Peter Koons - Publications

• Koons, P.O. P.K. Zeitler, B. Hallet, 2011, Tectonic Aneurysms and Mountain Building, in: Treatise on Geomorphology, Landscape Evolution and Tectonics: vol 5; In Press; accepted 11/2011


• Winski, D., K. Kreutz, E. Osterberg, S. Campbell, R. Hooke, P.O. Koons, Wake, C., Modeling Surface energy balance on the Khiltna Glacier, Denali National Park, Central Alaskan Range, Submitted JGR; October, 2011.


• Gorman, A.R., M.G. Hill, A.R. Orpin, P.O. Koons, C.A. Landis, T.M.H. Allan, T. Johnstone, F.L. Gray, D. Wilson, E.C. Osterberg, Quaternary structure, morphology, and stratigraphy of the Otago and South Canterbury shelves from 20 years of high-resolution seismic profiling investigations. New Zealand Journal Geology and Geophysics, 2011, in review


• Birkel, S.D, A.E. Putnam, G.H. Denton, P.O. Koons, J.L. Fastook, K.A. Maasch, D.E. Putnam, Climate Inferences from a Glaciological Reconstruction of the Late Pleistocene Wind River Ice Cap, Wind River Range, Wyoming; to Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research; Accepted following minor revisions, December, 2011


• Roy, S.G., S. E. Johnson,, Z. Jin, P.O. Koons Fractal analysis and thermal-elastic modeling of a subvolcanic magmatic breccia: the Shatter Zone, Mount Desert Island, Maine; In review, March 2012


• Johnson, S.E., Jin, Z.-H., Naus-Thijssen, F.M.J. and Koons, P.O., 2011. Coupled deformation and metamorphism in the roof of a tabular mid-crustal intrusive complex. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, doi: 10.1130/B30269.1.


• Koons, P.O., Upton, P. Barker, A.D. (2011) The influence of mechanical properties on the link between tectonic and topographic evolution. Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/ j.geomorph. 2010.11.012


• Naus-Thijssen, F.M.J., Johnson, S.E. and Koons, P.O., 2010. Modeling crenulation cleavage: a polymineralic approach. Journal of Structural Geology, 32, 330-341, doi: 10.1016/ j.jsg.2010.01.004.


• Koons, P. O., B. P. Hooks, T. Pavlis, P. Upton, and A. Barker, 2010, Three-dimensional mechanics of Yakutat convergence in the southern Alaskan plate corner, Tectonics, 29, TC4008, doi:10.1029/2009TC002463.


• Johnson, S.E., Lenferink, H.J., Marsh, J.H., Price, N.A., Koons, P.O. and West, D.P., Jr., 2009. Kinematic vorticity analysis and evolving strength of mylonitic shear zones: new data and numerical results. Geology, 37, 1075–1078; doi: 10.1130/G30227A.1.


• Johnson, S.E., Lenferink, H.J., Price, N.A., Marsh, J.H., Koons, P.O. West, D.P., Jr., and Beane, R., 2009. Clast-based kinematic vorticity gauges: the effects of slip at matrix/clast interfaces. Journal of Structural Geology, v. 31, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2009.07.008.


• Upton, P., Koons, P.O., Craw, D., Henderson, C.M. and Enlow, R., (2009) Along strike differences in the Southern Alps of New Zealand: Consequences of inherited variation in rheology. Tectonics, 28, TC2007, doi:10.1029/2008TC002353


• Koons, P.O., 2009, On the implications of low spatial correlation of tectonic and climate variables in the western European Alps, GEOLOGY, 37, 863-864


• Chapman, J. B., T. Pavlis, S. Gulick, A. Burger, L. Lowe, J. Spotila, R. Bruhn, M. Vorkink, P. Koons, A. Barker, K, Picornel, K. Ridgeway, B. Hallet, J. Jaeger, and J. McAlpin (2008), Neotectonics of the Yakutat collision: Changes in deformation driven by mass redistribution, in Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska, edited by J.T. Freymueller, P.J. Haeussler, R. Wesson, and G. Ekstrom, Geophysical Monograph 179, AGU, Washington


• Groome, W.G., Koons, P.O., and Johnson, S.E., 2008. Metamorphism, transient mid-crustal rheology, strain localization and the exhumation of high-grade metamorphic rocks. Tectonics, 27, TC1001, doi: 10.1029/2006TC001992.


• Koons, P.O., and E. Kirby, 2007; Topography, denudation, and deformation: The role of surface processes on fault evolution; in: Tectonic Faults; Agents of change on a dynamic Earth. Ed. Handy, M. R., Hirth, G., N., Hovius, MIT Press p 205-230.


• W.R. Buck, A.L. Densmore, A.F. Friedrich, N. Hovius, E. Kirby, P.O. Koons, T. Nagel, F. Schlunegger, M. Strecker, F. von Blanckenburg, 2007., Group Report: Surface Environmental Effects on/of Faulting, in: Tectonic Faults; Agents of change on a dynamic Earth. Ed. Handy, M. R., Hirth, G., N., Hovius, MIT Press p 273-294.


• Sol, S., A. Meltzer, R. Bürgmann, R.D. van der Hilst, R. King, Z. Chen, P.O. Koons, E. Lev, Y.P. Liu, P.K. Zeitler, X. Zhang, J. Zhang, B. Zurek, 2007, Geodynamics of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau from seismic anisotropy and geodesy, Geology, 35, 563-566.


• Upton, P., Koons, P.O., 2007. Three-dimensional geodynamic framework for the Central Southern Alps, New Zealand: Integrating geology, geophysics and mechanical observations. In: Okaya, D., Stern, T., Davey, F. (Eds.), Geotectonic Investigation of a Modern Continent-Continent Collisional Orogon: Southern Alps, NZ, Geophysical Monograph Series 175. AGU, Washington, DC, pp. 255-272.


• Gerbi, C., Johnson, S. E., Koons, P. O., 2006. Controls on low-pressure anatexis. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 24, 107-118. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2005.00628.x


• Groome, W.G., Johnson, S.E. and Koons, P.O., 2006, The effects of porphyroblast growth on the effective viscosity of metapelitic rocks: implications for the strength of the middle crust. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2006.00644.x


• Craw, D., P. O. Koons, P. K. Zeitler and W. S. F. Kidd, 2005, Fluid evolution and thermal structure in the rapidly exhuming gneiss complex of Namche Barwa–Gyala Peri, eastern Himalayan syntaxis, J. Metamorphic Geol., 2005, 23, 829–845.


• Upton, P., Craw, D., Caldwell, T.G., Koons, P.O. James, Z., Wannamaker, P.E., Jiracek, G.J., and Chamberlain, C.P. (2003) Upper crustal fluid flow in the outboard region of the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geofluids, 3, 1-12.


• Upton, P., Koons, P.O., and Eberhart-Phillips, D. (2003) Extension and partitioning in an oblique subduction zone, New Zealand: Constraints from three-dimensional numerical modelling. Tectonics, 22, 1068, doi:10.1029/2002 TC 001431.


• Upton, P., Koons, P.O. and Chamberlain, C.P. (1995) Penetration of deformation-driven meteoric water into ductile rocks; isotopic and model observations from the Southern Alps, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 38, 535-544.