Dr Tara Jonell
- Lecturer (School of Social & Environmental Sustainability)
Publications
2025
Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Dommain, René and Clift, Peter D.
(2025)
Asian geodynamics, climate and biodiversity: an introduction.
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 549(1),
pp. 1-10.
(doi: 10.1144/sp549-2025-1)
2024
Li, G. et al. (2024) Asynchronous Holocene lake evolution in arid mid-latitude Asia is driven by glacial meltwater and variations in Westerlies and the East Asian summer monsoon. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 136(11-12), pp. 4579-4594. (doi: 10.1130/b37288.1)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Jones, Peter
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Lucas, Adam and Naylor, Simon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714
(2024)
Limited waterpower contributed to rise of steam power in British 'Cottonopolis'.
PNAS Nexus, 3(7),
pgae251.
(doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae251)
Ao, H. et al. (2024) Orbital- and millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon variability across the Pliocene–Pleistocene glacial intensification. Nature Communications, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47274-9) (PMID:38641605) (PMCID:PMC11031568) (Early Online Publication)
2023
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Calton, Iara Nave, Hurst, Martin D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-076X, Jones, Peter
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Lucas, Adam R. and Naylor, Simon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714
(2023)
Shaping landscapes and industry: linking historic watermill locations to bedrock river knickpoints.
Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(3-4),
pp. 328-345.
(doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2205853)
Jones, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Jonell, Tara N.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Hurst, Martin D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-076X, Lucas, Adam R. and Naylor, Simon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714
(2023)
Location, location, location: reassessing W.H.K. Turner’s legacy for industrial geography in Scotland and beyond.
Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(1-2),
pp. 205-218.
(doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2178666)
Ao, H. et al. (2023) Northern hemisphere ice sheet expansion intensified Asian aridification and the winter monsoon across the mid-Pleistocene transition. Communications Earth and Environment, 4(1), 36. (doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00686-9)
2022
Yang, Yibo, Nie, Junsheng, Miao, Yunfa, Wan, Shiming and Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816
(2022)
Editorial: Tibetan Plateau uplift and environmental impacts: new progress and perspectives.
Frontiers in Earth Science, 10,
1020354.
(doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.1020354)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Giosan, Liviu, Clift, Peter D., Carter, Andrew, Bertschneider, Lisa, Hathorne, Ed C,, Barbarano, Marta, Garzanti, Eduardo, Vezzoli, Giovanni and Naing, Thet
(2022)
No modern Irrawaddy River until the late Miocene-Pliocene.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584,
117516.
(doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117516)
Andjić, Goran, Zhou, Renjie, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816 and Aitchison, Jonathan C.
(2022)
A single Dras‐Kohistan‐Ladakh arc revealed by volcaniclastic records.
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(3),
e2021GC010042.
(doi: 10.1029/2021GC010042)
2021
Ao, H. et al. (2021) Eccentricity-paced monsoon variability on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in the Late Oligocene high CO2 world. Science Advances, 7(51), eabk2318. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abk2318) (PMID:34910508) (PMCID:PMC8673770)
Clift, Peter D. and Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816
(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 multimillennial timescales.
Earth Science Reviews, 220,
103682.
(doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103682)
Andjic, Goran, Zhou, Renjie, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816 and Aitchison, Jonathan C.
(2021)
Dissimilar Age and Provenance of the Nindam and Jurutze Volcaniclastic Formations, Zanskar Gorge, Ladakh (India).
EGU General Assembly 2021, 19-30 Apr 2021.
(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7181)
Clift, Peter and Jonell, Tara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816
(2021)
Himalayan-Tibetan Erosion is not the Cause of Neogene Global Cooling.
EGU General Assembly 2021, 19-30 Apr 2021.
(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-1232)
2020
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Li, Guoqiang, Shulmeister, James, Zhou, Renjie and Zhang, Haixia
(2020)
Revisiting growth and decline of late Quaternary mega-lakes across the south-central Tibetan Plateau.
Quaternary Science Reviews, 248,
106475.
(doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106475)
Clift, Peter D., Calvès, Gérôme and Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816
(2020)
Evidence for simple volcanic rifting not complex subduction initiation in the Laxmi Basin.
Nature Communications, 11,
2733.
(doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16569-y)
(PMID:32483227)
(PMCID:PMC7264180)
Li, G. et al. (2020) Paleoclimatic changes and modulation of East Asian summer monsoon by high-latitude forcing over the last 130,000 years as revealed by independently dated loess-paleosol sequences on the NE Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 237, 106283. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106283)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Clift, Peter D. and Bloethe, Jan H.
(2020)
Climatic Controls on Continental Erosion and Sediment Transport (CLAST2019).
GSA Today, 30,
pp. 38-39.
Dailey, S. K. et al. (2020) Large-scale mass wasting on the Miocene continental margin of western India. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132(1-2), pp. 85-112. (doi: 10.1130/B35158.1)
2018
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Li, Yuting, Blusztajn, Jurek, Giosan, Liviu and Clift, Peter D.
(2018)
Signal or noise? Isolating grain size effects on Nd and Sr isotope variability in Indus delta sediment provenance.
Chemical Geology, 485,
pp. 56-73.
(doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.03.036)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Owen, Lewis A., Carter, Aandrew, Schwenniger, Jean-Luc and Clift, Peter D.
(2018)
Quantifying episodic erosion and transient storage on the western margin of the Tibetan Plateau, upper Indus River.
Quaternary Research, 89(1),
pp. 281-306.
(doi: 10.1017/qua.2017.92)
2017
Xu, Gang, Liu, Jian, Hu, Gang, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816 and Chen, Lilei
(2017)
Distribution and source of organic matter in surface sediment from the muddy deposit along the Zhejiang coast, East China Sea.
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 123(1-2),
pp. 395-399.
(doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.08.053)
Amato, Jeffrey M., Mack, Greg H., Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Seager, William R. and Upchurch, Garland R.
(2017)
Onset of the Laramide orogeny and associated magmatism in southern New Mexico based on U-Pb geochronology.
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 129(9-10),
pp. 1209-1226.
(doi: 10.1130/B31629.1)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Clift, Peter D., Hoang, Long V., Hoang, Tina, Carter, Andrew, Wittmann, Hella, Böning, Philipp, Pahnke, Katharina and Rittenour, Tammy
(2017)
Controls on erosion patterns and sediment transport in a monsoonal, tectonically quiescent drainage, Song Gianh, central Vietnam.
Basin Research, 29(S1),
pp. 659-683.
(doi: 10.1111/bre.12199)
Clift, Peter D., Zheng, Hongbo, Carter, Andrew, Böning, Philipp, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Schorr, Hannah, Shan, Xin, Pahnke, Katharina, Wei, Xiaochun and Rittenour, Tammy
(2017)
Controls on erosion in the western Tarim Basin: Implications for the uplift of northwest Tibet and the Pamir.
Geosphere, 13(5),
pp. 1747-1765.
(doi: 10.1130/GES01378.1)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Carter, Andrew, Böning, Philipp, Pahnke, Katharina and Clift, Peter 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, 129(7-8),
pp. 820-836.
(doi: 10.1130/B31573.1)
2014
Clift, Peter D., Carter, Andrew and Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816
(2014)
U-Pb dating of detrital zircon grains in the Paleocene Stumpata Formation, Tethyan Himalaya, Zanskar, India.
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 82,
pp. 80-89.
(doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.12.014)
Articles
Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Dommain, René and Clift, Peter D.
(2025)
Asian geodynamics, climate and biodiversity: an introduction.
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 549(1),
pp. 1-10.
(doi: 10.1144/sp549-2025-1)
Li, G. et al. (2024) Asynchronous Holocene lake evolution in arid mid-latitude Asia is driven by glacial meltwater and variations in Westerlies and the East Asian summer monsoon. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 136(11-12), pp. 4579-4594. (doi: 10.1130/b37288.1)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Jones, Peter
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Lucas, Adam and Naylor, Simon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714
(2024)
Limited waterpower contributed to rise of steam power in British 'Cottonopolis'.
PNAS Nexus, 3(7),
pgae251.
(doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae251)
Ao, H. et al. (2024) Orbital- and millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon variability across the Pliocene–Pleistocene glacial intensification. Nature Communications, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47274-9) (PMID:38641605) (PMCID:PMC11031568) (Early Online Publication)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Calton, Iara Nave, Hurst, Martin D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-076X, Jones, Peter
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Lucas, Adam R. and Naylor, Simon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714
(2023)
Shaping landscapes and industry: linking historic watermill locations to bedrock river knickpoints.
Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(3-4),
pp. 328-345.
(doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2205853)
Jones, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Jonell, Tara N.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Hurst, Martin D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-076X, Lucas, Adam R. and Naylor, Simon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714
(2023)
Location, location, location: reassessing W.H.K. Turner’s legacy for industrial geography in Scotland and beyond.
Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(1-2),
pp. 205-218.
(doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2178666)
Ao, H. et al. (2023) Northern hemisphere ice sheet expansion intensified Asian aridification and the winter monsoon across the mid-Pleistocene transition. Communications Earth and Environment, 4(1), 36. (doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00686-9)
Yang, Yibo, Nie, Junsheng, Miao, Yunfa, Wan, Shiming and Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816
(2022)
Editorial: Tibetan Plateau uplift and environmental impacts: new progress and perspectives.
Frontiers in Earth Science, 10,
1020354.
(doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.1020354)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Giosan, Liviu, Clift, Peter D., Carter, Andrew, Bertschneider, Lisa, Hathorne, Ed C,, Barbarano, Marta, Garzanti, Eduardo, Vezzoli, Giovanni and Naing, Thet
(2022)
No modern Irrawaddy River until the late Miocene-Pliocene.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584,
117516.
(doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117516)
Andjić, Goran, Zhou, Renjie, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816 and Aitchison, Jonathan C.
(2022)
A single Dras‐Kohistan‐Ladakh arc revealed by volcaniclastic records.
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(3),
e2021GC010042.
(doi: 10.1029/2021GC010042)
Ao, H. et al. (2021) Eccentricity-paced monsoon variability on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in the Late Oligocene high CO2 world. Science Advances, 7(51), eabk2318. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abk2318) (PMID:34910508) (PMCID:PMC8673770)
Clift, Peter D. and Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816
(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 multimillennial timescales.
Earth Science Reviews, 220,
103682.
(doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103682)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Li, Guoqiang, Shulmeister, James, Zhou, Renjie and Zhang, Haixia
(2020)
Revisiting growth and decline of late Quaternary mega-lakes across the south-central Tibetan Plateau.
Quaternary Science Reviews, 248,
106475.
(doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106475)
Clift, Peter D., Calvès, Gérôme and Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816
(2020)
Evidence for simple volcanic rifting not complex subduction initiation in the Laxmi Basin.
Nature Communications, 11,
2733.
(doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16569-y)
(PMID:32483227)
(PMCID:PMC7264180)
Li, G. et al. (2020) Paleoclimatic changes and modulation of East Asian summer monsoon by high-latitude forcing over the last 130,000 years as revealed by independently dated loess-paleosol sequences on the NE Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 237, 106283. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106283)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Clift, Peter D. and Bloethe, Jan H.
(2020)
Climatic Controls on Continental Erosion and Sediment Transport (CLAST2019).
GSA Today, 30,
pp. 38-39.
Dailey, S. K. et al. (2020) Large-scale mass wasting on the Miocene continental margin of western India. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132(1-2), pp. 85-112. (doi: 10.1130/B35158.1)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Li, Yuting, Blusztajn, Jurek, Giosan, Liviu and Clift, Peter D.
(2018)
Signal or noise? Isolating grain size effects on Nd and Sr isotope variability in Indus delta sediment provenance.
Chemical Geology, 485,
pp. 56-73.
(doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.03.036)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Owen, Lewis A., Carter, Aandrew, Schwenniger, Jean-Luc and Clift, Peter D.
(2018)
Quantifying episodic erosion and transient storage on the western margin of the Tibetan Plateau, upper Indus River.
Quaternary Research, 89(1),
pp. 281-306.
(doi: 10.1017/qua.2017.92)
Xu, Gang, Liu, Jian, Hu, Gang, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816 and Chen, Lilei
(2017)
Distribution and source of organic matter in surface sediment from the muddy deposit along the Zhejiang coast, East China Sea.
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 123(1-2),
pp. 395-399.
(doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.08.053)
Amato, Jeffrey M., Mack, Greg H., Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Seager, William R. and Upchurch, Garland R.
(2017)
Onset of the Laramide orogeny and associated magmatism in southern New Mexico based on U-Pb geochronology.
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 129(9-10),
pp. 1209-1226.
(doi: 10.1130/B31629.1)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Clift, Peter D., Hoang, Long V., Hoang, Tina, Carter, Andrew, Wittmann, Hella, Böning, Philipp, Pahnke, Katharina and Rittenour, Tammy
(2017)
Controls on erosion patterns and sediment transport in a monsoonal, tectonically quiescent drainage, Song Gianh, central Vietnam.
Basin Research, 29(S1),
pp. 659-683.
(doi: 10.1111/bre.12199)
Clift, Peter D., Zheng, Hongbo, Carter, Andrew, Böning, Philipp, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Schorr, Hannah, Shan, Xin, Pahnke, Katharina, Wei, Xiaochun and Rittenour, Tammy
(2017)
Controls on erosion in the western Tarim Basin: Implications for the uplift of northwest Tibet and the Pamir.
Geosphere, 13(5),
pp. 1747-1765.
(doi: 10.1130/GES01378.1)
Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Carter, Andrew, Böning, Philipp, Pahnke, Katharina and Clift, Peter 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, 129(7-8),
pp. 820-836.
(doi: 10.1130/B31573.1)
Clift, Peter D., Carter, Andrew and Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816
(2014)
U-Pb dating of detrital zircon grains in the Paleocene Stumpata Formation, Tethyan Himalaya, Zanskar, India.
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 82,
pp. 80-89.
(doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.12.014)
Conference or Workshop Item
Andjic, Goran, Zhou, Renjie, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816 and Aitchison, Jonathan C.
(2021)
Dissimilar Age and Provenance of the Nindam and Jurutze Volcaniclastic Formations, Zanskar Gorge, Ladakh (India).
EGU General Assembly 2021, 19-30 Apr 2021.
(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7181)
Clift, Peter and Jonell, Tara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816
(2021)
Himalayan-Tibetan Erosion is not the Cause of Neogene Global Cooling.
EGU General Assembly 2021, 19-30 Apr 2021.
(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-1232)