Curriculum Vitae
Link to complete CV (10/2023)
EDUCATION
PhD 2016 UCLA
B.S. 2011 Cornell University
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2022-present Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
2016-2022 Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
2016 Instructor, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
2011-2016 Research/Teaching Assistant, UCLA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
GEOL 701B: Crustal process: from structure to its dynamics - 2023
GEOL 731: Advanced Structural Geology – 2021
GEOL 451: Online Summer Field Camp Director – 2020
GEOL 701M: Advanced Geology Seminar – 2020
GEOL 701A: Advanced Geology Seminar – 2020
GEOL 701G: Advanced Structural Geology – 2019
GEOL 701Z: Solid-Earth Seminar (UNR) – 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
GEOL 451: Summer Field Camp Director – 2017-present
GEOL 451: Summer Field Camp – Summer 2017
GEOL 260: Introductory Field Geology – Spring 2017
GEOL 410: Field geology (SDSMT; Instructor) – Summer 2016
EPS 121: Summer field camp (UCLA; TA) – Summer 2012, 2014, and 2015
EPS 16: Major Events in the History of Life (UCLA; TA) – Winter 2014 and 2015
EPS 112: Structural Geology (UCLA; TA) – Fall 2013, Spring 2013, and Fall 2014
ESS 13: Natural Disasters (UCLA; Grader) – Winter 2012
EAS 3050: Climate Dynamics (Cornell; Grader) – Fall 2010
Naturalist Outreach Practicum: Local fossils and geology (Cornell; Lecturer) – 2009
RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS
2023 Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal), Geological Society of America
2022 NSF Tectonics "Is non-lithostatic pressure during orogenesis preserved at crustal scales?"
2022 USGS EDMAP "How does the Garlock fault end?"
2022 USGS STATEMAP 2022 Compilation of the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range
2021 USGS EDMAP “Jurassic deformation in the Cordillera hinterland”
2021 USGS STATEMAP 2021 Compilation of the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range
2020 USGS STATEMAP 2020 South half of Tent Mountain 7.5’ quadrangle
2019 USGS Earth MRI "Geologic mapping in the Mountain Pass REE focus area"
2019 NSF Tectonics "How does it end? Exploring thrust terminations of an intra-continental strike-slip fault, north Tibet"
2019 USGS STATEMAP 2019 Tent Mountain 7.5’ quadrangle
2018 NSF Tectonics "Using structural fabrics and thermochronology to document extensional footwall rotation...Searchlight pluton"
2018 USGS NEHRP 2018 Investigating Unrecognized Earthquake Faults in the Carson Domain, Walker Lane
2018 USGS STATEMAP 2018 South half of Independence Valley NW 7.5' quadrangle
2018 USGS EDMAP Last Chance Range for student Drew Levy
2017 USGS STATEMAP 2017 Independence Valley NW 7.5’ quadrangle
2017 UNR NSEG: “What Can a Tilted Pluton Tell Us about Basin and Range Extension?”
2017 Structural Mapping around Wells, NV; Implications for Geothermal Exploration (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
2016 USGS STATEMAP 2016 North half of Independence Valley NE 7.5’ quadrangle
2015 Dissertation Year Fellowship (UCLA)
2014 Office of Instructional Development Mini-Grant (UCLA)
2014 Graduate Division (AGEP) Professional Development Award (UCLA)
2013 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes China Fellow (NSF)
2013 Office of Instructional Development Mini-Grant (UCLA)
2011 Chancellor’s Prize (UCLA)
2011 Chester Buchanan Memorial Award (Cornell)
2011 Academic Excellence Award in the Science of Earth Systems major (Cornell)
2010 Engineering Learning Initiatives (Cornell)
2010 Keck-ExxonMobil Enhanced grant (Keck)
2010 Keck Geology Undergraduate Research (Keck)
MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS
Nevada Petroleum and Geothermal Society
Geological Society of Nevada
Geological Society of America
American Geophysical Union
PUBLICATIONS
Please visit my Google Scholar page for a more up-to-date list.
Published papers
Non-peer reviewed works: extended abstracts, theses, reports, fieldtrip guides, and maps
EDUCATION
PhD 2016 UCLA
B.S. 2011 Cornell University
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2022-present Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
2016-2022 Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
2016 Instructor, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
2011-2016 Research/Teaching Assistant, UCLA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
GEOL 701B: Crustal process: from structure to its dynamics - 2023
GEOL 731: Advanced Structural Geology – 2021
GEOL 451: Online Summer Field Camp Director – 2020
GEOL 701M: Advanced Geology Seminar – 2020
GEOL 701A: Advanced Geology Seminar – 2020
GEOL 701G: Advanced Structural Geology – 2019
GEOL 701Z: Solid-Earth Seminar (UNR) – 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
GEOL 451: Summer Field Camp Director – 2017-present
GEOL 451: Summer Field Camp – Summer 2017
GEOL 260: Introductory Field Geology – Spring 2017
GEOL 410: Field geology (SDSMT; Instructor) – Summer 2016
EPS 121: Summer field camp (UCLA; TA) – Summer 2012, 2014, and 2015
EPS 16: Major Events in the History of Life (UCLA; TA) – Winter 2014 and 2015
EPS 112: Structural Geology (UCLA; TA) – Fall 2013, Spring 2013, and Fall 2014
ESS 13: Natural Disasters (UCLA; Grader) – Winter 2012
EAS 3050: Climate Dynamics (Cornell; Grader) – Fall 2010
Naturalist Outreach Practicum: Local fossils and geology (Cornell; Lecturer) – 2009
RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS
2023 Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal), Geological Society of America
2022 NSF Tectonics "Is non-lithostatic pressure during orogenesis preserved at crustal scales?"
2022 USGS EDMAP "How does the Garlock fault end?"
2022 USGS STATEMAP 2022 Compilation of the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range
2021 USGS EDMAP “Jurassic deformation in the Cordillera hinterland”
2021 USGS STATEMAP 2021 Compilation of the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range
2020 USGS STATEMAP 2020 South half of Tent Mountain 7.5’ quadrangle
2019 USGS Earth MRI "Geologic mapping in the Mountain Pass REE focus area"
2019 NSF Tectonics "How does it end? Exploring thrust terminations of an intra-continental strike-slip fault, north Tibet"
2019 USGS STATEMAP 2019 Tent Mountain 7.5’ quadrangle
2018 NSF Tectonics "Using structural fabrics and thermochronology to document extensional footwall rotation...Searchlight pluton"
2018 USGS NEHRP 2018 Investigating Unrecognized Earthquake Faults in the Carson Domain, Walker Lane
2018 USGS STATEMAP 2018 South half of Independence Valley NW 7.5' quadrangle
2018 USGS EDMAP Last Chance Range for student Drew Levy
2017 USGS STATEMAP 2017 Independence Valley NW 7.5’ quadrangle
2017 UNR NSEG: “What Can a Tilted Pluton Tell Us about Basin and Range Extension?”
2017 Structural Mapping around Wells, NV; Implications for Geothermal Exploration (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
2016 USGS STATEMAP 2016 North half of Independence Valley NE 7.5’ quadrangle
2015 Dissertation Year Fellowship (UCLA)
2014 Office of Instructional Development Mini-Grant (UCLA)
2014 Graduate Division (AGEP) Professional Development Award (UCLA)
2013 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes China Fellow (NSF)
2013 Office of Instructional Development Mini-Grant (UCLA)
2011 Chancellor’s Prize (UCLA)
2011 Chester Buchanan Memorial Award (Cornell)
2011 Academic Excellence Award in the Science of Earth Systems major (Cornell)
2010 Engineering Learning Initiatives (Cornell)
2010 Keck-ExxonMobil Enhanced grant (Keck)
2010 Keck Geology Undergraduate Research (Keck)
MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS
Nevada Petroleum and Geothermal Society
Geological Society of Nevada
Geological Society of America
American Geophysical Union
PUBLICATIONS
Please visit my Google Scholar page for a more up-to-date list.
Published papers
- Cheng, F., Zuza, A. V., Jolivet, M., Mulch, A., Meijer, N., and Guo, Z., in press, Linking source and sink: The timing of deposition of Paleogene syntectonic strata in Centra Asia: Geology.
- &Li, B., Qi, B., Chen, X., Zuza, A. V., Hu, D., Sun, Y., Wang, Z., and Zhang, Y., in press, Two-phase kinematic evolution of the Qilian Shan, northern Tibetan Plateau: Initial Eocene-Oligocene deformation that accelerated in the mid-Miocene: GSA Bulletin.
- Liu, K., Chen, X., Shao, Z., Zuza, A. V., Qin, X., Han, L., Yu, W., Wang, Z., Shi, X., &Li, B., and Wang, Y., 2023, Late Mesozoic intracontinental contraction‒extension transition in the Beishan fold-thrust belt, central Asia: Constraints from structural analysis and apatite (U‒Th)/He thermochronology: Tectonics, v. 42, no. 7.
- Xu, X., Zuza, A. V., Yin, A., Yu, P., Chen, Z., Zhao, C., Wang, B., Chen, H., Lin, X., Wu, L., Kuang, X., Tian, H., Yin, Q., and Yang, S., 2023, Lower crustal rheology controls strain partitioning and mode of intracontinental deformation: Tectonics, in press.
- Wu, C., Zuza, A. V., &Levy, D. A., Li, J., and Ding, L., 2023, Discovery of Permian-Triassic eclogite in North Tibet establishes coeval subduction erosion along ~3000-km-long arc: Geology.
- Zuza, A. V., and Dee, S., 2023, Decoupled Oligocene mylonitic shearing and Miocene detachment faulting in the East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex, northeast NV: Geosphere, in press.
- Li, J., Li, X., Wu, C., Wu, H., Haproff, P. J., and Zuza, A. V., 2023, Geochronology and geochemistry of the Cryogenian sedimentary rocks and Early Paleozoic mafic dykes of the South Qinling belt: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the northwestern South China craton: Lithos, v. 444-445.
- &Levy, D. A., Zuza, A. V., Michels, Z., and DesOrmeau, J. W., 2023, Buoyant doming generates metamorphic core complexes in the North American Cordillera: Geology, in press, v., no. 3, p. 290-294.
- Zuza, A. V., and Cao, W., 2023, Metamorphic Core Complex Dichotomy in the North American Cordillera Explained by Buoyant Upwelling in Variably Thick Crust: GSA Today, in press.
- Haproff, P. J., &Levy, D. A., Zuza, A. V., Hooker, J., Heizler, M. T., and Stockli, D., 2023, Cenozoic kinematic history of the Tidding and Lohit thrusts in the northern Indo-Burma Ranges: Implications for crustal thickening and exhumation of Gangdese lower arc crust along the India-Asia suture zone: Geological Society of American Bulletin, in press.
- Wang, Y., &Li, B., Zuza, A. V., Chen, X., Shao, Z., Wang, Z., Sun, Y., and Wu, X., 2023, Cenozoic deformation in the eastern domain of the North Qaidam thrust belt, northern Tibetan Plateau: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 135, no. 1-2, p. 331-350.
- Zhang Y., Chen, X., Zuza A. V., Zhang, J., Zhang, B., Zhao, H., Xu, S., and Shao, Z., 2022, Testing the Cenozoic lower crustal flow beneath the Qinling Orogen, northeast Tibetan Plateau: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 165.
- Wu, C., Wang, G., Zhou, Z., Haproff, P. J., Zuza, A. V., and Liu, W., 2022, Paleoproterozoic Plate Tectonics Recorded in the Northern Margin Orogen, North China Craton: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v. 23, no. 11.
- Li, J., Wu, C., Chen, X., Yin, A., Zuza, A. V., Haproff, P. J., Chen, Y., Wang, L., and Shao, Z., in press, Tectonic Setting of Metamorphism and Exhumation of Eclogite-Facies Rocks in the South Beishan Orogen, Northwestern China: Geosphere.
- Xu, X., Chen, H., Zuza, A. V., Yin, A., Yu, P., Lin, X., Zhao, C., Luo, J., Wang, B., and Yang, S., 2023, Phanerozoic cratonization by plume welding: Geology, in press.
- Zuza, A. V., Cao, W., &Rodriguez, A., DesOrmeau, J. W., and Odlum, M., 2022, Strain localization at brittle-ductile transition depths during Miocene magmatism and exhumation in the southern Basin and Range: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 163.
- Zuza, A. V., &Levy, D. A., Dee, S., DesOrmeau, J. W., &Cheng, F., and Li, X., 2022, Structural architecture and attenuation of the ductile lower plate of the Ruby Mountain-East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex, northeast Nevada: Tectonics, v. 41, no. 8.
- Yan, Z., Chen, L., Zuza, A. V., Tang, J., Wan, B., and Meng, Q., 2022, The fate of oceanic plateaus: subduction versus accretion: Geophysical Journal International, v. 231, no. 2.
- Zhang, Y., Chen, X., Shao, Z., Zhang, J., Zuza, A. V., &Li, B., and Wang, Z., 2022, Ocean–continent transition of the northeastern Paleotethys during the Triassic: Constraints from Triassic sedimentary successions across the Qinling Orogen, central China: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v 232.
- Liu, Y., Liu, S., Zhao, W., Xia, C., Wu, M., Wang, Q., Wang, Z., Jiang, Y., Zuza, A. V., and Tian, X., 2022, Assessment of heavy metals should be performed before the development of the selenium-rich soil: A case study in China: Environmental Research, v. 210.
- Bian, S., Gong, J., Zuza, A. V., Yang, R., Chen, L., Ji, J., Yu, X., Tian, Y., Yu, Z., Cheng, X., Lin, X., and Chen, H., 2022, Along-strike variation in the initiation timing of the north-trending rifts in southern Tibet as revealed from the Yadong-Gulu rift: Tectonics, v. 41, no. 7.
- Li, J., Wu, C., Chen, X., Zuza, A. V., Haproff, P. J., Yin, A., and Shao, Z., 2022, Tectonic evolution of the Beishan orogen of central Asia: Subduction, accretion, and continent-continent collision during the evolution of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: Geological Society of America Bulletin, in press.
- Sun, C., Li, Z., Zuza, A. V., Zheng, W., Jia, D., He, Z., Hui, G., and Yang, S., 2022, Controls of mantle subduction on crustal-level architecture of intraplate orogens, insights from sandbox modeling: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 584.
- Wu, C., Li, J., Zuza, A. V., Haproff, P. J., Yin, A., and Ding, L., 2022, Paleoproterozoic-Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Longshou Shan, western North China craton: Geosphere, v. 18, no. 3.
- Jolivet, M., &Cheng, F., Zuza, A. V., Guo, Z., Dauteuil, O., 2022, Large-scale topography of the North Tibetan ranges as a proxy to contrasted crustal-scale deformation modes: Journal of the Geological Society, v. 179, no. 4.
- Wu, C., Li, J., Zuza, A. V., Haproff, P. J., Chen, X., and Ding, L., 2022, Proterozoic-Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of the Qilian Shan and Eastern Kunlun Range, northern Tibet: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 134, no. 9-10, p. 2179-2205.
- Wang, Y., Chen, X., Zhang, Y., Yin, Z., Zuza, A. V., Yin, A., Wang, Y., Ding, W., Xu, S., Zhang, Y., &Li, B., and Shao, Z., 2022, Superposition of Cretaceous and Cenozoic deformation in northern Tibet: A far-field response to the tectonic evolution of the Tethyan Orogenic System: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 134, no. 1-2, p. 501-525, doi.org/10.1130/B35944.1.
- Zuza, A, V., &Levy, D. A., and Mulligan, S., 2022, Geologic field evidence for overpressure recorded in the North American Cordillera hinterland, northeast Nevada: Geoscience Frontiers, doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2020.10.006.
- Xu, X., Zuza, A. V., Chen, L., Yin, A., Zhu, W., Fu, X., Gao, S., Xu, X., Kuang, X., Zhang, F., Wu, L., Lin, X., Chen, H., and Yang, S., 2021, Late Mesozoic to Early Cenozoic extension in the Lower Yangtze region (eastern China) driven by Izanagi-Pacific plate subduction: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 221.
- &Say, M, and Zuza, A. V., 2021, Heterogenous Late Miocene extension in the northern Walker Lane demonstrates vertically decoupled crustal extension: Geosphere, v. 17, no. 6, p. 1762-1785, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02409.1.
- Zuza, A. V., Henry, C. D., Dee, S., Thorman, C. H., and Heizler, M. T., 2021, Jurassic–Cenozoic tectonics of the Pequop Mountains, NE Nevada, in the North American Cordillera hinterland: Geosphere, v. 17, no. 6, p. 2078-2122, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02307.1.
- Wu, C., Zuza, A. V., Li, J., Haproff, P. J., Yin, A., Chen, X., Ding, L., and &Li, B., 2021, Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic cooling history of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and its foreland derived from the low-temperature thermochronology: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 133, no. 11-12, p. 2393-2417, doi.org/10.1130/B35879.1.
- Chen, X., Dong, S., Shi, W., Zuza, A. V., Li, Z., Chen, P., Liu, J., Hu, J., and Han, B., 2021, Magnetostratigraphic ages of the Cenozoic Weihe and Shanxi Grabens in North China and their tectonic implications: Tectonophysics, v. 813, doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228914.
- Li, X., Xu, G., Wu, C., Yin, A., Wu, S., Zuza, A. V., Cheng, G., Li, Z., Xu, S., and Li, Y., 2021, Pure Void Space and Fracture Pore Space in Fault Fractured Zones: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 9, doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.683439.
- Wang, B., Gong, J., Zuza, A. V., Liu, R., Bian, S., Tian, Y., Yang, X., Zhang, D., and Chen, H., 2021, Aeolian sand dunes alongside the Yarlung River in southern Tibet: A provenance perspective: Geological Journal, v. 56, no. 5, p. 2625-2636, doi.org/10.1002/gj.4058.
- Wang, L., &Cheng, F., Zuza, A. V., Jolivet, M., Liu, Y., Guo, Z., Li, X., and Zhang, C., 2021, Diachronous growth of the northern Tibetan plateau derived from flexural modeling: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 48, no. 8, doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092346.
- &Cheng, F., Zuza, A. V., Haproff, P. J., Wu, C., Neudorf, C., Chang, H., Li, X., and &Li, B., 2021, Accommodation of India-Asia convergence via strike-slip faulting and block rotation in the Qilian Shan fold-thrust belt, northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: The Journal of the Geological Society, v. 178, doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-207.
- Wu, C., Zuza, A. V., Yin, A., Chen, X., Haproff, P. J., Li, J., &Li, B., and Ding, L., 2021, Punctuated orogeny during the assembly of Asia: Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the North China craton and the Qilian Shan from Paleoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic: Tectonics, v. 40, no. 4, doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006503.
- &Li, B., Zuza, A. V., Chen, X., Wang, Z. Z., Shao, Z., &Levy, D. A., Wu, C., Xu, S., and Sun, Y., 2021, Pre-Cenozoic evolution of the northern Qilian Orogen from zircon geochronology: Framework for early growth of the northern Tibetan Plateau: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 562, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110091.
- Liu, Y., Tian, X., Liu, R., Liu, S., and Zuza, A. V., 2021, Key driving factors of selenium-enriched soil in the low-Se geological belt: A case study in Red Beds of Sichuan Basin, China: Catena, v. 196, doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2020.104926.
- &Levy, D. A., Zuza, A. V., Haproff, P. J., and Odlum, M., 2021, Early Permian tectonic evolution of the Last Chance thrust system: An example of induced subduction initiation along a plate boundary transform: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 133, no. 5-6, p. 1105-1127, doi.org/10.1130/B35752.1.
- Xu, X., Zuza, A. V., Yin, A., Lin, X., Chen, H., and Yang, S., 2021, Permian plume-strengthened Tarim lithosphere controls the Cenozoic deformation pattern of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen: Geology, v. 49, no. 1, p. 96-100, doi.org/10.1130/G47961.1.
- Zuza, A. V., Gavillot, Y., Haproff, P. J., and Wu, C., 2020, Kinematic evolution of a continental collision: Constraining the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen via bulk strain rates. Tectonophysics, v. 797, doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228642.
- Wu, C., Li, J., Zuza, A. V., Liu, C., Liu, W., Chen, X., Jiang, T., and &Li, B., 2020, Cenozoic cooling history and fluvial terrace development of the western domain of the Eastern Kunlun Range, northern Tibet: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 560, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109971.
- Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., Chen, X., Zuza, A. V., Zhang, B., and Zhao, H., 2020, Sedimentary Paleaoenvironment of the eastern Hexi Corridor, NW China: Constraints from the chert geochemistry and sedimentary analysis of early Paleozoic strata: Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) v. 94, no. 4, p. 1223-1237, doi.org/10.1111/1755-6724.14569.
- Haproff, P. J., Odlum, M., Zuza, A. V., Yin, A., and Stockli, D. F., 2020, Structural and Thermochronologic Constraints on the Cenozoic Tectonic Development of the Northern Indo-Burma Ranges: Tectonics, v. 39, no. 9, doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006231.
- Bian, S., Gong, J., Zuza, A. V., Yang, R., Tian, Y., Ji, J., Chen, H., Xu, Q., Chen, L., Lin, X., Cheng, X., Tu, J., and Yu, X., 2020, Late Pliocene onset of the Cona rift, eastern Himalaya, confirms eastward propagation of extension in Himalayan-Tibetan orogen: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 544, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116383.
- Cao, W., &Yang, J., Zuza, A. V., Ji, W., Ma, X., Chu, X., and &Burgess, Q. P., 2020, Crustal tilting and differential exhumation of Gangdese Batholith in southern Tibet revealed by bedrock pressure: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 543, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116347.
- &Say, M., and Zuza, A. V., 2020, Late Miocene Transition between Basin and Range Extension and Walker Lane Tectonics, Northern Pine Nut Mountains, Nevada: New Insights from Geologic Mapping and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology: Geological Society of Nevada 2020 Proceedings.
- Zuza, A. V., and Cao, W., 2020, Seismogenic thickness of California: implications for thermal structure and seismic hazard: Tectonophysics, v. 782-783, doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228426.
- &Li, B., Zuza, A. V., Chen, X., Hu, D., Shao, Z., Qi, B., Wang, Z., &Levy, D. A., and Xiong, X., 2020, Cenozoic multi-phase deformation in the Qilian Shan and out-of-sequence development of the northern Tibetan Plateau: Tectonophysics, v. 782-783, doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228423.
- Zuza, A. V., Thorman, C. H., Henry, C. D., &Levy, D. A., Dee, S., Long, S. P., Sandberg, C. A., and Soignard, E., 2020, Pulsed Mesozoic deformation in the Cordilleran hinterland and evolution of the Nevadaplano: Insights from the Pequop Mountains, NE Nevada: Lithosphere, v. 1, doi.org/10.2113/2020/8850336.
- Bian, S., Gong, J., Chen, L., Zuza, A. V., Chen, H., Lin, X., Cheng, X., and Yang, R., 2020, Diachronous uplift in intra-continental orogeny: 2D thermo-mechanical modeling of the India-Asia collision: Tectonophysics, v. 775, doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228310.
- Wu, C., Liu, C., Fan, S., Zuza, A. V., Ding, L., Liu, W., Ye, B., Yang, S., and Zhou, Z., 2020, Structural analysis and tectonic evolution of the western domain of the Eastern Kunlun Range, northwest Tibet: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 132, no. 5-6, p. 1291-1315, doi.org/10.1130/B35388.1.
- Zuza, A. V., Cao, W., Hinz, N. H., DesOrmeau, J. W., Odlum, M., and Stockli, D. F., 2019, Footwall rotation in a regional detachment fault system: Evidence for horizontal‐axis rotational flow in the Miocene Searchlight pluton, NV: Tectonics, v. 8, no. 7, p. 2506-2539, doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005513.
- Cao, W., Lee, C.T., &Yang, J., and Zuza, A. V., 2019, Hydrothermal circulation cools continental crust under exhumation: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 515, p. 248-259, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.03.029.
- Wu, C., Zuza, A. V., Chen, X., Ding, L., &Levy, D. A., Liu, C., Liu, W., Jiang, T., and Stockli, D. F., 2019, Tectonics of the Eastern Kunlun Range: Cenozoic reactivation of a Paleozoic-early Mesozoic orogen: Tectonics, v. 38, no. 5, p. 1609-1650, doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005370.
- Wu, C., Zuza, A. V., Zhou, Z., Yin, A., McRivette, M., Chen, X., Ding, L., and Geng, J., 2019, Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the Eastern Kunlun Range, central Tibet, and implications for basin evolution within the Indo-Asian collision: Lithosphere, v. 11, no. 4, p. 524-550, doi.org/10.1130/L1065.1.
- Haproff, P. J., Zuza, A. V., Yin, A., Harrison, T. M., Manning, C. M., Ding, L., Wu, C., Chen, J., and Dubey, C. S., 2019, Geologic framework of the northern Indo-Burma Ranges and lateral correlation of Himalayan-Tibetan lithologic units across the eastern Himalayan syntaxis: Geosphere, v. 15, no. 3, p. 856-881, 1, doi.org/10.1130/GES02054.1.
- &Li, B., Chen, X., Zuza, A. V., Hu, D., Huang, P., and Xu, S., 2019, Cenozoic cooling history of the North Qilian Shan, northern Tibetan Plateau, and middle Miocene initiation of the Haiyuan fault: Constraints from apatite- and zircon-fission track thermochronology: Tectonophysics, v. 751, p. 109-124, doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2018.12.005.
- Zuza, A. V., Wu, C., Wang, Z., &Levy, D. A., &Li, B., Xiong, X., and Chen, X, 2019, Underthrusting and duplexing beneath the northern Tibetan Plateau and the evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen: Lithosphere, v. 11, no. 2, p. 209-231, doi.org/10.1130/L1042.1.
- Wu, C., Zhou, Z., Zuza, A. V., Wang, G., Liu, C., and Jiang, T., 2018, A 1.9‐Ga Mélange Along the Northern Margin of the North China Craton: Implications for the Assembly of Columbia Supercontinent: Tectonics, 37, no. 10, p 3610-3646, doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005103.
- Tian, X., Luo, K., and Zuza, A. V., 2017, The Trace Element Distribution Patterns of Ediacaran‐Early Cambrian Black Shales and the Origin of Selenium in the Guangning Area, Western Guangdong Province, South China: Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), v. 91, no. 6, p. 1978-1991, doi.org/10.1111/1755-6724.13445.
- Zuza, A. V., and Carlson, C. W., 2018, What can strike-slip fault spacing tell us about the plate boundary of western North America?: Terra Nova, v. 30, p. 105-113, doi.org/10.1111/ter.12315.
- Haproff, P. J., Zuza, A. V., and Yin, A., 2018, West-directed thrusting south of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis indicates clockwise crustal flow at the indenter corner during the India-Asia collision: Tectonophysics, v. 277, p. 277-285, doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.11.001.
- Zuza, A. V., Wu. C., Reith R. C., Yin, A., Li, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Wu, L., and Liu, W., 2018, Tectonic evolution of the Qilian Shan: A Paleozoic orogen reactivated in the Cenozoic: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 130, no. 5-6, p. 881-925, doi.org/10.1130/B31721.1.
- Zuza, A. V., and Yin, A., 2017, Balkatach hypothesis: A new model for the evolution of the Pacific, Tethyan, and Paleo-Asian oceanic domains: Geosphere, v. 13, no. 5, p. 1664-1712, doi.org/10.1130/GES01463.1.
- Wu, C., Zuza, A. V., Yin, A., Liu, C., Reith, R. C., Zhang, J., Liu, W., and Zhou, Z., 2017, Geochronology and geochemistry of Neoproterozoic granitoids in the central Qilian Shan of northern Tibet: Reconstructing the Amalgamation Processes and Tectonic History of Asia: Lithosphere, v. 9, no. 4, p. 609-636, doi.org/10.1130/L640.1.
- Wu, C., Wang, B., Zhou, Z., Wang, G., Zuza, A. V., Liu, C., Jiang, T., Liu, W., and Ma, S., 2017, The relationship between magma and mineralization in Chaobuleng iron polymetallic deposit, Inner Mongolia: Gondwana Research, v. 45, p. 228-253, doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2017.02.006.
- Zuza, A. V., Yin, A., Lin, J., Sun, M., 2017, Spacing and strength of active continental strike-slip faults: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 457, p. 49-62, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.041.
- Zuza, A. V., Yin, A., 2016, Continental deformation accommodated by non-rigid passive bookshelf faulting: An example from the Cenozoic tectonic development of northern Tibet: Tectonophysics, v. 677-678, p. 227-240, doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.04.007.
- Zuza, A. V., Cheng, X., Yin, A., 2016, Testing models of Tibetan Plateau formation with Cenozoic shortening estimates across the Qilian Shan-Nan Shan thrust belt: Geosphere, v. 12, no. 2, p. 501-532, doi.org/10.1130/GES01254.1.
- Yin, A., Zuza, A. V., Pappalardo, R. T., 2016, Mechanics of evenly spaced strike-slip faults and its implications for the formation of tiger-stripe fractures on Saturn's moon Enceladus: Icarus, v. 266, p. 204-216, doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2015.10.027.
- Wu, C., Yin, A., Zuza, A. V., Zhang, J., Liu, W., Ding, L., 2016, Pre-Cenozoic Geologic History of the Central and Northern Tibetan Plateau and the Role of Wilson Cycles in Constructing the Tethyan Orogenic System: Lithosphere, v. 8, no. 3, p. 254-292, doi.org/10.1130/L494.1.
- Gao, R., Wang, H., Yin, A., Kang, Z., Zuza, A. V., Li, W., Xiong, X., 2013, Tectonic Development of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau as constrained by high-resolution deep seismic-reflection data: Lithosphere, v. 5, no. 6, p. 555-574, doi.org/10.1130/L293.1.
Non-peer reviewed works: extended abstracts, theses, reports, fieldtrip guides, and maps
- Zuza, A. V., Darin, M. H., and Dee, S., 2022, Geologic map of the southern half of the McCullough Mountain quadrangle, Clark County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report, scale 1:24,000.
- Darin, M. H., Zuza, A. V., Dee, S., and Johnson, R., 2022, Geologic map of the Nevada section of the Desert quadrangle and adjacent portion of the northern half of the McCullough Mountain quadrangle, Clark County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report, scale 1:24,000.
- Zuza, A. V., Dee, S., Hurlow, H. A., Snoke, A. W., and Laabs, B. J. C., 2021, Geologic map of the Tent Mountain quadrangle, Elko County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 21, scale 1:24,000.
Zuza, A. V., Dee, S., and Laabs, B. J. C., 2020, Geologic map of the north half of the Tent Mountain quadrangle, Elko County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 20-3, scale 1:24,000. - Thorman, C. H., Sandberg, C. A., Henry, C. D., Zuza, A. V., and Ressel M. W., 2020, The Late Middle Jurassic Elko Orogeny—An Update: Geological Society of Nevada 2020 Symposium: Vision for Discovery, p. 1403-1407.
- Zuza, A. V., and Say, M. C., 2019, Investigating unrecognized earthquake faults in the Carson Domain, Walker Lane: USGS Final Technical Report, 34 p.
- Zuza, A. V., Dee, S., Henry, C.D., Ressel, M.W., and Thorman, C.H., 2019, Geologic map of the Independence Valley NW quadrangle, Elko County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 19-3, scale 1:24,000, 18 p.
- dePolo, C. M., Henry, C. D., Zuza, A. V., Micander, R., and Faulds, J. E., 2018, Sparkling or still? A tour of geology from Soda Lakes to Stillwater Marsh, Nevada (Guide for the Earth Science Week Field Trip, October 13, 2018): Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Educational Series 63, 25 p.
- Zuza, A. V., Henry, C. D., Ressel, M. W., Thorman, C. H., Dee, S., and Blackmon, J. E., 2018, Preliminary geologic map of the Independence Valley NE quadrangle, Elko County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open File Report 18-4, scale 1:24,000, 12 p.
- Spycher, N., McKoy, M. L., Ayling, B., Bill, M., Bosshardt, K., Cameron, E., Creason, C. G., DiGiulio, J., Dobson, P., Justman, D., Hammack, R., McKoy, M., Miller, R., Mark-Moser, M., Rackley, I., Rose, K., Siler, D., Supp, J., Veloski, G., Zehner, R., and Zuza, A. (alphabetical listing after McKoy), 2018, Small Business Vouchers Pilot: Technical Assistance from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and National Energy Technology Laboratory to Elko Heat Company and the City of Wells, Nevada: NETL Technical Report Series, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, 196 p.
- Spycher, N., Zehner, R. E., Zuza, A. V., Bill, M., Ayling, B., Hammack, R., Veloski, G., McKoy, M., Cameron, E., Creason, C. G., DiGiulio, J., Dobson, P., Justman, D., Miller, R., Mark-Moser, M., Rose, K., Siler, D., Rackley, I., Supp, J., and Bosshardt, K., 2018, Geothermal Exploration in the Vicinity of Wells, Nevada: Proceedings of the 43rd Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering.
- Dee, S., Henry, C. D., Ressel, M., and Zuza, A. V., 2017, Preliminary geologic map of the north half of the Independence Valley NW quadrangle and the adjacent part of the Independence Valley NE quadrangle, Elko County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open File Report 17-6, scale 1:24,000, 4 p.
- Koehler, R. D., Zuza, A. V., Faulds, J. E., 2016, A River Runs Through It—Geology along the Truckee River Valley from Reno to Pyramid Lake: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Education Series Fieldtrip Guide, E-59, 19 pp.
- Zuza, A. V., 2016, Tectonic Evolution of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau [Ph.D. Dissertation]: University of California, Los Angeles, 521 pp.
- Zuza, A. V., 2011, Late Cenozoic Volcanism in the Hövsgöl Rift Basin: Source, Genesis, and Evolution of Intraplate Volcanism in Mongolia [B.S. Honor Thesis]: Cornell University, 31 pp.
- Zuza, A., Bat-Erdence, A., 2011, Late Cenozoic Volcanism in the Hövsgöl Rift Basin: Source, Genesis, and Evolution of Intraplate Volcanism in Mongolia, in Keck Geology Consortium Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology, edited by Varga, R. J., p. 272-280.