2022

Jonell, T.N., Giosan, L., Clift, P.D., Carter, A., Bretschneider, L., Hathorne, E.C., Barbarano, M., Garzanti, E., Vezzoli, G., Naing, T., 2022. No modern Irrawaddy River until the late Miocene-Pliocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584: 117516. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117516.

Liu, C., Stockli, D.F., Clift, P.D., Wan, S., Stockli, L.D., Höfig, T.W., Schindlbeck-Belo, J.C., 2022. Geochronological and geochemical characterization of paleo-rivers deposits during rifting of the South China Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584: 117427. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117427.

Zheng, H., Yang, Q., Cao, S., Clift, P.D., He, M., Kano, A., Sakuma, A., Xu, H., Tada, R., Jourdan, F., 2022. From desert to monsoon: irreversible climatic transition at ~ 36 Ma in southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 9(1): 12. doi:10.1186/s40645-022-00470-x.

Zhou, P., Stockli, D.F., Ireland, T., Murray, R.W., Clift, P.D., 2022. Zircon U-Pb Age Constraints on NW Himalayan Exhumation From the Laxmi Basin, Arabian Sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(1): e2021GC010158. doi:10.1029/2021GC010158.

2021

Zhao, Q., Yan, Y., Zhu, Z., Carter, A., Clift, P.D., Amir Hassan, M.H., Yao, D., Aziz, J.H.A., 2021. Provenance study of the Lubok Antu Mélange from the Lupar valley, West Sarawak, Borneo: Implications for the closure of eastern Meso-Tethys? Chemical Geology, 581: 120415. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120415.

Calvès, G., Mix, A., Giosan, L., Clift, P.D., Brusset, S., Baby, P., Vega, M., 2021. The Nazca Drift System – palaeoceanographic significance of a giant sleeping on the SE Pacific Ocean floor. Geological Magazine: 1-15. doi:10.1017/S0016756821000960.

Gregory, B., Herrmann, A.D., Ireland, T., Clift, P.D., 2021. Testing the applicability of zircon U-Pb dating as a provenance method in a highly altered river system, Mississippi-Missouri River, USA. Basin Research, doi:10.1111/bre.12618.

He, M., Zheng, H., Clift, P.D., Bian, Z., Yang, Q., Zhang, B., Xia, L., 2021. Paleogene Sedimentary Records of the Paleo-Jinshajiang (Upper Yangtze) in the Jianchuan Basin, Yunnan, SW China. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(6): e2020GC009500. doi:10.1029/2020GC009500.

Feng, H., Lu, H., Carrapa, B., Zhang, H., Chen, J., Wang, Y., Clift, P.D., 2021. Erosion of the Himalaya-Karakoram recorded by Indus Fan deposits since the Oligocene. Geology. doi:10.1130/g48445.1.

Zhao, Q., Yan, Y., Tonai, S., Tomioka, N., Clift, P.D., Amir Hassan, M.H., Bin Abdul Aziz, J.H., 2021. A new K-Ar illite dating application to constrain the timing of subduction in West Sarawak, Borneo. GSA Bulletin. doi:10.1130/b35895.1.

Clift, P.D., Jonell, T.N., 2021. Monsoon controls on sediment generation and transport: Mass budget and provenance constraints from the Indus River catchment, delta and submarine fan over tectonic and multi-millennial timescales. Earth-Science Reviews: 103682. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103682.

Xiao, R., Zheng, Y., Liu, X., Yang, Q., Liu, G., Xia, L., Bian, Z., Guan, J., Feng, P., Xu, H., Clift, P.D., Qiang, X., Zhang, Y., Zheng, H., 2021. Synchronous Sedimentation in Gonjo Basin, Southeast Tibet in Response to India-Asia Collision Constrained by Magnetostratigraphy. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(3): e2020GC009411. doi:10.1029/2020GC009411.

Xu, Z., Wan, S., Colin, C., Clift, P.D., Chang, F., Li, T., Chen, H., Cai, M., Yu, Z., Lim, D., 2021. Enhancements of Himalayan and Tibetan Erosion and the Produced Organic Carbon Burial in Distal Tropical Marginal Seas During the Quaternary Glacial Periods: An Integration of Sedimentary Records. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126(3): e2020JF005828. doi:10.1029/2020JF005828.

Clift, P.D., Luther, A.L., Avery, M., and O'Sullivan, P., 2021. U-Pb Detrital Zircon Constraints on Active Margin Magmatism and Sedimentation after the Grampian Orogeny in Western Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-093.

Clift, P.D., and Jonell, T.N., 2021. Himalayan-Tibetan Erosion is not the Cause of Neogene Global Cooling, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020 GL087742, doi: 10.1029/2020GL087742

Zhou, P., Ireland, T., Murray, R.W., Clift, P.D., 2021. Marine Sedimentary Records of Chemical Weathering Evolution in the Western Himalaya since 17 Ma. Geosphere, doi:10.1130/GES02211.1.

2020

Shan, X., Shi, X., Clift, P.D., Seddique, A.A., Liu, S., Tan, C., Liu, J., Hasan, R., Li, J., Song, Z., 2020. Sedimentology of the modern seasonal lower Ganges River with low inter-annual peak discharge variance, Bangladesh. Journal of the Geological Society, London, jgs2020-094. doi:10.1144/jgs2020-094.

Herbozo, G., Kukowski, N., Clift, P.D., Pecher, I., Bolaños, R., 2020. Cenozoic increase in subduction erosion during plate convergence variability along the convergent margin off Trujillo, Peru. Tectonophysics, 790: 228557. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228557.

Zheng, H., Clift, P.D., He, M., Bian, Z., Liu, G., Liu, X., Xia, L., Yang, Q., Jourdan, F., 2020. Formation of the First Bend in the late Eocene gave birth to the modern Yangtze River, China. Geology. doi:10.1130/G48149.1.

Chen, W.-H., Yan, Y., Clift, P.D., Carter, A., Huang, C.-Y., Pickering, K.T., Chemale, F., Shan, Y. & Zhang, X. 2020. Drainage evolution and exhumation history of the eastern Himalaya: Insights from the Nicobar Fan, northeastern Indian Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 548, 116472, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116472.

Clift, P. D., A. Holbourn, C. France-Lanord, and H. Zheng (2020), Evolution of the Asian monsoon, Eos, 101, doi:10.1029/2020EO146198.

Garzanti, E., Liang, W., Andò, S., Clift, P.D., Resentini, A., Vermeesch, P., Vezzoli, G., 2020. Provenance of Thal Desert sand: Focused erosion in the western Himalayan syntaxis and foreland-basin deposition driven by latest Quaternary climate change. Earth-Science Reviews, 207: 103220. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103220.

Clift, P.D., Calvès, G., Jonell, T.N., 2020. Evidence for simple volcanic rifting not complex subduction initiation in the Laxmi Basin. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16569-y.

Clift, P.D., Carter, A., Wysocka, A., Hoang, L.V., Zheng, H., and Neubeck, N., 2020. A Late Eocene- Oligocene through-flowing river between the Upper Yangtze and South China Sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi: 10.1029/2020GC009046

Lu, H., Liu, R., Cheng, L., Feng, H., Zhang, H., Wang, Y., Hu, R., Zhao, W., Ji, J., Xu, Z., Yu, Z., Kulhanek, D.K., Pandey, D.K., Clift, P.D., 2020. Phased evolution and variation of the South Asian monsoon, and resulting weathering and surface erosion in the Himalaya–Karakoram Mountains, since late Pliocene time using data from Arabian Sea core. Geological Magazine: 1-15. doi:10.1017/S0016756820000291

Clift, P.D., 2020. Asian monsoon dynamics and sediment transport in SE Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 195: 104352. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104352.

Gupta, A. K., M. Prakasam, S. Dutt, P. D. Clift, and R. R. Yadav (2020), Evolution and development of the Indian monsoon, in Geodynamics of the Indian Plate: Evolutionary Perspectives, edited by N. Gupta and S. Tandon, pp. 499-535, Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-15989-4_14

Pei, W., Wan, S., Clift, P.D., Dong, J., Liu, X., Lu, J., Tan, Y., Shi, X., Li, A., 2020. Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of fire in the Yangtze River Basin since 3.0ka BP. Quaternary Science Reviews, 230. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106165.

2019

Li, Y., Clift, P.D., Murray, R.W., Exnicios, E., Ireland, T., Böning, P., (2019). Asian summer monsoon influence on chemical weathering and sediment provenance determined by clay mineral analysis from the Indus Submarine Canyon. Quaternary Research: 1-17. 10.1017/qua.2019.44.

Cai, M., Z. Xu, P. D. Clift, D. Lim, B.-K. Khim, Z. Yu, D. K. Kulhanek, T. Li, H. Chen, and R. Sun,. (2019) Depositional history and Indian summer monsoon controls on the silicate weathering of sediment transported to the eastern Arabian Sea: Geochemical records from IODP Site U1456 since 3.8 Ma, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 0(ja), doi:10.1029/2018gc008157.

Andò, S., Aharonovich, S., Hahn, A., George, S.C., Clift, P.D., Garzanti, E., (2019). Integrating heavy-mineral, geochemical and biomarker analyses of Plio-Pleistocene sandy and silty turbidites: a novel approach for provenance studies (Indus Fan, IODP Expedition 355). Geological Magazine: 1-10. doi:10.1017/S0016756819000773.

Calvès, G., Calderon, Y., Roso, V., Bonnel, C., Roddaz, M., Brusset, S., Baby, P., Clift, P.D., (2019). Past Amazon Basin fluvial systems, insight into the Cenozoic sequences using seismic geomorphology (Marañón Basin, Peru). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 90: 440-452. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2018.12.019.

Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D., Robinson, S., Valdes, P., Roberts, W., Clift, P., Markwick, P., Su, T., Wrobel, N., Bragg, F., Kelland, S.-J., Pancost, R., (2019). Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by palaeogeography, not CO2. Science Advances, in press.

Shan, X., Shi, X., Clift, P.D. et al., (2019). Carbon isotope and rare earth element composition of Late Quaternary sediment gravity flow deposits on the mid shelf of East China Sea: Implications for provenance and origin of hybrid event beds. Sedimentology, 66(5): 1861-1895. doi: 10.1111/sed.12561.

Zhang, J., S. Wan, P. D. Clift, J. Huang, Z. Yu, K. Zhang, X. Mei, J. Liu, Z. Han, Q. Nan, D. Zhao, A. Li, L. Chen, H. Zheng, S. Yang, T. Li, and X. Zhang, (2019). History of Yellow River and Yangtze River delivering sediment to the Yellow Sea since 3.5 Ma: Tectonic or climate forcing?, Quat. Sci. Rev., 216, 74-88, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.002.

Clift, P.D., Kulhanek, D.K., Zhou, P., Bowen, M.G., Vincent, S.M., Lyle, M., Hahn, A., (2019). Chemical weathering and erosion responses to changing monsoon climate in the Late Miocene of Southwest Asia. Geological Magazine. doi:10.1017/S0016756819000608.

Clift, P.D., Zhou, P., Stockli, D.F., Blusztajn, J., (2019). Regional Pliocene exhumation of the Lesser Himalaya in the Indus drainage. Solid Earth, 10: 647-661. doi:10.5194/se-10-647-2019.

Xu, Z., Li, T., Clift, P.D., Wan, S., Lim, D., Chang, F., Sun, R., (2019). Sea-level, monsoonal, and anthropogenic impacts on the millennial-scale variability of siliciclastic sediment input into the western Philippine sea since 27 ka. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 177: 250-262. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.04.001.

Liu, C., Clift, P.D., Giosan, L., Miao, Y., Warny, S., Wan, S., (2019). Paleoclimatic evolution of the SW and NE South China Sea and its relationship with spectral reflectance data over various age scales. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 525: 25-43. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.02.019.

Wu, Y., Ding, W., Clift, P.D., Li, J., Yin, S., Fang, Y., Ding, H., (2019). Sedimentary budget of the Northwest Sub-basin, South China Sea: controlling factors and geological implications. International Geology Review: 1-18. doi:10.1080/00206814.2019.1597392.

Chen, H., Xu, Z., Clift, P.D., Lim, D., Khim, B.-K., Yu, Z., (2019). Orbital-scale evolution of the Indian summer monsoon since 1.2 Ma: Evidence from clay mineral records at IODP Expedition 355 Site U1456 in the eastern Arabian Sea. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 174: 11-22. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.10.012.

Lei, C., Clift, P.D., Ren, J., Ogg, J., Tong, C., (2019). A rapid shift in the sediment routing system of lower-upper Oligocene strata in the Qiongdongnnan basin (Xisha Trough), Northwest south China Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.03.

Yu, Z., Colin, C., Wan, S., Saraswat, R., Song, L., Xu, Z., Clift, P., Lu, H., Lyle, M., Kulhanek, D., Hahn, A., Tiwari, M., Mishra, R., Miska, S. and Kumar, A. (2019) Sea level-controlled sediment transport to the eastern Arabian Sea over the past 600 kyr: Clay minerals and SrNd isotopic evidence from IODP site U1457. Quaternary Science Reviews 205, 22-34.

Khim, B.-K., J. Lee, S. Ha, J. Park, D. K. Pandey, P. D. Clift, D. K. Kulhanek, S. Steinke, E. M. Griffith, K. Suzuki, and Z. Xu., (2019) Variations in δ13C values of sedimentary organic matter since late Miocene time in the Indus Fan (IODP Site 1457) of the eastern Arabian Sea, Geological Magazine, 1-10, doi:10.1017/S0016756818000870.

Kidwai, S., Ahmed, W., Tabrez, S.M., Zhang, J., Giosan, L., Clift, P., Inam, A., (2019). The Indus Delta—Catchment, River, Coast, and People. In: Wolanski, E., Day, J.W., Elliiott, M., Ramachandran, R. (Eds.), Coasts and Estuaries: the Future,  Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 213-232.

2018

Cai, M., Xu, Z., Clift, P. D., Khim, B.-K., Lim, D., Yu, Z., Kulhanek, D. K., and Li, T., Long-term history of sediment inputs to the eastern Arabian Sea and its implications for the evolution of the Indian summer monsoon since 3.7 Ma: Geological Magazine, 1-12. doi:10.1017/S0016756818000857

Pandey, D. K., Pandey, A., Clift, P. D., Nair, N., Ramesh, P., Kulhanek, D. K., and Yadav, R.,  (2018). Flexural subsidence analysis of the Laxmi Basin, Arabian Sea and its tectonic implications: Geological Magazine, p. 1-14. doi:10.1017/S0016756818000833.

Clift, P.D., Giosan, L., (2018). Holocene evolution of rivers, climate and human societies in the Indus basin. In: Zhuang, Y., Altaweel, M. (Eds.), Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present,  UCL Press, London, pp. 17-39, doi:10.14324/111.978191157693.

Giosan, L., Orsi, W.D., Coolen, M., Wuchter, C., Dunlea, A.G., Thirumalai, K., Munoz, S.E., Clift, P.D., Donnelly, J.P., Galy, V. & Fuller, D.Q. (2018). Neoglacial climate anomalies and the Harappan metamorphosis. Climate of the Past, 14, 11, 1669-1686, doi:10.5194/cp-14-1669-2018.

Chen, H., Xu, Z., Clift, P.D., Lim, D., Khim, B.-K., Yu, Z., (2018). Orbital-scale evolution of Indian summer monsoon since 1.2 Ma: Evidence from clay mineral records at IODP Exp. 355 Site U1456 in the eastern Arabian Sea. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.10.012.

Zhang, X., Y. Wang, P. D. Clift, Y. Yan, Y. Zhang, and L. Zhang, (2018). Paleozoic tectonic setting and paleogeographic evolution of the Qin-Fang region, southern South China Block: detrital zircon U–Pb geochronological and Hf isotopic constraints, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 0(ja), doi:10.1029/2018GC007713.

Wei, X., H. Zheng, P. Wang, R. Tada, P. D. Clift, F. Jourdan, C. Luo, and H. Chen, (2018). Miocene Volcaniclastic Sequence Within the Xiyu Formation from Source to Sink: Implications for Drainage Development and Tectonic Evolution in Eastern Pamir, NW Tibetan Plateau, Tectonics, 0(0), doi:10.1029/2018TC005008.

Li, Y., Clift, P.D., O’Sullivan, P.B., (2018). Millennial and Centennial Variations in Zircon U-Pb Ages in the Quaternary Indus Submarine Canyon. Basin Research, in press.

Mourlot, Y., Calvès, G., Clift, P.D., Baby, G., Chaboureau, A.-C., Raisson, F., (2018). Seismic stratigraphy of Cretaceous eastern Central Atlantic Ocean: Basin evolution and palaeoceanographic implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 499: 107-121. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.07.023.

Clift, P. D., E. D. Olson, A. Lechnowskyj, M. G. Moran, A. Barbato, and J. M. Lorenzo (2018), Grain-size Variability within a Mega-scale Point Bar System, False River, Louisiana, Sedimentology, doi:10.1111/sed.12528..

Clift, P., D., and A. G. Webb (2018), A history of the Asian monsoon and its interactions with solid Earth tectonics in Cenozoic South Asia, in Himalayan Tectonics: A Modern Synthesis, edited by M. P. Searle and P. J. Treloar, Geological Society, London, doi:10.1144/SP483.1.

Hu, G., K. Xu, P. D. Clift, Y. Zhang, Y. Li, J. Qiu, X. Kong, and S. Bi (2018), Textures, provenances and structures of sediment in the inner shelf south of Shandong Peninsula, western South Yellow Sea, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 212, 153-163, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2018.07.018.

Giosan, L., T. Naing, M. Min Tun, P. D. Clift, F. Filip, S. Constantinescu, N. Khonde, J. Blusztajn, J. P. Buylaert, T. Stevens, and S. Thwin (2018), On the Holocene evolution of the Ayeyawady megadelta, Earth Surf. Dynam., 6(2), 451-466, doi:10.5194/esurf-6-451-2018.

Yan, Y., D. Yao, Z. X. Tian, C. Y. Huang, Y. Dilek, P. D. Clift, and Z. A. Li (2018), Tectonic Topography Changes in Cenozoic East Asia: A Landscape Erosion‐Sediment Archive in the South China Sea, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 0(0), doi:10.1029/2017GC007356.

Giosan, L., W. D. Orsi, M. Coolen, C. Wuchter, A. G. Dunlea, K. Thirumalai, S. E. Munoz, P. D. Clift, J. P. Donnelly, V. Galy, and D. Q. Fuller (2018), Neoglacial Climate Anomalies and the Harappan Metamorphosis, Climate of the Past, doi:10.5194/cp-2018-37.

Xu, Z., Li, T., Clift, P. D., Wan, S., Qiu, X., and Lim, D., (2018). Bathyal records of enhanced silicate erosion and weathering on the exposed Luzon shelf during glacial lowstands and their significance for atmospheric CO2 sink: Chemical Geology. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.11.027.

Clift, P. D., P. Heinrich, D. Dunn, A. Jacobus, and J. Blusztajn (2018), The Sabine block, Gulf of Mexico: Promontory on the North American margin?, Geology, 46(1), 15-18, doi:10.1130/G39592.1.

2017

Clift, P.D., 2017, Cenozoic sedimentary records of climate-tectonic coupling in the Western Himalaya: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, v. 4, no. 39, p. 1-22. doi:10.1186/s40645-017-0151-8.

Zhao, D., Wan, S., Clift, P. D., Tada, R., Huang, J., Yin, X., Liao, R., Shen, X., Shi, X., and Li, A., 2017, Provenance, sea-level and monsoon climate controls on silicate weathering of Yellow River sediment in the northern Okinawa Trough during late last glaciation: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. in press. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.002.

Jonell, T.N., Owen, L.A., Carter, A., Schwenniger, J.-L., and Clift, P.D., 2017, Quantifying episodic erosion and transient storage on the western margin of the Tibetan Plateau, upper Indus River: Quaternary Research, in press.

Liu, C., Clift, P., Carter, A., Böning, P., Hu, Z., Sun, Z., Pahnke, K., 2017. Controls on Modern Erosion and the Development of the Pearl River Basin since the Eocene. Marine Geology. Doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2017.07.011

Zhao, D., Wan, S., Toucanne, S., Clift, P.D., Tada, R., Révillon, S., Kubota, Y., Zheng, X., Yu, Z., Huang, J., Jiang, H., Xu, Z., Shi, X., Li, A., 2017. Distinct control mechanism of fine-grained sediments from Yellow River and Kyushu supply in the northern Okinawa Trough since the last glacial. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. doi:10.1002/2016GC006764.

Clift, P. D., Zheng, H., Carter, A., Böning, P., Jonell, T., Schorr, H., Shan, X., Pahnke, K., Wei, X., and Rittenour, T., 2017, Controls on erosion in the western Tarim Basin: Implications for the uplift of northwest Tibet and the Pamir: Geosphere, 13. doi:10.1130/GES01378.1.

Wang, B., Kaakinen, A., Clift, P.D., 2017. Tectonic controls of the onset of aeolian deposits in Chinese Loess Plateau – a preliminary hypothesis. International Geology Review: 1-11. doi:10.1080/00206814.2017.1362362.

Clift, P.D., 2017. A revised budget for Cenozoic sedimentary carbon subduction. Reviews of Geophysics, 55. doi:10.1002/2016RG000531.

Zhang, X., Huang, C., Wang, Y., Clift, P.D., Yan, Y., Fu, X., Chen, D., 2017. Evolving Yangtze River Reconstructed by Detrital Zircon U-Pb Dating and Petrographic Analysis of Miocene Marginal Sea Sedimentary Rocks of the Western Foothills and Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan. Tectonics. doi:10.1002/2016TC004357.

Wan, S., Clift, P.D., Zhao, D. et al., 2017. Enhanced silicate weathering of tropical shelf sediments exposed during glacial lowstands: a sink for atmospheric CO2. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, in press. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.12.010.

Clift, P.D., 2017. Regional context of the geology of the Andaman–Nicobar accretionary ridge. In: Bandopadhyay, P.C., Carter, A. (Eds.), The Andaman–Nicobar Accretionary Ridge: Geology, Tectonics and Hazards. Memoirs, 47,  Geological Society, London, pp. 19–26, doi:10.1144/M47.3.

Jonell, T.N., Carter, A., Böning, P., Pahnke, K., Clift, P.D., 2017. Climatic and glacial impact on erosion patterns and sediment provenance in the Himalayan rain shadow, Zanskar River, NW India. Geological Society of America Bulletin. doi:10.1130/B31573.

Tripathi, S., Tiwari, M., Lee, J., Khim, B.-K., IODP Expedition 355 Scientists, 2017. First evidence of denitrification vis-à-vis monsoon in the Arabian Sea since Late Miocene. Scientific Reports, 7(43056). doi:10.1038/srep43056.

Liu, C., Clift, P.D., Murray, R.W., Blusztajn, J., Ireland, T., Wan, S., Ding, W., 2017. Geochemical Evidence for Initiation of the Modern Mekong Delta in the southwestern South China Sea after 8 Ma. Chemical Geology. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.01.008. 2016

2016

Mishra, R., Pandey, D.K., Ramesh, P., Clift, P.D., 2016. Identification of new deep sea sinuous channels in the eastern Arabian Sea. SpringerPlus, 5: 844. doi:10.1186/s40064-016-2497-6.

Xu, Z., Li, T., Clift, P.D., Lim, D., Nan, Q., Wan, S., Choi, J., Cai, M., Chen, H., 2017. Sediment provenance and paleoenvironmental change in the middle Okinawa Trough during the last 18.5 ky: Clay mineral and geochemical evidence. Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2016.07.058.

Brune, S., C. Heine, P. D. Clift, and M. Pérez-Gussinyé, 2016, Rifted Margin Architecture and Crustal Rheology: Reviewing Iberia-Newfoundland, Central South Atlantic, and South China Sea, Marine and Petroleum Geology, in press, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.10.018..

Hu, D., Clift, P. D., Wan, S., Böning, P., Hannigan, R., Hillier, S., and Blusztajn, J., 2016, Testing chemical weathering proxies in Miocene–Recent fluvial-derived sediments in the South China Sea, in Clift, P. D., Harff, J., Wu, J., and Qiu, Y., eds., River-Dominated Shelf Sediments of East Asian Seas, Volume 429: London, Geological Society.

Alizai, A., Clift, P.D., Still, J., 2016. Indus Basin Sediment Provenance Constrained Using Garnet Geochemistry. J. Asian Earth Sci. 126, 29–57, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.05.023. 2016_Alizai_etal_JAES.pdf

Clift P.D., Giosan L, East A.E., 2016. Comment on “Geochemistry of buried river sediments from Ghaggar Plains, NW India: Multi- proxy records of variations in provenance, paleoclimate, and paleovegetation patterns in the late quaternary” by Ajit Singh, Debajyoti Paul, Rajiv Sinha, Kristina J. Thomsen, Sanjeev Gupta. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.05.001 2016_Clift_etal_Palaeo3.pdf

Jonell, T.N., Clift, P.D., Hoang, L.V., Hoang, T., Carter, A., Wittmann, H., Böning, P., Pahnke, K., Rittenour, T., 2016. Controls on Erosion Patterns and Sediment Transport in a Monsoonal, Tectonically Quiescent Drainage, Song Gianh, Central Vietnam. Basin Research. doi: 10.1111/bre.12199 2016_Jonell_etal_Basin_Research.pdf

Clift, P.D., Harff, J., Wu, J., Yan, Q., 2016. Introduction to the River-Dominated Shelf Sediments of the East Asian Seas. In: Clift, P.D., Harff, J., Wu, J., Yan, Q. (Eds.), River-Dominated Shelf Sediments of East Asian Seas. Special Publication, 429, Geological Society, London. 2016_Clift_etal_GSSP.pdf

Li, L., Stephenson, R., Clift, P.D., 2016. The Canada Basin compared to the southwest South China Sea: Two marginal ocean basins with hyper-extended continent-ocean transitions. Tectonophysics. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.02.042 2016_Li_etal_Tectonophysics.pdf

Ding, W., Li, J., Clift, P.D., IODP Expedition 349 Scientists, 2016. Spreading dynamics and sedimentary process of the Southwest Sub-basin, South China Sea: Constraints from multi-channel seismic data and IODP Expedition 349. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 115(1): 97-113. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.09.013  2016_Ding_etal_JAES.pdf

Tada, R., Zheng, H., Clift, P.D., 2016, Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon and its potential linkage with uplift of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 3(4), 1-26, doi 10.1186/s40645-016-0080-y. 2016_Tada_etal_PEPS.pdf

2015

Clift, P.D., 2015. Coupled onshore erosion and offshore sediment loading as causes of lower crust flow on the margins of South China Sea. Geoscience Letters, 2: 1-13. doi:0.1186/s40562-015-0029-9. 2015_Clift_GeosciLetts.pdf

Calvès, G., Huuse, M., Clift, P.D., Brusset, S., 2015. Giant fossil mass wasting off the coast of West India: The Nataraja submarine slide. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 432: 265–272. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.022  2015_Calves_etal_EPSL.pdf

He, M., Zheng, H., Clift, P.D., Tada, R., Wu, W., Luo, C., 2015. Geochemistry of fine-grained sediments in the Yangtze River and the implications for provenance and chemical weathering in East Asia. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2(32): 1-20. doi:10.1186/s40645-015-0061-6  2015_He_etal_Prog_Earth_Plan_Sci.pdf

Clift, P.D., 2015. Assessing effective provenance methods for fluvial sediment in the South China Sea. In: Clift, P.D., Harff, J., Wu, J.E., Yan, Q. (Eds.), River-Dominated Shelf Sediments of East Asian Seas. Special Publications,. Geological Society, London. 2015_Clift_GSSP.pdf

Lei, C., Ren, J., Sternai, P., Fox, M., Willett, S., Xie, X., Clift, P.D., Liao, J., Wang, Z., 2015. Structure and sediment budget of Yinggehai–Song Hong basin, South China Sea: Implications for Cenozoic tectonics and river basin reorganization in Southeast Asia. Tectonophysics, 655: 177–190. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2015.05.024 2015_Lei_etal_Tectonophysics.pdf

Pandey, D.K., Clift, P.D., Kulhanek, D.K., Expedition 355 Scientists, 2015. Expedition 355 Preliminary Report: Arabian Sea Monsoon, International Ocean Discovery Program, College Station, TX. doi:10.2204/iodp.pr.355.2015 2015_Pandey_etal_IODP.PDF

East, A.E., Clift, P.D., Carter, A., Alizai, A., VanLaningham, S., 2015. Fluvial–Eolian Interactions In Sediment Routing and Sedimentary Signal Buffering: An Example From the Indus Basin and Thar Desert. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 85: 715-728. doi:10.2110/jsr.2015.42 2015_East_etal_JSR.pdf

Zheng, H., Wei, X., Tada, R., Clift, P.D., Wang, B., Jourdan, F., Wang, P., He, M., 2015. Late Oligocene–early Miocene birth of the Taklimakan Desert. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1424487112 2015_Zheng_etal_PNAS.pdf

Wan, S., Toucanne, S., Clift, P.D., Zhao, D., Bayon, G., Yu, Z., Cai, G., Yin, X., Révillon, S., Wang, D., Li, A., Li, T., 2015. Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of weathering and erosion in southwest China. Geology. doi:10.1130/G36570.1 2015_Wan_etal_Geology.pdf

Clift, P.D., Brune, S., Quinteros, J., 2015. Climate changes control offshore crustal structure at South China Sea continental margin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 420: 66–72. doi:/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.032. 2015_Clift_etal_EPSL.pdf

Li, C.-F., Li, J., Ding, W., Franke, D., Yao, Y., Shi, H., Pang, X., Cao, Y., Lin, J., Kulhanek, D.K., Williams, T., Bao, R., Briais, A., Brown, E.A., Chen, Y., Clift, P.D., Colwell, F.S., Dadd, K.A., Hernández-Almeida, I., Huang, X.-L., Hyun, S., Jiang, T., Koppers, A.A.P., Li, Q., Liu, C., Liu, Q., Liu, Z., Nagai, R.H., Peleo-Alampay, A., Su, X., Sun, Z., Tejada, M.L.G., Trinh, H.S., Yeh, Y.-C., Zhang, C., Zhang, F., Zhang, G.-L., Zhao, X., 2015. Seismic stratigraphy of the central South China Sea basin and implications for neotectonics. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1002/2014JB011686.

Roberts, N.M.W., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Parman, S., Clift, P.D., 2015. Continent formation through time. In: Roberts, N.M.W., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Parman, S., Shirey, S., Clift, P.D. (Eds.), Continent Formation Through Time. Geological Society, London, pp. 1-16.

Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Clift, P.D., 2015. A sediment budget for the Transkei Basin, Southwest Indian Ocean. Marine Geophysical Research, doi:10.1007/s11001-015-9250-3. 2015_Uenzelmann-Neben_Clift_MGR.pdf

Ferrier, K.L., Mitrovica, J.X., Giosan, L., Clift, P.D., 2015. Sea-level responses to erosion and deposition of sediment in the Indus River basin and the Arabian Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 416: 12–20. 2015_Ferrier_etal_2015.pdf

2014

Clift, P.D., 2014. Preface to the special collection on the tectonics of the South China Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology 58, 551-55 2014_Clift_MPG.pdf

Li, C.-F., Xu, X., Expedition 349 Scientific Party, 2014. Ages and magnetic structures of the South China Sea constrained by deep tow magnetic surveys and IODP Expedition 349. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15: 4958–4983. 2014_Li-CF_etal_G-Cubed.pdf

Liu, J., Clift, P.D., Yan, W., Chen, Z., Chen, H., Xiang, R., Wang, D., 2014. Modern transport and deposition of settling particles in the northern South China Sea: Sediment trap evidence adjacent to Xisha Trough. Deep-Sea Research I, 93: 145–155. 2014_Liu_j_etal_DeepSeaRes.pdf

He, M., Zheng, H., Bookhagen, B., Clift, P.D., 2014. Controls on erosion intensity in the Yangtze River basin tracked by U-Pb detrital zircon dating. Earth Science Reviews, 136: 121–140. 2014_He_etal_ESR.pdf

Liu, J., Clift, P.D., Yan, W., Chen, Z., Chen, H., Xiang, R., Wang, D., 2014. Modern transport and deposition of settling particles in the northern South China Sea: Sediment trap evidence adjacent to Xisha Trough. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, in press.

Clift, P. D., and Giosan, L. 2014, Sediment fluxes and buffering in the post-glacial Indus Basin, Basin Research 25, , 1–18, DOI: 10.1111/bre.12038. 2014_Clift_Giosan_Basin Res.pdf

Clift, P.D., Giosan, L., Henstock, T. and Tabrez, A.R., 2014. Sediment Storage and Reworking on the Shelf and in the Canyon of the Indus River-Fan System since the Last Glacial Maximum. Basin Research, 26, 183–202. 2014_Clift_etal_Basin Res.pdf

Clift, P. D., S. Wan, and J. Blusztajn 2014, Reconstructing Chemical Weathering, Physical Erosion and Monsoon Intensity since 25 Ma in the northern South China Sea: A review of competing proxies, Earth-Science Reviews, DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.01.002. 2014_Clift_etal_Earth Sci Rev.pdf

Clift, P. D., A. Carter, and T. N. Jonell (2013), U-Pb dating of Detrital Zircon Grains in the Paleocene Stumpata Formation, Tethyan Himalaya, Zanskar, India, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 82, 80-89, DOI:10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.12.014.  2014_Clift_etal_JAES.pdf

Wu, F. Y., W. Q. Ji, J. G. Wang, C. Z. Liu, S. L. Chung, and P. D. Clift, 2014, Zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic constraints on the onset time of India-Asia collision, American Journal of Science, 314, 548 –579, doi10.2475/02.2014.04. 2014-Wu-etal.pdf

Li, L., Clift, P.D. and Nguyen, H.T., 2013. The Sedimentary, Magmatic and Tectonic Evolution of the Southwestern South China Sea Revealed by Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis. Marine Geophysical Research, 26, 106–134 10.1007/s11001-013-9171-y. 2013_Li_etal_MGR.pdf

2013

Clift, P.D. and Sun, Z., 2013. Introduction to special collection on geology, tectonics and hydrocarbon systems of SE Asia. Marine Geophysical Research, 34: 153–158. doi:10.1007/s11001-013-9206-4.

Hu, D., Clift, P.D., Böning, P., Hannigan, R., Hillier, S., Blusztajn, J., Wang, S. and Fuller, D.Q., 2013. Holocene evolution in weathering and erosion patterns in the Pearl River delta. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 14, doi: 10.1002/ggge.20166. 2013_Hu_etal_G-Cubed.pdf

Zheng, H., Clift, P.D., Tada, R., Jia, J.T., He, M.Y. and Wang, P., 2013. A Pre-Miocene Birth to the Yangtze River. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.1216241110. 2013_Zheng_etal_2013.pdf

Draut, A.E. and Clift, P.D., 2013. Differential preservation in the geologic record of intraoceanic arc sedimentary and tectonic processes. Earth Science Reviews 116, 57–84, DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.11.003. 2013_Draut_Clift_ESR.pdf

Amato, J.M., Pavlis, T.L., Clift, P.D., Kochelek, E.J., Hecker, J.P. and Worthman, C.M., 2013. Architecture of the Chugach accretionary complex as revealed by detrital zircon ages and lithologic variations: Evidence for Mesozoic subduction erosion in south-central Alaska. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 125(11/12), 1891–1911, doi:10.1130/B30818.1.

Nicholson, U., Poynter, S., Clift, P.D. and MacDonald, D., 2013. Tying catchment to basin in a giant sediment routing system: a source-to-sink study of the Neogene-recent Amur River and its delta in the North Sakhalin Basin, Sediment Provenance Studies in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production. Special publication, Geological Society, London. 2013_Nicholson_etal_GSSP.pdf

Dörr, N., Clift, P.D., Lisker, F. and Spiegel, C., 2013. Why is Svalbard an island? Evidence for two-stage uplift, magmatic underplating and mantle thermal anomalies. Tectonics, 32, 1–14, doi:10.1002/tect.20039. 2013_Dörr_etal_Tectonics.pdf

Clift, P.D., Carter, A., Nicholson, U. and Masago, H., 2013. Zircon and apatite thermochronology of the Nankai Trough accretionary prism and trench, Japan: Sediment transport in an active and collisional margin setting. Tectonics, 32, 377–395. doi:10.1002/tect.20033, 2013_Clift_etal_Tectonics.pdf

Roberts, N., Van Krankendonk, M., Parman, S., Shirey, S., and Clift, P.D., 2013. Continent formation though time, Geological Society of London special publication, 389.

2012

Limmer, D. R., T. J. Henstock, L. Giosan, C. Ponton, A. R. Tabrez, D. I. M. Macdonald, and P. D. Clift (2012), Impacts of sediment supply and local tectonics on clinoform distribution: the seismic stratigraphy of the mid Pleistocene-Holocene Indus Shelf, Mar. Geophys. Res., 33(3), 251-267. DOI 10.1007/s11001-012-9160-6. 2012_Limmer_MGR.pdf

Hu, D., Böning, P., Köhler, C.M., Hillier, S., Pressling, N., Wan, S., Brumsack, H.-J. and Clift, P.D., 2012. Deep sea records of the continental weathering and erosion response to East Asian monsoon intensification since 14ka in the South China Sea. Chemical Geology 326, 326-327, 1-18. 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.07.024. 2012_Hu_etaL_ChemGeol.pdf

Wan, S., Yu, Z., Clift, P.D., Sun, H., Li, A. and Li, T., 2012. History of Asian eolian input to the West Philippine Sea over the last one million years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 326-328, 152-159, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.02.015. 2012_Wan_etal_Palaeo3.pdf

Wan, S., Clift, P.D., Li, A., Yu, Z., Li, T. and Hu, D., 2012. Tectonic and climatic controls on long-term silicate weathering in Asia since 5 Ma. Geophysical Research Letters 39(L15611), doi:10.1029/2012GL052377. 2012_Wan_etal_2012.pdf

Alizai, A., Hillier, S., Clift, P.D. and Giosan, L., 2012. Clay mineral variations in Holocene terrestrial sediments from the Indus Basin; a response to SW Asian Monsoon variability. Quaternary Research 77(3), 368–381, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2012.01.008. 2012_Alizai_etal_QuatRes.pdf

Giosan, L., Clift, P. D., Macklin, M. G., Fuller, D. Q., Constantinescu, S., Durcan, J. A., Stevens, T., Duller, G. A. T., Tabrez, A., Adhikari, R., Gangal, K., Alizai, A., Filip, F., VanLaningham, S., and Syvitski, J. P. M., 2012, Fluvial Landscapes of the Harappan Civilization: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 87(52), OS14A-04. 2012_Giosan_etal_PNAS.pdf

Limmer, D. R., P. Boening, L. Giosan, C. Ponton, C. M. Köhler, M. J. Cooper, A. R. Tabrez, and P. D. Clift. 2012. Geochemical Record of Holocene to Recent Sedimentation on the Western Indus continental shelf, Arabian Sea, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 13, doi:10.1029/2011GC003845. 2012_Limmer_etal_G-Cubed.pdf

Draut, A.E. and Clift, P.D., 2012. Basins in arc-continent collisions, in Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances, edited by Busby, C. and Perez, A.A., Blackwell, 347–368. 2012_Draut_Clift.pdf

Clift, P. D., A. Carter, L. Giosan, J. Durcan, A. R. Tabrez, A. Alizai, S. VanLaningham, G. A. T. Duller, M. G. Macklin, D. Q. Fuller, and M. Danish, U-Pb zircon dating evidence for a Pleistocene Sarasvati River and Capture of the Yamuna River, Geology. v. 40, 3, p. 212-215, doi:10.1130/G32840.1/ 2012_Clift_etal_Geology.pdf

Clift, P.D., Wares, N.M., Amato, J.M., Pavlis, T.L., Hole, M.J., Worthman, C. and Day, E., in press. Evolving heavy mineral assemblages reveals changing exhumation and trench tectonics in the Mesozoic Chugach accretionary complex, South-Central Alaska. Geological Society of America Bulletin.v. 124, 5/6, p. 989–1006, doi: 10.1130/B30594.1/ 2012_Clift_etal_GSAB.pdf

Giosan, L., Clift, P. D., Macklin, M. G., Fuller, D. Q., Constantinescu, S., Durcan, J. A., Stevens, T., Duller, G. A. T., Tabrez, A., Adhikari, R., Gangal, K., Alizai, A., Filip, F., VanLaningham, S., and Syvitski, J. P. M., 2012, Fluvial Landscapes of the Harappan Civilization: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi/10.1073/pnas.1112743109/ 2012_Giosan_etal_PNAS.pdf

Alizai, A., Hillier, S., Clift, P. D., and Giosan, L., 2012, Clay mineral variations in Holocene terrestrial sediments from the Indus Basin; a response to SW Asian Monsoon variability: Quaternary Research, v. 77, 3, p. 368–381, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2012.01.008/ 2012_Alizai_etal_QuatRes.pdf

2011

Dörr, N., F. Lisker, P. D. Clift, A. Carter, D. G. Gee, A. M. Tebenkov, and C. Spiegel, 2011. Late Mesozoic - Cenozoic exhumation history of northern Svalbard and its regional significance: constraints from apatite fission track analysis, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.10.007. 2011_Dörr_etal.pdf

Alizai, A, Clift, P.D., Giosan, L., VanLaningham, S., Hinton, R., Tabrez, A.R., Danish, M., 2011. Pb Isotopic Variability in the Modern-Pleistocene Indus River System measured by Ion Microprobe in detrital K-feldspar grains. Geochimca et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 4771-4795, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.05.039. 2011_Alizai_etal_GCA.pdf

Kochelek, E. J., J. M. Amato, T. L. Pavlis, and P. D. Clift, Flysch deposition and preservation of coherent bedding in an accretionary complex: Detrital zircon ages from the Valdez Group, Chugach Terrane, Alaska, Lithosphere,3 (4), 265-274, DOI: 10.1130/L131.1. 2011_Kochelek_etal_Lithosphere.pdf

Lei, C., J. Ren, P. D. Clift, Z. Wang, X. Li, and C. Tong, 2011. The structure and formation of diapirs in the YinggehaieSong Hong Basin, South China Sea, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 28, 980-991, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2011.01.001.

Alizai, A., Carter, A., Clift, P. D., VanLaningham, S., Williams, J.C., Kumar, R., 2011. Sediment Provenance, Reworking and Transport Processes in the Indus River by U-Pb dating of Detrital Zircon Grains. Global and Planetary Change, 76, 33–55.

2010

Clift, P.D., 2010, Enhanced global continental erosion and exhumation driven by Oligo-Miocene climate change, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L09402, doi:10.1029/2010GL043067.

Stevens, T., Palk, C., Carter, A., Lu, H. and Clift, P.D., 2010. Assessing the provenance of loess and desert sediments in northern China using U-Pb dating and morphology of detrital zircons. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 122, 7/8, 1331–1344, doi: 10.1130/B30102.1.

Clift, P.D., Giosan, L., Carter, A., Garzanti, E., Galy, V., Tabrez, A.R., Pringle, M., Campbell, I.H., France-Lanord, C., Blusztajn, J., Allen, C., Alizai, A., Lückge, Danish, M., and Rabbani, M.M., 2010. Monsoon control over erosion patterns in the Western Himalaya: possible feed-backs into the tectonic evolution, In: Monsoon evolution and tectonic-climate linkage in Asia, edited by Clift, P.D., Tada, R., and Zheng, H., Geological Society of London, special publication, 342: 185-218

Hoang, L.V., Clift, P.D., Schwab, A. M., Huuse, M., Nguyen, D.A. and Sun, Z. Large-scale Erosional Response of SE Asia to Monsoon Evolution Reconstructed from Sedimentary Records of the Song Hong-Yinggehai and Qiongdongnan Basins, South China Sea. In: Monsoon evolution and tectonic-climate linkage in Asia, edited by Clift, P.D., Tada, R., and Zheng, H., Geological Society of London, special publication, 342, 219-244.

Lunt, D.J., Flecker, R., and Clift, P.D., The impacts of Tibetan uplift on palaeoclimate proxies. In: Monsoon evolution and tectonic-climate linkage in Asia, edited by Clift, P.D., Tada, R., and Zheng, H., Geological Society of London, special publication, 342, 279-291.

Wan, S., Clift, P.D., Li, A., Li, T. and Yin, X., 2010. Geochemical records in the South China Sea: implications for East Asian summer monsoon evolution over the last 20 Ma. In: P.D. Clift, R. Tada and H. Zheng (Eds.). Special Publication, 342, Geological Society, London, pp. 245-263.

Hoang, L.V., Clift, P.D., Mark, D., Zheng, H., and Tan, M.T., 2010, Ar-Ar Muscovite dating as a constraint on sediment provenance and erosion processes in the Red and Yangtze River systems, SE Asia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 295,379–389.

Dou, Y. G., S. Y. Yang, Z. Liu, P. D. Clift, H. Yu, S. Berne, and X. Shi, 2010, Clay mineral evolution in the central Okinawa Trough since 28 ka: Implications for sediment provenance and paleoenvironmental change, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 288, 108-117.

Calves, G., A. M. Schwab, M. Huuse, P. D. Clift, and A. Inam (2010), Thermal regime of the northwest Indian rifted margin - Comparison with predictions, Marine and Petroleum Geology 27, 1133-1147, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.02.010.

2009

Clift, P.D., Vannucchi, P. and Phipps-Morgan, J., 2009.  Crustal redistribution, crust-mantle recycling and Phanerozoic evolution of the continental crust. Earth Science Reviews, 97, 80-104,  doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.003

Clift, P.D., Carter, A., Draut, A.E., Hoang, V. L., Chew, D., Schouten, H.A., 2009. Detrital U-Pb Zircon dating of Lower Ordovician syn-arc-continent collision conglomerates in the Irish Caledonides. Tectonophysics, 479,165–174, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.07.018.

Hoang, L.V., Wu, F.Y., Clift, P.D., Wysocka, A., and Swierczewska, A., 2009. Evaluating the evolution of the Red River System based on in-situ U-Pb dating and Hf isotope analysis of zircons. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, 10 (11), Q11008, doi:10.1029/2009GC002819.

Calvès, G., Schwab, A., Huuse, M., van Rensbergen, P., Clift, P.D., Tabrez, A.R. and Inam, A., 2009. Cenozoic mud volcano activity along the Indus Fan: offshore Pakistan. Basin Research, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00448.

Wan, S., Kürschner, W.M., Clift, P.D., Li, A., and Li, T. 2009. Extreme weathering/erosion during the Miocene Climatic Optimum: evidence from sediment record in the South China Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(L19706), doi:10.1029/2009GL040279.

Draut, A.E., Clift, P.D., Amato, J.M., Blusztajn, J. and Schouten, H. 2009. Arc-continent collision and the formation of continental crust: a new geochemical and isotopic record from the Ordovician Tyrone Igneous Complex, Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society (London), 166, 485–500, doi: 10.1144/0016-76492008-102.

Whitehead, J. and Clift, P.D., 2009. Continent Elevation, Mountains, Erosion and Freeboard, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B05410, doi:10.1029/2008JB006176.

VanLaningham, S., Pisias, N.G., Duncan, R., and Clift, P.D., 2009. Glacial-interglacial sediment transport to the Meiji Drift, Northwest Pacific Ocean: evidence for timing of Beringian outwashing. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 277, 64–72.

Clift, P.D., Schouten, H., and Vannucchi, P., 2009. Arc-continent collisions, subduction mass recycling and the maintenance of the continental crust, in Cawood, P. and Kroener, A., eds., Earth Accretionary Systems in Space and Time, Geological Society of London, special publication, 318, 75–103.

2008

Clift, P.D., Hodges, K., Heslop, D., Hannigan, R., Hoang, L.V. and Calves, G., 2008. Greater Himalayan exhumation triggered by Early Miocene monsoon intensification. Nature Geoscience,  1: 875-880. doi:10.1038/ngeo351 2008_Clift_etal_NatureGeosci.pdf

Calves, G., Huuse, M., Schwab, A. and Clift, P.D., 2008. 3D seismic analysis of high-amplitude anomalies in the shallow subsurface of the Northern Indus Fan: sedimentary and/or fluid origin. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B11103, doi:10.1029/2008JB005666.

Clift, P.D., Hoang, V.L., Hinton, R., Ellam, R., Hannigan, R., Tan, M.T., and Nguyen, D.A. 2008. Evolving East Asian river systems reconstructed by trace element and Pb and Nd isotope variations in modern and ancient Red River-Song Hong sediments. Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems, 9, Q04039, doi:10.1029/2007GC001867.

Clift, P.D., Giosan, L., Blusztajn, J., Campbell, I.H., Allen, C., Tabrez, A.R., Danish, M., Rabbani, M.M., Alizai, A., Carter, A., and Lückge, A. 2008. Holocene erosion of the Lesser Himalaya triggered by intensified summer monsoon. Geology, 36 (1), 79-82.

Clift, P.D., Lin, A.T.S., Carter, A., Wu, F., Draut, A.E., Lai, T.-H., Fei, L.-Y. Schouten, H., and Teng, L. 2008. Orogenic collapse in the Ilan Plain Basin of northern Taiwan, in Sedimentation in arc collisional settings, Draut, A.E., Clift, P.D., and Scholl, D.W. (Eds), Geological Society of America, special paper, 436, 257–278.

Carter, A. and Clift, P.D. 2008. Was the Indosinian orogeny a Triassic mountain building or thermotectonic reactivation event? Comptes Rendues de l’Academie Scientifique, Paris, 340, 83–93.

Clift, P.D., Lee, G.H., Nguyen, A.D., Barckhausen, U., Hoang, V.L., and Sun, Z. 2008. Seismic reflection evidence for a Dangerous Grounds mini-plate: No extrusion origin for the South China Sea, Tectonics, 27, TC3008, doi:10.1029/2007TC002216.

Calves, G., Clift, P.D., and Inam, A., Anomalous subsidence on the rifted volcanic margin of Pakistan: No influence from Deccan Plume. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272 (1-2), 231–239.

Clift, P.D., Schouten, H., and Vannucchi, P., Arc-Continent Collisions, Subduction Mass Recycling and the Maintenance of the Continental Crust, in Cawood, P. and Kroener, A., eds., Accretionary Orogens in Space and Time, Geological Society of London, special publication, in press.

2007

Amato, J.M., Rioux, M.E., Kelemen, P.B., Gehrels, G.E., Clift, P.D., Pavlis, T.L., and Draut, A.E., 2007. U/Pb Geochronology of detrital zircons and volcanic rocks from the Lower Jurassic Talkeetna Formation:  Implications for the age of magmatism and inheritance in the Talkeetna Arc, in Tectonic growth of a collisional continental margin: Crustal evolution of southern Alaska, Ridgway, K.D., Trop, J.M., O’Neill, J.M., and Glen, J.M.G.. (Eds.), Geological Society of America, special paper, 431, 253–271.

Wan, S., Li, A., and Clift, P.D., 2007. Development of the East Asian monsoon: Mineralogical and Sedimentologic records in the northern South China Sea since 20 Ma. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 254 (3-4), 561–582.

Inam, A., Clift, P.D., Giosan, L., Tabrez, A.R., Tahir, M., Rabbani, M.M. and Danish, M., 2007. The Geographic, Geological and Oceanographic Setting of the Indus River, in Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management, A. Gupta, A. (Ed.), John Wiley and Sons, 333–345. 2007_Inam_etal.pdf

Clift, P.D., and Hartley, A., 2007. Slow rates of subduction erosion along the Andean margin and reduced global crustal recycling. Geology, 35, 503–506, doi: 10.1130/G23584A.1.

Wu, F.Y., Clift, P.D., and Yang, J.H., 2007. Zircon Hf isotopic constraints on the sources of the Indus Molasse, Ladakh Himalaya, India. Tectonics, 26, TC2014, doi:10.1029/2006TC002051.

2006

Clift, P.D., Carter, A., Campbell, I.H., Pringle, M., Hodges, K.V., Lap, N.V., and Allen, C.M., 2006. Thermochronology of mineral grains in the Song Hong and Mekong Rivers, Vietnam. Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems, 7, Q10005, doi:10.1029/2006GC001336.

Clift, P.D. and Sun, Z., 2006. The sedimentary and tectonic evolution of the Yinggehai-Song Hong Basin and the southern Hainan margin, South China Sea; implications for Tibetan uplift and monsoon intensification. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, B06405, doi:10.1029/2005JB004048.

Clift, P.D., 2006. Controls on the erosion of Cenozoic Asia and the flux of clastic sediment to the ocean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 241, 571–590.

Clift, P.D., Blusztajn, J. and Nguyen, D.A., 2006. Large-scale drainage capture and surface uplift in Eastern Tibet before 24 Ma. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L19403, doi:10.1029/2006GL027772.

Draut, A.E., and Clift, P.D., 2006. Sedimentary processes in modern and ancient oceanic arc settings; Evidence from the Jurassic Talkeetna Formation of Alaska and, the Mariana and Tonga Arcs, western Pacific. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 76, 493–514..

Greene, A.R., DeBari, S.M., Kelemen, P.B., Blusztajn, J., and Clift, P.D., 2006. A detailed geochemical study of island arc crust: The Talkeetna Arc section, south-central Alaska. Journal of Petrology, doi:10.1093/petrology/egl002.

2005

Clift, P.D. and Blusztajn, J., Reorganization of the western Himalayan river system after five million years ago. Nature, 438, 1001–1003, doi:10.1038/nature04379.   Click here to listen to the related podcast.

Clift, P.D., Pavlis, T., DeBari, S.M., Draut, A.E., Rioux, M., and Kelemen, P.K., Subduction erosion of the Jurassic Talkeetna-Bonanza arc and the Mesozoic accretionary tectonics of western North America, Geology, 33, 881–884.

Clift, P.D., Chan, L.H., Blusztajn, Layne, G.D., J., Kastner, M., and Kelly, R.R., Pulsed subduction accretion and tectonic erosion reconstructed from the tephra record offshore Costa Rica. Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems, 6 (5), Q09016, doi:10.1029/2005GC000963.

Garzanti, E., Vezzoli, G., Andò, S., Paparella, P., and Clift, P.D., 2005. Petrology and mineralogy of Indus River sands : a key to interpret erosion history of the Western Himalayan Syntaxis, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 229, 287–302.

Clift, P.D., 2005, Sedimentary evidence for moderate mantle temperature anomalies associated with hotspot volcanism, in Foulger, G., Natland, J.H., Presnall, D.C., and Anderson, D.L., eds., Plumes, Plates and Paradigms, Geological Society of America, special paper, 388, 279–287.

Clift, P.D., Draut, A.E., Kelemen, P.B., Blusztajn, J., and Greene, A. 2005, Stratigraphic and Geochemical Evolution of an arc upper crustal section; the Jurassic Talkeetna Volcanic Formation, South Central Alaska, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117 (7/8), 902–925. 2005_Clift_etal_GSA.pdf

Clift, P.D., 2005. Comment on ‘Palynological evidence for the Palaeocene evolution of the forearc basin, Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh, India’ by R. Upadhyay, Ram-Awatar, R. K. Kar and A. K. Sinha, Terra Nova, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00607.x, 196–200.

2004

Clift, P.D., Campbell, I.H., Zhang, X., Carter, A., Hodges, K.V., Khan, A.A., and Allen, C.M., Thermochronology of the modern Indus River bedload: New insight into the controls on the marine stratigraphic record. Tectonics, 23, No. 5, TC5013, doi: 10.1029/2003TC001559.

Clift, P.D., Dewey, J.F., Draut, A.E., Chew, D., Mange, M. and Ryan, P.D. Rapid tectonic exhumation, detachment faulting and orogenic collapse in the Caledonides of Western Ireland. Tectonophysics,  384, 91–113.

Vannucchi, P., S. Galeotti, P. D. Clift, C. R. Ranero, and R. von Huene, 2004. Long-term subduction erosion along the Middle America Trench offshore Guatemala. Geology,32 (7), 617–620.

Clift, P.D., Layne, G.D., and Blusztajn, J., 2004. The erosional record of Tibetan uplift in the East Asian marginal seas, In: Continent-Ocean Interactions in the East Asian Marginal Seas, edited by Clift, P.D., Wang, P., Hayes, D., and Kuhnt, W., American Geophysical Union, monograph, 149, 255–282..

Clift, P.D. and Vannucchi, P., 2004. Controls on tectonic accretion versus erosion in subduction zones: Implications for the origin and recycling of the continental crust. Reviews of Geophysics,42, RG2001, doi:10.1029/2003RG000127.

Draut, A.E., Clift, P.D., Chew, D. M., Cooper, M.J., Taylor, R.N., and Hannigan, R.E., 2004. Laurentian crustal recycling in the Ordovician Grampian Orogeny: Nd isotopic evidence from South Mayo, Ireland. Geological Magazine, 141, 195-217.

2003

Clift, P.D., Schouten, H., and Draut, A.E., 2003. A general model of arc-continent collision and subduction polarity reversal from Taiwan and the Irish Caledonides. In Larter, R. D. and Leat, P. T., (Editors), Intra-Oceanic Subduction Systems; Tectonic and Magmatic Processes, Geological Society of London, special publication, 219, 81–98.

Clift, P.D. and Molnar, P., 2003. Drilling of submarine fans in the Indian Ocean. EOS, 84 (42), 442–443.

Lee, J. I., Clift, P. D., Layne, G., Blum, J., and Khan, A. A., 2003. Sediment flux in the modern Indus River traced by the trace element composition of detrital  amphibole grains. Sedimentary Geology, 160, 243–257.

Clift, P.D., Pecher, I., Kukowski, N., and Hampel, A., 2003. Tectonic erosion of the Peruvian Forearc, Lima Basin, by steady-state subduction and Nazca Ridge collision. Tectonics, 22 (3), 1023, 10.1029/2002TC001386.

Clift, P.D., Layne, G. D., Najman, Y.M.R., Kopf, A., Shimizu, N., and Hunt, J., 2003. Temporal evolution of boron flux in the Honshu and Izu Arcs measured by ion microprobe from the forearc tephra record. Journal of Petrology, 44 (7), 1211–1236.

Clift, P.D., Wang, P., Kuhnt, W., Hall, R. and Tada, R., 2003. Continental-Ocean Interactions within the East Asian Marginal Seas, EOS, 84 (15), 139–141.

Clift, P.D., Dewey, J.F., Draut, A.E., and Mange, M. 2003. Discussion of “Buried oblique-slip faults in the Irish Caledonides” by D. M. Williams. Geological Journal, 38, 99–100.

Clift, P.D., Draut, A.E., Layne, G., Hannigan R., and Blusztajn, J., 2003. Trace element and Pb isotopic constraints on the provenance of the Rosroe and Derrylea Formations, South Mayo, Ireland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Science, 93 (2), 101–110.

2002

Clift, P.D., Gaedicke, C., Edwards, R., Lee, J.I., Hildebrand, P., Amjad, S., White, R.S., and Schülter, H.U., 2002. The stratigraphic evolution of the Indus Fan and the history of sedimentation in the Arabian Sea. Marine Geophysical Researches, 23 (3), 223–245.

Clift, P.D., Lin, J. and Barckhausen, U., 2002. Evidence of low flexural rigidity and low viscosity lower continental crust in the South China Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 19 (8), 951–970.

Clift, P., and Bice, K., 2002. Baked Alaska. Nature, 419, 129–130.

Clift, P.D., Lee, J.I., Blusztajn, J., and Clark, M.K., 2002. Erosional response of South China to arc rifting and monsoonal strengthening recorded in the South China Sea. Marine Geology, 184, 207-226.

Clift, P.D., Lee, J.I., Hildebrand, P., Shimizu, N., Layne, G.D., Blum, J.D., Garzanti, E., and Khan, A.A., 2002.  Nd and Pb isotope variability in the Indus River system: Implications for crustal heterogeneity in the Western Himalaya. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 200, 91-106.

Clift, P.D. and Gaedicke, C., 2002. Accelerated mass flux to the Arabian Sea during the Middle-Late Miocene. Geology, 30, 207-210.

Clift, P. D., Carter, A. Krol, M. and Kirby, E., 2002. Constraints on India-Eurasia Collision in the Arabian Sea Region taken from the Indus Group, Ladakh Himalaya, India. In, Clift, P.D., Kroon, D., Craig, J., and Gaedicke, C. (Editors), The Tectonic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region, Geological Society of London special publication, 195, 97-116.

Clift, P. D., 2002. A brief history of the Indus River. In, Clift, P.D., Kroon, D., Craig, J., and Gaedicke, C. (Editors), The Tectonic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region, Geological Society of London special publication, 195, 237-258.

Clift, P.D., Draut, A.E., Layne, G., and Blusztajn, J., 2002. Trace element and Pb isotopic constraints on the provenance of the Rosroe and Derrylea Formations, South Mayo, Ireland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Science, 93 (2), 101-110.

Draut, A.E., and Clift, P.D., 2002. The origin and significance of the Delaney Dome Formation, Connemara, Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 159, 95-103.

Gaedicke, C., Schlüter, H.U., Roeser, H. A., Prexl, A., Schreckenberger, B., Meyer, H., Reichert, C., Clift, P., and Amjad, S., 2002. Origin of the northern Indus Fan and Murray Ridge, Northern Arabian Sea: interpretation from seismic and magnetic imaging. Tectonophysics, 355, 127-143. 2002_Gaedicke_etal_Tectonophysics.pdf

Draut, A.E., Clift, P.D., Hannigan, R., Layne, G.D. and Shimizu, N., 2002. A model for continental crust genesis by arc accretion: rare earth element evidence from the Irish Caledonides. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 203 (3-4), 861-877.

Clift, P.D., Hannigan, R., Blusztajn, J., and Draut, A.E., 2002. Geochemical evolution of the Dras-Kohistan Arc during collision with Eurasia; evidence from the Ladakh Himalaya, India. The Island Arc, 11 (4), 255-273.

2001

Clift, P.D., Shimizu, N., Layne, G., and Blusztajn, J., 2001. Tracing patterns of unroofing in the Early Himalaya through microprobe Pb isotope analysis of detrital K-feldspars in the Indus Molasse, India, Earth and Planetary Science Letters,  188, 475-491.

Clift, P.D., Rose, E., Shimizu, N., Layne, G., Draut, A.E., and Regelous, M., 2001. Tracing the evolving flux from the subducting plate in the Tonga-Kermadec arc system using boron in volcanic glass. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta., 65, 3347-3364. 2001_Clift_etal_GCA.pdf

Clift, P.D., and Lin, J., 2001. Preferential mantle lithospheric extension under the South China margin, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 18, 929–945.

Clift, P.D., 2001. The Indus Fan: Climate tectonic interactions in the western Himalaya. Geoscientist , 11 (12), 4-9.

Draut, A.E., and Clift, P.D., 2001. Geochemical evolution of arc magmatism during arc-continent collision, South Mayo, Ireland, Geology, 29,  543-546.

Clift, P.D., Shimizu, N., Layne, G., Gaedicke, C., Schlüter, H.U., Clark, M. and Amjad, S., 2001. Development of the Indus Fan and its significance for the erosional history of the western Himalaya and Karakoram. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113, 1039-1051.

Clift, P.D., Lin, J. and ODP Leg 184 Scientific Party, 2001. Patterns of extension and magmatism along the continent-ocean boundary, South China Margin. In Wilson, R.C.L. et al. (Editors), Non-volcanic rifting of continental margins: a comparison of evidence from land and sea. Geological Society of London, special publication, 187, 489–510.
 

2000

Clift, P.D., Degnan, P.J., Hannigan, R. and, Blusztajn, J., 2000. Sedimentary and geochemical evolution of the Dras forearc basin, Ladakh Himalayas, India. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 112, 450-466.

Clift, P.D., Gaedicke, C., Shimizu, N., Layne, G., and Clark, M., 2000. 55 million years of Tibetan and Karakoram evolution recorded in the Indus Fan. EOS, 81, 277-282. 
 

1999

Clift, P.D., 1999. The thermal impact of Paleocene magmatic underplating in the Faeroe-Shetland-Rockall region. Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe, Proceedings of the 5th Conference, in press. In Fleet, A. J. and Boldy, S. A. R. (Editors), Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe, Proceedings of the 5th conference, Geological Society, London, 585-593.

Clift, P.D., and Blusztajn, J., 1999. The trace-element characteristics of Aegean and Aeolian volcanic arc marine tephras. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 92, 321-347. 1999_Clift&Blusztajn_VolcGeotherm.pdf

Clift, P.D., and Lorenzo, J., 1999. Flexural unloading and uplift along the Cote d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin, equatorial Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research,104, 25, 257-25, 274. 1999_Clift&Lorenzo_JGR.pdf

Clift, P.D., and MacLeod, C.J., 1999. Slow rates of tectonic erosion estimated from the subsidence and tilting of the Tonga Forearc Basin. Geology, 27, 411-414. 1999_Clift&MacLeod_Geology.pdf
 

1998

Clift, P.D., Carter, A., and Hurford, A.J., 1998. Apatite fission track dating of ODP Sites 959 and 960 on the transform continental margin of Ghana, west Africa. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 159, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 35-41.

Clift, P.D., and Dixon, J.E., 1998. Jurassic subduction initiation and ophiolite obduction in the southern Greek Neotethys. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 91, 128-138.

Clift, P.D., and Fitton, J.G., 1998. Trace and rare earth element chemistry of volcanic ashes from Sites 918 and 919: Implications for Icelandic volcanism. In Saunders, A.D., Larsen, H.C., Clift, P.D., Wise, S., et al., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 152, 67-85.

Clift, P.D., and Lee, J., 1998. Temporal evolution of the Mariana Arc during rifting of the Mariana Trough traced through the volcaniclastic record. The Island Arc, 7, 496-512.

Clift, P.D., MacLeod, C.J., Tappin, D.R., Wright, D., and Bloomer, S.H., 1998. Tectonic controls on sedimentation and diagenesis in the Tonga trench and forearc, SW Pacific. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 110, 483-496. 1998_Clift_etal_GSAB.pdf

Clift, P.D., and Turner, J., 1998. Paleogene igneous underplating and subsidence anomalies in the Rockall-Faeroe-Shetland area. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 15, 223-243. 1998_Clift&Turner_MPG.pdf

Clift, P.D., Carter, A., and Hurford, A.J., 1998. The erosional and uplift history of Northeast Atlantic passive margins; constraints on the influence of a passing plume. Journal of the Geological Society, 155, 787-800. 1998_Clift_etal_JGS.pdf

Ito, G., and Clift, P.D., 1998. The growth of Pacific Cretaceous volcanic plateaus constrained by reconstructed subsidence histories. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 161, 85-100. 1998_Ito&Clift_EPSL.pdf
 

1997

Clift, P.D., 1997. Temperature anomalies under the Northeast Atlantic rifted volcanic margins. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,146, 195-211. 1997_Clift_EPSL.pdf

Clift, P.D., Lorenzo, J., Carter, A., and Hurford, A.J., 1997. Transform tectonics and thermal rejuvenation on the Cote d'Ivoire-Ghana margin, west Africa. Journal of the Geological Society, 154, 483-489. 
 

1996

Clift, P.D., 1996. Accretion tectonics of the Neotethyan Ermioni Complex, Peloponessos, Greece. Journal of the Geological Society, 153, 745-758.

Clift, P.D., 1996. Plume tectonics as a cause of mass wasting on the Southeast Greenland continental margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 13(7), 771-780.

Clift, P.D., Carter, A., and Hurford, A.J., 1996. Post-rift uplift of the East Greenland Margin measured by Apatite Fission Track methods. Geology, 24, 1013-1016.

Clift, P.D., and Vroon, P.Z., 1996. Isotopic evolution of the Tonga Arc system during Lau Basin rifting: Evidence from the volcaniclastic record. Journal of Petrology, 37(5), 1153-1173.

Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., Clift, P.D., et al., 1996. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 159. 
 

1995

Clift, P.D., 1995. The volcanic and geochemical response of western Pacific island arcs to the process of backarc rifting. In Taylor, B., and Natland, J. (Eds.), Active margins and marginal basins of the Western Pacific. Geophysical Monograph, 88, AGU, 67-96.

Clift, P.D., and ODP Leg 135 Scientific Party, 1995. Volcanism and sedimentation in a rifting island arc terrain: An example from Tonga, SW Pacific. In Smellie, J. (Ed.), Volcanism associated with extension at consuming plate margins. Geological Society Special Publication, 81, 29-52.

Clift, P.D., Turner, J., and Leg 152 Scientific Party, 1995. Dynamic support by the Iceland Plume and its effect on the subsidence of the NE Atlantic margins. Journal of the Geological Society, 152, 935-942.

Clift, P.D., Turner, J., and Leg 152 Scientific Party, 1995. The tectonics of volcanic margin formation in the NE Atlantic and the influence of the Icelandic hotspot. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 24,473-24,486.

Marsaglia, K., Boggs, S., Clift, P., Seyedolali, A., and Smith, R., 1995. Sedimentation in Western Pacific backarc basins. In Taylor, B., and Natland, J. (Eds.), Active margins and marginal basins of the Western Pacific. Geophysical Monograph, 88, AGU, 291-314.

Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., Clift, P.D., et l'Equipe Scientifique Embarquee, 1995. La Marge transformante de Cote d'Ivoire-Ghana: Premiers resultats de la campagne ODP 159 (janvier-fevrier 1995). Comptes Rendues Academie Scientifique de Paris, 320, 2, 737-747.

Underwood, M., Ballance, P., Clift, P., Hiscott, R., Marsaglia, K., Pickering, K., and Reid, P., 1995. Sedimentation in forearc basins, trenches, and collision zones of the western Pacific: A summary of results from the Ocean Drilling Program. In Taylor, B., and Natland, J. (Eds.), Active margins and marginal basins of the Western Pacific. Geophysical Monograph, 88, AGU, 315-354. 
 

1994

Clift, P.D., 1994. Controls on the sedimentary and subsidence history of an active plate margin: An example from the Tonga Arc, SW Pacific. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 135, 173-189.

Clift, P.D., Bednarz, U., Boe, R., Rothwell, R.G., Hodkinson, R., Ledbetter, J.K., Pratt, C.E., and Soakai, S., 1994. Sedimentation on the Tonga forearc related to arc rifting, subduction erosion and ridge collision: A synthesis of results from ODP Sites 840 and 841. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 135, 843-856.

Clift, P.D., and Dixon, J.E., 1994. Variations in arc volcanism and sedimentation related to rifting of the Lau Basin, SW Pacific. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 135, 23-50.

Clift, P.D., and Ryan, P.D., 1994. Geochemical evolution of an Ordovician Island Arc, South Mayo, Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, 151, 329-342.

Larsen, H.C., Saunders, A.D., Clift, P.D., Beget, J., Wei, W., Spezzaferri, S., and Leg 152 Scientific Party, 1994. Seven million years of glaciation in Greenland. Science, 264, 952-955.

Larsen, H.C., Saunders, A.D., Clift, P.D., and Leg 152 Scientific Party, 1994. Fire and ice: The SE Greenland margin drilled by ODP Leg 152. Eos 75(34), 401-402.

Rothwell, R.G., Bednarz, U., Boe, R., Clift, P.D., Hodkinson, R., Ledbetter, J.K., Pratt, C.E., and Soakai, S., 1994. Sedimentation and sedimentary processes in the Lau backarc basin: Results from ODP Leg 135. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 135, 829-842.

Saunders, A.D., Larsen, H.C., Clift, P.D., and Leg 152 Scientific Party, 1994. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 152. 
 

1993

Najman, Y.M.R., Clift, P.D., Johnson, M.R., and Robertson, A.H.F., 1993. Early Tertiary foreland basin evolution in the Lesser Himalaya. In Searle, M.P., and Treloar, P. (Eds.), Himalayan Tectonics. Geological Society Special Publication, 74, 541-558.

Vachard, D., Clift, P.D., and Decrouez, D., 1993. Une association a pseudodunbarula (fusulinoide) du Permien superieur (Djoulfien) remainee dans le Jurassique d'Argolide (Pelopennese, Grece). Revue de Paleobiologie, 12, 217-242. 
 

1992

Clift, P.D., 1992. Collision tectonics of the Greek Neotethys. Geologische Rundschau, 81(3), 669-679. 
 

1991

Clift, P.D., 1991. Discussion comments. In Dewey, J.F., et al., Allochthonous terranes. Cambridge University Press.

Clift, P.D., and Robertson, A.H.F., 1991. Passive margin sedimentation and collapse in the Neotethys of S. Greece. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 25(1), 485-490.

Robertson, A.H.F., Clift, P.D., Degnan, P.J., and Jones, G., 1991. Tectonic evolution of the Mesozoic-Cenozoic Pindos Ocean; Greece. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 25(1), 55-64.

Robertson, A.H.F., Clift, P.D., Jones, G., and Degnan, P.J., 1991. The palaeoceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean Neotethys. Palaeoceanography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 87, 289-344. 1991_Robertson_etal_PPP.pdf
 

1990

Clift, P.D., and Robertson, A.H.F., 1990. Intraplatform basin within the carbonate shelf of the Argolis Peninsula, Greece. Journal of the Geological Society, 147, 825-836.

Clift, P.D., and Robertson, A.H.F., 1990. A Late Cretaceous carbonate margin of the S. Greek Neotethys. Geological Magazine, 127, 299-308. 
 

1989

Clift, P.D., and Robertson, A.H.F., 1989. Evidence of a late Mesozoic ocean basin and subduction/accretion in the southern Greek Neotethys. Geology, 17, 559-563.