Ph.D. 1982 University of California, Santa Barbara
B.Sc. 1976 University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Interests:
Geochronology
Structure & tectonics
Baja California
Geology Science Education
Research Projects:
Integrated Isotopic Provenance Analysis: Constraining the Dynamic Linkage between Orogenic Exhumation and Basin Evolution
Showme Geology
Peninsular Ranges batholith teaching suite
Selected Publications:
Shervais, J.W., Murchey, B.L., Kimbrough, D.L., Renne, P.R., and Hanan, B., 2005, Radioisotopic and biostratigraphic age relations in the Coast Range Ophiolite, northern California: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Western Cordillera: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117, doi: 10.1130/B25443.1. (download)
Kimbrough, D.L.and Moore, T.E., 2003, Ophiolite and volcanic arc assemblages on the Vizcaino Peninsula and Cedros Island, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Mesozoic forearc lithosphere of the Cordilleran magmatic arc, in Johnson, S.E., Paterson, S.R., Fletcher, J., Girty, G.H., Kimbrough, D.L., and Martin-Barajas, A., eds., Tectonic evolution of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern USA: A Volume in Honor of R. Gordon Gastil, Geological Society of America Special Paper 374. (download)
Bohnel, H., Delgado-Argote, L.A., and Kimbrough, D.L., 2002, Discordant paleomagnetic data for middle-Cretaceous intrusive rocks from northern Baja California: Latitude distplacement, tilt, or vertical axis rotation?: Tectonics, v. 21, doi:10:10.1029/2001TC001298. (download)
Kimbrough, D.L., Smith, D.P., Mahoney, J.B., Moore, T.E., Gastil, R.G., Ortega Rivera, M.A., and Fanning, C.M., 2001, Forearc basin sedimentary response to rapid Late Cretaceous batholith emplacement in the Peninsular Ranges of southern and Baja California: Geology, v. 29, p. 491–494. (download)
Lovera, O.M., Grove, M., Kimbrough, D.L., Abbott, P.L., 1999, Magnitude and time scales in the exhumation of arc crust: an approach based upon analysis of detrital closure age distributions: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 104, no. B12, p. 29,419-29,438. (download)
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