Dr. Barbara Carrapa

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsSedimentology,Geology,Geochemistry (Inorganic, Organic, Biological)
KeywordsForeland basins, erosion, mountain belts, sedimentation, tectonics

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityLaramie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Manfred StreckerInstitut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2004

Programme(s)

2003Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2010Bywater, S., Carrapa, B., Clementz, M. and Schoenbohm, L. The effect of late Cenozoic aridification on sedimentation in the Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina (Angastaco Basin). In: Geology, 2010, 235-238
2009Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Reiners, P. Gerhels, G. Apatite triple dating and white mica 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of syn-tectonic detritus in the Central Andes: a multi-phase tectono-thermal history. In: Geology, 2009, 407-410
2009Murrell, G.R., Sobel, E.R. Carrapa, B. and Andriessen, P. Calibration and comparison of etching and thermal modeling techniques for apatite fission track thermochronology. In: Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 2009, 73-85
2009Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Hain, M.P., Hilley, G.E., Mortimer, E., Schoenbohm, L., and Sobel, E.R.: Does the topographic distribution of the central Andean Puna Plateau result from climatic or geodynamic processes? . In: Geology, 2009, 643-646
2009Barbara Carrapa: Tracing exhumation and orogenic wedge dynamics in the Alps via detrital thermochronology . In: Geology, 2009, 1127-1130
2007Mortimer, E., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Schoenbohm, Sobel, E., Gomez, J.S., Strecker, M.R.: Compartmentalization of a foreland basin in response to plateau growth and diachronous thrusting: El Cajon-Campo Arenal basin, NW Argentina. In: Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2007, 637-653
2007DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B. and Gehrels, G.E. Detrital Zircon U-Pb Ages Provide New Provenance and Chronostratigraphic Information from Eocene Synorogenic Deposits in Northwestern Argentina, . In: Geology, 2007, 323-326
2007Mortimer, E. and Carrapa, B. Footwall drainage evolution in response to increasing fault displacement: Loreto fault, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Geology, 35, 651-654. . In: Geology, 2007, 651-654
2007Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R.N, Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Hilley, G.E., Sobel, E.R., Trauth, M.H. Tectonics and Climate of the Southern Central Andes. In: Annual Review Earth Planetary Sciences, 2007, 747-787
2007Alonso, R.N., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Haschke, M., Hilley, G.E., Schoenbohm, L., Sobel, E. R., Strecker, M.R., Trauth, M.H. Tectonics, climate, and landscape evolution of the southern Central Andes: The Argentine Puna Plateau and adjacent Regions between 22º and 28ºS lat. . In: Oncken, O., Chong, G., Franz, G., Giese, P., Götze, H.-J., Ramos, V., Strecker, M., and Wigger, P.,, The Andes - Active Subduction Orogeny. Springer Verlag, 2007. 265-283
2006Carrapa, B., Sobel, E.R. and Strecker, M.R.: Orogenic Plateau growth in the Central Andes: Evidence from sedimentary rock provenance and apatite fission track thermochronology in the Fiambala Basin, southernmost Puna Plateau margin (NW Argentina). In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2006, 82-100
2006Coutand, I., Carrapa, B., Deeken, A., Schmitt, A.K., Sobel. E.R., Strecker, M.R.: Orogenic plateau formation and lateral growth of compressional basins and ranges: insights from sandstone petrography and detrital apatite fission-track thermochronology in the Angastaco Basin, NW Argentina. In: Basin Research, 2006, 1-26
2005Carrapa, B. & Garcia Castellanos, D. Western Alpine back-thrusting as subsidence mechanism in the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (NW Italy). In: Tectonophysics, 2005, 197-212
2004Carrapa, B., Di Giulio, A. & Wijbrans, J. The early stages of the Alpine collision: an image from the detrital thermochronology of Upper Eocene-Lower Oligocene sediments in the Alps-Apennines knot area, . In: Sedimentary Geology, 2004, 181-203
81York, C., Painter, C. and Carrapa. B. Sedimentological and petrophysical characterization of the Sego Sandstone (NW Colorado, USA): A new scheme to recognize ancient flood-tidal delta deposits and implications for reservoir potential . In: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 81, 401-419
23Carrapa, B., Reyes-Bywater, S., DeCelles, P.G., Mortimer, E., and Gerhels, G.: Cenozoic synorogenic basin evolution in the Eastern Cordillera of northwestern Argentina (25°-26°S): Regional implications for Andean orogenic wedge development. In: Basin Research, 23, 1-20