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Overview

Carol A. Stein is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Geophysics. Contributions extend into related subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Artificial Intelligence, Anthropology, and Atmospheric Science.

Their scientific work covers various key topics including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological formations and processes, archaeology and natural history, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as geochemistry and geologic mapping.

Stein's publication record includes papers in numerous venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • GSA Today
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Tectonophysics

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Stein or their collaborators include:

  • Three Major Failed Rifts in Central North America: Similarities and Differences, 2022, GSA Today
  • A compilation of igneous rock volumes at volcanic passive continental margins from interpreted seismic profiles, 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Geochemical, petrographic, and stratigraphic analyses of the Portage Lake Volcanics of the Keweenawan CFBP: implications for the evolution of main stage volcanism in continental flood basalt provinces, 2021, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Tectonic implications of the gravity signatures of the Midcontinent Rift and Grenville Front, 2020, Tectonophysics
  • Neoproterozoic sedimentation and tectonics of the Laurentian midcontinent: Detrital zircon provenance of the Jacobsville Sandstone, Lake Superior Basin, USA and Canada, 2020, Terra Nova

Their frequent collaborators include Seth Stein, Reece P. Elling, Tyrone O. Rooney, Molly M. Gallahue, and R. Moucha.

Best Publications

  • A model for the global variation in oceanic depth and heat flow with lithospheric age

    Carol A. Stein;Seth Stein

  • Constraints on hydrothermal heat flux through the oceanic lithosphere from global heat flow

    Carol A. Stein;Seth Stein

  • A diffuse plate boundary model for Indian Ocean tectonics

    Douglas A. Wiens;Charles DeMets;Richard G. Gordon;Seth A Stein

  • Abrupt thermal transition reveals hydrothermal boundary and role of seamounts within the Cocos Plate

    A. T. Fisher;C. A. Stein;Robert N. Harris;K. Wang

  • Heat Flow of the Earth

    Carol A. Stein

  • A test of alternative Caribbean Plate relative motion models

    Seth Stein;Charles DeMets;Richard G. Gordon;John Brodholt

  • Large heat and fluid fluxes driven through mid-plate outcrops on ocean crust

    M. Hutnak;A. T. Fisher;R. Harris;C. Stein

  • Seasat-derived gravity constraints on stress and deformation in the northeastern Indian Ocean

    Carol A. Stein;Sierd Cloetingh;Rinus Wortel

  • Heat Flow and Hydrothermal Circulation

    Carol A. Stein;Seth Stein;Aristeo M. Pelayo

  • Mantle flow beneath Arabia offset from the opening Red Sea

    Sung Joon Chang;Miguel Merino;Suzan van der Lee;Seth A Stein

  • Thermo‐Mechanical Evolution of Oceanic Lithosphere: Implications for the Subduction Process and Deep Earthquakes

    Seth Stein;Carol A. Stein

  • Plate tectonic models for Indian Ocean “intraplate” deformation

    Douglas A. Wiens;Seth Stein;Charles Demets;Richard G. Gordon

  • Preconceptions abound among students in an introductory earth science course

    John E. DeLaughter;Seth Stein;Carol A. Stein;Kenneth R. Bain

  • Was the Midcontinent Rift part of a successful seafloor-spreading episode?

    Carol A. Stein;Seth Stein;Miguel Merino;G. Randy Keller

  • Constraints on Pacific Midplate Swells from Global Depth‐Age and Heat Flow‐Age Models

    Carol A. Stein;Seth Stein

  • Insights from North America's failed Midcontinent Rift into the evolution of continental rifts and passive continental margins

    Seth Stein;Carol A. Stein;Reece Elling;Jonas Kley

  • Maximum depositional age of the Neoproterozoic Jacobsville Sandstone, Michigan: Implications for the evolution of the Midcontinent Rift

    David H. Malone;Carol A. Stein;John P. Craddock;Jonas Kley

  • Heat flow constraints on the South Pacific Superswell

    Carol A. Stein;Dallas Helen Abbott

  • The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics

    Carol A. Stein

  • North America’s Midcontinent Rift: When rift met LIP

    Carol A. Stein;Jonas Kley;Seth Stein;David Hindle

  • Was the Mid-Continent Rift part of a successful seafloor-spreading episode?

    Carol Stein;Seth Stein;Miguel Merino;G. Randy Keller

Frequent Co-Authors

Seth Stein
Seth Stein Northwestern University
Andrew T. Fisher
Andrew T. Fisher University of California, Santa Cruz
Jonas Kley
Jonas Kley University of Göttingen
G. Randy Keller
G. Randy Keller University of Oklahoma
Eli A. Silver
Eli A. Silver University of California, Santa Cruz
Douglas A. Wiens
Douglas A. Wiens Washington University in St. Louis
Robert N. Harris
Robert N. Harris Oregon State University
Kelin Wang
Kelin Wang Geological Survey of Canada
Richard G. Gordon
Richard G. Gordon Rice University
Charles DeMets
Charles DeMets University of Wisconsin–Madison

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