L. Sue Beard
United States Geological Survey(US)
Publications by Year
Research Areas
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Archaeology and Natural History, Geological formations and processes
Most-Cited Works
- → Provenance of North American Phanerozoic sandstones in relation to tectonic setting(1983)1,707 cited
- → Formation of the Grand Canyon 5 to 6 million years ago through integration of older palaeocanyons(2014)117 cited
- → Importance of groundwater in propagating downward integration of the 6–5 Ma Colorado River system: Geochemistry of springs, travertines, and lacustrine carbonates of the Grand Canyon region over the past 12 Ma(2015)72 cited
- → Cenozoic incision history of the Little Colorado River: Its role in carving Grand Canyon and onset of rapid incision in the past ca. 2 Ma in the Colorado River System(2016)52 cited
- → Paleogeography of the Horse Spring Formation in relation to the Lake Mead fault system, Virgin Mountains, Nevada and Arizona(1996)40 cited
- → Reevaluation of the Crooked Ridge River—Early Pleistocene (ca. 2 Ma) age and origin of the White Mesa alluvium, northeastern Arizona(2016)24 cited
- → Restoration of Tertiary deformation in the Lake Mead region, southern Nevada: The role of strike-slip transfer faults(1998)23 cited
- → Comment on “Apatite 4 He/ 3 He and (U-Th)/He Evidence for an Ancient Grand Canyon”(2013)19 cited
- → Insights into post-Miocene uplift of the western margin of the Colorado Plateau from the stratigraphic record of the lower Colorado River(2019)19 cited
- → Geologic map of Lake Mead and surrounding regions, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and northwestern Arizona(2010)16 cited