Lacustrine Basins

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Publications

Murphy, J.T., Lowenstein, T.K., and Pietras, J.T., 2014, Preservation of primary lake signatures in alkaline earth carbonates of the Eocene Green River Wilkins Peak-Laney Member transition zone: Sedimentary Geology, v. 314, p. 75-91.

Doebbert, A.C., Johnson, C., Carroll, A.R., Beard, B. Pietras, J.T, Rhodes Carson, M., Norsted, B., and Throckmorton, A., 2014, Controls on Sr isotopic evolution in lacustrine systems: Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming: Chemical Geology, v. 380, p. 172-189.

Pietras, J.T., and Carroll, A.R., 2006, High-resolution stratigraphy of an underfilled lake basin: Wilkins Peak Member, Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA: Journal of Sedimentary Research v. 76, p. 1197-1214.

Pietras, J.T., Carroll, A.R., and Rhodes, M.K., 2003, Tectonic control on lacustrine evaporite deposition in the Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming: Journal of Paleolimnology v. 30, 11p.

Pietras, J.T., Carroll, A.R., Singer, B.S., and Smith, M.E., 2003, 10,000 yr depositional cyclicity in the early Eocene: Stratigraphic and 40Ar/39Ar evidence from the lacustrine Green River Formation: Geology, v. 31, p. 593-596.

Rhodes, M.K., Carroll, A.R., Pietras, J.T., Beard, B.L., and Johnson, C.M., 2002, Strontium isotope record of paleohydrology and continental weathering, Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming: Geology v. 30, p. 167-170.