra, M., Mora, A., Jaramillo, C., Torres, V., Zeilinger, G., Strecker, M.R., 2010. Tectonic controls on Cenozoic foreland basin development in the north-eastern Andes, Colombia. Basin Research 22, 874-903.

Rehak, K., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R., Echtler, H.P., 2010a. The topographic imprint of a transient climate episode: the western Andean flank between 15.5 degrees and 41.5 degrees S. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35, 1516-1534.

Rehak, K., Niedermann, S., Preusser, F., Strecker, M.R., Echtler, H.P., 2010b. Late Pleistocene landscape evolution in south-central Chile constrained by luminescence and stable cosmogenic nuclide dating. Geological Society of America Bulletin 122, 1235-1247.

Scherler, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R., von Blanckenburg, F., Rood, D., 2010. Timing and extent of late Quaternary glaciation in the western Himalaya constrained by Be-10 moraine dating in Garhwal, India. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 815-831.

Trauth, M.H., Maslin, M.A., Deino, A.L., Junginger, A., Lesoloyia, M., Odada, E.O., Olago, D.O., Olaka, L.A., Strecker, M.R., Tiedemann, R., 2010. Human evolution in a variable environment: the amplifier lakes of Eastern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 2981-2988.

Wichura, H., Bousquet, R., Oberhaensli, R., Strecker, M.R., Trauth, M.H., 2010. Evidence for middle Miocene uplift of the East African Plateau. Geology 38, 543-546.

2009

Bergner, A.G.N., Strecker, M.R., Trauth, M.H., Deino, A., Gasse, F., Blisniuk, P., Duehnforth, M., 2009. Tectonic and climatic control on evolution of rift lakes in the Central Kenya Rift, East Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 2804-2816.

Garcin, Y., Junginger, A., Melnick, D., Olago, D.O., Strecker, M.R., Trauth, M.H., 2009. Late Pleistocene-Holocene rise and collapse of Lake Suguta, northern Kenya Rift. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 911-925.

Hoke, G.D., Garzione, C.N., Araneo, D.C., Latorre, C., Strecker, M.R., Williams, K.J., 2009. The stable isotope altimeter: Do Quaternary pedogenic carbonates predict modern elevations? Geology 37, 1015-1018.

Landgraf, A., Ballato, P., Strecker, M.R., Friedrich, A., Tabatabaei, S.H., Shahpasandzadeh, M., 2009. Fault-kinematic and geomorphic observations along the North Tehran Thrust and Mosha Fasham Fault, Alborz mountains Iran: implications for fault-system evolution and interaction in a changing tectonic regime. Geophysical Journal International 177, 676-690.

Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R., Echtler, H.P., 2009. Segmentation of megathrust rupture zones from fore-arc deformation patterns over hundreds to millions of years, Arauco peninsula, Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth 114.

Mora, A., Gaona, T., Kley, J., Montoya, D., Parra, M., Quiroz, L.I., Reyes, G., Strecker, M.R., 2009. The role of inherited extensional fault segmentation and linkage in contractional orogenesis: a reconstruction of Lower Cretaceous inverted rift basins in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. Basin Research 21, 111-137.

Mulch, A., Uba, C.E., Strecker, M.R., Schonberg, R., Chamberlain, C.P., 2009. A Late Miocene stable isotope paleosoil record of Andean foreland precipitation. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 73, A914-A914.

Parra, M., Mora, A., Jaramillo, C., Strecker, M.R., Sobel, E.R., Quiroz, L., Rueda, M., Torres, V., 2009a. Orogenic wedge advance in the northern Andes: Evidence from the Oligocene-Miocene sedimentary record of the Medina Basin, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Geological Society of America Bulletin 121, 780-800.

Parra, M., Mora, A., Sobel, E.R., Strecker, M.R., Gonzalez, R., 2009b. Episodic orogenic front migration in the northern Andes: Constraints from low-temperature thermochronology in the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Tectonics 28.

Schoenbohm, L.M., Strecker, M.R., 2009. Normal faulting along the southern margin of the Puna Plateau, northwest Argentina. Tectonics 28.

Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Hain, M.P., Hilley, G.E., Mortimer, E., Schoenbohm, L., Sobel, E.R., 2009a. Does the topographic distribution of the central Andean Puna Plateau result from climatic or geodynamic processes? Geology 37, 643-646.

Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Hain, M.P., Hilley, G.E., Mortimer, E., Schoenbohm, L., Sobel, E.R., 2009b. Does the topographic distribution of the central Andean Puna Plateau result from climatic or geodynamic processes? (vol 37, pg 643, 2009). Geology 37, 790-790.

Thiede, R.C., Ehlers, T.A., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R., 2009. Erosional variability along the northwest Himalaya. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 114.

Uba, C.E., Kley, J., Strecker, M.R., Schmitt, A.K., 2009. Unsteady evolution of the Bolivian Subandean thrust belt: The role of enhanced erosion and clastic wedge progradation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 281, 134-146.

Zielke, O., Strecker, M.R., 2009. Recurrence of Large Earthquakes in Magmatic Continental Rifts: Insights from a Paleoseismic Study along the Laikipia-Marmanet Fault, Subukia Valley, Kenya Rift. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 99, 61-70.

Selected earlier publications (2004-2008) 2008    Bookhagen, B. and Strecker, M.R. High-resolution TRMM rainfall, hillslope angles, and relief along the eastern Andes, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L06403. 2008    Mora, A., Parra, M., Strecker, M.R., Sobel, E.R. Climatic forcing of asymmetric orogenic evolution in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. Geological Society of America Bulletin , 120, 930-949. 2008    Scherler, D., Leprince, S. and Strecker, M.R. Glacier-surface velocities in alpine terrain from optical satellite imagery - accuracy improvement and quality assessment. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 3806-3819. 2008    Carrapa, B. Hauer, J., Schoenbohm, L., Strecker, M.R., Schmitt, A., Villanueva, A., and Sosa Gomez, J. Dynamics of deformation and sedimentation in the northern Sierras Pampeanas: an integrated study of the Neogene Fiambalá basin, NW Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120, 1518-1543. 2008    Mora, A., Gaona, T., Kley, J., Montoya, D., Parra, M., Quiroz, L.I., Reyes, G., Strecker, M.R. Inherited extensional fault segmentation and linkage in contractional orogenesis: a reconstruction of Lower Cretaceous inverted rift basins in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. Basin Research (in press) 2008    Ballato, P. Nowaczyk, N., Landgraf, A., Strecker, M.R., Friedrich, A. and Tabatabaei, S. Tectonic control on sedimentary facies pattern and sediment accumulation rates in the Miocene foreland basin of the southern Alborz mountains, N Iran, Tectonics, 27, TC6001, doi:10.1029/2008TC002278 2007    Mortimer, E., Schoenbohm, L., Carrapa, B., Sobel, E.R. Sosa Gomez, J., and Strecker, M. R. Compartmentalization of a foreland basin in response to plateau growth and diachronous thrusting: El Cajón – Campo Arenal basin, NW Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119, 637-665. 2007    Strecker, M.R. , Alonso, R., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa. B., Hilley, G.E., Sobel, E.R., Trauth, M.H., Tectonics and climate of the southern central Andes. Annual Reviews in Earth and Planetary Sciences, 35, 747-787. 2007    Mortimer, E. Paton, D.A., Scholz, C., Blisniuk, P.M., and Strecker, M.R., Growth of normal faults through enhanced segment linkage in a region with a strong structural inheritance: Karonga Basin, northern Malawi Rift, Africa. Basin Research, 19, 393-407. 2007    Trauth, H.H., Maslin, M., Deino, A., Strecker, M.R., Bergner, A.G., Dühnforth, M., Three million years history of the East African lakes. J. Human Evolution, 53(5), 475-486. 2007    Rehak, K., Strecker, M.R., Echtler, H.P. Segmentation of an active forearc setting – Chile (37 – 41°S). Geomorphology, 94, 98-116. 2007    Uba, C.E., Strecker, M.R., Schmitt, A.K. Increased sediment accumulation rates in the Central Andes during the late Miocene due to climate forcing. Geology, 35, 979 - 982. 2006    Coutand, I., Carrapa, B., Deeken, A., Schmitt, A.K., Sobel. E.R., Strecker, M.R. Orogenic plateau formation and lateral growth of compressional basins and ranges: insights from sandstone petrography and detrital apatite fission-track thermochronology in the Angastaco Basin, NW-Argentina. Basin Research, 18, 1-26, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00283.x 2006    Thiede, R., Arrowsmith, R., Bookhagen, B., McWilliams, M.O., Sobel, E., and Strecker, M.R., E-W extension in the Tethyan Himalaya, Leo-Pargil Dome, NW India. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 118, 635-650. 2006    Mora, A., Parra, M., Strecker, M.R., Kammer, A., Dimate, C. and Rodriguez, F. Cenozoic contractional reactivation of Mesozoic extensional structures in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. Tectonics, 25, TC2010, doi: 10.1029/2005TC001854.< 2006    Carrapa, B., Strecker, M.R., and Sobel, E. Cenozoic orogenic growth in the Central Andes: Evidence from sedimentary rock provenance and apatite fission track thermochronology in the Fiambala Basin, southernmost Puna Plateau margin (NW Argentina). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 247, 82-100 2006    Bookhagen, B., H.P. Echtler, D. Melnick, M.R. Strecker, and Spencer, J. Holocene coastal landform evolution, strandlines, and earthquake recurrence intervals in south-central Chile. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, OL. 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL026734 2006    Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Echtler, H.P., and Strecker, M.R. Coastal deformation and great subduction earthquakes at Isla Santa Maria, Chile. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 118, 1463-1480 2006    Haschke, M., Sobel, E.R., Blisniuk, P., Strecker, M.R., and Warkus, F. Continental response to active ridge subduction. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, OL33, doi:10.1029/2006GL025972 2006    Deeken, A., Sobel, E.R., Haschke, M.R., Strecker, M.R., and Riller, U. Age of Initiation and Growth Pattern of the Puna Plateau, NW-Argentina, Constrained by AFT thermochronology. Tectonics, 25:TC6003, doi:10.1029/2005TC001894 2005    Hilley, G. and Strecker, M.R., Processes of oscillatory basin filling and excavation in a tectonically active orogen: Quebrada del Toro Basin, NW Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117, 887-901. 2005    Bookhagen, B., Thiede, R., and Strecker, M.R., Late Quaternary intensified monsoon phases control landscape evolution in the NW Himalaya. Geology, 33, 149-152. 2005    Bookhagen B., Thiede, R. and Strecker, M.R. Monsoonal forcing and catastrophic landslides in the NW Indian Himalaya. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 231, 131-146. 2005    Hilley, G., Blisniuk, P.M. and Strecker, M.R., Mechanics and erosion of thick-skinned and basement-cored uplift provinces. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, doi:10.1029/2005 JB003704. 2005    Thiede, R., Arrowsmith, R., Bookhagen, B., and Strecker, M.R., From tectonically to erosionally controlled development of the Himalayan orogen. Geology, 33, 689-692. 2005    Carrapa, B., Adelmann, D., Hilley, G.E., Mortimer, E., Sobel, E., and Strecker, M.R. Oligocene uplift and development of plateau morphology in the southern Central Andes. Oligocene uplift and development of plateau morphology in the southern Central Andes. Tectonics, 24, doi:10.1029/2004TC001762. 2005    Trauth, M.H., Maslin, M., Deino, A. and Strecker, M.R., Moisture history of East Africa. Science, 309, 2051-2053. 2004    Hilley, G. and Strecker, M.R. Steady-state erosion of critical Coulomb wedges. J. Geophysical Research, 109, B1, B01411 10.1029/2002 JB002284. 2004    Hilley, G., Strecker, and Ramos, V. Erosional growth of critical Coulomb wedges applied to the Aconcagua Fold and Thrust Belt, Argentina. J. 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