Kathleen B Springer

Biographic Data

ID4131102
NAMEKathleen B Springer
GIVEN NAMESKathleen B
FAMILY NAMESpringer
SIGNATURESPRINGER K B
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Geological Survey
ORCID0000-0002-2404-0264
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The Geochronology of White Sands Locality 2 is Resolved

    Jeffrey S Pigati, Kathleen B Springer et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2024

    Rhode et al. [2024. “Unresolved: Persistent problems with the White Sands Locality 2 Geochronology.” PaleoAmerica] contend there are many “unresolved issues” with the geochronology of White Sands National Park (WHSA) Locality 2. They suggest there are substantial age offsets due to hard-water effects in the aquatic plants that were dated and that radiocarbon ages of pollen may be anomalously old due to reworking. In their view, the luminescence a…

  • Reply to “Evidence for Humans at White Sands National Park during the Last Glacial Maximum Could Actually be for Clovis People ∼13,000 Years Ago” by C. Vance Haynes, Jr

    Jeffrey S Pigati, Kathleen B Springer et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2022

    Bennett et al. (2021, Science 373, 1528–1531) reported that ancient human footprints discovered in White Sands National Park, New Mexico date to between ∼23,000 and 21,000 years ago. Haynes (2022, PaleoAmerica, this issue) proposes two alternate hypotheses to explain the antiquity of the footprints. One is that they were made by humans crossing over older sediments sometime during the Holocene. This is incorrect as there are Pleistocene megafauna…

  • Aeolian sediments in paleowetland deposits of the Las Vegas Formation

    Open AccessHarland L Goldstein, Kathleen B Springer et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2021

    The Las Vegas Formation (LVF) is a well-characterized sequence of groundwater discharge (GWD) deposits exposed in and around the Las Vegas Valley in southern Nevada. Nearly monolithologic bedrock surrounds the valley, which provides an excellent opportunity to test the hypothesis that GWD deposits include an aeolian component. Mineralogical data indicate that the LVF sediments are dominated by carbonate minerals, similar to the local bedrock, but…

  • Oxygen isotopes in terrestrial gastropod shells track Quaternary climate change in the American Southwest

    Open AccessJason A Rech, Jeffrey S Pigati et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2021

    Recent studies have shown the oxygen isotopic composition (δ 18 O) of modern terrestrial gastropod shells is determined largely by the δ 18 O of precipitation. This implies that fossil shells could be used to reconstruct the δ 18 O of paleo-precipitation as long as the isotopic system, including the hydrologic pathways of the local watershed and the gastropod systematics, is well understood. In this study, we measured the δ 18 O values of 456 ind…

  • Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Open AccessMichael James Bennett, David Bustos et al.ARTICLEScience2021

    Early footsteps in the Americas Despite a plethora of archaeological research over the past century, the timing of human migration into the Americas is still far from resolved. In a study of exposed outcrops of Lake Otero in White Sands National Park in New Mexico, Bennett et al . reveal numerous human footprints dating to about 23,000 to 21,000 years ago. These finds indicate the presence of humans in North America for approximately two millenni…

  • Desert wetlands record hydrologic variability within the Younger Dryas chronozone, Mojave Desert, USA

    Open AccessJeffrey S Pigati, Kathleen B Springer et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2019

    One of the enduring questions in the field of paleohydrology is how quickly desert wetland ecosystems responded to past episodes of abrupt climate change. Recent investigations in the Las Vegas Valley of southern Nevada have revealed that wetlands expanded and contracted on millennial and sub-millennial timescales in response to changes in climate during the late Quaternary. Here, we evaluate geologic evidence from multiple localities in the Moja…

  • The Tule Springs local fauna

    Open AccessEric Scott, Kathleen B Springer et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2017

  • Late Pleistocene large mammal faunal dynamics from inland southern California

    Open AccessKathleen B Springer, Kathleen Springer et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2009Cited by: 2References: 4

  • Paleoecology of a Middle Wisconsin Deposit from Southern California

    Open AccessR Scott Anderson, Mitchell J Power et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2002

    Analysis of a buried deposit in the Diamond Valley of southern California has revealed well-preserved pollen, wood, and diatom remains. Accelerator mass spectrometry dates of 41,200±2100 and 41,490±1380 14 C yr B.P. place this deposit in marine isotope stage 3. Diatoms suggest a shallow lacustrine environment. Pollen data suggest that several plant communities were present near the site, with grassland, scrub, chaparral, forest, and riparian comm…