Alexis Ault

Publications | Abstracts

• Ault, A., Frenzel, M., Reiners, P., Woodcock, N., Thomson, S., (2015). Hematite (U-Th)/He and apatite fission-track dating constrain paleofluid circulation in faults: an example from Gower Peninsula fissure fills, Wales. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2015 *
• Ault, A., Reiners, P.W, Prante, M.R, Evans, J.P, Janecke, S.U, (2013). Dating brittle deformation with hematite (U-Th)/He chronometry: an example from the Wasatch fault zone, Utah. 2013 GSA Annual Meeting in Denver *

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Armstrong, E.M, Ault, A.K, Kaempfer, J.M, Guenthner, W.R, (2024). Connecting visual metamictization to radiation damage to expand applications of zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometry. Chemical Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.121949
• Jensen, J.L, Ault, A.K, Geissman, J.W, (2023). Evaluating the compatibility of hematite (U-Th)/He data and hematite-carried secondary magnetizations: an example from the Colorado Front Range. Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, 24, e2023GC010993. doi: 10.1029/e2023GC010993
• McDermott, R.G, Ault, A.K, Wetzel, K., Evans, J.P, Shen, F., (2023). Microscale spatial variations in coseismic temperature rise on hematite fault mirrors. Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB025069. doi: 10.1029/2022JB025069
• DiMonte, A.A, Ault, A.K, Hirth, G., Bradbury, K., (2022). Hematite accommodated shallow, transient Pleistocene slow slip along the exhumed southern San Andreas fault system, California, USA. Geology, 50, 1443-1447. doi: 10.1130/G50489.1
• Odlum, M., Ault, A.K, Channer, M.A, Calzolari, G., (2022). Seismicity recorded in hematite fault mirrors in the Rio Grande rift. Geosphere, 18, 241-260. doi: 10.1130/GES02426.1
• Armstrong, E.M, Ault, A.K, Bradbury, K., Savage, H.M, Polissar, P., (2022). A multi-proxy approach to robustly capture earthquake temperature rise on the Punchbowl fault, CA. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, e2021GC01029. doi: 10.1029/2021GC010291
• Moser, A.C, Ault, A., Stearns, M.A, Evans, J.P, Guenthner, W.R, (2021). Late Oligocene–Early Miocene Detachment Faulting in Crystalline Basement, Mecca Hills, CA, Documented With Zircon (U–Th)/He Date‐eU‐Visual Radiation Damage Patterns. Tectonics, 40:9, doi: 10.1029/2021TC006809
• Taylor, M.P, Ault, A., Odlum, M.L, Newell, D.L, (2021). Shallow Rupture Propagation of Pleistocene Earthquakes Along the Hurricane Fault, UT, Revealed by Hematite (U-Th)/He Thermochronometry and Textures. Geophysical Research Letters, 48:17
• McDermott, R.G, Ault, A.K, Caine, J.S, (2021). Dating fault damage along the eastern Denali fault zone with hematite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 563, 1116872. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl2021.116872
• Houser, L., Ault, A.K, Newell, D.L, Evans, J.P, Shen, F., Van Devener, B., (2021). Nanoscale textural and geochemical evolution of silica fault mirrors in the Wasatch fault damage zone, Utah, USA. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22:3, doi: 10.1029/2020GC009368
• Cooperdock, E.H, Ault, A., (2020). Fe-oxide (U-Th)/He thermochronology: new perspectives on faults, fluids, and heat. Elements, 16, 319-324.
• Calzolari, G., Ault, A., Hirth, G., McDermott, R.G, (2020). Hematite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry detects asperity flash heating during laboratory earthquakes. Geology, 48, 509-513. doi: 10.1130/G46965.1
• Ault, A., (2020). Hematite fault rock thermochronometry and textures inform fault zone processes. Journal of Structural Geology, 133, 104002. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2020.1004002
• Ault, A.K, Jensen, J.L, McDermott, R.G, Shen, F., van Devener, B.R, (2019). Nanoscale evidence for temperature-induced transient rheology and post-seismic fault healing. Geology, 47, 1203-1207. doi: 10.1130/G46317.1
• Ault, A., Gautheron, C., King, G., (2019). Innovations in (U-Th)/He, fission-track, and trapped-charge thermochronometry with applications to earthquakes, weathering, surface-mantle connections, and growth and decay of mountains. Tectonics, 38:11, 3705-3739. doi: 10.1029/2018TC005312
• McDermott, R.G, Ault, A.K, Caine, J.S, Thomson, S.N, (2019). Thermotectonic history of the Kluane Ranges and evolution of the eastern Denali fault in southwest Yukon, Canada. Tectonics, 38, doi: 10.1029/2019TC005545
• Calzolari, G., Rossetti, F., Ault, A., Lucci, F., Olivetti, V., Nozaem, R., (2018). Hematite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry constrains strike-slip faulting on the Kuh-e-Faghan fault, central Iran. Tectonophysics, 728-729, 41-54. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.01.023
• Jensen, J.L, Siddoway, C.S, Reiners, P.W, Ault, A., Thomson, S.N, (2018). Single-crystal hematite (U-Th)/He dates and fluid inclusions document widespread Cryogenian sand injection in crystalline basement. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 500, 145-155. doi: 10.106/j.epsl.2018.08.021
• DeLucia, M.S, Guenthner, W.R, Marshak, S., Thomson, S.N, Ault, A., (2018). Thermochronology links denudation of the Great Unconformity surface to the supercontinent cycle and snowball Earth. Geology, 46, 167-170. doi: 10.1130/G39525.1
• Ault, A., Guenthner, W.R, Moser, A.C, Miller, G.H, Refsnider, K.A, (2018). Zircon selection reveals (de)coupled metamictization, radiation damage, and He diffusivity. Chemical Geology, 490, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.04.023
• McDermott, R.G, Ault, A., Evans, J.P, Reiners, P.W, (2017). Thermochronometric and textural evidence for seismicity via asperity flash heating on exhumed hematite fault mirrors, Wasatch fault zone, UT, USA. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 471, 85-93. doi: 10.1016:/j.epsl.2017.07.039
• Moser, A.K, Evans, J.P, Ault, A., Janecke, S.U, Bradbury, K., Reiners, P., (2017). U-Th)/He thermochronometry reveals Pleistocene punctuated deformation and synkinematic hematite mineralization in the Mecca Hills, southernmost San Andreas Fault zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 476, 87–99.
• Ault, A., Frenzel, M., Reiners, P.W, Woodcock, N.H, Thomson, S.N, (2016). Record of paleofluid circulation in faults revealed by hematite (U-Th)/He and apatite fission-track dating: an example from Gower Peninsula fissures, Wales. Lithosphere, 8, 379-385.
• Condit, C., Mahan, K., Ault, A., Flowers, R., (2015). Foreland-directed propagation of high-grade tectonism in the deep roots of a Paleoproterozoic collisional orogen, SW Montana, USA. Lithosphere, 7, 625-645.
• Ault, A., Reiners, P.W, Evans, J.P, Thomson, S.N, (2015). Linking hematite (U-Th)/He dating with the microtextural record of seismicity in the Wasatch fault damage zone, Utah, USA. Geology, 43:9, 771–774.
• Ault, A., Flowers, R., Bowring, S., (2015). Synchroneity of cratonic burial phases and gaps in the kimberlite record: Episodic magmatism or preservational bias?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 410, 97-104.
• Evans, J.P, Prante, M.R, Janecke, S.U, Ault, A., Newell, D.L, (2014). Hot faults: Iridescent slip surfaces with metallic luster document high-temperature ancient seismicity in the Wasatch fault zone, Utah, USA. Geology, 42:7, 623–626.
• Ault, A., Flowers, R., Bowring, S., (2013). Phanerozoic surface history of the Slave craton. Tectonics, 32, 1066-1083.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

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