Alison Duvall
  Assistant Professor
  Office: JHN 343
     ESS Mailing Address
  Phone: 206.221.8311
  Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
  Email: aduvall @ uw.edu
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  Research Groups: Geomorphology ; StructuralGeology, Tectonics, and Geodynamics

Areas of Interest:
Tectonics, Geomorphology, Landscape Evolution, and Applied Geosciences

Education:
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2011 M.S. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003B.S. summa cum laude, Virginia Tech, 2000

Current Research Interests:
My research focuses on crustal deformation and accompanying landscape evolutionand considers the role of each in orogenic development. I address these topics witha combined field (geologic/geomorphic mapping and surveying of landforms),laboratory (low-temperature thermochronometry and geochronology of bedrockand detrital minerals), and modeling approach. Numerical modeling done inconjunction with field-based studies enhances my ability to explore changes insurface form and/or geomorphic process as the landscape evolves in response totectonic forcing and to make meaningful geological interpretations from field data invery complex systems.

Selected Publications:

Duvall, Alison R, Clark, Marin K., Avdeev, Boris, Farley, Kenneth A., andChen, Zhengwei, 2012, Widespread Late Cenozoic increase in erosion ratesacross the interior of eastern Tibet constrained by detrital low-temperaturethermochronometry: Tectonics, 31, doi:10.1029/2011TC002969.Duvall, Alison R., Clark, Marin K., van der Pluijm, B.A., and Li, Chuanyou, 2011,Eocene onset of reverse faulting in northeastern Tibet constrained by Ar-dating offault clays and low-temperature thermochronometry: Earth and Planetary ScienceLetters, 304, p. 520-526.Duvall, Alison R., and Clark, Marin K., 2010, Dissipation of fast strike-slip faultingwithin and beyond northeastern Tibet: Geology, 38, doi:10.1130G30711.1.Clark, Marin K., Farley, Ken A., Zheng, D., Wang, Z., and Duvall, Alison R., 2010, EarlyCenozoic faulting of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin from apatite (U-Th)/Heages: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 296, p. 78 - 88.Duvall, A.R., Kirby, E., and Burbank, D.W., 2004, Tectonic and lithologic controls onbedrock channel profiles and processes in coastal California, J. of Geophys. Res., 109,F03002, doi: 10.1029/2003/2003JF0008b.