Peer-reviewed journal articles:
(asterisk denotes graduate student advisee author or co-author; double asterisk denotes undergraduate student advisee co-author)
Kohn, M.J., Long, S.P., and Harrison, T.M., 2024, Himalayan leucogranites: a minimal role in deformation: Elements: accepted 3-30-24 pdf coming soon!
Long, S.P., Blackford, N.R.*, Lee, J., and Soignard, E., 2024, Crustal thermal architecture, structural reconstructions, field relationships and geophysical data rule out deep structural burial of the footwall of the Northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex (Nevada, USA): Tectonics, v. 43, e2024TC008368, 48 p., doi: 10.1029/2024TC008368 click here for pdf
Blackford, N.R.*, Long, S.P., Lee, J., Larson, K.P., Seward, G., Stevens, J.L.**, and Al Harthi, H.**, 2024, Relating quartz crystallographic preferred orientation intensity to finite strain magnitude in the Northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex, Nevada: a new tool for characterizing strain patterns in ductilely sheared rocks: Tectonics, v. 43, e2023TC008166, doi: 10.1029/2023TC008166 click here for pdf
Richardson, A.E.*, Long, S.P., Barba, W.K.*, and McKay, M.P., 2024, Strain and kinematics within the Salmon River suture zone and western Idaho shear zone, Idaho, USA: Exploring the contribution of ductile stretching to mass transfer and exhumation in fold-thrust and transpressional systems: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 186, 105216, 32 p., doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105216 click here for pdf
Long, S.P., 2023, Westward underthrusting of thick North American crust: the dominant thickening process that built the Cordilleran orogenic plateau: Geology: published online 9-20-23, doi: 10.1130/G51339.1. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Lee, J., and Blackford, N.R.*, 2023, Extreme ductile thinning of Cambrian marbles in the Northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex, Nevada, USA: implications for extension magnitude and structural evolution: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 173, 104912, 25 p., doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2023. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Barba, W.K.*, McKay, M.P., and Soignard, E., 2023, Thermal architecture of the Salmon River suture zone, Idaho, USA: Implications for the structural evolution of a ductile accretionary complex during arc-continent collision: Geosphere, v. 19, no. 4, p. 1103-1127, doi: 10.1130/GES02621.1. click here for pdf
Calle, A.Z., Horton, B.K., Garcia, R., Anderson, R.B.*, Stockli, D.F., Flaig, P.P., and Long, S.P., 2023, Sediment dispersal and basin evolution during contrasting tectonic regimes along the western Gondwanan margin in the central Andes: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 125, 104286, 19 p., doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104286. click here for pdf
Fetrow, A.C., Snell, K.E., Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., and Bonde, J.W., 2022, How hot is too hot? Disentangling signals of primary deposition from diagenesis in mid-Cretaceous terrestrial carbonate stable isotope records: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 37, e2022PA004517, 25 p., doi: 10.1029/2022PA004517. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Lee, J., and Blackford, N.R.*, 2022, The low-angle breakaway system for the Northern Snake Range décollement in the Schell Creek and Duck Creek Ranges, eastern Nevada, U.S.A.: implications for displacement magnitude: Geosphere, v. 18, no. 4, p. 1194-1222, doi: 10.1130/GES02482.1. click here for pdf
Blackford, N.R.*, Long, S.P., Stout, A.J.**, Rodgers, D.W., Cooper, C.M., Kramer, K.**, Di Fiori, R.V.*, and Soignard, E., 2022, Late Cretaceous upper-crustal thermal structure of the Sevier hinterland: implications for the geodynamics of the Nevadaplano: Geosphere, v. 18, no. 1, p. 183-210, doi: 10.1130/GES02386.1. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., and Robinson, D.M., 2021, Construction of the Lesser Himalayan-Subhimalayan thrust belt: the primary driver of thickening, exhumation, and high elevations in the Himalayan orogen since the middle Miocene: Geology, v. 49, no. 11, p. 1283-1288, doi: 10.1130/G48967.1. click here for pdf
Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., Snell, K.E., Fetrow, A.C., Bonde, J.W., and Vervoort, J.D., 2021, The role of shortening in the Sevier hinterland within the U.S. Cordilleran retroarc thrust system: Insights from the Cretaceous Newark Canyon Formation in central Nevada: Tectonics, v. 40, e2020TC006331, doi: 10.1029/2020TC006331. click here for pdf
Anderson, R.B.*, Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., and Soignard, E., 2021, Late Paleozoic Gondwanide deformation in the central Andes: Insights from RSCM thermometry and thermal modeling, southern Bolivia: Gondwana Research, v. 94, p. 222-242, doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2021.03.002. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Kohn, M.J., Kerswell, B.C., Starnes, J.K.*, Larson, K.P., Blackford, N.R.*, and Soignard, E., 2020, Thermometry and microstructural analysis imply protracted extensional exhumation of the Tso Morari UHP nappe, northwestern Himalaya: implications for models of UHP exhumation: Tectonics, v. 39, 36 p., e2020TC006482, doi: 10.1029/2020TC006482. click here for pdf
Fetrow, A.C., Snell, K.E., Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., and Bonde, J.W., 2020, Early Sevier orogenic deformation exerted primary control on changes in depositional environment recorded by the Cretaceous Newark Canyon Formation: Journal of Sedimentary Research: v. 90, p. 1175-1197, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2020.52. click here for pdf
Zuza, A.V., Thorman, C.H., Henry, C.D., Levy, D.A., Dee, S., Long, S.P., Sandberg, C., and Soignard, E., 2020, Pulsed Mesozoic deformation in the Cordilleran hinterland and evolution of the Nevadaplano: Insights from the Pequop Mountains, NE Nevada: Lithosphere, v. 2020, 24 p., doi: 10.2113/2020/8850336. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., and Kohn, M.J., 2020, Distributed ductile thinning during thrust emplacement: a commonly overlooked exhumation mechanism: Geology, v. 48, p. 368-373, doi: 10.1130/G47022.1. click here for pdf
Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., Snell, K.E., Fetrow, A., Bonde, J., and Vervoort, J.D., 2020, Syn-contractional deposition of the Cretaceous Newark Canyon Formation, Diamond Mountains, Nevada: Implications for strain partitioning within the U.S. Cordillera: Geosphere, v. 16, no. 2, p. 546-566, doi: 10.1130/GES02168.1. click here for pdf
Starnes, J.K.*, Long, S.P., Gordon, S.M., Zhang, J., and Soignard, E., 2020, Using quartz fabric intensity parameters to delineate strain patterns across the Himalayan Main Central thrust: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 131, 103941, 18 p., doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2019.103941. click here for pdf
McQuarrie, N., Eizenhöfer, P.R., Long, S.P., Tobgay, T., Ehlers, T., Reiners, P.W., Blythe, A., Morgan, L., Gilmore, M., and Dering, G., 2019, The influence of foreland structures on hinterland cooling: evaluating the drivers of exhumation in the Eastern Bhutan Himalaya: Tectonics, v. 38, p. 3282-3310, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005340. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Mullady, C.L.**, Starnes, J.K.*, Gordon, S.M., Larson, K.P., Miller, R.B., Pianowski, L.S.*, and Soignard, E., 2019, A structural model for the South Tibetan detachment system in northwestern Bhutan from integration of temperature, fabric, strain, and kinematic data: Lithosphere, v. 11, p. 465-487, doi: 10.1130/L1049.1. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., 2019, Geometry and magnitude of extension in the Basin and Range Province (39°N), California, Nevada, and Utah, U.S.A: Constraints from a province-scale cross section: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 131, p. 99-119, doi: 10.1130/B31974.1. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., Heizler, M.T., Thomson, S.N., Reiners, P.W., and Fryxell, J.E., 2018, Rapid Oligocene to early Miocene extension along the Grant Range detachment system, eastern Nevada, U.S.A.: insights from multi-part cooling histories of footwall rocks: Tectonics, v. 37, p. 4752-4779, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005073. click here for pdf
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Calle, A.Z., Horton, B.K., Limachi, R., Stockli, D.F., Uzeda-Orellana, G.V., Anderson, R.B.*, and Long, S.P., 2018, Cenozoic provenance and depositional record of the Sub-Andean foreland basin during growth of the central Andean fold-thrust belt, southern Bolivia, in Zamora, G., McClay, K.R., and Ramos, V.A., eds., Petroleum basins and hydrocarbon potential of the Andes of Peru and Bolivia: AAPG Memoir 117, p. 483-530, doi: 10.1306/13622132M1173777. click here for pdf
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Anderson, R.B.*, Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., Thomson, S.N., Calle, A.Z., and Stockli, D.F., 2018, Orogenic wedge evolution of the central Andes, Bolivia (21°S): Implications for Cordilleran cyclicity: Tectonics, v. 37, p. 3577-3609, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005132. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., Gordon, S.M., and Soignard, E., 2017, Distributed north-vergent shear and flattening through Greater and Tethyan Himalayan rocks: insights from metamorphic and strain data from the Dang Chu region, central Bhutan: Lithosphere, v. 9, p. 774-795, doi: 10.1130/L655.1. click here for pdf
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Anderson, R.B.*, Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., and Calle, A.Z., and Ramirez, V., 2017, Shortening and structural architecture of the Andean fold-thrust belt of southern Bolivia (21°S): Implications for kinematic development and crustal thickening of the central Andes: Geosphere, v. 13, p. 1-21, doi:10.1130/GES01433.1. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., Gordon, S.M., Young, J.P., and Soignard, E, 2016, Temperature and strain gradients through Lesser Himalayan rocks and across the Main Central thrust, south-central Bhutan: implications for transport-parallel stretching and inverted metamorphism: Tectonics, v. 35, p. 1863-1891, doi: 10.1002/2016TC004242. click here for pdf
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Agustsson, K.M., Gordon, S.M., Long, S.P., Seward, G.G.E., Zeiger, K., and Penfold, M.*, 2016, Pressure–temperature–structural distance relationships within Greater Himalayan rocks in eastern Bhutan: implications for emplacement models: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 34, p. 641-662, doi: 10.1111/jmg.12197. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., and Soignard, E., 2016, Shallow-crustal metamorphism during Late Cretaceous anatexis in the Sevier hinterland plateau: peak temperature conditions from the Grant Range, eastern Nevada, U.S.A.: Lithosphere, v. 8, p. 150-164, doi: 10.1130/L501.1. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., and Walker, J.P., 2015, Geometry and kinematics of the Grant Range brittle detachment system, eastern Nevada, U.S.A.: an end-member style of upper-crustal extension: Tectonics, v. 34, TC003918, 26 p., doi: 10.1002/2015TC003918. click here for pdf
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Zeiger, K., Gordon, S.M., Long, S.P., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Agustsson, K., and Penfold, M.*, 2015, Timing and conditions of metamorphism and melt crystallization in Greater Himalayan rocks, eastern and central Bhutan: insight from U-Pb zircon and monazite geochronology and trace-element analyses: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 169, article 47, 19 p., doi: 10.1007/s00410-015-1143-6. click here for pdf
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Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., Muntean, J.L., and Edmondo, G.P., 2015, Structural analysis of gold mineralization in the southern Eureka mining district, Nevada: a predictive structural setting for Carlin-type gold deposits: in Pennell, W.M., and Garside, L.J., eds., New Concepts and Discoveries: Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings, May 2015, Sparks, Nevada, v. 1, p. 885-903. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Thomson, S.N., Reiners, P.W., and Di Fiori, R.V.*, 2015, Synorogenic extension localized by upper-crustal thickening: an example from the Late Cretaceous Nevadaplano: Geology, v. 43, p. 351-354, doi:10.1130/G36431.1. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., 2015, An upper-crustal fold province in the hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt, eastern Nevada, U.S.A.: a Cordilleran Valley and Ridge in the Basin and Range: Geosphere, v. 11, p. 404-424, doi:10.1130/GES01102.1. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., Henry, C.D., Muntean, J.L., Edmondo, G.P., and Cassel, E.J., 2014, Early Cretaceous construction of a structural culmination, Eureka, Nevada, U.S.A.: implications for out-of-sequence deformation in the Sevier hinterland: Geosphere, v. 10, p. 564-584, doi:10.1130/GES00997.1. click here for pdf
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McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., Long, S.P., Reiners, P.W., and Cosca, M.A., 2014, Variable exhumation rates and variable displacement rates: documenting a recent slowing of Himalayan shortening in western Bhutan: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 385, p. 161-174, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.045. click here for pdf
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McQuarrie, N., Long, S.P., Tobgay, T., Nesbit, J.N., Gehrels, G., and Ducea, M., 2013, Documenting basin scale, geometry and provenance through detrital geochemical data: lessons from the Neoproterozoic to Ordovician Lesser, Greater, and Tethyan Himalayan strata of Bhutan: Gondwana Research, v. 23, p. 1491-1510, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.09.002. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., Coutand, I., Cooper, F.J., Reiners, P.W., Wartho, J., and Hodges, K.V., 2012, Variable shortening rates in the eastern Himalayan thrust belt, Bhutan: insights from multiple thermochronologic and geochronologic datasets tied to kinematic reconstructions: Tectonics, v. 31, TC5004, 23 p., doi:10.1029/2012TC003155. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., 2012, Magnitudes and spatial patterns of erosional exhumation in the Sevier hinterland, eastern Nevada and western Utah, USA: Insights from a Paleogene paleogeologic map: Geosphere, v. 8, p. 881-901, doi:10.1130/GES00783.1. click here for pdf
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Corrie, S.L., Kohn, M.J., McQuarrie, N., and Long, S.P., 2012, Flattening the Bhutan Himalaya: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 349-350, p. 67-74, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.001. click here for pdf
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Tobgay, T., McQuarrie, N., Long, S., Kohn, M., and Corrie, S., 2012, The age and rate of displacement along the Main Central thrust in the western Bhutan Himalaya: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 319-320, p. 146-158, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.005. click here for pdf
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Long, S., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., and Hawthorne, J., 2011, Quantifying internal strain and deformation temperature in the eastern Himalaya: Implications for the evolution of strain in thrust sheets: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 32, p. 579-608, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2010.12.011. click here for pdf
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Long, S., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., and Grujic, D., 2011, Geometry and crustal shortening of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt, eastern and central Bhutan: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 1427-1447, doi:10.1130/B30203.1. click here for pdf
Long, S., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., Rose, C., Gehrels, G., and Grujic, D., 2011, Tectonostratigraphy of the Lesser Himalaya of Bhutan: Implications for the along-strike stratigraphic continuity of the northern Indian margin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 1406-1426, doi:10.1130/B30202.1. click here for pdf
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Tobgay, T., Long, S., McQuarrie, N., Ducea, M., and Gehrels, G., 2010, Using isotopic and chronologic data to fingerprint strata: the challenges and benefits of variable sources to tectonic interpretations, the Paro Formation, Bhutan Himalaya: Tectonics, v. 29, TC6023, doi:10.1029/2009TC002637. click here for pdf
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Long, S., and McQuarrie, N., 2010, Placing limits on channel flow: insights from the Bhutan Himalaya: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 290, p. 375-390, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.033. click here for pdf
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McQuarrie, N.M., Robinson, D., Long, S., Tobgay, T., Grujic, D., Gehrels, G., and Ducea, M., 2008, Preliminary stratigraphic and structural architecture of Bhutan: Implications for the along strike architecture of the Himalayan system: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 272, p. 105-117, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.030. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., Link, P.K., Janecke, S.U., Perkins, M.E., and Fanning, C.M., 2006, Multiple phases of Tertiary extension and synextensional deposition of the Miocene-Pliocene Salt Lake Formation in an evolving supradetachment basin, Malad Range, Southeast Idaho, U.S.A.: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 41, no. 1, p. 1-27, doi:10.2113/gsrocky.41.1.1. click here for pdf
Steely, A.N., Janecke, S.U., Long, S.P., Carney, S.J., Oaks, R.Q., Langenheim, V.E., and Link, P.K., 2005, Evolution of a late Cenozoic supradetachment basin above a flat-on-flat detachment with a folded lateral ramp, SE Idaho, in Pederson, J., and Dehler, C.M., eds., Interior Western United States: Geological Society of America Field Guide 6, p. 169-198, doi:10.1130/2005.fld006(08). click here for pdf
Kohn, M.J., Long, S.P., and Harrison, T.M., 2024, Himalayan leucogranites: a minimal role in deformation: Elements: accepted 3-30-24 pdf coming soon!
Long, S.P., Blackford, N.R.*, Lee, J., and Soignard, E., 2024, Crustal thermal architecture, structural reconstructions, field relationships and geophysical data rule out deep structural burial of the footwall of the Northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex (Nevada, USA): Tectonics, v. 43, e2024TC008368, 48 p., doi: 10.1029/2024TC008368 click here for pdf
Blackford, N.R.*, Long, S.P., Lee, J., Larson, K.P., Seward, G., Stevens, J.L.**, and Al Harthi, H.**, 2024, Relating quartz crystallographic preferred orientation intensity to finite strain magnitude in the Northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex, Nevada: a new tool for characterizing strain patterns in ductilely sheared rocks: Tectonics, v. 43, e2023TC008166, doi: 10.1029/2023TC008166 click here for pdf
Richardson, A.E.*, Long, S.P., Barba, W.K.*, and McKay, M.P., 2024, Strain and kinematics within the Salmon River suture zone and western Idaho shear zone, Idaho, USA: Exploring the contribution of ductile stretching to mass transfer and exhumation in fold-thrust and transpressional systems: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 186, 105216, 32 p., doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105216 click here for pdf
Long, S.P., 2023, Westward underthrusting of thick North American crust: the dominant thickening process that built the Cordilleran orogenic plateau: Geology: published online 9-20-23, doi: 10.1130/G51339.1. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Lee, J., and Blackford, N.R.*, 2023, Extreme ductile thinning of Cambrian marbles in the Northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex, Nevada, USA: implications for extension magnitude and structural evolution: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 173, 104912, 25 p., doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2023. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Barba, W.K.*, McKay, M.P., and Soignard, E., 2023, Thermal architecture of the Salmon River suture zone, Idaho, USA: Implications for the structural evolution of a ductile accretionary complex during arc-continent collision: Geosphere, v. 19, no. 4, p. 1103-1127, doi: 10.1130/GES02621.1. click here for pdf
Calle, A.Z., Horton, B.K., Garcia, R., Anderson, R.B.*, Stockli, D.F., Flaig, P.P., and Long, S.P., 2023, Sediment dispersal and basin evolution during contrasting tectonic regimes along the western Gondwanan margin in the central Andes: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 125, 104286, 19 p., doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104286. click here for pdf
Fetrow, A.C., Snell, K.E., Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., and Bonde, J.W., 2022, How hot is too hot? Disentangling signals of primary deposition from diagenesis in mid-Cretaceous terrestrial carbonate stable isotope records: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 37, e2022PA004517, 25 p., doi: 10.1029/2022PA004517. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Lee, J., and Blackford, N.R.*, 2022, The low-angle breakaway system for the Northern Snake Range décollement in the Schell Creek and Duck Creek Ranges, eastern Nevada, U.S.A.: implications for displacement magnitude: Geosphere, v. 18, no. 4, p. 1194-1222, doi: 10.1130/GES02482.1. click here for pdf
Blackford, N.R.*, Long, S.P., Stout, A.J.**, Rodgers, D.W., Cooper, C.M., Kramer, K.**, Di Fiori, R.V.*, and Soignard, E., 2022, Late Cretaceous upper-crustal thermal structure of the Sevier hinterland: implications for the geodynamics of the Nevadaplano: Geosphere, v. 18, no. 1, p. 183-210, doi: 10.1130/GES02386.1. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., and Robinson, D.M., 2021, Construction of the Lesser Himalayan-Subhimalayan thrust belt: the primary driver of thickening, exhumation, and high elevations in the Himalayan orogen since the middle Miocene: Geology, v. 49, no. 11, p. 1283-1288, doi: 10.1130/G48967.1. click here for pdf
Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., Snell, K.E., Fetrow, A.C., Bonde, J.W., and Vervoort, J.D., 2021, The role of shortening in the Sevier hinterland within the U.S. Cordilleran retroarc thrust system: Insights from the Cretaceous Newark Canyon Formation in central Nevada: Tectonics, v. 40, e2020TC006331, doi: 10.1029/2020TC006331. click here for pdf
Anderson, R.B.*, Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., and Soignard, E., 2021, Late Paleozoic Gondwanide deformation in the central Andes: Insights from RSCM thermometry and thermal modeling, southern Bolivia: Gondwana Research, v. 94, p. 222-242, doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2021.03.002. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Kohn, M.J., Kerswell, B.C., Starnes, J.K.*, Larson, K.P., Blackford, N.R.*, and Soignard, E., 2020, Thermometry and microstructural analysis imply protracted extensional exhumation of the Tso Morari UHP nappe, northwestern Himalaya: implications for models of UHP exhumation: Tectonics, v. 39, 36 p., e2020TC006482, doi: 10.1029/2020TC006482. click here for pdf
Fetrow, A.C., Snell, K.E., Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., and Bonde, J.W., 2020, Early Sevier orogenic deformation exerted primary control on changes in depositional environment recorded by the Cretaceous Newark Canyon Formation: Journal of Sedimentary Research: v. 90, p. 1175-1197, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2020.52. click here for pdf
Zuza, A.V., Thorman, C.H., Henry, C.D., Levy, D.A., Dee, S., Long, S.P., Sandberg, C., and Soignard, E., 2020, Pulsed Mesozoic deformation in the Cordilleran hinterland and evolution of the Nevadaplano: Insights from the Pequop Mountains, NE Nevada: Lithosphere, v. 2020, 24 p., doi: 10.2113/2020/8850336. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., and Kohn, M.J., 2020, Distributed ductile thinning during thrust emplacement: a commonly overlooked exhumation mechanism: Geology, v. 48, p. 368-373, doi: 10.1130/G47022.1. click here for pdf
Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., Snell, K.E., Fetrow, A., Bonde, J., and Vervoort, J.D., 2020, Syn-contractional deposition of the Cretaceous Newark Canyon Formation, Diamond Mountains, Nevada: Implications for strain partitioning within the U.S. Cordillera: Geosphere, v. 16, no. 2, p. 546-566, doi: 10.1130/GES02168.1. click here for pdf
Starnes, J.K.*, Long, S.P., Gordon, S.M., Zhang, J., and Soignard, E., 2020, Using quartz fabric intensity parameters to delineate strain patterns across the Himalayan Main Central thrust: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 131, 103941, 18 p., doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2019.103941. click here for pdf
McQuarrie, N., Eizenhöfer, P.R., Long, S.P., Tobgay, T., Ehlers, T., Reiners, P.W., Blythe, A., Morgan, L., Gilmore, M., and Dering, G., 2019, The influence of foreland structures on hinterland cooling: evaluating the drivers of exhumation in the Eastern Bhutan Himalaya: Tectonics, v. 38, p. 3282-3310, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005340. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Mullady, C.L.**, Starnes, J.K.*, Gordon, S.M., Larson, K.P., Miller, R.B., Pianowski, L.S.*, and Soignard, E., 2019, A structural model for the South Tibetan detachment system in northwestern Bhutan from integration of temperature, fabric, strain, and kinematic data: Lithosphere, v. 11, p. 465-487, doi: 10.1130/L1049.1. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., 2019, Geometry and magnitude of extension in the Basin and Range Province (39°N), California, Nevada, and Utah, U.S.A: Constraints from a province-scale cross section: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 131, p. 99-119, doi: 10.1130/B31974.1. click here for pdf
Click here for data repository
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Long, S.P., Heizler, M.T., Thomson, S.N., Reiners, P.W., and Fryxell, J.E., 2018, Rapid Oligocene to early Miocene extension along the Grant Range detachment system, eastern Nevada, U.S.A.: insights from multi-part cooling histories of footwall rocks: Tectonics, v. 37, p. 4752-4779, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005073. click here for pdf
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Calle, A.Z., Horton, B.K., Limachi, R., Stockli, D.F., Uzeda-Orellana, G.V., Anderson, R.B.*, and Long, S.P., 2018, Cenozoic provenance and depositional record of the Sub-Andean foreland basin during growth of the central Andean fold-thrust belt, southern Bolivia, in Zamora, G., McClay, K.R., and Ramos, V.A., eds., Petroleum basins and hydrocarbon potential of the Andes of Peru and Bolivia: AAPG Memoir 117, p. 483-530, doi: 10.1306/13622132M1173777. click here for pdf
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Anderson, R.B.*, Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., Thomson, S.N., Calle, A.Z., and Stockli, D.F., 2018, Orogenic wedge evolution of the central Andes, Bolivia (21°S): Implications for Cordilleran cyclicity: Tectonics, v. 37, p. 3577-3609, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005132. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., Gordon, S.M., and Soignard, E., 2017, Distributed north-vergent shear and flattening through Greater and Tethyan Himalayan rocks: insights from metamorphic and strain data from the Dang Chu region, central Bhutan: Lithosphere, v. 9, p. 774-795, doi: 10.1130/L655.1. click here for pdf
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Anderson, R.B.*, Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., and Calle, A.Z., and Ramirez, V., 2017, Shortening and structural architecture of the Andean fold-thrust belt of southern Bolivia (21°S): Implications for kinematic development and crustal thickening of the central Andes: Geosphere, v. 13, p. 1-21, doi:10.1130/GES01433.1. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., Gordon, S.M., Young, J.P., and Soignard, E, 2016, Temperature and strain gradients through Lesser Himalayan rocks and across the Main Central thrust, south-central Bhutan: implications for transport-parallel stretching and inverted metamorphism: Tectonics, v. 35, p. 1863-1891, doi: 10.1002/2016TC004242. click here for pdf
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Agustsson, K.M., Gordon, S.M., Long, S.P., Seward, G.G.E., Zeiger, K., and Penfold, M.*, 2016, Pressure–temperature–structural distance relationships within Greater Himalayan rocks in eastern Bhutan: implications for emplacement models: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 34, p. 641-662, doi: 10.1111/jmg.12197. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., and Soignard, E., 2016, Shallow-crustal metamorphism during Late Cretaceous anatexis in the Sevier hinterland plateau: peak temperature conditions from the Grant Range, eastern Nevada, U.S.A.: Lithosphere, v. 8, p. 150-164, doi: 10.1130/L501.1. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., and Walker, J.P., 2015, Geometry and kinematics of the Grant Range brittle detachment system, eastern Nevada, U.S.A.: an end-member style of upper-crustal extension: Tectonics, v. 34, TC003918, 26 p., doi: 10.1002/2015TC003918. click here for pdf
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Zeiger, K., Gordon, S.M., Long, S.P., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Agustsson, K., and Penfold, M.*, 2015, Timing and conditions of metamorphism and melt crystallization in Greater Himalayan rocks, eastern and central Bhutan: insight from U-Pb zircon and monazite geochronology and trace-element analyses: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 169, article 47, 19 p., doi: 10.1007/s00410-015-1143-6. click here for pdf
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Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., Muntean, J.L., and Edmondo, G.P., 2015, Structural analysis of gold mineralization in the southern Eureka mining district, Nevada: a predictive structural setting for Carlin-type gold deposits: in Pennell, W.M., and Garside, L.J., eds., New Concepts and Discoveries: Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings, May 2015, Sparks, Nevada, v. 1, p. 885-903. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Thomson, S.N., Reiners, P.W., and Di Fiori, R.V.*, 2015, Synorogenic extension localized by upper-crustal thickening: an example from the Late Cretaceous Nevadaplano: Geology, v. 43, p. 351-354, doi:10.1130/G36431.1. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., 2015, An upper-crustal fold province in the hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt, eastern Nevada, U.S.A.: a Cordilleran Valley and Ridge in the Basin and Range: Geosphere, v. 11, p. 404-424, doi:10.1130/GES01102.1. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., Henry, C.D., Muntean, J.L., Edmondo, G.P., and Cassel, E.J., 2014, Early Cretaceous construction of a structural culmination, Eureka, Nevada, U.S.A.: implications for out-of-sequence deformation in the Sevier hinterland: Geosphere, v. 10, p. 564-584, doi:10.1130/GES00997.1. click here for pdf
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McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., Long, S.P., Reiners, P.W., and Cosca, M.A., 2014, Variable exhumation rates and variable displacement rates: documenting a recent slowing of Himalayan shortening in western Bhutan: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 385, p. 161-174, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.045. click here for pdf
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McQuarrie, N., Long, S.P., Tobgay, T., Nesbit, J.N., Gehrels, G., and Ducea, M., 2013, Documenting basin scale, geometry and provenance through detrital geochemical data: lessons from the Neoproterozoic to Ordovician Lesser, Greater, and Tethyan Himalayan strata of Bhutan: Gondwana Research, v. 23, p. 1491-1510, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.09.002. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., Coutand, I., Cooper, F.J., Reiners, P.W., Wartho, J., and Hodges, K.V., 2012, Variable shortening rates in the eastern Himalayan thrust belt, Bhutan: insights from multiple thermochronologic and geochronologic datasets tied to kinematic reconstructions: Tectonics, v. 31, TC5004, 23 p., doi:10.1029/2012TC003155. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., 2012, Magnitudes and spatial patterns of erosional exhumation in the Sevier hinterland, eastern Nevada and western Utah, USA: Insights from a Paleogene paleogeologic map: Geosphere, v. 8, p. 881-901, doi:10.1130/GES00783.1. click here for pdf
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Corrie, S.L., Kohn, M.J., McQuarrie, N., and Long, S.P., 2012, Flattening the Bhutan Himalaya: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 349-350, p. 67-74, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.001. click here for pdf
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Tobgay, T., McQuarrie, N., Long, S., Kohn, M., and Corrie, S., 2012, The age and rate of displacement along the Main Central thrust in the western Bhutan Himalaya: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 319-320, p. 146-158, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.005. click here for pdf
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Long, S., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., and Hawthorne, J., 2011, Quantifying internal strain and deformation temperature in the eastern Himalaya: Implications for the evolution of strain in thrust sheets: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 32, p. 579-608, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2010.12.011. click here for pdf
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Long, S., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., and Grujic, D., 2011, Geometry and crustal shortening of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt, eastern and central Bhutan: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 1427-1447, doi:10.1130/B30203.1. click here for pdf
Long, S., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., Rose, C., Gehrels, G., and Grujic, D., 2011, Tectonostratigraphy of the Lesser Himalaya of Bhutan: Implications for the along-strike stratigraphic continuity of the northern Indian margin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 1406-1426, doi:10.1130/B30202.1. click here for pdf
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Tobgay, T., Long, S., McQuarrie, N., Ducea, M., and Gehrels, G., 2010, Using isotopic and chronologic data to fingerprint strata: the challenges and benefits of variable sources to tectonic interpretations, the Paro Formation, Bhutan Himalaya: Tectonics, v. 29, TC6023, doi:10.1029/2009TC002637. click here for pdf
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Long, S., and McQuarrie, N., 2010, Placing limits on channel flow: insights from the Bhutan Himalaya: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 290, p. 375-390, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.033. click here for pdf
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McQuarrie, N.M., Robinson, D., Long, S., Tobgay, T., Grujic, D., Gehrels, G., and Ducea, M., 2008, Preliminary stratigraphic and structural architecture of Bhutan: Implications for the along strike architecture of the Himalayan system: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 272, p. 105-117, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.030. click here for pdf
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Long, S.P., Link, P.K., Janecke, S.U., Perkins, M.E., and Fanning, C.M., 2006, Multiple phases of Tertiary extension and synextensional deposition of the Miocene-Pliocene Salt Lake Formation in an evolving supradetachment basin, Malad Range, Southeast Idaho, U.S.A.: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 41, no. 1, p. 1-27, doi:10.2113/gsrocky.41.1.1. click here for pdf
Steely, A.N., Janecke, S.U., Long, S.P., Carney, S.J., Oaks, R.Q., Langenheim, V.E., and Link, P.K., 2005, Evolution of a late Cenozoic supradetachment basin above a flat-on-flat detachment with a folded lateral ramp, SE Idaho, in Pederson, J., and Dehler, C.M., eds., Interior Western United States: Geological Society of America Field Guide 6, p. 169-198, doi:10.1130/2005.fld006(08). click here for pdf
Geologic maps:
(asterisk denotes graduate student advisee author)
Di Fiori, R.V.*, and Long, S.P., 2022, Geologic map of the southern Diamond Mountains, Eureka and White Pine Counties, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 2022-04, 1:24,000-scale, 1 plate, 10 p. click here for map click here for text
Di Fiori, R.V.*, and Long, S.P., 2022, Geologic Map of the southern Fish Creek Range, Eureka and Nye Counties, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 2022-05, 1:15,000-scale, 1 plate, 9 p. click here for map click here for text
Di Fiori, R.V.*, and Long, S.P., 2022, Geologic map of the McClure Spring syncline, central Pancake Range, Nye County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 2022-03, 1:24,000-scale, 1 plate, 9 p. click here for map click here for text
Di Fiori, R.V.*, and Long, S.P., 2022, Geologic map of the eastern flank of the northern Cortez Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 2022-06, 1:24,000-scale, 1 sheet, 7 p. click here for map click here for text
Long, S.P., Henry, C.D., Muntean, J.L., Edmondo, G.P., and Thomas, R.D., 2014, Geologic map of the southern part of the Eureka mining district, and surrounding areas of the Fish Creek Range, Mountain Boy Range, and Diamond Mountains, Eureka and White Pine Counties, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map 183, 1:24,000-scale, 2 plates, 36 p. click here for plate 1 click here for plate 2 click here for accompanying text
Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., Edmondo, G.P., and Muntean, J.L., 2014, Preliminary geologic and alteration maps of Lookout Mountain, Ratto Ridge, and Rocky Canyon, southern Eureka mining district, Eureka County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 14-8, 1:10,000-scale, 2 plates. click here for pdf of geologic map click here for pdf of alteration map
Long, S.P., 2014, Preliminary geologic map of Heath Canyon, central Grant Range, Nye County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 14-6, 1:24,000-scale, 1 plate, 4 p. click here for pdf of map click here for pdf of accompanying text
Lewis, R., Link, P.K., Stanford, L., and Long, S., 2012, Geologic Map of Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Map 9, 1:750,000-scale, 1 plate, 18 p. click here for pdf of map click here for pdf of accompanying text
Long, S.P., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., Grujic, D., and Hollister, L., 2011, Geologic map of Bhutan: The Journal of Maps, v2011, p. 184-192, 1:500,000-scale, doi:10.4113/jom.2011.1159. click here for pdf of map click here for pdf of accompanying text
Long, S.P., and Link, P.K., 2007, Geologic Map Compilation of the Malad City 30’x60’ Minute Quadrangle, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report T-07-1, 1:100,000-scale. click here for pdf
Rodgers, D.W., Long, S.P., McQuarrie, N., Burgel, W.D., and Hersley, C.F., 2006, Geologic Map of the Inkom Quadrangle, Bannock County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report T-06-2, 1:24,000-scale. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Link, P.K., Janecke, S.U., and Rodgers, D.W., 2004, Geologic map of the Henderson Creek quadrangle, Oneida County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report T-04-3, 1:24,000-scale. click here for pdf
Di Fiori, R.V.*, and Long, S.P., 2022, Geologic map of the southern Diamond Mountains, Eureka and White Pine Counties, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 2022-04, 1:24,000-scale, 1 plate, 10 p. click here for map click here for text
Di Fiori, R.V.*, and Long, S.P., 2022, Geologic Map of the southern Fish Creek Range, Eureka and Nye Counties, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 2022-05, 1:15,000-scale, 1 plate, 9 p. click here for map click here for text
Di Fiori, R.V.*, and Long, S.P., 2022, Geologic map of the McClure Spring syncline, central Pancake Range, Nye County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 2022-03, 1:24,000-scale, 1 plate, 9 p. click here for map click here for text
Di Fiori, R.V.*, and Long, S.P., 2022, Geologic map of the eastern flank of the northern Cortez Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 2022-06, 1:24,000-scale, 1 sheet, 7 p. click here for map click here for text
Long, S.P., Henry, C.D., Muntean, J.L., Edmondo, G.P., and Thomas, R.D., 2014, Geologic map of the southern part of the Eureka mining district, and surrounding areas of the Fish Creek Range, Mountain Boy Range, and Diamond Mountains, Eureka and White Pine Counties, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map 183, 1:24,000-scale, 2 plates, 36 p. click here for plate 1 click here for plate 2 click here for accompanying text
Di Fiori, R.V.*, Long, S.P., Edmondo, G.P., and Muntean, J.L., 2014, Preliminary geologic and alteration maps of Lookout Mountain, Ratto Ridge, and Rocky Canyon, southern Eureka mining district, Eureka County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 14-8, 1:10,000-scale, 2 plates. click here for pdf of geologic map click here for pdf of alteration map
Long, S.P., 2014, Preliminary geologic map of Heath Canyon, central Grant Range, Nye County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 14-6, 1:24,000-scale, 1 plate, 4 p. click here for pdf of map click here for pdf of accompanying text
Lewis, R., Link, P.K., Stanford, L., and Long, S., 2012, Geologic Map of Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Map 9, 1:750,000-scale, 1 plate, 18 p. click here for pdf of map click here for pdf of accompanying text
Long, S.P., McQuarrie, N., Tobgay, T., Grujic, D., and Hollister, L., 2011, Geologic map of Bhutan: The Journal of Maps, v2011, p. 184-192, 1:500,000-scale, doi:10.4113/jom.2011.1159. click here for pdf of map click here for pdf of accompanying text
Long, S.P., and Link, P.K., 2007, Geologic Map Compilation of the Malad City 30’x60’ Minute Quadrangle, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report T-07-1, 1:100,000-scale. click here for pdf
Rodgers, D.W., Long, S.P., McQuarrie, N., Burgel, W.D., and Hersley, C.F., 2006, Geologic Map of the Inkom Quadrangle, Bannock County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report T-06-2, 1:24,000-scale. click here for pdf
Long, S.P., Link, P.K., Janecke, S.U., and Rodgers, D.W., 2004, Geologic map of the Henderson Creek quadrangle, Oneida County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report T-04-3, 1:24,000-scale. click here for pdf