North American Cordillera Reid, M. R., Finzel., E. S., Enkelmann, E., McClelland, W. C., 2018. Detrital zircon provenance of Upper Jurassic-Upper Cretaceous forearc basin strata on the Insular terrane, south-central Alaska. 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, doi.org/10.1130/2018.2540(25).
Finzel, E. and Enkelmann, E., 2017. Miocene-Recent sediment flux in the south-central Alaskan forearc basin governed by flat-slab subduction. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 18, 1739– 1760.
*Dunn, C.A., Enkelmann, E., Ridgway, K.D., Allen, W.K., 2017. Source to sink evaluation of sediment routing in the Gulf of Alaska and Southeast Alaska: a thermochronometric perspective. JGR-Earth Surface, 122, 711-734. DOI: 10.1002/2016JF004168
Enkelmann, E., Piestrzeniewicz, A., Falkowski, S., Stübner, K., Ehlers, T.A., 2017. Thermochronology in southeast Alaska and southwest Yukon: Implications for North American Plate Response to Terrane Accretion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 457, 348–358.
Lease, R.O., Ehlers, T.A., Enkelmann, E., 2016. Large along strike variations in the onset of Subandean deformation: Implications for Central Andes orogenic growth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 451, 62–76.
*Falkowski, S. & Enkelmann, E. 2016. Upper crustal cooling of the Wrangellia Composite Terrane in the northern St. Elias Mountains, western Canada. Lithosphere, 8, 359–378.
Finzel, E., Enkelmann, E., Falkowski, S., Hedeen, T., 2016. Long-term forearc basin evolution in response to changing subduction styles in southern Alaska. Tectonics, 35, doi:10.1002/2016TC00417 1.
*Falkowski, S., Enkelmann, E. Drost, K., Pfänder, J.A., Stübner, K., Ehlers, T.A. 2016. Cooling history of the St. Elias syntaxis, southeast Alaska, revealed by geo- and thermochronology of cobble-size glacial detritus. Tectonics, 35, doi:10.1002/2015TC004086.
Enkelmann, E., Koons, P.O., Pavlis, T.L., Hallet, B., Barker, A., Elliott, J., Garver, J.I., Gulick, S.P.S., Headley, R.M., Pavlis, G.L., Ridgway, K.D., Ruppert, N., van Avendonk, H., 2015. Cooperation of tectonic and surface processes produces Earth’s highest coastal mountains. Geophysical Reserach Letters, 42, 5838–5846,doi:10.1002/2015GL064727.
Gulick, S.P.S., Jaeger, J.M., Mix, A.C., Asahi, H., Bahlburg, H., Belanger, C., Berbel, C.B.B., Childress, L., Cowan, E., Drab, L., Forwick, M., Fukumura, A., Ge, S., Gupta, S., Kioka, A., Konno, S., LeVay, L., März, C., Matsuzaki, K., McClymont, E., Moy, C., Müller, J., Nakamura, A., Ojima, T., Ribeiro, F.R., Ridgway, K., Romero, O., Slagle, A., Stoner, J., St-Onge, G., Suto, I., Walczak, M.D., Worthington, L., Bailey, I., Enkelmann, E., Reece, R., Schwarz, J.M., 2015. Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska. PNAS 112, 49, 15042–15047. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1512549112
Enkelmann, E. and Ehlers, T.A., 2015. Evaluation of detrital thermochronology for quantification of glacial catchment denudation and sediment mixing. Chemical Geology 411, 299-309.doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.07.018
Ehlers, T.A., Szameitat, A., Enkelmann, E., Yanites, B.J., Woodsworth, G.J. Identifying Spatial Variations in Glacial Erosion with Detrital Thermochronology, Coast Mountains British Columbia. 2015. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, 120, doi:10.1002/2014JF003432
Enkelmann, E., Ehlers, T.A., Merli, G., Methner, K., 2015. Thermal and exhumation history of the Eocene Chumstick Basin, Washington State, USA. Tectonics, 34, doi:10.1002/2014TC003767.
Enkelmann, E., Valla, P.G., Champagnac, J.-D., 2015 Low-temperature thermochronology of the Yakutat Plate corner, St. Elias Range (Alaska): bridging short-term and long-term deformation. Quaternary Science Review, , 113, 23–38.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.019
Pavlis, T.L., Enkelmann, E., Gulick, S.P.S., Pavlis, G.L. 2014. Introduction: Neogene tectonics and climate-tectonic interactions in the southern Alaskan orogeny themed issue. Geosphere 10, no. 3., 1-4. Doi: 10.1130/GES01023.1
*Falkowski, S., Enkelmann, E., Ehlers, T.A. 2014. Constraining the area of rapid and deep-seated exhumation at the Yakutat plate corner, southeast Alaska. Tectonics 33,doi: 10.1002/2013TC003408.
*Grabowski, D., Enkelmann, E., Ehlers, T.A. 2013. Evaluation of the spatial extend of rapid exhumation in the St. Elias syntaxis region,SE Alaska. JGR-Earth Surface, 118, 1-18. doi:10.1002/jgrf.20136.
Headley, R.M., Enkelmann, E., Hallet, B. 2013. An examination of the interplay between glacial processes and exhumation in the St. Elias Range, Alaska. Geosphere 9, no. 2. doi:10.1130/GES00810.1
Enkelmann, E., Zeitler, P.K., Garver, J.I., Pavlis, T.L., Hooks, B.P. 2010. The thermochronological record of tectonic and surface process interaction at the Yakutat–North American collision zone in southeast Alaska. American Journal of Science 310, 231-260.
Enkelmann, E., Zeitler, P.K., Pavlis, T.L, Garver, J.I., Ridgway, K.D. 2009. Intense localized rock uplift and erosion in the St Elias orogen of Alaska. Nature Geoscience 2, 5, 360-363.
McAleer, R.J., Spotila, J.A., Enkelmann, E., Berger, A.L. 2009. Exhumation along the Fairweather Fault, Southeast Alaska, based on Low-Temperature Thermochronometry. Tectonics 28, TC1007. DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002240.
Enkelmann, E., Garver, J.I., Pavlis, T.L. 2008. Rapid exhumation of ice-covered rocks of the Chugach–St. Elias orogen, SE-Alaska. Geology 36, 915-918.
Berger, A.J., Spotila, J.A., Chapman, J., Pavlis, T.L., Enkelmann, E., Ruppert, N.A., Buscher, J.T. 2008. Architecture, kinematics, and exhumation of a convergent orogenic wedge: A thermochronological investigation of tectonic-climatic interactions within the central St. Elias orogen, Alaska. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 270, 13-24. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.034.
Central Asia (Himalayan-Tibetan System) *Madanipour, S., Yassaghi, A., Ehlers, T.A., Enkelmann, E., 2018. Tectonostratigraphy, Structural Geometry and Kinematics oft he NW Iranian Plateau Margin: Insights from the Talesh Mountains, Iran. American Journal of Science 318, 208-245. DOI: 10.2475/02.2018.02
*Madanipour, S., Ehlers, T.A., Yassaghi, A., Enkelmann, E., 2017. Accelerated middle Miocene exhumation of the Talesh Mountains constrained by U-Th/He thermochronometry: evidence for the Arabia–Eurasia collision in the NW-Iranian Plateau. Tectonics 36, 1538-1561. Yang, Z., Shen, C., Ratschbacher, L., Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere. R., Wauschkuhn, B., Dong, Y. 2017. Sichuan Basin and Beyond: Eastward foreland growth of the Tibetan Plateau from an integration of Late Cretaceous- Cenozoic fission-track and (U-Th)/He ages of the eastern Tibetan Plateau, Qinling, and Daba Shan. JGR-Solid Earth 122, 4712–4740. doi: 10.1002/2016JB013751
Rutte, D., Ratschbacher, L. Khan, J., Stübner, K. Hacker, B. R., Stearns, M.A., Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere, R., Pfänder, J. A, Sperner, B., Tichomirowa, M. 2017. Building the Pamir-Tibet Plateau—Crustal stacking, extensional collapse, and lateral extrusion in the Central Pamir: 2. Timing and Rates. Tectonics, 36. doi: 10.1002/2016TC004294
Käßner, A., Ratschabcher, L., Jonckheere, J., Enkelmann, E., Khan, J., Sonntag, B.-L., Gloaguen, R., Gadoev, M., Oimahmadov, I., 2016. Cenozoic intra-continental deformation and exhumation at the northwestern tip of the India-Asia collision-southwestern Tian Shan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Tectonics, 35, 2171–2194, doi:10.1002/2015TC003897.
Deng, B., Enkelmann, E., Liu, S., Li, Z., Ehlers, T.A., Jansa, L. 2014. Late Miocene accelerated exhumation of the Daliang Mountains, southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Int. Journal of Earth Science (Geol. Rundschau). DOI 10.1007/s00531-014-1129-z.
Zeitler, P.K., Meltzer, A.S., Brown, L., Kidd, W.S.F., Lim, C., Enkelmann, E., 2014. Tectonics and topographic evolution of Namche Barwa and the easternmost Lhasa Block, in Nie, J., Hoke, G.D., and Horton, B., eds., Towards an improved understanding of uplift mechanisms and the elevation history of the Tibetan Plateau. Geological Society of America Special Paper 507, p. 23–58, doi: 10 .1130 /2014 .2507 (02).
Madanipour, S., Ehlers, T.A., Yassaghi, A., Rezaeian, M., Enkelmann, E., Bahroudi, A., 2013. Synchronous deformation on orogenic plateau margins: Insights from the Arabia–Aurasia Collision. Tectonophysics, 608, 440–451.
Yang, Z., Ratschbacher, L., Jonckheere, R., Enkelmann, E., Dong, Y., Shen, C., Wiesinger, M., Zhang, Q. 2013. Late-stage foreland growth of China’s largest orogens (Qinling, Tibet): Evidence from the Hannan–Micang massifs of the northern Sichuan Basin, central China. Lithosphere 5, 420-437.doi:10.1130/L260.1
Cao, K., Bernet, M., Wang, G., van der Beek, P., Wang, A., Zhang, K., Enkelmann, E. 2013. Focused Pliocene–Quaternary exhumation of the Eastern Pamir domes, western China.Earth and Planetary Science Letter 363, 16-26.
Enkelmann, E., Ehlers, T.A., Zeitler, P.K., Hallet, B. 2011. Denudation of the Namche Barwa Antiform, Eastern Himalaya. Earth and Planetary Science Letter, 307, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.004.
Enkelmann, E., Weislogel, A., Ratschbacher, L., Eide, E., Renno, A., Wooden, J., 2007. How was the Triassic Songpan–Ganzi basin filled? A provenance study. Tectonics 26, TC4007, doi: 10.1029/ 2006TC002078.
Ratschbacher, L., Franz, L., Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere, R., Poerschke, A., Hacker, B.R., Dong S., Zhang, Y., 2006. The Sino-Korean-Yangtze suture, the Huwan detachment, and the Paleozoic-Tertiary exhumation of (ultra)high-pressure rocks along the Tongbai-Xinxian-Dabie MountainsSeries/Source: Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism; deep continental subduction. In Hacker, B.R., McClelland, W.C., Liou, J.G., (eds);Special Paper - Geological Society of America 403, 45-75.
Enkelmann, E., Ratschbacher, L., Jonckheere, R., Nestler, R., Fleischer, M., Gloaguen, R., Hacker, B.R., Yue Qiao Zhang., Yin-Sheng Ma, 2006. Cenozoic exhumation and deformation of northeastern Tibet and the Qinling: Is Tibetan lower crustal flow diverging around the Sichuan Basin?GSA Bulletin118, 651–671; doi: 10.1130/B25805.1
GrimmerJ.C., Jonckheere, R., Enkelmann, E., Ratschbacher, L., Hacker, B.R., Blythe, A., Wagner, G.A., Liu, S., Dong, S., 2002. Cretaceous–Tertiary history of the southern Tan-Lu fault zone: Apatite fission-track and structural constraints from the Dabie Shan.Tectonophysics 359, 225-253.
Thermochronology Method Zeitler, P.K., Enkelmann, E., Thomas, J., Watson, B., Ancuta, L.D., Idleman, B.D. 2017. Solubility and trapping of helium in apatite. Geochemica et Cosmochemica Acta 209, 1-8.
Enkelmann, E. & Garver, I.J., 2016. Low-temperature thermochronology applied to ancient settings. Journal of Geodynamics, 93, 17–20. Invited review. doi:10.1016/j.jog.2015.11.001
Enkelmann, E., Ehlers, T.A., Buck, G., Schatz, A.-K. 2012. Advantages and challenges of automated apatite fission track counting. Chemical Geology, 322-323, 278-289. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.07.013
Jonckheere, R., Enkelmann, E., Min, M., Trautmann, C., Ratschbacher, L., 2007. Confined fission tracks in ion-irradiated and step-etched prismatic sections of Durango apatite. Chemical Geology 242, 202-217.doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.03.015
Min, M., Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere, R., Trautmann, C., Ratschbacher, L., 2007. Measurements of fossil confined fission tracks in ion-irradiated geological samples with low track densities. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 259, 943-950.
Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere, R., Wauschkuhn, B., 2005. Independent fission-track ages (f-ages) of accepted and proposed apatite age standards and a comparison of f-, Z-, z- and z0-ages: implications for method calibration. Chemical Geology 222, 232-248.doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2005.07.009
Jonckheere, R., Enkelmann, E., Stübner, K., 2005. Observations on the geometries of etched fission and alpha-recoil tracks with reference to models of track revelation in minerals. Radiation Measurements 39, 577-583. doi:10.1016/j.radmeas.2004.08.008
Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere, R., Ratschbacher, L., 2005. Absolute measurement of uranium concentration on thick samples using fission-track detectors. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B. 229, 489-498.doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2005.01.003
Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere, R., Ratschbacher, L., 2005. The effects of radiation damage accumulation and annealing for fission-track dating of titanite. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B. 227, 581-590.
Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere, R., 2003. Correction factors for systematic errors related to the track counts in fission-track dating with the external detector method. Radiation Measurements 36, 351-356. doi:10.1016/S1350-4487(03)00150-1
South America Lease, R.O., Ehlers, T.A., Enkelmann, E., 2016. Large along strike variations in the onset of Subandean deformation: Implications for Central Andes orogenic growth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 451, 62–76.
Georgieva, V., Melnick, D., Schildgen, T.F., Ehlers, E., Lagabrielle, Y., Enkelmann, E., Manfred, S.R. 2016. Tectonic control on rock uplift, exhumation and topography above oceanic-ridge collision: Southern Patagonian Andes (47°S), Chile. Tectonics, 35, 1317–1341.doi:10.1002/2016TC004120.
Enkelmann, E., Ridgway, K.D., Carignano, C., Linnemann, U. 2014. A thermochronometric view into an ancient landscape: tectonic setting, development, and inversion of the Paleozoic Paganzo basin, Argentina. Lithosphere, 6, 93–107, doi:10.1130/L309.1.
Eichelberger, N., McQuarrie, N., Ehlers, T.A., Enkelmann. E., Barnes, J.B., Lease, R.O. 2013. New constraints on the chronology, magnitude, and distribution of deformation within the central Andean orocline. Tectonics, DOI: 10.1002/tect.20073.
Richardson, T., Ridgway, K. D., Gilbert, H., Martino, R., Enkelmann, E.,2013. Alvarado, P. Neogene tectonics of the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Active intraplate deformation inboard of flat-slab subduction. Tectonics, 32, 1-17. DOI: 10.1002/tect.20054.
North America (Appalachians)
McKeon, R.E., Zeitler, P.K., Pazzaglia, F.J., Idleman, B.D., Enkelmann, E. 2014. Decay of an old orogen: Interferences about Appalachian Landscape evolution from low-temperature thermochronology. GSA Bulletin, v. 126, no. 1-2, p. 31-46doi: 10.1130/B30808.1