Donald Rusk Currey

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Donald Rusk Currey

Biology

#3311

World Rank

#5079

Historical Rank

#1355

USA Rank

Botany

#752

World Rank

#1888

Historical Rank

#176

USA Rank

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Donald Rusk Currey's Degrees

PhD Botany University of Utah
Masters Botany University of Utah
Bachelors Botany University of Utah

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According to Wikipedia, Donald Rusk Currey was an American professor of geography. While known in academia for his extensive research and exploration of relics of the ancient Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin, he was best known to the public for his controversial felling of Prometheus, the oldest living non-clonal organism known at the time, while a graduate student in 1964.

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Donald Rusk Currey's Published Works

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Chronology of expansion and contraction of four Great Basin lake systems during the past 35,000 years (1990) (337)
Radiocarbon chronology of Lake Bonneville, Eastern Great Basin, USA (1992) (235)
Quaternary palaeolakes in the evolution of semidesert basins, with special emphasis on Lake Bonneville and the Great Basin, U.S.A. (1990) (183)
Viscosity estimates for the crust and upper mantle from patterns of lacustrine shoreline deformation in the Eastern Great Basin (1994) (125)
Late Quaternary Glacial and Vegetation Changes, Little Cottonwood Canyon Area, Wasatch Mountains, Utah (1979) (113)
New evidence for an extended occupation of the Provo shoreline and implications for regional climate change, Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah, USA (2005) (104)
DURATIONS , AVERAGE RATES , AND PROBABLE CAUSES OF LAKE BONNEVILLE EXPANSIONS , STILLSTANDS , AND CONTACTIONS DURING THE LAST DEEP - LAKE CYCLE 32 , 000 TO 10 , 000 YEARS AGO (1985) (100)
Lake Bonneville; selected features of relevance to neotectonic analysis (1983) (90)
An Ancient Bristlecone Pine Stand in Eastern Nevada (1965) (90)
Hydro‐isostatic deflection and tectonic tilting in the central Andes: Initial results of a GPS survey of Lake Minchin shorelines (1994) (81)
Great basin aquatic systems history (2002) (81)
Age and Paleoclimatic Significance of the Stansbury Shoreline of Lake Bonneville, Northeastern Great Basin (1990) (58)
Lake-size variations in the Lahontan and Bonneville basins between 13,000 and 9000 14C yr B.P. (1992) (53)
Timing and Extent of Late Quaternary Paleolakes in the Trans-Pecos Closed Basin, West Texas and South-Central New Mexico (1997) (41)
PROBABLE PRE-NEOGLACIAL AGE OF THE TYPE TEMPLE LAKE MORAINE, WYOMING (1974) (32)
Extraterrestrial coastal geomorphology (2001) (24)
GPR stratigraphy used to infer transgressive deposition of spits and a barrier, Lake Bonneville, Stockton, Utah, USA (2003) (22)
Radiocarbon chronology andδ13C analysis of mid-to late-Holocene aeolian environments, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, USA (1999) (21)
Paleoshoreline evidence for postglacial tilting in Southern Manitoba (1998) (20)
Controls of Tufa Development in Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah (2006) (19)
Late Quaternary Geology of Lake Bonneville and Lake Waring (1984) (19)
CONTINENTALITY OF EXTRATROPICAL CLIMATES (1974) (17)
A Preliminary Study of Valley Asymmetry in the Ogotoruk Creek Area, Northwestern Alaska (1964) (17)
Shoreline development, longshore transport and surface wave dynamics, Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah (2004) (16)
Bonneville basin shoreline records of large lake intervals during Marine Isotope Stage 3 and the Last Glacial Maximum (2013) (16)
Hemiarid Lake Basins: Geomorphic Patterns (2009) (13)
Hemiarid Lake Basins: Hydrographic Patterns (2009) (12)
Lake-gauge evidence for regional postglacial tilting in southern Manitoba (1999) (10)
Pre-Bonneville Quaternary Lakes in the Bonneville Basin, Utah (1987) (10)
Thematic Mapper laser profile resolution of holocene lake limit, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah☆ (1989) (8)
Bonneville basin shoreline records of a large lake during Marine Isotope Stage 16 (2012) (5)
Neoglaciation in the Mountains of the Southwestern United States (1969) (5)
Geoantiquities in the Urban Landscape: Earth History Records in the Cities (2013) (3)
Late quaternary geomorphology of the Great Salt Lake region, Utah, and other hydrographically closed basins in the western United States: A summary of observations (1989) (3)
Estimates of Annual Climatic Water Need in Introductory Geography. (1976) (2)
Correction to “Viscosity estimates for the crust and upper mantle from patterns of lacustrine shoreline deformation in the Eastern Great Basin” by Bruce G. Bills, Donald R. Currey, and Grant A. Marshall (1995) (2)
Quaternary Geology of the Great Basin: Inglewood, California to Salt Lake City, Utah June 27–July 8, 1989 (1989) (0)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LAKE BONNEVILLE: SELECTED FEATURES OF RELEVANCE TO NEOTECTONIC ANALYSIS By (2010) (0)
Erratum: "Controls of Tufa development in Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah," (Journal of Geology vol. 144 (377-390)) (2006) (0)
Transgressive Shoreline Landforms and Lithofacies Models of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah (2006) (0)
A Trace of Desert Waters: The Great Basin Story (1987) (0)
Introduction to Days 8 Through 10 (2013) (0)
Igc Field Trip T117: Quaternary Geology of the Great Basin (2013) (0)
Chapter 16 Hemiarid Lake Basins : Geomorphic Patterns (2009) (0)
Investigating Fault Rupture Hazards: An Example from the Wasatch Fault Zone, Utah (1991) (0)

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