Paleoclimate / Paleotopography

Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., and Chamberlain, C.P. (2007) Stable isotope paleoaltimetry of Eocene core complexes in the North American Cordillera. Tectonics, v. 26, doi:10.1029/2006TC001995 .pdf

Kent-Corson, M.L., Sherman, L.S., Mulch, A., and Chamberlain, C.P. (2006) Cenozoic topographic and climatic response to changing tectonic boundary conditions in Western North America. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 252, p. 453-466. .pdf

Horton, T.W., and Chamberlain, C.P. (2006) Stable isotopic evidence for Neogene surface downdrop in the central Basin and Range Province. GSA Bulletin, v. 118, p. 475-490. .pdf

Abruzzese, M.J., Waldbauer, J.R., and Chamberlain, C.P. (2005) Oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios in freshwater chert as indicators of ancient climate and hydrologic regime. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.69, p. 1377-1390.   .pdf

Sjostrom, D.J., Hren, M.T., Horton, T.W., Waldbauer, J.R., and Chamberlain, C.P. (2005) Stable isotopic evidence for an early Tertiary elevation gradient in the Great Plains - Rocky Mountains. Geological Society of America Penrose Conference Volume.

Horton, T.W., Sjostrom, D.J., Abruzzese, M.J., Poage, M.A., Waldbauer, J.R., Hren, M., Wooden, J., and Chamberlain, C.P. (2004) Eocene uplift and Miocene subsidence of the Great Basin and southern Sierra Nevada. American Journal of Science, v.304, p. 862-888.   .pdf

Sjostrom, D.J., Hren, M.T., Chamberlain, C.P. (2004) Oxygen isotope records of goethite from ferricrete deposits indicate regionally varying Holocene climate change in the Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A.. Quaternary Research, v. 61, p. 64-71.

Poage, M.A., and Chamberlain, C.P. (2002) Stable isotopic evidence for a pre-Middle Miocene rainshadow in the western Basin and Range: implications for the surface uplift of the Sierra Nevada. Tectonics, v. 21, 16-1 - 16-10.   .pdf

Poage, M.A., and Chamberlain, C.P. (2001) Empirical relationships between elevation and the stable isotope composition of precipitation: considerations for studies of paleoelevation change. American Journal of Science, v. 301, p. 1-15.   .pdf

Chamberlain, C.P., and Poage, M.A. (2000) Reconstructing the paleotopography of mountain belts from the isotopic composition of authigenic minerals. Geology, v. 28, 115-118.   .pdf

Poage, M.A., Sjostrom, D.J., Goldberg, J., Chamberlain, C.P., and Furniss, G. (2000) Evidence for Holocene climate change in the northern Rockies from a goethite-rich ferricrete chronosequence. Chemical Geology, v. 166, 327-340.

Chamberlain, C.P., Poage, M., Craw, D., and Reynolds, R. (1999) Topographic development of the Southern Alps recorded by the isotopic composition of authigenic clay minerals, South Island, New Zealand, Chemical Geology, v. 155, 279-294.

Stern, L.A., Chamberlain, C.P. and Johnson, G.D. (1997) Oxygen isotope evidence of climate change from pedogenic clay minerals in the Himalayan molasse. Geochemica Cosmochimica Acta, v. 61, 731-744.   .pdf