PUBLICATIONS
Since 1983; student authors noted with*
Dethier, David P. and Safioles, Sally A., 1983, Potential sources of sand, gravel, and crushed rock, Port Townsend Quadrangle, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Investigations Map 1198-B.
Dethier, D.P. and Demsey*, K.A., 1984, Erosional history and soil development on Quaternary surfaces, northwest Española basin, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 35, p. 227-233.
Dethier, D.P. and Martin*, B.A., 1984, Geology and structure along part of the northeast Jemez Mountains, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 35, p. 145-150.
Dethier, David P. and Jones, Susan B., 1985, Atmospheric and weathering contributions to stream chemistry, northwestern Massachusetts: Northeastern Environmental Science, v. 4, p. 8-17.
Dethier, D.P. and Manley, Kim, 1985, Geologic map of the Chili Quadrangle, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1814, scale 1:24,000.
Colman, S.M. and Dethier, D.P. (eds.), 1986, Rates of chemical weathering of rocks and minerals: Academic, New York, 603 p.
Colman, S.M. and Dethier, D.P., 1986, An overview of rates of chemical weathering, in Colman, S.M. and Dethier, D.P. (eds.), Rates of chemical weathering of rocks and minerals: Academic, New York, p. 1-15.
Dethier, D.P., 1986, Weathering rates and the chemical flux from catchments in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A., in Colman, S.M. and Dethier, D.P. (eds.), Rates of chemical weathering of rocks and minerals: Academic, New York, p. 503-528.
Art, H.W. and Dethier, D.P., 1986, Influences of biotic succession on soil chemistry of the Berkshires: Massachusetts Water Resources Research Center Publ. 153, 167 p.
Bierman*, P.R. and Dethier, D.P., 1986, Lake Bascom and the deglaciation of northwestern Massachusetts: Northeastern Geology, v. 8, p. 32-43.
Dethier, D.P., Aldrich, M.J., Jr., and Shafiqullah, M., 1986, New K-Ar ages for Miocene volcanic rocks from the northeastern Jemez Mountains and Tejana Mesa, New Mexico: Isochron/West, No. 47, p. 12-14.
Dethier, D.P., and Harrington, C.D., 1987, Geologic dating of late Cenozoic erosion surfaces near Española, New Mexico: Guidebook, Friends of the Pleistocene (Rocky Mountain Section) Field Trip.
Dethier, D.P., Harrington, C.D., and Aldrich, M.J., 1988, Late Cenozoic rates of erosion in the western Española basin, New Mexico: evidence from geologic dating of erosion surfaces: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 928-937.
Dethier, D.P., Jones, S.B., Feist*, T.P., and Ricker*, J.E., 1988, Relations among sulfate, aluminum, iron, dissolved organic carbon, and pH in upland forest soils of northwestern Massachusetts: Soil Science Society of America Journal, v. 52, p. 506-512.
Dethier, D.P., 1988, The soil chronosequence along the Cowlitz River, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1590-F, p. F1-F47.
Dethier, David P., 1988, A hydrogeochemical model for stream chemistry, Cascade Range, Washington, U.S.A.: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 13, p. 321-333.
Harrington, C.D., Dethier, D.P., and Whitney, J.W., 1988, Reply on “Scanning electron microscope method for rock-varnish dating”: Geology, v. 16 (11), p. 1051-1052.
Heiken, Grant, Wohletz, Kenneth, Fisher, Richard V., and Dethier, David P., 1989, Maar volcanoes of White Rock Canyon–interaction of ground and surface water with basaltic volcanoes of the Rio Grande rift, New Mexico: IACEI General Assembly Field Trip 211, 27 p.
Pessl, Fred, Jr., Dethier, D.P., Booth, D.B., and Minard, J.P., 1989, Surficial geologic map of the Port Townsend 30-minute by 60-minute Quadrangle, northern Puget Sound Region, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Map I-1198, scale 1:100,000.
Aldrich, M.J., Jr. and Dethier, D.P., 1990, Stratigraphic and tectonic evolution of the northern Española basin, Rio Grande rift, New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 1695-1705.
Dethier, David P., Halverson*, Nils, Marrack*, Lisa, Meagher*, Mark, Oelkers*, Eric, Harrington, Charles D., Sarna-Wojcicki, Andrei, Meyer, Charles E., 1990, Occurrence of the Lava Creek B tephra layer in the northwestern Española basin, New Mexico: New Mexico Geology, v. 12 (4), p. 77-82.
Gonzalez, M.A. and Dethier, D.P., 1991, Geomorphic and neotectonic evolution along the margin of the Colorado Plateau and Rio Grande rift, northern New Mexico, in Julian, Betsy and Zidek, Jiri (eds.), Field guide to geologic excursions in New Mexico and adjacent areas of Texas and Colorado: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Bulletin 137, p. 29-45.
Dethier, David P., Longstreth*, Benjamin, Maxwell*, Keely, McMillin*, Scott, Scott*, James, Jr., Small*, Eric, and Weng*, Kevin, 1992, Rainfall-induced mass movements on Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts, during 1990: Northeastern Geology, v. 14(4), p. 218-224.
Dethier, David P. and McCoy, William D., 1993, Aminostratigraphic relations and age of Quaternary deposits, northern Española basin, New Mexico: Quaternary Research, v. 39, p. 222-230.
Dethier, D.P. and Reneau, S.L., 1995, Quaternary history of the western Española basin, New Mexico, in Bauer, P.W., Kues, B.S., Dunbar, N.W., Karlstrom, K.E., and Harrison, B. (eds.), Geology of the Santa Fe region, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society Forty-Sixth Annual Field Conference Guidebook, p. 289-298.
Dethier, D.P., Pessl, Fred, Jr., Keuler, R.F., Balzarini, M.A., and Pevear, D.R., 1995, Late Wisconsinan glaciomarine deposition and isostatic rebound in the northern Puget Lowland, Washington: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p. 1288-1303.
Self, Stephen, Heiken, Grant, Sykes, Martha L., Wohletz, Kenneth, Fisher, R.V., and Dethier, David P., 1996, Field excursions to the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Bulletin 134, 72 p.
Dethier, David P. and Reneau, Steven L., 1996, Lacustrine chronology links late Pleistocene climate change and mass movements in northern New Mexico: Geology, v. 24, p. 539-542.
Dethier, David P., White*, Daniel P., and Brookfield*, Christopher M., 1996, Maps of the surficial geology and depth to bedrock of False Bay, Friday Harbor, Richardson, and Shaw Island 7.5-minute quadrangles, San Juan County, Washington: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Open File Report 96-7.
Reneau, Steven L. and Dethier, David P., 1996, Pliocene and Quaternary history of the Rio Grande, White Rock Canyon and vicinity, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 47th Field Conference, p. 317-324.
Reneau, Steven L. and Dethier, David P., 1996, Late Pleistocene landslide-dammed lakes along the Rio Grande, White Rock Canyon, New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 108, p. 1492-1507.
Woldegabriel, Giday, Laughlin, A. William, Dethier, David P., and Heizler, Matthew, 1996, Temporal and geochemical trends of lavas in White Rock Canyon and the Pajarito Plateau, Jemez Volcanic Field, New Mexico, USA: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 47th Field Conference, p. 251-261.
Saffer*, Demian M. and Dethier, David P., 1996, Mechanics and stress analysis of the Pine Cobble landslide, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 18, p. 237-242.
Dethier, David P., 1997, Geology of the White Rock Quadrangle, Santa Fe and Los Alamos Counties, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Map-GM-73, scale 1:24,000.
Dethier, David P. and Harman*, T. MacMartin, II, 1998, Hydrology and geochemistry of the northernmost Appalachian thermal springs, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 20, p. 200-207.
Dethier, David P. and Hamachek*, Mark, 1998, Sedimentology of fine lacustrine deposits from Glacial Lake Bascom: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 20, p. 192-199.
Dethier, D.P., 1999, Quaternary evolution of the Rio Grande near Cochiti Lake, northern Santo Domingo basin, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 50, p. 371-378.
Dethier, David P., 2001, Pleistocene incision rates in the western United States calibrated using Lava Creek B tephra: Geology, v. 29(9), p. 783-786.
Schildgen*, Taylor, Dethier, D. P., Bierman, Paul, and Caffee, Marc, 2002, 26Al and 10Be dating of late Pleistocene and Holocene fill terraces: a record of fluvial deposition and incision, Colorado Front Range: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 27, p. 773-787.
Ouimet*, William B., and Dethier, David P., 2002, Modeling sediment flux from Birch Brook, an undisturbed catchment in northwestern Massachusetts: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 24 (3), p. 176-184.
Dethier, D. P., Birkeland, P., and Shroba, R. R., 2003, Quaternary stratigraphy, geomorphology, soils and alpine archaeology in an alpine-to-plains transect, Colorado Front Range: in Easterbrook, D. J., ed., Quaternary geology of the United States, INQUA 2003 Field Guide Volume, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NW, p. 81-104.
Dethier, D. P., 2003, Geologic map of the Puye quadrangle, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba Counties, New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2419, scale 1:24,000.
Carter*, C. L., Dethier, D. P., and Newton, R. L., 2003, Subglacial environment inferred from bedrock-coating siltskins, Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A.: Journal of Glaciology, v. 49(167), p. 568-576.
Dethier, David P. and Lazarus*, Eli D., 2006, Geomorphic inferences from regolith thickness, chemical denudation and CRN erosion rates near the glacial limit, Boulder Creek catchment and vicinity, Colorado: Geomorphology, v. 75, p. 384-399.
Riihimaki, Catherine A., Anderson, Robert S., Safran, Elizabeth B., Dethier, David P., Finkel, Robert C., and Bierman, Paul R., 2006, Longevity and progressive abandonment of the Rocky Flats surface, Front Range, Colorado: Geomorphology, v. 78, p. 265-278.
Dethier, David P. and Sawyer, David A., 2006, Stratigraphy of Upper Cenozoic fluvial deposits of the La Bajada Constriction area, New Mexico, in Minor, S. A. (ed.) The Cerrillos Uplift, the La Bajada Constriction, and Hydrogeologic Framework of the Santo Domingo Basin, Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, Chapter B.: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1720, p. 27-42.
Dethier, D. P., Dragovich, J. D. Sarna-Wojcicki, A. M. and Fleck, R. J., 2007, Pumice in the interglacial Whidbey Formation at Blowers Bluff, central Whidbey Island, Washington, USA, Quaternary International doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.03.013.
Dethier, D. P. and Fagenholz*, A. D., 2007, Late Pliocene deposition in Culebra Lake and Pleistocene erosion of lake sediment, northeastern Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 58th Field Conference, Geology of the Jemez Mountain Region II, p. 388-397.
Dethier, D. P., Kampf*, S. K., Sawyer, D. A., and Budahn, J. R., 2007, Chemical zonation in the upper Bandelier Tuff: evidence from the chemistry of distal outcrops, Puye Quadrangle: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 58th Field Conference, Geology of the Jemez Mountain Region II, p. 333-343
Dethier, D. P. and Kampf*, S. K., 2007, Reconstructing pyroclastic flow dynamics and landscape evolution using the upper Bandelier Tuff, Puye Quadrangle, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 58th Field Conference, Geology of the Jemez Mountain Region II, p. 344-353.
Leopold, Matthias, Dethier, David, Völkel, Jörg, Raab, Thomas, Corson-Rikert*, Tyler, and Caine, Nel, 2008, Using geophysical methods to study the shallow subsurface of a sensitive alpine environment, Niwot Ridge, Colorado Front Range, U.S.A.: Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, v. 40 (3), p. 519-530.
Leopold, Matthias, Dethier, David, Völkel, Jörg, and Raab, Thomas, l, 2008, Combining sediment analysis and seismic refraction to describe the structure, thickness and distribution of periglacial slope deposits at Niwot Ridge, Rocky Mountains Front Range, Colorado, USA: Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, v. 52, Supplement 2, p. 77-94.
Leopold, M., Voelkel, J., Dethier, D., Williams, M., and Caine, N., 2010, Mountain Permafrost – a valid archive to study climate change? Examples from the Rocky Mountains Front Range of Colorado, USA: Nova acta Leopoldina, v. 112: 281–289.
Leopold, M,, Williams, M., Caine, N., Voelkel, J., and Dethier D., 2010, Internal Structure of the Green Lake 5 Rock Glacier, Colorado Front Range, USA: Permafrost and Periglac. Process. 21: 1–13, published online DOI: 10.1002/ppp.706.
Dethier, D. P., and Bove, Dana J., 2011, Mineralogic and geochemical changes from alteration of granitic rocks, Boulder Creek catchment, Colorado: Vadose Zone Journal; August 2011; v. 10; no. 3; p. 858-866; DOI: 10.2136/vzj2010.0106
Dethier, D.P., Thompson, R.A., Hudson, M.R., Minor, S.A., and Sawyer, D.A., 2011, Geologic map of the Cochiti Dam quadrangle, Sandoval County, New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3194, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3194/.
Leopold, Matthias, Völkel, Jörg, Dethier, David, Huber, Juliane and Steffens, Markus, 2011, Characteristics of a paleosol and its implication for the Critical Zone development, Rocky Mountain Front Range of Colorado, USA: Applied Geochemistry 26, S72–S75.
Dethier, David P., Birkeland, Peter W., and *McCarthy, James A.,2012, Using the accumulation of CBD-extractable iron and clay content to estimate soil age on stable surfaces and nearby slopes, Front Range, Colorado. Geomorphology 173-174: 17-29.
ABSTRACTS
Since 1996; student authors noted with*
Hirshfeld*, Mary Ann and Dethier, David P., 1996, Inside a latest Pleistocene glaciomarine fan, northern Puget Lowland, Washington: Geological Society of America Abstract with Programs, v. 28 (3), p. 64.
Morgan*, Willard S. and Dethier, David P., 1996, Terrestrial and marine evidence for changing ice regime during latest Pleistocene ice recession, northern Puget Lowland, Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28 (3), p. 84.
Dethier, David P., Crane*, William H., Hirshfeld*, Mary Ann, Holbert*, Joanna K., and Morgan*, Willard S., 1996, Morphology and seismic stratigraphy of marine banks, northern Puget Lowland, Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28 (7), p. 435.
Dethier, D. P., Schildgen*, T.F., and Nelson, R.E., 1998, Latest Pleistocene emergence and repopulation history at three sites in the Northern Puget Lowland, Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30 (7), p. A-386.
Riihimaki*, C. A., and Dethier, D. P., 1998, Rates of Holocene aggradation and pedogenesis, southeastern Puye quadrangle, New Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30(1), p. 70.
Dethier, D. P., 1999, Pleistocene incision rates in the western USA calibrated using Lava Creek B tephra: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31(7), p. A422.
Dethier, D. P., 2000, Chronology and divergent flow directions during latest Pleistocene ice retreat, northeastern Puget lowland: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32(6), p. A10.
Dragovich, J. D., McKay, D. T., Dethier, D. P., and Beget, J. M., 2000, Voluminous laharic inundation of the lower Skagit River Valley, Washington: a product of a single large mid-Holocene Glacier Peak eruptive episode?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32(6), p. A11.
Dethier, David P., Schildgen*, Taylor. F., Bierman, Paul, and Caffee, Marc, 2000, The cosmogenic isotope record of late Pleistocene incision, Boulder Canyon, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32 (7), p. A. 473.
Schildgen*, T. F., and Dethier, D. P., 2000, Fire and ice: using isotopic dating techniques to interpret the geomorphic history of middle Boulder Creek, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32 (7), p. A. 18.
Ouimet*, William B., and Dethier, David P., 2001, Sediment budgets and stream terraces: reconstructing the effects of historic land-use on sediment transport in the Birch Brook catchment, Massachusetts: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33 (1), p. A. 64.
Carter*, Carissa L., and Dethier, David P., 2001, Understanding glacial sliding from subglacially deposited silt skins: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33 (1), p. A. 65.
Dethier, D. P., Schildgen*, Taylor, Bierman, Paul, and Caffee, Marc, 2001, Cosmogenic analysis of the Rocky Flats Alluvium near Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33 (6), p. A-312-313.
Cole, James C., Stone, Byron D., Shroba, R. R., and Dethier, D. P., 2001, Episodic Pliocene and Pleistocene drainage integration along the Rio Grande though New Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33 (6), p. A-357.
Dethier, David P., Ouimet*, William B., Bierman, Paul, and Finkel, Robert C., 2002, Long-term erosion rates derived from 10Be in sediment from small catchments, northern Front Range and southern Wyoming: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34 (6), p. 409.
Carter*, C. L., Dethier, D. P., and Newton, R., 2002, Subglacial Environment Inferred from Bedrock-Coating Siltskins, Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska: Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract C62A-0921.
Dethier, David P., Jungers*, Matthew C., Remsen*, Karl C., and Lazarus*, Eli D., 2003, Geomorphic inferences from regolith thickness near the glacial limit, Boulder Creek catchment, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35 (6), p. 542.
Lazarus*, Eli D. and Dethier, D. P., Jungers*, M.C., and Remsen*, K. C., 2004, Geomorphic analysis of regolith thickness in the Boulder Creek catchment, Front Range, Colorado; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36 (5), p. 283.
Hahn*, Robert S. and Dethier, David P., 2005, Digital analysis of surficial materials, Colorado Front Range using field, GIS and ASTER techniques: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 1, p. 57.
Dethier, D. P., Sarna-Wojcicki, A .M., and Fleck, R.J., 2005, Interglacial pumice in Whidbey Formation at Blowers Bluff, central Whidbey Island, Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 180.
Campbell*, J.E. and Dethier, D.P., 2005, Slow chemical weathering of granitic rocks, Front Range, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 430.
Dethier, David P., 2007, Another look at ice retreat from the northern Puget lowland, Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 4, p. 12.
Dethier, David P., and Bove, Dana J., 2007, Slow weathering of granitic rocks and the low-relief landscape of the Boulder Creek catchment, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 108.
Dethier, David P., and Blum, Alex E., 2009, Evolution of soils derived from weathering of saprolitic bedrock and colluvium, Betasso catchment, Front Range, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, p. 336.
Voelkel, Joerg, Huber, Juliane, Leopold, Matthias, and Dethier, David P., 2010, Young Quaternary slope sediments and paleosols in the Colorado Front Range—process and age: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 469.
Dethier, David P., and Birkeland, Peter, 2010, Using the accumulation of CBD-extractable iron and clay to estimate soil and landform age, Front Range, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 364.
Buraas*, Eirik M., and Dethier, David P., 2010, Assessing the hydrologic impact of land-use change in upper Gordon Gulch, a small upland catchment in the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 351.
Dethier, David P., McCarthy*, James A., and Ouimet, William B., 2011, Revisiting long-term dustfall rates and chemistry, Colorado Front Range: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 43, No. 5, p. 336.
Lewis*, Gabriel, Leopold, Matthias, and Dethier, David. P., 2012, Using geophysical techniques in the Critical Zone to determine the presence of permafrost: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 44, No. 7, p.460.
Dethier, David P., Leopold, Matthias, Völkel, Jörg, Blum, Alex E., Huber, Juliane4, and Steffens, Markus, 2012, Inferring age and paleoclimate from a hillslope paleosol– a cautionary tale from the Front Range, Colorado, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 44, no. 7, p.303.