Dr. Alexander Robinson, Associate Professor of Geology, Structural Geology and Tectonics

College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics , Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

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• Areas of expertise

  • Tectonic evolution of orogenic belts
  • Deformational processes
  • Field-based mapping and structural geology 

• Awards

  • UC Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2004
  • Gary Ernst Fellowship, 2003 UC-Regents Fellowship, 2003, 2004
  • IGPP Fellowship, 1999-2001 Geological Society of America Student Research Grant, 2002
  • Phi Beta Kappa Magna Cum Laude Lewis Jordan Jr. Award, Bates College Geology Department

   

• Publications

  • Imrecke, D.B., Robinson, A.C., Murphy, M.A., 2015, Kinematic Evolution of the Chalk Draw Fault during Basin and Range Extension, Trans-Pecos Texas; Journal of Geology
  • Robinson, A. C., Owen, L. A., Chen, J., Schoenbohm, L. M., Hedrick, K. A., Blisniuk, K., Sharp, W. D., Imrecke, D. B., Li, W., Yuan, Z., Caffee, M. W., and Mertz-Kraus, R., 2015, No late Quaternary strike-slip motion along the northern Karakoram fault: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 409, no. 1, p. 290-298.
  • Robinson, A.C., 2015, Mesozoic tectonics of the Gondwanan terranes of the Pamir plateau, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 102, p. 170-179.
  • Raterman, N.S., Robinson, A.C., and Cowgill, E.S., 2014, Structure and detrital zircon geochronology of the Domar fold-thrust belt: Evidence of pre-Cenozoic crustal thickening of the western Tibetan Plateau, in Nie, J., Horton, B. K., and Hoke, G. D., eds., Toward an Improved Understanding of Uplift Mechanisms and the Elevation History of the Tibetan Plateau, Geological Society of America Special Paper 507, p. 89-114, doi:10.1130/2014.2507(05).
  • Yuan, Z., Chen, J., Owen, L.A., Hedrick, K.A., Caffee, M., Lia, M., Schoenbohm, L.M. Robinson, A.C., 2013, Nature and timing of large landslides within an active orogen, Eastern Pamir, China, Geomorphology, v. 182, p. 49-65
  • Sanchez, V.I., Murphy, M.A., Robinson, A.C., Lapen, T.J., Heizler, M.T., 2013, Tectonic evolution of the India-Asia suture zone since Middle Eocene time, Lopukangri area, south-central Tibet, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 62, p. 205-220 Robinson, A.C. , Ducea, M., Lapen, T.J., 2012, Detrital Zircon and Isotopic Constraints on the Tectonic Evolution and Crustal Architecture of the Northeastern Pamir, Tectonics, v. 31, 16 p.
  • Owen, L.A., Chen, J., Hedrick, K.A., Caffee, M.W., Robinson, A.C., Schoenbohm, L.M., Yuan, Z., Li, L., Imrecke, D.B., 2012, Quaternary glaciation of the Tashkurgan Valley, Southeast Pamir, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 47, p. 56-72.
  • Robinson, A.C., Yin, A., Lovera, O., 2010, Thermokinematic modeling of the effect of footwall erosion on cooling age patterns in Detachment Fault Settings: Implications for the Evolution for the Kongur Shan detachment system, NW China, Tectonophysics, v. 496, p. 28-43.
  • Robinson, A.C. , 2009, Evidence against Quaternary slip on the northern Karakorum Fault suggests kinematic reorganization at the western end of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 286, p. 158-170.

  For more publications, see faculty website above, or visit google scholar page here.

• Patents

  • None available.

• Grants and Funded Research

  • Testing the Role of Orogen Parallel Flow in the Core of the Canadian Cordillera. University of Houston Small Grants Program. $2,950. February, 2010 – August, 2010
  • Testing models for the role of strike-slip faults in intercontinental collision zones. University of Houston Grants to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR). $24,856. July, 2009 – August, 2010
  • Isotopic terrane characterization at the western end of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen: Implications for crustal deformation beneath the Pamir. University of Houston New Faculty Research Program. $6,000. February, 2007 – August, 2007
  • Timing of shortening at the western end of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen: Implications for continental subduction during the Cenozoic Indo-Asian collision. University of Houston Small Grants Program. $3,000. February, 2007 – August, 2007
  • Collaborative Research: Continuation and termination the Karakorum and Karakax faults in Western Tibet: Implications for the role of regional strike-slip faults in orogenic belts. NSF-EAR Tectonics Division. $173,357. PI: Alexander Robinson, co-PI: Lewis Owen (University of Cincinnati). (Total funding for UH and UC: $406,407)
  • Investigation of the deformation history of the India-Asia suture zone, Lopukangri Rift, south-central Tibet NSFEAR-Tectonics, $299,829. PI: Michael Murphy, co-PIs: Alexander Robinson and Tom Lapen.

  For more research information, see ResearchGate profile here.

• Curriculum Vitae

  • Alexander Robinson CV

• Contact information

  SR1 Building, Room 315-B

  Phone: (713) 743-2547

  acrobinson@uh.edu