Selected Publications on Methodology and Application of VML Dating

  1. Bell, J.W., Brune, J.N., Liu, T., Zreda, M., and Yount, J.C., 1998. Dating precariously balanced rocks in seismically active parts of California and Nevada. Geology 26, 495-498.[pdf]

  2. Broecker, W.S., and Liu, T., 2001. Rock varnish: recorder of desert wetness? GSA Today 11 (8), 4-10.[pdf]

  3. Dickerson, R.P., Forman, A., and Liu, T., 2012. Co-development of alluvial fan surfaces and arid botanical communities, Stonewall Flat, Nevada, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.3336. [pdf]

  4. Fleisher, M., Liu, T., Broecker, W.S., and Moore, W., 1999. A clue regarding the origin of rock varnish. Geophysical Research Letters 26 (1), 103-106.[pdf]

  5. Liu, T., and Broecker, W.S., 2000. How fast does rock varnish grow? Geology 28, 183-186.[pdf]

  6. Liu, T., Broecker, W.S., Bell, J.W., and Mandeville, C.W., 2000. Terminal Pleistocene wet event recorded in rock varnish from Las Vegas Valley, southern Nevada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 161, 423-433.[pdf]

  7. Liu, T., 2003. Blind testing of rock varnish microstratigraphy as a chronometric indicator: results on late Quaternary lava flows in the Mojave Desert, California. Geomorphology 53, 209-234.[pdf]

  8. Liu, T., and Broecker, W.S., 2007. Holocene rock varnish microstratigraphy and its chronometric application in the drylands of western USA. Geomorphology 84, 1-21.[pdf]

  9. Liu, T., and Broecker, W.S., 2008. Rock varnish microlamination dating of late Quaternary geomorphic features in the drylands of western USA. Geomorphology 93, 501-523.[pdf]

  10. Liu, T., and Broecker, W.S., 2008. Rock varnish evidence for latest Pleistocene millennial-scale wet events in the drylands of western United States. Geology 36, 403-406.[pdf]

  11. Liu, T., and Broecker, W.S., 2013. Millennial-scale varnish microlamination dating of late Pleistocene geomorphic features in the drylands of western USA. Geomorphology 187, 38-60.[pdf]

  12. Liu, T., Broecker, W.S., and Stein, M., 2013. Rock varnish evidence for a Younger Dryas wet period in the Dead Sea basin. Geophysical Research Letters 40, 2229-2235.[pdf]

  13. Liu, T., and Dorn, R.I., 1996. Understanding spatial variability in environmental changes in drylands with rock varnish microlaminations. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 86, 187-212.[pdf]

  14. Marston, R.A., 2003. Editorial note. Geomorphology 53, 197.[pdf]

  15. Moore, W.S., Liu, T., Broecker, Finkel, R.C., and Wright, A., 2001. Factors influencing Be-7 accumulation on rock varnish. Geophysical Research Letters 28, 4475-4478.[pdf]

  16. Phillips, F.M., 2003. Cosmogenic Cl-36 ages of Quaternary basalt flows in the Mojave desert, California, USA. Geomorphology 53, 199-208.[pdf]

  17. Stirling, M., Ledgerwood, J., Liu, T., and Apted, M., 2010. Age of unstable bedrock landforms southwest of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, and implications for past ground motions. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 100, 74-86. [pdf]