Articles:
Balgord, E. A. and Herrmann, S., in prep, Assessing the Effectiveness of Immersive Virtual Field Trips as Teaching and Recruitment Tools in Introductory Geosciences Courses: to be submitted to Journal of Geoscience Education
Balgord, E. A., Yonkee, W. A., in review, Paleoproterozoic petro-tectonic evolution of the Farmington Canyon Complex, northern Utah: implications for supercraton breakup and construction of southwestern Laurentia: Precambrian Research
Balgord, E. A., Perez-Consuegra, N., Giambiagi, L. B., Mescua, J., Carrapa, B. C., in revew, Basin evolution in the Aconcagua region (33ºS) and implications for Cretaceous shortening in the southern central Andes of Argentina, Tectonics
Stevens Goddard, A., *Black, S., Balgord, E., Anderson, Z., Leary, R., Thurston, O., Yonkee, A., 2025, Detrital thermochronology histories preserved in Paleogene strata of Utah provide distant records of Paleozoic Alleghenian orogenesis and sediment dispersal: Geology, v. 53, n. 3, pp. 217-222
Yonkee, A., Willis, G.C., Balgord, E., Doelling, H.H., and Jensen, M.E., 2024, Geology of Antelope Island State Park, in Sprinkel, D.A., Chidsey, T.C., Jr., Anderson, P.B., and Willis, G.C., editors, Geology of Utah’s parks and monuments, Utah Geological Association Publication 28 (fourth edition), p. 471-515.
Kleber, E.J., McDonald, G.M., Yonkee, W.A., and Balgord, E.A., 2024, Interim geologic map of the Plain City Southwest 7.5′ quadrangle, Weber and Box Elder Counties, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Open-File Report 765, 8 p., 2 plates, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.34191/OFR-765.
Kleber, E.J., McDonald, G.M., Yonkee, W.A., and Balgord, E.A., 2024, Interim geologic map of the Ogden Bay 7.5′ quadrangle, Weber and Davis Counties, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Open-File Report 766, 8 p., 2 plates, scale 1:24,000, https:// doi.org/10.34191/OFR-766.
McKean, A. P., Kleber, E. J., McDonald, G. N., Balgord, E.A., Yonkee, W. A., 2024, Interim Geologic Map of the North Ogden Quadrangle, Weber and Box Elder Counties, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Open File Reports 1:24,000
Anderson, Z. W., McDonald, G. N., Balgord, E.A., Yonkee, W. A., 2024, Interim Geologic Map of the Browns Hole Quadrangle, Weber and Cache Counties, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Open Survey Open File Reports 1:24,000
Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Ducea, M.N., Jepson, G., Osakwe, A., Balgord E.A., Goddard A.L., Giambiagi L.A. 2022, Estimates of paleo-crustal thickness at Cerro Aconcagua (Southern Central Andes) from detrital proxy-records: Implications for models of continental arc evolution: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Doi: 585:117526.
Balgord., E. A., Yonkee, A., Wells, M. A., Gentry, A., Laskowski, A. K., 2021, Interrelations of Arc Tempo, Crustal Recycling, Deformation Styles, and Foreland Basin Evolution, Central North American Cordillera: Constraints from the Detrital Zircon Record: Earth Science Reviews
Mescua, J. F., Suriano, J., Schencman, L. J., Giambiagi, L., Sruoga, P., Balgord, E. A., Bechis, F., 2020, Controls on deposition of the Tordillo Formation in southern Mendoza (34-36 °S): implications for the Kimmeridgian tectonic Setting of the Neuquén Basin, 2020, in Folguera and Kietzmann eds. Opening and Closure of the Neuquén Basin in the Southern Andes: Springer Earth System Sciences.
Gentry, A., Yonkee, W.A., Wells, M.L., and Balgord, E.A., 2018, Resolving the History of Early Fault Slip and Foreland Basin Evolution along the Wyoming Salient of the Sevier Fold-and-Thrust Belt: Integrating Detrital Zircon Geochronology, Provenance Modeling, and Subsidence Analysis, in Ingersoll, R.V., Lawton, T.F., and Graham, S.A., eds., Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, and Provenance: A Celebration of William R. Dickinson’s Career: Geological Society of America Special Paper 540, p. 509–545.
McKean, A.P., Balgord, E.A., Yonkee, W.A., Hiscock, A., 2018, Geologic Map of the Willard Quadrangle, Box Elder County, Utah; Utah Geological Survey open file report, 1:24,000
Balgord, E.A., 2017, Triassic to Neogene Evolution of the South-Central Andean Arc Determined by Detrital Zircon U-Pb and Hf Analysis of Neuquén Basin Strata, Central Argentina (34°S–40°S): Lithosphere, v. 9, n. 3, p. 453-462.
Stevens, A., Balgord, E. A., Carrapa, B., 2016, Revised exhumation history of the Laramide Wind River Range, Wyoming USA, Tectonics
Di Giulio, A., Ronchi A. Sanfilippo, A., Balgord, E., Carrapa, B., Ramos, V. A., 2016, Tectonic reconstruction of the Andean margin through multi-proxy provenance analysis of the Cretaceous Neuquén Basin (Argentina), Basin Research
Balgord, E. A., and Carrapa, B., 2015, Basin evolution of the upper Cretaceous-lower Cenozoic strata in the Malargüe fold-and-thrust belt: northern Neuquén Basin, Argentina: Basin Research
Yonkee, W.A., Dehler, C., Link, P. K., Balgord, E. A., Keeley, J., Wells, M., Johnston, S., 2014, Tectono-stratigraphic framework of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian strata, west-central U.S.: Protracted rifting, glaciations, and evolution of the North American Cordilleran margin, Earth Science Reviews, v.136, p. 59-95
Balgord, E.A., Yonkee, W.A., Link, P.K., Fanning, C.M., 2013, Stratigraphic, geochronologyic and geochemical analysis of the Neoproterozoic Perry Canyon Formation, northern Utah: Implications for snowball Earth and Rodinian rifting, Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Yonkee, W.A., Czech, D.M., Nachbor, A.C., Barszewski, C., Pantone, S., Balgord, E. A., Johnson, K.R., 2013, Strain accumulation and fluid-rock interaction in a naturally deformed diamictite, Willard thrust system, Utah (USA): Implications for crustal rheology and strain softening, Journal of Structural Geology
Spencer, C.J., Hoiland, C.W., Harris, R.A., Link, P.K., 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 Rodinia rifting, Precambrian Geology, c. 204-205, p. 57-65
MacLaurin, C.I., Kjos, A.R., Kohel, C.A, Forgette, M.M., Balgord, E.A., Ihinger, P.D., and Mahoney, J.B, 2012, Geologic map of the Dunn Creek 7.5' quadrangle, southwest Montana, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology: Open File Report, 1:24,000
Balgord, E.A., Mahoney, J. B., Potter, J.J, Pignotta, G.S., Wittkop, C., King, N. E., Hardel, B. G., and Kadulski, B. 2010, Geologic map of Esmeralda Hills 7.5' quadrangle, west-central Montana, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology: Open-File Report, 1:24,000.
Mahoney, J. B., Balgord, E.A., Forgette, M.M., MacLaurin, C.A., Potter, J.J, Pignotta, G.S., Ihinger, P.D. 2010. Geologic Map of the MacDonald Pass, Montana 7.5’ Quadrangle West-Central Montana; Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report, 1:24,000.
Sears, J.W., Link, P.K., Balgord, E.A., and Mahoney J.B., 2010, Quartzite of Argenta, Beaverhead County, Montana, revisited: Definitive evidence of Precambrian age indicates edge of Belt basin, Northwest Geology v. 39, 122, p.41
Mahoney, J.B., Haggart, J.W., MacLaurin, K.I, Forgette, M.M., Goodin, J.R., Balgord, E.A., and Mustard, P.S., 2009, Regional Facies Patterns in the Northern Jackass Mountain Group, Northern Methow Basin, British Columbia (NTS 92-O); in Geological Fieldwork 2006, British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines, Paper 2009-1, p. 183-192.
Select Abstracts (* denotes student author)
*Cornwall, B., *Mayfield, E., Balgord, E., Yonkee, A., Perez Consuegra, N., Wilfong, C., Anderson, Z., McKean, A. and McDonald, G., 2025, Revised Age and Geologic Significance of the Norwood Tuff, Morgan Valley, Northern Utah: Provo, UT, May 19, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 57, No. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2025RM-410158
*Mayfield, E., *Cornwall, B., Balgord, E., Yonkee, A., Perez Consuegra, N., Wilfong, C., Anderson, Z., McKean, A. and McDonald, G., 2025, Revisiting the Norwood Tuff: Unveiling Yellowstone Hotspot Ashes in Ogden Valley, Northern Utah: Provo, UT, May 19, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 57, No. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2025RM-410187
Balgord, E., Yonkee, A., Weil, A., Wells, M., 2024, Influence of Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic stratigraphic architecture on tectonic evolution of the Sevier and Laramide belts, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 56, n. 5.
*Sanchez, E., Barron, A., Balgord, E., Yonkee, A., Hagadorn, J., Petrogenesis of the Ediacaran Browns Hole Formation of northern Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 56, n. 5.
Balgord, E., Yonkee, A., *Henriod, J., *Olsen, K., *Knight, L., *Tanner, N., Rabosky, K., 2024, Age, Provenance, and Hf isotopic signatures of the Farmington Canyon Complex, Northern Utah: Implications for Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution of western Laurentia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 56, n. 4. doi: 10.1130/abs/2024CD-399838
Balgord, E. A., Yonkee, W. A., *Wilcock, L., 2023 Unraveling the Paleoproterozoic evolution of western North America: petrotectonic, geochemical, and geochronologic studies of the Farmington Canyon Complex, northern Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 55, n. 5
*Knight, L., *Olsen, K., *Shank, J., *Stern, C., Balgord, E., 2023, Timing and genesis of mineralization in the Silver Island Mountains, western Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 55, n. 6
Balgord, E. A., Frantz, C., Matyjasik, M., Yonkee, A., 2023, The evolution of geoscience research programs for incoming and first-year undergraduate students at Weber State University, northern Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 55, n. 6
*Wilcock, L., *Rasmussen, K., Balgord, E. A., Yonkee, W. A., 2022, Age, Protoliths, and Petrotectonic History of the Farmington Canyon Complex: Paleoproterozoic Evolution of Western North America: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54, n. 5
*Black, S., Stevens Goddard, A., Balgord, E., Anderson, Z., and Yonkee, A., 2022, The Importance of Local Provenance Variation in Foreland Basin Systems: Sevier Fold-Thrust Belt, Eastern Wasatch Range of Northeastern Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54, n. 5
Balgord, E., Anderson, Z., Yonkee, A., Stevens Goddard, A., *Black, S., 2022, New Mapping, Stratigraphic and Provenance Analysis of Cretaceous-Paleogene Conglomerates in Northern Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54, n. 5
Frantz, C., *Gibby, C., *Nilson, R., *Aeschilimann, J., *Athalye, R., *Christensen, C., *DeGrange, A., *Dolan, H., *Ellsworth, C., *Gibby, J., *Imolega, J., *Nhuyen, M., *Nielsen, G., *Patano, C., *Penrod, C., *Sihapanya, A., *Stern, C., *Whipple, K., *Wilcock, L., Baxter, B., Balgord, E. A., 2022, Documenting a Geobiological Tragedy: The Exposure of Great Salt Lake’s Microbialites and the Undergraduate Researchers at the Vanguard: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54, n. 5
*Rasmussen, K., *Wilcock, L., *Athalye, R., Balgord., E., Yonkee, A., 2022, Age and Evolution of the Farmington Canyon Complex, Northern Utah: Insights from U-Pb Zircon Geochronology: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54
Yonkee, A., Balgord, E. A., Wells, M. L., Stokli, D. F., Gentry, A., 2021, Tectonic Tempos of the North American Cordillera Retroarc during the mid-Cretaceous: Exploring Interconnections between Plate Dynamics, Thrust Slip Histories, Foreland Basin Sedimentation, and the Archive of Arc Magmatism from Nevada to Wyoming: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 53, n. 6
Balgord, E. A., Frantz, C. A., Matyjasik, M., 2021, Increasing Student Recruitment and Retention Using Place-Based Research Programs for Incoming and First-Year Earth and Environmental Science Students in Ogden, UT: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 53, n. 6
Balgord, E. A., Yonkee, A., Ford, R., and Frantz. C., 2020, Developing Multidisciplinary Immersive Virtual Geoscience Field Trips at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 52, n. 6.
*Jensen, A., Balgord, E. A., *Berniche, A., Potter, K., Kobe, S., Yonkee, A., 2020, Petrotectonic Evolution of the Precambrian Farmington Canyon Complex of Northern Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 52, n. 6.
*Henderson, J., Balgord, E. A., Gentry, A., 2020, Adding Assessment and Active Learning Activities to a Lecture-Based Concurrent Enrollment Introductory Geology Course to Promote Recruitment in the Earth Sciences: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 52, n. 6.
*Williams, B. E., Diedesch, T. F., Balgord, E. A., All, J., 2020, Geologic Mapping of Sulfide-Bearing Bedrock Exposed by Deglaciation in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 52, n. 2
*Vaughn, A., Balgord, E. A., Diedesch, T. F., All, J., Sofield, R., 2019, Tracking Glacial Retreat in the Peruvian Andes: Geologic Mapping in the Cordillera Blanca Documents Newly Exposed Sources of Water Contamination: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 51, n. 5.
*Morgan, C., Diedesch, T. F., Balgord, E. A., 2019, Deformation and Metamorphism in the Roof of the Cordillera Blanca Batholith, Peru: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 50, n. 41
*Longo, C., Balgord, E. A., Diedesch, T. F., All., J., 2018, The Impact of Climate Change of Water Quality in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 50, n. 6
Balgord, E. A., Frantz, C. M., Matyjasik, M., Yonkee, W. A., Ford, R. L., 2018, A Multifaceted Approach to Increasing Diversity in Geosciences: High School Concurrent Enrollment, Summer Bridge, Community Engaged Learning, and Early Research Experiences: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 50, n. 6.
Balgord, E. A., Yonkee, W. A., Wells, M., Laskowski, D. and Gentry, A., 2017, Evaluating Arc Periodicity and Geochemical Evolution within the Central North American Cordillera: Constraints from the U-Pb and Hf Isotopic Record of Detrital Zircons in Foreland Strata: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 344, n. 11.
Balgord, E. A., Matyjasik, M., Davis, G. and Ford, R., 2017, Increased Recruitment of Students from Underrepresented Groups in STEM Fields Using a Combination of Geoscience Concurrent Enrollment and Summer Bridge Program: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, n. 9.
*Patel, D., Balgord, E. A., and All, J., 2017, Bedrock Geochemistry and its Control on Water Quality during Rapid Glacial Retreat in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, n. 6.
*Robinson, K., *Robello, R., Balgord, E. A., Eaton, J., 2017, Depositional Environment and Provenance of the Pink Member of the Claron Formation, Southwestern Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, n. 5
*Robello, R., *Robinson, K., Balgord, E. A., Eaton, J., 2017, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Petrographic Analysis of the Claron Formation: Implication for Eocene Paleoenvironments along the Southern Margin of the Aquarius Plateau, Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, n. 5
Balgord, E. A., Mahoney, J. B., Kimbrough, D. L., Mazzitelli, M. A., Giambiagi, L., Evolution of the south-central Andean arc determined by detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf analysis of retroarc basin strata, Central Argentina (32˚S-40˚S)
Balgord, E. A., Carrapa, B., 2014, Early foreland basin depo-systems in the central-southern Andes of Argentina, 32˚S-35˚S, vol. 46, no. 6, p. 354.
Balgord, E. A., Carrapa, B., 2013, Timing of foreland basin formation and hinterland erosion in the south-central Andes of Argentina, 36˚ S: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 45, no. 7, p.677.
Link, P. K., Yonkee, W. A., Dehler, C. M., Mahoney, J. B., Balgord, E. A., Keeley, J. A., Mahon, R. C., 2013, Cryogenian to Ordovician detrital zircon provenance of the rifting Cordilleran Margin, Montana, Idaho and Utah, , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 44, no. 152, p. 197.
Taylor, S. S., Mahoney, J. B., Balgord, E. A., Pignotta, G., 2013, Geologic mapping in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark: Flathead/Belt relationships constrain the nature of the sub-Cambrian paleotopography, Lewis and Clark Pass, Montana, , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs , vol. 44, no. 7, p. 148
Balgord, E.A., Carrapa, B., 2012, Basin evolution recorded in Cretaceous stratigraphy within the Malargüe fold and thrust belt (northern Neuquén Basin, Argentina): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 44, no. 7, p.147.
Mahoney, J. B., Link, P. K., Todt, M. K., Taylor, S. S., Balgord, E. A., 2012, Neoproterozoic to Cambrian passive margin? Evidence for active tectonism during the Sauk Transgression in central Idaho and Montana, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 45, no. 7, p. 166
Stevens, A. L., Balgord, E. A., Carrapa, B., Restrepo, J. M., 2012, Utility of statistical methods and data presentation in detrital fission track thermochronology, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 45, no. 7, p. 744
Balgord, E.A., Dehler, C. M., Yonkee, W. A. , Link, P. K., Hayes, D.S., Keeley, J. A., Osterhaut, S. L., Richey, D., 2011, Fitful rifting, glaciation, and the birth of the Corilleran miogeocline: A Neoproterozoic-Cambrian detrital zircon record from northern Utah and southern Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 43, no. 5, p. 205
Balgord, E.A., Link, P. K., Fanning, C. M., 2010, U-Pb and Hf-isotopic analysis of zircons from the Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian) formation of Perry Canyon, Northern Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 42, no. 5, p.516
Balgord, E.A., Mahoney, J. B., and Gingras, Murray, 2009, Detrital zircon evidence requires revision of Belt stratigraphy in southwestern Montana: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 41, no. 7, p.232-1
Balgord, E.A., Mahoney, J. B., Hooper, R. L., and G., Lee A., 2009. Examining the Genesis of the Ni-Mo deposit, Selwyn Basin, Yukon: Proceeding for the 2009 Mineral Exploration Roundup, Vancouver, British Columbia
Balgord, E. A., Mahoney, J.B., Ihinger, P.D., MacLaurin, K.I., Forgette, M. M., Kimbrough, D., 2008. Redefinition of the Precambrian-Cambrian Contact in Southwestern Montana: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 40, no. 7, p. 152-5
Balgord, E. A., Mahoney, J. B., Grote, L. A., Hooper, R. L., 2008, Investigating the Origin of the Ni-Mo Deposit, Selwyn Basin, Yukon: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Yukon Geoscience Forum