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Bradley D Ritts Associate Vice President for Research

Positions

Faculty, Earth and Spatial Sciences , College of Science
Associate Vice President for Research, Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) , University of Idaho 2018 -
Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University 2005 - 2007
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Utah State University 1999 - 2005

Research Areas

People

member of

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Member
American Geophysical Union Member
Society of Petroleum Engineers Member
Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society Member

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- Microbial and Geochronologic Constraints on the Neogene Paleotopography of Northern Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters. 2019
- A High-Resolution Stable Isotopic Record from the Junggar Basin (NW China): Implications for the Paleotopographic Evolution of the Tianshan Mountains. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 341-344:158-169. 2012
- Isotopic constraints on intensified aridity in Central Asia around 12 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 312:152-163. 2011
- Cenozoic Multiple-Phase Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Tibetan Plateau: Constraints from Sedimentary Records from Qaidam Basin, Hexi Corridor, and Subei Basin, Northwest China. American Journal of Science. 311:116-152. 2011
- Diachronous Isotopic and Sedimentary Responses to Topographic Change as Indicators of Mid-Eocene Hydrologic Reorganization in the Western United States. Basin Research. 22:829-845. 2010
- Early Mesozoic Basin Development and its Response to Thrusting in the Yanshan Fold-and-Thrust Belt, China. International Geology Review. 49:1025-1049. 2010
- Early Cretaceous Supradetachment Basins in the Hohhot Metamorphic Core Complex, Inner Mongolia, China. Basin Research. 22:45-60. 2010
- Tracing Exhumation of the Dabie Shan Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphic Complex Using the Sedimentary Record in the Hefei Basin, China. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 112:198-218. 2010
- Stable Isotopic Constraints on the Tectonic, Topographic, and Climatic Evolution of the Northern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 282:158-166. 2009
- Evidence of Miocene Crustal Shortening in the North Qilian Shan from Cenozoic Stratigraphy of the Western Hexi Corridor, Gansu Providence, China. American Journal of Science. 309:290-329. 2009
- Mesozoic Tectonics and Sedimentation of the Giant Polyphase Nonmarine Intraplate Ordos Basin, Western North China Block. International Geology Review. 51:95-115. 2009
- Ordos Basin Gas Reservoir Outcrop Analogs: Permian Braided Fluvial Sandstone of the Zhuozi Shan and Helan Shan, China. International Geology Review. 48:573-584. 2007
- Late Paleozoic Sedimentation on the Northern Margin of the North China Block: Implications for Regional Tectonics and Climate Change. International Geology Review. 47:270-296. 2007
- A New Ordovician Chiastoclonellid Sponge from Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Paleontology. 80:775-779. 2006
- Stable isotope records of Cenozoic climate and topography, Tibetan plateau and Tarim basin. American Journal of Science. 305:101-118. 2005
- Detrital zircon provenance evidence for large-scale extrusion along the Altyn Tagh fault. Tectonophysics. 406:165-178. 2005
- Did the Altyn Tagh Fault Extend Beyond the Tibetan Plateau?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 240:425-435. 2005
- Oligocene?Miocene Tectonics and Sedimentation along the Altyn Tagh Fault, Northern Tibetan Plateau: Analysis of the Xorkol, Subei, and Aksay Basins. Journal of Geology. 112:207-229. 2004
- Sedimentary evidence against large strike-slip translation on the Northern Altyn Tagh fault, NW China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 228:311-323. 2004
- Sedimentary record of Triassic intraplate extension in North China: evidence from the nonmarine NW Ordos Basin, Helan Shan and Zhuozi Shan. Tectonophysics. 386:177-202. 2004
- Slowing extrusion tectonics: lowered estimate of post-Early Miocene slip rate for the Altyn Tagh fault. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 217:111-122. 2004
- Upper Triassic-Middle Jurassic Stratigraphy And Sedimentology In The Ne Qaidam Basin, Nw China: Petroleum Geological Significance Of New Outcrop And Subsurface Data. Journal of Petroleum Geology. 26:429-450. 2003
- Mesozoic contractional deformation in the middle of the Asian tectonic collage: the intraplate Western Ordos fold–thrust belt, China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 205:13-24. 2002
- Early Jurassic extensional basin formation in the Daqing Shan segment of the Yinshan belt, northern North China Block, Inner Mongolia. Tectonophysics. 339:239-258. 2001
- Initiation and Long-Term Slip History of the Altyn Tagh Fault. International Geology Review. 43:1087-1093. 2001
- Upper Oligocene lacustrine source rocks and petroleum systems of the northern Qaidam basin, northwest China. AAPG Bulletin. 85:601-619. 2001
- Magnitude of post-Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) displacement on the central Altyn Tagh fault system, northwest China. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 112:61-74. 2000
- Mammal Track Assemblages from the Early Tertiary of China, Peru, Europe and North America. Palaios. 14:398. 1999
- Depositional facies and detrital composition of the Paleoproterozoic Et-Then Group, N.W.T., Canada: sedimentary response to intracratonic indentation. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 31:1763-1778. 1994
chapter
- Facies Analysis, Reservoir Characterization, and LIDAR Modeling of an Eocene Lecustrine Delta, Green River Formation, Southwest Uinta Basin, Utah. Lacustrine Sandstone Reservoirs and Hydrocarbon Systems. Ed. Baganz, Olive. American Association of Petroleum Geologists. 2012
- Reservoir Simulation Models of an Eocene Lacustrine Delta, Green River Formation, Southwest Uinta Basin, Utah. Lacustrine Sandstone Reservoirs and Hydrocarbon Systems. Tulsa, Oklahoma. 209-221. 2012
- Sedimentary Basins of the Late Mesozoic Extensional Domain of China and Mongolia. Regional Geology and Tectonics: Phanerozoic Rift Systems and Sedimentary Basins. Ed. Bally, Albert W. Elsevier. 442-461. 2012
- Plate Interior Poly-Phase Basins. Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances. Ed. Azor, Antonio. Wiley-Blackwell. 565-582. 2011
- Jurassic to Cenozoic Exhumation History of the Altyn Tagh Range, Northwest China, constrained by 40Ar/39Ar and Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology. Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of Central and Eastern Asia: From Continental Assembly to Intracontinental Deformation. Ed. Hendrix, Marc S. Geological Society of America. 247-268. 2001
conference paper
- Partitioning of Crustal Shortening in theNorthern Tibetan Plateau: Constraints from Thermochronology Studies. GSA Abstracts with Programs. 2016

Background

education and training

Ph.D. in Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University , Dissertation Title: "Mesozoic Tectonics and Sedimentation, and Petroleum Systems of the Qaidam and Tarim Basins, NW China 1998
M.S. in Earth and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Thesis: "Depositional Facies and Detrital Composition of the Paleoproterozoic Et-Then Group, NWT, Canada: Signature of Intracratonic Indentation Tectonics" 1993 - 1994
B.S. in Geology and Biology, University of Rochester , Summa cum laude 1992

Contact

full name

Bradley D Ritts