Peer-Reviewed Publications

20. *Vaughn, L. W., Leary, R. J., Read, M. T., (2024) Tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of the late Paleozoic Darwin Basin, eastern California, USA, and implications for the onset of subduction along the southwestern Cordilleran margin of Laurentia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B36664.1.

19. *Sitar, M. C., Leary, R. J., (2023) Technical Note: colab_zirc_dims: a Google-Colab-based Toolset for Automated and Semi-automated Measurement of Mineral Grains in LA-ICP-MS Images Using Deep Learning Models. Geochronology, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2022-12

18. Smith, T. M., Saylor, J. E.., Lapen, T., Leary, R. J., Sundell, K. E., (2023) Large detrital zircon data set investigation and provenance mapping: Local versus regional and continental sediment sources before, during, and after Ancestral Rocky Mountain deformation. Geological Society of America Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B36285.1.

17. *Hobbs, N. F., van Wijk, J. W., Leary, R. J., Axen, G. J., (2022) Late Paleozoic Evolution of the Anadarko Basin: Implications for Laurentian Tectonics and the Assembly of Pangea. Tectonics, v. 41, e2021TC007197, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC007197

16. Leary, R. J., Smith, M. E., Umhoefer, P., (2022) Mixed eolian–longshore sediment transport in the late Paleozoic Arizona shelf and Pedregosa basin, U.S.A.: A case study in grain-size analysis of detrital-zircon datasets. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 92, p. 676–694, doi: https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2021.101

15. *Hollingworth, R. S., Leary, R. J., and Heizler, M. T., (2021) Detrital U-Pb zircon and 40Ar/39Ar muscovite geochronology from Middle Pennsylvanian strata in the Anadarko Basin, Texas Panhandle, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 579, 110573, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110573.

14. *Gannon, P. J., Smith, M. E., Umhoefer, P. J., and Leary, R. J., (2021) High-resolution late Paleozoic cyclostratigraphy and tectonic evolution of the Keeler Basin, California, southwest Laurentia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B36027.1.

13. Leary, R. J., Quade, J., Read, M., Wahlman, G. P., (2021) Sedimentary record of Late Paleozoic tectonism in the Monitor Range, central Nevada: Implications for convergence along the western Laurentian margin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 577, 110552, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110552.

12. Cather, M., Rose-Coss, D., Gallagher, S., Trujillo, N., Cather, S., Hollingworth, R. S., Mozley, P., and Leary, R. J., (2021) Deposition, Diagenesis, and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Pennsylvanian Morrowan and Atokan Intervals at Farnsworth Unit. Energies, v. 14, no. 4, p. 1057. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14041057.

11. Leary, R. J., Smith, M. E., Umhoefer, P., (2020) Grain size control on detrital zircon cycloprovenance in the late Paleozoic Paradox and Eagle basins, USA. JGR Solid Earth, v. 125, e2019JB019226, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB019226 .

10. Quade, J., Leary, R., Dettinger, M. P., Orme, D., Krupa, A., DeCelles, P. G., Kano, A., Kato, H., Waldrip, R., Huang, W. and Kapp, P., (2020) Resetting Southern Tibet: The serious challenge of obtaining primary records of Paleoaltimetry. Global and Planetary Change, v. 191, 103194, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103194.

9. Leary, R. J., Umhoefer, P., Smith, M.E., Smith, T.M., Saylor, J.E., Riggs, N., Burr, G. Lodes, E., Foley, D., Licht, A., Mueller, M.A., Baird, C., (2020) Provenance of Pennsylvanian-Permian sedimentary rocks associated with the Ancestral Rocky Mountains orogeny in southwestern Laurentia: implications for continental-scale Laurentian sediment transport systems. Lithosphere, v. 12, p. 88-121.

8. DeCelles, P. G., Leary, R. J., and Kapp, P., (2018) Cenozoic basin evolution in the Indus-Yarlung suture zone and High Himalaya, in Ingersoll, R.V., Lawton, T.F., and Graham, S.A., eds., Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, and Provenance: A Celebration of William R. Dickinson’s Career: Geological Society of America Special Paper 540, p. 707-739 .

7. DeCelles, P. G., Castañeda, I., Carrapa, B., Liu, J., Quade, J., Leary, R. J., Zhang, L., (2018) Oligocene-Miocene Great Lakes in the India-Asia Collision Zone: Basin Research, v. 30, p. 228–247.

6. Leary R. J., Umhoefer, P., Smith, M. E., Riggs, N. R, (2017) A three-sided orogen: a new tectonic model for Ancestral Rocky Mountain uplift and basin development. Geology, v.45, p. 735-738.

5. Leary, R. J., Quade, J., DeCelles, P. G., Reynolds, A., (2017) Evidence from paleosols for low to moderate elevation of the India-Asia suture zone during mid-Cenozoic time. Geology, v. 45, p. 399-402.

4. Leary, R. J., Orme, D. A., Laskowski, A. K., DeCelles, P. G., Kapp, P., Carrapa, B., Dettinger, M. P., (2016) Along-strike diachroneity in deposition of the Kailas Formation in central southern Tibet: Implications for Indian slab dynamics. Geosphere, v. 12, p. 1198-1223.

3. Leary, R. J., DeCelles, P. G., Quade, J., Gehrels, G., Waanders, G., (2016) The Liuqu Conglomerate, southern Tibet: early Miocene basin development related to deformation within the Great Counter Thrust system. Lithosphere, v. 8, p. 427-450. 

2. Leary, R., DeCelles, P., Gehrels, G., & Morriss, M. (2015) Fluvial deposition during transition from flexural to dynamic subsidence in the Cordilleran foreland basin: Ericson Formation, Western Wyoming, USA. Basin Research, v. 27, p. 495-516.

1. Cai, F., Ding, L., Leary, R. J., Wang, H., Xu, Q., Zhang, L., & Yue, Y. (2012) Tectonostratigraphy and provenance of an accretionary complex within the Yarlung-Zangpo suture zone, southern Tibet: insights into subduction-accretion processes in the Neo-Tethys. Tectonophysics v. 29 p. 181-192.

Other Publications

Tian, Y., Zhuang, G., Nie, J., Xu, Q., Xing, Y., Zuza, A., Saylor, J., Leary, R. J., Rohrmann, A. (2022) Introduction to the special issue “Tibetan tectonics and its effect on the long-term evolution of climate, vegetation and environment”. Terra Nova, v. 34, 265–270. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12588

Leary, R. J., Quade, J., DeCelles, P. G., (2018) Evidence from Paleosols for low to moderate elevation of the India-Asia suture zone during mid-Cenozoic time: REPLY: Geology v. 46, e435.

Selected Professional Presentations

*Hashberger, K. R., Leary R. J., Prush, V. (2024) Stratigraphy and Provenance of the Baca Formation and the Carthage-La Joya Basins, Central New Mexico. Geological Society of America Connects, 116-11, Sept. 23 (poster).

*Anaya, J., Leary R., J., Fosdick, J., Stevens Goddard, A. (2024) Investigating Carboniferous to Jurassic Cycles of Mountain Building Recorded by Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and (U-Th/He) Thermochronology in the Mongolian Altay. Geological Society of America Connects, 35-8, Sept. 22 (poster).

*Van Dyke, E., Stevens Goddard, A., Leary, R. J., *Batsukh, G., (2024) Identifying Cretaceous Burial and Exhumation in Mongolian Walled Basins Using Low Temperature Thermochronology. Geological Society of America Connects, 114-6, Sept. 23 (talk).

*Batsukh, G., Stevens Goddard, A., Leary R. J., *Van Dyke, E. (2024) Multiphase Mesozoic Exhumation of the Mongolian Altai, Cntral Asian Orogenic Belt Using Low-Temperature Thermochronology. Geological Society of America Connects, 119-1, Sept. 23 (poster).

*Anaya, J., Leary, R. J., Stevens Goddard, A., Bayasgalan, G. (2023) Provenance Analysis and Timing of Deformation in the Mongolian Altay: Implications for Intracontinental Deformation. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, T23E-0300, Dec. 12 (poster).

Leary, R. J., Orme, D. A., Laskowski, A. K. (2023) Sediment heterogeneity in the India-Asia collision zone before, during, and after continental collision. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, T23E-0302, Dec. 12 (poster).

*Newton L., *Heath, R., Leary, K. P., Leary, R. J., (2023) Paleohydrology of the Ancestral Rio Grande from 5 – 1 Ma: Implications and Response to Regional Climate. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, EP51E-1669, Dec. 15, (poster).

*Hollingworth, R. S., Leary, R. J. (2021) Using Multiple Minerals to Increase Interpretive Power of Detrital Geochronologic Datasets: U-Pb Zircon and 40Ar/39Ar Muscovite from Middle Pennsylvanian Strata in the Anadarko Basin. AAPG Annual Meeting, Sept. 27 (poster).

Leary R. J., Smith, M. E., Umhoefer, P., (2021) Mixed detrital provenance in the Late Paleozoic Ancestral Rocky Mountains region, USA: a case study in grain size analysis of detrital zircon datasets. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting. EP15F-1385: Dec. 13 (poster).

*Vaughn, L., Leary, R. J. (2019) Timing and basin response to late Paleozoic subduction initiation along the southwestern margin of Laurentia: insights from the Darwin Hills Sequence and Osborne Canyon Formation of the Darwin Basin, Inyo County, CA. GSA Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ (poster).

Leary, R. J., *Foli, I., *Stewart, A., *Vaughn, L., Van Wijk, J. W., (2019) The Darwin and Keeler Basins as Outcrop Analogs to the Permian Basin System. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Session 400/P13 (Poster).

Leary R. J., (2019) Tracking Sediment Routing and Provenance in Late Paleozoic North American Basins with Detrital Zircon Geochronology. New Mexico State University Department of Geological Sciences Colloquium Series, Feb. 7, (invited talk).

Leary R. J. (2018) Sediment Routing in the Ancestral Rocky Mountains system. University of New Mexico Earth and Planetary Science Seminar Series, Nov. 16, (invited talk).

*indicates student author.