Selected Research Publications (last 8 years)
Smith, Eugene, Jacobs, Zenobia; Johnsen, Racheal; Ren, Minghua; Fisher, Erich C.; Oestmo, Simen; Wilkins, Jayne; Harris, Jacob; Karkanas, Panagiotis; Fitch, Shelby; Ciravolo, Amber; Keenan, Deborah; Cleghorn, Naomi; Lane, Christine; Matthews, Thalassa; Marean, Curtis W., 2018, Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago: Nature, doi:10.1038/nature25967
Valentine, G.A., Cortés, J.A., Widom, E., Smith, E.I., Rasoazanamparany, C., Johnsen, R., Briner, J.P., Harp, A.G., 2017. Lunar Crater volcanic field (Reveille and Pancake Ranges, Basin and Range Province, Nevada, USA). Geosphere, 13, 391-438, http://doi.org/10.1130/GES01428.1.
Smith, E.I., Tibbetts, Ashley, Belmontes, Hugo, Johnsen, Racheal, Walker, J.D., 2016, Pliocene basaltic and rhyolitic volcanism in the Greenwater Range, Death Valley, California: Proceedings of the Death Valley Natural History Association.
Cortes, J.A., Smith, E.I., Valentine, G.A., Johnsen, R., Rasoazanamparany, C., Widom, E., Sas, May, Ruth, D., 2015, Intrinsic conditions of magmas from Lunar Crater volcanic field (Nevada): implications for internal plumbing and magma ascent: American Mineralogist, v. 100, p. 396-413.
Balmer, M.D., Conrad, C.P., Smith, E.I., Johnsen, R., 2015, Intraplate volcanism at the edges of the Colorado Plateau sustained by a combination of edge-driven convection and shear-driven upwelling: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16, doi:10.1002/2014GC005641
Rasoazanamparany, C., Widom, E., Valentine, G.A., Smith, E.I., Cortes, J.A., Kuentz, D., Johnsen, R., 2015, Multi-Isotopic Study of the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field, Nevada: Implications for Petrogenesis and Mantle Source Characteristics: Chemical Geology, v. 397m p. 76-93.
Johnsen, R., Smith, E.I., and Walker, J.D., 2014, The 2.7–2.1 Ma Twin Peaks caldera—stratigraphy and petrogenesis, in MacLean, J.S., Biek, R.F., and Huntoon, J.E., editors, Geology of Utah’s Far South: Utah Geological Association Publication 43, p. 617–638.
Rager, A., Smith, E., Scheu, B., Dingwell, D., 2014, The effects of water vaporization on rock fragmentation during rapid decompression: Implications for the formation of fluidized ejecta on Mars: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 385, p. 68-78.
Simon, Adam, Yogodzinski, G.Y., Robertson, Kelly, Smith, Eugene I., Kiryukhin, Alexey V., Selyangin, Oleg, Mulcahy, Sean R., Walker, J. Douglas, 2014, The Evolution of Mutnovsky Volcano, Kamchatka: Insights through Geochemical Modeling and Thermobarometry: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 286, p. 116-137.
Robertson, K., Simon, A., Pettke, T., Smith, E., Selyangin, O., Kiryukhin, A., Mulcahy, S.R., Walker, J.D, 2013, Melt Inclusion Evidence for Magma Evolution at Mutnovsky Volcano, Kamchatka: Geofluids, doi: 10.1111/gfl.12060.
Ballmer, M.D., C.P. Conrad, E.I. Smith, and N. Harmon, 2013, Non-hotspot volcano chains produced by migration of shear-driven upwelling toward the East Pacific Rise, Geology, Geology-2013-Ballmer-G33804.1 R
Barker, D.S., Thompson, K.G., Smith, E.I., and McDowell, F.W., 2012, Disequilibrium crystal-liquid processes at Hamblin-Cleopatra volcano, Lake Mead area, Nevada: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 237-238, p. 42-53.
Conrad, C.P., Bianco, T.A., Smith, E.I., and Wessel, Paul, 2011, Patterns of intraplate volcanism controlled by asthenospheric shear: Nature Geoscience, v. 4, doi: 10.1038/NGEO1111. pdf copy ngeo1111
Bianco, T.A., Conrad, C.P., and Smith, E.I., 2011, Time dependence of intraplate volcanism caused by shear-driven upwelling of low-viscosity regions within the asthenosphere: Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 116, B11103, 17 PP., doi:10.1029/2011JB008270.
Johnsen, Racheal, Smith, E.I., Biek, R., 2010, Subalkaline volcanism in the Black Rock Desert and Markagunt Plateau volcanic fields of south-central Utah: in Carney, S.M., Tabet, D.E., and Johnson, C.L., (eds.), Geology of South-Central Utah, Utah Geological Association Publication 39, p. 109-150.
Conrad, C.P., Wu, Benjun, Smith, E.I., Bianco, Todd, Tibbetts, Ashley, 2010, Shear-Driven Upwelling Induced by Lateral Viscosity Variations and Asthenospheric Shear: A Mechanism for Intraplate Volcanism: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, doi: 10:1016/j.pepi2009.10.101.
