Michael A. Murphy

Best Publications

• Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Shiquanhe area of western Tibet

  Paul Kapp;Paul Kapp;Michael A. Murphy;Michael A. Murphy;An Yin;T. Mark Harrison;T. Mark Harrison

  666
  Citations

• Tertiary deformation history of southeastern and southwestern Tibet during the Indo-Asian collision

  An Yin;T. Mark Harrison;M. A. Murphy;M. Grove

  372
  Citations

• Structural evolution of the Gurla Mandhata detachment system, southwest Tibet: Implications for the eastward extent of the Karakoram fault system

  M.A. Murphy;An Yin;P. Kapp;T.M. Harrison

  279
  Citations

• Southward propagation of the Karakoram fault system, southwest Tibet: Timing and magnitude of slip

  M.A. Murphy;An Yin;P. Kapp;T.M. Harrison

  263
  Citations

• Significant late Neogene east-west extension in northern Tibet

  An Yin;Paul A. Kapp;Michael A. Murphy;Craig E. Manning

  244
  Citations

• Relationship between leucogranites and the Qomolangma detachment in the Rongbuk Valley, south Tibet

  M. A. Murphy;T. Mark Harrison

  238
  Citations

• Tomographic evidence for wholesale underthrusting of India beneath the entire Tibetan plateau

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  226
  Citations

• Transtensional deformation in the central Himalaya and its role in accommodating growth of the Himalayan orogen

  Michael A. Murphy;Peter Copeland

  187
  Citations

• Correlation of the Cretaceous Formations of the Pacific Coast (united States and Northwestern Mexico)

  W. P Popenoe;R. W Imlay;M. A Murphy

  163
  Citations

• Location, location, location: The variable lifespan of the Laramide orogeny

  Peter Copeland;Claire A. Currie;Timothy F. Lawton;Michael A. Murphy

  161
  Citations

• Oblique convergence, arc-parallel extension, and the role of strike-slip faulting in the High Himalaya

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  157
  Citations

• Limit of strain partitioning in the Himalaya marked by large earthquakes in western Nepal

  Michael A. Murphy;Michael H. Taylor;John Gosse;C. R. P. Silver

  124
  Citations

• Time-rock model for Siluro-Devonian continental shelf, western United States

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  119
  Citations

• Silurian-Lower Devonian conodont sequence in the Roberts Mountains Formation of central Nevada

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  112
  Citations

• Late Miocene topographic inversion in southwest Tibet based on integrated paleoelevation reconstructions and structural history

  Michael A. Murphy;Joel E. Saylor;Lin Ding

  108
  Citations

• Isotopic characteristics of the Gurla Mandhata metamorphic core complex: Implications for the architecture of the Himalayan orogen

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  96
  Citations

• Silurian and Devonian graptolites of central Nevada

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  80
  Citations

• Basin formation in the High Himalaya by arc‐parallel extension and tectonic damming: Zhada basin, southwestern Tibet

  Joel Saylor;Joel Saylor;Peter DeCelles;George Gehrels;Michael Murphy

  60
  Citations

• Thermochronologic constraints on the late Cenozoic exhumation history of the Gurla Mandhata metamorphic core complex, Southwestern Tibet

  Andrew T. McCallister;Michael Halford Taylor;Michael A. Murphy;Richard H. Styron

  57
  Citations

• Detrital record of initial basement exhumation along the Laramide deformation front, southern Rocky Mountains

  Meredith A. Bush;Brian K. Horton;Michael A. Murphy;Daniel F. Stockli

  54
  Citations