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Overview

Rebecca M. Flowers is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States, focusing primarily on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence applications, Paleontology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scope of their research covers a variety of main topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological formations and processes, and Geological and Geophysical Studies.

Among their published papers, some notable recent works include:

  • (U-Th)/He chronology: Part 2. Considerations for evaluating, integrating, and interpreting conventional individual aliquot data, 2022, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Diachronous development of Great Unconformities before Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • (U-Th)/He chronology: Part 1. Data, uncertainty, and reporting, 2022, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • The Late Great Unconformity of the Central Canadian Shield, 2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • River patterns reveal two stages of landscape evolution at an oblique convergent margin, Marlborough Fault System, New Zealand, 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Francis A. Macdonald, James R. Metcalf, Liam Courtney-Davies, Barra A. Peak, and C. S. Siddoway. These collaborations highlight a network of research within geological and geophysical sciences.

Their work has appeared in a variety of academic venues. Predominantly, publications have been featured in:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geochronology
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry using a radiation damage accumulation and annealing model

    Rebecca M. Flowers;Richard A. Ketcham;David L. Shuster;Kenneth A. Farley

  • The influence of natural radiation damage on helium diffusion kinetics in apatite

    David L. Shuster;Rebecca M. Flowers;Kenneth A. Farley

  • Unroofing, incision, and uplift history of the southwestern Colorado Plateau from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry

    R.M. Flowers;B.P. Wernicke;K.A. Farley

  • Radiation damage control on apatite (U-Th)/He dates from the Grand Canyon region, Colorado Plateau

    R.M. Flowers;D.L. Shuster;B.P. Wernicke;K.A. Farley

  • New zircon shock phenomena and their use for dating and reconstruction of large impact structures revealed by electron nanobeam (EBSD, CL, EDS) and isotopic U–Pb and (U–Th)/He analysis of the Vredefort domeThis article is one of a series of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme of Geochronology in honour of Tom Krogh.

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  • Interpreting data dispersion and “inverted” dates in apatite (U–Th)/He and fission-track datasets: An example from the US midcontinent

    Rebecca M. Flowers;Shari A. Kelley

  • Exploiting radiation damage control on apatite (U–Th)/He dates in cratonic regions

    Rebecca M. Flowers

  • Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He Evidence for an Ancient Grand Canyon

    R. M. Flowers;K. A. Farley

  • A reporting protocol for thermochronologic modeling illustrated with data from the Grand Canyon

    Rebecca M. Flowers;Kenneth A. Farley;Richard A. Ketcham

  • Birth of the Kaapvaal Tectosphere 3.08 Billion Years Ago

    D. E. Moser;R. M. Flowers;R. J. Hart

  • (U-Th)/He thermochronometry constraints on unroofing of the eastern Kaapvaal craton and significance for uplift of the southern African Plateau

    Rebecca M. Flowers;Blair Schoene

  • Is apatite U–Th zonation information necessary for accurate interpretation of apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry data?

    Alexis K. Ault;Rebecca M. Flowers

  • Timescales and significance of high-pressure, high-temperature metamorphism and mafic dike anatexis, Snowbird tectonic zone, Canada

    R. M. Flowers;R. M. Flowers;S. A. Bowring;M. L. Williams

  • (U-Th)/He chronology: Part 2. Considerations for evaluating, integrating, and interpreting conventional individual aliquot data

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  • (U-Th)/He chronology: Part 1. Data, uncertainty, and reporting

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  • Multistage exhumation and juxtaposition of lower continental crust in the western Canadian Shield: Linking high‐resolution U‐Pb and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronometry with pressure‐temperature‐deformation paths

    R. M. Flowers;R. M. Flowers;K. H. Mahan;K. H. Mahan;S. A. Bowring;M. L. Williams

  • Tempo of burial and exhumation within the deep roots of a magmatic arc, Fiordland, New Zealand

    R.M. Flowers;S.A. Bowring;A.J. Tulloch;K.A. Klepeis

  • (U–Th)/Ne and multidomain (U–Th)/He systematics of a hydrothermal hematite from eastern Grand Canyon

    K. A. Farley;R. M. Flowers

  • Kimberlite (U-Th)/He dating links surface erosion with lithospheric heating, thinning, and metasomatism in the southern African Plateau

    Jessica R. Stanley;Rebecca M. Flowers;David R. Bell

  • Low long-term erosion rates and extreme continental stability documented by ancient (U-Th)/He dates

    R.M. Flowers;S.A. Bowring;P.W. Reiners

  • “Inverted” zircon and apatite (U–Th)/He dates from the Front Range, Colorado: High-damage zircon as a low-temperature (<50 °C) thermochronometer

    Joshua E. Johnson;Rebecca M. Flowers;Graham B. Baird;Kevin H. Mahan

  • Phanerozoic burial and unroofing history of the western Slave craton and Wopmay orogen from apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry

    Alexis K. Ault;Rebecca M. Flowers;Samuel A. Bowring

  • Geochronological constraints on the Legs Lake shear zone with implications for regional exhumation of lower continental crust, western Churchill Province, Canadian Shield

    K. H. Mahan;K. H. Mahan;M. L. Williams;R. M. Flowers;M. J. Jercinovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth A. Farley
Kenneth A. Farley California Institute of Technology
Gregory E. Tucker
Gregory E. Tucker University of Colorado Boulder
Brian P. Wernicke
Brian P. Wernicke California Institute of Technology
Stephen J. Mojzsis
Stephen J. Mojzsis University of Bayreuth
Francis A. Macdonald
Francis A. Macdonald University of California, Santa Barbara
Shijie Zhong
Shijie Zhong University of Colorado Boulder
David L. Shuster
David L. Shuster University of California, Berkeley
Blair Schoene
Blair Schoene Princeton University
Richard A. Ketcham
Richard A. Ketcham The University of Texas at Austin

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