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 …

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 …

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 …

Geophysical imaging of a tilted mantle plume extending at least 500 km beneath the
Yellowstone caldera provides compelling support for a plume origin of the entire …

The elevation history of Earth's surface is key to understanding the geodynamic processes
responsible for the rise of plateaus. We investigate the timing of Colorado Plateau uplift by …

The modern Sierra Nevada and Great Basin were likely the site of a high-elevation orogenic
plateau well into Cenozoic time, supported by crust thickened during Mesozoic shortening …

The distribution of Cenozoic ash-flow tuffs in the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada of
eastern California (United States) demonstrates that the region, commonly referred to as the …

Stable isotope paleoaltimetry makes use of systematic trends in the distribution and isotopic
composition of modern precipitation with climate and topography, and of the potential to …

Paleoaltimetry is the quantitative estimate of the surface height above mean sea level of
ancient landforms. Atmospheric thermodynamic modeling of the behavior of 18O relative to …