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George E. Hilley is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and works primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses numerous subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research chiefly addresses topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, landslides and related hazards, cryospheric studies and observations, and earthquake detection and analysis.

Recent publications by George E. Hilley include the following:

  • A Curvature-Based Method for Measuring Valley Width Applied to Glacial and Fluvial Landscapes, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Bridging earthquakes and mountain building in the Santa Cruz Mountains, CA, 2022, Science Advances
  • The Pamir Frontal Thrust Fault: Holocene Full-Segment Ruptures and Implications for Complex Segment Interactions in a Continental Collision Zone, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Climatic and lithological controls on the structure and thickness of granitic weathering zones, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Crustal block-controlled contrasts in deformation, uplift, and exhumation in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California, USA, imaged through apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology and 3-D geological modeling, 2023, Geological Society of America Bulletin

Frequent co-authors with whom George E. Hilley has collaborated include Aaron T. Steelquist, Curtis W. Baden, R. Sare, Stephen C. Dobbs, and Felipe Aron.

The scientist publishes regularly in several venues, notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of Slow-Moving Landslides from Permanent Scatterer Analysis

    George E. Hilley;Roland Bürgmann;Alessandro Ferretti;Fabrizio Novali

  • Tectonics and Climate of the Southern Central Andes

    M.R. Strecker;R.N. Alonso;B. Bookhagen;B. Carrapa

  • Formation of internally drained contractional basins by aridity-limited bedrock incision

    Edward R. Sobel;George E. Hilley;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Resolving vertical tectonics in the San Francisco Bay Area from permanent scatterer InSAR and GPS analysis

    Roland Bürgmann;George Hilley;Alessandro Ferretti;Fabrizio Novali

  • Interseismic coupling and asperity distribution along the Kamchatka subduction zone

    Roland Bürgmann;Mikhail G. Kogan;Grigory M. Steblov;George Hilley;George Hilley

  • Major ion chemistry of the Yarlung Tsangpo–Brahmaputra river: Chemical weathering, erosion, and CO2 consumption in the southern Tibetan plateau and eastern syntaxis of the Himalaya

    Michael T. Hren;C. Page Chamberlain;George E. Hilley;Peter M. Blisniuk

  • New estimates of silicate weathering rates and their uncertainties in global rivers

    Seulgi Moon;C.P. Chamberlain;G.E. Hilley

  • Uplift, Erosion, and Phosphorus Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems

    Stephen Porder;Peter M. Vitousek;Oliver A. Chadwick;C. Page Chamberlain

  • Competition between erosion and reaction kinetics in controlling silicate-weathering rates

    G.E. Hilley;C.P. Chamberlain;S. Moon;S. Porder

  • Late Cenozoic tectonic development of the intramontane Alai Valley, (Pamir‐Tien Shan region, central Asia): An example of intracontinental deformation due to the Indo‐Eurasia collision

    Isabelle Coutand;Isabelle Coutand;Manfred R. Strecker;J. R. Arrowsmith;George E. Hilley

  • Chemical weathering, mass loss, and dust inputs across a climate by time matrix in the Hawaiian Islands

    Stephen Porder;George E. Hilley;Oliver A. Chadwick

  • Geomorphic response to uplift along the Dragon's Back pressure ridge, Carrizo Plain, California

    George E. Hilley;J Ramón Arrowsmith

  • Processes of oscillatory basin filling and excavation in a tectonically active orogen: Quebrada del Toro Basin, NW Argentina

    George E. Hilley;Manfred R. Strecker

  • InSAR permanent scatterer analysis reveals ups and downs in San Francisco Bay Area

    A. Ferretti;F. Novali;R. Bürgmann;G. Hilley

  • Oligocene range uplift and development of plateau morphology in the southern central Andes

    Barbara Carrapa;Dirk Adelmann;G. E. Hilley;Estelle Mortimer

  • A framework for predicting global silicate weathering and CO2 drawdown rates over geologic time-scales.

    George E. Hilley;Stephen Porder

  • Rate-weakening friction characterizes both slow sliding and catastrophic failure of landslides.

    Alexander L. Handwerger;Alan W. Rempel;Rob M. Skarbek;Joshua J. Roering

  • Constraints on the late Quaternary glaciations in Tibet from cosmogenic exposure ages of moraine surfaces

    Marie-Luce Chevalier;George Hilley;Paul Tapponnier;Jérôme Van Der Woerd

  • Does the topographic distribution of the central Andean Puna Plateau result from climatic or geodynamic processes

    M. R. Strecker;R. Alonso;B. Bookhagen;B. Carrapa

  • Steady state erosion of critical Coulomb wedges with applications to Taiwan and the Himalaya

    G. E. Hilley;G. E. Hilley;M. R. Strecker

  • Bayesian inference of plastosphere viscosities near the Kunlun Fault, northern Tibet

    G. E. Hilley;G. E. Hilley;R. Bürgmann;P.-Z. Zhang;P. Molnar

  • Geomorphic response to uplift along the Dragon's Back pressure ridge,

    Carrizo Plain;George E. Hilley

  • The Scaling Relationship between Self-Potential and Fluid Flow on Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua

    J.L. Lewicki;G.E. Hilley;C. Conner

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred R. Strecker
Manfred R. Strecker University of Potsdam
Andrea Fildani
Andrea Fildani Equinor (Norway)
Edward R. Sobel
Edward R. Sobel University of Potsdam
Stephen Porder
Stephen Porder Brown University
Roland Bürgmann
Roland Bürgmann University of California, Berkeley
Barbara Carrapa
Barbara Carrapa University of Arizona
Bodo Bookhagen
Bodo Bookhagen University of Potsdam
Susanne J. H. Buiter
Susanne J. H. Buiter Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Hemin Koyi
Hemin Koyi Uppsala University
Guido Schreurs
Guido Schreurs University of Bern

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