Katharine Huntington, nee Ruhl

ASSOCIATE professor

university of washington - department of Earth & Space sciences

 

publications

refereed publications submitted / in review

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24.  Huntington, K.W, Lechler, A.R. (in revision). Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry in continental tectonics. Invited Review, Tectonophysics.


refereed publications published/ in press (huntington=ruhl)

     * = student lead author; **corresponding author


23. Quade, J., Dettinger, M., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P., Murray, K.E., Huntington, K., Cartwright, A., Canavan., R.R., Gherels, G., Clementz, M. (2015). The Growth of the Central Andes, 22-26°S. In: DeCelles, P.G., Ducea, M.N., Carrapa, B., and Kapp, P.A., eds.,  Geodynamics of a Cordilleran Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina and Northern Chile. Geological Society of America Memoir 212, p. XXX-XXX, doi:10.1130/2015.1212(15). In press.


22.  Huntington, K.W., Saylor, J., Quade, J., and Hudson, A.M. (2014) High Late Miocene-Pliocene elevation of the Zhada basin, SW Tibetan plateau, from clumped isotope thermometry. Geological Society of America Bulletin. doi:10.1130/B31000.1. [pdf]


21. Carrapa, B., Huntington, K.W., Clementz, M., Quade, J., Bywater-Reyes, S., Schoenbohm, L.M., Canavan, R.R. (2014). Uplift of the Central Andes of NW Argentina associated with upper crustal shortening, revealed by multi-proxy isotopic analyses. Tectonics, 33, doi: 10.1002/2013TC003461. [pdf]


20. *Lang, K.A., Huntington, K.W. (2014). Antecedence of the Yarlung-Siang-Brahmaputra River, eastern Himalaya. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v 397, 145-158. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.04.026. [pdf]


19. *Lang, K.A., Huntington, K.W., Montgomery, D.R. (2013). Erosion of the Tsangpo Gorge by megafloods, Eastern Himalaya. Geology, v. 41, 1003-1006, doi:10.1130/G34693.1. [pdf]


18. *Bergman, S.C., **Huntington, K.W., Crider, J.G. (2013). Tracing paleofluid sources using clumped isotope thermometry of diagenetic cements along the Moab Fault, Utah. American Journal of Science, v. 313, 490-515, doi: 10.2475/05.2013.03. [pdf]


17.  Budd, D.A., Frost III, E.L., Huntington, K.W., Allwardt, P.F. (2013). Syndepositional deformation features in high-relief carbonate platforms: Long-lived conduits for diagenetic fluids, J of Sed Research, v. 82, 12-36, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2013.3. [pdf]


16. *Peters, N.A., **Huntington, K.W., Hoke, G.D. (2013). Hot or not? Impact of seasonally variable soil carbonate formation on paleotemperature and O-isotope records from clumped isotope thermometry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, p. 208-218. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.10.024. [pdf]


15. *Adlakha, V.A., *Lang, K.A., Patel, R.C., Lal., N., **Huntington, K.W. (2012). Rapid long-term erosion in the rain shadow of the Shillong Plateau, Eastern Himalaya, Tectonophysics, v. 582, 76-83. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.09.022. [pdf]


  1. 14.Huntington, K.W., D.A. Budd, B.P. Wernicke, and J.M. Eiler (2011). Use of clumped-isotope thermometry to constrain the crystallization temperature of diagenetic calcite, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 81, 656-669, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2011.51. [pdf]

  2. 13.*Schmidt, A., D.R. Montgomery, K.W. Huntington, C. Liang (2011). The question of communist land degradation: new evidence from local erosion and basin-wide sediment yield in SW China and SE Tibet, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, v. 101(3), 1-20, doi: 10.1080/00045608.2011.560059. [PDF]   NOTE: Amanda Henck is now Amanda Schmidt.

  3. 12.*Henck, A., K.W. Huntington, J.O. Stone, D.R. Montgomery, B. Hallet (2011). Spatial controls on erosion in the Three Rivers Region, southeastern Tibet and southwestern China, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 303, 71-83, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.038. [PDF] 


  1. 11.*Henck, A., D.R. Montgomery, K.W. Huntington, C. Liang (2010). Monsoon control of effective discharge, Yunnan and Tibet, Geology, v. 38, no. 11, 975-978, doi: 10.1130/G31444.1. [PDF]


  1. 10.Huntington, K.W., B.P. Wernicke, J.M. Eiler  (2010). Influence of climate change and uplift on Colorado Plateau paleotemperatures from carbonate ‘clumped isotope’ thermometry, Tectonics, v 29, TC3005, doi:10.1029/2009TC002449. [PDF]


  1. 9.Huntington, K.W., J. M. Eiler,  H. P. Affek, W. Guo,  M. Bonifacie, L. Y. Yeung, N. Thiagarajan,  B. Passey, A. Tripati,  M. Da¨eron and R. Came (2009). Methods and limitations of ‘clumped’ CO2 isotope (D47) analysis by gas-source isotope ratio mass spectrometry, J. Mass. Spectrom. 44, 1318–1329.  doi: 10.1002/jms.1614. [PDF]


  1. 8.Huntington, K.W., Bourgeois, J., Gelfenbaum, G., Lynette, P., Jaffe, B., Yeh, H., and Weiss, R. (2007).  Sandy signs of a tsunami’s onshore depth and speed, EOS, Trans., AGU. Lead article, 88(52), 577-578. [PDF]


  1. 7.Huntington, K.W., Ehlers, T.A., Hodges, K.V., Whipp, D.M. Jr. (2007). Topography, exhumation pathway, age uncertainties, and the interpretation of thermochronometer ages, Tectonics, 26, TC4012, doi:10.1029/2007TC002108. [PDF]


  1. 6.*Whipp, D.M., Ehlers, T.A., Blythe, A., Huntington, K.W., Hodges, K.V., Burbank, D.W. (2006). Plio-Quaternary erosion and kinematic history of the central Himalaya:  Thermo-kinematic model of thermochronometer exhumation, Tectonics, 26, TC3003, doi:3010.1029/2006TC001991. [PDF]


  1. 5.Huntington, K.W., Blythe, A., and Hodges, K. (2006). Climate change and Late Pliocene acceleration of erosion in the Himalaya, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 252, 107-118, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.09.031. [PDF]


  1. 4.Huntington, K.W., Hodges, K. (2006), A Comparative study of detrital mineral and bedrock age-elevation methods for estimating erosion rates, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, 111(F3), F03011, doi: 10.1029/2005JF000454. [PDF]


  1. 3.Ruhl, K.W., and Hodges, K.V. (2005). The use of detrital mineral cooling ages to evaluate steady-state assumptions in active orogens: An example from the central Nepalese Himalaya, Tectonics v. 24, TC4015, doi: 10.1029/2004TC001712. [PDF]


  1. 2.Hodges, K., Ruhl, K., Wobus, C., and Pringle, M. (2005). 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of detrital minerals, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry v. 58, 239-257, doi: 10.2138/rmg.2005.58.9. [PDF]


  1. 1.Hodges, K., Wobus, C., Ruhl, K., Schildgen, T., Whipple, K. (2004). Quaternary deformation, river steepening, and heavy precipitation at the front of the Higher Himalayan ranges, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v 220, 379-389, doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(04)00063-9. [PDF]


publications other (huntington=ruhl)


Ruhl, K., 1998.  Honor Society Service Requirements, in Elements of Writing, Revised Edition (Fifth Course), James L. Kinneavy and John E. Warriner, eds., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc: Austin, TX, p. 311.


Theses (huntington=ruhl)


Ruhl, K., 2006. The use of detrital mineral thermochronology to explore relationships among climate, erosion, and tectonics in the Nepal Himalaya. Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Advisor: Kip V. Hodges.


Ruhl, K., 2001. Raman microspectroscopic identification of mineral inclusion in zircons associated with the Ashe Metamorphic Suite eclogite, Blue Ridge Mountains, Northwestern North Carolina. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Advisor: Kevin G. Stewart.


CONFERENCE abstracts

    * = student or postdoc lead author;  # = invited


#Huntington, K.W. Lechler, A.R., Burgener, L., Hoke, G., (2014). Impact of carbonate depositional setting and seasonality on clumped isotope records of topography and climate. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver Canada.


Huntington, K., Lang, K. (2014). The persistence of rapid, focused exhumation in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver Canada.


*Lechler, A.R., Huntington, K.W., Breecker, D.O., Sweeney, M.R., and Schauer, A.J. (2014). Systematic variability in clumped isotope temperatures of loess carbonates during Late Pleistocene climate change, Palouse loess, USA. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver Canada.


*Hodson, K.R., Crider, J.G., Huntington, K.W. (2014). Identifying structural controls on diagenetic fluid migration using carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry: application to the Moab Fault, Utah. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver Canada.


*Kelson, J., *Lechler, A.R., Huntington, K.,Schauer, A.J., *Smith, R. (2014). Influence of dissolved inorganic carbon species equilibrium on clumped isotope values of synthetic calcite. Clumped Isotopes Workshop, Zurich Switzerland.

*Burgener, L., Huntington, K.,Hoke, G., Schauer, A. (2014). Constraining the seasonality of soil carbonate formation using clumped-isotope paleothermometry. Clumped Isotopes Workshop, Zurich Switzerland.

*Lang, K., Huntington, K., Montgomery, D. (2014). Quaternary erosion of the Tsangpo gorge by megafloods, eastern Himalaya. AMQUA Biennial Meeting.

*Turzewski, M., Huntington, K., Feathers, J., Larsen, I., Montgomery, D. (2014). Quaternary megaflood chronology from luminescence and radiocarbon dating of flood sands, eastern Himalaya. AMQUA Biennial Meeting.

#Huntington, K. (2014). Clumped isotope paleothermometry in soil carbonate. Goldschmidt, Sacramento, CA.

Breecker, D., Driese, S.G, Nordt, L.C., Beverly, E., Huntington, K.W. (2013). Seasonal variations in the carbon isotope composition of soil-respired CO2 and the dominance of root/rhizsophere respiration in desert soils. AGU Fall Meeting.

*Burgener, L., Huntington, K.W., Hoke, G.D., Schauer, A., Samek, K. (2013). Precipitation season as a control on the timing of pedogenic carbonate growth in the central Andes. AGU Fall Meeting.

#Huntington, K.W., Saylor, J., Quade, J. (2013). New constraints on Tibetan plateau uplift from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry. AGU Fall Meeting.

*Lang, K., Huntington, K.W. (2013). A record of Yarlung-Tsangpo river reorganization since the middle Miocene: evidence for a Himalayan-Tibetan connection. AGU Fall meeting.

#Huntington, K.W. (2013). Paleotopography from stable isotopes and clumped isotope thermometry. Geological Society of America Fall Meeting, Pardee Keynote Symposium.

Frost, E.L., Budd, D.A., Kerans, C., Huntington, K.W., 2013. Syndepositional fault and fracture control on diagenetic fluid-flow, Tansil Carbonates (Permian), Dark Canyon, Guadalupe Mountain, New Mexico. GSA South-Central Section Annual Meeting.  

*Lang, K., Huntington, K.W., 2012. Erosion of the Yarlung-Tsangpo Gorge sustained by episodic megaflooding, AGU Fall Meeting.

Huntington, K.W., Bergman, S.C., Crider, J.G., 2012. Clumped isotopes reveal the influence of deformation style on fluid flow and cementation along the Moab Fault, Paradox Basin, Utah. AGU Fall Meeting.

#Huntington, K.W., 2012. Orogens, isotopes, and the evolution of Earth’s surface. Geological Society of America Fall Meeting, Gold Medal Lecture.

Huntington, K.W., Bergman, S.C., Crider, J.G., 2012. Use of carbonate clumped isotope thermometry to study interactions of structures and fluid flow, Moab Fault, Paradox Basin, Utah. Geological Society of America Fall Meeting.

Huntington, K.W., Peters, N., Hoke, G.D., 2012. Impact of seasonally variable soil carbonate formation on paleotemperature records from clumped isotopes. Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, Canada.

*Peters, N., Huntington, K.W., Hoke, G.D., 2011. Seasonal bias in pedogenic carbonate formation: implications for interpreting paleosol temperatures from clumped isotopes. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

*Lang, K., Huntington, K.W., Larsen, I.J., Atakturk, K.R., Montgomery, D.R., 2011. Sediment mixing and the interpretation of detrital cosmogenic radionuclide and thermochronology data, NE Indian Himalaya. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

#Huntington, K.W., 2011. Topographic evolution of the Colorado Plateau: mechanisms, timing, and open questions. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Huntington, K.W., Adlakha, V. Lang, K.A., Patel, R.C., Singh, P. Lal, N., 2011. Rapid long-term erosion in the rain shadow of the Shillong Plateau, NE Indian Himalaya. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P., Bywater, S. Mortimer, E., Huntington, K., Clementz, M., 2011. Cenozoic record of paleotopography and paleoenvironment in the Central Andes of NW Argentina. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Budd, D.A., Huntington, K.W., Frost, E.L., 2011. Clumped-isotope thermometry: a new tool to delineate diagenetic temperatures and fluids of calcite phases.  AAPG/SEPM Meeting.

#Huntington, K.W., Peters, N., Roe, G., Hoke, G., Eiler., J., 2010. Impact of surface processes and climate variability on clumped isotope thermometry of soil carbonates, southern Central Andes, Argentina. Invited, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.


*Bergman, S., Huntington, K., Winterleitner, G., 2010. Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry as a tool to constrain thermal conditions in the shallow crust during deformation and diagenesis, Paradox Basin, Utah. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, no. 5. [Download Poster]


*Lang, K., Larsen, I., Huntington, K. 2010. Integrating petrographic data with detrital-mineral investigations of erosion over multiple timescales in the Tsangpo-Siang-Brahmaputra river system, NE Indian Himalaya. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, no. 5.


*Peters, N., Huntington, K., Hoke, G., 2010. Clumped-isotope thermometry of pedogenic carbonates: quantifying the influence of climate, seasonality, and altitude in the south central Andes, Argentina. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, no. 5.


#Huntington, K.W., Battisti, D.S., Roe, G., Wernicke, B.P., and Eiler, J.M., 2009. Terrestrial climate reconstructions from carbonate clumped-isotope thermometry, Invited, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Carrapa, B., Schoenbohm, L., DeCelles, P., Clementz, M., Huntington, K., 2009. Surface response to lithospheric delamination: an example from the Puna Plateau of NW Argentina. Geological Society of America Fall Meeting, Portland, OR.

#Huntington, K.W., Wernicke, B.P., and Eiler, J.M., 2009. Constraints on Late Tertiary elevation of the Colorado Plateau from carbonate clumped-isotope thermometry, Invited, AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto, Canada.


Huntington, K.W., Mohrig, D., 2009. Submarine currents and subaerial intuition: comparing flow characteristics inferred from deposit morphology to constraints from inverted grain-size data, AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto, Canada.


#Hodges, K.V., Huntington, K.W., and Heimsath, A., 2009. Erosion rates over multiple timescales: the power and perils of integrated detrital-mineral thermochronology and cosmogenic-nuclide dating, AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto, Canada.


Huntington, K.W., Wernicke, B.P., and Eiler, J.M., 2008. The influence of climate change and uplift on Colorado Plateau paleotemperatures from clumped isotope (Δ47) carbonate thermometry, AGU Fall meeting.


Huntington, K.W., Wernicke, B.P., Eiler, J.M., and Flowers, R.M., 2008. Temperature and timing of diagenesis from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry and thermochronology. Goldschmidt Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.


Eiler, J., Affek, H., Daeron, M., Ferry, J., Guo, W., Huntington, K., Thiagarajan, N., and Tripati, A., 2008. Carbonate ‘clumped isotope’ thermometry: A status report. Goldschmidt Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.


Huntington, K.W., Mohrig, D., 2007. Characterizing Turbidity Current Flow Conditions From Turbidite Grain Size Distributions, Capistrano Formation, San Clemente, CA, AGU Fall meeting.


Huntington, K.W., Wernicke, B.P., Eiler, J., 2007. Paleoaltimetry from “clumped” 13C-18O bonds in carbonates, Colorado Plateau. Goldschmidt Meeting, Cologne Germany.


Huntington, K.W., Ehlers, T.A., Hodges, K.V., Whipp, D.M. Jr., 2006. Age Uncertainties, Topography, Exhumation Pathway, and the Interpretation of Erosion Rates and Exhumation Kinematics from Thermochronometer Age-Elevation Data, Eos Trans. AGU 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T11D-0464.


Wobus, C., Pringle, M., Hodges, K.V., Whipple, K.X., Huntington, K.W., 2006, Miocene exhumation of the Himalayan metamorphic core: new thermochronologic constraints from the Langtang Valley, Nepal, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs.


#Huntington, K.W., Hodges, K.V., 2005, Detrital thermochronology as a tool for studying the evolution of transient landscapes. Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H33F-06 invited.


Ruhl, K., Blythe, A., Hodges, K., 2005, Accelerated Late-Pliocene Himalayan erosion from fission-track and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and the possible role of climate change. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7. Paper No. 153-8.


Ruhl, K., Ruhl, S., 2005, Teaching geologic time and rates of landscape evolution with dice, sandboxes, and cutting-edge thermochronology. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7. Paper No. 60-12.


Whipp, D., Ehlers, T., Blythe, A., Ruhl, K., Hodges, K., Burbank, D., 2005. Kinematic and erosion history of the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Central Nepal, from integrated thermochronology and numerical modeling, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7. Paper No. 153-9.


Hodges, K., Ruhl, K., Wobus, C., Pringle, M., 2005, 40Ar/39Ar detrital mineral thermochronology in active fluvial systems.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7. Paper No. 83-6.


Hodges, K., Ruhl, K., Wobus, C., Boyce, J., 2005, Detrital mineral thermochronology in active fluvial systems and the evolution of modern orogenic landscapes. 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Geochronology of Tectonic Processes, Abstract A296.


Ruhl, K. and Hodges, K., 2004.  Exhumation rates from bedrock and detrital cooling-age elevation signals: effects of post-closure deformation in the Marsiyandi Valley, Central Nepal, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T52A-05.


Ruhl, K., Hodges, K., and Schildgen, T., 2003, Detrital mineral cooling-age signal variability and erosion rates, Marsyandi Valley, central Nepal, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H52D-06.


Hodges, K., Ruhl, K., Whipple, K., Wobus, C., 2003, Evidence for neotectonic activity on the Main Central Thrust system, central Nepal, and coordination of erosion and deformation in the Himalayan orogenic system, Abs. Vol. 18th Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet.


Hodges, K., Ruhl, K., Whipple, K., Wobus, C., 2002, History of the Main Central Thrust system in the Marsyandi Valley, central Nepal: evidence for steady-state orogenesis in the Himalaya? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 32. No 2, Paper No. 182-7.