Recent Publications

Lawton, T.F., Bradford, I.A., Vega, F.J., Gehrels, G.E., and Amato, J.M., 2009, Provenance of Upper Cretaceous-Paleogene sandstones in the foreland basin system of the Sierra Madre Oriental, northeastern Mexico, and its bearing on fluvial dispersal systems of the Mexican Laramide Province: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, p. 820-836, doi: 10.1130/B26450.1.

Gonz‡lez-Le—n, C.M., Valencia, V.A., Lawton, T.F., Amato, J.M., Gehrels, G.E., Leggett, W.J., Mauel, D.J., Montijo, O., and Fern‡ndez, M.A., 2009, The lower Mesozoic record of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Sonora, MŽxico, and its paleogeographic implications: Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geol—gicas, v. 26, p. 301-314.

Dickinson, W.R., Lawton, T.F., and Gehrels, G.E., 2009, Recycling detrital zircons: A case study from the Cretaceous Bisbee Group of southern Arizona: Geology, v. 37, p. 503-506; doi: 10.1130/G25646A.1.

Amato, J.M., Lawton, T.F., Mauel, D.J., Leggett, W.J., Gonz‡lez-Le—n, C.M., Farmer, G.L., and Wooden, J.L., 2009, Testing the Mojave-Sonora megashear hypothesis: Evidence from Paleoproterozoic igneous rocks and deformed Mesozoic strata in Sonora, Mexico: Geology, v. 37, p. 75-78 doi: 10.1130/G25240A.

Lawton, T.F., 2008, Laramide sedimentary basins, in Miall, A.D., ed., The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada: The Netherlands, Elsevier, p. 431-452.

Hayden, J.M., Lawton, T.F., and Clark, D.L., 2008, Provisional geologic map of the Champlin Peak Quadrangle, Juab and Millard counties, Utah, Utah Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Publication 08-1, 3 plates.

Gray, G.G., Lawton, T.F., and Murphy, J.J., 2008, Looking for the Mojave-Sonora megashear in northeastern Mexico, in Moore, G., ed., Geological Society of America Field Guide 14: Houston, Texas, p. 1-26, doi: 10.1130/2008.fl d014(01).

Gonz‡lez-Le—n, C.M., Scott, R.W., Lšser, H., Lawton, T.F., Robert, E., and Valencia, V.A., 2008, Upper Aptian-Lower Albian Mural Formation: stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and depositional cycles on the Sonoran Shelf, northern MŽxico: Cretaceous Research, v. 29, p. 249-266; doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2007.06.001

Lawton, T.F., Sprinkel, D.A., and Waanders, G.L., 2007, The Cretaceous Canyon Range Conglomerate, Central Utah: Stratigraphy, Structure and Significance, in Willis, G.C., Hylland, M.D., Clark, D.L., and Chidsey Jr., T.C., eds., Utah Geological Association Publication 346, p. 101-122.

Lawton, T.F., and Buck, B.J., 2006, Implications of diapir-derived detritus and gypsic paleosols in Lower Triassic strata near the Castle Valley salt wall, Paradox basin, Utah: Geology, v. 34, p. 885-888; doi: 10.1130/G22574.1.