Peer-Reviewed Publications (printed or in press)

Laabs, B.J.C. and Carson, E.C., 2005. Glacial geology of the southern Uinta Mountains, In Dehler, C.M., Pederson, J.L., Sprinkel, D.A., and Kowallis, B.J. (eds.), Uinta Mountain Geology, Utah Geological Association Publication 33, Salt Lake City, Utah, p. 235-253.

Laabs, B.J.C., and Kaufman, D.S., 2003. Quaternary Highstands in Bear Lake Valley, Utah and Idaho: Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 115, no. 4, p. 463-478.

Laabs, B.J.C., Plummer, M.A., and Mickelson, D.M., 2006. Climate during the Last Glacial Maximum in the Wasatch and southern Uinta Mountains inferred from glacier modeling: In Munroe, J.S., Laabs, B.J.C., and Carson, E.C. (eds.), Quaternary Landscape Change and Modern Process in the Western U.S., Elsevier, Amsterdam, in press.

Munroe, J.S., Laabs, B.J.C., Pederson, J.L., and Carson, E.C., 2005: “From cirques to canyon cutting: New Quaternary research in the Uinta Mountains,” in Pederson, J. L., and Dehler, C. M., eds., Interior Western United States: Geological Society of America Field Guide 6, p. 53-78.

Reheis, M.C., Laabs, B.J.C., McGeehin, J.P., Forester, R.M., and Kaufman, D.S., (in press). Surficial Deposits in the Bear Lake Basin: U.S. Geological Survey, Open File Report.

Winguth, C., Mickelson, D.M., Colgan, P.M. and Laabs, B.J.C., 2004. Modeling the Deglaciation of the Green Bay Lobe of the Southern Laurentide Ice Sheet, Boreas, vol. 33, p. 34-47.

Theses

Laabs, B.J.C., 2004. Late Quaternary glacial and paleoclimate history of the southern Uinta Mountains, Utah: Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 162 pp.

Laabs, B.J., 2001. Quaternary Lake-Level Change and Tectonic Geomorphology in Bear Lake Valley, Utah and Idaho: Unpublished M.S. Thesis, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 132 pp.

Laabs, B.J., 1999. Bluff Stratigraphy and Glacial History of the Lake Michigan Shoreline in Northern Sheboygan County, Wisconsin: Senior thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 78 pp.

Abstracts

Laabs, B.J.C., Munroe, J.S., Shakun, J.D., and Caffee, M., 2005. New evidence of synchroneity between deglaciation in the Uinta Mountains and the fall of Lake Bonneville: Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, vol. 37, no. 7, p. 335.

Laabs, B.J.C., Shakun, J.D., Munroe, J.S., Mickelson, D.M., Singer, B.S., and Caffee, M., 2003. Timing of the Last Glacial Maximum in the southern Uinta Mountains: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6.

Laabs, B.J.C., Winguth, C., Mickelson, D.M., Colgan, P.M., and Darter, J.R., 2002. Two-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of an Ontario Lobe Flow Line During the Last Glacial Maximum: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 505.

Laabs, B.J.C., Kaufman, D.S., and Umhoefer, P.J., 2002. Basin-and-Range Tectonics and Quaternary Lake-Level Change in Bear Lake valley, Utah and Idaho: Geology Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 4, p. A-10.

Laabs, B.J., Mickelson, D.M., Colgan, P.M., Winguth, C., Darter, J.R., and Cutler, P.M., 2002. Regional Geologic Data and Numerical Modeling of the Southern Laurentide Ice Sheet: Problems and Promise: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 2, p. A-43.

Laabs, B.J., Kaufman, D.S., and Umhoefer, P.J., 2001. Tectonic geomorphology and late-Quaternary uplift in Bear Lake valley, Utah and Idaho: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 33, no.5, p. A-70.

Laabs, B.J., and Principato, S.M., 1999. Bluff stratigraphy of the Lake Michigan shoreline in northern Sheboygan County, Wisconsin: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 31, no. 5, p. A-29.

Laabs, B.J. and Principato, S.M., 1999. Comparison of Three Techniques for Measuring Fabric in Till in Northeastern Wisconsin: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 31, no. 7, p. A-52.

Carson, E.S., Munroe, J.S., and Laabs, B.J.C., 2005. Radiocarbon constraints on timing of deglaciation and deposition of valley-fill sediments from Dry Gulch, Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah: Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, vol. 37, no. 7, in press.

Carson, E.S., Munroe, J.S., and Laabs, B.J.C., 2003. Post-Glacial Environmental Change in the Uinta Mountains, Utah: Proceedings of the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference.

Shakun, J.D., Munroe, J.S., and Laabs, B.J.C., 2003. Last Glacial Maximum Equilibrium-Line Altitudes and Paleoclimate, Northeastern Utah: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6.

Principato, S.M., Mickelson, D.M., Socha, B., and Laabs, B.J., 1999. Contrasting Glacial Records Between Two Formations in Northeastern Wisconsin: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 31, no. 7, p. A-65.

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