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Paul Karl Link, Professor

Paul K Link, Ph.D.  Professor

linkpaul@isu.edu --- cell (208) 317-3946 --- Office 230 in Physical Science Building

Specialties

  • Sedimentary Geology
  • Regional Geology of Intermountain West
  • Detrital Zircon Study of Proterozoic Sandstones
  • Field Geology

Education

  • Ph.D., 1982, University of California-Santa Barbara
  • B.Sc. Honours, 1977 University of Adelaide
  • B.S., 1976, Yale University
  • Joined Idaho State University Faculty in 1980
Paul on geology field trip

Research Interests

My interests include the Geology of Idaho, Belt Supergroup, Windermere Supergroup; Neogene stratigraphy on the Snake River Plain; Stratigraphy and basin analysis. Also, the former field camp director for "Lost River Field Station" in Mackay, Idaho.

 


Geoscience Teaching

Since I have retired, I have been able to help with several Seminar Field Trips and participate in
Tectonics Reading Classes.

 


Publications

Anderson, S.L., and Link, P.K., 1998, Lake Bonneville Sequence Stratigraphy, Pleistocene Bear River Delta, Cache Valley, Idaho, in Pitman, J. and Carroll, A., editors, Modern and Ancient Lakes: New Problems and Perspectives: Utah Geological Association Guidebook 26, p. 91-104.

Balgord, E.A., Yonkee, W.A., Link, P.K., and Fanning, C.M., 2013, Stratigraphic, geochronologic, and geochemical record of the Cryogenian Perry Canyon Formation, northern Utah: Implications for Rodinia rifting and snowball Earth glaciation: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 125, p. 1442–1467, doi: 10.1130/B30860.1.

Bartholomay, R.C., Davis, L.C., and Link, P.K., 2002, Introduction to the Hydrogeology of the eastern Snake River Plain, in Link, P.K., and Mink, L.L., editors, Geology, Hydrogeology and Environmental Remediation, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Geological Society of America Special Paper 353, p.3-10.

Beranek, L.P., Link, P.K., and Fanning, C.M., 2006, Miocene to Holocene landscape evolution of the western Snake River Plain region, Idaho: Using the SHRIMP detrital zircon provenance record to track eastward migration of the Yellowstone hotspot: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, v. 118, p. 1027–1050, doi: 10.1130/B25896.1.

Beranek, L.P., Link, P.K., and Fanning, C.M., 2016, Detrital zircon record of mid-Paleozoic convergent margin activity in the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains: Implications for the Antler orogeny and early evolution of the North American Cordillera: Geological Society of America, Lithosphere, p. 18, GSA Data Repository Item 2016277, doi:10.1130/L557.1.

Bestland, E.A., Link, P.K., Lanphere, M.A., and Champion, D.E., 2002, Paleoenvironments of sedimentary interbeds in the Pliocene and Quaternary Big Lost Trough (eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho): in Link, P.K., and Mink, L.L., editors, Geology, Hydrogeology and Environmental Remediation, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Geological Society of America Special Paper 353, p. 27-44.

Burton, B.R., and Link, P.K., 1995, Structural setting of ore deposits in the Lake Creek Mineralized area, Blaine County, South-Central Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2064-F, p. F1-F15.

Carr, J., and Link, P.K., 1999, Neoproterozoic conglomerate and breccia in the formation of Leaton gulch, Grouse Peak, northern Lost River Range, Idaho: Relation to Beaverhead Impact structure, in Hughes, S.S. and G.D. Thackray, editors, Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History, p. 21-30.

Crane, T.J., Link, P.K., and Oriel, S.S., 2001, Geologic Map of the Lava Hot Springs quadrangle, Bannock County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey, Technical Report 01-3, scale 1:24,000.

Dehler, C.M., Fanning, C.M., Link, P.K., Kingsbury, E.M., and Rybczynski, D., 2010, Maximum depositional age and provenance of the Uinta Mountain Group and Big Cottonwood Formation, northern Utah: Paleogeography of rifting western Laurentia: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 122, p. 1686–1699, doi: 10.1130/B30094.1.

Ehlers, T.A., Chan, M.A., and Link, P.K., 1997, Proterozoic tidal, glacial and fluvial sedimentation in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 42, part 1, p. 31-58.

Fanning, C.M., and Link, P.K., 2004, U-Pb SHRIMP ages of Neoproterozoic (Sturtian) glaciogenic Pocatello Formation, southeastern Idaho: Geology, v. 32, p. 881–884, doi: 10.1130/G20609.1.

Fortsch, D.E., and Link, P.K., Regional geology and fossil sites from Pocatello to Montpelier, Freedom, and Wayan, southeastern Idaho and western Wyoming: in Hughes, S.S. and G.D. Thackray, editors, Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History, p. 281-334.

Geslin, J.K., Gianniny, G.L., Link, P.K., and Riesterer, J.W., 1997, Subsurface sedimentary facies and Pleistocene stratigraphy of the northern Idaho National Engineering Laboratory: Controls on Hydrogeology: Proceedings of the 32nd Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering: Boise, Idaho, College of Engineering Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, p.15-28.

Geslin, J.K., Link, P.K., and Fanning, C.M., 1999, High-precision provenance determination using detrital-zircon ages and petrography of Quaternary sands on the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Geology, v. 27, no. 4, p. 295-298.

Geslin, J.K., Link, P.K., Riesterer, J.W., Kuntz, M.A., and Fanning, C.M., 2002, Pliocene and Quaternary stratigraphic architecture and drainage systems of the Big Lost Trough, northeastern Snake River Plain, Idaho, in Link, P.K., and Mink, L.L., editors, , Geology, Hydrogeology and Environmental Remediation, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Geological Society of America Special Paper 353, p. 11-26.

Hodges, M.K. V, Link, P.K., and Fanning, C.M., 2009, The Pliocene Lost River found to west: Detrital zircon evidence of drainage disruption along a subsiding hotspot track: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 188, p. 237–249, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.08.019.

Keeley, Joshua A.; Link, Paul K.; Fanning, C. Mark; and Schmitz, Mark D.,2013, Pre- to Synglacial Rift-Related Volcanism in the Neoproterozoic(Cryogenian) Pocatello Formation, SE Idaho: New SHRIMP and CA-ID-TIMS Constraints. Lithosphere, 5 (1), 128-150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/L226.1

Kingsbury-Stewart, E. M., Link, P. K., Dehler, C. M., & Osterhout, S. L., 2008, Geologic map of the Kings Peak 7.5 minute quadrangle, Duchesne and Summit Counties, Utah. Utah Geologic Survey, Miscellaneous Publication 15-3, Scale 1:24000. http://ugspub.nr.utah.gov/publications/misc_pubs/mp-15-3.pdf.

Kingsbury-Stewart, E.M., Osterhout, S.L., Link, P.K., and Dehler, C.M., 2013, Sequence stratigraphy and formalization of the Middle Uinta Mountain Group (Neoproterozoic), central Uinta Mountains, Utah: A closer look at the western Laurentian Seaway at ca. 750Ma: Precambrian Research, v. 236, p. 65–84, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2013.06.015.

Levy, M, Christie-Blick, N., and Link, P.K., 1994, Neoproterozoic incised valleys of the eastern Great Basin, Utah and Idaho: Fluvial response to changes in depositional base level: in Dalrymple, R.W., Boyd, R., and Zaitlin, B.A., editors, Incised Valley Systems: Origin and Sedimentary Sequences, Tulsa, OK., SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 51, p. 369-382.

Lewis, Reed S., Link, P. K., Stanford, Loudon, R., Long, Sean Patrick. 2012. Geologic Map of Idaho. Moscow, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey.

Link, P.K., editor, 1993 (revised 2nd edition 1997), Geologic Guidebook to the Belt-Purcell Supergroup, Glacier National Park and Vicinity, Montana and adjacent Canada: Field Trip Guidebook for Belt Symposium III, Belt Association, 125 p.

Link, P.K., editor, 1994, Hydrogeology, Waste Disposal, Science and Politics, Proceedings of the 30th Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering, College of Engineering, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, 652 p.

Link, P.K., 1999, Regional Geologic perspectives on the Belt Supergroup gained since Belt Symposium II, 1983: in Berg, R.B., ed., Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 112, p. 2-10.

Link, P.K., Christie-Blick, N., Devlin, W.J., Elston, D.P., Horodyski, R.J., Levy, M., Miller, J.M.G., Pearson, R.C., Prave, A., Stewart, J.H., Winston, D., Wright, L.A., and Wrucke C.T., 1993, Middle and Late Proterozoic stratified rocks of the western United States Cordillera, Colorado Plateau, and Basin and Range Province: in Reed., J., Sims, P., Houston, R.S., Rankin, D.W., Link, P.K., Van Schmus, W.R., and Bickford, M.E., editors, Precambrian: Conterminous United States: Geological Society of America Decade of North American Geology Series, v. c-3, p. 474-690.

Link, P.K., Christie-Blick, N. 2011, Neoproterozoic strata of southeastern Idaho and Utah: Record of Cryogenian rifting and glaciation, E. Arnaud, G.P. Halverson, G. Shields-Zhou (Eds.), The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Geological Society of London, Memoir 36, p. 425-436.

Link, Paul K., Crosby, Benjamin T., Lifton, Zachery M., Eversole, Elijah A., Rittenour, Tammy M., 2014, The late Pleistocene (17 ka) Soldier Bar landslide and Big Creek Lake, Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, central Idaho, U.S.A., Rocky Mountain Geology, v.49, no. 1, p. 17-31.

Link, P.K., Fanning, C.M., Lund, K.I., Aleinikoff, J.N., 2007, Detrital zircons, correlation and provenance of Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup and correlative strata of east-central Idaho and southwest Montana: P.K. Link, R.S. Lewis (Eds.), SEPM Special Publication 86, Proterozoic geology of western North America and Siberia, p. 101-128.

Link, P.K., Fanning, C.M., and Beranek, L.P., 2005, Reliability and longitudinal change of detrital-zircon age spectra in the Snake River system, Idaho and Wyoming: An example of reproducing the bumpy barcode: Sedimentary Geology, v. 182, p. 101–142, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.07.012.

Link, P.K., and Hackett, W.R., editors, 1988, Guidebook to the Geology of central and southern Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Bulletin 27, 318 p.

Link, P.K., and Janecke, S.U., 1999, Geology of east-central Idaho: Geologic roadlogs for the Big and Little Lost River, Lemhi, and Salmon River Valleys, in Hughes, S.S., and G.D. Thackray, editors, Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho: Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello, Idaho, p. 295-334.

Link, P.K., Kaufman, D.S., and Thackray, G.D., 1999, Field guide to Pleistocene Lakes Thatcher and Bonneville and the Bonneville Flood, southeastern Idaho: in Hughes, S.S. and G.D. Thackray, editors, Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History, p. 251-266.

Link, P.K., and Kowallis, B.J., editors, 1997, Proterozoic to Recent stratigraphy, Tectonics and volcanology: Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho and central Mexico: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 42, Part 1, 528 p.

Link, P.K., and Kowallis, B.J., editors, 1997, Mesozoic to Recent Geology of Utah: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 42, Part 2, 404 p. 1998.

Link, P.K., Kuntz, M.A., and Platt, L.B., editors, 1992, Regional Geology of Eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming: Geological Society of America Memoir 179, 310 p.

Link, P. K., and Lewis, Reed S. 2015. Proterozoic geology of western North America and Siberia. http://ebooks.geoscienceworld.org/content/proterozoic-geology-of-western-north-america-and-siberia-9781565762947.

Link, P. K., Mahon, Robert C., Beranek, Luke P., Cambell-Stone, Erin A., Lynds, Ranie. 2014, Detrital zircon provenance of Pennsylvanian to Permian sandstones
from the Wyoming craton and Wood River Basin, Idaho, U.S.A.: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 49, no. 2, p. 115-136.

Link, P.K., Mahoney, J.B., Batatian, L.D., Bruner, D.J., and Williams, F., 1995, Stratigraphic setting of sediment-hosted mineral deposits in the eastern part of the Hailey 1 degree x 2 degree quadrangle, and part of the southern part of the Challis 1° x 2° quadrangle, south-central Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2064-C, p. 33.

Link, P.K., Mahoney, J.B., and Fanning, C.M., 2005, Isotopic determination of sediment provenance: Techniques and applications: Sedimentary Geology, v. 182, p. 1–2, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.09.006.

Link, P.K., and Mink, L.L., editors, 2002, Geology, Hydrogeology and Environmental Remediation, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Geological Society of America Special Paper 353. 296 p.

Link, P.K. and Phoenix, E.C., 1994 (2nd edition 1996), Rocks, Rails and Trails, Pocatello, Idaho, Idaho Museum of Natural History, 194 p.

Link, P.K., Miller, J.M.G., and Christie-Blick, N., 1994, Glacial-marine facies in a continental rift environment: Neoproterozoic rocks of the western ;United States Cordillera, in Deynoux, M., Miller, J.M.G., Domack, E.W., Eyles, N., Fairchild, I.J., and Young, G.M., editors, International Geological Correlation Project 260: Earth's Glacial Record, Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press, p. 29-59.

Link, P.K., Peterson, C.R., Sommer, S., Lewis, R., Petrich, Cosgrove, D., 2002, Digital Atlas of Idaho. (http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/). Multi ;component website devoted to Natural History of Idaho. Link was Primary PI on the project and contributed geologic maps and descriptions of the geology of 44 Idaho counties.

Link, P.K., Reading,R.W., Godfrey, A.E. and Prevedel, D., 1999, Topographic development of the Snake River Plain, Idaho: in S.S. Hughes and G.D. Thackray, editors, Guidebook to the geology of eastern Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History, back cover.

Link, P.K., and Stanford, L.R., 1999, Geologic compilation map of the Pocatello 30 by 60 Minute Quadrangle, Idaho. Moscow, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey, Technical Report: 99-02, Scale 1:100,000.

Link, Paul K., Steel, Travis, Stewart, Eric S., Sherwin, Jo-Ann, Hess, Lee R., and McDonald, Catherine, 2013, Detrital zircons in the Mesoproterozoic Upper Belt Supergroup in the Beaverhead and Lemhi Ranges, Montana and Idaho: Northwest Geology, v. 42, p. 39-44.

Link, Paul K., Stewart, Eric D., Steel, Travis, Sherwin, Jo-Ann, Hess, Lee T., McDonald, Catherine, 2016, Detrital zircons in the Mesoproterozoic upper Belt Supergroup in
the Pioneer, Beaverhead, and Lemhi Ranges, Montana and Idaho: The Big White arc: The Geological Society of America Special Paper 522, p. 23. doi:10.1130/2016.2522(07).

Link, P.K., Warren, Ian, Preacher, J.M., and Skipp, Betty, 1996, Stratigraphic analysis and interpretation of the Copper Basin Group, McGowan Creek ;Formation and White Knob Limestone, south-central Idaho: in Longman, M. W. and Sonnenfeld, M. D eds., Paleozoic Systems of the Rocky Mountain Region, Rocky Mountain Section, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), p. 117-144.

Long, Sean P., and Link, Paul K. 2007. Geologic map compilation of the Malad City 30 x 60 Minute Quadrangle, Idaho. Moscow, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey, Publication ID: T-07-1, Scale 1:100,000.

Lorentz, N.J., Corsetti, F.A., Link, P.K., and Anonymous, 2004, Seafloor precipitates and C-isotope stratigraphy from the Neoproterozoic Scout Mountain Member of the Pocatello Formation, southeast Idaho; implications for Neoproterozoic Earth system behavior: Precambrian Research, v. 130, p. 57–70, doi:10.1016/j/precamres.2003.10.017.

Mahoney, J.B., Vaughn, J., Link, P.K., Riesterer, J.W., Hickson, C.J., and Friedman, R.M., 1999, Late Cretaceous and Paleocene strata along the Intermontane-Methow terrane boundary, southern Chilcotin Plateau, south-central British Columbia, in Current Research 1999-A; Geological Survey of Canada, p. 215-224.

Ore, H.T., Reid, R.V., and Link, P.K., 1996, Pre-Bonneville-Level, Catastrophic Overflow of Plio-Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, South of Rockland, Idaho: Northwest Geology, v. 26, p. 1-15.

Piper, D.Z., and Link, P.K., 2002, An upwelling model for the Phosphoria sea: A Permian, ocean-margin sea in the northwest United States: AAPG Bulletin, v. 86, p. 1217–1235, doi: 10.1306/61eedc60-173e-11d7-8645000102c1865d.

Pope, A.D., Blair, J.J., and Link, P.K., 2002, Geologic Map of the Wakley Peak quadrangle, Bannock and Oneida Counties, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report 01-4, scale 1:24,000.

Riesterer, J.W., Mahoney, J.B., and Link, P.K., 1998, Re-examination of Late Albian-Cenomanian conglomerate in Churn Creek, Gang Range area; southern British Columbia; in Current Research 1998-A; Geological Survey of Canada, p. 165-174.

Riesterer, J.K., Link, P.K., and Rodgers, D.W., 2000, Geologic map of the Bonneville Peak quadrangle, Bannock County, Idaho: Idaho Geological; Survey Technical Report 00-05, scale 1:24,000.

Riesterer, J.W., Mahoney, J. B., and Link, P.K., 2001, The conglomerate of Churn Creek: late Cretaceous basin evolution along the Insular-Intermontane superterrane Boundary, southern British Columbia: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 38, p. 59-73.

Rodgers, D.W. Link, P.K., and Huerta, A.D., 1995, Structural framework of mineral deposits hosted by Paleozoic rocks in the northeastern part of the Hailey 1o x 2o quadrangle, south-central Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2064-B, p. 18.

Smith, L.H., Kaufman, A.J., Knoll, A.H., and Link, P.K., 1994, Chemostratigraphy of predominantly siliciclastic Neoproterozoic successions: a case ;study of the Pocatello Formation and Lower Brigham Group, Idaho, USA: Geological Magazine, v. 131, no. 3, p. 301-314.

Spencer, C.J., Hoiland, C.W., Harris, R.A., Link, P.K., and Balgord, E.A., 2012, Constraining the timing and provenance of the Neoproterozoic Little Willow and Big Cottonwood Formations, Utah: Expanding the sedimentary record for early rifting of Rodinia: Precambrian Research, v. 204-205, p. 57–65, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.02.009.

Stewart, Eric D., Link, Paul K., Rodgers, David W. 2010, Geologic Map of Allan Mountain Quadrangle, Lemhi County, Idaho, and Ravalli County, Montana. Moscow, Idaho, Idaho Geological Survey, Publication ID: T-10-1, Scale 1:24,000.

Stewart, E.D., Link, P.K., Fanning, C.M., Frost, C.D., and McCurry, M., 2010, Paleogeographic implications of non-North American sediment in the Mesoproterozoic upper Belt Supergroup and Lemhi Group, Idaho and Montana, USA: Geology, v. 38, p. 927–930, doi: 10.1130/G31194.1.

Stewart, J.H., Gehrels, G.E., Barth, A.P., Link, P.K., Christie-Blick, N., Wrucke, C.T., 2001, Detrital zircon provenance of Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian arenites in the western Untied States and northwestern Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, no. 10, p. 1343-1356.

Wilson, E., Preacher, J.M., and Link, P.K., 1994, New constraints on the nature of the Early Mississippian Antler sedimentary basin in Idaho: in Embry, A.F., Beauchamps, B. and , Glass, D.J.,eds., Pangea: Global Environments and Resources: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 17, p.155-174.

Winston, Don, P.K. Link, and Nate Hathaway, 1999, The Yellowjacket is not the Prichard and other heresies: Belt Supergroup Correlations, Structure and Paleogeography, east-central Idaho: in Hughes, S.S. and G.D. Thackray, editors, Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History, p. 3-20.

Yonkee, W.A., Dehler, C.D., Link, P.K., Balgord, E.A., Keeley, J.A., Hayes, D.S., Wells, M.L., Fanning, C.M., and Johnston, S.M., 2014, Tectono-stratigraphic framework of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian strata, west-central U.S.: Protracted rifting, glaciation, and evolution of the North American Cordilleran margin: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 136, p. 59–95, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.05.004.

Brennan, D. T., Pearson, D.M., Link, P.K., and Chamberlain, K.R., 2020, Geologic Map of the Bayhorse
Anticline, Custer County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey, Technical Report 20-01, scale 24,000.

Brennan, D. T., Pearson, D. M., Link, P. K., & Chamberlain, K. R., 2020, Neoproterozoic Windermere
Supergroup near Bayhorse, Idaho: Late‐stage Rodinian rifting was deflected west around the Belt basin.
Tectonics, 39,. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006145


Brennan, D.T., Li. Z-X, Rankenburg, K., Evans, N., Link, P.K., Nordsvan, A.R., Kirkland, C. L.,
Mahoney, J.B., Johnson, T., and McDonald, B.J., 2021, Recalibrating Rodinian rifting in the
northwestern United States: Geology, v. 49, p. 617–622, https://doi.org/10.1130/G48435.1 

Brennan, D.T., Pearson, D.M., Link, P.K., Milton, J., 2023. Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic tectono-
stratigraphic framework for Central Idaho: Windermere Supergroup in the northern sector of the U.S.
Cordillera. In: Whitmeyer, S.J., Williams, M.L., Kellett, D. A., Tikoff, B. (Eds.), Laurentia: Turning
Points in the Evolution of a Continent. Geological Society of America Memoir 220, pp. 457–486.


De Grey, Laura D., Tressler, Christopher, Dehler, Carol M., Pederson, Joel L., Link, Paul K., 2020, Geologic Map
of the Swallow Canyon Quadrangle Utah, Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 171DM, scale
1:24,000.


Gaylord, David L, Tammy M. Rittenour, Paul K. Link, Brent D. Turrin, and Mel A. Kuntz: Ghost-dune hollows
of the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Their genesis, evolution, and relevance to Martian ghost-dune pits;
Geology, v. 49, p. 899–904, https://doi.org/10.1130/G48645.1

Lewis, R.S., Link, P.K., Stanford, L.R., and Long., S.L., 2012, Geologic map of Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey
Map M-9, scale 1:750,000.


Stewart, D.E., Lewis, R.S., Stewart, E.D., and Link, P.K., 2013, Geologic Map of the Central and Lower Big
Creek Drainage, Central Idaho, Idaho Geological Survey Digital Web Map DWM-161, scale 1:75,000.


Link, P.K., Mahon, R.C., Beranek, L.P., Campbell-Stone, E.A., Lynds, R.B., 2014. Detrital zircon provenance of
Pennsylvanian to Permian sandstones from the Wyoming craton and Wood River Basin, Idaho, U.S.A.
Rocky Mountain Geology 49, 115–136.

Kingsbury, E.M., Osterhout, S.L., Link, P.K., and Dehler, C.M., 2015, Geologic map of the Kings Peak
quadrangle, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 15-3, scale 1:24,000.

Krohe, N.J., Brennan, D.T., Link, P.K., Pearson, D.M., and Armstrong, L.T., 2020, Geologic map of the southern
portion of the Clayton quadrangle, Custer County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey, Technical Report 20-
02, scale 24,000.


Link, P.K., Stewart, E.D., Steel, T., Sherwin, J.-A., Hess, L.T., McDonald, C., 2016. Detrital zircons in the
Mesoproterozoic upper Belt Supergroup in the Pioneer, Beaverhead and Lemhi Ranges, Montana and
Idaho: the Big White arc. In: Maclean, J.S., Sears, J.W. (Eds.), Belt Basin: Window to Mesoproterozoic
Earth. Geological Society of America Special Paper 522, pp. 163–183.


Link, P.K., Autenrieth-Durk, K.M., Cameron, A., Fanning, C.M., Vogl, J.J., Foster, D.A., 2017a. U-Pb zircon
ages of the Wildhorse Gneiss Complex, Pioneer Mountains, south-central Idaho and tectonic implications.
Geosphere 13, 681–698.


Link, P.K., Todt, M.K., Pearson, D.M., Thomas, R.C., 2017b. 500-490 Ma detrital zircons in Upper Cambrian
Worm Creek and correlative sandstones, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming: magmatism and tectonism
within the passive margin. Lithosphere 9, 910–928.


Link, P.K., Keeley, E.R., 2018. Geologic constraints on Snake-Columbia River drainage changes and the
associated evolutionary diversification of Cutthroat Trout over the past 17 million years. In: Trotter, P.,
Bisson, P., Schultz, L., Roper, B. (Eds.), Cutthroat Trout: Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy.
American Fisheries Society Special Publication 36, pp. 53–75.


Link, P.K., Willsey, S., and Schmidt, K., 2021, Roadside Geology of Idaho (2 nd edition), Missoula, MT, Mountain
Press, Publishing Company, 385 p.


Link, Paul K., Welcker, C.W., Sundell, K.E., 2023, The geochronometry of Idaho and the bumpy barcode
revisited: Snake River detrital zircons in Hells Canyon and beyond. Sedimentary Geology 456,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2023.106497


Mahoney, J.B., Haggart, J.W., Grove, M., Kimbrough, D.L., Isava, V., Link, P.K., Pecha, M.E., Fanning, C.M.,
2021. Evolution of the Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Basin, British Columbia, Canada: definitive provenance
links to northern latitudes. Geosphere 17, 2197–2233.


Malone, D., Craddock, J., Link, P.K., Foreman, B., Scroggins, M.A., Rappe, J., 2017, Detrital zircon
geochronology and provenance of the Neoproterozoic Brigham Group as revealed by quartzite clasts in
Phanerozoic conglomerates, Idaho-Wyoming, USA: Precambrian Research, v. 289, p. 116-128,
doi:10/1016/j.precamres.2016.12.011.


Meyer, K.A., Roth, C.J., Lipple, B.A., and Link, P.K., Factors related to the distribution and abundance of
westslope cutthroat trout in central Idaho, Western North American Naturalist 82(4), © 2022, pp.
734–747


Link, P.K., Pearson, D.M., and Mertzman, S.A., 2014, Geologic map of the Little Wood Reservoir 7.5’
Quadrangle, Blaine County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey map T-14-3, scale 1:24,000.


Osterhout, S.L., Kingsbury, E.M., Link, P.K., and Dehler, C.M., 2016, Geologic map of the Mount Powell
quadrangle, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 16-5DM, scale 1:24,000.


Sherwin, J., Younggren, E.B., Link, P.K., and Gaschnig, R.M., 2017, Geologic map of the Coyote Creek 7.5’
quadrangle, southwest Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Map, scale 1:24,000.


Smith, G.R., Link, P.K., Thackray, G.D., and Keeley, E.R , 2018, Chapter 3 Biogeography of the Native Fish
Fauna of Idaho, in Sigler, J.W., and Zaroban, D.W., eds., Fishes of Idaho: A Natural History Survey, p.
45-60.

Staisch, Lydia M., Jim E. O’Connor, Jim E., Cannon, Charles M., Holm-Denoma, Chris, Link, Paul K., Lasher,
John, and Alexander, J.A., 2021, Major reorganization of the Snake River modulated by passage of the
Yellowstone Hotspot. Geological Society of America Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B36174.1.

 

Paul Link and students on geology field trip