Publications

In Review

• [11] Ferguson, G., Bailey, L. R., Kim, J.-H., Osburn, M. R., Reiners, P. W., Drake, H., Stevenson, B. S., and McIntosh, J. C. (submitted) "Acceleration of Deep Subsurface Fluid Fluxes in the Anthropocene". Nature Geoscience.

• [10] Lucero, D., Bailey, L. R., Kim, J.-H., Voller, V., Hughes, A., Krantz, R., Lingrey, S., Barton, M. D., Barton, I., Reiners, P. W., McIntosh, J., Neuzil, C., Thorson, J., and Person, M. (in review) “Influence of internal fluid production on red bed bleaching in the Paradox Basin”. Journal of Economic Geology.

Published

• [9] Bailey, L. R., Reiners, P. W., Ferguson, G., McIntosh, J., Kim, J-H., and Hemming, S. R. (in production) “Subsurface fluid flow driven by rapid erosional exhumation of the Colorado Plateau”. Geosphere.

• [8] Person, M., McIntosh, J., Kim, J. -H., Noyes, C., Bailey, L. R., Lingrey, S., Krantz, R., Lucero, D., Reiners, P. W., and Ferguson, G. (2024) “Hydrologic windows into the crystalline basement and their controls on groundwater flow patterns across the Paradox Basin, western USA”. GSA Bulletin.  https://doi.org/10.1130/B37063.1.

• [7] McIntosh, J. C., Kim, J.-H., Bailey, L. R., Osburn, M., Drake, H., Martini, A., Reiners, P. W., Stevenson, B., and Ferguson, G. (2023) “Burial and Denudation Alter Microbial Life at the Bottom of the Hypo-Critical Zone”. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. https://doi. org/10.1029/2022GC010831

• [6] Bailey, L. R., Drake, H., Whitehouse, M., and Reiners, P. W. (2022) “Characteristics and consequences of red bed bleaching by hydrocarbon migration: A natural example from the Entrada sandstone, southern Utah”. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010465

• [5] Kim, J., Ferguson, G., Person, M., Jiang, W., Lu, Z., Ritterbusch, F., Yang, G., Tyne, R., Bailey, L. R., Ballentine, C. J., Reiners, P. W., and McIntosh, J. C. (2022) “Kyrpton-81 dating constrains timing of deep groundwater flow activation”. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL097618. https://doi. org/10.1029/2021GL097618

• [4] Kim, J., Bailey, L. R., Noyes, C., Tyne, R., Ballentine, C., Person, M., Ma, L., Barton, M., Barton, I., Reiners, P. W., Ferguson, G., and McIntosh, J. (2022) “Hydrogeochemical Evolution of Formation Waters Responsible for Sandstone Bleaching and Ore Mineralization in The Paradox Basin”. GSA Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36078.1

• [3] Bailey, L.R., Kirk, J., Hemming, S. R., Krantz, R. W., and Reiners, P. W. (2022) “Eocene fault-controlled fluid flow and mineralization in the Paradox Basin”. Geology, 50(3), 326-330, https://doi.org/10.1130/G49466.1

• [2] Bailey, L. R., Schenker, F. L., Fellin, M. G., Cobianchi, M., Adatte, T., and Picotti, V. (2020) “Birth and closure of the Kallipetra Basin: Late Cretaceous reworking of the Jurassic Pelagonian – Axios/Vardar contact (northern Greece)”. Solid Earth, 11, 2463-2485. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-2463-2020

• [1] Bailey, L. R., Portnoy, S. E., Prescott, A. B. (2020) “Learning from the lockdown: the silver-linings of a virtual conference”, GSA Today, 30(9), 44-45, https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG468GW.1

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Manuscripts in Preparation

• Person, M., Bailey, L. R., Krantz, R., Lingrey, S., Barton, M., Barton, I., Thorson, J., Reiners, P., McIntosh, J., Ferguson, G., & Lucero, D. "Hydrologic Constraints on Lisbon Valley Eocene Copper Mineralization within the Paradox Basin". Hydrogeology. 

• Bailey, L. R., Ault, A. K., Hemming, S., & DiMonte, A. A. "What can clay minerals tell us about fault mechanics and deformation during the earthqyake cycle? Insights from the Hidden Spring fault".

Talks & Published Abstracts

• Bailey, L. R., Ault, A. L., Hemming, S., DiMonte, A. A., & Hirth, G. INVITED (Dec 2023) "Can Clay Minerals Record the Dates and Rates of Deformation during Earthquake Cycles?". AGU 2023 Fall Meeting.

• McIntosh, J., Kim, J.-H., Bailey, L. R., Osburn, M. R., Drake, H., Watkins, J., Martini, A. M., Shah, M., Reiners, P. W., Stevenson, B., & Ferguson, G. (Dec 2023) "Microbe-Rock-Fluid Interactions at the Bottom of the Kilometers-Deep Critical Zone". AGU 2023 Fall Meeting. 

• Ferguson, G., Reiners, P. W., Osburn, M. R., Bailey, L. R., Stevenson, B., Drake, H., & McIntosh, J. (Dec 2023) "The Anthropocene in the Deep Subsurface". AGU 2023 Fall Meeting.

• Bailey, L. R., Ault, A. K., Hemming, S., DiMonte, A. A., & Hirth, G. (Sep 2023) "What can clay minerals tell us about fault mechanics and deformation during the earthqyake cycle? Insights from the Hidden Spring fault". Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting.

• Bailey, L. R. INVITED (May, 2023) “Dates, rates, & traces of paleofluid flow & deformation”. Utah State University, Special Seminar Talk.

• Bailey, L. R. INVITED (Mar, 2023) “Dates, rates, & traces of paleofluid flow & deformation”. University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences Seminar Talk.

• Bailey, L. R., Ferguson, G., McIntosh, J., Hemming, S., & Reiners, P. W. (Oct, 2022) “Pliocene subsurface fluid flow driven by rapid erosional exhumation of the Colorado Plateau”. Geological Society of America 2022 Annual Meeting in Denver.

• Everard, J., Cox, S., Chen, H., Coffey, G., Bailey, L. R., Hemming, S., Liu, T., Polissar, P., Savage, H., & Winckler, G. (Oct, 2022) “Clay separation and X-ray diffraction for refined K/Ar dating of fault motion on the creeping central section of the San Andreas Fault”. Geological Society of America 2022 Annual Meeting in Denver.

• McIntosh, J., Kim, J.-H., Bailey, L. R., Watkins, J., Martini, A., Reiners, P. W., Osburn, M., Drake, H., & Ferguson, G. (Oct, 2022) “Burial and denudation alter microbial life at the bottom of the kilometers-deep critical zone”. Geological Society of America 2022 Annual Meeting in Denver.

• Bailey, L.R. INVITED (Dec, 2021) “Unexpected ages: How subsurface paleo-fluid flow has evolved in the Paradox Basin”. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Geochemistry Seminar.

• Everard, J., Cox, S., Coffey, G., Bailey, L. R., Savage, H., Chen, H., Hemming, S., Liu, T., Polissar, P., & Winckler, G. (Dec, 2021) “Creeping Closer: Clay Separation and X-ray Diffraction for Refined K/Ar Dating of Fault Motion on the Creeping Central Section of the San Andreas Fault”. AGU 2021 Fall Meeting.

• Bailey, L. R., Kirk, J., Hemming, S.R., Krantz, R.W., Reiners, P.W., (May 2021) “Timing & drivers of large-scale paleo-fluid flow revealed by geochronology”. GeoDaze Department of Geoscience Symposium, University of Arizona.

• Bailey, L. R. INVITED (Feb, 2021) “Geochronology provides insights into the evolution of subsurface paleo-fluid flow”. GWIS Presents International Research.

• Bailey, L. R., Kirk, J., Hemming, S.R., Krantz, R.W., Reiners, P.W., (Oct, 2020) “Geochronology reveals Eocene fluid-rock interaction and fault-controlled fluid flow in the Paradox Basin”. Geological Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting.

• Kim, J. -H., Noyes, C., Bailey, L. R., Tyne, R., Ballentine, C., Person, M., Ma, L., Reiners, P. W., Ferguson, G., & McIntosh, J. (Oct, 2020) “Hydrogeochemical evolution of basinal fluids in the Paradox Basin: Implications for sources, paleofluid flow, and water-rock interactions”. Geological Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting.

• Lucero, D., Bailey, L. R., Person, M., Hughes, A. N., Krantz, R. W., Lingrey, S., Barton, M., Reiners, P. W., McIntosh, J., Neuzil, C. E., & Thorson, J. P. (Oct, 2020) “Influence of internal fluid generation mechanisms on redbed alteration in the Paradox Basin, Utah”. Geological Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting.

• Bailey, L. R., Reiners, P. W. (Aug, 2019) “Geochemical and Mineralogic Effects of Flow of Reduced Fluids Through Oxidized Red Sandstones”. Goldschmidt, Barcelona, Spain.

• Bailey, L. R., Reiners, P. W. (May, 2019) “Bleaching of redbeds by hydrocarbons: the fate of iron and timing of mobilization”. GeoDaze Department of Geoscience Symposium, University of Arizona.