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Dr. Steven Cather

Selected Publications

(See Curriculum Vitae for more details)

  1. Chapin, C.E., and Cather, S.M., 1981, Eocene tectonics and sedimentation in the Colorado Plateau-Rocky Mountain area, in Dickinson, W.R. and Payne, W.D., eds., Relation of tectonics to ore deposits in the southern Cordillera: Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. 14, p. 173-198. (Reprinted 1983 in Lowell, J.D., ed., Rocky Mountain foreland basins and uplifts: Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p. 33?56).
  2. Cather, S.M., and Johnson, B.D., 1986, Eocene depositional setting and tectonic framework of west-central New Mexico and eastern Arizona, in Peterson, J.A., ed., Paleotectonics and sedimentation in the Rocky Mountain region: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 41, p. 623?652.
  3. Cather, S.M., 1990, Stress and volcanism in the northern Mogollon-Datil field, New Mexico: Effects of the post-Laramide tectonic transition: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 1447?1458.
  4. Chapin, C.E., and Cather, S.M., 1994, Tectonic setting of the axial basins of the northern and central Rio Grande rift, in Keller, G.R., and Cather, S.M., eds., Basins of the Rio Grande rift: Structure, stratigraphy, and tectonic setting: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 291, p. 5?25.
  5. Cather, S.M., Chamberlin, R.M., Chapin, C.E., and McIntosh, W.C., 1994, Stratigraphic consequences of episodic extension in the Lemitar Mountains, central Rio Grande rift, in Keller, G.R., and Cather, S.M., eds., Basins of the Rio Grande rift: Structure, stratigraphy, and tectonic setting:Geological Society of America Special Paper 291, p. 157?170.
  6. Cather, S.M.., 1999, Implications of Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Proterozoic piercing lines for Laramide oblique-slip faulting in New Mexico and rotation of the Colorado Plateau: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 849?868.
  7. Cather, S.M., 2004, The Laramide orogeny in central and northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, in Mack, G.H., and Giles, K.A., eds., The Geology of New Mexico, A Geologic History: New Mexico Geological Society, Special Publication 11, p. 203?248.
  8. Cather, S.M., Karlstrom, K.E., Timmons, J.M., and Heizler, M.T., 2006, Palispastic reconstruction of Proterozoic basement-related aeromagnetic features in north-central New Mexico: Implications for Mesoproterozoic to Late Cenozoic tectonism: Geosphere, v. 2, p. 299-323.
  9. Cather, S.M., Connell, S.D., Chamberlin, R.M., McIntosh, W.C., Jones, G.E., Potochnik, A.R., Lucas, S.G., and Johnson, P.S., 2008, The Chuska erg: paleogeomorphic and paleoclimatic implications of an Oligocene sand sea on the Colorado Plateau: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 120, p. 13-33.
  10. Cather, S.M, Dunbar, N.W., McDowell, F.W., McIntosh, W.C., and Scholle, P.A., 2009, Climate forcing by iron fertilization from repeated ignimbrite eruptions: The icehouse-silicic large igneous province (SLIP) hypothesis: Geosphere, v. 5; p. 315?324.
  11. Cather, S.M., Read, A.S., Dunbar, N.W., Kues, B.S., Krainer, K., Lucas, S.G., and Kelley, S.A., 2011, Provenance evidence for major post-Early Pennsylvanian dextral slip on the Picuris–Pecos fault, northern New Mexico: Geosphere, v. 7, p. 1175?1193.
  12. Cather, S.M., Chapin, C.E., and Kelley, S.A., 2012, Diachronous episodes of Cenozoic erosion in southwestern North America and their relationship to surface uplift, paleoclimate, paleodrainage, and paleoaltimetry: Geosphere, v. 8, p. 1177?1206.
  13. Chapin, C.E., Kelley, S.A., and Cather, S.M., 2014, Origin of the Rocky Mountain front: Geosphere, v. 10, p. 1043?1060.
  14. Cather, S.M., 2018, Revised basin geometry of the Bursum Formation (upper Virgilian?lower Wolfcampian), central New Mexico: New Mexico Geology, v. 40, p. 6?16.
  15. Geology of the Quebradas Region, Socorro County, central New Mexico, in press, (S.M. Cather and D. Koning, eds.), New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Memoir (I am first or sole author of ten chapters within this book).
  16. Cather, S.M., Heizler, M.T., and Williamson, T.E., in review, Laramide fluvial evolution of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado: Paleocurrent and detrital-sanidine age constraints from the Paleocene Nacimiento and Animas formations: Geosphere.