Published works

Publications

Rine, M.J., Kaczmarek, S.E., McLaughlin, P.I., Caruthers, A.H., Bancroft, A.M., Harrison, W.B., III, and Kuglitsch, J. in press. Linked Silurian carbon cycle perturbations, bursts of pinnacle reef growth, extreme sea-level oscillations, and evaporite deposition (Michigan Basin, USA). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 554.

Them, T.R., II, Jagoe, C., Caruthers, A.H., Gill, B.C., Grasby, S., Gröcke, D.R., Yin, R., and Owens, J.D. 2019. Terrestrial sources as the primary delivery mechanism of mercury to the oceans across the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 507, p. 62–72.

Them, T.R., II, Gill, B.C., Caruthers, A.H., Gerhardt, A.M., Gröcke, D.R., Lyons, T.W., Marroquín, S.M., Nielsen, S.G., Trabucho Alexandre J., and Owens, J.D. 2018. Thallium isotopes reveal protracted anoxia during the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) associated with volcanism, carbon burial, and mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(26), p. 6596–6601.

*Featured Article in Science Daily June 11, 2018: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180611160510.htm

Caruthers, A.H., Gröcke, D.R., Kaczmarek, S.E., Rine, M.J., Kuglitsch, J., and Harrison, W.B., III. 2018. The utility of organic carbon isotope data from the Salina Group halite (Michigan Basin): a new tool for stratigraphic correlation and paleoclimate proxy resource. GSA Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B31972.1

Caruthers, A.H., Smith, P.L., Gröcke D.R., Gill, B.C., Them, T.R. II, and Trabucho Alexandre J. 2018. Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Early Jurassic) ammonoids from the Luning Embayment, West-Central Nevada, USA. Bulletins of American Paleontology 393, 84 p.

Them, T.R. II, Gill, B.C., Caruthers, A.H., Gröcke, D.R., Tulsky, E.T.T, Smith, P.L., Martindale, R.C., and Poulton, T.P. 2017. High-resolution carbon isotope records of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic) from North America and implications for the global drivers of the Toarcian carbon cycle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 459, p. 118–126.

Caruthers, A.H., Smith, P.L. and Gröcke D.R. 2014. The Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Early Jurassic) extinction: a North American perspective, in Keller, G., and Kerr, A.C., eds., Volcanism, Impacts, and Mass Extinctions: Causes and Effects. Geological Society of America Special Paper 505, p. 225-243, doi:10.1130/2014.2505(11).

Porter, S.J., Smith, P.L., Caruthers, A.H., Hou, P., Gröcke, D.R., and Selby, D. 2014. New high-resolution geochemistry of Lower Jurassic marine sections in western North America: A global positive carbon isotope excursion in the Sinemurian? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 397, p. 19–31.

Caruthers, A.H., Smith, P.L. and Gröcke D.R. 2013. The Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Early Jurassic) extinction, a global multi-phased event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 386, p. 104–118.

Caruthers, A.H. and Smith, P.L. 2012. Pliensbachian ammonoids from the Talkeetna Mountains (Peninsular Terrane) of Southern Alaska. Revue de Paléobiologie Volume spécial, No 11, p. 365–378.

LaMaskin, T.A., Stanley, G.D. Jr., Caruthers, A.H., and Rosenblatt, M.R. 2011. Detrital Record of Upper Triassic Reefs in the Olds Ferry Terrane, Blue Mountains Province, Northeastern Oregon, United States. Palaios, 26, p. 779–789.

Caruthers, A.H., Gröcke D.R., and Smith, P.L. 2011. The significance of an Early Jurassic (Toarcian) carbon-isotope excursion in Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia Canada. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 307, p. 19–26. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.013.

Caruthers, A.H. and Stanley, G.D., Jr. 2008b. Late Triassic silicified shallow-water corals and other marine fossils from Wrangellia and the Alexander terrane, Alaska and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in Blodgett, R.B., and Stanley, G.D., Jr. eds., The terrane puzzle: New perspectives on paleontology and stratigraphy from the North American Cordillera: Geological Society of America Special Paper 442, p. 151–179, doi: 10.1130/2008.442(10)

Caruthers, A.H., and Stanley, G.D., Jr. 2008a. Systematic Analysis of Upper Triassic Silicified Scleractinian Corals from Wrangellia and the Alexander terrane, Alaska and British Columbia Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 82(3), p. 470–491.

Senowbari-Daryan, B., Caruthers, A.H., and Stanley, G.D., Jr. 2008. The First Upper Triassic Silicified Hypercalcified Sponges from the Alexander Terrane, Gravina Island and Keku Strait, Southeast Alaska: Journal of Paleontology, 82(2), p. 344–350.

Stanley, G.D., Jr., Caruthers, A.H., and Blodgett, R.B. 2008. From Hot and Tropical to Cold and Arctic, The Triassic History of the Wrangell Mountains Alaska. Alaska Park Science, v. 7, issue 1, p. 4–15.

Published photograph: Cover of Geological Society of America Special Paper 442.

Cover: Bulletins of American Paleontology 393. Specimen recovered by Ben Gill. Photo Credit: Kate Gordanier-Smith.

Theses

Caruthers, A.H. 2013. Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Extinction in Western North America. [PhD Thesis]: Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 305p. Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44233 (Supervisor: Dr. Paul Smith)

Caruthers, A.H. 2005. Upper Triassic Carbonates and Scleractinian Corals from Wrangellia and the Alexander terrane (Alaska and Vancouver Island, Canada): Depositional Environments and Paleobiogeography. [MS Thesis]: Missoula, University of Montana, 217p. (Supervisor: Dr. George Stanley Jr.)

Caruthers, A.H. 2002. Paleosecular Variation Recorded in Pleistocene Volcanic Rocks of Ascension Island; South Atlantic Ocean. [Undergraduate Thesis]: Tacoma, University of Puget Sound, 62p. (Supervisor: Dr. Mike Valentine)

Conference proceedings

Caruthers, A.H., Smith, P.L., and Gröcke D.R. 2011. The Early Toarcian marine extinction in western North America. Proceedings from the Canadian Paleontology Conference, No. 9, Vancouver, p. 17.

Caruthers, A.H., Shepherd, H.E., and Stanley G.D., Jr. 2011. Late Triassic marine Fauna From the Parson Bay Formation, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada. Proceedings from the Canadian Paleontology Conference, No. 9, Vancouver, p.16.

Caruthers, A.H., Gröcke D.R., and Smith, P.L. 2010. The Early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in Western Canada. Earth Science Frontiers 17, 338–339. Proceedings of the 8^th International Congress on the Jurassic System, Shehong of Suining, Sichuan, China.