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List of works by Rebecca J. Dorsey

A Preliminary Sediment Budget for the Colorado River

scientific article published in 2011

A legacy of geo‐climatic complexity and genetic divergence along the lower Colorado River: Insights from the geological record and 33 desert‐adapted animals

scientific article

A post–6 Ma sediment budget for the Colorado River

article published in 2013

Attenuation coefficients for water quality trading

scientific article published on 4 June 2014

Breaching of strike-slip faults and successive flooding of pull-apart basins to form the Gulf of California seaway from ca. 8–6 Ma

scholarly article

Characteristic Scales of Drainage Reorganization in Cascadia

scientific article

Chronology of Miocene–Pliocene deposits at Split Mountain Gorge, Southern California: A record of regional tectonics and Colorado River evolution

scholarly article

Clay mineralogy of Pliocene-Pleistocene mudstones, eastern Taiwan: Combined effects of burial diagenesis and provenance unroofing

scholarly article by Rebecca J. Dorsey et al published 1988 in Geology

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

scientific article published in April 2013

Controls on Yardang Development and Morphology: 1. Field Observations and Measurements at Ocotillo Wells, California

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Crustal-scale tilting of the central Salton block, southern California

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

DID A CATASTROPHIC LAKE SPILLOVER INTEGRATE THE LATE MIOCENE EARLY PLIOCENE COLORADO RIVER AND THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA?: MICROFAUNAL AND STABLE ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FROM BLYTHE BASIN, CALIFORNIA-ARIZONA, USA

scientific article published in 2016

Detrital Zircon Record of Colorado River Integration into the Salton Trough

scientific article published in 2011

Detrital zircon U-Pb provenance of the Colorado River: A 5 m.y. record of incision into cover strata overlying the Colorado Plateau and adjacent regions

scientific article

Early Mesozoic paleogeography and tectonic evolution of the western United States: Insights from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology, Blue Mountains Province, northeastern Oregon

scholarly article

Early Pleistocene initiation of the San Felipe fault zone, SW Salton Trough, during reorganization of the San Andreas fault system

scientific article published on 27 April 2009

Early Pliocene marine transgression into the lower Colorado River valley, southwestern USA, by re-flooding of a former tidal strait

scientific article published on 17 January 2022

Evolution of the margin of the Gulf of California near Loreto, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico

scholarly article

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 Sierra Bacha, Coastal Sonora, Mexico

scientific article published on 19 November 2014

High Geologic Slip Rates since Early Pleistocene Initiation of the San Jacinto and San Felipe Fault Zones in the San Andreas Fault System: Southern California, USA

High Geologic Slip Rates since Early Pleistocene Initiation of the San Jacinto and San Felipe Fault Zones in the San Andreas Fault System: Southern California, USA

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

Initiation of the Southern Elsinore Fault at ∼1.2 Ma: Evidence from the Fish Creek-Vallecito Basin, southern California

scientific article published in 2012

Insights into Seismogenic Deformation during the 2018 Hualien, Taiwan, Earthquake Sequence from InSAR, GPS, and Modeling

Late Miocene extension in coastal Sonora, México: Implications for the evolution of dextral shear in the proto-Gulf of California oblique rift

scientific article published in December 2016

Late Miocene to Pliocene stratigraphic evolution of northeast Carmen Island, Gulf of California: implications for oblique-rifting tectonics

scholarly article

Paleomagnetism and tectonic significance of Albian and Cenomanian turbidites, Ochoco Basin, Mitchell Inlier, central Oregon

scientific article

Pleistocene Brawley and Ocotillo Formations: Evidence for Initial Strike‐Slip Deformation along the San Felipe and San Jacinto Fault Zones, Southern California

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Plio-Pleistocene climate change and timing of Peninsular Ranges uplift in southern California: Evidence from paleosols and stable isotopes in the Fish Creek–Vallecito basin

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Provenance Evolution and Unroofing History of a Modern Arc-Continent Collision: Evidence from Petrography of Plio-pleistocene Sandstones, Eastern Taiwan

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Punctuated Sediment Discharge During Early Pliocene Birth of the Colorado River: Evidence from Regional Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Paleontology

scholarly article published 14 November 2017

Punctuated Sediment Discharge during Early Pliocene Birth of the Colorado River: Evidence from Regional Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Paleontology

scientific article published in January 2018

Quaternary landscape evolution in the San Jacinto fault zone, Peninsular Ranges of Southern California: Transient response to strike-slip fault initiation

scientific article published in January 2006

Rapid Quaternary emergence, uplift, and denudation of the Coastal Range, eastern Taiwan

scientific article

Rapid subsidence and stacked Gilbert-type fan deltas, Pliocene Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico

scholarly article

Reconciling disparate estimates of total offset on the southern San Andreas fault

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Response of deformation patterns to reorganization of the southern San Andreas fault system since ca. 1.5 Ma

scientific article published in December 2016

River-evolution and tectonic implications of a major Pliocene aggradation on the lower Colorado River: The Bullhead Alluvium

scientific article published in 2015

Sedimentation and crustal recycling along an active oblique-rift margin: Salton Trough and northern Gulf of California

scholarly article

Sensitivity of uplift patterns to dip of the San Andreas fault in the Coachella Valley, California

scientific article published in 2014

Steady 10 Be-derived paleoerosion rates across the Plio-Pleistocene climate transition, Fish Creek-Vallecito basin, California

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 122 no. 9, September 2017

Stratigraphic record of Pleistocene initiation and slip on the Coyote Creek fault, Lower Coyote Creek, southern California

Stratigraphic record of Pliocene-Pleistocene basin evolution and deformation within the Southern San Andreas Fault Zone, Mecca Hills, California

scientific article published in November 2017

Stratigraphic record of Triassic-Jurassic collisional tectonics in the Blue Mountains province, northeastern Oregon

scientific article

Stratigraphic record of basin development within the San Andreas fault system: Late Cenozoic Fish Creek-Vallecito basin, southern California

scholarly article

Stratigraphy and geochronology of the Comondú Group near Loreto, Baja California sur, Mexico

scholarly article by Paul J. Umhoefer et al published October 2001 in Sedimentary Geology

Stratigraphy and structural development of the southwest Isla Tiburón marine basin: Implications for latest Miocene tectonic opening and flooding of the northern Gulf of California

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Structural controls on middle Cretaceous sedimentation in the Toney Butte area of the Mitchell inlier, Ochoco basin, central Oregon

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Tectonic controls on deposition of Middle Jurassic strata in a retroarc foreland basin, Utah-Idaho trough, western interior, United States

scientific article published in 1995

Tectonics of the Pliocene Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico, and evolution of the Gulf of California

scientific article

Tectonostratigraphic record of late Miocene–early Pliocene transtensional faulting in the Eastern California shear zone, southwestern USA

scientific article

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

Thick deltaic sedimentation and detachment faulting delay the onset of continental rupture in the Northern Gulf of California: Analysis of seismic reflection profiles

scientific article published in 2013

Tidal rhythmites in the southern Bouse Formation as evidence for post-Miocene uplift of the lower Colorado River corridor

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Two-Phase Exhumation of the Santa Rosa Mountains: Low- and High-Angle Normal Faulting During Initiation and Evolution of the Southern San Andreas Fault System

scientific article published in December 2017

Westward Growth of Laurentia by Pre–Late Jurassic Terrane Accretion, Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho, United States

scholarly article

Westward Growth of Laurentia by Pre–Late Jurassic Terrane Accretion, Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho, United States: A Reply

scholarly article