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Staisch, L.M., M. Walton, and R. Witter, 2019, Addressing Cascadia Subduction Zone great earthquake recurrence, Eos, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO127531. Published on 02 July 2019.

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Staisch, L.M., 2018, Bedrock mapping and seismic hazard assessment at Gold Basin landslide, Washington: U.S.G.S Open-File Report 2018–1132, 19 p., doi.10.3133/ofr20181132.

 

Staisch, L.M. Blakely, R.J., Kelsey, H.M., Styron, R.H., Sherrod, B.L., 2018, Crustal structure and Quaternary acceleration of deformation rates in central Washington revealed by stream profile inversion, potential field geophysics, and structural geology of the Yakima folds, Tectonics, vol. 37, p. 1750-1770, doi.10.1029/2017TC004916.

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Staisch, L.M., Kelsey, H.M., Sherrod, B.L., Möller, A., Paces, J.B., Blakely, R.J., Styron, R.H., 2017, Miocene – Pleistocene deformation of the Saddle Mountains: Implications for seismic hazard in central Washington, USA, GSA Bulletin, vol. 130, no. 3/4, p. 411-437., doi.10.1130/B31783.1.

 

Kelsey, H.M., Ladinsky, T.C., Staisch, L.M., Sherrod, B.L., Blakely, R.J., Pratt, T.L., Stephenson, W.J., Odum, J.K., Wan, E., 2017, The story of a Yakima fold and how it informs late Neogene and Quaternary backarc deformation in the Cascadia subduction Zone, Manastash Anticline, Washington, USA, Tectonics, vol. 36, no. 10, p. 2085–2107, doi.10.1002/2017TC004558R.

 

Staisch, L.M., Niemi, N.A., Clark, M.K., Chang, H., 2016, Eocene – late Oligocene history of crustal shortening within the Hoh Xil Basin and implications for the uplift history of the northern Tibetan Plateau, Tectonics, vol. 35, p. 862–895, doi.10.1002/2015TC003972.

 

Bender, A.M., Amos, C.B., Bierman, P., Rood, D.H., Staisch, L.M., Kelsey, H.M., Sherrod, B.L., 2016, Differential uplift and incision of the Yakima River terraces, central Washington State, JGR Earth Surface, vol. 121, no. 1, p. 365–384, doi.10.1002/2015JB012303.

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Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Bourgeois, J., Cashman, S., Cowan, D., Creager, K., Crowell, B., Duvall, A., Frankel, A., Gonzalez, F. and Houston, H., .... Staisch. L.M., .... 2016. Planning for a subduction zone observatory. Eos, 97, doi.10.1029/2016EO052635.

 

Staisch, L.M., Niemi, N.A., Chang, H., Clark, M.K., Rowley, D.B., Currie, B., 2014, A Cretaceous-Eocene depositional age for the Fenghuoshan Group, Hoh Xil Basin: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the northern Tibet Plateau, Tectonics, vol. 33, no. 3, p. 281-301, doi. 10.1002/2013TC003367.

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Staisch, L.M., O'Connor, J.E., Holm-Denoma, C., 2019, Reconciling detrital zircon and fish faunal evidence for Miocene-Pliocene drainage reorganization and basin integration of the Snake River and Columbia Rivers, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2019, abstract #EP41D-2373.

 

Staisch, L.M., Bennett, S.E.K., Blakely, R.J., Wetzel, K., Earney, T., 2019, New Geophysical observations along the Klamath-Blue Mountains lineament and Wallula fault zone, NE Oregon and SE Washington, GSA Cordilleran Sectional meeting, Portland, OR.

 

Staisch, L.M., O'Connor, J.E., Holm-Denoma, C., Lasher, J., Alexander, J., 2019, Ringold formation sedimentology, paleontology, and provenance: implications for the ancestral rivers of the Pacific Northwest, GSA Cordilleran Sectional meeting, Portland, OR.

 

Staisch, L.M., Kelsey, H.M., Sherrod, B.L., Blakely, R.J., Styron, R.H., 2017, From gravity to graded streams: assessing earthquake hazards in central Washington State with geophysical, geologic and geomorphic constraints, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, doi.10.1130/2017AM-303244, invited.

 

Staisch, L.M., Holm-Denoma, C., O'Conner, J.E., 2017, U-Pb detrital zircon provenance of the Ringold Formation with implications for the ancestral Columbia and Snake river drainage and regional tectonic uplift, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, doi.10.1130/2017AM-303275.

 

Staisch, L.M., Sherrod, B.L., Kelsey, H.M., Blakely, R.J., Möller, A. and Styron, R.H., 2017, Miocene to present deformation rates in the Yakima Fold Province and implications for earthquake hazards in central Washington State, USA. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, vol. 19, p. 10401.

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Staisch, L.M., 2016, New geochronologic, stratigraphic, and structural constraints on the timing and rate of deformation along the Saddle Mountains anticline, central Washington State, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 48, no. 7, doi.10.1130/2016AM-285536.

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Staisch, L.M., 2016, Thermochronologic and geochronologic constraints on the timing of crustal shortening and the initiation of left-lateral shear within the central Kunlun Shan, Northern Tibet: implications for the uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 48, no. 7, doi.10.1130/2016AM-284498.

 

Staisch, L.M., 2016 Miocene to Quaternary deformation history of the Yakima fold province as determined from geomorphic and geologic records: implications for seismic hazard in central Washington, Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountain Section Meeting 2016, abstract #T9-276106.

 

Staisch, L.M., Bennett, S.E.K., Sherrod, B.L., Kelsey, H.M., Moeller, A., Paces, J., 2015, Holocene to Neogene tectonics in central Washington: assessing seismic hazards from the geomorphic, geologic, and paleoseismic record of the Yakima Folds, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2015, abstract #T31B-2892.

 

Staisch, L.M., Niemi, N.A., Clark, M.K., Chang, H., 2013, Eocene – late Oligocene crustal shortening within the Hoh Xil Basin, north-central Tibetan Plateau, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2013, abstract #T31B-2510.

 

Staisch, L.M., Niemi, N.A., Chang, H., Rowley, D.B., Yi, J., Zhang, P., Clark, M.K., 2012, Revised depositional age of the Fenghuoshan Group, Hoh Xil Basin, north-central Qiangtang terrane: implications for the pre- and early-collisional tectonic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2012, abstract #T53F-01. OSPA awardee.

 

Staisch, L.M., Clark, M. K., Niemi, N. A., Avdeev, B., 2010, Detrital apatite (U-Th)/He constraints on the exhumational histories of the Arunachal Pradesh Himalaya and the Shillong Plateau, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #EP41C-0720.

 

Staisch, L., Styron, R. H., James, S., Turner, H. L., Ashlock, A., Cavness, C. L., Collier, X., Fauria, K., Feinstein, R., Murphy, R., Williams, B., Mattioli, G. S., Jansma, P. E., and Cothren, J., 2007, Dislocation modeling and comparison with GPS data to assess possible elastic strain accumulation in the Central Lesser Antilles: New constraints from the NSF REU site in Dominica between 2001 and 2007, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #G21C-0656.

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