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PUBLICATIONS

McKeon, Ryan E., Zeitler, Peter K., Idleman, Bruce, 2012, Effects of physical and chemical abrasion on apatite U-Th/He Thermochronometry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta - in review

McKeon, Ryan E., Zeitler, Peter K., Pazzaglia, Frank J., Idleman, Bruce, Enkelmann, Eva, 2012, Decay of an old orogen: inferences about Appalachian landscape evolution from low-temperature thermochronology. Geological Society of America Bulletin - in review

McKeon, Ryan E., Zeitler, Peter K., Pazzaglia, Frank J., Idleman, Bruce, Enkelmann, Eva, Laucks, Jeremy, 2012, Slow long-term exhumation of the northern New England Appalachians from detrital Apatite U-Th/He thermochronology and radiation damage modeling. In Preparation for Tectonics

Karlstrom, K.E, Coblentz, D., Dueker, K., Ouimet, W., Kirby, E., Van Wijk, J., Schmandt, B., Kelley, S., Lazear, G., Crossey, L. J., Crow, R., Aslan, A, Darling, A., Aster, R., MacCarthy, J., Hansen, S.M., Stachnik, J., Stockli, D., Hoffman, M., McKeon, R., Feldman, J., Heizler, M., Donahue, M.S., and the CREST working group, 2012, Mantle-driven dynamic uplift of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau and its surface response: toward a unified hypothesis. Lithosphere, 4, 1, p. 3 - 22 DOI: 10.1130/L150.1.

Kulo, V., Bodzin, A., McKeon, R., Cirucci, L., Anastasio, D., Sahagian, D., & Peffer, T.; (in press). The Isle of Navitas: Planning for energy use with Web GIS. Science Scope.

Kulo, V., Bodzin, A., McKeon, R., Anastasio, D., Peffer, T., & Sahagian, D. (in press). The Isle of Navitas: Towards a better understanding of energy and decision-making using GIS. In N. Columbus (Ed.), Learning Environments: Technologies, Challenges and Impact Assessment.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (first authored)

McKeon, Ryan E., Groff, Matthew, Using detrital apatite U-Th/He thermochronometry to understand Appalachian landscape evolution. Geological Society of America Meeting, Charlotte, NC – November 2012 (talk)

McKeon, Ryan E., Decay of an old orogen: inferences about Appalachian landscape evolution from low-temperature thermochronology. Meeting of Young Researchers in Earth Science (MYRES 5), Salt Lake City, UT – August 2012 (poster)

McKeon, Ryan E., Zeitler, Peter K., Pazzaglia, Frank J., Teasing out an unsteady past in the southern Appalachians using apatite U-Th/He thermochronology. AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco – December 2011 (talk)

McKeon, Ryan E., How old are the Appalachians? Preliminary insights from new applications of apatite U-Th/He thermochronology. Eastern North America Earthscope and GeoPRISMS Workshop, Bethlehem, PA – October 2011 (talk)

McKeon, Ryan E., Zeitler, Peter K., Pazzaglia, Frank J., Long-Term landscape evolution from apatite U-Th/He thermochronology in slowly eroding landscapes: Problems and potential from the southern Appalachians, U.S.A. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria - April 2011. (poster)

McKeon, Ryan E., How old are the Appalachians? Preliminary insights from new applications of apatite U-Th/He thermochronology. 2011 Academic Symposium, Lehigh University - March 2011. (poster)

McKeon, Ryan E., Zeitler, Peter K., Pazzaglia, Frank J., The effect of radiation damage on detrital apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry: A case study from New England, USA. Thermo2010 12th International Conference of Thermochronology, Glasgow, Scotland - August 2010. (poster)

McKeon, Ryan E., Zeitler, Peter K., Idleman, Bruce, Enkelmann, Eva, Exploring the potential of whole rock shale (U-Th)/He thermochronometry. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA - December 2009 (poster).

McKeon, Ryan E., Kulo, Violet, Anastasio, David, Bodzin, Alec, Peffer, Tamara, Sahagian, Dork, The Isle of Navitas: Towards a better understanding of energy and decision making using GIS. Geological Society of America Meeting, Portland, OR - October 2009 (poster).

McKeon, Ryan E., Kelley, Shari A., Lageson, David R., The interaction between tectonics, topography, glacial erosion in the San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado. Geological Society of America Meeting, Houston, TX - October 2008 (poster).

McKeon, Ryan E., et al., Structural Style and Sediment Dispersal in an Active Fold-and-Thrust Salient, Sulaiman Range, Pakistan. Geological Society of America Meeting, Denver, CO - October 2007 (poster - lead author and presenter for class project).

McKeon, Ryan E., Leonard, Eric M., Sak, Peter, Testing the “Glacial Buzzsaw” hypothesis in the mountains of the western United States. Geological Society of America Meeting, Seattle, WA - October 2003 (poster).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (coauthored)

Pazzaglia, FJ, Berti, C, McKeon, RE, Gunderson, K, Semmens, K, Tectonic Geomorphology and EarthScope in eastern North America. Geological Society of America Meeting, Minneapolis, MN – October 2011.

Teletzke, A, Kulo, V, Bodzin, A, Anastasio, D, Sahagian, D, McKeon, RE, Designing learning activities to teach “spatially” with web GIS. Geological Society of America Meeting, Minneapolis, MN – October 2011.

Donahue M.S., Karlstrom, K.E., Gonzales, D., Pecha, M., McKeon, R.E., Multi-stage uplift of the Rocky Mountains: new age constraints on the Telluride Conglomerate and regional compilation of apatite fission track ages. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 2011.

Pazzaglia, FJ, Zeitler, PK, McKeon, RE, Idleman, BD, Berti, C, Unsteady rock uplift and erosion in a decaying orogen in response to surface and dynamic mantle processes (Invited). Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meeting 2010.

Kelley, SA, Karlstrom, KE, Stockli, D, McKeon, RE, Hoffman, M, Lee, J, Pederson, J, Coblentz, D, A summary and evaluation of thermochronologic constraints on the exhumation history of the Colorado Plateau- Rocky Mountain region. Colorado River Evolution II Workshop, Flagstaff, AZ – May 2010.

Karlstrom, K., Coblentz, D., Ouimet, W., Kirby, E, Van Wijk, J., Schmandt, B., Crossey, L., Crow, R., Kelley, S., McKeon, RE., Aslan, A, Darling, A., Dueker, K., Aster, R., Lazear, G., Hilton, D., Dynamic uplift of the Colorado Rockies and western Colorado Plateau in the last 6 Ma driven by mantle flow: Evidence from the Colorado River region, Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 2009.

Kelley, SA, McKeon, RE, 2009, Thermal and exhumation history of Proterozoic basement and Oligocene plutonic rocks, southwestern Colorado. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 41, no. 7, p. 136.