2009

Barker, S.L.L., Hickey, K.A., Cline, J.S., Dipple, G.M., Kilburn, M.R., Vaughan, J., and Longo, A.A., 2009, Uncloaking invisible gold: use of nanoSIMS to measure gold, trace elements, and sulfur isotopes in pyrite from Carlin-type gold deposits. Economic Geology Express Letter, v. 104, p. xx.

Bell, A., Simon, A., and Guillong, M., 2009, Experimental constraints on Pt, Pd, and Au partitioning in silicate melt - sulfide - oxide - aqueous fluid systems at 800°C, 150 MPa, and variable sulfur fugacity. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(19), 5778-5792.

Bristow, T. F., Kennedy M. J., Derkowski, A., Droser, M., Jiang, G.Q., and Creaser, R.A., 2009, Mineralogical constraints on the paleoenvironments of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, v. 106, p. 13190-13195.

Brock, A.L., and Buck, B.J. 2009, Polygenetic development of the Mormon Mesa, NV petrocalcic horizons: Geomorphic and paleoenvironmental interpretations. Catena 77(1): 65-75.

Conrad, C.P., Wu, Benjun, Smith, E.I., Bianco, Todd, Tibbetts, Ashley, 2009, Shear-driven upwelling induced by lateral viscosity variations and asthenospheric shear: A mechanism for intraplate volcanism. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, doi: 10:1016/j.pepi2009.10.101.

Druschke, P.A., Jiang, G.Q., Anderson, T.B., and Hanson, A.D., 2009, Stromatolites in the Late Ordovician Eureka Quartzite: implications for microbial growth and preservation in siliciclastic settings. Sedimentology, v. 56, p. 1275-1291.

Druschke P.A, Hanson, A.D., Wells, M.L., 2009, Structural, stratigraphic, and geochronologic evidence for extension predating Paleogene volcanism in the Sevier hinterland, east-central Nevada. International Geology Review, v. 51, p. 743-775.

Druschke, P.A., Hanson, A.D., Wells, M.L., Rasbury, T., Stockli, D.F., and Gehrels, G, 2009, Synconvergent surface-breaking normal faults of late cretaceous age within the Sevier hinterland, east-central Nevada. Geology 37(5): 447-450.

Goossens, D., and Buck, B.J., 2009, Dust emission by off-road driving: Experiments on 17 arid soil types, Nevada, USA. Geomorphology 107(3-4): 118-138.

Goossens, D., and Buck, B. J., 2009, Dust dynamics in off-road vehicle trails: Measurements on 16 arid soil types, Nevada, USA. Journal of Environmental Management, v. 90, p. 3458-3469.

Hausrath, E.M., Neaman, A., and Brantley, S. L., 2009, Elemental release rates from dissolving basalt and granite with and without organic ligands. American Journal of Science 309, 633-660.

Hicks, M., and Rowland, S.M., 2009, Early Cambrian microbial reefs, archaeocyathan inter-reef communities, and associated facies of the Yangtze Platform. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 281, p. 137-153, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.07.018.

Jongens, R., Tulloch, A.J., Spell, T.L., Rattenbury, M.S., Begg, J.G. and Smith Lyttle, B., 2009, Pember Diorite - an Early Jurassic intrusion in the Rakaia Terrane, Puketeraki Range, Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v. 52, p. 37-42.

Kerrich, R., Goldfarb, R.J., Cline , J.S., and Leach, D., 2009, Metallogenic provinces of North America in a superplume-supercontinent framework. In John E. Spencer and Spencer R. Titley (Eds.) Ores and Orogenesis Proceedings. Tucson, AZ: Arizona Geological Society, pp. 55-72.

Kreamer, D.K., 2009, From dry dock to wet tap. Earth 54(5): 44-51.

Kula, J.K., Tulloch, A.J., Spell, T.L., Wells, M.L., and Zanetti, K.A., 2009, Sisters Shear Zone and the isolation of Zealandia from Gondwana. Tectonics, 28, TC5015, doi:10.1029/2008TC002368.

Lachniet, M.S., 2009, Climatic and environmental controls on speleothem oxygen-isotope values. Quaternary Science Reviews 28(5-6): 412-432.

Lachniet, M.S., 2009, Sea surface temperature control on the stable isotopic composition of rainfall in Panama. Geophysical Research Letters 36(3): L03701.

Lachniet, M. S., and Patterson, W. P., 2009, Oxygen isotope values of precipitation and surface waters in northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) are dominated by temperature and amount effects. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 284, 435-446, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.010.

Lachniet, M. S., Johnson, L., Asmerom, Y., Burns, S. J., Polyak, V. P., Patterson, W. P., Burt, L., Azouz, A., 2009, Late Quaternary moisture export across Central America and to Greenland: evidence for tropical rainfall variability from Costa Rican stalagmites. Quaternary Science Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.018

Li, G.B., Jiang, G.Q., Hu, X.M., and Wan, X.Q., 2009, New biostratigraphic data from the Cretaceous Bolinxiala Formation in Zanda, southwestern Tibet of China, and their paleogeographic and paleoceanographic implications. Cretaceous Research, v. 30, p. 1005-1018.

Lü, H., Zhu, Y., Skaggs, T.H.,and Yu, Z., 2009, Comparison of measured and simulated water storage in dryland terraces of the Loess Plateau, China. Agricultural Water Management 96(2): 299-306.

Monger, H.C., Cole, D.R., Buck, B.J., and Gallegos, R.J., 2009, Scale and the isotopic record of C4 plants in pedogenic carbonate: From the biome to the rhizosphere. Ecology 90(6): 1498-1511.

Mulcahy, S.R., King, R.L., Vervoort, J.D., 2009, Lawsonite Lu-Hf geochronology: A new geochronometer for subduction zone processes. Geology 37, p. 987-990, doi:10.1130/G30292A.1.

Pan, F., Ye, M., Zhu, J., Wu, Y.S., Hu, B.X., and Yu, Z., 2009, Numerical evaluation of uncertainty in water retention parameters and effect on predictive uncertainty. Vadose Zone Journal 8(1): 158-166.

Pan, F., Ye, M., Zhu, J., Wu, Y.S., Hu, B.X., and Yu, Z., 2009, Incorporating layer- and local-scale heterogeneities in numerical simulation of unsaturated flow and tracer transport. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 103(3-4): 194-205.

Robins, C. R., Buck, B.J., Williams, A.J., Morton, J.L., House, P.K., Howell, M.S., and Yonovitz, M.L., 2009, Comparison of flood hazard assessments on desert piedmonts and playas: A case study in Ivanpah Valley, Nevada. Geomorphology 103(4): 520-532.

Rowland, S.M., 2009, Thomas Jefferson, extinction, and the evolving view of Earth history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In Rosenberg, G.D. (Ed.), The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment: Geological Society of America Memoir 203, p. 225-246, doi:10.1130/2009.1203(16).

Scott, J.M., Cooper, A.F., Palin, J.M., Tulloch, A.J., Kula, J., Jongens, R., Spell, T.L., and Pearson, N.J., 2009, Tracking the influence of a continental margin on growth of a magmatic arc (Fiordland, New Zealand) using thermobarometry, thermochronology, and zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopes. Tectonics.

Simon, A.S., and Pettke, T., 2009, Platinum solubility and partitioning in a felsic melt-vapor-brine assemblage. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73(2): 438-454.

Wells, M.L., 2009, Geologic map of the Kelton Pass quadrangle, Box Elder County, Utah and Cassia County, Idaho. Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Geological Survey.

Wu, H.C., Zhang, S.H., Jiang, G.Q., and Huang, Q.H., 2009, The floating astronomical time scale for the terrestrial Late Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation from the Songliao Basin of Northeast China and its stratigraphic and paleoclimate implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 278, p. 308-323.

Young, M.H., Moran, E.A., Yu, Z., Zhu, J., and Smith, D.E., 2009, Reducing saturated hydraulic conductivity of sandy soils with polyacrylamide. Soil Science Society of America Journal 73(1): 13-20.

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