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Last published 2026
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Glenn R. Sharman

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Associate Professor

Also affiliated: Texas Tech University (2024); United States Geological Survey (2023); University of Leicester (1992); ConocoPhillips (United States) (2015); China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (2022); Bureau of Economic Geology (2016–2021); Wheaton College - Illinois (2010); The University of Texas at Austin (2016–2021); Stanford University (2013–2016)

20 h-index 148 pubs 1,748 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Glenn R. Sharman's research focuses on understanding sediment routing systems and provenance using detrital geochronology. His work investigates the sources and transport pathways of sediments, particularly in forearc basins and continental margins. He has developed computational tools, such as the Python-based toolset 'detritalPy,' to aid in the visualization and analysis of detrital thermochronologic data.

His publications explore the application of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology to determine maximum depositional ages of modern sediments and to reconstruct paleogeography and drainage reorganization. Specific research areas include the detrital zircon provenance of the California forearc, the sediment routing system of the Western Interior of the United States, and coarse clastic deposition in the Magallanes–Austral foreland basin. Sharman also studies chronostratigraphic frameworks, with implications for geological boundaries such as the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in southern Africa.

Sharman holds an h-index of 20 and has authored over 150 publications, accumulating more than 1,700 citations. He actively collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Jordan Oefinger, John Shaw, Celina Suarez, and Jack Fekete. He maintains an active lab website to share his research.

Metrics

  • h-index: 20
  • Publications: 148
  • Citations: 1,748

Positions

  • Associate Professor 2022–present
    University of Arkansas Department of Geosciences ORCID
  • Assistant Professor publications 2017–2026
    University of Arkansas Department of Geosciences ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Cloverly Chronostratigraphy Data (2026)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex
  • Cloverly Chronostratigraphy Data (2026)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex
  • A revised chronostratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic Moenave Formation, western USA: Implications for timing of continental climate change (2025)
    Geological Society of America Bulletin 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • REFINED GEOCHRONOLOGIC FRAMEWORK OF THE EARLY CRETACEOUS NONMARINE WESTERN INTERIOR BASIN (2025)
    Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America DOI OpenAlex
  • Classifying detrital zircon U-Pb age distributions using automated machine learning (2025)
    Applied Computing and Geosciences 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Leaving no zircon unturned: quantifying the impact of handpicking sharply faceted detrital zircon on maximum depositional age analysis (2025)
    Journal of Sedimentary Research 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Classifying Detrital Zircon U-Pb Age Distributions Using Automated Machine Learning (2025)
    SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • CHANGES IN PRECIPITATION DRIVE STRATIGRAPHIC PRESERVATION OF CLIMATE SIGNALS: INSIGHTS FROM LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION MODELING (2024)
    Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America DOI OpenAlex
  • The leaky chronometer: Evidence for systematic cryptic Pb loss in laser ablation U‐Pb dating of zircon relative to CA ‐ TIMS (2024)
    Terra Nova 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Peri-Gondwanan sediment in the Arkoma Basin derived from the north: The detrital zircon record of a uniquely concentrated non-Laurentian source signal in the late Paleozoic (2024)
    Geosphere 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Modeling apparent Pb loss in zircon U–Pb geochronology (2024)
    Geochronology 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A PROBABLE IDAHO SOURCE FOR DETRITAL ZIRCONS IN A LATE CRETACEOUS-EOCENE SUBMARINE FAN SEQUENCE OVERLYING THE CENTRAL BELT OF THE FRANCISCAN COMPLEX, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (2023)
    Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • DETRITAL ZIRCON AGES FROM UPPER CRETACEOUS–PALEOGENE FOREARC AND SUBDUCTION-ZONE STRATA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ENVIRONS COMPARED TO CORDILLERAN IGNEOUS BASEMENT AGES: IMPLICATIONS FOR LARAMIDE TECTONICS (2023)
    Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America DOI OpenAlex
  • Supplemental materials for "Modeling apparent Pb loss in zircon U-Pb geochronology" (2023)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex
  • Supplemental materials for "Modeling apparent Pb loss in zircon U-Pb geochronology" (2023)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex

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