Publications

Submitted, in review, or in revision

Struble, W.T., McGuire, L.A., McCoy, S.W., Barnhart, K.R., (in revision), Debris-flow dominated valley morphology records uplift and erosion, Geophysical Research Letters.

Morgan, P.M., grant, a., Struble, W., LaHusen, S., Duvall, A., (in review/discussion), The damability function: A probabilistic approach to regional landslide dam susceptibility analysis applied to the Oregon Coast Range, USA, Earth Surface Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-580.

Robinson, M.J., Scheingross, J.S., McCoy, S., Struble, W. (in review), Ridgeline steepness records tectonic uplift rates.

Robinson, M.J.* & Struble, W.T.*, Sweeney, K.E., Scheingross, J.S. (in revision), The pace and direction of drainage-divide migration recorded in hilltop asymmetry, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.

* co-first author paper

Peer Reviewed

Struble, W.T., McCoy, S.W., Tucker, G.E., Hobley, D.E.J., Gregory, L.C., Mason, H.B., (2025), Dip angles of mountain-front facets encode long-term slip rates along the Wasatch Normal Fault, USA, Geophysical Research Letters 52, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL117713.

Struble, W.T., Clubb, F.J., Roering, J.J. (2024), Regional-scale, high-resolution measurements of hilltop curvature reveal uplift, climate, and lithologic controls on hillslope morphology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 647, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119044.

Gavin, D.G., Struble, W.T., Fonstad, M. (2024), Holocene Lake Sediments Reveal Alluvial Fan History with Links to Climate, Wildfire, and Earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 129, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JF007778.

Liu, T., McGuire, L.A., Youberg, A.M., Prescott, A.B., Gorr, A.N., Struble, W.T., Beers, R. (2024), A pre-fire approach for probabilistic assessments of postfire debris-flow inundation, Earth’s Future 12, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF004318.

Balco, G., Hidy, A., Struble, W., Roering, J. (2024), Short Communication: Cosmogenic noble gas depletion in soils by wildfire heating, Geochronology 6, 71-76, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-6-71-2024

McGuire, L., McCoy, S.W., Marc, O., Struble, W.T., Barnhart, K., (2023), Steady state forms of channel profiles shaped by debris flow and fluvial processes, Earth Surface Dynamics 11, 1117-1143, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-1117-2023.

Struble, W.T., McGuire, L.A., McCoy, S.W., Barnhart, K.R., Marc, O., (2023), Debris-flow process controls on steepland morphology in the San Gabriel Mountains, California, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 128, e2022JF007017, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JF007017.

Grant, A., Struble, W.T., LaHusen, S.R., (2022), Limits to coseismic landslides triggered by Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes, Geomorphology 418, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108477.

George, S.W.M., Perez, N.D., Struble, W.T., Curry, M.E., Horton, B.K., (2022), Aseismic ridge subduction focused late Cenozoic exhumation above the Peruvian flat slab, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 600, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117754.

Struble, W.T. and Roering, J.J., (2021), Hilltop curvature as a proxy for erosion rate: Wavelets enable rapid computation and reveal systematic underestimation, Earth Surface Dynamics 9, 1279-1300, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-1279-2021.

Wetherell, L.R., Struble, W.T., LaHusen, S.R., (2021), Developing landslide chronologies using landslide-dammed lakes in the Oregon Coast Range, in From Terranes to Terrains: Geologic Field Guides on the Construction and Destruction of the Pacific Northwest, Field Guide 62, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO.

Struble, W.T., Roering, J.J., Burns, W., Calhoun, N., Wetherell, L., Black, B., (2021), The Preservation of Climate-Driven Landslide Dams in Western Oregon, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 126, e2020JF005908, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005908.

Wetherell, L.R., Ely, L.L., Roering, J.J., Walsh, M.K., Burchfield, M., Nace, K., Wetherell, M., Struble, W., (2021), Quantifying sedimentation patterns of small landslide-dammed lakes in the central Oregon Coast Range, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5106.

Struble, W.T., Roering, J.J., Dorsey, R.J., Bendick, R., (2021), Characteristic scales of drainage reorganization in Cascadia, Geophysical Research Letters 48, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091413.

LaHusen, S.R., Duvall, A.R., Booth, A.M., Grant, A., Mishkin, B.A., Montgomery, D.R., Struble, W., Roering, J.J., Wartman, J., (2020), Rainfall triggers more deep-seated landslides than Cascadia earthquakes in the Oregon Coast Range, USA, Science Advances 6, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba6790.

Tucker, G.E., Hobley, D.E., McCoy, S.W., Struble, W.T., (2020), Modeling the Shape and Evolution of Normal-Fault Facets, JGR-Earth Surface, 125, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005305.

Struble, W.T., Roering, J.J., Black, B., Burns, W.J., Calhoun, N., Wetherell, L., (2020), Dendrochronological dating of landslides in western Oregon: searching for signals of the Cascadia AD 1700 earthquake, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132 (7-8), 1775-1791, https://doi.org/10.1130/B35269.1.

Perkins, J.P., Roering, J.J., Burns, W.J., Struble, W.T., Black, B., Schmidt, K., Duvall, A., and Calhoun, N., (2018), Hunting for landslides from Cascadia’s great earthquakes, Eos, 99.

Manuscripts in Preparation

Struble, W.T., Roering, J.J., Balco, G., Dorsey, R., Aguilar, J., (in prep), Cosmogenic ²¹Ne dating of landsliding in Oregon Coast Range constrains timing of drainage reorganization in the Willamette Valley, Oregon.

See CV for non-peer reviewed publications and conference abstracts.