Publications

PUBLISHED, PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (*denotes student)

(32) Wakabayashi, J., and Orme, D.A. (2025) The classic forearc triad of the Franciscan subduction complex, Coast Range ophiolite, and Great Valley forearc basin, eastern California Coast Ranges, in Garcia, P., Nelson, D., Shimabukuro, D., and Wakabayashi, J., eds., From the Late Mesozoic Forearc to the Quaternary Great Basin: Geological Society of America Field Guide 73, p. 1–44, doi.org/10.1130/2025.0073(01).  

(31) Kaempfer, J.M*., Guenthner, W.R., Pearson, D.M., Orme, D.A., Crawford, B., and Brennan, D.T. (2025) Regional thermal history trends from the Idaho-Montana fold thrust belt using multiple low-T thermochronometers, Tectonics, 44(5), doi.org/10.1029/2024TC008557  

(30) Orme, D.A., Weis, N.*, Surpless, K.D., Laskowski, A.K., Crowley, J.L., Stine, N.*, Colliver, I.*, Ross, C.*, Sweet, E.*, (2025) Age, provenance, and geochemical relationships amongst the Great Valley Group, Coast Range Ophiolite, and Franciscan Subduction Complex at Del Puerto Canyon, Central California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi.org/10.1130/B38093.1.  

(29) Romero, M.C.*, Orme, D.A., Surpless, K.D., Ronemus, C.B.*, Morrow, Z.*, Age and provenance relationships between the basal Great Valley Group and its underlying basement: Implications for initiation of the Great Valley forearc basin, California, USA, Journal of Sedimentary Research, doi.org/10.2110/jsr/2024.004. 

(28) Reynolds, A.E*., Laskowski, A.K., Howlett, C.J.*, Orme, D.A., Sundell, K.E., Taylor, M.H., Forte, A.M., Guo, X., Ding, L., (2024) Kinematic Evolution of the Tangra Yumco Rift, South-Central Tibet, Tektonika, 2.1, doi.org/10.55575/tecktonika2024.2.1.42.

(27) Ronemus, C.B.* and Orme, D.A. (2023) Geologic Map of the Eastern Half of the Melrose 7.5’ Quadrangle and the Western half of the Wickiup Creek 7.5’ Quadrangle, Southwestern Montana, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology EDMAP portion of the National Geologic Mapping Program, 16, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,00

(26) Ronemus, C.B.*, Orme, D.A., Guenthner, W.R., Cox, S.E., Kussmaul, C.A.L., (2023) Orogens of Big Sky Country: Reconstructing the Deep-Time Tectonothermal History of the Beartooth Mountains, Montana and Wyoming, USA, Tectonics, 42(1), doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007541.

(25) Bhattacharya, G., Robinson, D., Orme, D.A. (2021) (U-Th)/He thermochronology of the Indus Group, Ladakh, northwest India: Is Neogene cooling a continental-scale thermal event in the India-Asia collision zone? Lithosphere, doi.org/10.2113/2021/3321949.

(24) Burke, W.B.*, Laskowski, A.K., Orme, D.A., Sundell, K.E., Taylor, M.H., Guo, X., Ding, L., (2021) Record of Crustal Thickening and Synconvergent Extension from the Dajiamang Tso Rift, Southern Tibet, Geosciences Special Issue on Evolution of Modern and Ancient Orogenic Belts, doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11050209.

(23) Clinkscales, C., Kapp, P., Thomson, S., Wang, H., Laskowski, A., Orme, D.A., Pullen, A., (2021) Regional Structural Geology and Exhumation History of the Shanxi Rift and Taihangshan, North China, Tectonics, doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006416. 

(22) Orme, D.A., Laskowski, A.K., Zilinsky, M.F.*, Chao, W., Guo, X., Cai, F., Ding, L., (2021) Sedimentology and provenance of newly identified Upper Cretaceous trench-basin strata, Dênggar, southern Tibet: Implications for development of the Eurasian margin prior to India-Asia collision, Basin Research, doi.org/10.1111/bre.12521. 

(21) Orme, D.A., (2020) New timing constraints for the onset of Laramide deformation in southwest Montana challenge our understanding of the development of a thick-skinned structural style during flat-slab subduction, Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2020TC006193. (Invited Commentary)

(20) Ronemus, C.*, Orme, D.A., Black, S.*, Campbell, S.*, Cook, J.*, (2020) Mesoproterozoic-Early Cretaceous provenance and paleogeographic evolution of the Northern Rocky Mountains: Insights from the detrital zircon record of the Bridger Range, Montana, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B35628.1

(19) Bhattacharya, G.*, Robinson, D.M., Orme, D.A., Najman, Y., Carter, A., (2020) Low-temperature thermochronology of the Indus Basin in central Ladakh, northwest India: Implications of Miocene–Pliocene cooling in the India-Asia collision zone, Tectonics, in press August 2020.

(18) Quade, J., Leary, R., Dettinger, M.P., Orme, D.A., 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, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103194. 

(17) Orme, D.A. and Surpless, K.D., (2019) Birth of a Forearc: The Basal Great Valley Group, California, USA, Geology, REPLY doi:10.1130/G47050Y.1.

(16) Laskowski, A.K., Orme, D.A., Cai, F., Ding, L., (2019) The Ancestral Lhasa River: A Late Cretaceous trans-arc river that drained the Proto-Tibetan Plateau, Geology, v. 47, doi:10.1130/G46xxx.1. 

(15) Cai, F.,  Ding, L., Zhang, Q., Orme, D.A., Wei, H.H., Yao, W., Li, J., Zhang, J., Zaw, T., Sein, K., (2019) Initiation and Evolution of Central Forearc Basin in Myanmar, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B35301.1.

(14) Orme, D.A. and Surpless, K.D., (2019) Birth of a Forearc: The Basal Great Valley Group, California, USA, Geology, doi:10.1130/G46283.1.

(13) Li, L., Fan, M., Davila, N., Jesmok, G., Mitsunaga, B., Tripati, A., Orme, D.A., (2018), Carbonate stable and clumped isotopic evidence for late Eocene moderate elevation of the east-central Tibetan Plateau and its geodynamic implications, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B32060.1.

(12) Orme, D.A., and Graham, S.A., (2018), Four-dimensional model of Cretaceous depositional geometry and sediment flux in the northern Great Valley forearc, California, 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. 409–424, doi:10.1130/2018.2540(18).

(11) Orme, D.A., (2017) Burial and exhumation history of the Xigaze Forearc, Yarlung Suture Zone, Tibet, Geoscience Frontiers, doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.11.011.

(10) Brown, S.J., Thigpen, J.R., Spotila, J.A., Krugh, W.C., Tranel, L.M., Orme, D.A., (2017) Onset timing and slip history of the Teton fault, Wyoming: A multidisciplinary re-evaluation, Tectonics, doi:10.1002/2016TC004462. 

(9) Orme, D.A., Guenthner, W., Laskowski, A., Reiners, P.W., (2016) Long-term tectonothermal history of Laramide basement from zircon-He age-eU correlations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 453, 119-130, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.046.

(8) Orme, D.A. and Laskowski, A.K., (2016) Basin Analysis of the Albian-Santonian Xigaze forearc, south-central Tibet, Journal of Sedimentary Research, doi:10.2110/jsr.2016.59.

(7) Carrapa, B., Robert, X., DeCelles, P.G., Orme, D.A., Thomson, S., Schoenbohm, L., (2016) Asymmetrical exhumation of the Mount Everest region: implications for the tectono-topographic evolution of the Himalaya, Geology, 44, 611-614, doi:10.1130/Gc7756.1. 

(6) Leary, R., Orme, D.A., Laskowski, A.K., DeCelles, P.G., Kapp, P., Carrapa, B., Dettinger, M., (2016) Along-strike diachroneity in the deposition of the Kailas Formation in central southern Tibet: Implications for Indian slab dynamics, Geosphere, 12(4), doi:10.1130/GES01325.1. 

(5) Orme, D.A., Reiners, P.W., Hourigan, J.K., Carrapa, B., (2015) Effects of inherited cores and magmatic overgrowths on zircon (U-Th)/He ages from Greater Himalayan sequence rocks, Mt. Everest region, Tibet, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi:10.1002/2015GC005818.

(4) Huang, W., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Maffione, M., Orme, D.A., Dupont-Nivet, G., Guilmette, C., Ding, L., Guo, Z., Kapp, P., (2015) The Lower Cretaceous Xigaze ophiolites formed in the Gangdese forearc: evidence from paleomagnetism, sediment provenance, and stratigraphy, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.032.

(3) Orme, D.A., Carrapa, B., and Kapp, P.K.,(2014)  Sedimentology, Provenance and Geochronology of the western Xigaze Forearc, Southern Tibet, Basin Research, doi:10.1111/bre.12080. This paper was made open access in 2017 as it is the most cited article in Basin Research over the past two years.

(2) Carrapa, B., Orme, D.A., Kapp, P., DeCelles, P.G., Cosca, M., Waldrip, R., (2014) Rapid Miocene Burial and Exhumation of the Indus-Yarlung Suture Zone in Tibet, Geology, doi:10.1130/G35350.1.

(1) Murray, K.E., Orme, D.A., Reiners, P.W.,(2014) Effects of U-Th-Rich Grain-Boundary Precipitates on Apatite Helium Dates, Chemical Geology:doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.09.023.

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NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS

Laskowski, A.K. and Orme, D.A., (2020) Sandy Hollow, Montana Virtual Field Geology Exercise, Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC), https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/online_field/activities/237159.html.

Lageson, David R., Laskowski, Andrew K., Orme, D.A., and Hubbard, Mary S., (2019) Tectonic Tour of the Region Surrounding Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks (Version 1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3163870.

Lageson, David R., Laskowski, Andrew K., Orme, D.A., and Hubbard, Mary S., (2019) Structural Geology and Tectonic History of Western Montana (Version 1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3163548.

Laskowski, Andrew K, Orme, D.A, Hubbard, Mary, Lageson, David R, and Thomson, Kelly D., (2019) Abstract volume of the 34th Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop.  http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3238707.

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