Publications
updated March, 2026
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Capaldi, T.N., Horton, B.K., Mackaman-Lofland, C., Fuentes, F., Ortiz, G., in press, Inboard advance of arc magmatism regulates Andean mountain building. Nature Communications.
Ramos, E.J., Kemeny, P.C., Torres, M.A., Capaldi, T.N., in press, Dependence of river water lithium isotope ratios on watershed attributes complicates interpretation of weathering-driven CO2 drawdown. American Journal of Science.
Pojar, I., Capaldi, T., Olariu, C., Dragos, A.G., Roban, D.R., Melinte-Dobrinescu, 2025, Tracking sediment mixing along the lower Danube River from the Carpathians to the Black Sea. Terra Nova. doi.org/10.1111/ter.70003
Regier, N. A., Horton, B.K., Starck, D., Fuentes, F., Donaghy, E.E., Eddy, M.P., Capaldi, T.N. 2025, REPLY to comment on “Sediment provenance and depositional systems during Paleozoic tectonic and climatic transitions in the eastern Precordillera of Argentina”. Gondwana Research, v.147, p.63-65. doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.016
Regier, N. A., Horton, B.K., Starck, D., Fuentes, F., Donaghy, E.E., Eddy, M.P., Capaldi, T.N. 2025, Sediment provenance and depositional systems during Paleozoic tectonic and climatic transitions in the eastern Precordillera of Argentina. Gondwana Research, v.139, p.179-203. doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2024.11.013
Okwueze, O., Konrad, K., Capaldi, T., 2024, New developments in incremental heating detrital 40Ar/39Ar lithic (DARL) geochronology using Icelandic river sand. Geochronology, v. 6(4), p. 683-696. doi.org/10.5194/gchron-6-683-2024
Odlum, M.L., Capaldi, T.N., Thomson, K.D., Stockli, D.F., 2024, Tracking cycles of Phanerozoic opening and closing of ocean basins using detrital rutile and zircon geochronology and geochemistry. Geology, 52(5), 357-361. https://doi.org/10.1130/G51826.1
Starck, D., Capaldi, T.N., Fuentes, F., Horton, B.K., 2024, Tectonic and climatic significance of Oligocene-Miocene eolian sandstones in the Andean foreland basin of Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 134, 104758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104758
Plonka, Z.C., Capaldi, T.N., Odlum, M.L., Ortiz, G., Mackaman-Lofland, C., Alvarado, P. 2023, Along strike tectonic evolution of the Neogene Bermejo foreland basin and eastern Precordillera thrust front, Argentina (30-32ºs). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 129, 104521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104521
Akciz, S.O., Grant Ludwig, L., Arrowsmith, R.J., Capaldi, T.N., Rhodes, E.J., 2023, Channel incision ages to the rescue: An improved age for the penultimate earthquake that ruptured the Carrizo section of the south-central San Andreas Fault. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 113(1), p.1-11. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120220189
Horton, B.K., Capaldi, T.N., Mackaman-Lofland, C., Perez, N.D., Bush, M.A., Fuentes, F., Constenius, K.N., 2022, Broken foreland basins and the influence of subduction dynamics, tectonic inheritance, and mechanical triggers. Earth Science Review, v. 234, article 104193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104193
Mackaman-Lofland, C., Horton, B.K., Ketcham R.A., McQuarrie, N.M., Fosdick, J.C., Fuentes, F., Constenius, K.N., Capaldi, T.N., Stockli, D.F., Alvarado, P., 2022, Causes of variable shortening and tectonic subsidence during changes in subduction: insights from flexural thermokinematic modeling of the Neogene southern central Andes (28–30ºS). Tectonics, v.41. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007334.
Garzanti, E., Capaldi, T., Tripaldi, A., Zárate, M., Limonta, M., Vezzoli, G. 2022, Andean retroarc-basin dune fields and Pampean San Sea (Argentina): Provenance and drainage changes driven by tectonics and climate. Earth-Science Review, v. 231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104077
Capaldi, T.N., Odlum, M.L., Curry, M., Stockli, D.F., 2022, Variable thermal histories across the Pyrenees orogen recorded in modern river sand detrital geo-/thermochronology and PECUBE thermokinematic modeling. Basin Research, v.34 (5), p. 1781-1806. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12685
Horton, B.K., Capaldi, T.N., Perez, N.D., 2022, The role of flat slab subduction, ridge collision, and tectonic inheritance on Andean deformation. Geology, v.50(9), p. 1007-1012. https://doi.org/10.1130/G50094.1
Capaldi, T.N., Rittenour, T.M., Nelson, M.S., 2022, Downstream change in quartz OSL sensitivity in modern river sand reflects sediment source variability: Case studies from Rocky Mountain and Andean rivers. Quaternary Geochronology, v.71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101317
Garzanti, E., Capaldi, T., Limonta, M., Sosa, N., Vezzoli, G. 2021, Transcontinental retroarc sediment routing controlled by subduction geometry and climate change (Central and Southern Andes, Argentina). Basin Research, v.33(6), p. 3406-3437. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12607
Capaldi, T.N., McKenzie, N.R., Horton, B.K, Mackaman-Lofland, C., Colleps, C.L., Stockli, D.F., 2021, The detrital zircon record of Phanerozoic magmatism in the southern central Andes. Geosphere, v.17(3), p. 876-897. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02346.1
Capaldi, T.N., Horton, B.K, McKenzie, N.R., Mackaman-Lofland, C., Stockli, D.F., Ortiz, G., Alvarado, P., 2020, Neogene retroarc foreland basin evolution, sediment provenance, and magmatism in response to flat-slab subduction, western Argentina. Tectonics, v.39(7). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005958
Mackaman-Lofland, C., Horton, B.K., Fuentes, F., Constenius, K.N., Ketcham R.A., Capaldi, T.N., Stockli, D.F., Ammirati, J.B., Alvarado, P., Orozco, P., 2020, Andean mountain building and foreland basin evolution during thin- and thick-skinned Neogene deformation (32−33°S). Tectonics, v.39(7). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005838
Capaldi, T.N., George, S.W.M, Hirtz, J.A., Horton, B.K, Stockli, D.F., 2019, Fluvial and eolian sediment mixing during changing climate conditions recorded in Holocene Andean foreland deposits from Argentina (31-33° S). Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 7:298. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00298
Sickmann, Z.T., Chheda, T., Capaldi T.N., Thomson K.D., Paull, C.K., Graham, S.A., 2019, Using Provenance Analysis in an Anthropocene natural laboratory. Quaternary Science Review, v.221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105890
Odlum, M.L, Stockli, D.F., Capaldi T.N., Thomson, K.D., Puigdefàbregas, C., Clark, J., Fildani, A., 2019, Tectonic and sediment provenance evolution of the South Eastern Pyrenean foreland basins during rift margin inversion and orogenic uplift. Tectonophysics, v.765, p. 226-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.05.008
Capaldi, T.N., Horton, B.K, McKenzie, N.R., Stockli, D.F., Odlum, M.L., 2017, Sediment provenance in contractional orogens: The detrital zircon record from modern rivers in the Andean fold-thrust belt and foreland basin system of western Argentina. Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, v.479, p. 83-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.001
In Coming
Mackaman-Lofland, C., Fosdick, J.C., Ketcham, R.A., Lossada, A.C., Rodriquez, M.P., Litvak, V.D., Bertoa del Llano, M., Suriano, J., Mescua, J., Giamibiagi, L., Capaldi, T.N., Robbins, S.G., Stockli, D.F., Horton, B.K., in review, What drove hinterland uplift and exhumation in the southern central Andes (29-34S)? Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Duncan, J.T., Capaldi, T.N., Wells, M. L., Gevedon, M., DeFelice, C., in prep., Sediment Provenance of the Antler foreland basin system of southern Nevada. Geosphere.