Luis González

PhD, University of Michigan, 1989.
Department Chairperson, Professor
120 Lindley Hall; Phone: (785) 864-4974, e-mail:

A significant portion of my current research emphasizes the utilization of the isotopic composition, mineralogy, growth history and growth patterns of speleothems (cave formations such as stalagmites, stalactites, and flowstone) to extract paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental signals. Research has been conducted in the North American Midwest (Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), Asia (Vietnam and Nepal), and the Caribbean (Jamaica, Puerto Rico). Current research efforts focus on northern South America.

 

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Representative Publications

  1. Suarez, M. B., Gonzalez, L.A., and Ludvigson G.A., 2011, Quantification of a greenhouse hydrologic cycle from equatorial to polar latitudes: the mid-Cretaceous water bearer revisited: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 307, p. 301-312.
  2. Crowe, S.A., Katsev, S., Leslie, K., Sturm, A., Magen, C., Nomosatryo, S., Reeburgh, W., Roberts, J.A., Gonzalez, L., Mucci, A., Sundby, B., and Fowle, D., 2011, The methane cycle in tropical Lake Matano: Methanogenesis, methane accumulation, and anaerobic methane oxidation. Geobiology, v. 9, p. 61-78, DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00257.x.
  3. Ludvigson, G. A., Joeckel, R. M., Gonzalez, L. A., Gulbranson, E. L., Rasbury, E. T., Hunt, G. J., Kirkland, J. I., and Madsen, S., 2010, Correlation of Aptian-Albian carbon isotope excursions in continental strata of the Cretaceous foreland basin of eastern Utah: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v.80, p.955-974. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2010.086
  4. Driese, S. G., Ludvigson, G. A., Roberts, J. A., Fowle, D. A., González, L. A., Smith, J. J., Vulava, V. M., and McKay, L. D., 2010, Micromorphology and Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Historical Pedogenic Siderite Formed in PAH-Contaminated Alluvial Clay Soils, Tennessee, USA: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v.80, p.943-954. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2010.087.
  5. Suarez, M. B., González, L. A., and Ludvigson, G. A., 2010, Estimating the oxygen isotopic composition of equatorial precipitation during the mid-Cretaceous: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v.80, p.480-491. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2010.048 
  6. Suarez, C.A., Macpherson, G. L., González, L.A., Grandstaff, D.E., 2010, Heterogeneous rare earth element (REE) patterns and concentrations in a fossil bone: implications for the use of REE in vertebrate taphonomy and fossilization history: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 74, p. 2970-2988.  doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.02.023.
  7. Ludvigson, G. A., Witzke, B. J., Joeckel, R. M., Ravn, R. L., Phillips Jr., P. L., González, L. A., and Brenner, R. L., 2010, New insights on the sequence stratigraphic architecture of the Dakota Formation in Kansas-Nebraska-Iowa from a decade of sponsored research activity: Kansas Geological Survey, Current Research in Earth Sciences, Bulletin v. 258, 41p. (http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Current/2010/Ludvigson/index.html)
  8. Kenward, P. A., Goldstein, R. H., González, L. A., and Roberts, J. A., 2009, Precipitation of low-temperature dolomite from an anaerobic microbial consortium: the role of methanogenic Archaea: Geobiology, v. 7, p. 1-10. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00210.x
  9. DeChoudens-Sánchez, V. and Gonzalez, L. A., 2009, Calcite and aragonite precipitation under controlled instantaneous supersaturation: elucidating the role of CaCO3 saturation state and Mg/Ca ratio on calcium carbonate polymorphism: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 79, p.363-376.  doi: 10.2110/jsr.2009.043
  10. Suarez, M. B., González, L. A., Ludvigson, G. A., Vega, F. J. and Alvarado-Ortega, J., 2009, Isotopic composition of low-latitude paleo-precipitation during the early Cretaceous: GSA Bulletin, v. 121, p. 1584-1596.

 


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