Eva Enkelmann
Positions
Associate Professor
Faculty of Science, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment
Contact information
Location
Office: ES518
I'm looking for...
Research partners
Looking for research partners interested in:
- the evolution of the Canadian Cordillera
- method development for (U-Th)/He, fission track and U-Pb dating, multi-method dating of individual grains
Study participants
I look for students that are passionate about tectonics and geo-and thermochornological analyses. We have cutting edge lab facilities that allow a wide range of analyses and method developments.
Background
Educational Background
PhD Geology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, 2005
M.Sc. Geology and Paleontology, University of Freiberg, 2001
Research
Areas of Research
My research focus is on the evolution of mountain belts over a range of length scale from hundreds to tens of kilometers. I am especially interested in understanding the evolution of landscapes that result from the interaction of tectonic forces and surface processes. I am using various thermochronological methods combined with geochronology, structural data, geomorphology and sedimentology to understand upper crustal processes such as faulting, basin formation and inversion, fold-thrust belt evolution and many more.
I am also interested in the methodological development of thermochronologic methods and multi-method dating of individual mineral grains derived from crystalline and sedimentary rocks and unconsolidated sediment.
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| GLGY 555 | Global Tectonics | Fall |
| GLGY 445 | Structural Geology | Winter |
| GLGY 435.4 | Field Methods (Cdn Cordillera Field School) | Spring |
| GLGY 707 | Geology and Geophysics of Western Canada | Fall |
Projects
This project is in collaboration with the NWT Geological Survey. Start 2020
This project is in collaboration with the Mineral Deposit Research Unit at the University of BC. Start 2023
This project is conducted in collaboration with the Yukon Geological Survey and the Geological Survey of Canada. Start 2021.
We develop new analytical methods for analyzing individual mineral grains with multiple dating methods including. This includes laser-ablation basedon (U-Th-Sm)/He, U-Pb, fission track and Raman dating applied to the minerals of apatite and zircon. This reserach is funded through a American Chemical Society PRF and NSERC - Discovery Grant.
Awards
- Fellow, Geological Society of America. 2022
- Outstanding Achievements Award , Faculty of Science - University of Calgary. 2023
Publications
- Resolving the Cenozoic History of rock Exhumation along the central Rocky Mountain Trench using apatite low-temperature thermochronology.. Fraser, K., Enkelmann, E., Jess, S., Gilbert, H. and R. Grieco, . Tectonics 40. e2021TC006847.. (2021)
- Exhumation of the Costal Metamorphic Belt above the Subduction-to-Transform Transition, in the Southeast Caribbean Plate Corner. . Arkle, J., Weber, J., Enkelmann, E., Owen, L., Govers, R., Jess, S., Denison, C., O’Sullivan, P., Donelick, R., . Tectonics 40. e2020TC006414. (2021)
- Cenozoic exhumation history of the eastern margin of the northern Canadian Cordillera. . McKay, R., Enkelmann, E., Hadlari, T., Matthews, W., Mouthereau, F.. Tectonics 40. e2020TC006582. (2021)
- Is the eastern Denali Fault active?. Choi, M., Eaton, D., Enkelmann, E.,. Geology 49. 662–666. (2021)
- Fault inversion in central Iran: evidence of post Pliocene intracontinental left lateral kinematics at the northern Iranian Plateau margin.. Khodaparast, S., Madanipour, S., Enkelmann, E., Nozaem, R., Hessami, K.. Journal of Geodynamics. 140,. 101784. (2020)
- Paleogene Initiation of the Western Branch of the East African Rift: the uplift history of the Rwenzori Mountains, Western Uganda.. 8. Jess, S., Koehn, D., Fox, M., Enkelmann, E., Sachau, T., Aanyu, K. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 552. 116593 . (2020)
- Laser Ablation U-Th-Sm/He dating of apatite. . Pickering, J., Matthews, W., Enkelmann, E., Guest, B., Sykes, C., Koblinger, B.. Chemical Geology 548. 119683. (2020)
- Tajik Basin and Southwestern Tian Shan, Northwestern India-Asia Collision Zone: 2. Timing of Basin Inversion, Tian Shan Mountain Building, and Relation to Pamir-Plateau Collapse and Deep India-Asia Indentation. . 10. Abdulhameed, S., Ratschbacher, L., Jonckheere, R., Gągała, Ł., Enkelmann, E., Käßner, A., Kars, M., Szulc, A., Kufner, S.-K., Schurr, B., Ringenbach, J.-C., Nakapelyukh, M., and Khan, J. . Tectonics, 39. e2019TC005873. (2020)
- Late Miocene to Pleistocene source to sink record of exhumation and sediment routing in the Gulf of Alaska from detrital zircon fission-track and U-Pb double dating. . Bootes, N., Enkelmann, E., Lease, R., . Tectonics 38. 2703–2726. (2019)
- Deformation at the eastern margin of the Northern Canadian Cordillera: potentially related to opening of the North Atlantic. Enkelmann, E., Finzel, E., Arkle, J. . Terra Nova 31. 1-8. (2019)
- Uplift and Exhumation of the Russell Fiord and Boundary blocks along the northern Fairweather Transform Fault, Alaska. . Schartman, A., Enkelmann, E., Garver, J.I., Davidson, C. . Lithosphere, 11 . 232–251. (2019)
- Detrital Zircon double-dating of forearc basin strata reveals magmatic, exhumational, and thermal History of Sediment Source Areas. . Enkelmann, E., Sanchez Lohff, S.K., Finzel, F.S.. GSA Bulletin 131 . 1364–1384. (2019)
- Detrital zircon provenance of Upper Jurassic-Upper Cretaceous forearc basin strata on the Insular terrane, south-central Alaska. . Reid, M.R., Finzel, E.S., Enkelmann, E., McClelland, W.C. . Geological Society of America Special Paper 540. (2018)
- Tectonostratigraphy, Structural Geometry and Kinematics of the NW Iranian Plateau Margin: Insights from the Talesh Mountains, Iran. . Madanipour, S., Yassaghi, A., Ehlers, T.A., Enkelmann, E., . American Journal of Science 318. 208-245. (2018)
- Accelerated middle Miocene exhumation of the Talesh Mountains constrained by U-Th/He thermochronometry: evidence for the Arabia¬–Eurasia collision in the NW-Iranian Plateau.. Madanipour, S., Ehlers, T.A., Yassaghi, A., Enkelmann, E.,. Tectonics 36. 1538-1561. (2017)
- Sichuan Basin and Beyond: Eastward foreland growth of the Tibetan Plateau from an integration of Late Cretaceous- Cenozoic fission-track and (U-Th)/He ages of the eastern Tibetan Plateau, Qinling, and Daba Shan.. Yang, Z., Shen, C., Ratschbacher, L., Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere. R., Wauschkuhn, B., Dong, Y. JGR-Solid Earth 122. 4712–4740. (2017)
- Solubility and trapping of helium in apatite. . Zeitler, P.K., Enkelmann, E., Thomas, J., Watson, B., Ancuta, L.D., Idleman, B.D. Geochemica et Cosmochemica Acta 209. 1-8. (2017)
- Miocene-Recent sediment flux in the south-central Alaskan forearc basin governed by flat-slab subduction. . Finzel, E. and Enkelmann, E., . Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., . 1739– 1760. (2017)
- Source to sink evaluation of sediment routing in the Gulf of Alaska and Southeast Alaska: a thermochronometric perspective. . Dunn, C.A., Enkelmann, E., Ridgway, K.D., Allen, W.K.,. JGR-Earth Surface. 711-734. (2017)
- Building the Pamir-Tibet Plateau—Crustal stacking, extensional collapse, and lateral extrusion in the Central Pamir: 2. Timing and Rates. . Rutte, D., Ratschbacher, L. Khan, J., Stübner, K. Hacker, B. R., Stearns, M.A., Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere, R., Pfänder, J. A, Sperner, B., Tichomirowa, M. . Tectonics, 36. 385-419. (2017)
- Thermochronology in southeast Alaska and southwest Yukon: Implications for North American Plate Response to Terrane Accretion.. Enkelmann, E., Piestrzeniewicz, A., Falkowski, S., Stübner, K., Ehlers, T.A. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 457. 348–358. (2017)
- Determining the longevity of hydrothermal systems using thermochronology and thermal modelling. . Jess, S., Enkelmann, E., Grasby, S., Fraser, K.,. JGR–Earth Surface . e2021JF006286. (2021)
- (U-Th)/He chronology: Part 1. Data, uncertainty, and reporting. . Flowers, R., Zeitler, P.K., Danisik, M., Reiners, P., Gautheron, C., Ketcham, R., Metcalf, J., Stockli, D., Enkelmann, E., and Brown, R., . GSA Bulletin 135. 104–136 . (2022)
- (U-Th)/He chronology: Part 2. Considerations for evaluating, integrating and interpreting conventional individual aliquot data. . Flowers, R., Ketcham, R., Enkelmann, E., Gautheron, C., Reiners, P., Metcalf, J., Danisik, M., Stockli, D., and Brown, R.,. GSA Bulletin 135 . 137–161. (2022)
- The evolution of the Eastern Himalayan syntaxis revealed by India (Tethyan Himalaya Series) in central Myanmar. . Min, M., Ratschbacher, L., Franz, L., Hacker, B. R., Enkelmann, E., Eko Yoan Toreno, Jonckheere, R., Härtel, B., Schurr, B., Tichomirowa, M., Pfänder, J.A., . Geophyscial Research Letters 49. e2022GL099140. (2022)
- Why are the Appalachians high? New insights from detrital apatite laser ablation (U-Th)/He dating. . Jess, S.A., Enkelmann, E., Matthews, W.. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 597. 117794. (2022)
- Exhumation history and Early Cretaceous paleogeography of the Newfoundland margin revealed by detrital zircon U-Pb and fission-track studies of syn-rift Hibernia Formation strata.. Johns-Buss, E.G., Beranek, L.P., Enkelmann, E., Jess, S., Matthews, W.. Marine and Petroleum Geology 148. 106055. (2023)
- The effect of sediment transport in glaciated catchments on multimineral detrital geochronology: deciphering contrasting zircon and apatite U-Pb dates.. Jess, S.A., Enkelmann, E., Matthews, W. . JGR-Earth Surface 128. e2022JF006738. (2023)
- Prolonged Post-Orogenic Extension in the Southeastern Canadian Cordillera: Miocene Reactivation of the Columbia River Fault. . Damant, K.A., Enkelmann, E., Jess, S. . Tectonophysics. 229763. (2023)
- Duluth complex FC1 apatite and zircon: reference materials for (U-Th)/He dating?. Härtel, B., Matthews, W., Enkelmann, E. . Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 47. 669–681. (2023)
- Analyzing the horizontal orientation of the crustal stress adjacent to plate boundaries.. Stefan, T., Enkelmann, E. Kroner, U., . Scientific Reports, 13. 15590. (2023)
- In search of lost time: Raman thermochronology of FC1 zircon. Härtel, B., Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere, R., Ludwig, T., Krause, J., Ratschbacher, L.. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 179, 2. (2024)
- Earthquake relocations delineate discrete fault network and deformation corridor throughout Southeast Alaska and Southwest Yukon. Biegel, K.M., Gosselin, J.M., Dettmer, J., Colpron, M., Enkelmann, E., Caine, J.S., . Tectonics. (2024)
- Fission Track Dating. Enkelmann, Eva, and Jonckheere, Raymond. Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd edition. 116-131. (2021)
- Rocky Voices: The Memories of Minerals that Formed the Rocky Mountains. . Enkelmann, Eva. FriesenPress. 126. (2023)
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