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2025
Tao, N., Jiao, R., Liu, Y., Rahn, M., Dong, Y., Wen, H., Yan, H., Jiao, J., Duan, J., and Wang, C. (2025) Thermotectonic history of the Longshou Shan: From Paleozoic Tethys subduction to Cenozoic Tibetan Plateau growth. Tectonophysics, 895, 230560, doi.org:10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230560.
*Qiao, X., Jiao, R., and Canil, D. (2025) Exhumation response to oceanic plateau accretion and oroclinal development: Low-temperature thermochronology study of Wrangellia Terrane on southern Vancouver Island, Canada. Tectonophysics, 895, 230562, doi.org:10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230562.
2024
Yin, J., Shen, X., Jiao, R., and De Grave, J. (2024) Low-temperature thermochronology: Advances, applications, and innovations in tectonics, earth surface processes and ore deposits. Lithosphere, 2023 (Special 14), doi:10.2113/2023/lithosphere_2024_220.
#Wu, Y., Yang, R., Jiao, R., Lin, X., Chen, H., Gong, J., and Shi, X. (2024) Uplift history of the Eastern Pamir inferred from inversion of thermochronometric data and river profile. Lithosphere, 2023 (Special 14), doi:10.2113/2023/lithosphere_2023_293.
*Wang, S., Jiao, R., Zhang, H., Zhang, J., and Pang, J. (2024) Mid-Miocene initiation of strike-slip deformation in the Tian Shan, Central Asia. Lithosphere, 2023 (Special 14), doi:10.2113/2023/lithosphere_2024_114.
#Jiang, Y., Lu, H., Yang, R., Pang, L., Jiao, R., Wang, Y., Pang, J., and Li, Y. (2024) Two-stage exhumation, uplift, and basinward propagation of the Tian Shan during the late Cenozoic. Earth-Science Review, 256, 104868, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104868.
Jiao, R., Cai, S., and Braun, J. (2024) Solving crustal heat transfer for thermochronology using physics-informed neural networks. Geochronology, 6, 227–245, doi:10.5194/gchron-6-227-2024.
2023
#Jiang, Y., Lu, H., Jiao, R., Pang, L., Yang, R., Wu, M., Zheng, X., and Li, Y. (2023) Climatic aridification restrained late Cenozoic denudation of the Tian Shan in the inland of Asia. Global and Planetary Change, 104253, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104253.
Yang, C., Jiao, R., Zattin, M., Shen, C., Wang, Y., Feng, W., Zou, Y., and Ge, X. (2023) Late Oligocene to earliest Miocene incision onset of the Yangtze Three Gorges. Geomorphology, 108897, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108897.
#Cai, D., Wang, X., Li, G., Jiao, R., Kohn, B., Zhu, W., De Grave, J., and Lu, H. (2023) Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau. Communications Earth and Environment, 4:200, doi:10.1038/s43247-023-00861-y.
Tao, N., Duan, J., Danišík, M., Jiao, J., Dong, Y., Evans, N.J., Gao, Y., Jiao, R., Rahn, M., Li, X., and Wang, C. (2023) Paleozoic tectonothermal evolution of the Jinchuan Ni-Cu sulfide deposit, NW China: New constraints from (U-Th)/He and 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 250:105622, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2023.105622.
Yuan, X.P., Jiao, R., Liu-Zeng, J, Dupont-Nivet, G., Wolf, S.G., and Shen, X. (2023) Downstream propagation of fluvial erosion in Eastern Tibet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 605:118017, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118017.
Jiao, R., Braun, J., Delaunay, A., Robin, C., and Guillocheau, F. (2023) Linking uplift, erosion, and sedimentation using landscape evolution models: Madagascar since the Late Cretaceous. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 48(1):215-229, doi:10.1002/esp.5482.
2022
Yuan, X.P., Jiao, R., Dupont-Nivet, G., and Shen, X. (2022) Southeastern Tibetan Plateau growth revealed by inverse analysis of landscape evolution model. Geophysical Research Letters, 49:10, doi:10.1029/2021GL097623.
*Wang, S., Nissen, E., Pousse-Beltran, L., Craig, T.J., Jiao, R., and Bergman, E.A. (2022) Structural controls on earthquake rupture revealed by the 2020 Mw6.0 Jiashi earthquake (Kepingtag belt, SW Tian Shan, China). Geophysical Journal International, ggac159, doi:10.1093/gji/ggac159.
Wang, M., Tian, Y., Zhou, B., Jiao, R., and Zhang, G. (2022) Instant far-field effects of continental collision: An example study in the Qinling Orogen, northeast of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonophysics, 833:229334, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229334.
Jiao, R., Fox, M., and Yang, R. (2022) Late Cenozoic erosion pattern of the eastern margin of the Sichuan Basin: implications for the drainage evolution of the Yangtze River. Geomorphology, 398:108025, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.108025.
2021
Willett, S.D., Herman, F., Fox, M., Stalder, N., Ehlers, T.A., Jiao, R., and Yang, R. (2021) Bias and error in modelling thermochronometric data: resolving a potential increase in Plio-Pleistocene erosion rate. Earth Surface Dynamics, 9(5):1153-1221, doi:10.5194/esurf-2020-59.
Jiao, R., Yuan, X., Braun, J., and Wang, Z. (2021) Thermo-kinematic modeling of the Cenozoic uplift of the Bogda Shan, Northwest China. Tectonophysics, 816:229031, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229031.
Yang, R., Herman, F., Liu, T., Biswas, R.H., Fellin, M.G., Tian, Y., Gong, J., Jiao, R., Maden, C., and Chen, H. (2021) Enhanced Quaternary exhumation in the Namche Barwa syntaxis, eastern Himalaya. Geology, 49, doi:10.1130/G48595.1.
Jiao, R., Yang, R., and Yuan, X. (2021) Incision history of the Three Gorges, Yangtze River constrained from inversion of river profiles and low‐temperature thermochronological data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126(3):e2020JF005767, doi:10.1029/2020JF005767.
2020
Jiao, R., Braun, J., and Kravitz, K. (2020) Isostatic control of axial rivers and large drainage basins on passive margins. Geophysical Research Letters, 47:17, doi:10.1029/2020GL089627.
*Wang, S., Jiao, R., Ren, Z., Wu, C., Ren, G., Zhang, H., and Lei, Q. (2020) Active thrusting in an intermontane basin: the Kumysh Fault, eastern Tian Shan. Tectonics, 39:8, doi:10.1029/2019TC006029.
Yang, R., Suhail, H.A., Gourbet, L., Willett, S.D., Fellin, M.G., Lin, X., Gong, J., Wei, X., Maden, C., Jiao, R., and Chen, H. (2020) Early Pleistocene drainage pattern changes in Eastern Tibet: Constraints from provenance analysis, thermochronometry, and numerical modeling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 531:115955, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115955.
2019
Yuan, X.P., Braun, J., Guerit, L., Simond, B., Bovy, B., Rouby, D., Robin, C., and Jiao, R. (2019) Linking continental erosion to marine sediment transport and deposition: A new implicit and O(N) method for inverse analysis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 524:115728, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115728.
2018
Jiao, R., Herman, F., Beyssac, O., Adatte, T., Cox, S.C., Nelson, F.E., and Neil, H.L. (2018) Erosion of the Southern Alps of New Zealand during the last deglaciation. Geology, 46(11):975-978, doi:10.1130/G45160.1.
2017
Jiao, R., Herman, F., and Seward, D. (2017) Late Cenozoic exhumation model of New Zealand: impacts from tectonics and climate. Earth-Science Reviews, 166:286-298, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.01.003.
Jiao, R., Seward, D., Little, T.A., Herman, F., and Kohn, B.P. (2017) Constraining provenance, thickness and erosion of the Northland Allochthon, New Zealand, using low-temperature thermochronology. Basin Research, 29(1):81–95, doi:10.1111/bre.12166.
2015
Jiao, R., Seward, D., Little, T.A., and Kohn, B.P. (2015) Unroofing of fore-arc ranges along the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand: Constraints from low-temperature thermochronology. Tectonophysics, 656:39-51, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2015.06.004.
2014
Jiao, R., Seward, D., Little, T.A., and Kohn, B.P. (2014) Thermal history and exhumation of basement rocks from Mesozoic to Cenozoic subduction cycles, central North Island, New Zealand. Tectonics, 33(10):2014TC003653, doi:10.1002/2014tc003653.