Plant species richness at archaeological sites suggests ecological legacy of Indigenous subsistence on the Colorado Plateau
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2025047118
Abstract: Significance Identifying how past human populations altered ecosystems is critical for understanding current ecological diversity and for the management of both natural and cultural resources. This study presents evidence for an enduring ecological legacy of… read more here.
Keywords: ecological legacy; plant; plant species; colorado plateau ... See more keywords
Evaluating the Shinumo-Sespe drainage connection: Arguments against the “old” (70–17 Ma) Grand Canyon models for Colorado Plateau drainage evolution
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DOI: 10.1130/ges02265.1
Abstract: 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 California, if verified, would indicate that a… read more here.
Keywords: drainage connection; colorado plateau; grand canyon; canyon ... See more keywords
Late Cretaceous crustal hydration in the Colorado Plateau, USA, from xenolith petrology and monazite geochronology
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DOI: 10.1130/l583.1
Abstract: Formation and subsequent modification processes of lower crust play important roles in evolution and rheological models for continental lithosphere. In the last two decades, numerous xenolith studies have documented metasomatism of continental mantle in the… read more here.
Keywords: petrology; geochronology; crust; colorado plateau ... See more keywords