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Richard O. Lease Title: Research Geologist Address: 4210 University Dr., Anchorage, AK 99508-4626 Phone: (907) 786-7169 Fax: (907) 786-7150 Email: rlease@usgs.gov

Education and/or Training

PhD	2010	University of California, Santa Barbara, CA	Geology
A.B.	2005	Princeton University, Princeton, NJ	Geosciences

Areas of Specialization and/or Research Interests

Orogen-scale interactions between tectonics, climate, and geodynamics; kinematic and physiographic evolution of mountain ranges; structural and stratigraphic evolution of fold-and-thrust belts and foreland basins; paleotopography; thermochronology; magnetostratigraphy; basin analysis; tectonic geomorphology

Professional Experience

2012 - Present	Research Geologist, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska
2011 - 2012	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tuebingen, Germany

Professional Activities and/or Memberships

American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of America

Significant Recent Publications

Lease, R.O., Burbank, D.W., Zhang, H., and Liu, J., 2012b, Cenozoic shortening budget for the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau: Is lower crustal flow necessary?, Tectonics, v. 31, TC3011, doi: 10.1029/2011TC003066

Lease, R.O., Burbank, D.W., Hough, B., Wang, Z., and Yuan, D., 2012a, Pulsed Miocene range growth in northeastern Tibet: Insights from Xunhua basin magnetostratigraphy and provenance, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 124, no. 5-6, p. 657-677, doi: 10.1130/B30524.1

Lease, R.O., Burbank, D.W., Clark, M.K., Farley, K.A., Zheng, D., and Zhang, H., 2011, Middle Miocene reorganization of deformation along the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Geology, v. 39, no. 4, p.359-362, doi: 10.1130/G31356.1

Lease, R.O., McQuarrie, N., Oskin, M.E., Leier, A., 2009, Dextral shear on the Bristol-Granite mountains fault zone: Successful geologic prediction from kinematic compatability of the eastern California shear zone, Journal of Geology, v.117, no.1, p.37-53, doi: 10.1086/593320

Lease, R.O., Burbank, D.W., Gehrels, G.E., Wang, Z., and Yuan, D., 2007, Signatures of mountain building: Detrital zircon U-Pb ages from northeast Tibet, Geology, v. 35, no. 3, p. 239-242, doi: 10.1130/G23057A.1

Lease, R.O., in revision, Cenozoic mountain-building on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, GSA Special Paper -Towards an improved understanding of uplift mechanisms and the elevation history of the Tibetan Plateau.

Hough, B., Garzione, C., Wang, Z., and Lease, R.O., in revision, Timing and spatial patterns of basin segmentation in NE Tibet, GSA Special Paper - Towards an improved understanding of uplift mechanisms and the elevation history of the Tibetan Plateau.

Liu, J., Zhang, P., Lease, R.O., Zheng, D., Wan, J., Wang, W., and Zhang, H., 2013, Eocene onset and late Miocene acceleration of Cenozoic intracontinental extension in the North Qinling range-Weihe graben: insights from apatite fission track thermochronology, Tectonophysics, v. 584, p. 281-296, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.01.025

Zhang, H., Craddock, W.H., Lease, R.O., Wang, W., Yuan, D., Zhang, P., Molnar, P., Zheng, D., and Zheng, W., 2012, Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Chaka basin and its implications for mountain building processes in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Basin Research, v. 24, no. 1, p. 31-50, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00512.x

Wang, Z., Zhang, P., Garzione, C., Lease, R.O., Zhang, G., Zheng, D., Hough, B., Yuan, D., Li, C., Liu, J., and Wu, Q., 2012, Magnetostratigraphy and depositional history of the Miocene Wushan basin on the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau, China: Implications for middle Miocene tectonics of the West Qinling fault zone, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 44, p. 189-202, doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.06.009

Hough, B., Garzione, C., Wang, Z., Lease, R.O., Burbank, D., Yuan, D., 2011, Stable isotope evidence for topographic growth and basin segmentation: Implications for the evolution of the NE Tibetan plateau, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, no. 1-2, p. 168-185, doi: 10.1130/B30090.1

van der Vink, G.E., Andrews, S.Q., Bilir, L.K., Lease, R.O., Newman-Wise, L., Prat, M.K., and Prescott, A.M., 2005, The Increasing Costs of U.S. Natural Disasters: Geotimes, November 2005.