Dr. McQuarrie received her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 2001 with an emphasis in Structure and Tectonics. She was a Post-Doctoral Scholar at California Institute of Technology from 2001-2004 and an assistant professor at Princeton University before joining the Department in 2011. Dr. McQuarrie spent a year at Tuebingen University in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (2011-2012).
Ghoshal, S., McQuarrie, N., Robinson, D., Adhikari, D.P., Morgan, L., Ehlers, T.A., 2020, Constraining central Himalayan (Nepal) fault geometry through integrated thermochronology and thermokinematic modeling. Tectonics. DOI: 10.1029/2020TC006399.
McQuarrie, N., Eizenhöfer, P.R. Long, S.P., Tobgay, T., Ehlers, T.A., Blythe, A., Morgan, L., *Gilmore, M.E., Dering, G., 2019, Influence of foreland structures on hinterland cooling; evaluating the drivers of exhumation in the Eastern Bhutan Himalaya: Tectonics. doi: 10.1029/2018TC005340
Eizenhöfer, P., McQuarrie, N., Shelef, E., Ehlers, T.A., 2019, Fluvial responses to horizontal displacement in convergent orogens over geologic time scales: Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. doi: 10.1029/2019JF005100
McQuarrie, N. and Ehlers T.A., 2017, Techniques for understanding fold-thrust belt kinematics and thermal evolution: in Law, R.D., Thigpen, J.R., Merschat, A.J., Stowell, H.H., (eds) Linkages and Feedbacks in Orogenic Systems, Geological Society of America Memoir, 213, doi:10.1130/2017.1213(02)
McQuarrie, N. and Ehlers T.A., 2015, Influence of thrust belt geometry and shortening rate on thermochronometer cooling ages: Insights from the Bhutan Himalaya: Tectonics, 34, doi:10.1002/ 2014TC003783.
Our group studies the geometric, kinematic and erosional evolution of mountain belts, particularly in the Himalaya, Andes and Appalachians. Current research activities focus on linking the geometry and kinematics of mapped structures to thermochronometer cooling ages to look at the interplay between tectonics and erosion on exhumation patterns and morphology of mountain ranges. Research projects start with structurally based field studies, typically through the creation of new geologic maps at previously unpublished scales or resolutions. Using this high resolution geological mapping as a foundation, the projects expand to include the creation and sequential restoration of geologic cross sections (providing kinematics) as well as new mineral cooling ages to determine the distribution, magnitude and rate of deformation. Details of current projects available here