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Larry Benson is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with additional work in Environmental Science. The key subfields in which they have conducted research include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Anthropology, Paleontology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to geology and paleoclimatology, climate variability, and archaeology. These topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Climate variability and models

Larry Benson has published research in several scientific venues. Notable publication venues include:

  • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
  • Quaternary International
  • The Holocene
  • Lincoln (University of Nebraska)

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "A 14,100 cal B. P. Rocky Mountain locust cache from Winnemucca Lake, Pershing County, Nevada" (2022), Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
  • "Timing of Sierra Nevadan stadial/interstadial variations from 15 to 56 ka" (2021), Quaternary International
  • "A comparison of late-Holocene hydrologic variability in California: Regionality of multi-decadal to centennial-scale droughts" (2022), The Holocene
  • "A Reimagining of the Chacoan World" (2021), Lincoln (University of Nebraska)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Steve P. Lund
  • Evan Pellegrini
  • Eugene M. Hattori
  • John Southon
  • Hojun Song

Best Publications

  • Chronology of expansion and contraction of four Great Basin lake systems during the past 35,000 years

    L. V. Benson;D.R. Currey;R.I. Dorn;K.R. Lajoie

  • Holocene multidecadal and multicentennial droughts affecting Northern California and Nevada

    Larry Benson;Michaele Kashgarian;Robert Rye;Steve Lund

  • Climatic and Hydrologic Oscillations in the Owens Lake Basin and Adjacent Sierra Nevada, California

    Larry V. Benson;James W. Burdett;Michaele Kashgarian;Steve P. Lund

  • Chronology for Fluctuations in Late Pleistocene Sierra Nevada Glaciers and Lakes

    Fred M. Phillips;Marek G. Zreda;Larry V. Benson;Mitchell A. Plummer

  • Nearly synchronous climate change in the Northern Hemisphere during the last glacial termination

    Larry Benson;James Burdett;Steve Lund;Michaele Kashgarian

  • Correlation of Late-Pleistocene Lake-Level Oscillations in Mono Lake, California, with North Atlantic Climate Events☆

    Larry V. Benson;Steve P. Lund;James W. Burdett;Michaele Kashgarian

  • Lake-level variation in the Lahontan basin for the past 50,000 years

    L.V. Benson;R.S. Thompson

  • Anasazi (Pre-Columbian Native-American) Migrations During The Middle-12Th and Late-13th Centuries – Were they Drought Induced?

    Larry Benson;Kenneth Petersen;John Stein

  • Simulation of Solute Transport in a Chemically Reactive Heterogeneous System' Model Development and Application

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  • The physical record of lakes in the Great Basin

    Larry Benson;Robert S. Thompson

  • Carbonate deposition, Pyramid Lake subbasin, Nevada: 1. Sequence of formation and elevational distribution of carbonate deposits (Tufas)

    Larry Benson

  • Carbonate deposition, Pyramid Lake subbasin, Nevada: 2. Lake levels and polar jet stream positions reconstructed from radiocarbon ages and elevations of carbonates (tufas) deposited in the Lahontan basin

    Larry Benson;Michaele Kashgarian;Meyer Rubin

  • Possible impacts of early-11th-, middle-12th-, and late-13th-century droughts on western Native Americans and the Mississippian Cahokians

    Larry V. Benson;Michael S. Berry;Edward A. Jolie;Jerry D. Spangler

  • Paleoclimatic implications of the high stand of Lake Lahontan derived from models of evaporation and lake level

    S Hostetler;Larry Benson

  • The rise and fall of Lake Bonneville between 45 and 10.5 ka

    L. V. Benson;S. P. Lund;J. P. Smoot;D. E. Rhode

  • Cahokia's boom and bust in the context of climate change

    Larry V. Benson;Timothy R. Pauketat;Edward R. Cook

  • A Holocene pollen record of persistent droughts from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA

    Scott A Mensing;Larry V Benson;Michaele Kashgarian;Steve Lund

  • The use of total lake-surface area as an indicator of climatic change: Examples from the Lahontan basin

    L. V. Benson;Frederick L. Paillet

  • Change in the size of Walker Lake during the past 5000 years

    Larry V. Benson;Philip A. Meyers;R. J. Spencer

  • Fluctuation in the Level of Pluvial Lake Lahontan During the last 40,000 Years

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  • Age of the Mono Lake excursion and associated tephra

    Larry Benson;Joseph Liddicoat;Joseph Smoot;Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki

  • Ancient maize from Chacoan great houses: Where was it grown?

    Larry Benson;Linda Cordell;Kirk Vincent;Howard Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve P. Lund
Steve P. Lund University of Southern California
Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki
Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki United States Geological Survey
Robert O. Rye
Robert O. Rye United States Geological Survey
Kenneth L. Verosub
Kenneth L. Verosub University of California, Davis
Robert S. Coe
Robert S. Coe University of California, Santa Cruz
John F. Stein
John F. Stein University of Oxford
James E T Channell
James E T Channell University of Florida
Fred M. Phillips
Fred M. Phillips New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich

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