Publications 

Refereed Papers (to request reprints, email: shemin.ge@colorado.edu)

Ge., S., J. McKenzie, C.I. Voss, Q. Wu, 2011, Exchange of groundwater and surfacewater mediated by permafrost response to seasonal and long term air temperature variation, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L14402, doi:10.1029/2011GL047911, L14402

Wang, X.-S., X.-W. Jiang, L. Wan, S. Ge, and H. Li, in press, A new analytical solution of topography-driven flow in a drainage basin with depth-dependent anisotropy of permeability, Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2011WR010507.

Ge, S., 2011, Comment on "Evidence that the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake Could Not Have Been Induced by the Zipingpu Reservoir" by Kai Deng, Shiyong Zhou, Rui Wang, Russell Robinson, Cuiping Zhao, and Wanzheng Cheng

Lyndsay Ball, Shemin Ge, Jonathan Saul Caine, André Revil, Abderrahim Jardani, 2010, Constraining fault-zone hydrogeology through integrated hydrological and geoelectrical analysis, Hydrogeology Journal, doi: 10.1007/s10040-010-0587-z

Jiang, X.-W., X.-S. Wang, L. Wan, and S. Ge, 2011, An analytical study on stagnation points in nested flow systems in basins with depth-decaying hydraulic conductivity, Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2010WR009346.

Xiao-Wei Jiang, Li Wan, M. Bayani Cardenas, Shemin Ge, Xu-Sheng Wang, 2010, Simultaneous rejuvenation and aging of groundwater in basins due to  depth-decaying hydraulic conductivity and porosity, Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 37, L05403, doi:10.1029/2010GL042387, 2010

Liang, S., S. Ge, and L. Wan, 2010, Can climate change cause the Yellow River to dry up? Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2009WR007971.

Ge, S., M. Liu, N. Lu, J. Godt, and G.Luo, 2009, Did the Zipingpu Reservoir Trigger the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake? Journal of Geophysical Research Letters. 36, L20315, doi:10.1029/2009GL040349.

Ge, S., Q.B. Wu, N. Lu, G. L. Jiang, and L Ball, 2008, Groundwater in the Tibet Plateau, western China, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L18403, doi:10.1029/2008GL034809.

Kahn, K., S. Ge, J. Caine, A. Manning, 2008, Characterization of the Shallow Groundwater System in an Alpine Watershed: Handcart Gulch, Colorado, Hydrogeology Journal, 16(1), doi: 10.1007/s10040-007-0225-6,

Robertson, G., S. Ge, P. Cutillo, 2007, An investigation of regional tectonic strain on water levels in Devils Hole, Geophysical Research Letter, doi:10.1029/2007GL031630, 34, L23308.

Screaton, E.J. and S. Ge, 2007, Modeling of the effects of propagating thrust slip on pore pressures and implications for monitoring, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 258, 454464

Cutillo, P.A. and S. Ge, 2006, Analysis of strain-induced ground-water fluctuations at Devils Hole, Nevada, GeoFluids, 6, 319–333, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-8123.2006.00150.

Cutillo, P.A., S. Ge, and E. Screaton, 2006, Hydrodynamic response of subduction zones to seismic activity: A case study for the Costa Rica Margin doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2006.02.017, Tectonophysics, 426, 167-187, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2006.02.017

Caine, J.S., Manning, A.H., Verplanck, P.L, Bove, D.J., Kahn, K.G., and Ge, S., 2006, Well Construction Information, Lithologic Logs, Water Level Data, and Overview of Research in Handcart Gulch, Colorado: An Alpine Watershed Affected by Metalliferous Hydrothermal Alteration: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2006-1189.

Ge, S. and E. Screaton, 2005, Modeling Seismically Induced Deformation and Fluid Flow in the Nankai Subduction Zone, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L17301, doi:10.1029/2005GL023473, 2005

Cutillo PA, E.J. Screaton, S. Ge, 2003, Three-dimensional numerical simulation of fluid flow and heat transport within the Barbados Ridge accretionary complex, Journal of  Geophysical Research, 108 (B12), 2555, doi:10.1029/2002JB002240

J. Marler and S. Ge, 2003, The Permeability of the Elkhorn Fault Zone: A case study from South Park, Colorado, Journal of Ground Water, 41(3), 321-332.

Stover, C.S., S. Ge, and E. Screaton, 2003, A one-dimensional analytically-based approach for studying poroelastic and viscoplastic consolidation: application to Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(B9), 2448, doi: 10.1029/2001JB000466.

S. Ge, B. Bekins, J.Bredehoeft, K. Brown, E.E. Davis, S.M. Gorelick, P. Henry, H. Kooi, A.F. Moench, C. Ruppel, M. Sauter, E. Screaton, P.K. Swart, T. Tokunaga, C.I. Voss, and F.Whitaker, 2003 (April 22), Fluid Flow in Sub-seafloor Processes and Future Ocean Drilling, EOS, 84(16), 145-152.

S. Ge, 2002, Hydrology: ground and Surface Water, in Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Science, edited by J.R. Holton, J. Pyle, and J.A. Curry, volume 3, Academic Press.

I.W. Yeo and S. Ge, 2001, Solute dispersion in rock fractures by non-Darcian flow, Geophysical Research Letters, 28(20), 3983-3986.

Stover, C.S., S. Ge, P. Weimer, and B. McBride, 2001, The effects of salt evolution, structural development, and fault propagation on Late Mesozoic/Cenozoic oil migration: a two-dimensional fluid flow study along a megaregional profile in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Bulletin of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 85(11), 1945-1966.

Stover, S.C., P. Weimer, S. Ge, 2001, The effects of allochthonous salt evolution and overpressure development on source rock thermal maturation: a two-dimensional transient study in the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin, Petroleum Geosciences, 7, 281-290.

Ge, S. and S.C. Stover, 2000, Hydrodynamic response to strike- and dip-slip faulting in a half-space, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105(B11), 25513 - 25524.

Screaton, E. and S. Ge, 2000, Anomalously high porosities in the proto-decollement zone of the Barbados accretionary complex: Do they indicate overpressures? Geophysical Research Letters, 27(13), 1993-1996.

Waite, M., S. Ge, and H. Spetzler, 1999, A new conceptual model for flow in discrete fractures: An experimental and numerical study, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104(B6), 13049 -13059.

Hinds, J., S. Ge, and C. Fridrich, 1999, Numerical modeling of perched water under Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Journal of Ground Water, 37(4), 498-504.

Ge, S., 1998, Estimation of groundwater velocity in fracture zones from well temperature profiles, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 84, 93-101.

Waite, M., S. Ge, H. Spetzler, and D. Bahr, 1998, The effect of surface geometry on fracture permeability: a case study using a sinusoidal fracture, Geophysical Research Letters, 25(6), 813-816.

Ge, S., 1998, A new analytical treatment of airflow to inlet wells in soil vapor extraction systems, Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, 18(2), 133-136.

Fridrich, C., S. Ge, and J. Sass, 1998, On the mechanism of the large hydraulic gradient under Yucca Mountain, Nevada, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 98-119.

Ge, S., 1997, A governing equation for fluid flow in rough fractures, Water Resources Research, 33(1), 53-61.

Screaton, E. and S. Ge, 1997, An Assessment of along-strike fluid  flow and heat transport within Barbados accretionary complex: Results of Preliminary Modeling, Geophysical Research Letters, 24(23), 3085-3088.

Ge, S. and N. Lu, 1996, A semianalytical solution of one-dimensional advective-dispersive solute transport under an arbitrary concentration boundary condition, Journal of Ground Water, 34(3), 501-503.

Person, M., J. Raffensperger, S. Ge, and G. Garven, 1996, Basin-scale hydrological modeling, Review of Geophysics, 34(1), 61-78.

Ge, S. and M. Liao, 1996, An analytical solution for airflow to inlet wells in vapor extraction systems under leaky conditions, Water Resources Research, 32(3), 743-748.

Lu, N. and S. Ge, 1996, Effect of the horizontal heat and fluid flow on the vertical temperature distribution, Water Resources Research, 32(5), 1449-1453.

Ge, S. and G. Garven, 1994, A theoretical model for thrust-induced deep groundwater expulsion with application to the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99(B7), 13851-13868.

Garven G., S. Ge,  M.A. Person, and D.A. Sverjensky, 1993, Genesis of stratabound ore deposits in the Midcontinent basins of North America, 1. role of regional groundwater flow, American Journal of Science, 293 (6), 497-568.

Ge, S. and G. Garven, 1992, Hydromechanical modeling of tectonically-driven groundwater flow with application to the Arkoma Foreland Basin, Journal of Geophysical Research, 97(B6), 9119-914

Ge, S. and G. Garven, 1990, Tectonically induced transient groundwater flow in sedimentary basins, in: Origin and Evolution of Sedimentary Basins and Their Energy and Mineral Resources, ed. R. A. Price, Geophysical Monograph 48, American Geophysical Union, 145-157.

Book Review

Ge, S., 1998, Fluid Physics in Geology, D.J. Furbish, Oxford University Press Inc., Journal of Ground Water, 36(1), 5.

Proceedings, Monographs, and U.S. Geological Survey Reports 

S. Ge, B.Bekins, J. Bredehoeft, K. Brown, E.E. Davis, S.M. Gorelick, P. Henry, H. Kooi, A.F. Moench, C. Ruppel, M. Sauter, E. Screaton, P.K. Swart, T. Tokunaga, C.I. Voss, F. Whitaker, 2002, Hydrogeology Program Planning Group Final Report, JOIDES Journal, 28(2), 24-29.

S.M. Shultz, S. Ge, and M. Hill, 2001, Ground-water flow in a mine-contaminated watershed, southwest Colorado: testing of problems and unique solutions, MODFLOW2001 conference proceedings, 154-160.

Stover, S.C., P. Weimer, S. Ge, 2000, Northern Gulf of Mexico paleo-fluid flow patterns, source rock maturation, Offshore, November, 96-97.

Hinds, J., C. Fridrich, and S. Ge, 1997, Perched water dynamics at Yucca Mountain, Nevada: a numerical approach, in Hydrology Days, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual American Geophysical Union, 127-140.