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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Trevor A. Dumitru is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics, and Radiation.

The main topics Trevor A. Dumitru investigates include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Ion-surface interactions and analysis
  • Nuclear Physics and Applications

A number of recent papers authored or co-authored by Trevor A. Dumitru reflect these research interests. These publications include:

  • "Thermal annealing of fission and ion tracks in epidote," 2022, published in Physics and Chemistry of Minerals
  • "Comment on 'New insights on Franciscan Complex geology, architecture, depositional age, and provenance for the western Mt. Tamalpais area, Marin County, California' by Bero et al. (2020)," 2021, published in International Geology Review
  • "A PROBABLE IDAHO SOURCE FOR DETRITAL ZIRCONS IN A LATE CRETACEOUS-EOCENE SUBMARINE FAN SEQUENCE OVERLYING THE CENTRAL BELT OF THE FRANCISCAN COMPLEX, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA," 2023, published in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • "DETRITAL ZIRCON AGES FROM UPPER CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE FOREARC AND SUBDUCTION-ZONE STRATA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ENVIRONS COMPARED TO CORDILLERAN IGNEOUS BASEMENT AGES: IMPLICATIONS FOR LARAMIDE TECTONICS," 2023, published in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Trevor A. Dumitru has published extensively in a few key venues, notably:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Physics and Chemistry of Minerals
  • International Geology Review

The scientist has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, indicating ongoing research partnerships. Among them are:

  • Glenn R. Sharman
  • Robert J. McLaughlin
  • Marty Grove
  • David L. Kimbrough
  • Jonathan A. Nourse

Trevor A. Dumitru has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, a designation that reflects professional standing within the geological sciences community.

Best Publications

  • Thrusting and exhumation around the margins of the western Tarim basin during the India‐Asia collision

    Edward R. Sobel;Trevor A. Dumitru

  • Late Oligocene-early Miocene unroofing in the Chinese Tian Shan: An early effect of the India-Asia collision

    Marc S. Hendrix;Trevor A. Dumitru;Stephan A. Graham

  • Uplift, exhumation, and deformation in the Chinese Tian Shan

    Trevor A. Dumitru;Da Zhou;Edmund Z. Chang;Stephan A. Graham

  • Calibration of the apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometer on an exhumed fault block, White Mountains, California

    Daniel F. Stockli;Kenneth A. Farley;Trevor A. Dumitru

  • New insights into Arctic paleogeography and tectonics from U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology

    Elizabeth L. Miller;Jaime Toro;George Gehrels;Jeffrey M. Amato

  • A new computer-automated microscope stage system for fission-track analysis

    Trevor A. Dumitru

  • Refrigeration of the western Cordilleran lithosphere during Laramide shallow-angle subduction

    Trevor A. Dumitru;Phillip B. Gans;David A. Foster;Elizabeth L. Miller

  • Cenozoic thermal evolution of the central Sierra Nevada, California, from (UTh)/He thermochronometry

    M.A. House;B.P. Wernicke;K.A. Farley;T.A. Dumitru

  • Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the White Mountains, California and Nevada

    Daniel F. Stockli;Trevor A. Dumitru;Michael O. McWilliams;Kenneth A. Farley

  • Rapid Miocene slip on the Snake Range–Deep Creek Range fault system, east-central Nevada

    Elizabeth L. Miller;Trevor A. Dumitru;Roderick W. Brown;Phillip B. Gans

  • Early Cretaceous transition from nonaccretionary behavior to strongly accretionary behavior within the Franciscan subduction complex

    Trevor A. Dumitru;John Wakabayashi;James E. Wright;Joseph L. Wooden

  • Two-phase westward encroachment of Basin and Range extension into the northern Sierra Nevada

    Benjamin E. Surpless;Daniel F. Stockli;Daniel F. Stockli;Trevor A. Dumitru;Elizabeth L. Miller

  • Effects of subduction parameters on geothermal gradients in forearcs, with an application to Franciscan Subduction in California

    Trevor A. Dumitru

  • Rise and fall of the southern Santa Cruz Mountains, California, from fission tracks, geomorphology, and geodesy

    Roland Bürgmann;Ramón Arrowsmith;Trevor Dumitru;Robert McLaughlin

  • Provenance and thermal history of the Franciscan accretionary complex: Constraints from zircon fission track thermochronology

    Takahiro Tagami;Trevor A. Dumitru

  • Thermochronological constraints on the timing and magnitude of Miocene and Pliocene extension in the central Wassuk Range, western Nevada

    Daniel F. Stockli;Daniel F. Stockli;Benjamin E. Surpless;Trevor A. Dumitru;Kenneth A. Farley

  • 40Ar/39Ar Ages from Coherent, High-Pressure Metamorphic Rocks of the Franciscan Complex, California: Revisiting the Timing of Metamorphism of the World's Type Subduction Complex

    John Wakabayashi;Trevor A. Dumitru

  • Subnormal Cenozoic geothermal gradients in the extinct Sierra Nevada magmatic arc: Consequences of Laramide and Post-Laramide shallow-angle subduction

    Trevor A. Dumitru

  • Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the basin and range province in northwestern Nevada

    Joseph P. Colgan;Joseph P. Colgan;Trevor A. Dumitru;Peter W. Reiners;Joseph L. Wooden

  • FISSION TRACK THERMOCHRONOLOGY: APPLICATION TO CONTINENTAL RIFTING OF SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA

    T. A. Dumitru;K. C. Hill;D. A. Coyle;I. R. Duddy

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Miller
Elizabeth Miller Stanford University
Daniel F. Stockli
Daniel F. Stockli The University of Texas at Austin
John Wakabayashi
John Wakabayashi California State University, Fresno
W. G. Ernst
W. G. Ernst Stanford University
Stephan A. Graham
Stephan A. Graham Stanford University
Phillip B. Gans
Phillip B. Gans University of California, Santa Barbara
Marty Grove
Marty Grove Stanford University
Roland Bürgmann
Roland Bürgmann University of California, Berkeley
Kenneth A. Farley
Kenneth A. Farley California Institute of Technology
Joseph L. Wooden
Joseph L. Wooden Stanford University

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