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Peter Copeland is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a primary focus on geophysics. Their research spans several subfields including artificial intelligence, astronomy and astrophysics, geochemistry and petrology, and education. The scientist's work also covers key topics such as geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, astro and planetary science, geochemistry and elemental analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, as well as paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Peter Copeland's recent research includes the paper titled "On the use of geochronology of detrital grains in determining the time of deposition of clastic sedimentary strata" published in 2020 in Basin Research. Other notable recent papers, featuring frequent coauthors, include publications in journals such as Nature, Global and Planetary Change, Tectonics, and Geosphere.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Copeland include:

  • Karissa B. Vermillion
  • Shelby Johnston
  • Michael A. Murphy
  • T. J. Lapen
  • A. D. Brandon

The scientist's publications have appeared predominantly in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Tectonics
  • Geosphere
  • Basin Research
  • Nature

Peter Copeland has also contributed to academic books, with a forthcoming publication titled Earth History scheduled for 2025 by Cambridge University Press.

Their body of work aligns with their main research interests in geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic phenomena, and the use of advanced techniques such as geochronology. Their expertise spans from the detailed study of sedimentary strata deposition timing to the investigation of isotopic variations in planetary systems and the evaluation of oceanic anoxic events.

Best Publications

  • Raising Tibet

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  • Stratigraphy, structure, and tectonic evolution of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt in western Nepal

    Peter G. DeCelles;Delores M. Robinson;Jay Quade;T. P. Ojha

  • Tertiary structural evolution of the Gangdese Thrust System, southeastern Tibet

    An Yin;T. Mark Harrison;F. J. Ryerson;Chen Wenji

  • Activation of the Nyainqentanghla Shear Zone: Implications for uplift of the southern Tibetan Plateau

    T. Mark Harrison;Peter Copeland;W. S. F. Kidd;Oscar M. Lovera

  • Identification of inherited radiogenic Pb in monazite and its implications for U–Pb systematics

    Peter Copeland;Randall R. Parrish;T. Mark Harrison

  • Exhumation, crustal deformation, and thermal structure of the Nepal Himalaya derived from the inversion of thermochronological and thermobarometric data and modeling of the topography

    Frederic Herman;Frederic Herman;Peter Copeland;Jean Philippe Avouac;Laurent Bollinger

  • Extension and basin formation in the southern Andes caused by increased convergence rate: A mid-Cenozoic trigger for the Andes

    Teresa E. Jordan;W. Matthew Burns;Ricardo Veiga;Francisco Pángaro

  • Tectonic evolution of the Himalayan thrust belt in western Nepal: Implications for channel flow models

    Delores M. Robinson;Peter G. DeCelles;Peter Copeland

  • Episodic rapid uplift in the Himalaya revealed by 40Ar/39Ar analysis of detrital K-feldspar and muscovite, Bengal fan

    Peter Copeland;T. Mark Harrison

  • Isotopic Preservation of Himalayan/Tibetan Uplift, Denudation, and Climatic Histories of Two Molasse Deposits

    T. Mark Harrison;Peter Copeland;Stuart A. Hall;jay Quade

  • Thermal evolution of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet: A history of episodic unroofing

    Peter Copeland;T. Mark Harrison;Yun Pan;W. S. F. Kidd

  • Upper Cretaceous to Holocene magmatism and evidence for transient Miocene shallowing of the Andean subduction zone under the northern Neuquén Basin

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;W. Matthew Burns;Peter Copeland;Oscar Mancilla

  • Rapid early Miocene acceleration of uplift in the Gangdese Belt, Xizang (southern Tibet), and its bearing on accommodation mechanisms of the India-Asia collision

    Peter Copeland;T. Mark Harrison;W.S.F. Kidd;Xu Ronghua

  • Estimation of source area, river paleo-discharge, paleoslope, and sediment budgets of linked deep-time depositional systems and implications for hydrocarbon potential

    Janok P. Bhattacharya;Peter Copeland;Timothy F. Lawton;John Holbrook

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

    Michael A. Murphy;Peter Copeland

  • Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia

    John Kappelman;D. Tab Rasmussen;William J. Sanders;Mulugeta Feseha

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

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

  • Tibetan tectonics from 40Ar/39Ar analysis of a single K-feldspar sample

    Frank M. Richter;Oscar M. Lovera;T. Mark Harrison;Peter Copeland

  • An Early Pliocene thermal disturbance of the main central thrust, central Nepal: Implications for Himalayan tectonics

    Peter Copeland;T. Mark Harrison;Kip V. Hodges;Patricia Maruéjol

  • Age, Cooling History, and Origin of Post-Collisional Leucogranites in the Karakoram Batholith; A Multi-System Isotope Study

    Urs Schärer;Peter Copeland;T. Mark Harrison;Mike P. Searle

  • The structure and rate of late Miocene expansion of C4 plants: Evidence from lateral variation in stable isotopes in paleosols of the Siwalik Group, northern Pakistan

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Jay Quade;Thure E. Cerling;John W Kappelman

Frequent Co-Authors

T. Mark Harrison
T. Mark Harrison University of California, Los Angeles
Michael A. Murphy
Michael A. Murphy University of Houston
William S.F. Kidd
William S.F. Kidd University at Albany, State University of New York
Jay Quade
Jay Quade University of Arizona
Patrick Le Fort
Patrick Le Fort Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Joel E. Saylor
Joel E. Saylor University of British Columbia
Timothy F. Lawton
Timothy F. Lawton The University of Texas at Austin
Suzanne Mahlburg Kay
Suzanne Mahlburg Kay Cornell University
David A. Foster
David A. Foster University of Florida
E. Bruce Watson
E. Bruce Watson Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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