List of works by Karl E. Karlstrom

40Ar/39Ar Evidence For 1.4 Ga Regional Metamorphism in New Mexico: Implications For Thermal Evolution of Lithosphere in the Southwestern Usa

scientific article published in March 1997

40Ar/39Ar and field studies of Quaternary basalts in Grand Canyon and model for carving Grand Canyon: Quantifying the interaction of river incision and normal faulting across the western edge of the Colorado Plateau

article

40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic record of 1.45–1.35 Ga intracontinental tectonism in the southern Rocky Mountains: Interplay of conductive and advective heating with intracontinental deformation

scientific article published in 2005

6 Ma age of carving Westernmost Grand Canyon: Reconciling geologic data with combined AFT, (U–Th)/He, and 4He/3He thermochronologic data

scientific article published in September 2017

A Reappraisal of the Hydrogeology of the Western Margin of the Great Artesian Basin: Chemistry, Isotopes and Groundwater Flow

scientific article published in 2017

A Summary and Evaluation of Thermochronologic Constraints on the Exhumation History of the Colorado Plateau–Rocky Mountain Region ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

A new model for Quaternary lava dams in Grand Canyon based on 40Ar/39Ar dating, basalt geochemistry, and field mapping

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

A review of the geology and structure of the Cheyenne belt and Proterozoic rocks of southern Wyoming

scientific article published in 1989

Abandonment of Unaweep Canyon (1.4–0.8 Ma), western Colorado: Effects of stream capture and anomalously rapid Pleistocene river incision

scientific article published on 13 May 2014

An analysis of geothermal and carbonic springs in the western United States sustained by deep fluid inputs.

scientific article

Archean detrital zircons in the Proterozoic Vishnu Schist of the Grand Canyon, Arizona: Implications for crustal architecture and Nuna supercontinent reconstructions

scholarly article

Archean lithospheric mantle beneath Arkansas: Continental growth by microcontinent accretion

scholarly article

Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis

scientific article published in January 2008

Asynchronous trilobite extinctions at the early to middle Cambrian transition

scholarly article

Basin formation near the end of the 1.60–1.45 Ga tectonic gap in southern Laurentia: Mesoproterozoic Hess Canyon Group of Arizona and implications for ca. 1.5 Ga supercontinent configurations

scientific article

Birth and evolution of the Rio Grande fluvial system in the past 8 Ma: Progressive downward integration and the influence of tectonics, volcanism, and climate

scholarly article

Birth and evolution of the Virgin River fluvial system: ∼1 km of post–5 Ma uplift of the western Colorado Plateau

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Cambrian Sauk transgression in the Grand Canyon region redefined by detrital zircons ⬇️

scholarly article

Carbonic springs as distal manifestations of geothermal systems, highlighting the importance of fault pathways and hydrochemical mixing: Example from the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

article

Carving Grand Canyon’s inner gorge: A test of steady incision versus rapid knickzone migration

scientific article published in 2018

Cenozoic incision history of the Little Colorado River: Its role in carving Grand Canyon and onset of rapid incision in the past ca. 2 Ma in the Colorado River System

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Chuar Group of the Grand Canyon: record of breakup of Rodinia, associated change in the global carbon cycle, and ecosystem expansion by 740 Ma

scientific article

Colorado River chronostratigraphy at Lee's Ferry, Arizona, and the Colorado Plateau bull's-eye of incision: COMMENT

scientific article

Comment and Reply on “Reinterpretation of Newfoundland gravity data and arguments for an allochthonous Dunnage Zone”: REPLY

scholarly article

Comment on "Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He evidence for an ancient Grand Canyon"

scientific article published in April 2013

Complexity of Saharan paleoclimate reconstruction and implications for modern human migration

scientific article published in February 2019

Constraints on the evolution of vertical deformation and Colorado River incision near eastern Lake Mead, Arizona, provided by quantitative structural mapping of the Hualapai Limestone

scientific article published in February 2015

Continental smokers couple mantle degassing and distinctive microbiology within continents

scientific article published in February 2016

Continental-scale links between the mantle and groundwater systems of the western United States: Evidence from travertine springs and regional He isotope data

scientific article published in 2005

Continuing Colorado plateau uplift by delamination-style convective lithospheric downwelling.

scientific article published in April 2011

Coupled Re-Os and U-Pb geochronology of the Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon

scholarly article by Alan D. Rooney et al published 27 December 2017 in Geological Society of America Bulletin

Deep permeable fault–controlled helium transport and limited mantle flux in two extensional geothermal systems in the Great Basin, United States

scholarly article

Degassing of mantle-derived CO2 and He from springs in the southern Colorado Plateau region—Neotectonic connections and implications for groundwater systems

scientific article published in July 2009

Denudational Flexural Isostacy of the Colorado Plateau: Implications for incision rates and tectonic uplift ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Paleozoic strata in the Grand Canyon, Arizona

scholarly article

Detrital zircon provenance and paleogeography of the Pahrump Group and overlying strata, Death Valley, California

scientific article published in September 2014

Detrital-zircon U-Pb evidence precludes paleo–Colorado River sediment in the exposed Muddy Creek Formation of the Virgin River depression

scientific article published in December 2014

Differential Incision Rates in the Upper Colorado River System—Implications for Knickpoint Transience ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Differential incision of the Grand Canyon related to Quaternary faulting—Constraints from U-series and Ar/Ar dating: Comment and Reply

scientific article published in January 2003

Dissected hydrologic system at the Grand Canyon: Interaction between deeply derived fluids and plateau aquifer waters in modern springs and travertine

article

Distinct crustal isostasy trends east and west of the Rocky Mountain Front

scholarly article

Does the arc-accretion model adequately explain the Paleoproterozoic evolution of southern Laurentia: An expanded interpretation: COMMENT

article

ERRATUM: Post–12 Ma deformation in the lower Colorado River corridor, southwestern USA: Implications for diffuse transtension and the Bouse Formation

scientific article published on 10 January 2020

Early Proterozoic Assembly of Tectonostratigraphic Terranes in Southwestern North America

scientific article

Early Proterozoic geology of Arizona

scholarly article by Karl E. Karlstrom published in January 1986

Elucidating sources to aridland Dalhousie Springs in the Great Artesian Basin (Australia) to inform conservation

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Embryonic core complexes in narrow continental rifts: The importance of low-angle normal faults in the Rio Grande rift of central New Mexico

scientific article published in April 2015

Erratum to “Neoproterozoic Chuar Group (∼800–742 Ma), Grand Canyon: record of cyclic marine deposition during global cooling and supercontinent rifting” [Sediment. Geol. 141–142 (2001) 465–499]

scientific article published in June 2002

Evidence for intra-plate seismicity from spring-carbonate mound springs in the Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre region, South Australia: implications for groundwater discharge from the Great Artesian Basin

scientific article published on 6 November 2019

Evidence for long timescale (>103 years) changes in hydrothermal activity induced by seismic events

article

Evidence from the Colorado River System for Surface Uplift of the Colorado Rockies and Western Colorado Plateau in the last 10 Ma Driven by Mantle Flow and Buoyancy ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Faulting and uplift in the Grand Cany on region

scientific article published in 2012

Formation of the Grand Canyon 5 to 6 million years ago through integration of older palaeocanyons

Geochemistry and Travertine Dating Provide New Insights into the Hydrogeology of the Great Artesian Basin, South Australia

scientific article published in 2013

Geochemistry of Springs, Travertines and Lacustrine Carbonates of the Grand Canyon Region Over the Past 12 Million Years—The Importance of Groundwater on the Evolution of the Colorado River System ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Geologic Map of the Pueblo of Isleta Tribal Lands and Vicinity, Bernalillo, Torrance, and Valencia Counties, Central New Mexico

Grand Canyon Geology: Two Billion Years of Earth's History: Afterword

scientific article published in 2012

Growth, stabilization, and reactivation of Proterozoic lithosphere in the southwestern United States

scientific article

High-resolution δ13C stratigraphy of the Chuar Group (ca. 770–742 Ma), Grand Canyon: Implications for mid-Neoproterozoic climate change

scientific article published in 2005

History of Quaternary volcanism and lava dams in western Grand Canyon based on lidar analysis, 40Ar/39Ar dating, and field studies: Implications for flow stratigraphy, timing of volcanic events, and lava dams

scientific article published in 2008

Hot spring hydrochemistry of the Rio Grande rift in northern New Mexico reveals a distal geochemical connection between Valles Caldera and Ojo Caliente

scientific article published in December 2019

How not to build a supercontinent: A reply to J.D.A. Piper

Hydrochemical variations of groundwater and spring discharge of the western Great Artesian Basin, Australia: implications for regional groundwater flow

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Hydrogeochemistry of the Middle Rio Grande aquifer system — Fluid mixing and salinization of the Rio Grande due to fault inputs

scholarly article

Identifying origins of and pathways for spring waters in a semiarid basin using He, Sr, and C isotopes: Cuatrocienegas Basin, Mexico

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Implications of Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Proterozoic piercing lines for Laramide oblique-slip faulting in New Mexico and rotation of the Colorado Plateau: Discussion and reply: Reply

scientific article published in May 2000

Importance of groundwater in propagating downward integration of the 6–5 Ma Colorado River system: Geochemistry of springs, travertines, and lacustrine carbonates of the Grand Canyon region over the past 12 Ma

scholarly article by L.C. Crossey et al published June 2015 in Geosphere

Incision History of Grand Canyon from Dated Colorado River Gravels ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Incision History of the Little Colorado River based on K/AR and AR/AR Dating of Basalts and U-series Dating of Travertine in the Springerville Area ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Informal Geoscience Education on a Grand Scale: The Trail of Time Exhibition at Grand Canyon

scientific article published in September 2008

Insights into post-Miocene uplift of the western margin of the Colorado Plateau from the stratigraphic record of the lower Colorado River

scientific article

Introduction to Grand Canyon geology

scientific article published in 2012

Introduction: CRevolution 2: Origin and Evolution of the Colorado River System II

scientific article published in 2012

Late Cenozoic evolution of the Colorado Rockies: Evidence for Neogene uplift and drainage integration

scientific article published in 2010

Long-lived (1.8–1.0 Ga) convergent orogen in southern Laurentia, its extensions to Australia and Baltica, and implications for refining Rodinia

scientific article published in October 2001

Looping P-T paths and high-T, low-P middle crustal metamorphism: Proterozoic evolution of the southwestern United States

scholarly article

Mantle 3He and CO2 degassing in carbonic and geothermal springs of Colorado and implications for neotectonics of the Rocky Mountains

article

Mantle-driven dynamic uplift of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau and its surface response: Toward a unified hypothesis

scholarly article

Many unconformities make one ‘Great Unconformity’

scientific article published in 2012

Mapping variations in weight percent silica measured from multispectral thermal infrared imagery—Examples from the Hiller Mountains, Nevada, USA and Tres Virgenes-La Reforma, Baja California Sur, Mexico

scientific article published in 2005

Mesoproterozoic contractional orogeny in western North America: Evidence from ca. 1.4 Ga plutons

article

Mesoproterozoic-trans-Laurentian magmatism: A synthesis of continent-wide age distributions, new SIMS U–Pb ages, zircon saturation temperatures, and Hf and Nd isotopic compositions

scientific article

Model for tectonically driven incision of the younger than 6 Ma Grand Canyon

article

Mudstone Petrology of the Mesoproterozoic Unkar Group, Grand Canyon, U.S.A.: Provenance, Weathering, and Sediment Transport on Intracratonic Rodinia

scientific article published in September 2006

Multiple fluvial processes detected by riverside seismic and infrasound monitoring of a controlled flood in the Grand Canyon

scholarly article

Neoproterozoic Chuar Group (∼800–742Ma), Grand Canyon: a record of cyclic marine deposition during global cooling and supercontinent rifting

scientific article published in June 2001

New incision rates along the Colorado River system based on cosmogenic burial dating of terraces: Implications for regional controls on Quaternary incision

scientific article published in October 2012

New thermochronometric constraints on the Tertiary landscape evolution of the central and eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona

scientific article published in 2013

Origin of the Ancestral Colorado and Gunnison Rivers and Post-10 Ma River Incision Rates in Western Colorado ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Paired Zircon U-Pb-Hf Isotope Analysis of the Yavapai-Mazatzal Boundary in New Mexico: Evidence for a Mazatzal Continental Arc System

article

Paleomagnetism of the Chuar Group and evaluation of the late Tonian Laurentian apparent polar wander path with implications for the makeup and breakup of Rodinia

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Palinspastic reconstruction of Proterozoic basement-related aeromagnetic features in north-central New Mexico: Implications for Mesoproterozoic to late Cenozoic tectonism

scientific article published in 2006

Persistent influence of Proterozoic accretionary boundaries in the tectonic evolution of southwestern North America: Interaction of cratonic grain and mantle modification events

scientific article published in October 1998

Pleistocene geomorphology and geochronology of eastern Grand Canyon: linkages of landscape components during climate changes

scholarly article by Matt D. Anders et al published December 2005 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Post–12 Ma deformation in the lower Colorado River corridor, southwestern USA: Implications for diffuse transtension and the Bouse Formation

scientific article published in 2019

Preliminary Geologic Map of the Little Piute Mountains, California; a Digital Database

scientific article published in 1997

Preliminary Geologic Map of the the Little Piute Mountains, San Bernardino County, California

article by Keith A. Howard et al published 1995 in Open-File Report

Proterozoic Farwell Mountain–Lester Mountain suture zone, northern Colorado: Subduction flip and progressive assembly of arcs

scholarly article

Proterozoic multistage (ca. 1.1 and 0.8 Ga) extension recorded in the Grand Canyon Supergroup and establishment of northwest- and north-trending tectonic grains in the southwestern United States

scientific article published in 2001

Provenance and paleogeography of the 25–17 Ma Rainbow Gardens Formation: Evidence for tectonic activity at ca. 19 Ma and internal drainage rather than throughgoing paleorivers on the southwestern Colorado Plateau

scientific article published on 17 May 2018

Quaternary History of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Quaternary extension in the Rio Grande rift at elevated strain rates recorded in travertine deposits, central New Mexico

scientific article published in 2014

Rates of river incision and scarp retreat in eastern and central Grand Canyon over the past half million years: Evidence for passage of a transient knickzone: COMMENT

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

Redefining the Tonto Group of Grand Canyon and recalibrating the Cambrian time scale

scientific article

Reevaluation of the Crooked Ridge River—Early Pleistocene (ca. 2 Ma) age and origin of the White Mesa alluvium, northeastern Arizona

scientific article published in 2016

Reinterpretation of Newfoundland gravity data and arguments for an allochthonous Dunnage Zone

scholarly article by Karl E. Karlstrom published 1983 in Geology

Reply to Comment on “Uranium series dating of Great Artesian Basin travertine deposits: Implications for palaeohydrogeology and palaeoclimate” by Uysal et al. (2019)

scientific article published in January 2020

Resolving pressure differences within the Grand Canyon Precambrian basement: Implications for Proterozoic tectonics

scientific article published on 25 January 2024

Resolving time-space histories of Late Cenozoic bedrock incision along the Upper Colorado River, USA

scientific article published in December 2019

Restoration of Laramide right-lateral strike slip in northern New Mexico by using Proterozoic piercing points: Tectonic implications from the Proterozoic to the Cenozoic

scholarly article

Restoration of Laramide right-lateral strike slip in northern New Mexico by using Proterozoic piercing points: Tectonic implications from the Proterozoic to the Cenozoic: Comment and Reply

scholarly article

Rodinian devil in disguise: Correlation of 1.25–1.10 Ga strata between Tasmania and Grand Canyon

scholarly article

Shrinking of the Colorado Plateau via lithospheric mantle erosion: Evidence from Nd and Sr isotopes and geochronology of Neogene basalts

article

Steady incision of Grand Canyon at the million year timeframe: A case for mantle-driven differential uplift

scholarly article by Ryan Crow et al published July 2014 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Stratigraphy and depositional setting of the Proterozoic Snowy Pass Supergroup, southeastern Wyoming: Record of an early Proterozoic Atlantic-type cratonic margin

scientific article published in 1983

Structure and 40Ar/39Ar K-feldspar thermal history of the Gold Butte block: Reevaluation of the tilted crustal section model

article

Styles and timing of Early Proterozoic deformation in Arizona: Constraints on tectonic models ⬇️

Surface uplift above the Jemez mantle anomaly in the past 4 Ma based on 40Ar/39Ar dated paleoprofiles of the Rio San Jose, New Mexico, USA

scholarly article

Synchronous opening of the Rio Grande rift along its entire length at 25–10 Ma supported by apatite (U-Th)/He and fission-track thermochronology, and evaluation of possible driving mechanisms

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Syntectonic Deposition and Paleohydrology of the Spring-Fed Hualapai Limestone and Implications for the 6-5 Ma Integration of the Colorado River System through the Grand Canyon ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Synthesis of results from the CD-ROM Experiment: 4-D image of the lithosphere beneath the Rocky Mountains and implications for understanding the evolution of continental lithosphere

scientific article published in 2005

Synthesis of the 780–740 Ma Chuar, Uinta Mountain, and Pahrump (ChUMP) groups, western USA: Implications for Laurentia-wide cratonic marine basins

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Tectonic controls on basement exhumation in the southern Rocky Mountains (United States): The power of combined zircon (U-Th)/He and K-feldspar 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology

scientific article

Tectonic geomorphometrics of the western United States: Speculations on the surface expression of upper mantle processes

Tectonic inferences from the ca. 1255–1100 Ma Unkar Group and Nankoweap Formation, Grand Canyon: Intracratonic deformation and basin formation during protracted Grenville orogenesis

scientific article published in 2005

Tectonic setting of the Sandia pluton: An orogenic 1.4 Ga granite in New Mexico

scientific article published in February 1995

Tectonics of the Colorado Plateau and Its Margins

scientific article published on 31 May 2022

The Bouse Formation, a controversial Neogene archive of the evolving Colorado River: a scientific drilling workshop report (28 February–3 March 2019 – BlueWater Resort & Casino, Parker, AZ, USA)

scientific article published on 2 December 2019

The Grand Canyon Unkar Group: Mesoproterozoic basin formation in the continental interior during supercontinent assembly

scientific article published in 2012

The Laramide and post-Laramide uplift and erosional history of the eastern Grand Canyon: Evidence from apatite fission-track thermochronology

scientific article published in 2012

The Proterozoic ancestry of the Colorado Mineral Belt: 1.4 Ga shear zone system in central Colorado

scientific article

The cheyenne belt: analysis of a proterozoic suture in Southern Wyoming

scientific article published in September 1984

The dynamic nature of the continental crust-mantle boundary: Crustal evolution in the southern Rocky Mountain region as an example

scientific article published in 2005

The syn-orogenic sedimentary record of the Grenville Orogeny in southwest Laurentia

scientific article published in June 2017

Three Proterozoic Orogenic Episodes and an Intervening Exhumation Event in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison Region, Colorado

scientific article published in September 2006

Timing and mechanisms of basement uplift and exhumation in the Colorado Plateau-Basin and Range transition zone, Virgin Mountain anticline, Nevada-Arizona

scholarly article

Transcontinental Proterozoic provinces

Travertines and travertine springs in eastern Grand Canyon: What they tell us about groundwater, paleoclimate, and incision of Grand Canyon

scientific article published in 2012

U-Pb dating of calcite veins reveals complex stress evolution and thrust sequence in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA: COMMENT

scholarly article

U-series geochronology of large-volume Quaternary travertine deposits of the southeastern Colorado Plateau: Evaluating episodicity and tectonic and paleohydrologic controls

scholarly article by A. Priewisch et al published 21 February 2014 in Geosphere

Uranium series dating of Great Artesian Basin travertine deposits: Implications for palaeohydrogeology and palaeoclimate

scientific article published in January 2018

Vishnu basement rocks of the Upper Granite Gorge: Continent formation 1.84 to 1.66 billion years ago

scientific article published in 2012

Westernmost Grand Canyon incision: Testing thermochronometric resolution

scientific article published in September 2017

Wyoming on the run—Toward final Paleoproterozoic assembly of Laurentia: COMMENT

scholarly article

Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology of Grand Canyon resolves 1250 Ma unroofing at the Great Unconformity and <20 Ma canyon carving

scientific article

Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology reveals pre-Great Unconformity paleotopography in the Grand Canyon region, USA: COMMENT

scientific article published in March 2022

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