Benjamin Cardenas

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Assistant Professor, Geosciences

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Recent Publications

Landforms Associated With the Aspect-Controlled Exhumation of Crater-Filling Alluvial Strata on Mars

Cardenas, B. T. & Stacey, K., Aug 16 2023, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 50, 15, e2023GL103618.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Morphodynamic Preservation of Fluvial Channel Belts

Cardenas, B. T., Lamb, M. P., Jobe, Z. R., Mohrig, D. & Swartz, J. M., 2023, In: Sedimentary Record. 21, 1

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Relationships between fluvial dune cross-set thickness, planview width, and trough geometry

Cardenas, B. T., Stacey, K. & Baran, Z. J., 2023, In: Geology. 51, 12, p. 1163-1167 5 p.

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Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion

Wu, C., Kim, W., Herring, R., Cardenas, B. T., Dong, T. Y., Ma, H., Moodie, A., Nittrouer, J. A., Tsai, F. & Li, A., Aug 2023, In: Nature Geoscience. 16, 8, p. 747-753 7 p.

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BARFORM DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLYN SHOEMAKER FORMATION, GALE CRATER, MARS

Cardenas, B. T., Grotzinger, J. P., Lamb, M. P., Lewis, K. W., Fedo, C. M., Bryk, A. B., Dietrich, W. E., Stein, N., Turner, M. & Caravaca, G., Dec 2022, In: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 92, 12, p. 1071-1092 22 p.

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Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill

Cardenas, B. T., Lamb, M. P. & Grotzinger, J. P., Nov 2022, In: Nature Geoscience. 15, 11, p. 871-877 7 p.

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Paleogeographic Reconstructions of an Ocean Margin on Mars Based on Deltaic Sedimentology at Aeolis Dorsa

Cardenas, B. T. & Lamb, M. P., Oct 2022, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 127, 10, e2022JE007390.

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Tributary channel networks formed by depositional processes

Swartz, J. M., Cardenas, B. T., Mohrig, D. & Passalacqua, P., Mar 2022, In: Nature Geoscience. 15, 3, p. 216-221 6 p.

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The Oligocene-Miocene Guadalope-Matarranya Fan, Spain, as an Analog for Long-Lived, Ridge-Bearing Megafans on Mars

Hayden, A. T., Lamb, M. P., Myrow, P. M., Mohrig, D., Williams, R. M. E., Cuevas Martínez, J. L., Cardenas, B. T., Findlay, C. P., Ewing, R. C. & McElroy, B. J., Dec 2021, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 126, 12, e2021JE006993.

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Controls of aeolian dune height on cross-strata architecture: White Sands Dune Field, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Zhao, F., Cardenas, B. T. & Kim, W., May 2021, In: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 91, 5, p. 495-506 12 p.

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The anatomy of exhumed river-channel belts: Bedform to belt-scale river kinematics of the Ruby Ranch Member, Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA

Cardenas, B. T., Mohrig, D., Goudge, T. A., Hughes, C. M., Levy, J. S., Swanson, T., Mason, J. & Zhao, F., Dec 2020, In: Sedimentology. 67, 7, p. 3655-3682 28 p.

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Pattern evolution and interactions in subaqueous dune fields: North loup river, Nebraska, U.S.A.

Mason, J., Cardenas, B. T., Day, M. D., Daniller-Varghese, M., Brothers, S. C., Kocurek, G. & Mohrig, D., Dec 2020, In: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 90, 12, p. 1734-1746 13 p.

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Preservation of autogenic processes and allogenic forcings in set-scale aeolian architecture II: The scour-and-fill dominated Jurassic Page Sandstone, Arizona, U.S.A.

Cardenas, B. T., Kocurek, G., Mohrig, D., Swanson, T., Hughes, C. M. & Brothers, S. C., 2019, In: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 89, 8, p. 741-760 20 p.

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The Effect of Remote Sensing Resolution Limits on Aeolian Sandstone Measurements and the Reconstruction of Ancient Dune Fields on Mars: Numerical Experiment Using the Page Sandstone, Earth

Cardenas, B. T., Swanson, T., Goudge, T. A., Wagner, R. W. & Mohrig, D., Dec 1 2019, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 124, 12, p. 3244-3256 13 p.

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Deltaic deposits indicative of a paleo-coastline at Aeolis Dorsa, Mars

Hughes, C. M., Cardenas, B. T., Goudge, T. A. & Mohrig, D., Jan 1 2019, In: Icarus. 317, p. 442-453 12 p.

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