Assistant Professor of Geology
Utah Tech University, St. George, UT
Publications
[13] Tye, A., & Niemi, N. A. (2024). Detrital zircon U-Pb ages and provenance of Paleogene paleochannel strata, Sierra Nevada and western Nevada: Implications for paleotopographic evolution. Geosphere.
[12] Tye, A., & Schoenbohm, L. (2024). Long-term stability of sediment routing on an active continental margin: Insights from detrital zircon U-Pb ages and measured stratigraphy of Carboniferous to Miocene strata, Sierra de Narváez, NW Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 105097.
[11] McMillan, M., Schoenbohm, L. M., & Tye, A. R. (2023). Plateau formation controlled by lithospheric foundering under a weak crust. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(16), e2023GL103996.
[10] Tye, A. R., Niemi, N. A., Cowgill, E., Kadirov, F. A., & Babayev, G. R. (2022). Diverse deformation mechanisms and lithologic controls in an active orogenic wedge: Structural geology and thermochronometry of the eastern Greater Caucasus. Tectonics, 41(12), e2022TC007349.
[9] McMillan, M., Schoenbohm, L. M., Tye, A., McMillan, M. F., & Zhou, R. (2022). Eocene to Quaternary Deformation of the Southern Puna Plateau: Thermochronology, Geochronology, and Structural Geology of an Andean Hinterland Basin (NW Argentina). Tectonics, 41(6), e2022TC007252.
[8] Tye, A., McMillan, M., Schoenbohm, L., & Zhou, R. (2022). Late Cenozoic Extensional Formation of the Antofalla Depression, Southern Puna Plateau, Argentina: An Effect of Lithospheric Foundering?. Tectonics, 41(3), e2021TC006807.
[7] Tye, A. R., Niemi, N. A., Safarov, R. T., Kadirov, F. A., & Babayev, G. R. (2021). Sedimentary response to a collision orogeny recorded in detrital zircon provenance of Greater Caucasus foreland basin sediments. Basin Research, 33(2), 933-967.
[6] Stahl, T., Tye, A. (2020). Estimate of paleoseismic slip on a limestone fault scarp using the Schmidt hammer and ultrasonic velocity: methods and application to the Pleasant Valley fault (Nevada, USA). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4748
[5] Tye, A. R., Wolf, A. S., Niemi, N. A. (2019). Bayesian population correlation: A probabilistic approach to inferring and comparing population distributions for detrital zircon ages. Chemical Geology, 518, 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.03.039
[4] Tye, A., Stahl, T. (2018). Field estimate of paleoseismic slip on a normal fault using the Schmidt hammer and terrestrial LiDAR: Methods and application to the Hebgen fault (Montana, USA). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 43(11), 2397-2408. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4403
[3] Cowgill, E., Forte, A. M., Niemi, N., Avdeev, B., Tye, A., Trexler, C., Javakhishvili, Z., Elashvili, M., Godoladze, T. (2016). Relict basin closure and crustal shortening budgets during continental collision: An example from Caucasus sediment provenance. Tectonics, 35(12), 2918–2947. http://doi.org/10.1002/2016TC004295
[2] Tye, A. R., Fassett, C. I., Head, J. W., Mazarico, E., Basilevsky, A. T., Neumann, G. A., Smith, D. E., Zuber, M. T. (2015). The age of lunar south circumpolar craters Haworth, Shoemaker, Faustini, and Shackleton: Implications for regional geology, surface processes, and volatile sequestration. Icarus 255, 70-77. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2015.03.016
[1] Zuber, M. T., Head, J. W., Smith, D. E., Neumann, G. A., Mazarico, E., Torrence, M. H., Aharonson, O., Tye, A. R., Fassett, C. I., Rosenburg, M. A., Melosh, H. J. (2012). Constraints on the volatile distribution within Shackleton crater at the lunar south pole. Nature, 486: 378–381 http://doi.org/10.1038/nature11216