Growing pressure on sustainable water resource allocation in the context of global
development and rapid environmental change demands rigorous knowledge of how …

The quantitative estimation of paleoaltitude has become an increasing focus of Earth
scientists because surface elevation provides constraints on the geodynamic mechanisms …

Drought struck California during 7 of the 9 years from 2007 to 2015, reducing the state's
available water resources. Pum** of Central Valley groundwater has produced …

Herein we present oxygen isotope records from Cretaceous to Recent terrestrial sediments
in the western North American Cordillera. The purpose of this analysis is to use oxygen …

Abstract Upper Cretaceous–Eocene forearc strata deposited along the California continental
margin record a complex history of plate convergence that shaped the tectonic development …

The source of buoyancy for the uplift of cratonic plateaus is a fundamental question in
continental dynamics. The~ 1.9 km uplift of the Colorado Plateau since the Late Cretaceous …

Hydrogen isotope values (δD) of sedimentary aquatic and terrestrial lipid biomarkers,
originating from algae, bacteria, and leaf wax, have been used to record isotopic properties …

Within the ongoing controversy regarding the orogeny of the Tibetan Plateau region, two
directly conflicting endmember frameworks have emerged in which either:(1) a high central …

Since the establishment of the IAEA-WMO precipitation-monitoring network in 1961, it has
been observed that isotope ratios in precipitation (δ H 2 and δ O 18) generally decrease …

The western Nevada volcanic field is the western third of a belt of calderas through Nevada
and western Utah. Twenty-three calderas and their caldera-forming tuffs are reasonably well …