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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Rebecca J. Dorsey is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research is positioned within Earth and Planetary Sciences, where they have contributed to 50 publications, with significant work in subfields such as Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their main research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Rebecca J. Dorsey has published extensively in several venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Sedimentology
  • Geology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The scientist has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Michael Darin
  • Scott Bennett
  • Greer Dolby
  • Brian P. Hausback
  • Melanie J. Michalak

Recent papers authored by Rebecca J. Dorsey include:

  • Rapid topographic growth of the Taiwan orogen since ~1.3-1.5 Ma, 2023, Science Advances
  • Integrating Earth-life systems: a geogenomic approach, 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Coarse sediment supply sets the slope of bedrock channels in rapidly uplifting terrain: Field and topographic evidence from eastern Taiwan, 2021, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic tidal sedimentation in the Miocene to Pliocene Bouse Formation, palaeo-Gulf of California, 2020, Sedimentology
  • Extremely rapid up-and-down motions of island arc crust during arc-continent collision, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment

Rebecca J. Dorsey has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Their work contributes to better understanding geological processes, tectonics, and sedimentary environments through multidisciplinary approaches.

Best Publications

  • Chronology of Miocene-Pliocene Deposits at Split Mountain Gorge, Southern California: A Record of Regional Tectonics and Colorado River Evolution

    Rebecca J. Dorsey;Amy Fluette;Kristin McDougall;Bernard A. Housen

  • Provenance Evolution and Unroofing History of a Modern Arc-Continent Collision: Evidence from Petrography of Plio-pleistocene Sandstones, Eastern Taiwan

    Rebecca J. Dorsey

  • Stratigraphic record of basin development within the San Andreas fault system: Late Cenozoic Fish Creek–Vallecito basin, southern California

    Rebecca J. Dorsey;Bernard A. Housen;Susanne U. Janecke;Christopher Fanning

  • Rapid subsidence and stacked Gilbert-type fan deltas, Pliocene Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico

    Rebecca J. Dorsey;Paul J. Umhoefer;Paul R. Renne

  • Stratigraphy and geochronology of the Comondu Group near Loreto, Baja California sur, Mexico.

    Paul J Umhoefer;Rebecca J Dorsey;Shawn Willsey;Larry Mayer

  • Early Mesozoic paleogeography and tectonic evolution of the western United States: Insights from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology, Blue Mountains Province, northeastern Oregon

    Todd A. LaMaskin;Jeffrey D. Vervoort;Rebecca J. Dorsey;James E. Wright

  • Global distribution of late Paleogene hiatuses

    Gerta Keller;T. Herbert;R. Dorsey;S. D'Hondt

  • Stratigraphic record of Triassic-Jurassic collisional tectonics in the Blue Mountains province, northeastern Oregon

    Rebecca J. Dorsey;Todd A. LaMaskin

  • Tectonic controls on deposition of Middle Jurassic strata in a retroarc foreland basin, Utah‐Idaho trough, western interior, United States

    Christian J. Bjerrum;Rebecca J. Dorsey

  • Sedimentation and crustal recycling along an active oblique-rift margin: Salton Trough and northern Gulf of California

    Rebecca J. Dorsey

  • Tectonic Controls on Mudrock Geochemisry, Mesozoic Rocks of Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho, U.S.A.: Implications for Cordilleran Tectonics

    Todd A. LaMaskin;Rebecca J. Dorsey;Jeffrey D. Vervoort

  • River-evolution and tectonic implications of a major Pliocene aggradation on the lower Colorado River: The Bullhead Alluvium

    Keith A. Howard;P. Kyle House;Rebecca J. Dorsey;Phillip A. Pearthree

  • Tectonics of the Pliocene Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico, and evolution of the Gulf of California

    Paul J. Umhoefer;Rebecca J. Dorsey;Paul Renne

  • EARTHQUAKE CLUSTERING INFERRED FROM PLIOCENE GILBERT-TYPE FAN DELTAS IN THE LORETO BASIN, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, MEXICO

    Rebecca J. Dorsey;Paul J. Umhoefer;Peter D. Falk

  • 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

    L.C. Crossey;K.E. Karlstrom;R. Dorsey;J. Pearce

  • 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

    Susanne U. Janecke;Rebecca J. Dorsey;David Forand;Alexander N. Steely

  • Rapid Quaternary emergence, uplift, and denudation of the Coastal Range, eastern Taiwan

    Neil Lundberg;Rebecca J. Dorsey

  • Tectonic and eustatic controls on sequence stratigraphy of the Pliocene Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico

    Rebecca J. Dorsey;Paul J. Umhoefer

  • Pleistocene Brawley and Ocotillo Formations: Evidence for Initial Strike‐Slip Deformation along the San Felipe and San Jacinto Fault Zones, Southern California

    Stefan M. Kirby;Susanne U. Janecke;Rebecca J. Dorsey;Bernard A. Housen

  • Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentation on a tectonically active margin: Example from the Pliocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico

    Rebecca J. Dorsey;Susan M. Kidwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael E. Oskin
Michael E. Oskin University of California, Davis
Gary J. Axen
Gary J. Axen New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Karl E. Karlstrom
Karl E. Karlstrom University of New Mexico
Laura J. Crossey
Laura J. Crossey University of New Mexico
Joshua J. Roering
Joshua J. Roering University of Oregon
Keith A. Howard
Keith A. Howard United States Geological Survey
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Eugene D. Humphreys
Eugene D. Humphreys University of Oregon
Jeffrey D. Vervoort
Jeffrey D. Vervoort Washington State University
Andrew S. Cohen
Andrew S. Cohen University of Arizona

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