Carmala Nina Garzione is an American geologist who is Professor of Geosciences and Dean of the College of Science at the University of Arizona.
Garzione was an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she majored in geology and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
[1] Her doctoral research considered the Kali Gandaki Gorge and Graben, and how the tectonics impacted the evolution of the Tibetan plateau.
In low temperature elevated regions the atoms vibrate more slowly, and the bonds of heavy isotopes are more difficult to break, such that the concentration of Carbon-13 and Oxygen-18 are higher.
[11] Garzione showed that the Altiplano plateau in the central Andes was formed by a series of rapid growth pulses, not through continual uplift.