Hydrotectonics of Grand Canyon Groundwater

LJ Crossey, KE Karlstrom, B Curry… - Annual Review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
The Grand Canyon provides a deeply dissected view of the aquifers of the Colorado Plateau
and its public and tribal lands. Stacked sandstone and karst aquifers are vertically …

Birth and evolution of the Rio Grande fluvial system in the past 8 Ma: Progressive downward integration and the influence of tectonics, volcanism, and climate

M Repasch, K Karlstrom, M Heizler, M Pecha - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Rio Grande fluvial system has evolved dramatically over the past 8 Ma,
undergoing channel migrations, drainage capture and integration events, volcanic …

Rock strength along a fluvial transect of the Colorado Plateau–quantifying a fundamental control on geomorphology

N Bursztyn, JL Pederson, C Tressler… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Bedrock strength is a key parameter that influences slope stability, landscape erosion, and
fluvial incision. Yet, it is often ignored or indirectly constrained in studies of landscape …

Tectonics of the Colorado Plateau and its margins

KE Karlstrom, J Wilgus, JO Thacker… - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
The Cenozoic Colorado Plateau physiographic province overlies multiple Precambrian
provinces. Its∼ 2-km elevation rim surrounds an∼ 1.6-km elevation core that is underlain by …

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 …

[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 …

Role of arc magmatism and lower crustal foundering in controlling elevation history of the Nevadaplano and Colorado Plateau: A case study of pyroxenitic lower crust …

ME Erdman, CTA Lee, A Levander, H Jiang - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Garnet–pyroxenite xenoliths from a 25 Ma volcano on the southern edge of the Colorado
Plateau in central Arizona (USA) are shown here to have crystallized as deep-seated …
AP Beall, L Moresi, T Stern - Geophysical Journal International, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Under some conditions, dense parts of the lower crust or mantle lithosphere can become
unstable, deform internally and sink into the less dense, underlying asthenosphere. Two end …

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

KA Howard, PK House, RJ Dorsey… - …, 2015‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The∼ 200-m-thick riverlaid Bullhead Alluvium along the lower Colorado River downstream
of Grand Canyon records massive early Pliocene sediment aggradation following the …

Pleistocene Colorado River terraces in the canyonlands region (Utah, USA) record unsteady, transient incision and growth of the Cataract Canyon knickzone by salt …

NM Tanski, JL Pederson, TM Rittenour… - Geology, 2024‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Colorado River terraces in the canyonlands region of southeastern Utah can be dated and
analyzed to address the controls of incision and nature of the Colorado Plateau's largest …