Our NSF-funded research in ABDSP includes training of graduate students, indicated by (*) in the list below.

Dorsey, R.J., O’Connell, B.*, Homan, M.*, and Howard, K.A. (2016) Upper limestone of the southern Bouse Formation: evidence for unsteady origins of the Colorado River. In: Reynolds, R.E. (Ed.), 2016 Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings, California State University Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx, CA, p. 145-153.

Fattaruso, L.A.*, Cooke, M.L., Dorsey, R.J., and Housen, B.A. (2016) Response of deformation patterns to reorganization of the southern San Andreas fault system since ca. 1.5 Ma. Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.05.035.

Bright, J.*, Cohen, A.S., Dettman, D.L., Pearthree, P.A., Dorsey, R.J. and Homan, M.B.* (2016) Did a catastrophic lake spillover integrate the late Miocene early Pliocene Colorado River and the Gulf of California?: Microfaunal and stable isotope evidence from Blythe basin, California-Arizona, USA. Palaios, v. 31, p. 81-91.

Dorsey, R.J., and Langenheim, V.E. (2015) Crustal-scale tilting of the central Salton block, southern California. Geosphere, v. 11, no. 5, 19 pages, doi:10.1130/GES01167.1.

Kimbrough, D.L., Grove, M., Gehrels, G.E., Dorsey, R.J., Howard, K.A., Lovera, O., Aslan, A., House, P.K., and Pearthree, P.A. (2015) Detrital zircon U-Pb provenance record of the Colorado River: Implications for late Cenozoic drainage evolution of the American Southwest. Geosphere, v. 11, no. 6, 30 pages, doi:10.1130/GES00982.1.

Crossey, L.J., Karlstrom, K.E., Dorsey, R.J., Pearce, J. Wan, E., Beard, L.S., Asmerom, Y., Polyak, V., Crow, R.S, Cohen, A., Bright, J.*,. and Pecha, M.E. (2015) 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. Geosphere, v. 11, p. 660-682. doi:10.1130/GES01073.1.

Howard, K.A., House, P.K., Dorsey, R.J., and Pearthree, P.A. (2015) River-evolution and tectonic implications of a major Pliocene aggradation on the lower Colorado River, the Bullhead Alluvium. Geosphere, v. 11, p. 1-30.

Fattaruso, L.A.*, Cooke, M.L., and Dorsey, R.J. (2014) Sensitivity of uplift patterns to dip of the San Andreas fault in the Coachella Valley, CA, Geosphere, v. 10, p. 1235-1246.

Dorsey, R.J., and Lazear, G. (2013) A Post 6-Ma Sediment Budget for the Colorado River. Geosphere, v. 9, No. 4, p.781-791.

Darin, M.H.*, and Dorsey, R.J. (2013) Reconciling disparate estimates of total offset on the southern San Andreas fault. Geology, v. 41 no. 9 p. 975-978.

Dorsey, R.J., Umhoefer, P.J., Oskin, M.E., and Arrowsmith, R. (2013) Rupturing continental lithosphere in the Gulf of California and Salton Trough. GeoPRISMS Newsletter, No. 16, p. 1-6.

Dorsey, R.J., Axen, G.J., Peryam, T.C.*, and Kairouz, M.E.* (2012) Initiation of the southern Elsinore fault at ~1.2 Ma: Evidence from the Fish Creek – Vallecito Basin, southern California. Tectonics: v. 31, TC2006, doi:10.1029/2011TC003009.

Dorsey, R.J., and Umhoefer, P.J. (2012) Influence of sediment input and plate-motion obliquity on basin development along an active oblique-divergent plate boundary: Gulf of California and Salton Trough. In: Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances (C. Busby and A. Azor, Editors), Blackwell Publishing, p. 209-225.

Dorsey, R.J. (2012) Earliest delivery of sediment from the Colorado River to the Salton Trough at 5.3 Ma: Evidence from Split Mountain Gorge. In: Reynolds, R.E. (ed.) Searching for the Pliocene: southern exposures. Proceedings of the 2012 Desert Symposium, p. 88-93.

Dorsey, R.J., Housen, B.A., Janecke, S.U., Fanning, C.M., and Spears, A.L.F.* (2011) Stratigraphic record of basin development within the San Andreas fault system: Late Cenozoic Fish Creek-Vallecito basin, southern California. Geological Society America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 771-793.

Peryam, T.C.*, Dorsey, R.J., and Bindeman, I. (2011) Plio-Pleistocene climate change and timing of Peninsular Ranges uplift in southern California: Evidence from paleosols and stable isotopes in the Fish Creek-Vallecito basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaoecology. v. 305, p. 65-74.

Dorsey, R.J. (2010) Sedimentation and crustal recycling along an active oblique-rift margin: Salton Trough and northern Gulf of California. Geology, v. 38, p. 443-446.

Janecke, S.U., Dorsey, R.J., Steely, A.N.*, Kirby, S.M.*, Lutz, A.T.*, Housen, B.A., Belgarde, B.*, Langenheim, V., Rittenour, T., and Forand, D.* (2010) High geologic slip rates since early Pleistocene initiation of the San Jacinto and San Felipe fault zones in the San Andreas fault system: Southern California, USA. Geological Society America Special Paper 475, 48 pp.

Janecke, S.U., Dorsey, R.J., and Belgarde, B.* (2010) Age and structure of the San Jacinto and San Felipe fault zones, and their lifetime slip rates. In Clifton, H.E., and Ingersoll, R.V., eds., Geologic excursions in California and Nevada: tectonics, stratigraphy and hydrogeology: Pacific Section, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), Upland, CA, Book 108., p. 233-271.

Steely, A.N.*, Janecke, S.U., Dorsey, R.J., and Axen, G.J. (2009) Early Pleistocene initiation of the San Felipe fault zone, SW Salton Trough, during reorganization of the San Andreas fault system. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, p. 663-687.

Dorsey, R.J. Fluette, A.*, McDougall, K.A., Housen, B.A., Janecke, S.U., Axen, G.J., and Shirvell, C.R.* (2007) Chronology of Miocene-Pliocene deposits at Split Mountain Gorge, southern California: A record of regional tectonics and Colorado River evolution. Geololgy, v. 35, p. 57-60.

Kirby, S.M., Janecke, S.U., Dorsey, R.J., Housen, B.A., Langenheim, V., McDougall, K., and Steely, A.N.* (2007) Pleistocene Brawley and Ocotillo formations: Evidence for initial strike-slip deformation along the San Felipe and San Jacinto fault zones, southern California. Journal of Geology, vol. 115, p. 43-62.

Dorsey, R.J. (2006) Stratigraphy, tectonics, and basin evolution in the Anza-Borrego Desert region. In: Jefferson, G.T. and Lindsay, L.E. (eds.) Fossil Treasures of Anza-Borrego Desert. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA, p. 89-104.

Dorsey, R.J. and Roering, J.J. (2006) Quaternary landscape evolution in the San Jacinto fault zone, Peninsular Ranges of southern California: Transient response to strike-slip fault initiation. Geomorphology, v. 73(1-2), p. 16-32.

Dorsey, R.J. Castro, R., Fletcher, J., Lizarralde, D. and Umhoefer, P.J. (2006) Report on RCL-Cortez Workshop: Lithospheric Rupture in the Gulf of California – Salton Trough Region. MARGINS Newsletter, No. 16, p. 9-13.

Lutz, A.T.*, Dorsey, R.J., Housen, B.A., and Janecke, S.U. (2006) Stratigraphic record of Pleistocene faulting and basin evolution in the Borrego Badlands, San Jacinto fault zone, southern California. GSA Bulletin, v. 118, p. 1377-1397.

Dorsey, R.J. (2002) Stratigraphic record of Pleistocene initiation and slip on the Coyote Creek fault, lower Coyote Creek, southern California. In: Barth, A. (ed.) Contributions to Crustal Evolution of the Southwest United States: Boulder, Co. Geolgical Society of America Special Paper 365, p. 251-269.

Dorsey, R.J. and Martín-Barajas, A. (1999) Sedimentation and deformation in a Pliocene-Pleistocene transtensional supradetachment basin, Laguna Salada, Northwest Mexico. Basin Research, vol. 11, p. 205-222.