| Postglacial history of lost trail pass bog, Bitterroot Mountains, Montana PJ Mehringer Jr, SF Arno, KL Petersen Arctic and Alpine Research 9 (4), 345-368, 1977 | 225 | 1977 |
| Anasazi (pre-Columbian Native-American) migrations during the middle-12th and late-13th centuries–were they drought induced? L Benson, K Petersen, J Stein Climatic change 83 (1), 187-213, 2007 | 197 | 2007 |
| A warm and wet Little Climatic Optimum and a cold and dry Little Ice Age in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA KL Petersen Climatic Change 26 (2), 243-269, 1994 | 132 | 1994 |
| Pollen influx and volcanic ash: The pollen content of Mazama and Glacier Peak ashes reveals details of their depositional chronologies. PJ Mehringer Jr, E Blinman, KL Petersen Science 198 (4314), 257-261, 1977 | 100 | 1977 |
| Climate and the Dolores River Anasazi: A paleoenvironmental reconstruction from a 10,000-year pollen record, La Plata Mountains, Southwestern Colorado KL Petersen (No Title), 1988 | 95 | 1988 |
| Postglacial timberline fluctuations, La Plata Mountains, southwestern Colorado KL Petersen, PJ Mehringer Jr Arctic and Alpine Research 8 (3), 275-288, 1976 | 89 | 1976 |
| A pollen record from Birket Qarun and the recent history of the Fayum, Egypt PJ Mehringer, KL Petersen, FA Hassan Quaternary Research 11 (2), 238-256, 1979 | 74 | 1979 |
| Late-glacial vegetation and climate at the Manis mastodon site, Olympic Peninsula, Washington KL Petersen, PJ Mehringer, CE Gustafson Quaternary Research 20 (2), 215-231, 1983 | 73 | 1983 |
| Late Pleistocene and early Holocene paleoecology of Cowboy Cave WG Spaulding, KL Petersen, JD Jennings Cowboy Cave 104, 163-177, 1980 | 32 | 1980 |
| Some thoughts on the factors that controlled prehistoric maize production in the American Southwest with application to southwestern Colorado LV Benson, DK Ramsey, DW Stahle, KL Petersen Journal of Archaeological Science 40 (7), 2869-2880, 2013 | 29 | 2013 |
| Modern and Pleistocene climatic patterns in the West KL Petersen Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and, 52, 1998 | 27 | 1998 |
| Paleoclimatic data applications: Long-term performance of uranium mill tailings repositories WJ Waugh, KL Petersen Rust Geotech, Inc., Grand Junction, CO (United States), 1995 | 25 | 1995 |
| A 1,500-year synthesis of wildfire activity stratified by elevation from the US Rocky Mountains VA Carter, MJ Power, ZJ Lundeen, JL Morris, KL Petersen, A Brunelle, ... Quaternary International 488, 107-119, 2018 | 24 | 2018 |
| Natural analogs of the long-term performance of engineered covers WJ Waugh, KL Petersen, SO Link, BN Bjornstad, GW Gee Battelle Press, Columbus, OH (United States), 1994 | 24 | 1994 |
| Climate and the Dolores River Anasazi. Univ. Utah Anthropological Papers, No. 113 KL Peterson University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1988 | 23* | 1988 |
| 1998: 1 AK Petersen, S Eriksson Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 74 (1), 0 | 22 | |
| Climatic reconstruction for the Dolores Project KL Petersen Final Synthetic Report, 311-325, 1986 | 15 | 1986 |
| 10,000 years of climatic change reconstructed from fossil pollen, La Plata Mountains, southwestern Colorado KL Petersen Washington State University, 1981 | 15 | 1981 |
| Palynology in Montezuma County, southwestern Colorado: the local history of pinyon pine (Pinus edulis) KL Petersen ASSP Contrib. Ser 16, 47-62, 1985 | 13 | 1985 |
| MANS IMPACT ON THE LANDSCAPE, A PREHISTORIC EXAMPLE FROM THE DOLORES RIVER ANASAZI, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO KL Petersen, MH Matthews Journal of the West 26 (3), 4-16, 1987 | 9 | 1987 |
Zachary LundeenResearch Assistant Professor, University of UtahVerified email at utah.edu
