Publications

Majie Fan on Google Scholar

Published in Peer Review Journals

* Indicates student and postdoc authors

    1. Al Salem, O.*, Fan, M., and Xie, X., in press, Late Paleozoic Subsidence and Burial History of the Fort Worth Basin. AAPG Bulletin.
    2. Ma, Y.*, Fan, M. Lu, Y., Liu, H., Hao, Y., Xie, Z., Peng, L., Du, X., and Hu, H., 2017, Middle Eocene Paleohydrology of the Dongying Depression in eastern China from sedimentological and geochemical signatures of lacustrine mudstone:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v.479, p.16-33.
    3. Fan, M. Constenius, K.N., and Dettman, D. L., 2017, Prolonged high relief in the northern Cordilleran orogenic front during middle and late Eocene extension based on stable isotope paleoaltimetry: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.457, p.376-384.
    4. Rowley, J.*, and Fan, M.2016, Provenance of the Middle and Late Cenozoic eolian sandstone in the central Rocky Mountains: significance for paleoclimate, tectonics, and paleogeography: Geosphere, . v.12, DOI: 10.1130/GES01218.1.
    5. Ma, Y.*, Fan, M.,Lu, Y., Liu, H., Hao, Y., Xie, Z., Liu, Z., Peng, L., and Du, X., 2016, Climate-driven paleolimnological change controls lacustrine mudstone depositional process and organic matter accumulation: constraints from lithofacies and geochemical studies in the Zhanhua Depression, eastern China: International Journal of Coal Geology. v.167, p. 103-118.
    6. Gao, M.*, Fan, M., and Moucha, R., 2016, Southwestward weakening of Wyoming lithosphere during the Laramide orogeny.Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth. DOI:10.1002/2016JB013130
    7. Ma, Y.*, Fan, M., Lu, Y., Guo, X., Hu H., Chen, L., Wang, C., and Liu, X., 2016, Geochemistry and sedimentology of the lower Silurian Longmaxi shale in southwestern China: implications for depositional controls on organic matter accumulation: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v.75, p. 291-309.
    8. Fan, M., Mankin, A.*, and Chamberlain, K., 2015, Provenance and chronology of the late Paleogene-early Neogene fluvial sedimentary rocks in the central Rocky Mountains: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 85, p.1416-1430.
    9. Fan, M., and Dettman, D.L., 2015, Hydrogen isotope measurement of bird feather keratin, one laboratory’s response to evolving methodologies: Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, v.51, p.214-230.
    10. Fan, M., Hough, B.G.*, and Passey, B.H., 2014, Middle-late Cenozoic cooling and high topography in the central Rocky Mountains: constraints from clumped isotope geochemistry: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.408, p.35-47.
    11. Fan, M., 2014, The influence of reservoir stratigraphic heterogeneity on CO2 sequestration capacity of depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs: a case study of the Lower Cretaceous Muddy Sandstone in the Powder River Basin, NE Wyoming: Rocky Mountain Geology, v.49, p.167-190.
    12. Fan, M., Heller, P., Allen, S.D.*, Hough, B.G.*, 2014, Middle Cenozoic uplift and concommitant drying in the central Rocky Mountains and adjacent Great Plains: Geology, v.42, p.540-550.
    13. Fan, M., and Carapa, B., 2014, Late Cretaceous-early Eocene two-stage development of the Laramide deformation in Wyoming:Tectonics, v.3, p.509-529.
    14. Hough, B.G.*, Fan, M., and Passey, B.H., 2014, Calibration of the clumped isotope geothermometer in soil carbonate in Wyoming and Nebraska, USA: implications for paleoelevation and paleoclimate reconstruction; Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.391, p.110-120.
    15. Hyland, E., Sheldon, N.D., and Fan, M., 2013, Terrestrial Paleoenvironment reconstructions indicate transient peak warming duing the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum: GSA Bulletin, v.125, p.1338-1348.
    16. Fan, M., DeCelles, P.G., Gehrels, G. E., Dettman, D.L., and Peyton, S. L., 2011, Sedimentology, detrital zircon geochronology, and stable isotope geochemistry of the lower Eocene strata in the Wind River Basin, central Wyoming: GSA Bulletin, v.123, p.979-996.
    17. Fan, M., Quade, J., Dettman, D.L., and DeCelles, P.G., 2011, Widespread basement erosion in late Paleocene-early Eocene in the Laramide Rocky Mountains inferred from 87Sr/86Sr ratio of bivalve fossils: GSA Bulletin, v.123, p.2069-2082.
    18. Fan, M., and Dettman, D.L., 2009, Late Paleocene high Laramide ranges in northeast Wyoming: oxygen isotope study of ancient river water: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.286, p.110-121.
    19. Xu, X., Fang, X., Song, C., Fan, M., Shen, J., 2008, Grain-size records of Cenozoic lacustrine sediments from Linxia Basin, Journal of Lake Sciences, v.1, p.65-75 (in Chinese with English abstract).
    20. DeCelles, P.G., Quade, J., Kapp, P., Fan, M., Dettman, L.D., and Ding, L., 2007, High and dry in central Tibet during the late Oligocene Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.253, p.389-401.
    21. Fan, M., Dettman, D.L., Song, C., Fang, X., and Garizone, C.N., 2007, Climatic variation in the Linxia Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, from 13.1 to 4.3 Ma: The stable isotope record: Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, v.247, p.313-328.
    22. Fan, M., Song, C., Dettman, D.L., Fang, X., and Xu, X., 2006, Intensification of the Asian winter monsoon after 7.4 Ma: grain-size evidence from the Linxia Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, 13.1 Ma to 4.3 Ma: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.248, p.186-197.
    23. Fang, X., Garzione, C.N., Van der Voo, R., Li, J., and Fan, M., 2003, Flexural subsidence by 29 Ma on the NE edge of Tibet from the magnetostratigraphy of Linxia Basin, China: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.210, p.545-560.
    24. Fan, M., and Song, C., 2003, Sedimentary environment analysis and the tectonic implications of the Linxia Basin in the northeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Journal of Lanzhou University (Natural Science), v.3, p.88-93 (in Chinese with English abstract).
    25. Song, C., Fang, X., Li, J., Gao, J., Sun, D., Fan, M., Yan, M., 2003, Pliocene sedimentary environment of the Guide Basin on the northeast margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its significance: Quaternary Sciences, v.23, p.93-102 (in Chinese with English abstract).
    26. Song, C., Fang, X., Li, J., Gao, J., Zhao, Z., and Fan, M., 2001, Tectonic uplift and sedimentary evolution of the Jiuxi Basin in the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau since 13 Ma BP: Science in China, Series D, Earth Sciences, v.44, p. 192-202., 2001, Tectonic uplift and sedimentary evolution of the Jiuxi Basin in the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau since 13 Ma BP: Science in China, Series D, Earth Sciences, v.44, p. 192-202.
    27. Song, C., Fang, X., Gao, P., Sun, D., Fan, M., 2001, Cenozoic tectonic uplift and sedimentary evolution of the Guide Basin in the northeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, v.19, p. 498-506 (in Chinese with English abstract).