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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Eichelberger, N., A.G. Nunns, N.D. Perez, S. Ball, D.J. Claroni, D. He, 2018, Incorporating simple erosion into structural forward models: The effects of regional erosion on growth strata geometry, Journal of Structural Geology, v. 116, pp. 146 – 158, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2018.08.011

Eichelberger, N., A.G. Nunns, R.H. Groshong Jr., A.N. Hughes, 2017, Direct estimation of fault trajectory from structural relief, AAPG Bulletin, v. 101, no. 5, pp. 635 – 653. doi: 10.1306/08231616065

Garzione, C.N., N. McQuarrie, N.D. Perez, T.A. Ehlers, S.L. Beck, N. Kar, N. Eichelberger, A.D. Chapman, K.M. Ward, M.N. Ducea, R.O. Lease, C.J. Poulsen, L.S. Wagner, J.E. Saylor, G. Zandt, B.K. Horton, 2017, Tectonic evolution of the central Andean plateau and implications for the growth of plateaus, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 45, p. 529 – 559, doi: 10.1146/annurev-earth-063016-020612

Eichelberger, N., A.N Hughes, A.G. Nunns, 2015, Combining multiple quantitative structural analysis techniques to create robust structural interpretations, Interpretation, v. 3, SAA89-SAA104, doi: 10.1190/INT-2015-0016.1

Eichelberger, N., N. McQuarrie, B. Karimi, J.C. Ryan, S.L. Beck, and G. Zandt, 2015, Evolution of crustal thickening and mass balance at the Bolivian central Andes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.035

Eichelberger, N. and N. McQuarrie, 2015, Kinematic reconstruction of the Bolivian orocline, Geosphere, v. 11, no. 2, p. 445-462, doi: 10.1130/GES01064.1

Eichelberger, N. and N. McQuarrie, 2014, 3-D finite strain at the central Andean orocline and implications for strain accommodation in orogens, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi: 10.1130/B30968.1

Eichelberger, N., N. McQuarrie, T.A. Ehlers, E. Enkelmann, J.B. Barnes, R.O. Lease, 2013, New constraints on the chronology, magnitude, and distribution of deformation within the central Andean orocline, Tectonics, v. 32, doi: 10.1002/tect.20073

Conference Presentations

K. Shoaib, N. Eichelberger, S. M. Tobias, Z. Zafar, S. D. Burley, 2020, New Plays in the Himalayan Foreland Revealed by Kinematic Forward Modeling and Structural Restoration: An Example from the Ratana Field, Potwar Plateau, Northern Pakistan, Oral presentation at 2020 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Virtual.

Eichelberger, N., A.G. Nunns, N.D. Perez, S. Ball, D. He, 2019, Restoring seismic images based on structural forward models to reveal the interplay between faulting, erosion, and fluvial processes at a basin-bounding growth fault in the Bohai Bay, China, Oral presentation at 2019 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas.

Eichelberger, N., I. McGregor, A.G. Nunns, S. Ball, D.J. Claroni, R. Liu, 2018, Incorporating erosion into structural forward models: Reconstructing burial and deformational histories from angular unconformities in growth strata, Oral presentation at 2018 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah.


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A.G Nunns, C. O’Reilly, R. Dirkx, I. Yarbuh, D. Bate, 2017, Quantitative structural analysis of newly acquired data from the Mexican Ridges Fold Belt, Western Gulf of Mexico, Oral presentation at 2017 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, Texas.

Eichelberger, N., A. Hughes, and A. Nunns, 2014, Combining multiple quantitative structural analysis techniques to create robust structural interpretations, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 46. No. 6, p.536

Eichelberger, N. and C. Guzofski, 2014, Deepwater Angolan toe-thrust kinematics and structural styles, Oral presentation at 2014 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, 6–9 April. 

Eichelberger, N., B. Karimi, N. McQuarrie, J.C. Ryan, S.L. Beck, and G. Zandt, 2013, Tracking crustal thickness changes during central Andean deformation, Abstract T43H-02. Oral presentation at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 12/12/2013

Eichelberger, N. and N. McQuarrie, 2013, Bending the Andes: Orocline kinematics and 3-D deformation, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No. 7, p. 824

Eichelberger, N. and N. McQuarrie, 2011, The role of internal strain in material transport at the Bolivian orocline, Abstract T11B-2325. Poster presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif, 5-9 Dec.

Eichelberger, N. and N. McQuarrie, 2010, Development of a crustal budget for the Bolivian Central Andes through 3-D palinspastic restoration, Abstract T53D-07, Oral presentation at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.

Eichelberger, N. and N. McQuarrie, 2009, Evaluating orogen parallel transport of the upper crust within the central Andean orocline: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, p.656