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(54) White, S., Atchley, S. A., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2025, Paleoclimatic, geomorphic, and tectonic controls on Pennsylvanian-Permian coastal plain sedimentation in paleoequatorial Pangaea Paradox Basin, SE Utah: Journal of Sedimentary Research, https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2024.158
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(52) Pourret, O., Millet, M.-A., Marin-Carbonne, J., Mallik, A., Tierney, J. E., Darling, J. R., Kiseeva, E. S., Torres, M. A., Fonseca, R. O., Tartèse, R., Namur, O., Klöcking, M., Matthews, S. W., Dahrén, B., Ickert, R. B., & the inaugural Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry editorial board, 2025, Equitable Access, Open Science, and the Future of Publishing in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry. Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, 1 (1). https://doi.org/10.33063/agc.v1i1.770.
(51) Nordt, L., Stinchcomb, G., McCarthy, P., Driese, S., 2025, Indicators for identifying aquic conditions in paleosols: First approximation: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 663, 112770, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112770.
(50) Stinchcomb, G. E., Rogers, M., Semaw, S., 2025, Hominins long-term preference for the gallery forest edge: Insights from the Gona paleosols, Afar, Ethiopia: Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 352, 109207, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109207.
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(48) Jimenez-Rodriguez, S., Quade, J., Levin, N. E., Campisano, C. J., Stinchcomb, G. E., Roman, D. C., Bedaso, Z., 2023, Environmental controls on the hydrogen isotopic composition of volcanic glass from the Southern Afar rift, eastern Ethiopia: Chemical Geology, 628, 121484. pdf
(47) Stinchcomb, G. E., El Masri, B. E., Ferguson, B., 2023,The role of oak species in long-term soil P loss in a humid river bottomland : Catena, 227 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107125. pdf
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(42) El Masri, B., Stinchcomb, G. E., Cetin, H., Ferguson, B., Kim, S. L., Xiao, J., Fisher, J. B., 2021, Linking remotely sensed carbon and water use efficiencies with in situ soil properties: Remote Sensing of Environment 13, 2593, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13132593. pdf
(41) Carlson, J. N., Maggard, G. J., Stinchcomb, G. E., Daniel Sea, C., 2021, 'Middle Archaic lifeways and the Holocene Climatic Optimum in the Falls region', pp. 44-56, in Pollack, D., Bader, A.T. and Carlson, J.N. eds., Falls of the Ohio River: Archaeology of Native American Settlement. University of Florida Press.
(40) Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., and Stinchcomb, G.E., 2021, Chapter 2: Soils, chemical weathering and climate change in Earth history, pp. 23-65, in Hunt, A, Egli, M., and Faybishenko, B. (eds.), Hydrology, Chemical Weathering, and Soil Formation, Geophysical Monograph 257, 1st edition: AGU Book Series. pdf
(39) Somelar, P., Soomer, S., Driese, S. G., Lepland, A., Stinchcomb, G. E., Kirsimäe, K., 2020, CO2 drawdown and cooling at the onset of the Great Oxidation Event recorded in 2.45 Ga paleoweathering crust: Chemical Geology 548, 119678. web access.
(38) Lombardi, R., Davis, L., Stinchcomb, G. E., Munoz, S. E., Stewart, L., & Therrell, M. D., 2020, Fluvial activity in major river basins of the eastern United States during the Holocene: The Holocene, https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620919978, web access.
(37) Ferguson, B., Lukens, W. E., El Masri, B., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2020, Valley bottom landform and the occurrence of paleosols in a humid-subtropical climate have an effect on long-term C storage: Geoderma 371, 114388. web access, pdf.
(36) Semaw, S., Rogers, M.J., Simpson, S.W., Levin, N.E., Quade, J., Dunbar, N., McIntosh, W.C., Cáceres, I., Stinchcomb, G.E., Holloway, R.L., Brown, F.H., Butler, R.F., Stout, D., Everett, M., 2020. Co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with <em>Homo erectus</em> cranial fossils from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. Sci Adv 6, eaaw4694. web access
(35) Lukens, W. E., Stinchcomb, G. E., Nordt, L. C., Kahle, D. J., Driese, S. G., Tubbs, J. D., 2019, Recursive partitioning improves paleosol proxies for rainfall: American Journal of Science, v. 319, 819-845, DOI 10.2475/10.2019.01. pdf
(34) Campisano C. J. et al., 2019, Geological collaboration at paleoanthropological sites in Ethiopia's lower Awash Valley: Evolutionary Anthropology Issues, News and Reviews. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21800. pdf
(33) Riber, L., Driese, S. G., Stinchcomb, G. E., Dypvik, H., Sørlie, R., 2019, Reconstructing a high paleolatitude Mesozoic paleoenvironment from a truncated and deeply buried regolith, Norwegian North Sea: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 528, 60-77. pdf
(32) Stinchcomb, G.E. and Beverly, E., 2019. The Role of the Paleo-Critical Zone in Shaping Quaternary Hominin Evolution. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, p.95. web access
(31) Munoz, S.E., Giosan, L., Blusztajn, J., Rankin, C. and Stinchcomb, G.E. , 2019, Radiogenic fingerprinting reveals anthropogenic and buffering controls on sediment dynamics of the Mississippi River system. Geology 47(3), 271-274. web access
(30) Stinchcomb, G. E., 2018, Quantifying past hominin interactions with Earth’s surface using the mass flux of artifacts: Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, v. 62/1, 57-71, DOI: 10.1127/zfg/2018/0585.
(29) Beverly, E.J., Lukens, W.E., Stinchcomb, G.E., 2018. Paleopedology as a Tool for Reconstructing Paleoenvironments and Paleoecology, in: Croft, D.A., Su, D.F., Simpson, S.W. (Eds.), Methods in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 151–183. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94265-0_9. pdf
(28) Stinchcomb, G. E., Kim, H., Hasenmueller, E. A., Sullivan, P. L., Sak, P. B., Brantley, S. L., 2018, Relating soil gas to weathering using rock and regolith geochemistry: American Journal of Science, v. 318, 727-763, DOI 10.2475/07.2018.01, pdf
(27) Ferraro, J. V., Hoggarth, J. A., Zori, D., Binetti, K. M., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2018, Opinion: Integrating human activities, archaeology, and the paleo-Critical Zone paradigm: Frontiers in Earth Science, DOI: 10.3389/feart.2018.00084
(26) Lukens, W.E., Nordt, L.C., Stinchcomb, G.E., Driese, S.G. and Tubbs, J.D., 2018, Reconstructing pH of Paleosols Using Geochemical Proxies. The Journal of Geology, 126(4), 427-449, https://doi.org/10.1086/697693, pdf
(25) Medaris, Jr., L. G., Driese, S. G., Stinchcomb, G. E., Fournelle, J. H., Lee, S., Xu, H., DiPietro, L., Gopon, P., Stewart, E., 2018, Mass fluxes of chemical weathering in Sub-Cambrian paleosols in North America: Implications for climatic conditions during formation of the Great Unconformity: Journal of Geology, 126, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/697037, pdf
(24) Driese, S.G., Medaris, L.G., Jr., Kirsimäe, K., Somelar, P., and Stinchcomb, G.E., 2018, Oxisolic processes and geochemical constraints on duration of weathering for Neoproterozoic Baltic paleosol: Precambrian Research 310, 165-178, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2018.02.020, pdf
(23) Stewart, R. M., *Koch, J. W., Carr, K., Beck, D., Stinchcomb, G. E., Driese, S. G., Vento, F., 2018, The Paleoindian Occupation at Nesquehoning Creek (36CR142), Carbon County, Pennsylvania. In, Gingerich, J. A. M. (Ed.), In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition, Volume II: University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 68-92. order
(22) Beverly, E.J., Peppe, D.J., Driese, S.G., Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Stinchcomb, G.E., 2017. Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene Paleoenvironments Using Bulk Geochemistry of Paleosols from the Lake Victoria Region. Frontiers in Earth Science 5, 93. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00093. pdf
(21) Medaris, Jr., L. G., Driese, S. G., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2017, The Paleoproterozoic Baraboo paleosol revisited: Quantifying mass fluxes of weathering and metasomatism, chemical climofunctions, and atmospheric pCO2 in a chemically heterogeneous protolith: Precambrian Research 301, 179-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2017.06.010, pdf
(20) Hasenmueller, E. A., Gu, X., Weitzman, J. N., Adams, T. S., Stinchcomb, G. E., Eissenstat, D. M., Drohan, P. J., Brantley, S. L., Kaye, J. P., 2017, Weathering of rock to regolith: The activity of deep roots in bedrock fractures: Geoderma 300, 11-31. pdf
(19) Kim, H., Stinchcomb, G., Brantley, S. L. 2017, Feedbacks among O2 and CO2 in deep soil gas, oxidation of ferrous minerals, and fractures: A hypothesis for steady-state regolith thickness: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 460, 29-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.12.003, pdf
(18) Brantley, S. L., Lebedeva, M., Balashov, V., Singha, K., Sullivan, P. L.,Stinchcomb, G., 2017, Relating chemical reaction fronts to hillslope drainage: Geomorphology 277, 100-117. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.09.027, pdf
(17) Stinchcomb, G. E., Nordt, L. C., Driese, S. G., *Lukens, W. E., Williamson, F. C., Tubbs, J. D., 2016, A data-driven model designed to predict paleoclimate using paleosols: American Journal of Science, v. 316, 746-777, doi: 10.2475/08.2016.02, pdf
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(16) *Yesavage, T., Stinchcomb, G. E., Fantle, M. S., Sak, P., Kasznel, A., Brantley, S. L., 2016, Investigation of a diabase-derived regolith profile from Pennsylvania: Mineralogy, chemistry and Fe isotope fractionation: Geoderma 273, 83-97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.03.004, pdf
(15) Lattanzi, G. D., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2015, Isotopic analysis of museum-archived soil samples from archaeological sites: A case-study using the Abbott Farm National Historic Landmark, USA: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 4, 86-94. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.08.044, pdf
(14) Forman, S. L., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2015, Views on grand research challenges for Quaternary Geology, geomorphology and environments: Frontiers in Earth Science 3:47, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2015.00047, pdf
(13) Hasenmueller, E. A., Jin, L. Stinchcomb, G. E., Lin, H., Brantley, S. L., Kaye, J. P. 2015, Topographic controls on the depth distribution of soil CO2 in a small temperate watershed: Applied Geochemistry 63, 58-69, doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2015.07.005, pdf
(12) Hoffmann, T., Penny, D., Vanacker, V., Stinchcomb, G., Lu, X. X., 2015, Global soil and sediment transfers in the Anthropocene: PAGES magazine 23(1), p. 37, pdf.
(11) Stinchcomb, G. E., Messner, T. C., Stewart, R. M., Driese, S. G., 2014, Estimating fluxes in anthropogenic lead using alluvial soil mass-balance geochemistry, geochronology and archaeology in eastern USA: Anthropocene 8, 25-38, doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2015.03.001, pdf
(10) Messner, T. C., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2014, Peopling the environment: Interdisciplinary Inquiries into Socioecological Systems. In John M. Marston, Jade d'Alpoim Guedes, and Christina Warinner (Ed.), Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany: Boulder: University of Colorado Press, pp. 257-274, ISBN 978-1-60732-315-0, pdf
(9) Stinchcomb, G. E., Driese, S. G., Nordt, L. C., *DiPietro, L., and Messner, T.C. 2014, Early Holocene soil cryoturbation in northeastern USA: Implications for archaeological site formation: Quaternary International 342, 186-198. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.05.011, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.05.011, pdf
(8) Stinchcomb, G. E., Peppe, D. J., 2014, The influence of time on the magnetic properties of late Quaternary periglacial and alluvial surface and buried soils along the Delaware River, USA: Front. Earth Sci. 2:17, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2014.00017, pdf
(7) Stinchcomb, G. E., 2013, Paleosols, in Rink, W. J. and Thompson, J. W. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6326-5_221-1, pdf
(6) Ferraro, J. V., Binetti, K. M., Stinchcomb, G. E., Manthi, F. K., 2013, Farre: an early Middle Pleistocene archaeological locality in the Chalbi basin, northern Kenya: Antiquity 87:338, pdf
(5) Stinchcomb, G. E., Stewart, R. M., Messner, T. C., Nordt, L. C., Driese, S. G., Allen, P. M., 2013, Using event stratigraphy to map the Anthropocene - An example from the historic coal mining region in eastern Pennsylvania, USA: Anthropocene, doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2013.06.001, pdf
(4) Stinchcomb, G. E., Messner, T. C.,Williamson, F. C., Driese, S. G., and Nordt, L. C., 2013, Climatic and human controls on Holocene vegetation changes in eastern Pennsylvania based on the isotopic composition of soil organic carbon: Quaternary Research,79, pp. 377-390, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2013.02.004, pdf
(3) Stinchcomb, G. E., Driese, S. G., Nordt, L. C., and Allen, P. M., 2012, A mid to late Holocene history of floodplain and terrace reworking along the middle Delaware River Valley, USA: Geomorphology, 169-170, pp. 123-141, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.04.018, pdf
(2) Stinchcomb, G. E., Messner, T. C., Driese, S. G., Nordt, L. C., and Stewart, R. M., 2011, Pre-colonial (A.D. 1,100–1,600) sedimentation related to prehistoric maize agriculture and climate change in eastern North America: Geology, v. 39(4), pp. 363 – 366; doi: 10.1130/G31596.1, pdf
(1) Stinchcomb, G. E., 2003, Geoarchaeological Investigation at the Rivercrest Site (36MG112): Sand Grain Granulometric Analysis as an Interpretive Tool in Upland Setting Site Formation. Pennsylvania Archaeologist, 73(1):55-74, pdf