Peer-Reviewed Publications

2024

  • Hausrath, E.M., Sullivan, R., Goreva, Y., Zorzano, M.P., Vaughan, A., Cousin, A., Siljeström, S., Sharma, S., Shumway, A., Kizovski, T., VanBommel, S., Tice, M., Knight, A., Martinez, G., Vicente-Retortillo, A., Mandon, L., Adcock, C.T., Madariaga, J.M., Poblacion, I., Johnson, J.R., Lasue, J., Gasnault, O., Randazzo, N., Cardarelli, E.L., Kronyak, R., Bechtold, A.. Paar, G., Udry, A., Forni, O., Bedford, C.C., Carman, N.A., Bell, J.F., III, Benison, K.C., Bosak, T., Brown, A., Broz, A., Calef, F., Clark, B.C., Cloutis, E., Czaja, A.D., Fornaro, T., Fouchet, T., Golombek, M., Gomez, F., Herd, C.D.K., Herkenhoff, K., Jakubek, R.S., Jandura, L., Martinas-Frias, J., Mayhew, L.E., Meslin, P.-Y., Newman, C.E., Nunez, J.I., Poulet, F., Royer, C., Russell, P., Sephton, M.A., Sharma, S.K., Shuster, D., Simon, J.I., Tirona, I., Wiens, R.C., Weis, B.P., Williams, A.J., Williford, K., Wolf, Z.U., and the Regolith Working Group, in press, Collection and in situ analyses of regolith samples by Mars 2020 Perseverance rover: Implications for their formation and alteration history: Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets.

  • Bosak, T., Shuster, D.L., Scheller, E., Siljeström, S., Zawaski, M., Mandon, L., Simon, J., Weiss, B., Stack, K., Mansbach, E., Tremain, A., Benison, K.C., and 55 others, 2024, Astrobiological potential of rocks acquired by the Perseverance rover at a sedimentary fan front in Jezero crater, Mars: AGU Advances. doi: 10.1029/2024AV00124. [pdf}

  • Alberini, A., Fornaro, T., Florentino, C.G., Biczysko, M., Poplacion, I., Aramendia, J., Madariaga, J.M., Poggiali, G., Vicente-Retortillo, A., Benison, K.C., Siljestrom, S., Biancalcni, S., Lorenz, C., Cloutis, E., Applin, D.M., Gomez, F., Steele, A., Wiens, R., Hand, K.P., and Brucato, J.R., 2024, Investigating the stability of aromatic carboxylic acids in hydrated magnesium sulfate under UV irradiation to assist detection of organics on Mars: Scientific Reports, v. 14, article 15945. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66669-8. [pdf]

  • Cantner, K., Soreghan, G.S., Pfeifer, L.S., Benison, K.C., and Myrbo, A., 2024, A time machine to Oklahoma’s climate past: Frontiers for Young Minds, v. 12, article 1254286. doi:10.3389/frym.2024.1254285.

  • Sephton, M., Freeman, K., Hays, L., Thiessen, F., Benison, K.C., Carrier, B., Dworkin, J., Glamoclija, M., Gouch, R., Onofri, S., Peterson, R., Quinn, R., Russell, S., Stueeken, E., Velbel, M., and Zolotov, M., 2024, Thresholds of temperature and time for Mars Sample Return: Astrobiology, v. 24, n. 5, p. 443-488. doi:10.1089/ast.2023.0098. [pdf]

  • Zorzano, M.-P., Martínez, G., Jouni Polkko, J., Tamppari, L., Newman, C.,  Savijarvi, H., Goreva, Y., Viudez, D.,  Bertrand, T.,  Smith, M., Hausrath, E., Siljeström, S., Benison, K.C., Bosak, T., Czaja, A., Debaille, V., Herd, C.D.K., Mayhew, L., Septhon, M., Shuster, D., Simon, J., Weiss, B., Randazzo, N., Mandon, L., Brown, A., and Martínez-Frías, J., 2024, Present-day thermal and water activity environment of the Mars Sample Return collection: Scientific Reports, v. 14, article 7175, doi:10.1039/s41598-024-57458-4. [pdf}

  • Bradford, M.Y. and Benison, KC., 2024, Gypsum lakes, sandflats, and soils revealed from the Triassic Red Peak Formation of the Chugwater Group, northcentral Wyoming: The Depositional Record, doi.org/10.1002/dep2.273 [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C., Gill, K.K., Sharma, S., Siljeström, S., Zawaski, M., Bosak, et al., 2024, Depositional and diagenetic sulfates of Hogwallow Flats and Yori Pass, Jezero crater: Evaluating preservation potential of environmental indicators and possible biosignatures from past martian surface waters and groundwaters: Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, v. 129. doi.org/10.1029/2023JE008155. [pdf]

  • Siljeström, S., Czaja, A., Corpolongo, A., Berger, E., Li, A., Cardarelli, E., Abbey, W., Asher, S., Beegle, L., Benison, K.C., et al., 2024, Evidence of sulfate-rich fluid alteration in Jezero crater floor, Mars: Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets. v. 129. doi.org/10.1029/2023JE007989. [pdf]

2023

  • Gibson, M.E. and Benison, K.C., 2023, Perspectives: It’s a trap!: Modern and ancient halite as Lagerstätten: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 93, p. 642-655. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2022.110. [pdf]

  • Gill, K.K., Jagnieckie, E.A, Benison, K.C., and Gibson, M.E., 2023, A Mars-analog sulfate mineral, mirabilite, preserves biosignatures: GEOLOGY, v. 51, p. 818-822. doi.org/10.1130/G51256 [pdf].

  •  Radwin, M.H., Bowen, B.B., Benison, K.C., and Story, S.L., 2023, Southwestern Australia acid-saline mineralogy: Observations from reflectance spectroscopy: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing, v. 61, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3272859 [pdf}.

  • Hausrath, E.M., Adcock, C.T., Bechtold, A., Beck, P., Benison, K.C., Brown, A., et al., 2023, An examination of soil crusts on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars: Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, v. 128, e2022JE007433. doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007433. [pdf}

  • Hallsworth, J.E., Udaondo, Z., Amils, R., Benison, K.C., de Campos, C.B.L., Cordero, R.J.B., Hofer, J., Lloyd, K.G., Mancinelli, R.L., Perdros-Alio, C., and Yaokimov, M.M., 2023, Scientific novelty beyond the experiment: Microbial Biotechnology, 00:1-43. doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.14222 [pdf]

  • Simon, J.I., Hickman-Lewis, K., Cohen, B.A., Mayhew, L.E., Shuster, D.L., Debaille, V., Hausrath, E.M., Weiss, B.P., Bosak, T., Zorzano, M.-P., Amundsen, H.E.F., Beegle, L.W., Bell, J.F., III, Benison, K.C., and 54 others, 2023, Samples collected from the floor of Jezero crater with the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover: Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, v. 128, p. doi: 10.1029/2022JE007474 [pdf]

2022

  • Scheller, E.L., Hollis, J.R., Cardarelli, E.L., Steele, A., Beegle, L.W., Bhartia, R., Conrad, P., Uckert, K., Sharma, S., Ehlmann, B.L., Abbey, W.J., Asher, S.A., Benison, K.C., Berger, E.L., Beyssac, O., Bleefeld, B.I., Bosak, T., Brown, A.J., Burton, A.S., Bykov, S.V., Clutis, E., Fairen, A., De Flores, L., Farley, K.A., Fey, D.M., Fornaro, T., Fox, A.C., Fries, M., Hickman-Lewis, K., Hug, W.F., Huggett, J.E., Imbeah, S., Jakubek, R.S., Kah, L.C., Kelman, P., Kennedy, M.R., Kizovski, T., Lee, C., Liu, Y., Mandon, L., McCubbin, F.M., Moore, K., Nixon, B.E., Nunez, J.I., Rodriguez Sanchez-Vahamonde, C., Roppel, R.D., Schulte, M., Sephton, M.A., Sharma, S., Siljestrom, S., Shkolyar, S.O., Shuster, D., Simon, J., Smith, R.J., Stack, K.M., Steadman, K., Weiss, B.P., Werynski, A., Williams, A.J., Wiens, R.C., Williford, K.H., Winchell, K., Wogsland, B., Yanchilina, A., and Zorzano, M-P., 2022, Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars - implications for organic geochemistry: Science, v. 378, n. 6622, doi:10.1126/science.abo5204. [pdf]

  • Schreder-Gomes, S.I., Benison, K.C., and Bernau, J. A., 2022, 830 million-year-old microorganisms in primary fluid inclusions in halite: GEOLOGY, v. 50, p. 918-922. doi.org/10.1130/G49957 [pdf].

2021

  • Hallsworth, J.E., Mancinelli, R.L., Conley, C.A., Dallas, T.D., Rinalda, T., Davila, A.F., Benison, K.C., Rapoport, A., Cavalazzi, B., Selbmann, L., Changela, H., Westall, F., Yakimov, M.M., Amils, R., and Maedigan, M.T., 2021, Astrobiology of life on Earth: Environmental Microbiology, v. 23, p. 3335-3344. doi: 10.1111/1462‐2920.15499. [pdf]

  •  Andeskie, A.S. and Benison, K.C., 2021, A missing link in mid-late Permian record of northeastern Pangea: A sedimentological evaluation of the Permian Belfast Harbour Evaporite Formation of County Antrim, Northern Ireland: The Depositional Record. doi.org/10.1002/dep2.144. [pdf]

  •  Benison, K.C., O’Neill, W., Blain, D., and Hallsworth, J.E., 2021, Water activities of acid brine lakes approach the limit for life: Astrobiology, v. 21. doi.org/10.1089/ast.2020.2334. [pdf]

2020

  • Soreghan, G.S., Beccaletto, L., Benison, K.C., Bourquin, S., Hamahura, N., Hamilton, M., Heavens, N., Hinnov., N., Huttenlocker, A., Looy, C., Pfeifer, L., Pochat, S., Abadi, M.S., Zambito, J.J., and the Deep Dust workshop participants, 2020, Report on ICDP Deep Dust workshops: Probing continental climate of the late Paleozoic icehouse-greenhouse transition and beyond: Scientific Drilling, v. 28, p. 93-112. doi.org/10.5194/sd-28-93-2020. [pdf]

  • Kipnis, E.L., Bowen, B.B., Hutchings, S.J., Hynek, S.A., and Benison, K.C., 2020, Major ion geochemistry in Na-Ca-Mg-K-Cl-SO4 brines using portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry: Chemical Geology, v. 558, article 119865, 8 p. doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119865. [pdf]

  • Andeskie, A.S. and Benison, K.C., 2020, Using sedimentology to address the marine or continental origin of the Permian Hutchinson Salt Member of Kansas: Sedimentology., v. 67, p. 882-89, doi:10.1111/sed.12665. [pdf]

  • Johnson, S.S., Millan, M., Graham, H., Benison, K.C., Williams, A., McAdam, A., Knudson, C., Andrejkovicova, S., and Achilles, C., 2020, Lipid Biomarkers in ephemeral acid salt lake mudflat/sandflat sediments: Implications for Mars: Astrobiology, v. 20, p. 167-178, doi.org/10.1089/ast.2017.1812. [pdf]

2019

  • Benison, K.C., 2019, How to search for life in martian chemical sediments and their fluid and solid inclusions using petrographic and spectroscopic methods: Frontiers in Environmental Science, v. 7, article 108, doi:103389/fenvs.2019.00108. [pdf]

  • Martindale, R.C., Benison, K.C., Jackson, C., and Romans, B., 2019, #SEPM – Sedimentary Geology in the Twitterverse: The Sedimentary Record, v 17, n. 4, p. 10-11. doi:10.2110/sedred.2019.4. [pdf]

  • Williams, A.J. Eigenbrode, J., Floyd, M., Wilheim, M.B., O’Reilly, S., Johnson, S.S., Craft, K.L., Knuson, C., Lewis, J.M.T., Buch, A., Glavin, D.P., Freissinet, C., Summons, R., McAdam, A., Benison, K.C., Malespin, C., and Mahaffy, P.R., 2019, Recovery of Fatty Acids from Mineralogic Mars Analogs by TMAH Thermochemolysis for the Sample Analysis at Mars Wet Chemistry Experiment on the Curiosity Rover: Astrobiology, v. 19, n. 4, 25 p., doi: 10.1089/ast.2018.1819. [pdf]

  • Schulmeister, M.K., Andeskie, A.S., and Benison, K.C., 2019, The science and industry of the Permian Hutchinson Salt, in Schulmeister, M.K. and Aber, J.S., eds., Exploring Extreme and Unusual Geology in the Stable Midcontinent: Field Excursions for the 2019 GSA South-Central, North-Central, and Rocky Mountain Sections Joint Meeting: Geological Society of America Field Guide 52, p. 25-35, doi:org/10.1130/2019.0052(02) [pdf}

  • Benison, K.C., 2019, The physical and chemical sedimentology of two high-altitude acid salars in Chile: Sedimentary processes in an extreme environment: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 89, p. 147-167. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2019.9 [pdf]

2018

  • Lee, C.J.D., McMullan, P.E., O’Kane, C.J., Stevenson, A., Santos, I.C., Roy, C., Ghosh, W., Manicelli, R.L., Mormile, M.R., McMullan, G., Banciu, H., Fares, M.A., Benison, K.C., Oren, A., Dyall-Smith, M.L., and Hallsworth, J.E., 2018, NaCl-saturated brines are thermodynamically moderate, rather than extreme, microbial habitats: FEMS Microbiological Reviews, doi: 10.1093/femsre/fuy026. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C., Knapp, J.P., DiFrisco, A.J., and Rasbury, E.T., 2018, The Permian Minnekahta Limestone: A saline lake gypsum replaced by calcite: The Mountain Geologist, v. 55, p. 59-73. [pdf]

  • Andeskie, A.S., Benison, K.C., Eichenlaub, L.A., and Raine, R., 2018, Acid-saline-lake systems of the Triassic Mercia Mudstone Group of County Antrim, Northern Ireland: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 88, p. 385-398. doi:10.2110/jsr.2018.14. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C., 2018, The Pennsylvanian Pewamo Formation and Haybridge strata of central Michigan: The youngest rocks of the Michigan Basin?: in Grammer, G.M., Harrison III, W.B., and Barnes, D.A., eds., Paleozoic stratigraphy and stratigraphic resources of the Michigan Basin: GSA Special Paper 531, p. 331-339. doi:10.1130/2017.2531(15). [pdf]

  • Zaikova, E., Benison, K.C., M.R. Mormile, and Johnson, S.S., 2018, Microbial communities and their predicted metabolic functions in a desiccating acid salt lake: Extremophiles, v. 22, p. 367-379. doi: 10.1007/s00792-018-1000-4. [pdf]

2017

  • Benison, K.C., 2017, Gypsum gravel devils in Chile: Movement of largest natural gains by wind?: Geology, v. 45, p. 423-426. doi:10.1130/G38901.1. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C., 2017, Gypsum gravel devils in Chile: Movement of largest natural gains by wind?: REPLY: Geology, v. 45, p. e424. doi: 10.1130/G39294Y.1 . [pdf]

2016

  • Blamey, N.J.F., Brand, U., Parnell, J., Spear, N., Lecuyer, C., Benison, K.C., Meng, F., and Ni, P., 2016, Paradigm shift in determining Neoproterozoic atmospheric oxygen: Geology, v. 44, p. 651-654. doi: 10:1130/G37937.1. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C., 2016, Highlights and Breakthroughs: Alunite on Mars: American Mineralogist, v. 101, p. 1499-1500. http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2016-5802.0. [pdf]

  • Karmanocky, F.J. III and Benison, K.C., 2016, A fluid inclusion record of hydrothermal pulses in acid Salar Ignorado gypsum, northern Chile: Geofluids, v.16, p. 490-506. doi:10.1111/gfl.12171. [pdf]

2015

  • Benison, K.C., Zambito, J.J., and Knapp, J.P., 2015, Contrasting siliciclastic-evaporite strata in subsurface and outcrop: An example from the Permian Nippewalla Group of Kansas, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 85, p. 626-645. doi:10.2110/jsr.2015.43. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C. and Bowen, B.B., 2015, The evolution of end-member continental waters: The origin of acidity in southern Western Australia: GSA Today, v. 25, p. 4-10. doi:10.1130/GSATG231A.1. [pdf]

  • Johnson, S.S., Chevrette, M.G., Ehlmann, B, and Benison, K.C., 2015, Insights from the metagenome of an acid salt lake: the role of biology in an extreme depositional environment: PLoS One: 10(4):e0122869. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122869. eCollection 2015. [pdf]

  • Soreghan, G.S., Benison, K.C., Foster, T.M., Zambito, J.J., and Soreghan, M.J., 2015, The paleoclimatic and geochronologic utility of coring redbeds and evaporites: A case study from the RKB core (Permian, Kansas, USA): International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 104, p. 1589-1603. doi: 10.1007/s00531-014-1070-1. [pdf]

2014

  • Benison, K.C. and Karmanocky, F.J., III, 2014, Could microorganisms be preserved in Mars gypsum? Insights from terrestrial examples: Geology, v. 42, p. 615-618. doi:10.1130/G35542.1. [pdf]

  • Foster, T., Soreghan, G.S., Soreghan, M.J., Benison, K.C., and Elmore, R. D., 2014, Climatic and palaeogeographic significance of aeolian sediment in the Middle Permian Dog Creek Shale (Midcontinent U.S.): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 402, p. 12-29. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.02.031. [pdf]

2013

  • Benison, K.C., Zambito, J.J., Soreghan, G.S., Soreghan, M.J., Foster, T. M., and Kane, M.J., 2013, Permian red beds and evaporites of the Amoco Rebecca K. Bounds core, Greeley County, Kansas: Implications for science and industry, in Dubois, M.K., Watney, W.L., and Tollefson, eds., Mid-Continent Core Workshop: From Source to Reservoir to Seal, Mid-Continent Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Kansas Geological Survey and Kansas Geological Society, Wichita, Kansas, p. 9-14. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3170.7603. [pdf]

  • Giles, J.M., Soreghan, M., Benison, K.C., Soreghan, G.S., and Hasiotis, S.T., 2013, Lakes, loess, and paleosols in the Permian Wellington Formation of Oklahoma: Implications for paleoclimate and paleo-geography of the midcontinent: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 83, p. 825-846. doi:10.2110/jsr.2013.59. [pdf]

  • Bowen, B.B., Story, S., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and Benison, K.C., 2013, Differences in regolith weathering history at an acid and neutral saline lake on the Archean Yilgarn Craton and implications for acid brine evolution: Chemical Geology, v. 356, p. 126-140. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.08.005. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C., 2013, Acid saline fluid inclusions: Examples from modern and Permian extreme lake systems: Geofluids. v. 13, pp. 579-593; doi:10.1111/gfl.12053. [pdf[

  • Conner, A.J. and Benison, K.C., 2013, Acidophilic halophilic microorganisms in fluid inclusions in halite from Lake Magic, Western Australia: Astrobiology, v. 9, p. 850-860. doi:10.1089/ast.2012.0956. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C. and Bowen, B.B., 2013, Extreme sulfur-cycling in acid brine lake environments of Western Australia: Chemical Geology, v. 351, p. 154-167 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.05.018. [pdf]

  • Zambito, J.J. and Benison, K.C., 2013, Extremely high temperatures and paleoclimate trends recorded in Permian ephemeral lake halite: Geology, v. 41, p. 587-590. doi:10.1130/G34078.1. [pdf]

2012

  • Bowen, B.B., Benison, K.C., and Story, S., 2012, Early diagenesis by modern acid brines in Western Australia and implications for the history of sedimentary modification on Mars in J. Grotzinger & R. Milliken, eds, SEPM Special Publication 102: Sedimentary Geology of Mars, p. 229-252. ISBN 978-1-56576-312-8. [pdf]

  • Zambito, J.J., Benison, K.C., Foster, T., Soreghan, G.S. Kane, M., and Soreghan, M.J., 2012, Lithostratigraphy of the Permian red beds and evaporites in the Rebecca K. Bounds, Core, Greeley County, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey Open File Report 2012-15, 45 p. http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/OFR/2012/OFR12_15/index.html [pdf]

2011

  • Benison, K.C., Knapp. J.P., and Dannenhoffer, J.M., 2011, The Pennsylvanian Pewamo Formation and associated Haybridge strata: Toward the resolution of the Jurassic Ionia red bed problem in the Michigan Basin, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 81, p. 459-478. doi:10.2110/jsr.2011.039. [pdf]

2010

  • Story, S., Bowen, B.B., Benison, K.C., and Schulze, D.G., 2010, Authigenic phyllosilicates in modern acid saline lake sediments and implications for Mars: Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, v. 115, 17 pp., E12012, doi:10.1029/2010JE003687. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C. and Knapp. J.P., 2010, Detrital zircons from fluvial Jurassic strata of the Michigan basin: Implications for the transcontinental Jurassic paleoriver hypothesis: Comment: Geology, v. 38, n. 12, p. 228. doi:10.1130/G31436C.1. [pdf]

  • Jagniecki, E.A. and Benison, K.C., 2010, Criteria for the recognition of acid-precipitated halite: Sedimentology, v. 57, p. 273-292. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01112.x. [pdf]

2009

2008

  • Benison, K.C., 2008, Life and death around acid-saline lakes: Palaios, v. 23, p. 571-573. doi:10.2110/palo.2008.S05 [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C., Jagniecki, E.A., Edwards, T.B., Mormile, M.C., and Storrie-Lombardi, M.C., 2008, “Hairy blobs”: Microbial suspects from modern and ancient ephemeral acid saline evaporites: Astrobiology, v. 8, n. 4, p. 807-821. doi:10.1089/ast.2006.0034. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C., LaClair, D.A., and Walker, J.W., 2008, Acid waters as physical sedimentology agents: Implications for Mars: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 270, p. 330-337 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.036. [pdf]

  • Bowen, B.B., Benison, K.C., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Story, S., Mormile, M.R., 2008, Active hematite concretion formation in modern acid saline lake sediments, Lake Brown, Western Australia: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 288, p. 52-63. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.12.023. [pdf]

2007

  • Benison, K.C., Bowen, B.B., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E, Jagniecki, E.A., LaClair, D.A., Story, S.L., Mormile, M.R., and Hong, B.Y., 2007, Sedimentology of acid saline lakes in southern Western Australia: Newly described processes and products of an extreme environment: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, no. 5, p. 366-388. doi:10.2110/jsr.2007.038 (won SEPM Best Paper Award ) . [pdf]

  • Mormile, M.R., Hong, B-y., Adams, N.T., Benison, K.C., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2007, Characterization of moderately halo-acidophilic bacterium isolated from Lake Brown, Western Australia: in, Hoover, R.B., Levin, G.V., Rozanov, A.Y., Davies, P.C. (eds.), Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology X, Proceedings of SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering), v. 66940X, p. 1-8. doi:10.1117/12.734741. [pdf]

2006

  • Benison, K.C. and Bowen, B.B., 2006, Acid saline lake systems give clues about past environments and the search for life on Mars: Icarus, v. 183, p. 225-229. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2006.02.018. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C., 2006, A Martian Analog in Kansas: Comparing martian strata with Permian acid saline lake deposits: Geology, v. 34, n. 5, p. 385-388. doi:10.1130/G22176.1. [pdf]

2005

  • Benison, K.C., 2005, Artificial outcrops give real experience in interpreting a geologic history: The CMUland group project for historical geology students: Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 53, p. 501-507. ISSN 1089-9995. [pdf]

2003

  • Benison, K.C. and LaClair, D.A., 2003, Modern and ancient extremely acid saline deposits: Terrestrial analogs for Martian environments?: Astrobiology, v. 3, n. 3, p. 609-618. doi:10.1089/153110703322610690. [pdf]

  • Schaefer, M. W., Dyar, M. D., and Benison, K. C., 2003, Mossbauer spectroscopy of Mars-analog rocks from an acid saline environment: NASA Technical Report 20030111385, Goddard Space Flight Center.

2002

  • Benison, K.C. and Goldstein, R.H., 2002, Recognizing acid lakes and groundwaters in the rock record: Sedimentary Geology, v. 151, n. 3-4, p. 177-185. doi:10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00155-0. [pdf]

2001

  • Hartig, K. and Benison, K.C., 2001, Early tidal flat dolomitization in the Silurian Byron Formation of the Michigan Basin; Greenstein, B.J. and Carney, C.K., eds., Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions, p. 78-92

  • Benison, K.C. and Goldstein, R.H., 2001, Evaporites and siliciclastics of the Permian Nippewalla Group, Kansas and Oklahoma: A case for nonmarine deposition: Sedimentology, v. 48, p. 165-188. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3091.2001.00362.x. [pdf]

2000

  • Losey, A. and Benison, K.C., 2000, Silurian paleoclimate data through fluid inclusions in the Salina Formation halite of the Michigan Basin: Carbonates and Evaporites, v. 15, n. 1, p. 28-36 doi:10.1007/BF03175646. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C. and Goldstein, R.H., 2000, Sedimentology of ancient saline pans: An example from the Permian Opeche Shale, Williston Basin, North Dakota: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 159-169. doi: 10.1306/D4268BB7-2B26-11D7-8648000102C1865D. [pdf]

1999

  • Benison, K.C. and Goldstein, R.H., 1999, Permian paleoclimate data from fluid inclusions in halite: Chemical Geology, v. 154, p. 113-132.doi:10.1016/S0009-2541(98)00127-2. [pdf]

1998

  • Benison, K.C., Goldstein, R.H., Wopenka, B., Burruss, R.C., and Pasteris, J.D., 1998, Extremely acid Permian lakes and groundwaters in North America: Nature, v. 392, p. 911-914. doi:10.1038/31917. [pdf]

1997

  • Benison, K.C. and Lowenstein, T.K., 1997, Carbonate-hosted mineralization of the Lower Ordovician Ogdensburg Formation: Evidence for a Paleozoic thermal anomaly in the St. Lawrence lowlands of New York and Ontario in Montenez, I., Shelton, K., and Gregg, J., eds., Basin-wide fluid flow and associated diagenetic patterns: Integrated petrologic, geochemical, and hydrologic considerations: SEPM Special Publication No. 57, p. 207-218. ISBN 1-56576-035-2. [pdf]

  • Benison, K.C., 1997, Acid water deposition and diagenesis in Permian red bed-hosted evaporites, midcontinent, U.S.A.: Kansas Geological Survey Open File Report 97-88, 420 p.

  • Benison, K.C., 1997, Field descriptions of sedimentary and diagenetic features in red beds and evaporites of the Nippewalla Group (middle Permian), Kansas and Oklahoma: Kansas Geological Survey Open File Report 97-21, 62 p.

1995

  • Benison, K.C., 1995, Surface water paleotemperatures from Permian Nippewalla Group halite, Kansas: Carbonates and Evaporites, v. 10, no. 2, p. 242-248. doi:10.1007/BF03175409

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