Paul Zehfuss
Paul Z. came to ¶¶Òõ̽̽ in 1992 and spent a summer and the following year
studying alluvial fans in the Huntington River Valley. He trenched fans
and river terraces and came up with one of the first records of alluvial
fan deposition in the humid northeastern North America.
PhD dissertation (University of Washington, 2003)
Lowland deposits derived from
Mount Rainier lahars
MS Thesis (Humboldt State University, 1998)
10Be and 26Al ages used to
estimate slip rates and soil development rates along the Fish Springs
Fault, Owens Valley, CA
BS Honors Thesis, Geology (University of Vermont, 1996)
Alluvial fans in Vermont as recorders of changes in sedimentation rates due to deforestation
download pdf of BS thesis
Undergraduate Degree
University of Vermont, B.S. Geology,
1996
Current Position and Contact Information (3/2008)
Geologist
Shannon & Wilson
400 N 34th St., Suite 100
P.O. Box
300303
Seattle, WA 98103-8600
Refereed Papers
Zehfuss, P. H., Bierman, P. R., Gillespie, A. R.,
Burke, R. M. and Caffee, M. W. (2001) Slip rates on the Fish Springs
fault, Owens Valley, California, deduced from cosmogenic
10Be
and
26Al and soil development on fan surfaces. Geological
Society of America Bulletin. v. 113(2), p. 241-255.
doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<0241:SROTFS>2.0.CO;2
Bierman, P. R., Lini, A., Davis, P. T., Southon, J.,
Baldwin, L., Church, A. and Zehfuss, P. (1997) Post-glacial ponds and
alluvial fans: recorders of Holocene landscape history. GSA Today. v. 7,
p. 1-8. ()
Abstracts
Bierman, P. R., Nies, S., Zehfuss, P., Burke, R., Gillespie,
A. and Caffee, M. (1998)
10Be and
26Al age estimates for five
tectonically offset fan surfaces, Owens Valley, CA. GSA
Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Toronto, Canada. v. 30, p. 141. ()
Zehfuss, P. H., Burke, R., Bierman, P. R., Gillespie, A. and
Caffee, M. (1998) A comparison of relative and numerical dating
techniques applied to tectonically offset fan surfaces, Owens Valley,
CA. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Toronto, Canada. v. 30, p. 141. ()
Bierman, P. R., Lini, A., Brown, S., Davis, P. T. and
Zehfuss, P. (1997) Fans and pond sediments record concurrent episodes of
hillslope erosion. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT. v. 29, p. A-411. ()
Zehfuss, P. and Bierman, P. R. (1996) Alluvial fans in Vermont
as recorders of changes in sedimentation rates due to deforestation.
GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Denver, CO. v. 28, p. A-112.
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Other Publications
Wright, S. F., Whalen, T. N., Zehfuss, P. H. and Bierman, P. R. (1997) Late Pleistocene-Holocene history: Huntington River and Miller Brook valleys, northern Vermont, New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference Guidebook. v. C4, p. 1-30. (