ABOUT ME

I am a geologist focused on understanding the connections between topography, structure, deformation, and evolution of mountain belts. I investigate these processes in natural systems in the Andes and the North American Cordillera with a collaborative group of Utah Tech undergraduate students and external colleagues. This work is field-based, integrating geologic mapping, basin analysis, geo- and thermochronology, and digital topography analyses. I am also interested in statistical techniques for robust interpretation of datasets I use. My group's research is funded by NSF, the USGS EDMAP program, and others.

Utah Tech students: If you are interested in doing research with me, reach out by email (alex.tye[at]utahtech.edu). I have opportunities available in my research group!

RECENT NEWS

August 2024: It was a busy but rewarding summer, with fieldwork for student projects in Utah and Colorado, as well as some reconnaissance work in the northern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina.

I had a great time presenting on recent detrital zircon U-Pb age data that constrain the evolution of Phanerozoic sediment sourcing in the northern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina, at the International Sedimentary Geoscience Congress 2024. With co-author Lindsay Schoenbohm, that work is now in press at Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

A new article with co-author Nathan Niemi on detrital zircon U-Pb ages from Paleogene paleochannel deposits in the Sierra Nevada, California, and implications for the Cenozoic paleotopography of the western US is in press at Geosphere as part of a special volume on the paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada.

CONTACT

Alexander Tye

alex.tye(at)utahtech.edu

Science, Engineering, and Technology Building, room 433

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Utah Tech University

225 S 700 E, St. George, UT 84770