Recent Department Publications

We are a very active research department. Click the links below to read what we have been publishing lately. Publications from years past can be found under Publications Archive.

• Applications of fluid and melt inclusions to magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits (2021) - Runyon

• Temperature and water depth effects on brGDGT distributions in sub-alpine lakes of mid-latitude North America (2021) - Stefanescu, Shuman, Tierney

• Synthetic fluid inclusions XXII: Properties of H2O-NaCl ± KCl fluid inclusions trapped under vapor- and salt-saturated conditions with emphasis on the effect of KCl on phase equilibria (2020) - Runyon

• An isotopically distinct Zealandia-Antarctica mantle domain in the Southern Ocean (2019) - Sims, Scott

• Coarse muscovite veins and alteration in porphyry systems (2019) - Runyon

• The application of abundance sensitivity filters to the precise and accurate measurement of uranium series nuclides by plasma mass spectrometry (2019) - Scott, Sims

• Why are some Rocky Mountain lakes ephemeral? (2018) - Liefert, Shuman, Parsekian, and Mercer 

• Numerical modeling of stream-aquifer interaction: quantifying the impact of transient streambed permeability and aquifer heterogeneity, Hydrological Processes, (2018) - Zhang

• Mesozoic to Cenozoic magmatic history of the Pamir (2018) - Chapman

• Joint facies and reservoir properties inversion (2018) - Grana

• Hydrologic partitioning of snowmelt on a snow-dominated subalpine hillslope (2018) - Thayer, Parsekian, Hyde, Speckman, Ewers, Beverly, Covalt, Kelleners, Ohara, Rogers, and Holbrook

• Estimating active layer thickness and volumetric water content from ground penetrating radar measurements in Barrow, Alaska, (2018) - Parsekian

• Cretaceous shortening and exhumation in the South Pamir terrane (2018) - Chapman

• Stochastic nonlinear inversion of seismic data for the estimation of petroelastic properties using the ensemble smoother and data reparameterization (2018) – Liu and Grana

• Lithospheric architecture and tectonic evolution of the southwestern U.S. Cordillera: Constraints from zircon Hf and O isotopic data (2018) - Chapman

• Estimating winter ebullition bubble volume in lake ice using ground-penetrating radar (2018) - Fantello and Parsekian 

• Comment on “A comparative study of reservoir modeling techniques and their impact on predicted performance of fluvial-dominated deltaic reservoirs”, (2018) - Zhang

• Hydraulic conductivity calibration of logging NMR in a granite aquifer, Laramie Range, Wyoming, Groundwater, Ren, Parsekian, Zhang, and Carr (2018)

• Heterogeneity-assisted carbon dioxide storage in marine sediments, Applied Energy, (2018) - Ye Zhang and Mingkan Zhang

• Bayesian linearized petrophysical AVO inversion (2018) – Lang and Grana

• Borehole characterization of hydraulic properties and groundwater flow in a crystalline fractured aquifer of a headwater mountain watershed, Laramie Range, Wyoming, (2018) - Ren, Gragg, Zhang and Carr

• Joint Bayesian inversion based on rock-physics prior modeling for the estimation of spatially correlated reservoir properties (2018) – Grana

• The evolution of magma during continental rifting: new constraints from the isotopic and trace element signatures of silicic magmas from Ethiopian volcanoes, accepted in Earth and Planetary Sci Letters - K.W.W. Sims

• The nature and evolution of mantle upwelling at Ross Island, Antarctica, with implications for the HIMU source lavas, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, - E.H. Phillips, K.W.W. Sims

• Greenland subglacial water and proximal seawater U chemistry: Implications for seawater δ234U on glacial-interglacial timescales - K.W.W. Sims

• Shallow-level differentiation of phonolitic lavas from Sumaco Volcano, Ecuador, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology- K.W.W. Sims

• Geodynamic implications of crustal lithologies from the southeast Mariana fore-arc - K.W.W. Sims

• Broken Sheets—On the Numbers and Areas of Tectonic Plates - McElroy

• 2.7 Ga high-pressure granulites of the Teton Range: record of Neoarchean continent collision and exhumation -Swapp, Frost, C., & Frost B.

• Synextensional dike emplacement across the footwall of a continental core complex, Chemehuevi Mountains, southeastern California: John

• Neoarchean tectonic history of the Teton Range: record of accretion against the present-day western margin of the Wyoming Province - Frost, B., Swapp, Frost, C., & Chamberlain

• Joint probabilistic petrophysics-seismic inversion based on Gaussian mixture and Markov chain prior models - Grana

• ²³⁸U-²³⁰Th-²²⁶Ra-²¹⁰Pb-²¹⁰Po disequilibria constraints on magma generation, ascent, and degassing during the ongoing eruption of Kīlauea - Sims & Phillips

• Quantitative Textural Insights into the Formation of Gabbro in Mafic Intrusions - Cheadle

• Understanding degassing and transport of CO₂ rich alkalic magmas at Ross Island, Antarctica using olivine-hosted melt inclusions - Sims & Phillips

• Geochemical characterization of critical dust source regions in the American West - Aciego, Sims and Scott

• Hadean origins of Paleoarchean continental crust in the central Wyoming Province - Frost, C., Frost B., & Swapp

• On the hydration of olivine in ultramafic rocks: Implications from Fe isotopes in serpentinites - Scott, Sims, Frost and Swapp

• Centennial to millennial hydroclimatic fluctuations in the humid northeast United States during the Holocenea -  Shuman and Burrell

• Sr and O Isotopes in Western Aleutian Seafloor Lavas: Implications for the Source of Fluids and Trace Element Character of Arc Volcanic Rocks - Sims

• Patterns of hydroclimatic change in the Rocky Mountains and surrounding regions since the last glacial maximum - Shuman and Serravezza

• Extensive wildfires, climate change, and an abrupt state change in subalpine ribbon forests, Colorado - Calder and Shuman

• Seasonal Progression of Uranium Series Isotopes in Subglacial Meltwater: Implications for Subglacial Storage Time - Aciego and Sims

• Evidence of Young Crystal Ages in Andesitic Magmas from a Hyperactive Arc Volcano—Volcan de Colima, Mexico - Scott and Sims

• Data reporting standards for publication of U-series data for geochronology and timescale assessment in the earth sciences - Sims

• Geophysical imaging of shallow degassing in a Yellowstone hydrothermal system - Pasquet, Holbrook, Carr and Sims

• Tectonic structure, evolution, and the nature of oceanic core complexes and their detachment fault zones (13°20’N and 13°30’N, Mid Atlantic Ridge) - John

• Dust outpaces bedrock in nutrient supply to montane forest ecosystems - Aciego, Riebe and Sims

• Controls on deep critical zone architecture: A historical review and four testable hypotheses - Riebe

• Catchment power and the joint distribution of elevation and travel distance to the outlet - Riebe

• Microbial Community Structure of Subalpine Snow in the Sierra Nevada, California - Riebe

• Exploring the role of mantle eclogite at mid-ocean ridges and hotspots U-series constraints on Jan Mayen Island and the Kolbeinsey Ridge - Scott & Sims

• Isotopic constraints on the genesis and evolution of basanitic lavas at Haleakala, Island of Maui, Hawaii - Phillips and Sims

• Quantifying bone weathering stages using the average roughness parameter Ra measured from 3D data - Vietti

• Experimental Study of Porosity Changes in Shale Caprocks Exposed to Carbon Dioxide-Saturated Brine II: Insights from Aqueous Geochemistry - Miller, Wang & Kaszuba

• Experimental Study of Porosity Changes in Shale Caprocks Exposed to CO₂-Saturated Brines I: Evolution of Mineralogy, Pore Connectivity, Pore Size Distribution, and Surface Area- Wang, Kaszuba & Miller

• First direct observation of coseismic slip and seafloor rupture along a submarine normal fault - John

• High precision U-Pb dating of ODP Holes 735B and 1105A, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge - Cheadle and John

• Testing for supply-limited and kinetic-limited chemical erosion in field measurements of regolith production and chemical depletion – Riebe

• The problem of predicting the size distribution of sediment supplied by hillslopes to rivers – Riebe and Lukens

• Grain size bias in cosmogenic nuclide studies of stream sediment in steep terrain – Lukens and Riebe

• Timescales of storage and recycling of crystal mush at Krafla Volcano, Iceland – Sims

• A Sr-Nd-Hf isotope characterization of dust source areas in Victoria Land and the McMurdo Sound sector of Antarctica – Sims

• The structure of Holocene climate change in mid-latitude North America – Shuman and Marsicek

• North Atlantic hotspot-ridge interaction near Jan Mayen Island – Scott and Sims

• An integrated site characterization-to-optimization study for commercial-scale carbon dioxide storage – Zhang

• Climate and topography control the size and flux of sediment produced on steep mountain slopes – Riebe and Lukens

• Geophysical imaging reveals topographic stress control of bedrock weathering – St. Clair, Holbrook, Riebe, and Carr

• Tools for gauging the capacity of salmon spawning substrates – Riebe

• Applications and limitations of U–Th disequilibria systematics for determining ages of carbonate alteration minerals in peridotite – Sims