Marith C. Reheis
Research Geologist
E-mail: mreheis@usgs.gov
Phone: 303-236-1270
U.S. Geological Survey
Box 25046, MS 980
Denver, CO 80225
Education:
- 1972:
- B.S., University of Georgia
- 1972:
- M.S., Glacial Geology, University of Colorado
- 1984:
- Ph.D., Soils and Quaternary Geology, University of Colorado
Professional Society Memberships:
- Geological Society of America, Fellow
- American Geophysical Union
- American Quaternary Association
- International Society for Aeolian Research
- Colorado Scientific Society
Professional Experience:
- 1974-1978:
- Geologist, USGS; Conservation Division
- 1979-1984:
- Geologist, USGS; part time, various positions
- 1984-present:
- Research Geologist, USGS
Current Research and Specialties:
Paleo-hydrology and evolution of landscapes in response to climatic change Quaternary geology of the Mojave Desert area Quaternary soils and eolian processes Eolian dust sources and chemical compositions in the southwestern U.S. Pluvial lakes in the western Great Basin Neotectonics, especially west-central Nevada and east-central California
Project Website:
Paleoclimate Variability of the American Southwest
Selected Publications:
- Reheis, M.C., 1987, Gypsic soils on the Kane alluvial fans, Big Horn County, Wyoming [PDF]: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1590-C, 39 p.
- Reheis, M.C., 1987, Soils in granitic alluvium in humid and semiarid climates along Rock Creek, Carbon County, Montana [PDF]: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1590-D, 71 p.
- Reheis, M.C., Harden, J.W., McFadden, L.D., and Shroba, R.R., 1989, Variation in rates of development and description of late Quaternary soils, Silver Lake playa, California: Soil Science Society of America Journal, v. 53, p. 1127-1140.
- Reheis, M.C., 1990, Influence of climate and eolian dust on the major-element chemistry and clay mineralogy of soils in the northern Bighorn basin, U.S.A.: Catena, v. 17, p. 219-248.
- Reheis, M.C., Sowers, J.M., Taylor, E.M., McFadden, L.D., and Harden, J.W., 1992, Morphology and genesis of calcic soils on the Kyle Canyon fan, Nevada: Geoderma, v. 52, p. 303-342.
- Reheis, M.C., Palmquist, R.C., Agard, S.S., Jaworowski, C., Mears, B.M., Jr., Madole, R.L., Nelson, A.R., and Osborne, G., 1991, Non-glacial Quaternary history of some Rocky Mountain basins, in Morrison, R.B., ed., Quaternary non-glacial geology-Conterminous U.S.: Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. K-2, p. 407-440.
- Reheis, M.C., Slate, J.L., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., and Meyer, C.E., 1993, A late Pliocene to middle Pleistocene pluvial lake in Fish Lake Valley, Nevada and California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 953-967.
- Reheis, M.C., and Kihl, Rolf, 1995, Dust deposition in southern Nevada and California, 1984-1989—relations to climate, source area, and source lithology: Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), v. 100, no. D5, p. 8893-8918.
- Reheis, M.C., Goodmacher, J.C., Harden, J.W., McFadden, L.D., Rockwell, T.K., Shroba, R.R., Sowers, J.M., and Taylor, E.M., 1995, Quaternary soils and dust deposition in southern Nevada and California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p. 1003-1022.
- Reheis, M.C., and Dixon, T.H., 1996, Kinematics of the eastern California shear zone-Evidence for slip transfer from Owens and Saline Valley fault zones to Fish Lake Valley fault zone: Geology, v. 24, p. 339-342.
- Reheis, M.C., Slate, J.L., Throckmorton, C.K., McGeehin, J.P., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., and Dengler, Lori, 1996, Late Quaternary sedimentation on the Leidy Creek fan, Nevada-California-geomorphic responses to climate change: Basin Research, v. 12, p. 279-299.
- Reheis, M.C., and Sawyer, T.L., 1997, Late Cenozoic history and slip rates of the Fish Lake Valley, Emigrant Peak, and Deep Springs fault zones, Nevada and California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 280-299.
- Reheis, M.C., 1999, Highest pluvial-lake shorelines and Pleistocene climate of the western Great Basin: Quaternary Research, v. 52, p. 196-205.
- Reheis, M.C., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Reynolds, R.L., Repenning, C.A., and Mifflin, M.D., 2002, Pliocene to middle Pleistocene lakes in the western Great Basin-Ages and connections, in Hershler, R., Currey, D., and Madsen, D., eds., Great Basin Aquatic Systems History: Smithsonian Contributions to Earth Sciences no. 33, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., p. 53-108.
- Reheis, M.C., Budahn, J.R., and Lamothe, P.J., 2002, Geochemical evidence for diversity of dust sources in the southwestern United States: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 66, p. 1569-1587.
- Reheis, M.C., Stine, Scott, and Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., 2002, Drainage reversals in Mono Basin during the late Pliocene and Pleistocene: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 991-1006.
- Okin, G.S., and Reheis, M.C., 2002, An ENSO predictor of desertification in the southwestern United States: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 29, no. 9, 3 p. [doi:10.1029/2001GL014494]
- Bao, Huiming, and Reheis, M.C., 2003, Multiple oxygen and sulfur isotopic analyses on water-soluble sulfate in bulk atmospheric deposition from southwestern United States: Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), v. 108, no. D14, 4430, p. 9-1 to 9-9. [doi:10.1029/2002JD003022]
- Reheis, M.C., Reynolds, R. L., Goldstein, Harland, Roberts, H.M., Yount, J.C., Axford, Yarrow, Cummings, L.S., and Shearin, Nancy, 2005, Late Quaternary eolian and alluvial response to paleoclimate, Canyonlands, Southeastern Utah: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117, p. 1051-1069.
- Reheis, M.C., 2005, Surficial deposits in the upper Bear River and Bear Lake drainage basins, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map SI-2890, scale 1:50,000 and 1:100,000 (two plates).
- Reheis, M.C., 2006, 16-year record of dust deposition in southern Nevada and California, U.S.A.: Controls on dust generation and accumulation: Journal of Arid Environments, v. 67, p. 487-520.
- Reheis, M.C., and Block, Debra, 2007, Surficial geologic map and geochronologic database, Fish Lake Valley, Esmeralda County, Nevada, and Mono County, California: U.S. Geological Survey, Data Series 277.
- Reheis, M.C., and Redwine, J.L., 2008, Lake Manix shorelines and Afton Canyon terraces: Implications for incision of Afton Canyon, in Reheis, M.C., Hershler, R., and Miller, D., eds., Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 439, p. 227-259.
- Reheis, M.C., Hershler, R., and Miller, D., eds., 2008, Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 439, 432 p.
- Reheis, M.C., Laabs, B.J.C., and Kaufman, D.S., 2009, Geology and geomorphology of Bear Lake Valley and upper Bear River, in Rosenbaum, J., and Kaufman, D., eds., Paleoenvironments of Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho: Geological Society of America Special Paper 450, p. 15-48.
- Reheis, M.C., Budahn, J.R., Lamothe, P.J., and Reynolds, R.L., 2009, Compositions of modern dust and surface sediments in the desert Southwest, USA: Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, v. 114, F01028, 20 p. [doi:10.1029/2008JF001009]
- Kurth, G., Phillips, F.M., Reheis, M.C., Redwine, J.L., and Paces, J.M., 2011, Cosmogenic nuclide and uranium-series dating of old, high shorelines in the western Great Basin, U.S.A.: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 744-768.
- Reheis, M.C., and Urban, F.E., 2011, Regional and climatic controls on seasonal dust deposition in the southwestern U.S.: Aeolian Research, v. 3, p. 3-21.
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