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lewis.owen@ucr.edu

Geology 1462
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

(951) 827-3106 (Voice)
(951) 827-4324 (Fax)

    Owen, Lewis A

    Associate Professor of Geology

    College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
    Earth Sciences

    Biography

     

    Former Institution

     University of London

    Degrees

    BS Geology 1985
    University of London
    PhD Geomorphology 1988
    University of Leicester, England

    Awards

    Cressey Marcks Fisher Traveling Scholarship, Royal Geographical Society, 1987
    President's Award, Geological Society of London, 1992
    Guest Professorship at the Quaternary Glacier and Environmental Research Center of China, Lanzhou University, 2000

    Research Area

    Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in central Asia, mountain geomorphology and intermontane basin sedimentation, tectonic geomorphology and Quaternary geochronology.

    Publications

    Owen, L. A., W. D. Cunningham, B. Richards, E. J. Rhodes, B. F. Windley, D. Dorjnamjaa and J. Badamgarov. 1999. Timing of formation of forebergs in the northeastern Gobi Altai, Mongolia: implications for estimating mountian uplift rates and earthquake recurrence intervals. Journal of the Geological Society 156(3):457-464.

    Owen, L.A., W. D. Cunningham, B. F. Windley, J. Badamgarov, and D. Dorjnamjaa. 1999. The landscape evolution of Nemegt Uul: a late Cenozoic transpressional uplift in the Gobi Altari, southern Mongolia. Geological Society, London Special Publication, 162:201-218.

    Owen, L.A., C. H. Scott, and E. Derbyshire. 2000. The quaternary glacial history of Nanga Parbat, Quaternary International 65/66, 63-79.

    Richards, B. W., L. A. Owen and E. Rhodes. 2000. Timing of Late Quaternary glaciations in the Himalayas of northern Pakistan. Journal of Quaternary Science, 15:283-297.

    Richards, B. W. M., D. I. Benn, L. A. Owen, E. J. Rhodes, and J. Q. Spencer. 2000. Timing of Late Quaternary glaciations south of Mount Everest in the Khumbu Himal, Nepal. Geol. Soc. of America Bull., 112:1621-1632.

    Barnard, P. L., L. A. Owen, M. C. Sharma, and R. C. Finkel. 2001. Natural and human-induced landsliding in the Garhwal Himalaya at Northern India. Geomorphology, in press.

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