Dr Paul Eizenhoefer

  • Senior Lecturer (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)

email: Paul.Eizenhoefer@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

Molema Building, Room 522, G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2607-4721

Biography

  • 2024 — present
    Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor — University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Computational Geoscience
  • 2022 — 2024
    Lecturer / Assistant Professor — University of Glasgow, Scotland 
    Computational Geoscience
  • 2018 — 2022
    Wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter (Post-Doc) — Universität Tübingen, Germany
    Cenozoic evolution of the Alps
    PI’s: Dr. Paul R. Eizenhöfer, Dr. Christoph Glotzbach, Prof. Jonas Kley
  • 2015 — 2018
    Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow — University of Pittsburgh, USA
    Evolution of the eastern Himalayan fold-thrust belt
    Host: Prof. Nadine McQuarrie 
  • 2014 — 2015
    Research Assistant — The University of Hong Kong, China
    Permian/Triassic closure of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean in East Asia
    Advisor: Prof. Guochun Zhao
  • 2010 — 2014
    The University of Hong Kong, China — PhD in Geology (December 2, 2015)
    Permian/Triassic closure of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean in East Asia
    Supervisor: Prof. Guochun. Zhao
  • 2005 — 2010
    Heidelberg University, Germany — Diploma (~MSc) in Geology
    Thermochronology on the North China Craton
    Supervisor: Prof. U.A. Glasmacher
  • 2003 — 2005
    Heidelberg University, Germany — Undergraduate in Physics

 

Research interests

As an Earth scientist I adopt multidisciplinary approaches integrating empirical and numerical methods in structural geology, thermochronology and geomorphology to improve our understanding of geodynamic processes in the Earth System framework. Currently, I study the evolution of the Himalayan-Alpine orogenic belt by quantifying and reconstructing fault motion, surface processes, exhumation, foreland basin development and landscape evolution. I aim to identify potential feedbacks between tectonics, surface processes and climate by exploring source-to-sink relationships and quantify magnitudes of external forcings on the geologic and geomorphic record caused by tectonic and climatic variability. Furthermore, my research focusses on (i) the tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, more specifically the late Palaeozoic to early Mesozoic closure of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean, (ii) the Cenozoic tectonic and exhumation history of Central Asia with respect to regional climatic change, and (iii) numerical approaches to quantify landscape evolution over geologic time.

Publications

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2023

Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Glotzbach, C., Kley, J. and Ehlers, T. A. (2023) Thermo‐kinematic evolution of the Eastern European Alps along the TRANSALP transect. Tectonics, 42(4), e2022TC007380. (doi: 10.1029/2022TC007380)

Eizenhöfer, P. R. , McQuarrie, N., Ghoshal, S., Mutz, S. G. and Ehlers, T. A. (2023) Drivers of Topography in Fold-thrust Belts: A Perspective from Central Nepal. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24-28 Apr 2023. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-13359)

2022

Cloetingh, S. et al. (2022) Plume-Induced Sinking of the Intracontinental Lithosphere as a Fundamentally New Mechanism of Subduction Initiation. In: EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4976)

Eizenhöfer, P. , Glotzbach, C., Kley, J. and Ehlers, T. (2022) Thermo-Kinematic Evolution of the Eastern Alps along TRANSALP: Exploring the Transient Tectonic State towards Slab Reversal. In: EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-7433)

Zhu, C. Y., Hou, W., Han, Y. and Eizenhoefer, P. (2022) The occurrence of Precambrian amphibolites from the Xinghuadukou Complex from NE China: Implications for the evolution of the Xinlin-Xiguitu Ocean, the NE branch of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Precambrian Research, 370, 106547. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106547)

2021

Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Glotzbach, C., Büttner, L., Kley, J. and Ehlers, T. A. (2021) Turning the orogenic switch: Slab‐reversal in the Eastern Alps recorded by low‐temperature thermochronology. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(6), (doi: 10.1029/2020GL092121)

Cloetingh, S. et al. (2021) Plume-induced sinking of intracontinental lithospheric mantle: an overlooked mechanism of subduction initiation? Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(2), e2020GC009. (doi: 10.1029/2020GC009482)

2020

Eizenhoefer, P. , Glotzbach, C., Büttner, L., Kley, J. and Ehlers, T. A. (2020) Neogene Exhumation History along TRANSALP: Insights from Low Temperature Thermochronology and Thermo-Kinematic Models. In: EGU General Assembly 2020, 04-08 May 2020, (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-9714)

Glotzbach, C., Eizenhoefer, P. , Kley, J. and Ehlers, T. A. (2020) Structural Thermochronology along Geophysical Transects through the Alps. In: EGU General Assembly 2020, 04-08 May 2020, (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6781)

2019

McQuarrie, N., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Long, S. P., Tobgay, T., Ehlers, T. A. , Blythe, A. E., Morgan, L. E., Gilmore, M. E. and Dering, G. M. (2019) The influence of foreland structures on hinterland cooling: evaluating the drivers of exhumation in the eastern Bhutan Himalaya. Tectonics, 38(9), pp. 3282-3310. (doi: 10.1029/2018TC005340)

Eizenhöfer, P. R. , McQuarrie, N., Shelef, E. and Ehlers, T. A. (2019) Landscape response to lateral advection in convergent orogens over geologic time scales. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(8), pp. 2056-2078. (doi: 10.1029/2019JF005100)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Zhu, Y., Wang, B., Eizenhoefer, P. R. and Zhang, X. (2019) Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the final closure of the middle segment of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Gondwana Research, 69, pp. 73-88. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.01.001)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Zhu, Y., Wang, B., Eizenhoefer, P. R. , Zhang, X. and Tsui, R. W. (2019) Timing of the final closure of the middle segment of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: Insights from geochronology and geochemistry of Carboniferous–Triassic volcanosedimentary successions in western Inner Mongolia, China. GSA Bulletin, 131(5-6), pp. 941-965. (doi: 10.1130/B32023.1)

2018

Eizenhöfer, P. and Zhao, G. (2018) Solonker Suture in East Asia and its bearing on the final closure of the eastern segment of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean. Earth Science Reviews, 186, pp. 153-172. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.09.010)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Li, X., Zhu, Y., Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhang, X., Wang, B. and Wingsum Tsui, R. (2018) Geochronology and geochemistry of Paleozoic to Mesozoic granitoids in western Inner Mongolia, China: implications for the tectonic evolution of the Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Journal of Geology, 126(4), pp. 451-471. (doi: 10.1086/697690)

Gilmore, M. E., McQuarrie, N., Eizenhöfer, P. and Ehlers, T. A. (2018) Testing the effects of topography, geometry, and kinematics on modeled thermochronometer cooling ages in the eastern Bhutan Himalaya. Solid Earth, 9(3), pp. 599-627. (doi: 10.5194/se-9-599-2018)

2017

Eizenhöfer, P. , McQuarrie, N., Ehlers, T. A. and Shelef, E. (2017) All Smeared? Geomorphic Responses to Horizontal Movement at Geologic Time Scales. In: GSA Annual Meeting 2017, Seattle, Washington, USA, (doi: 10.1130/abs/2017am-301226)

McQuarrie, N., Ehlers, T. A. and Eizenhöfer, P. R. (2017) Determining Fault Geometry from Matching Predicted and Measured Cooling Ages and Topographies; Melding Cross Section Kinematics, Thermal Modeling and Landscape Evolution in Central Nepal. In: GSA Annual Meeting 2017, Seattle, Washington, USA, (doi: 10.1130/abs/2017am-302272)

Yanlin Zhu, C., Zhao, G., Ji, J., Sun, M., Han, Y., Liu, Q., Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhang, X. and Hou, W. (2017) Subduction between the Jiamusi and Songliao blocks: geological, geochronological and geochemical constraints from the Heilongjiang Complex. Lithos, 282-3, pp. 128-144. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.03.008)

Yanlin Zhu, C., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Han, Y., Liu, Q., Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhang, X. and Hou, W. (2017) Detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic data for meta-sedimentary rocks from the Heilongjiang Complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications. Lithos, 282-3, pp. 23-32. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.03.001)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Zhu, Y., Hou, W., Zhang, X. and Wang, B. (2017) Geochronology and geochemistry of Permian to Early Triassic granitoids in the Alxa Terrane: constraints on the final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Lithosphere, 9(4), pp. 665-680. (doi: 10.1130/l646.1)

Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Eizenhöfer, P. , Sun, M., Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D., Wang, B., Liu, Q. and Xu, B. (2017) Varying contents of sources affect tectonic-setting discrimination of sediments: a case study from Permian sandstones in the Eastern Tianshan, northwestern China. Journal of Geology, 125(3), pp. 299-316. (doi: 10.1086/691217)

Yanlin Zhu, C., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Han, Y., Liu, Q. and Xing Liu, D. (2017) Subduction between the Jiamusi and Songliao blocks: geochronological and geochemical constraints from granitoids within the Zhangguangcailing orogen, northeastern China. Lithosphere, 9(4), pp. 515-533. (doi: 10.1130/l618.1)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhu, Y., Hou, W. and Zhang, X. (2017) Timing of the final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the Alxa Terrane: constraints from geochronology and geochemistry of Late Carboniferous to Permian gabbros and diorites. Lithos, 274–5, pp. 19-30. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.12.029)

Xu, B., Zhao, G., Li, J., Liu, D., Wang, B., Han, Y., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Zhang, X., Hou, W. and Liu, Q. (2017) Ages and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from Paleozoic strata in the Chagan Obo Temple area, Inner Mongolia: implications for the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Gondwana Research, 43, pp. 149-163. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.08.004)

Yanlin Zhu, C., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Liu, Q., Zhang, X., Han, Y. and Hou, W. (2017) Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications. Gondwana Research, 43, pp. 213-228. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.02.001)

2016

Liu, Q. et al. (2016) Early Paleozoic subduction processes of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: Insights from geochronology and geochemistry of Paleozoic plutons in the Alxa Terrane. Lithos, 262, pp. 546-560. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.07.041)

Eizenhöfer, P. , McQuarrie, N. and Gilmore, M. E. (2016) Evaluating Numerically Modeled Geomorphological and Sedimentary Responses to Structural, Kinematic and Climatic Variations in Eastern Bhutan. In: GSA Annual Meeting 2016, Denver, Colorado, USA, (doi: 10.1130/abs/2016am-284785)

McQuarrie, N., Eizenhöfer, P. and Ehlers, T. A. (2016) Utilizing Linked Thermo-Kinematic Modeling and Balanced Cross Sections to Predict and Evaluate the Topography, Active Fault Geometry and Resulting Thermal Evolution of the Central Nepal Himalaya. In: GSA Annual Meeting 2016, Denver, Colorado, USA, (doi: 10.1130/abs/2016am-285751)

Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Sun, M., Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D., Wang, B., Liu, Q. and Xu, B. (2016) Late Ordovician adakitic rocks in the Central Tianshan block, NW China: partial melting of lower continental arc crust during back-arc basin opening. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128(9-10), pp. 1367-1382. (doi: 10.1130/b31452.1)

Zhang, X. et al. (2016) Tectonic transition from late carboniferous subduction to early Permian post-collisional extension in the eastern Tianshan, NW China: insights from geochronology and geochemistry of mafic-intermediate intrusions. Lithos, 256-7, pp. 269-281. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.04.006)

Han, Y., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Hou, W., Zhang, X., Liu, D. and Wang, B. (2016) Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the initial uplift and denudation of the Chinese western Tianshan after the assembly of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Sedimentary Geology, 339, pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.03.028)

Han, Y., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. , Hou, W., Zhang, X., Liu, Q., Wang, B., Liu, D. and Xu, B. (2016) Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone. Lithos, 246-7, pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.12.016)

Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. , Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D., Wang, B., Liu, Q. and Xu, B. (2016) Tectonic evolution from subduction to arc-continent collision of the Junggar ocean: Constraints from U-Pb dating and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the North Tianshan belt, NW China. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128(3-4), pp. 644-660. (doi: 10.1130/b31230.1)

Han, Y., Zhao, G., Cawood, P. A., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. , Hou, W., Zhang, X. and Liu, Q. (2016) Tarim and North China cratons linked to northern Gondwana through switching accretionary tectonics and collisional orogenesis. Geology, 44(2), pp. 95-98. (doi: 10.1130/g37399.1)

2015

Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Sun, M., Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D., Wang, B., Liu, Q. and Xu, B. (2015) Latest Carboniferous closure of the Junggar ocean constrained by geochemical and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic data of granitic gneisses from the Central Tianshan block, NW China. Lithos, 238, pp. 26-36. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.09.012)

Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Zhao, G., Sun, M., Zhang, J., Han, Y. and Hou, W. (2015) Geochronological and Hf isotopic variability of detrital zircons in Paleozoic strata across the accretionary collision zone between the North China craton and Mongolian arcs and tectonic implications. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 127(9-10), pp. 1422-1436. (doi: 10.1130/b31175.1)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Han, Y., Hou, W., Zhang, X., Wang, B., Liu, D. and Xu, B. (2015) Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, China. Precambrian Research, 266, pp. 551-578. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2015.05.022)

Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Eizenhöfer, P. , Sun, M., Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D., Wang, B., Liu, Q. and Xu, B. (2015) Paleozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Central Tianshan block revealed by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope studies of detrital zircons from the South Tianshan belt, NW China. Lithos, 233, pp. 193-208. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.06.002)

Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhao, G., Zhang, J., Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D. and Wang, B. (2015) Geochemical characteristics of the Permian basins and their provenances across the Solonker Suture Zone: Assessment of net crustal growth during the closure of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean. Lithos, 224-5, pp. 240-255. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.03.012)

Han, Y., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. , Hou, W., Zhang, X., Liu, D., Wang, B. and Zhang, G. (2015) Paleozoic accretionary orogenesis in the Paleo-Asian Ocean: insights from detrital zircons from Silurian to Carboniferous strata at the northwestern margin of the Tarim Craton. Tectonics, 34(2), pp. 334-351. (doi: 10.1002/2014TC003668)

Yanlin Zhu, C., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Liu, Q., Han, Y., Hou, W., Zhang, X. and Eizenhöfer, P. R. (2015) Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan blueschists in the Heilongjiang Complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications. Lithos, 216-7, pp. 241-253. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2014.12.021)

2014

Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhao, G., Zhang, J. and Sun, M. (2014) Final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean along the Solonker Suture Zone: Constraints from geochronological and geochemical data of Permian volcanic and sedimentary rocks. Tectonics, 33(4), pp. 441-463. (doi: 10.1002/2013tc003357)

Wu, M., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Li, S., Bao, Z., Tam, P. Y., Eizenhöfer, P. and He, Y. (2014) Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes of major lithologies from the Jiaodong Terrane: implications for the crustal evolution of the Eastern Block of the North China Craton. Lithos, 190-1, pp. 71-84. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2013.12.004)

2009

Yuan, W., Deng, J., Zheng, Q., Dong, J., Bao, Z., Eizenhöfer, P. , Xu, X. and Huang, Z. (2009) Apatite fission track constraints on the Neogene tectono-thermal history of Nimu area, southern Gangdese terrane, Tibet Plateau. Island Arc, 18(3), pp. 488-495. (doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2009.00669.x)

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Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Glotzbach, C., Kley, J. and Ehlers, T. A. (2023) Thermo‐kinematic evolution of the Eastern European Alps along the TRANSALP transect. Tectonics, 42(4), e2022TC007380. (doi: 10.1029/2022TC007380)

Zhu, C. Y., Hou, W., Han, Y. and Eizenhoefer, P. (2022) The occurrence of Precambrian amphibolites from the Xinghuadukou Complex from NE China: Implications for the evolution of the Xinlin-Xiguitu Ocean, the NE branch of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Precambrian Research, 370, 106547. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106547)

Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Glotzbach, C., Büttner, L., Kley, J. and Ehlers, T. A. (2021) Turning the orogenic switch: Slab‐reversal in the Eastern Alps recorded by low‐temperature thermochronology. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(6), (doi: 10.1029/2020GL092121)

Cloetingh, S. et al. (2021) Plume-induced sinking of intracontinental lithospheric mantle: an overlooked mechanism of subduction initiation? Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(2), e2020GC009. (doi: 10.1029/2020GC009482)

McQuarrie, N., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Long, S. P., Tobgay, T., Ehlers, T. A. , Blythe, A. E., Morgan, L. E., Gilmore, M. E. and Dering, G. M. (2019) The influence of foreland structures on hinterland cooling: evaluating the drivers of exhumation in the eastern Bhutan Himalaya. Tectonics, 38(9), pp. 3282-3310. (doi: 10.1029/2018TC005340)

Eizenhöfer, P. R. , McQuarrie, N., Shelef, E. and Ehlers, T. A. (2019) Landscape response to lateral advection in convergent orogens over geologic time scales. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(8), pp. 2056-2078. (doi: 10.1029/2019JF005100)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Zhu, Y., Wang, B., Eizenhoefer, P. R. and Zhang, X. (2019) Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the final closure of the middle segment of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Gondwana Research, 69, pp. 73-88. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.01.001)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Zhu, Y., Wang, B., Eizenhoefer, P. R. , Zhang, X. and Tsui, R. W. (2019) Timing of the final closure of the middle segment of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: Insights from geochronology and geochemistry of Carboniferous–Triassic volcanosedimentary successions in western Inner Mongolia, China. GSA Bulletin, 131(5-6), pp. 941-965. (doi: 10.1130/B32023.1)

Eizenhöfer, P. and Zhao, G. (2018) Solonker Suture in East Asia and its bearing on the final closure of the eastern segment of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean. Earth Science Reviews, 186, pp. 153-172. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.09.010)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Li, X., Zhu, Y., Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhang, X., Wang, B. and Wingsum Tsui, R. (2018) Geochronology and geochemistry of Paleozoic to Mesozoic granitoids in western Inner Mongolia, China: implications for the tectonic evolution of the Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Journal of Geology, 126(4), pp. 451-471. (doi: 10.1086/697690)

Gilmore, M. E., McQuarrie, N., Eizenhöfer, P. and Ehlers, T. A. (2018) Testing the effects of topography, geometry, and kinematics on modeled thermochronometer cooling ages in the eastern Bhutan Himalaya. Solid Earth, 9(3), pp. 599-627. (doi: 10.5194/se-9-599-2018)

Yanlin Zhu, C., Zhao, G., Ji, J., Sun, M., Han, Y., Liu, Q., Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhang, X. and Hou, W. (2017) Subduction between the Jiamusi and Songliao blocks: geological, geochronological and geochemical constraints from the Heilongjiang Complex. Lithos, 282-3, pp. 128-144. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.03.008)

Yanlin Zhu, C., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Han, Y., Liu, Q., Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhang, X. and Hou, W. (2017) Detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic data for meta-sedimentary rocks from the Heilongjiang Complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications. Lithos, 282-3, pp. 23-32. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.03.001)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Zhu, Y., Hou, W., Zhang, X. and Wang, B. (2017) Geochronology and geochemistry of Permian to Early Triassic granitoids in the Alxa Terrane: constraints on the final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Lithosphere, 9(4), pp. 665-680. (doi: 10.1130/l646.1)

Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Eizenhöfer, P. , Sun, M., Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D., Wang, B., Liu, Q. and Xu, B. (2017) Varying contents of sources affect tectonic-setting discrimination of sediments: a case study from Permian sandstones in the Eastern Tianshan, northwestern China. Journal of Geology, 125(3), pp. 299-316. (doi: 10.1086/691217)

Yanlin Zhu, C., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Han, Y., Liu, Q. and Xing Liu, D. (2017) Subduction between the Jiamusi and Songliao blocks: geochronological and geochemical constraints from granitoids within the Zhangguangcailing orogen, northeastern China. Lithosphere, 9(4), pp. 515-533. (doi: 10.1130/l618.1)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhu, Y., Hou, W. and Zhang, X. (2017) Timing of the final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the Alxa Terrane: constraints from geochronology and geochemistry of Late Carboniferous to Permian gabbros and diorites. Lithos, 274–5, pp. 19-30. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.12.029)

Xu, B., Zhao, G., Li, J., Liu, D., Wang, B., Han, Y., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Zhang, X., Hou, W. and Liu, Q. (2017) Ages and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from Paleozoic strata in the Chagan Obo Temple area, Inner Mongolia: implications for the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Gondwana Research, 43, pp. 149-163. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.08.004)

Yanlin Zhu, C., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Liu, Q., Zhang, X., Han, Y. and Hou, W. (2017) Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications. Gondwana Research, 43, pp. 213-228. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.02.001)

Liu, Q. et al. (2016) Early Paleozoic subduction processes of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: Insights from geochronology and geochemistry of Paleozoic plutons in the Alxa Terrane. Lithos, 262, pp. 546-560. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.07.041)

Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Sun, M., Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D., Wang, B., Liu, Q. and Xu, B. (2016) Late Ordovician adakitic rocks in the Central Tianshan block, NW China: partial melting of lower continental arc crust during back-arc basin opening. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128(9-10), pp. 1367-1382. (doi: 10.1130/b31452.1)

Zhang, X. et al. (2016) Tectonic transition from late carboniferous subduction to early Permian post-collisional extension in the eastern Tianshan, NW China: insights from geochronology and geochemistry of mafic-intermediate intrusions. Lithos, 256-7, pp. 269-281. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.04.006)

Han, Y., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Hou, W., Zhang, X., Liu, D. and Wang, B. (2016) Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the initial uplift and denudation of the Chinese western Tianshan after the assembly of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Sedimentary Geology, 339, pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.03.028)

Han, Y., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. , Hou, W., Zhang, X., Liu, Q., Wang, B., Liu, D. and Xu, B. (2016) Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone. Lithos, 246-7, pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.12.016)

Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. , Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D., Wang, B., Liu, Q. and Xu, B. (2016) Tectonic evolution from subduction to arc-continent collision of the Junggar ocean: Constraints from U-Pb dating and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the North Tianshan belt, NW China. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128(3-4), pp. 644-660. (doi: 10.1130/b31230.1)

Han, Y., Zhao, G., Cawood, P. A., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. , Hou, W., Zhang, X. and Liu, Q. (2016) Tarim and North China cratons linked to northern Gondwana through switching accretionary tectonics and collisional orogenesis. Geology, 44(2), pp. 95-98. (doi: 10.1130/g37399.1)

Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Sun, M., Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D., Wang, B., Liu, Q. and Xu, B. (2015) Latest Carboniferous closure of the Junggar ocean constrained by geochemical and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic data of granitic gneisses from the Central Tianshan block, NW China. Lithos, 238, pp. 26-36. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.09.012)

Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Zhao, G., Sun, M., Zhang, J., Han, Y. and Hou, W. (2015) Geochronological and Hf isotopic variability of detrital zircons in Paleozoic strata across the accretionary collision zone between the North China craton and Mongolian arcs and tectonic implications. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 127(9-10), pp. 1422-1436. (doi: 10.1130/b31175.1)

Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. R. , Han, Y., Hou, W., Zhang, X., Wang, B., Liu, D. and Xu, B. (2015) Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, China. Precambrian Research, 266, pp. 551-578. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2015.05.022)

Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Eizenhöfer, P. , Sun, M., Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D., Wang, B., Liu, Q. and Xu, B. (2015) Paleozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Central Tianshan block revealed by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope studies of detrital zircons from the South Tianshan belt, NW China. Lithos, 233, pp. 193-208. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.06.002)

Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhao, G., Zhang, J., Han, Y., Hou, W., Liu, D. and Wang, B. (2015) Geochemical characteristics of the Permian basins and their provenances across the Solonker Suture Zone: Assessment of net crustal growth during the closure of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean. Lithos, 224-5, pp. 240-255. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.03.012)

Han, Y., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P. , Hou, W., Zhang, X., Liu, D., Wang, B. and Zhang, G. (2015) Paleozoic accretionary orogenesis in the Paleo-Asian Ocean: insights from detrital zircons from Silurian to Carboniferous strata at the northwestern margin of the Tarim Craton. Tectonics, 34(2), pp. 334-351. (doi: 10.1002/2014TC003668)

Yanlin Zhu, C., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Liu, Q., Han, Y., Hou, W., Zhang, X. and Eizenhöfer, P. R. (2015) Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan blueschists in the Heilongjiang Complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications. Lithos, 216-7, pp. 241-253. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2014.12.021)

Eizenhöfer, P. , Zhao, G., Zhang, J. and Sun, M. (2014) Final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean along the Solonker Suture Zone: Constraints from geochronological and geochemical data of Permian volcanic and sedimentary rocks. Tectonics, 33(4), pp. 441-463. (doi: 10.1002/2013tc003357)

Wu, M., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Li, S., Bao, Z., Tam, P. Y., Eizenhöfer, P. and He, Y. (2014) Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes of major lithologies from the Jiaodong Terrane: implications for the crustal evolution of the Eastern Block of the North China Craton. Lithos, 190-1, pp. 71-84. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2013.12.004)

Yuan, W., Deng, J., Zheng, Q., Dong, J., Bao, Z., Eizenhöfer, P. , Xu, X. and Huang, Z. (2009) Apatite fission track constraints on the Neogene tectono-thermal history of Nimu area, southern Gangdese terrane, Tibet Plateau. Island Arc, 18(3), pp. 488-495. (doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2009.00669.x)

Conference or Workshop Item

Eizenhöfer, P. R. , McQuarrie, N., Ghoshal, S., Mutz, S. G. and Ehlers, T. A. (2023) Drivers of Topography in Fold-thrust Belts: A Perspective from Central Nepal. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24-28 Apr 2023. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-13359)

Conference Proceedings

Cloetingh, S. et al. (2022) Plume-Induced Sinking of the Intracontinental Lithosphere as a Fundamentally New Mechanism of Subduction Initiation. In: EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4976)

Eizenhöfer, P. , Glotzbach, C., Kley, J. and Ehlers, T. (2022) Thermo-Kinematic Evolution of the Eastern Alps along TRANSALP: Exploring the Transient Tectonic State towards Slab Reversal. In: EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-7433)

Eizenhoefer, P. , Glotzbach, C., Büttner, L., Kley, J. and Ehlers, T. A. (2020) Neogene Exhumation History along TRANSALP: Insights from Low Temperature Thermochronology and Thermo-Kinematic Models. In: EGU General Assembly 2020, 04-08 May 2020, (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-9714)

Glotzbach, C., Eizenhoefer, P. , Kley, J. and Ehlers, T. A. (2020) Structural Thermochronology along Geophysical Transects through the Alps. In: EGU General Assembly 2020, 04-08 May 2020, (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6781)

Eizenhöfer, P. , McQuarrie, N., Ehlers, T. A. and Shelef, E. (2017) All Smeared? Geomorphic Responses to Horizontal Movement at Geologic Time Scales. In: GSA Annual Meeting 2017, Seattle, Washington, USA, (doi: 10.1130/abs/2017am-301226)

McQuarrie, N., Ehlers, T. A. and Eizenhöfer, P. R. (2017) Determining Fault Geometry from Matching Predicted and Measured Cooling Ages and Topographies; Melding Cross Section Kinematics, Thermal Modeling and Landscape Evolution in Central Nepal. In: GSA Annual Meeting 2017, Seattle, Washington, USA, (doi: 10.1130/abs/2017am-302272)

Eizenhöfer, P. , McQuarrie, N. and Gilmore, M. E. (2016) Evaluating Numerically Modeled Geomorphological and Sedimentary Responses to Structural, Kinematic and Climatic Variations in Eastern Bhutan. In: GSA Annual Meeting 2016, Denver, Colorado, USA, (doi: 10.1130/abs/2016am-284785)

McQuarrie, N., Eizenhöfer, P. and Ehlers, T. A. (2016) Utilizing Linked Thermo-Kinematic Modeling and Balanced Cross Sections to Predict and Evaluate the Topography, Active Fault Geometry and Resulting Thermal Evolution of the Central Nepal Himalaya. In: GSA Annual Meeting 2016, Denver, Colorado, USA, (doi: 10.1130/abs/2016am-285751)

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Grants

  • 2025 - 2026
    The Carnegie Trust (£15k)
    Synthesis of Climatic and Tectonic Drivers of Intracontinental Landscape Evolution
  • 2024 - 2026 
    The Royal Society & National Natural Science Foundation China (£24k)
    Reconstruction of the exhumation history of the Gongga Shan in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau
  • 2020 – 2025
    German Science Foundation / DFG (~£250k)
    Quantifying the Effects of Mantle Processes and Climate Variability on Hinterland Denudation in the Central and Eastern Alps since the Oligocene (Mountain Building Processes in Four Dimensions / 4D-MB Priority Program) 
  • 2016 – 2018
    Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
    Feodor-Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2010-2014
    The University of Hong Kong
    PhD Fellowship

 

Supervision

Active Projects

MSc by Research

  • The Impact of Glacial Retreat on the Geomorphology of the Black Sea Region (Ciara Fallon)

PhD Research

  • Quantifying drivers of exhumation and landscape responses to tectonic and climatic variability in the Tian Shan region (Chang Zhong)

Postdoctoral Research

  • Quantifying the Effects of Mantle Processes and Climate Variability on Hinterland Denudation in the Central and Eastern Alps since the Oligocene (Dr. David Oakley)
  • Experimentally defining the effect of deformation on metamorphism (Dr. James Gilgannon)

Available Projects (please contact me for details)

PhD

  • Statistical Emulation for Landscape Evolution Models 
    (in collaboration with Dr. Benn Macdonald and Dr. Mu Niu, School of Mathematics and Statistics / Univ. Glasgow)
  • Tracing the Impact of Rapid Mountain Formation on the Evolution of Biodiversity in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau
    (in collaboration with Prof. Xiaoming Shen, National Institute of Natural Hazards Beijing / China)
  • Landscapes and Life: Identifying tectonic and climate drivers of biodiversity on Earth 
    (in collaboration with Dr. Shan Huang, Univ. Birmingham / UK, and Dr. Maud Meijers, Univ. Graz / Austria)
  • Relict Landscapes as Archives of Past Climatic and Tectonic Conditions 
    (in collaboration with Dr. Fiona Clubb and Prof. Mark Allen, Univ. Durham / UK)
  • Synthesis of Climatic and Tectonic Drivers of Intracontinental Landscape Evolution (samples available, analysis costs covered; smaller-scale MSc by Research project possible)
  • Quantifying Sedimentary Responses to Neogene Hinterland Denudation in the Eastern Himalaya, Bhutan 
    (in collaboration with Prof. Nadine McQuarrie, Univ. Pittsburgh / USA)
  • Mapping the resilience of Scottish flora to climate change using high-resolution, multispectral UAV
    (MSc by Research possible, in collaboration with Dr. Rea Laila Antoniou Kourounioti, School of Molecular Biosciences / Univ. Glasgow)
  • Investigating Plume-Lithosphere-Surface Processes Interactions across Craton Margins 
    (in collaboration with Dr. Antoniette Grima & Dr. Mark Wildman, Univ. Glasgow)
  • Quantifying Climatic and Tectonic Controls on the Cenozoic Evolution of the Greater Caucasus

MSc by Research

  • Fallon, Ciara
    The Impact of Glacial Retreat on the Geomorphology of the Black Sea Region
  • Zhong, Chang
    Quantifying drivers of exhumation and landscape responses to tectonic and climatic variability in the Tian Shan region

Completed MSci Projects

  • Aidan Phillips (2023). An uplifting tale: isolating the role of tectonic activity in the landscape evolution of the Rwenzori Mountains, East Africa (MSci dissertation, University of Glasgow / Scotland)
  • Iina Männistö (2023). Topographic analysis and the influence of climate in the landscape evolution of the Rwenzori Mountains (MSci dissertation, University of Glasgow / Scotland)

Completed BSc Projects

  • Huda Muhktar (2023): Accessing Tectonic and Climatic Archives of Relict Landscapes in West-Africa (IAPETUS2 Research Placement Scheme)
  • Julius Konietzko (2022). Linking low-temperature cooling paths to tectonics-driven exhumation in the Eastern Alps along EASI (BSc thesis, University of Tübingen / Germany)
  • Victoria Schwarz (2022). Kinematic Evolution of the Molasse Fold-thrust Belt along the EASI Geophysical Transect in the Eastern Alps (BSc thesis, University of Tübingen / Germany)

Teaching

BSc Geology, Environmental Geoscience & Geography

  • Head of Level 1 Earth Science (EARTH1001 / EARTH1002)

Honours Level

  • Structural Geology and Basin Resources (EARTH4094)
  • Landscape Dynamics (EARTH4090)

MSc Geography

  • Topographic Modelling & Landscape Monitoring (GEOG5025)
  • Modelling of Landscape Evolution (EARTH5015)

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