Recent Publications by NAU Geology Faculty and Students

* = Student authors

Ort, M.H., Elson, M.D., Anderson, K.C., Duffield, W.A., Hooten, J.A., Champion, D.E., and Waring, G., 2008, Effects of Cinder Cone Eruptions upon Nearby Human Communities, Geological Society of America Bulletin, p. 476-486.

Briner, J.P., Kaufman, D.S., 2008, Late Pleistocene mountain glaciation in Alaska: Key chronologies. Journal of Quaternary Science, doi:10.1002/jqs.1196.

Mangerud, J., Kaufman, D., Hansen, J., Svendsen, J.I., 2008, Ice-free conditions in Novaya Zemlya 35,000-30,000 cal years B.P., as indicated by radiocarbon ages and amino aid racemization evidence from marine molluscs. Polar Research, doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00064.x.

Kosnik, M.A., Kaufman, D.S., 2008, Identifying outliers and assessing the accuracy of amino acid racemization measurements for geochronology: II. Data screening. Quaternary Geochronology 3/4, 328-341.

Kosnik, M.A., Kaufman, D.S., Quan, H., 2008, Identifying outliers and assessing the accuracy of amino acid racemization measurements for geochronology: I. Age calibration curves. Quaternary Geochronology 3/4, 308-327.

Owen, L.A., Thackray, G., Anderson, R.S., Briner, J., Kaufman, D., Roe, G., Pfeffer, W., Yi, C., 2008, Integrated mountain glacier research: current status, priorities and future prospects. Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.04.019.

*Daigle, T.A., Kaufman, D.S., 2008, Holocene climate inferred from glacier extent, lake sediment and tree rings at Goat Lake, Kenai Mountains, Alaska USA. Journal of Quaternary Science, doi:10.1002/jqs.1166.

Jayko, A.S., Forester, R.M., Kaufman, D.S., Phillips, F.M., Yount, J.C., McGeehin, J., Mahan, S.A., 2008, Late Pleistocene lakes and wetlands, Panamint Valley, Inyo County, California, in Reheis, M.C., Hershler, R., and Miller, D.M., eds., Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 439, doi:10.1130/2008.2439(07).

*McKay, N.P., Kaufman, D.S., Michelutti, N., 2008. Biogenic-silica concentration as a high-resolution, quantitative temperature proxy at Hallet Lake, south-central Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L05709, doi:10.1029/2007GL032876.

Riehle, J.R., Ager, T.A., Reger, R.D., Pinney, D.S., Kaufman, D.S., 2008, Stratigraphic and compositional complexities of the late Quaternary Lethe tephra in south-central Alaska: Quaternary International 178, 210-228.

Penkman, K.E.H., Kaufman, D.S., Maddy, D., Collins, M.J., 2008, Closed-system behaviour of the intra-crystalline fraction of amino acids in mollusk shells. Quaternary Geochronology 3, 2-25.

Wells, M. L. and Hoisch, T.D., 2008. The role of mantle delamination in widespread Late Cretaceous extension and magmatism in the Cordilleran orogen, western United States. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 120, 515-530.


Reid, M.R., 2008. How long does it take to supersize an eruption? Elements 4, 23-28.


*Schiff, C. J., Kaufman, D.S., K. L. Wallace, K.L, Werner, A., Ku, T-L., and Brown, T.A., 2008. Modeled tephra ages from lake sediments, base of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. Quaternary Geochronology 3, 56-67 (doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2007.05.001).

Elson, M. D., Ort, M.H., Anderson, K.A., and Heidke, J.M., 2007, Living with the volcano: the 11th century A.D. eruption of Sunset Crater. In Living under the shadow: Cultural impacts of volcanic eruptions: Walnut Creek, Left Coast Press, p. 107–132.

Carrasco-Nuñez, G., Ort, M.H., and Romero, C., 2007, Anatomy of a maar volcano: Case study of Atexcac crater, eastern Mexico; Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 159, p. 179-197.


*Harris, C.R., Hoisch, T.D., and Wells, M.L., 2007. Construction of a composite pressure-temperature path: revealing the synorogenic burial and exhumation history of the Sevier hinterland, U.S.A. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 25, 915-934.


Firestone, R.B., West, A., Kennett, J.P., Becker, L., Bunch, T.E., Revay, Z.S., Schultz, P.H., Belgya, T., Kennett, D.J., Erlandson, J.M., Dickenson, O.J., Goodyear, A.C., Harris, R.S., Howard, G.A., Kloosterman, J.B., Lechler, P., Mayewski, P.A., Montgomery, J., Poreda, R., Darrah, T., Que Hee, S.S., Smith, A.R., Stich, A., Topping, W., Wittke, J.H., and Wolbach, W.S., 2007. Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104, 16016–16021


*deFontaine, C.S., Kaufman, D.S., Anderson, R.S., Werner, A., Waythomas, C.F., Brown, T.A., 2007. Late Quaternary distal tephra-fall deposits in lacustrine sediments, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Quaternary Research 68, 64-78.


Kosnick, M.A., Hua, Q., Jacabsen, G.E.,Kaufman, D.S., Wust, R.A., 2007. Sediment mixing and stratigraphic disorder revealed by the age-structure of Tellina shells in Great Barrier Reef sediment. Geology 35, 811-814.


Lizarralde, D., (in alphabetical order) Axen, G.J., Brown, H.E., Fletcher, J.M., Gonzalez-Fernandez, A., Harding, A.J., Holbrook, W.S., Kent, G.M., Paramo, R., Sutherland, F., and Umhoefer, P.J., 2007. Variable styles of rifting in the Gulf of California. Nature 448, 466-469.


Mead, J.I., Molluscan faunas of the San Pedro Valley, Arizona. in C.V. Haynes and B.B. Huckell (eds.) Murray Springs: A Clovis site with multiple activity areas in the San Pedro Valley, Arizona. University of Arizona Press, Anthropological Papers 71.

Umhoefer, P.J., Schwenicke, T, Del Margo, M.T., Ruiz-Geraldo, G., Ingle, J.C., Jr.,, and McIntosh, W., 2007. Transtensional fault-termination basins: An important basin type illustrated by the Pliocene San Jose Island basin and related basins in the southern Gulf of California, Mexico. Basin Research 19, 297-322.

*Simon, J.I., Reid, M.R., and Young E.D., 2007. Lead isotopes by LA-MC-ICPMS: tracking the emergence of mantle signatures in an evolving silicic magma system. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 71, 2014-2035.

Owen, L.A., Bright, J., Finkel, R.C., Jaiswal, M.K., Kaufman, D.S., Mahan, S., Radtke, U., Schneider, J.S., Shartp, W., Singhvi, A.K., Waren, C.N., 2007. Numerical dating of a late Quaternary spit-shoreline complex at the northern end of Silver Lake, Mojave Desert, California: testing the applicability of radiocarbon, luminescence, terrestrial cosmogenic nulcide, electron spin resonance, U-series, and amino acid racemization. Quaternary International 166, 87-110.

Chan, M., Netoff, D., Blakey, R., Kocurek, G., and Alvarez, W., 2007. Clastic-injection pipes and syndepositional deformation structures in Jurassic eolian deposits: Examples from the Colorado Plateau. In A. Hurst and J. Cartwright (eds.) Sand injectites: Implications for hydrocarbon exploration and production. AAPG Memoir 87, 233-244.

 
 

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