Modern Day Geomorphic Processes in the Grand Canyon
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This Geophysical Monograph Series (Book) has many papers pertaining to modern day
landscape processes in the Grand Canyon. Search Google Scholar and you will find the
articles.
Webb, R.H., Pringle, P.T., and Rink, G.R., 1989, Debris flows from tributaries of the Colorado River,
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rate, magnitude, and location in the Colorado River below the Little Colorado River:
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reworking by the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona: Water resources research, v. 42, no.
11, p. W11411.
Evolution of the Grand Canyon, a collection of young vs. old canyon ideas from the past 10 years
Anders, M.D., Pederson, J.L., Rittenour, T.M., Sharp, W.D., Gosse, J.C., Karlstrom, K.E.,
Crossey, L.J., Goble, R.J., Stockli, L., and Yang, G., 2005, Pleistocene geomorphology and
geochronology of eastern Grand Canyon: linkages of landscape components during climate
changes: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 24, no. 23-24, p. 2428–2448, doi:
10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.03.015.
Cook, K., Whipple, K., Heimsuth, A., and Hanks, T., 2009, Rapid incision of the Colorado River
in Glen Canyon insights from channel profiles, local incision rates, and modeling of lithologic
controls: Earth Surface Proc- esses and Landforms, v. 34, no. 7, p. 994–1010.
Darling, A.L., Karlstrom, K.E., Granger, D.E., Aslan, A., Kirby, E., Ouimet, W.B., Lazear, G.D.,
Coblentz, D.D., and Cole, R.D., 2012, New incision rates along the Colorado River system based
on cosmogenic burial dating of terraces: Implications for regional controls on Quaternary
incision: Geosphere, v. 8, no. 5, p. 1020–1041, doi: 10.1130/GES00724.1.
Dumitru, T.A., Duddy, I.R., and Green, P.F., 1994, Mesozoic-Cenozoic burial, uplift and erosion
history of the west-central Colorado Plateau: Geology, v. 22, p. 499–502, doi: 10.1130/ 00917613(1994)022<0499:MCBUAE>2.3 .CO;2.
Flowers, R.M., Wernicke, B.P., and Farley, K.A., 2008, Unroofing, incision and uplift history of
the southwestern Colorado Plateau from (U-Th)/He apatite thermochronometry: Geological
Society of America Bulletin, v. 120, p. 571–587, doi: 10.1130/B26231.1.
Flowers, R.M., 2010, The enigmatic rise of the Colorado Plateau: Geology, v. 38, no. 7, p. 671–
672, doi: 10.1130/focus072010.1.
Garvin, C.D., Hanks, T.C., Finkel, R.C., and Heimsath, A.M., 2005, Episodic incision of the
Colorado River in Glen Canyon, Utah: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 30, p. 973–
984, doi:10.1002/esp.1257.
Huntington, K.W., Wernicke, B.P., and Eiler, J.M., 2010, Influence of climate change and uplift
on Colorado Pla- teau paleotemperatures from carbonate “clumped iso- tope” thermometry:
Tectonics, v. 29, p. TC3005, doi: 10.1029/2009TC002449.
Karlstrom, K., Coblentz, D., Dueker, K., Ouimet, W., Kirby, E., van Wijk, J., Schmandt, B.,
Kelley, S., Lazear, G., and Crossey, L., 2012, Mantle-driven dynamic uplift of the Rocky
Mountains and Colorado Plateau and its surface response: Toward a unified hypothesis:
Lithosphere, v. 4, no. 1, p. 3–22.
Karlstrom, K.E., Crow, R.S., Peters, L., McIntosh, W., Raucci, J., Crossey, L.J., Umhoefer, P.,
and Dunbar, N., 2007, 40Ar/39Ar and field studies of Quaternary basalts in Grand Canyon and
model for carving Grand Canyon: Quantifying the interaction of river incision and normal
faulting across the western edge of the Colorado Plateau: Geological Society of America
Bulletin, v. 119, p. 1283–1312, doi:10.1130/0016 -7606(2007)119[1283:AAFSOQ]2.0.CO;2.
Karlstrom, K.E., Crow, R., Crossey, L.J., Coblentz, D., and Van Wijk, J.W., 2008, Model for
tectonically driven incision of the younger than 6 Ma Grand Canyon: Geology, v. 36, no. 11, p.
835, doi: 10.1130/G25032A.1.
Libarkin, J.C., and Chase, C.G., 2003, Timing of Colorado Plateau uplift: Initial constraints from
vesicular basalt-derived paleoelevations: Geol- ogy, v. 31, p. 191–192, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613
(2003)031<0191:TOCPUI>2.0.CO;2.
Lopez Pearce, J., 2010, Syntectonic deposition and paleohydrology of the spring-fed Hualapai
Limestone and implications for 5-6 MA integration of the Colorado River system through Grand
Canyon: evidence from sedimentology, geochemistry and detrital zircon analysis:. MS Thesis,
UNM.
Moucha, R., Forte, A.M., Rowley, D.B., Mitrovica, J.X., Simmons, N.A., and Grand, S.P., 2009,
Deep mantle forces and the uplift of the Colorado Plateau: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 36,
no. 19, doi: 10.1029/2009GL039778.
Pederson, J.L., Anders, M.D., Rittenhour, T.M., Sharp, W.D., Gosse, J.C., and Karlstrom, K.E.,
2006, Using fill terraces to understand incision rates and evolution of the Colorado River in
eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 111, no. F2, doi:
10.1029/2004JF000201.
Pederson, J.L., 2008, The mystery of the pre-Grand Canyon Colorado River–Results from the
Muddy Creek Formation: GSA Today, v. 18, no. 3, p. 4–10, doi: 10.1130/GSAT01803A.1.
Roberts, G.G., White, N.J., Martin-Brandis, G.L., and Crosby, A.G., 2012, An uplift history of
the Colorado Plateau and its surroundings from inverse modeling of longitudinal river profiles:
Tectonics, v. 31, no. 4, p. TC4022, doi: 10.1029/2012TC003107.
Roy, M., Jordan, T.H., and Pederson, J., 2009, Colo- rado Plateau magmatism and uplift by
warming of heterogeneous lithosphere: Nature, v. 459, p. 978–982, doi: 10.1038/nature08052.
Roy, M., Kelley, S.A., Pazzaglia, F.J., Cather, S.M., and House, M.A., 2004, Middle Tertiary
buoy- ancy modification and its relationship to rock exhumation, cooling, and subsequent extension at the eastern margin of the Colorado Pla- teau: Geology, v. 32, p. 925–928, doi: 10.1130/
G20561.1.
Sahagian, D., Proussevitch, A., and Carlson, W., 2002, Timing of Colorado Plateau uplift: Initial
constraints from vesicular basalt-derived pa- leoelevations: Geology, v. 30, p. 807–810, doi:
10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0807:TOCPUI> 2.0.CO;2.
van Wijk, J.W., Baldridge, W.S., van Hunen, J., Goes, S., Aster, R., Coblentz, D.D., Grand, S.P.,
and Ni, J., 2010, Small-scale convection at the edge of the Colorado Plateau: Implica- tions for
topography, magmatism, and evolu- tion of Proterozoic lithosphere: Geology, v. 38, p. 611–614,
doi: 10.1130/G31031.1.
Wernicke, B., 2011, The California River and its role in carving Grand Canyon: Geological
Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, no. 7-8, p. 1288–1316, doi: 10.1130/B30274.1.