Paul Zehfuss

Paul Z. came to UVM 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
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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. (download pdf)

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. (download pdf)

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. (download pdf)

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. (download pdf)

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. (download pdf)

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. (download pdf