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Warren D. Sharp is affiliated with the Berkeley Geochronology Center in the United States. Their research spans various aspects of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Social Sciences, with a significant focus on fields such as Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Water Science and Technology.

Their research topics cover a range of themes related to geology, archaeology, and environmental studies. These main areas include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Water Quality and Resources Studies
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

Warren D. Sharp has contributed to multiple publications, frequently collaborating with colleagues such as Jessica Oster, Bryce Belanger, Elizabeth Niespolo, Cameron de Wet, and Daniel Ibarra. Their work has been published primarily in venues like the Geological Society of America's Abstracts with programs, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Quaternary Science Reviews, Geophysical Research Letters, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92-80 thousand years ago" (2022), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Semiquantitative Estimates of Rainfall Variability During the 8.2 kyr Event in California Using Speleothem Calcium Isotope Ratios" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "A revised position for the primary strand of the Pleistocene-Holocene San Andreas fault in southern California" (2021), published in Science Advances
  • "Early, intensive marine resource exploitation by Middle Stone Age humans at Ysterfontein 1 rockshelter, South Africa" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Multi-proxy stalagmite records from northern California reveal dynamic patterns of regional hydroclimate over the last glacial cycle" (2020), published in Quaternary Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Insolation-driven changes in atmospheric circulation over the past 116,000 years in subtropical Brazil

    Francisco W. Cruz;Stephen J. Burns;Ivo Karmann;Warren D. Sharp

  • Neandertal roots: Cranial and chronological evidence from Sima de los Huesos.

    J. L. Arsuaga;I. Martínez;L. J. Arnold;A. Aranburu

  • 50-Ma initiation of Hawaiian-Emperor bend records major change in Pacific plate motion.

    Warren D. Sharp;David A. Clague

  • Intercalibration of astronomical and radioisotopic time

    Paul R. Renne;Alan L. Deino;Robert C. Walter;Brent D. Turrin

  • Evidence of rainfall variations in Southern Brazil from trace element ratios (Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca) in a Late Pleistocene stalagmite

    Francisco W. Cruz;Stephen J. Burns;Michael Jercinovic;Ivo Karmann

  • A threshold in soil formation at Earth's arid-hyperarid transition

    Stephanie A. Ewing;Brad Sutter;Justine Owen;Kunihiko Nishiizumi

  • Stratigraphy and chronology of Upper Cretaceous–lower Paleogene strata in Bolivia and northwest Argentina

    Thierry Sempéré;R.F. Butler;D.R. Richards;L.G. Marshall

  • 40Ar/39Ar Dating into the Historical Realm: Calibration Against Pliny the Younger

    P. R. Renne;W. D. Sharp;A. L. Deino;G. Orsi

  • Dating fluvial terraces by 230Th/U on pedogenic carbonate, Wind River Basin, Wyoming

    Warren D. Sharp;Kenneth R. Ludwig;Oliver A. Chadwick;Ronald Amundson

  • Reconstruction of regional atmospheric circulation features during the late Pleistocene in subtropical Brazil from oxygen isotope composition of speleothems

    F.W. Cruz;F.W. Cruz;S.J. Burns;I. Karmann;W.D. Sharp

  • Alder Creek sanidine (ACs-2): A Quaternary 40Ar/39Ar dating standard tied to the Cobb Mountain geomagnetic event

    S. Nomade;S. Nomade;P.R. Renne;P.R. Renne;N. Vogel;N. Vogel;A.L. Deino

  • Provenance of Heinrich layers in core V28-82, northeastern Atlantic: 40Ar/39Ar ages of ice-rafted hornblende, Pb isotopes in feldspar grains, and Nd–Sr–Pb isotopes in the fine sediment fraction

    S.R. Hemming;W.S. Broecker;W.D. Sharp;G.C. Bond

  • A stalagmite record of changes in atmospheric circulation and soil processes in the Brazilian subtropics during the Late Pleistocene

    Francisco W. Cruz;Francisco W. Cruz;Stephen J. Burns;Ivo Karmann;Warren D. Sharp

  • Time relations and structural-stratigraphic patterns in ophiolite accretion, west central Klamath Mountains, California

    Jason B. Saleeby;Gregory D. Harper;Arthur W. Snoke;Warren D. Sharp

  • The 40Ar/39Ar dating of core recovered by the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project (phase 2), Hilo, Hawaii

    Warren D. Sharp;Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne

  • Faulted terrace risers place new constraints on the late Quaternary slip rate for the central Altyn Tagh fault, northwest Tibet

    R. D. Gold;E. Cowgill;J. R. Arrowsmith;X. Chen

  • Differential incision of the Grand Canyon related to Quaternary faulting—Constraints from U-series and Ar/Ar dating

    Joel Pederson;Karl Karlstrom;Warren Sharp;William McIntosh

  • Uncertainties in slip-rate estimates for the Mission Creek strand of the southern San Andreas fault at Biskra Palms Oasis, southern California

    W.M. Behr;D.H. Rood;K.E. Fletcher;N. Guzman

  • Environment, agriculture, and settlement patterns in a marginal Polynesian landscape

    P. V. Kirch;A. S. Hartshorn;O. A. Chadwick;P. M. Vitousek

  • The 40Ar/39Ar and K/Ar dating of lavas from the Hilo 1‐km core hole, Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project

    W. D. Sharp;B. D. Turrin;P. R. Renne;M. A. Lanphere

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Christian A. Tryon
Christian A. Tryon University of Connecticut
Thomas K. Rockwell
Thomas K. Rockwell San Diego State University
Isabel P. Montañez
Isabel P. Montañez University of California, Davis
Patrick V. Kirch
Patrick V. Kirch University of Hawaii at Manoa
Francisco W. Cruz
Francisco W. Cruz Universidade de São Paulo
Kari M. Cooper
Kari M. Cooper University of California, Davis
Ronald Amundson
Ronald Amundson University of California, Berkeley
J. Tyler Faith
J. Tyler Faith University of Utah
Todd E. Dawson
Todd E. Dawson University of California, Berkeley

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