Rise of the Colorado Plateau: A synthesis of paleoelevation constraints from the region and a path forward using temperature-based elevation proxies

EO Heitmann, EG Hyland… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
The Colorado Plateau's complex landscape has motivated over a century of debate, key to
which is understanding the timing and processes of surface uplift of the greater Colorado …

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 …

The mystery of baselevel controls in the incision history of the central Colorado Plateau

NM Tanski, JL Pederson, AJ Hidy, TM Rittenour… - AGU …, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Erosion can remain active and changing in landscapes long after tectonic drivers have
ceased, potentially due to local‐geologic controls, climate changes, or geodynamics. We …

Initial results of coring at Prees, Cheshire Basin, UK (ICDP JET project): towards an integrated stratigraphy, timescale, and Earth system understanding for the Early …

SP Hesselbo, A Al-Suwaidi, SJ Baker… - Scientific …, 2023‏ - sd.copernicus.org
Drilling for the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) Early Jurassic
Earth System and Timescale project (JET) was undertaken between October 2020 and …

New 10Be-26Al isochron burial dating informs the Pliocene and Pleistocene evolution of the lower Colorado River, southwestern United States

YB Seong, RS Crow, K House, KA Howard, CH Lee… - Episodes, 2024‏ - pubs.usgs.gov
Abstract Four new 10 Be-26 Al isochron burial ages ranging from 4.4 to 2 Ma on ancestral
Colorado River deposits in the lower Colorado River corridor (LCRC) help constrain the …

Timing and geometry of the Chemehuevi Formation reveal a late Pleistocene sediment pulse into the Lower Colorado River

HJ Gray, PK House, AM Hudson… - Geological …, 2024‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Chemehuevi Formation is a distinctive 50− 150-m-thick wedge-shaped Pleistocene
sedimentary unit deposited by the Colorado River. It lines the perimeters of the river's …

Evaluating the Shinumo-Sespe drainage connection: Arguments against the “old”(70–17 Ma) Grand Canyon models for Colorado Plateau drainage evolution

KE Karlstrom, CE Jacobson, KE Sundell… - …, 2020‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The provocative hypothesis that the Shinumo Sandstone in the depths of Grand Canyon was
the source for clasts of orthoquartzite in conglomerate of the Sespe Formation of coastal …

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

JO Thacker, KE Karlstrom, LJ Crossey… - …, 2020‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Structural evidence presented here documents that deformation was ongoing within the
lower Colorado River corridor (southwestern USA) during and after the latest Miocene …

Neogene drainage reversal and Colorado Plateau uplift in the Salt River area, Arizona, USA

JC Anderson, KE Karlstrom, MT Heizler - Geomorphology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Usingle bondPb detrital zircon and 40 Arsingle bond 39 Ar detrital sanidine dating of
paleoriver deposits refines the timing of the mid-Cenozoic drainage reversal from NE-to SW …

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

RJ Dorsey, B O'Connell, KK Gardner… - …, 2021‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Eastern California shear zone (ECSZ; southwestern USA) accommodates~
20%–25% of Pacific–North America relative plate motion east of the San Andreas fault, yet …