publications
Denotes ¨postdoctoral, *graduate, and **undergraduate mentees
38. *DiMonte, A.A, Ault, A.K., Hirth, G., Meyers, C., submitted., Hematite frictional behavior and He loss during slow slip deformation experiments, to be submitted to JGR – Solid Earth.
37. *Jensen, J.L., Ault, A.K., Geissman, J.W., in revision, Evaluating the compatibility of hematite paleomagnetic and (U-Th)/He data: an example from the Front Range of Colorado, to be submitted to Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
36. *Armstrong, E.M., Ault, A.K., ¨Kaempfer, J.M., Guenthner, W.R, in review, Connecting visual metamictization to radiation damage to expand applications of zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometry, Chemical Geology.
35. *McDermott, R.G., Ault, A.K., **Wetzel, K., Evans, J.P., Shen, F-A., 2023, Microscale spatial variations in coseismic temperature rise on hematite fault mirrors, JGR – Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2022JB025069.
34. *DiMonte, A.A, Ault, A.K., Hirth, G., Bradbury, K.K, 2022, Hematite accommodated shallow, transient Pleistocene slow slip along the exhumed southern San Andreas fault system, California, USA, Geology, v. 50, 1443-1447, doi: 10.1130/G50489.1
33. ¨Odlum, M.L., Rittenour, T., Ault, A.K., Nelson, M., Ramos, E., 2022, Investigation of quartz luminescence properties in bedrock faults: fault slip processes reduce trap depths, lifetimes, and sensitivity, Radiation Measurements, v. 155, 106784, doi:10.1016/j.radmeas.2022.106784.
32. *Armstrong, E.M., Ault, A.K., Bradbury, K.K., Savage, H.M., Thomson, S.N., 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.
31. ¨Odlum, M.L., Ault, A.K., *Channer, M.A., ¨Calzolari, G., 2022, Seismicity recorded on hematite fault mirrors in the Rio Grande rift, Geosphere, v. 18, p. 241-260, doi:10.1130/GES02426.1
30. Provow, A.W., Newell, D.L., Dehler, C.M., Ault, A.K., Yonkee, W.A., Thomson, S.N., Mahan, K.H., 2022, Revised maximum depositional age for the Ediacaran Browns Hole Formation: Implications for western Laurentia Neoproterozoic stratigraphy, Lithosphere, doi: 10.2113/1757114.
29. *Moser, A.C., Ault, A.K., 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, v. 40, doi: 10.1029/2021TC006809.
28. **Taylor, M.P, Ault, A.K., ¨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, v. 48, e2021GL094379, doi: 10.1029/2021GL094379.
27. *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, v. 563, 1116872, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl2021.116872.
26. *Houser, L.M., Ault, A.K., Newell, D.L., Evans, J.P., Shen, F.-A., Van Devener, B.R., 2021, Nanoscale textural and geochemical evolution of silica fault mirrors in the Wasatch fault damage zone, Utah, USA, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 22, doi:10.1029/2020GC009368.
25. Cooperdock, E.H.G., and Ault, A.K., 2020, Fe-oxide (U-Th)/He thermochronology: new perspectives on faults, fluids, and heat, invited review article, Elements, v. 16, p. 319-324.
24. ¨Calzolari, G., Ault, A.K., Hirth, G.E., *McDermott, R.G., 2020, Hematite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry detects asperity flash heating during laboratory earthquakes, Geology, v. 48, p. 509-513, doi: 10.1130/G46965.1.
23. Ault, A.K., 2020, Hematite fault rock thermochronometry and textures inform fault zone processes, invited review article, Journal of Structural Geology, v. 133, p. 104002, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2020.1004002.
22. Ault, A.K., **Jensen, J.L., *McDermott, R.G., Shen, F-A., Van Devener, B.R., 2019, Nanoscale evidence for temperature-induced transient rheology and post-seismic fault healing, Geology, v. 47, p. 1203-1207, doi:10.1130/G46317.1
21. Ault, A.K., 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, invited review article for AGU Centennial, Tectonics, v. 38, p. 3705-3739, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005312.
20. *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 zone in southwest Yukon, Canada, Tectonics, v. 38, p. 2983-3010, doi: 10.1029/2019TC005545.
19. **Jensen, J.L., Siddoway, C.S., Reiners, P.W., Ault, A.K., Thomson, S.N., Steele-MacInnis, M., 2018, Single-crystal hematite (U-Th)/He dates and fluid inclusions document widespread Cryogenian sand injection in crystalline basement, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 500, p. 145-155, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.08.021.
18. Ault, A.K., 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, v. 490, p. 1-12, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.04.023.
17. ¨Calzolari, G., Rossetti, F., Ault, A.K., 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, v. 728-729, p. 41-54, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.01.023.
16. Huntington, K.W., and Klepeis, K.A., with 66 community contributors, 2018, Challenges and opportunities for research in tectonics: Understanding deformation and the processes that link Earth systems, from geologic time to human time. A community vision document submitted to the U.S. National Science Foundation. University of Washington, 84 pp., doi: 10.6069/H52R3PQ5.
15. DeLucia, M.S., Guenthner, W.R., Marshak, S., Thomson, S.N., Ault A.K., 2018, Thermochronology links denudation of the Great Unconformity surface to the supercontinent cycle and snowball Earth, Geology, v. 46, p. 167-170, doi: 10.1130/G39525.1.
14. *Moser, A.C, Evans, J.P., Ault, A.K., Janecke, S.U., Bradbury, K.K., 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, v. 476, p. 87-99, doi: 10.1016:/j.epsl.2017.07.039.
13. *McDermott, R.G., Ault, A.K., 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, v. 471, p. 85-93, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.04.020.
12. Ault, A.K., Frenzel, M., Reiners, P.W., Woodcock, N.H., and 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 fault fissures, Wales, Lithosphere, v. 8, p. 379-385, doi: 10.1130/L522.1.
11. Condit, C., Mahan, K.M., Ault, A.K., and Flowers, R.M., 2015, Foreland-directed propagation of highgrade tectonism in the deep roots of a Paleoproterozoic collisional orogen, SW Montana, USA, Lithosphere, v. 7, p. 625-645, doi: 10.1130/L460.1.
10. Ault, A.K., Reiners, P.W., Evans, J.P., and Thomson, S.N., 2015, Linking hematite (U-Th)/He dating with the microtextural record of seismicity in the Wasatch fault damage zone, Utah, Geology, v. 43, p. 771-774, doi: 10.1130/G36897.1.
9. Ault, A.K., Flowers, R.M., and Bowring, S.A., 2015, Synchroneity of cratonic burial phases and gaps in the kimberlite record: episodic magmatism or preservational bias? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 410, p. 97-104, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.11.017.
8. Evans, J.P, Prante, M.R., Janecke, S.U., Ault, A.K., and Newell, D.L., 2014, Hot faults: Iridescent slip surfaces with metallic luster document high-temperature ancient seismicity in the Wasatch fault zone, Geology, v. 42, p. 623-626, doi: 10.1130/G35617.1.
7. Ault, A.K., Flowers, R.M., and Bowring, S.A., 2013, Phanerozoic surface history of the Slave craton: Tectonics, v. 32, p. 1066-1083, doi: 10.1002/tect.20069.
6. Ault, A.K., Flowers, R.M., and Mahan, K.H., 2012, Quartz shielding of sub-10 um zircons from radiation damage-enhanced Pb loss: an example from a metamorphosed mafic dike, northwestern Wyoming craton: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 339-340, p. 57-66, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.025.
5. Flowers, R.M., Ault, A.K., Kelley, S.A., Zhang, N., and Zhong, S., 2012, Epeirogeny or Eustasy? Paleozoic-Mesozoic vertical motion of the North American continental interior from thermochronometry and implications for mantle dynamics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 317-318, p. 436-445, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.015.
4. Ault, A.K., and Flowers, R.M., 2012, Is apatite U-Th zonation information necessary for accurate interpretation of apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry data?, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 79, 60-78, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.11.037.
3. Ault, A.K., Flowers, R.M., and Bowring, S.A., 2009, Phanerozoic burial and unroofing of the western Slave craton and Wopmay orogen from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 284, p. 1-11, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.035.
2. Ault, A.K. and Selverstone, J., 2008, Microtextural constraints on the interplay between fluid-rock reactions and deformation, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 156, 501-515, doi:10.1007/s00410-008-0298-9.
1. Wawrzyniec, T.F, Ault, A.K., Geissman, J.W., Erslev, E.A., and Fankhauser, S.D., 2007, Paleomagnetic dating of fault slip in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA, and its importance to an integrated Laramide foreland strain field, Geosphere, v. 3, p. 16-25, doi: 10.1130/GES00066.1.
Denotes ¨postdoctoral, *graduate, and **undergraduate mentees
38. *DiMonte, A.A, Ault, A.K., Hirth, G., Meyers, C., submitted., Hematite frictional behavior and He loss during slow slip deformation experiments, to be submitted to JGR – Solid Earth.
37. *Jensen, J.L., Ault, A.K., Geissman, J.W., in revision, Evaluating the compatibility of hematite paleomagnetic and (U-Th)/He data: an example from the Front Range of Colorado, to be submitted to Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
36. *Armstrong, E.M., Ault, A.K., ¨Kaempfer, J.M., Guenthner, W.R, in review, Connecting visual metamictization to radiation damage to expand applications of zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometry, Chemical Geology.
35. *McDermott, R.G., Ault, A.K., **Wetzel, K., Evans, J.P., Shen, F-A., 2023, Microscale spatial variations in coseismic temperature rise on hematite fault mirrors, JGR – Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2022JB025069.
34. *DiMonte, A.A, Ault, A.K., Hirth, G., Bradbury, K.K, 2022, Hematite accommodated shallow, transient Pleistocene slow slip along the exhumed southern San Andreas fault system, California, USA, Geology, v. 50, 1443-1447, doi: 10.1130/G50489.1
33. ¨Odlum, M.L., Rittenour, T., Ault, A.K., Nelson, M., Ramos, E., 2022, Investigation of quartz luminescence properties in bedrock faults: fault slip processes reduce trap depths, lifetimes, and sensitivity, Radiation Measurements, v. 155, 106784, doi:10.1016/j.radmeas.2022.106784.
32. *Armstrong, E.M., Ault, A.K., Bradbury, K.K., Savage, H.M., Thomson, S.N., 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.
31. ¨Odlum, M.L., Ault, A.K., *Channer, M.A., ¨Calzolari, G., 2022, Seismicity recorded on hematite fault mirrors in the Rio Grande rift, Geosphere, v. 18, p. 241-260, doi:10.1130/GES02426.1
30. Provow, A.W., Newell, D.L., Dehler, C.M., Ault, A.K., Yonkee, W.A., Thomson, S.N., Mahan, K.H., 2022, Revised maximum depositional age for the Ediacaran Browns Hole Formation: Implications for western Laurentia Neoproterozoic stratigraphy, Lithosphere, doi: 10.2113/1757114.
29. *Moser, A.C., Ault, A.K., 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, v. 40, doi: 10.1029/2021TC006809.
28. **Taylor, M.P, Ault, A.K., ¨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, v. 48, e2021GL094379, doi: 10.1029/2021GL094379.
27. *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, v. 563, 1116872, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl2021.116872.
26. *Houser, L.M., Ault, A.K., Newell, D.L., Evans, J.P., Shen, F.-A., Van Devener, B.R., 2021, Nanoscale textural and geochemical evolution of silica fault mirrors in the Wasatch fault damage zone, Utah, USA, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 22, doi:10.1029/2020GC009368.
25. Cooperdock, E.H.G., and Ault, A.K., 2020, Fe-oxide (U-Th)/He thermochronology: new perspectives on faults, fluids, and heat, invited review article, Elements, v. 16, p. 319-324.
24. ¨Calzolari, G., Ault, A.K., Hirth, G.E., *McDermott, R.G., 2020, Hematite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry detects asperity flash heating during laboratory earthquakes, Geology, v. 48, p. 509-513, doi: 10.1130/G46965.1.
23. Ault, A.K., 2020, Hematite fault rock thermochronometry and textures inform fault zone processes, invited review article, Journal of Structural Geology, v. 133, p. 104002, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2020.1004002.
22. Ault, A.K., **Jensen, J.L., *McDermott, R.G., Shen, F-A., Van Devener, B.R., 2019, Nanoscale evidence for temperature-induced transient rheology and post-seismic fault healing, Geology, v. 47, p. 1203-1207, doi:10.1130/G46317.1
21. Ault, A.K., 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, invited review article for AGU Centennial, Tectonics, v. 38, p. 3705-3739, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005312.
20. *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 zone in southwest Yukon, Canada, Tectonics, v. 38, p. 2983-3010, doi: 10.1029/2019TC005545.
19. **Jensen, J.L., Siddoway, C.S., Reiners, P.W., Ault, A.K., Thomson, S.N., Steele-MacInnis, M., 2018, Single-crystal hematite (U-Th)/He dates and fluid inclusions document widespread Cryogenian sand injection in crystalline basement, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 500, p. 145-155, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.08.021.
18. Ault, A.K., 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, v. 490, p. 1-12, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.04.023.
17. ¨Calzolari, G., Rossetti, F., Ault, A.K., 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, v. 728-729, p. 41-54, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.01.023.
16. Huntington, K.W., and Klepeis, K.A., with 66 community contributors, 2018, Challenges and opportunities for research in tectonics: Understanding deformation and the processes that link Earth systems, from geologic time to human time. A community vision document submitted to the U.S. National Science Foundation. University of Washington, 84 pp., doi: 10.6069/H52R3PQ5.
15. DeLucia, M.S., Guenthner, W.R., Marshak, S., Thomson, S.N., Ault A.K., 2018, Thermochronology links denudation of the Great Unconformity surface to the supercontinent cycle and snowball Earth, Geology, v. 46, p. 167-170, doi: 10.1130/G39525.1.
14. *Moser, A.C, Evans, J.P., Ault, A.K., Janecke, S.U., Bradbury, K.K., 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, v. 476, p. 87-99, doi: 10.1016:/j.epsl.2017.07.039.
13. *McDermott, R.G., Ault, A.K., 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, v. 471, p. 85-93, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.04.020.
12. Ault, A.K., Frenzel, M., Reiners, P.W., Woodcock, N.H., and 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 fault fissures, Wales, Lithosphere, v. 8, p. 379-385, doi: 10.1130/L522.1.
11. Condit, C., Mahan, K.M., Ault, A.K., and Flowers, R.M., 2015, Foreland-directed propagation of highgrade tectonism in the deep roots of a Paleoproterozoic collisional orogen, SW Montana, USA, Lithosphere, v. 7, p. 625-645, doi: 10.1130/L460.1.
10. Ault, A.K., Reiners, P.W., Evans, J.P., and Thomson, S.N., 2015, Linking hematite (U-Th)/He dating with the microtextural record of seismicity in the Wasatch fault damage zone, Utah, Geology, v. 43, p. 771-774, doi: 10.1130/G36897.1.
9. Ault, A.K., Flowers, R.M., and Bowring, S.A., 2015, Synchroneity of cratonic burial phases and gaps in the kimberlite record: episodic magmatism or preservational bias? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 410, p. 97-104, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.11.017.
8. Evans, J.P, Prante, M.R., Janecke, S.U., Ault, A.K., and Newell, D.L., 2014, Hot faults: Iridescent slip surfaces with metallic luster document high-temperature ancient seismicity in the Wasatch fault zone, Geology, v. 42, p. 623-626, doi: 10.1130/G35617.1.
7. Ault, A.K., Flowers, R.M., and Bowring, S.A., 2013, Phanerozoic surface history of the Slave craton: Tectonics, v. 32, p. 1066-1083, doi: 10.1002/tect.20069.
6. Ault, A.K., Flowers, R.M., and Mahan, K.H., 2012, Quartz shielding of sub-10 um zircons from radiation damage-enhanced Pb loss: an example from a metamorphosed mafic dike, northwestern Wyoming craton: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 339-340, p. 57-66, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.025.
5. Flowers, R.M., Ault, A.K., Kelley, S.A., Zhang, N., and Zhong, S., 2012, Epeirogeny or Eustasy? Paleozoic-Mesozoic vertical motion of the North American continental interior from thermochronometry and implications for mantle dynamics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 317-318, p. 436-445, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.015.
4. Ault, A.K., and Flowers, R.M., 2012, Is apatite U-Th zonation information necessary for accurate interpretation of apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry data?, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 79, 60-78, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.11.037.
3. Ault, A.K., Flowers, R.M., and Bowring, S.A., 2009, Phanerozoic burial and unroofing of the western Slave craton and Wopmay orogen from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 284, p. 1-11, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.035.
2. Ault, A.K. and Selverstone, J., 2008, Microtextural constraints on the interplay between fluid-rock reactions and deformation, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 156, 501-515, doi:10.1007/s00410-008-0298-9.
1. Wawrzyniec, T.F, Ault, A.K., Geissman, J.W., Erslev, E.A., and Fankhauser, S.D., 2007, Paleomagnetic dating of fault slip in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA, and its importance to an integrated Laramide foreland strain field, Geosphere, v. 3, p. 16-25, doi: 10.1130/GES00066.1.