Sean Patrick Long
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Office: 1155 Webster
Email: sean.p.long@wsu.edu
My research focuses on the structural evolution of deformed continental crust. I utilize mapping-based field work, in conjunction with multiple techniques, including construction of balanced cross sections, regional tectonic reconstructions, integration of geochronologic, thermochronologic, and metamorphic temperature datasets, and microstructural analysis, to solve regional- to orogen-scale tectonic problems. I have active projects in the Himalayas, the Andes, and the Western U.S. Cordillera; please see my research page for details.
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New Stuff! (updated 1-7-19)
Congratulations to my Ph.D. student Ryan Anderson, who just had a new paper published in Tectonics, which is focused on orogenic wedge dynamics in the Andes of southern Bolivia.
I just returned from my first field work trip to India, where I visited the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. I had the great fortune to spend 3 weeks there this July and August, along with collaborator Matt Kohn from Boise State University.
Congratulations to M.S. student Laura Pianowski, who defended in May, 2017, and landed an outstanding job at a USGS geochronology lab in Denver!
New publications from Cordilleran research in Nevada and Utah:
Long, S.P., 2019, Geometry and magnitude of extension in the Basin and Range Province (39°N), California, Nevada, and Utah, U.S.A: Constraints from a province-scale cross section: Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi: 10.1130/B31974.1, published online 8-15-18. click here for pdf click here for jpg of cross-section (Plate DR1)
Long, S.P., Heizler, M.T., Thomson, S.N., Reiners, P.W., and Fryxell, J.E., 2019, Rapid Oligocene to early Miocene extension along the Grant Range detachment system, eastern Nevada, U.S.A.: insights from multi-part cooling histories of footwall rocks: Tectonics, v. 37, published online 10-15-18, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005073. click here for pdf
New publications from Himalayan research in Bhutan:
Long, S.P., Gordon, S.M., and Soignard, E., 2017, Distributed north-vergent shear and flattening through Greater and Tethyan Himalayan rocks: insights from metamorphic and strain data from the Dang Chu region, central Bhutan: Lithosphere, v. 9, p. 774-795, doi: 10.1130/L655.1. click here for pdf
New publications from Andean research in Bolivia:
Anderson, R.B., Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., and Calle, A.Z., and Ramirez, V., 2017, Shortening and structural architecture of the Andean fold-thrust belt of southern Bolivia (21°S): Implications for kinematic development and crustal thickening of the central Andes: Geosphere, v. 13, p. 538-558, doi:10.1130/GES01433.1. click here for pdf
Anderson, R.B., Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., Thomson, S.N., Calle, A.Z., and Stockli, D.F., 2018, Orogenic wedge evolution of the central Andes, Bolivia (21°S): Implications for Cordilleran cyclicity: Tectonics, v. 37, p. 3577-3609, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005132. click here for pdf
Calle, A.Z., Horton, B.K., Limachi, R., Stockli, D.F., Uzeda-Orellana, G.V., Anderson, R.B., and Long, S.P., 2018, Cenozoic provenance and depositional record of the Sub-Andean foreland basin during growth of the central Andean fold-thrust belt, southern Bolivia, in Zamora, G., McClay, K.R., and Ramos, V.A., eds., Petroleum basins and hydrocarbon potential of the Andes of Peru and Bolivia: AAPG Memoir 117, p. 483-530, doi: 10.1306/13622132M1173777. click here for pdf
Pictures from Summer, 2018 field work in Ladakh, India:
In July-August, 2018, Matt Kohn from BSU, Matt's graduate student Buchanan Kerswell, and myself did field work in the Tso Morari region of Ladakh in northwestern India. Here are a couple of pictures, including me at the second-highest road pass in the world, at the three of us at Tso Morari, a beautiful high-elevation lake.
Picture from Fall, 2016 Bhutan field work:
In Fall, 2016, two of my graduate students, Laura Pianowski and Jesslyn Starnes accompanied myself, and collaborators Stacia Gordon and Robert Miller, on a field expedition to Bhutan. This picture shows Laura (left) and Jesslyn (right) in their kiras, the traditional Bhutanese female clothing. Behind them is Bhutan's famous Takstang monastery.
Check out this picture!!!
In March, 2012, while mapping in southeast Bhutan, by chance Nadine McQuarrie (center), Tobgay (right) and myself (left) happened to meet his majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk, the 5th king of Bhutan, and queen Jetsun Pema. This picture was taken that evening at their camp.