Eric Cowgill

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Eric Cowgill is a scholar working on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Cowgill has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Geophysics, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Eric Cowgill's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (53 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (47 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (24 papers). Eric Cowgill is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (53 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (47 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (24 papers). Eric Cowgill collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Georgia. Eric Cowgill's co-authors include Xiaofeng Wang, An Yin, T. Mark Harrison, Ryan D. Gold, Adam M. Forte, J Ramón Arrowsmith, Xuanhua Chen, Qing Zhang, Robert F. Butler and David A. Foster and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Eric Cowgill

69 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation

2002 654 citations An Yin, Eric Cowgill et al. Geological Society of America Bulletin profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Cowgill United States	31	3.2k	1.0k	438	387	251	71	3.6k
Isabelle Manighetti France	35	3.9k 1.2×	847 0.8×	324 0.7×	477 1.2×	354 1.4×	67	4.3k
Stéphane Dominguez France	32	3.3k 1.0×	969 0.9×	396 0.9×	304 0.8×	582 2.3×	81	3.8k
Weitao Wang China	32	3.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	513 1.2×	510 1.3×	426 1.7×	148	3.8k
Terry L. Pavlis United States	39	3.7k 1.2×	969 0.9×	549 1.3×	634 1.6×	297 1.2×	120	4.4k
G. M. Kent United States	38	4.2k 1.3×	774 0.8×	568 1.3×	227 0.6×	316 1.3×	125	4.7k
Ray E. Wells United States	34	3.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	209 0.5×	389 1.0×	244 1.0×	121	4.0k
J. V. Rowland New Zealand	26	2.4k 0.8×	567 0.6×	249 0.6×	513 1.3×	204 0.8×	72	2.8k
Qiang Xu China	27	2.7k 0.9×	457 0.4×	321 0.7×	591 1.5×	123 0.5×	101	3.3k
A. Alexander G. Webb United States	27	3.2k 1.0×	507 0.5×	245 0.6×	657 1.7×	271 1.1×	60	3.7k
Niels Balling Denmark	28	1.4k 0.5×	976 1.0×	259 0.6×	163 0.4×	235 0.9×	83	2.9k

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Cowgill, Eric, et al.. (2024). Transition From Reverse to Left‐Slip on the Eastern Haiyuan Fault, NE Tibetan Plateau, From the Structure and Age of the Ganyanchi Pull‐Apart Basin. Tectonics. 43(10). 2 indexed citations

Naliboff, John, et al.. (2024). Impact of rift history on the structural style of intracontinental rift-inversion orogens. Geology. 52(6). 429–434. 7 indexed citations

Moulin, Adrien & Eric Cowgill. (2023). The Mojave Section of the San Andreas Fault (California), 2: Pleistocene Records of Near‐Field Transpression Illuminate the Atypical Evolution of the Restraining “Big Bend”. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 24(10). 5 indexed citations

Cowgill, Eric, et al.. (2023). Total Shortening Estimates Across the Western Greater Caucasus Mountains from Balanced Cross Sections and Area Balancing. 1(2). 4 indexed citations

Bondár, Istvan, Tea Godoladze, Eric Cowgill, et al.. (2023). Relocation of the Seismicity of the Caucasus Region. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 114(2). 857–872. 3 indexed citations

Moulin, Adrien, et al.. (2023). The Mojave Section of the San Andreas Fault (California): 1. Shaping the Terrace Stratigraphy of Little Rock Creek Through the Competition Between Rapid Strike‐Slip Faulting and Lateral Stream Erosion Over the Last 40 k.y.. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 24(10). 1 indexed citations

Garcia, Leslie, et al.. (2023). Episodic evolution of a protracted convergent margin revealed by detrital zircon geochronology in the Greater Caucasus. Basin Research. 36(1). 6 indexed citations

Cowgill, Eric, Lei Wu, Xiubin Lin, et al.. (2022). From Left Slip to Transpression: Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the North Altyn Fault, NW Margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics. 41(3). 19 indexed citations

Wu, Lei, Eric Cowgill, Yuntao Tian, et al.. (2022). Long-lagged (∼19 Myr) response of accelerated river incision to rock uplift on the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 591. 117608–117608. 21 indexed citations

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Garcia, Leslie, et al.. (2022). EPISODIC EVOLUTION OF A PROTRACTED CONVERGENT MARGIN REVEALED BY DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY IN THE GREATER CAUCASUS. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations

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Cowgill, Eric, et al.. (2018). Magnetostratigraphy of the Ganyanchi (Salt Lake) Basin along the Haiyuan fault, northeastern Tibet. Geosphere. 14(5). 2188–2205. 6 indexed citations

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Cowgill, Eric, et al.. (2013). Inheritance of earthquake hazard from suturing: the Himalayas as an analogue for the structural architecture and seismic potential of the Greater Caucasus. AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Forte, Adam M., et al.. (2013). Structural geometries and magnitude of shortening in the eastern Kura fold‐thrust belt, Azerbaijan: Implications for the development of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. Tectonics. 32(3). 688–717. 43 indexed citations

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Cowgill, Eric, et al.. (2010). Crusta: A new virtual globe for real-time visualization of sub-meter digital topography at planetary scales. Computers & Geosciences. 37(1). 75–85. 31 indexed citations

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Cowgill, Eric, et al.. (2010). Real-time Terrain Mapping. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 4 indexed citations

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Gold, P. O. & Eric Cowgill. (2008). Slip Rates and Scarp Profiles, Using Terrestrial LiDAR to Quantify Deformation on the Aberdeen Fault, South-Eastern California. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Gold, Ryan D., et al.. (2007). Efficient, Off-Grid LiDAR Scanning of Remote Field Sites. AGUFM. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Cowgill, Eric, et al.. (2007). Variable structural style along the Karakoram fault explained using triple-junction analysis of intersecting faults. Geosphere. 3(2). 71–71. 34 indexed citations

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Cowgill, Eric, et al.. (2004). The Akato Tagh bend along the Altyn Tagh fault, NW Tibet 1. Cenozoic structure, smoothing by vertical-axis rotation, and the effect of topographic stresses on borderland faulting. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 7 indexed citations

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Cowgill, Eric, et al.. (2001). Oligocene Initiation of the Central Altyn Tagh Fault System Inferred From 40 Ar/ 39 Ar K-feldspar Thermochronology. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2001. 7 indexed citations

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