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Joel E. Saylor is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has a research focus within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geology.

The scientist's research covers several main topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America, Geological formations and processes, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Joel E. Saylor has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Among the scientist's recent publications are:

  • Temperature Control on Silicate Weathering Intensity and Evolution of the Neogene East Asian Summer Monsoon, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Provenance of Pennsylvanian-Permian sedimentary rocks associated with the Ancestral Rocky Mountains orogeny in southwestern Laurentia: Implications for continental-scale Laurentian sediment transport systems, 2020, Lithosphere
  • Two-Dimensional Quantitative Comparison of Density Distributions in Detrital Geochronology and Geochemistry, 2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Crustal Thickening of the Northern Central Andean Plateau Inferred From Trace Elements in Zircon, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • An exploratory study of "large- n" detrital zircon geochronology of the Book Cliffs, UT via rapid (3 s/analysis) U-Pb dating, 2024, Basin Research

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Kurt E. Sundell
  • T. J. Lapen
  • Tyson Smith
  • Kurt W. Rudolph
  • Helen Kopystecki

Best Publications

  • Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-derived Yellow River sediment.

    Junsheng Nie;Thomas Stevens;Martin Rittner;Daniel Stockli

  • Quantifying comparison of large detrital geochronology data sets

    Joel E. Saylor;Kurt E. Sundell

  • Out of Tibet: Pliocene Woolly Rhino Suggests High-Plateau Origin of Ice Age Megaherbivores

    Tao Deng;Xiaoming Wang;Xiaoming Wang;Mikael Fortelius;Mikael Fortelius;Qiang Li

  • Unmixing detrital geochronology age distributions

    Kurt E. Sundell;Joel E. Saylor

  • The late Miocene through present paleoelevation history of southwestern Tibet

    J. E. Saylor;J. E. Saylor;J. Quade;D. L. Dettman;P. G. DeCelles

  • Linking sedimentation in the northern Andes to basement configuration, Mesozoic extension, and Cenozoic shortening: Evidence from detrital zircon U-Pb ages, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

    Brian K. Horton;Joel E. Saylor;Junsheng Nie;Andrés Mora

  • Tectonic Evolution of the Central Andean Plateau and Implications for the Growth of Plateaus

    Carmala N. Garzione;Nadine McQuarrie;Nicholas D. Perez;Nicholas D. Perez;Todd A. Ehlers

  • Integrated provenance analysis of a convergent retroarc foreland system: U-Pb ages, heavy minerals, Nd isotopes, and sandstone compositions of the Middle Magdalena Valley basin, northern Andes, Colombia

    Junsheng Nie;Junsheng Nie;Brian K. Horton;Joel E. Saylor;Andrés Mora

  • Topographic growth of the Jishi Shan and its impact on basin and hydrology evolution, NE Tibetan Plateau

    Joel E. Saylor;Jessica C. Jordan;Kurt E. Sundell;Xiaoming Wang

  • Growth of the Qaidam Basin during Cenozoic exhumation in the northern Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from depositional patterns and multiproxy detrital provenance signatures

    Meredith A. Bush;Joel E. Saylor;Brian K. Horton;Junsheng Nie

  • Magnetic polarity stratigraphy, provenance, and paleoclimate analysis of Cenozoic strata in the Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

    Junsheng Nie;Junsheng Nie;Xueping Ren;Joel E. Saylor;Qingda Su

  • Discriminating rapid exhumation from syndepositional volcanism using detrital zircon double dating: Implications for the tectonic history of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

    Joel E. Saylor;Daniel F. Stockli;Daniel F. Stockli;Brian K. Horton;Junsheng Nie

  • Resolving uplift of the Northern Andes using detrital zircon age signatures

    Brian K. Horton;Mauricio Parra;Joel E. Saylor;Junsheng Nie

  • Andean topographic growth and basement uplift in southern Colombia: Implications for the evolution of the Magdalena, Orinoco, and Amazon river systems

    Veronica J. Anderson;Brian K. Horton;Joel E. Saylor;Andrés Mora

  • Application of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology to surface and subsurface correlations of provenance, paleodrainage, and tectonics of the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin of Colombia

    Brian K. Horton;Veronica J. Anderson;Victor Caballero;Joel E. Saylor

  • Cenozoic paleogeography of the Andean foreland and retroarc hinterland of Colombia

    Andrés Reyes-Harker;Carlos Fernando Ruiz-Valdivieso;Andrés Mora;Juan Carlos Ramírez-Arias

  • Mixing of Source Populations Recorded in Detrital Zircon U-Pb Age Spectra of Modern River Sands

    Joel E. Saylor;Jennifer N. Knowles;Brian K. Horton;Junsheng Nie;Junsheng Nie

  • High late Miocene–Pliocene elevation of the Zhada Basin, southwestern Tibetan Plateau, from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

    Katharine W. Huntington;Joel Saylor;Jay Quade;Adam M. Hudson

  • Late Miocene topographic inversion in southwest Tibet based on integrated paleoelevation reconstructions and structural history

    Michael A. Murphy;Joel E. Saylor;Lin Ding

  • Tracking exhumation of Andean ranges bounding the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia

    Junsheng Nie;Junsheng Nie;Brian K. Horton;Andrés Mora;Joel E. Saylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian K. Horton
Brian K. Horton The University of Texas at Austin
Junsheng Nie
Junsheng Nie Lanzhou University
Andrés Mora
Andrés Mora Ecopetrol (Colombia)
Daniel F. Stockli
Daniel F. Stockli The University of Texas at Austin
Mauricio Parra
Mauricio Parra Universidade de São Paulo
Peter G. DeCelles
Peter G. DeCelles University of Arizona
Jay Quade
Jay Quade University of Arizona
Mihai N. Ducea
Mihai N. Ducea University of Arizona
Peter Copeland
Peter Copeland University of Houston
Carmala N. Garzione
Carmala N. Garzione University of Arizona

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