Schoenbohm, Lindsay
Contact Information
3359 Mississauga Road North
Mississauga, Ontario
L5L 1C6
Research
Lindsay Schoenbohm and her research team address questions in the rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field of climate-tectonic interactions such as
(1) is it possible that surficial processes such as glacial and fluvial erosion, can collectively, or even individually, dictate the rate and spatial pattern of rock deformation?;
(2) how do continental plateaus grow? What is the role of climate in initiating, enlarging and sustaining plateaus?; and
(3) how does the landscape reflect tectonic deformation? Conversely, how do we read the landscape to quantify the rates and patterns of deformation?
The primary tool her group uses for this work is structural and geomorphic field-based mapping. Her team also dates geomorphic surfaces and determines spatially averaged erosion rates using cosmogenic nuclides, and works with digital elevation data and satellite imagery for landscape analysis. Research is focused primarily in Argentina and China around the margins of the two largest continental plateaus because of the extreme gradients in both climate and tectonic processes which operate there.
Publications
Schoenbohm, L., Continental-scale tectonic geomorphology: Continental-continental collision zone, in Treatise on Geomorphology volume 5, ed. Lewis Owen, accepted for publication.
Bershaw, J., Garzione, C., Schoenbohm, L., Gehrels, G., and Li, T., 2011, Cenozoic evolution of the Pamir plateau based on stratigraphy, zircon provenance, and stable isotopes of foreland basin sediments at Oytag (Wuyitake): Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: accepted for publication.
Sobel, E.R., Schoenbohm, L., Chen, J., Thiede, R., Stockli,, D., Sudo, M., and Strecker, M.R., 2011, Late Miocene - Pliocene deceleration of dextral slip between Pamir and Tarim: Implications for Pamir orogenesis: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 304, p. 369-378.
Carrapa, B., Hauer, J., Schoenbohm, L., Strecker, M.R., Schmitt, A.K., Villanueva, A., and Sosa Gomez, J., 2010, Dynamics of deformation and sedimentation in the northern Sierras Pampeanas: An integrated study of the Neogene Fiambalá basin, NW Argentina: Reply: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 122, p. 950-953.
Bywater-Reyes, S., Carrapa, B., Clementz, M. and Schoenbohm, L., 2010, Effect of late Cenozoic aridification on sedimentation in the Eastern Cordillera of northwest Argentina (Angastaco basin): Geology: v. 38, p. 235-238.
Drew, S., Ducea, M., and Schoenbohm, L., 2009, Relationship between recent volcanism and Famatinian arc magmatism in Northwest Argentina: Implications for lithospheric composition and evolution beneath the central Andean volcanic zone: Lithosphere, v. 1, p. 305-318.
Schoenbohm, L., and Strecker, M., 2009, Normal faulting along the southern margin of the Puna Plateau, northwest Argentina: Tectonics, v. 28, doi:10.1029/2008TC002341.
Strecker, M., Alonso, R., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Hain, M.P., Hilley, G.E., Mortimer, E., Schoenbohm, L., and Sobel, E.R., 2009, Does the topographic distribution of the central Andean Puna Plateau result from climatic or geodynamic processes?: Geology, v. 37, p. 643-646.
Seong, Y.B., Owen, L.A., Yi, C., Finkel, R.C. and Schoenbohm, L., 2009, Geomorphology of anomalously high glaciated mountains at the northwestern end of Tibet: Muztag Ata and Kongur Shan. Geomorphology, v. 103, p. 227-250.
Carrapa, B., Hauer, J., Schoenbohm, L., 2008, Strecker, M.R., Schmitt, A.K., Villanueva, A. and Sosa-Gomez, Neogene evolution of the Fiambalá Basin (NW Argentina): Implications for timing and pattern of deformation and sedimentation in the northern Sierra Pampeanas. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 120, p. 1518-1543, doi: 10.1130/B26111.1.
Mortimer, E., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Schoenbohm, L., Sobel, E., Sosa-Gomez, J., and Strecker, M., 2007, Fragmentation of a foreland basin in response to out-of-sequence basement uplifts and structural reactivation: El Cajón?Campo del Arenal basin, NW Argentina: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 119, p. 637-640.
Schoenbohm, L., Burchfiel, B.C., and Chen, L., 2006, Propagation of surface uplift, lower crustal flow, and Cenozoic tectonics of the southeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Geology, v. 34, p. 813-816.
Schoenbohm, L., Burchfiel, B.C., Chen, L., and Yin, J., 2006, Miocene to present activity along the Red River fault, China, in the context of continental extrusion, upper crustal rotation and lower crustal flow: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, p. 672-688; doi: 10.1130/B25816.1.
Alonso, R., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Haschke, M., Hilley, G., Schoenbohm, L., Sobel, E., Strecker, M., Trauth, M., Villanueva, A., 2006, Tectonics, climate and landscape evolution of the Southern Central Andes: The Argentine Puna Plateau and adjacent regions between 22 and 30º Slat: in Oncken, O., Chong, G., Franz, G., Giese, P. Gotze, H.-J., Ramos, V., Strecker, M., Wigger, P., eds., The Andes ? Active Subduction Orogeny: Frontiers in Earth Sciences, Vol. 1, Springer, p. 265-283.
Schoenbohm, L., Burchfiel, B.C., Chen, L., and Yin, J., 2005, Transpressional exhumation of the Ailao Shan shear zone as recorded by Cenozoic sedimentary rocks, Yunnan Province, China: Tectonics, v. 24, TC6015, doi:10.1029/2005TC001803.
Schoenbohm, L., Whipple, K., Burchfiel, B.C., 2004, River incision into a Relict Landscape along the Ailao Shan shear zone and Red River fault in Yunnan Province, China: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, p. 895-909.
Clark, M.K., Schoenbohm, L.M., Royden, L.H., Whipple, K.X., Burchfiel, B.C., Zhang X., Tang W., Wang E. and Chen L., 2004, Surface uplift, tectonics and erosion of eastern Tibet from large-scale drainage patterns: Tectonics, v. 23, TC1006, doi:10.1029/2002TC001402.