Peer-Reviewed Publications

20. *Vaughn, L. W., Leary, R. J., Read, M. T., (2023) 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

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

*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., and van Wijk, J., (2019) The Darwin and Keeler Basins as outcrop analogs to the Permian Basin system. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, San Antonio, TX (poster).

Leary, R. J., Umhoefer, P., Smith, M.E., Riggs, N., Lodes, E., Burr, G., Foley, D., (2018) The interplay between local and far-traveled sediment in North American Ancestral Rocky Mountain basins. GSA Cordilleran-Rocky Mountain section meeting, Flagstaff, AZ (talk).

Leary, R. J., Umhoefer, P., Smith, M.E., Riggs, N., Lodes, E., Burr, G., Foley, D., (2018) The interplay between local and far-traveled sediment in North American Ancestral Rocky Mountain basins. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (poster).

Leary, R. J., DeCelles, P.G., Quade, J., Kapp, P. (2016) The Liuqu Conglomerate, southern Tibet: age and paleoclimate. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (poster).

Leary R. J., Umhoefer, P., Smith, M.E., Riggs, N.R (2016) A three-sided orogen: a new tectonic model for Ancestral Rocky Mountain uplift and basin development. GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (invited talk).

Leary, R. J., DeCelles, P. G., Quade, J., Kapp, P. (2016) The Liuqu Conglomerate, southern Tibet: age and paleoclimate. GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (talk).

Leary, R. J., Orme, D. A., Laskowski, A., DeCelles, P. G., Kapp, P., Carrapa, B., Dettinger, M.P. (2016) Slab-driven formation of the Kailas basin within the India-Asia suture zone, southern Tibet. GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CA (poster).

Leary, R. J., Quade, J., Kapp, P., DeCelles, P., (2015) Post-India-Asia collision rise of the Himalaya from Tibetan paleosols. GeoDaze Student Conference, University of Arizona (Talk).

Leary, R. J., DeCelles, P. G., Quade, J. (2013) The Liuqu Conglomerate: early Miocene basin development related to deformation within the Great Counter Thrust system, southern Tibet. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (poster).

Leary, R. J., DeCelles, P. G., Quade, J. (2012) Provenance, Paleoaltimetry, and Tectonic Significance of the Liuqu Conglomerate, Southern Tibet. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (poster).

Leary, R. J., Quade, J., DeCelles, P., (2012) Provenance, Paleoaltimetry, and Tectonic Significance of the Liuqu Conglomerate, Southern Tibet. GeoDaze Student Conference, University of Arizona (Talk).

Quade, J., Dettinger, M. P., DeCelles P.G., Leary, R. J., Kapp, P. A., (2011) Paleoaltimetry of southern Tibet and the central Andes. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco (Talk).

Leary, R. J., Carson, R. J., Bader, N. E., Wegmann, K. W., Frankel, K. L., Bayasgalan, A., Battogtokh, T. (2009) Glaciation of Debris Flow Valley, Höh Serh Range, Mongolian Altai. GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting. Kelowna, B.C. (Poster).

Bader, N. E., Carson, R. J., Wegmann, K. W., Frankel, K. L., Bayasgalan, A., Dundon, K. M., Ladig, K. L., Leary, R. J., Matzinger, G. R., Seymour, A.M., (2008) Late Quaternary Glacier Retreat in the Mongolian Altai. AGU Fall Meeting (poster).

 

Outreach Presentations

Leary R. J., (2014) Geological Exploration in Mongolia and Tibet. Society of Earth Science Students, University of Arizona Chapter meeting (Talk).

*indicates student author.