Greg Balco -- Publications

Online geochronology tools

The CRONUS-Earth online exposure-age and erosion-rate calculators. Link

In press and in review

Rovey C.W., II, Balco G., Forir M., Gaunt D., 2008 in review. Stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and cosmogenic-isotope burial dates of fossil-bearing strata within Riverbluff Cave, Greene County, Missouri. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies. PDF draft

Gendaszek A., Balco G., Montgomery D., Stone J.O.H., Thompson N., 2008 in review. Erosional response to northward-propagating deformation in the coastal ranges of the Pacific Northwest. Geology. PDF draft

Balco G., Briner J., Finkel R.C., Rayburn J., Ridge J.C., Schaefer J.M., 2008 in revision. Regional beryllium-10 production rate calibration for late-glacial northeastern North America. Quaternary Science Reviews. PDF draft - Sept 3 2008.

Balco G., 2008 in review. Distinguishing incorrect from inaccurate exposure ages by correlation between Al-26 and Be-10 measurements. Quaternary Geochronology . PDF draft

Balco G., Stone J.O.H., Jennings C.E., 2008 in revision. Fate of the preglacial regolith beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Get it here

Balco, G., Rovey, C.W. II, 2008 in press. An isochron method for cosmogenic-nuclide dating of buried soils. American Journal of Science. PDF accepted MS .tar file containing MATLAB code.

Published

Putkonen J., Balco G., Morgan D., 2008. Slow regolith degradation without creep determined by cosmogenic nuclide measurements in Arena Valley, Antarctica. Quaternary Research 69, pp. 242-249. PDF

Balco G., Stone J., Lifton N., Dunai T., 2008. A simple, internally consistent, and easily accessible means of calculating surface exposure ages and erosion rates from Be-10 and Al-26 measurements. Quaternary Geochronology 3, pp. 174-195. PDF

Balco, G., Schaefer, J., 2006. Cosmogenic-nuclide and varve chronologies for the deglaciation of southern New England. Quaternary Geochronology 1, pp. 15-28. PDF

Balco, G., Cowdery, S., Todd, C., Stone, J.O.H., 2006. Antarctic ice sheet reconstruction using cosmic-ray-produced nuclides. in Knight, P., ed., Glaciers and Earth's Changing Environment, pp. 221-223. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK. PDF

Balco, G., Stone, J.O.H., 2005. Measuring middle Pleistocene erosion rates with cosmic-ray-produced nuclides in buried alluvial sediment, Fisher Valley, southeastern Utah. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 30, pp. 1051-1067. PDF

Balco, G., Stone, J.O.H., Mason, J., 2005. Numerical ages for Plio-Pleistocene glacial sediment sequences by Al-26/Be-10 dating of quartz in buried paleosols. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 232, pp. 179-191. PDF

Sugden D., Balco G., Cowdery S., Stone J.O.H., Sass L., 2005. Selective glacial erosion and weathering zones in the coastal mountains of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Geomorphology 67, pp. 317-334. PDF

Balco, G., Stone, J.O.H., Jennings, C., 2005. Dating Plio-Pleistocene glacial sediments using the cosmic-ray-produced radionuclides Be-10 and Al-26. American Journal of Science 305, pp. 1-41. PDF

Balco, G., Rovey, C.W., Stone, J.O.H., 2005. The First Glacial Maximum in North America. Science 307, p. 222. PDF

Stone, J.O.H., Balco, G., Sugden, D., Caffee, M., Sass, L.C. III, Cowdery, S., Siddoway, C., 2003. Holocene deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. Science 299, p. 99. PDF

Balco, G., Stone. J.O.H., Porter, S.C., Caffee, M., 2002. Cosmogenic-nuclide ages for New England coastal moraines, Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews 21, pp. 2127-2135. PDF

Montgomery, D., Balco, G., Willett, S., 2001. Climate, tectonics, and the morphology of the Andes. Geology 29, pp. 579-582. PDF

Dorion, C.C., Balco, G., Kaplan. M.R., Kreutz, K.J., Wright, J., Borns, H.W., 2001. The Deglaciation of Eastern Maine. in Retelle, M. and Weddle, T., eds., Deglacial History and Relative Sea-Level Changes, Northern New England and Adjacent Canada: Geological Society of America Special Paper 351.

Balco, G., Belknap, D.F., and Kelley, J.T., 1998. Glacioisostasy and lake-level change, Moosehead Lake, Maine. Quaternary Research 49, pp. 157-170. PDF

Abstracts of work not published elsewhere

Balco G., Rovey C., 2007. Be-10/Al-26 isochron ages for early and middle Pleistocene advances of the Laurentide Ice Sheet into Missouri. GSA Abstracts with Programs [2007 Annual Meeting], v. 39, no. 6, p. 513. Abstract

Balco, G., 2007. A surprisingly large marine ice cap at Heard Island during the Last Glacial Maximum? in Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World -- Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, editedby A.K. Cooper and C.R. Raymond et al., USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Extended Abstract 147, 4 p. PDF

Putkonen J., Rosales M., Turpen N., Morgan D., Balco G., and Donaldson M., 2007. Regolith transport in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. in Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World -- Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, edited by A. K. Cooper and C. R. Raymond et al. USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Short Research Paper 103. PDF

Balco, G., Anders, A., Finnegan, N., Gran, K., Mitchell, S., Stone, J.O.H., 2002. Be-10 measurements of soil balance and landscape stability in the Pacific Northwest. Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract H22B-0895. PDF poster (large file)

Balco G., Stone J.O.H., Caffee M., Parnachov S., 2000. Cosmogenic-isotope ages for Siberian megafloods, Altai Republic, Russia. GSA Abstracts with Programs [2000 Annual Meeting], v. 32, no. 6, p. 117. More information

Dissertation

Balco G. The sedimentary record of subglacial erosion by the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Washington, 2004. PDF