Evaluating the influence of connectivity and distance on biogeographical patterns in the south‐western deserts of North America

MH Van Dam, NJ Matzke - Journal of Biogeography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To examine the role of geological history, connectivity and distance in shaping the
biogeographical structure of North American desert clades that are restricted to habitat …

Distinguishing brackish lacustrine from brackish marine deposits in the stratigraphic record: A case study from the late Miocene and early Pliocene Bouse Formation …

J Bright, AS Cohen, SW Starratt - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Brackish marine and brackish continental environments are fundamentally different from a
compositional perspective. Brackish water is often defined as having salinity lower than that …

Provenance in drainage integration research: Case studies from the Phoenix metropolitan area, south-central Arizona

RI Dorn, SJ Skotnicki, A Wittmann, M Van Soest - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
Studies of the evolution of drainage systems in extensional settings like the Basin and
Range Province of western North America benefit from well drilling as a means of acquiring …

Importance of groundwater in propagating downward integration of the 6–5 Ma Colorado River system: Geochemistry of springs, travertines, and lacustrine carbonates …

LC Crossey, KE Karlstrom, R Dorsey… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We applied multiple geochemical tracers (87Sr/86Sr,[Sr], δ13C, and δ18O) to waters and
carbonates of the lower Colorado River system to evaluate its paleohydrology over the past …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

KE Karlstrom, LJ Crossey, E Embid, R Crow… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This paper documents a multi-stage incision and denudation history for the Little Colorado
River (LCR) region of the southwestern Colorado Plateau over the past 70 Ma. The first two …

Redefining the age of the lower Colorado River, southwestern United States

RS Crow, J Schwing, KE Karlstrom, M Heizler… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sanidine dating and magnetostratigraphy constrain the timing of integration of the lower
Colorado River (southwestern United States and northern Mexico) with the evolving Gulf of …

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

DL Kimbrough, M Grove, GE Gehrels… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New detrital zircon U-Pb age distributions from 49 late Cenozoic sandstones and Holocene
sands (49 samples, n= 3922) record the arrival of extra-regional early Pliocene Colorado …

Influence of Introgression and Geological Processes on Phylogenetic Relationships of Western North American Mountain Suckers (Pantosteus, Catostomidae)

PJ Unmack, TE Dowling, NJ Laitinen, CL Secor… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Intense geological activity caused major topographic changes in Western North America
over the past 15 million years. Major rivers here are composites of different ancient rivers …

Paleogeomorphology and evolution of the early Colorado River inferred from relationships in Mohave and Cottonwood valleys, Arizona, California, and Nevada

PA Pearthree, PK House - Geosphere, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Geologic investigations of late Miocene–early Pliocene deposits in Mohave and Cottonwood
valleys provide important insights into the early evolution of the lower Colorado River …

Drainage integration of the Salt and Verde rivers in a Basin and Range extensional landscape, central Arizona, USA

SJ Skotnicki, YB Seong, RI Dorn, PH Larson… - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Salt River and Verde River watersheds provide downstream metropolitan
Phoenix, Arizona, USA with much of its water supply, and this paper explains how these …