Dr. David L. Dettman

Guest Research Professor (July 2003 – August 2004)

 

Research Interests

        I am interested in the application of stable isotope geochemistry to the study of:

  • Paleo-hydrology in freshwater systems
  • The uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau
  • Paleosalinity in estuarine/lagoonal systems
  • Animal migration

 

Selected Publications (last 5 years)

Schöne, B.R., W. Oschmann, K. Tanabe, D.L. Dettman, J. Fiebig & S.D. Houk, in press, Quaternary Science Reviews, Holocene seasonal environmental trends at Tokyo Bay, Japan, reconstructed from bivalve mollusk shells – implications for changes in the East Asian monsoon and latitudinal shifts of the Polar Front.

 

Garzione, C.N., D.L. Dettman, B.K. Horton, in press, PALEO3, Carbonate oxygen isotope paleoaltimetry: evaluating the effect of diagenesis on estimates of paleoelevation in Tibetan plateau basins.

 

Dettman, D.L., K.W. Flessa, P.D. Roopnarine, B.R. Schöne, D.H. Goodwin, 2004, The use of oxygen isotope variation in the shells of estuarine mollusks as a quantitative record of seasonal and annual Colorado River discharge, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta v. 68, pp. 1253-1263.

 

Dettman, D.L. Fang, X., Garzione, C.N., Li, J., 2003, Uplift-driven climate change at 12Ma: a long d18O record from the NE margin of the Tibetan plateau, Earth and Planetary Science Letters v. 214, pp. 267-277.

 

Schöne, B.R., K. Tanabe, D.L. Dettman, S. Sato, 2003, Environmental controls on shell growth rates and d18O of the shallow-marine bivalve mollusk Phacosoma japonicum in Japan, Marine Biology v. 142, pp. 473-485.

 

Schöne, B.R., K.W. Flessa, D.L. Dettman, and D.H. Goodwin, 2003, Upstream dams and downstream clams: growth rates of bivalve mollusks unveil impact of river management on estuarine ecosystems (Colorado River Delta, Mexico). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 58, pp. 715-726.

 

Goodwin, D.H., B.R. Schöne, and D.L. Dettman, 2003, Effects of sample resolution and sample completeness on estimates of isotopic variation in shells of bivalve mollusks: Models and observations. Palaios, v. 18, pp. 110-125.

 

Alin, S.R., C.M. OfReilly, A.S. Cohen, D.L. Dettman, M.R. Palacios-Fest, and B.A. McKee, 2002, Effects of land-use change on aquatic biodiversity: a view from the paleorecord at Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, Geology, v. 30 pp. 1143-1146

 

Dettman, D.L., M. Palacios-Fest, and A.S. Cohen, 2002, Comment on G. Wansard & F. Mezquita, The response of ostracode shell chemistry to seasonal change in a Mediterranean freshwater spring environment, Paleolimnology, v. 27 pp. 487-491.

 

Schöne, B.R., D.H. Goodwin, K.W. Flessa, D.L. Dettman, and P.D. Roopnarine, 2002, Sclerochronology and growth of the bivalve mollusks Chione (Chionista) fluctifraga and C. (C.) cortezi in the Gulf of California, Mexico, Veliger, v. 45, pp. 45-54.

 

Dettman, D.L., M.J. Kohn, J. Quade, F.J. Ryerson, T.P. Ojha, and S. Hamidullah, 2001, Seasonal stable isotope evidence for a strong Asian Monsoon throughout the last 10.7 Ma, Geology, v. 29, pp. 31-34.

 

Goodwin, D.H., K.W. Flessa, B.R. Schöne, and D.L. Dettman, 2001, Cross-calibration of daily growth increments, stable isotope variation, and temperature in the Gulf of California bivalve mollusk Chione (Chionista) cortezi: implications for paleoenvironmental analysis, Palaios, v. 16, pp. 387-398.

 

Nelson, S.T. and D.L. Dettman, 2001, Improving hydrogen isotope ratio measurements for on-line Cr reduction systems, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, v. 15, pp. 2301-2306.

 

Palacios-Fest M.R. and D.L. Dettman, 2001, Seasonal variation in Ostracode shell Mg/Ca: Cypridopsis vidua from a small dam in Sonora, Mexico, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 65, pp. 2499-2508.

 

Rodriguez, C.A., K.W. Flessa, M.A. Tellez Duarte, and D.L. Dettman, 2001, Macrofaunal and isotopic estimates of the former extent of the Colorado River estuary upper Gulf of California, Mexico, Journal of Arid Environments, v. 49, pp. 183-193.

 

Rodriguez, C.A., K.W. Flessa, and D.L. Dettman, 2001, Effects of upstream diversion of Colorado River water on the estuarine bivalve mollusc Mulinia coloradoensis, Conservation Biology, v. 15, pp. 249-258.

 

Dettman, D.L. and K.C Lohmann, 2000, Oxygen isotope evidence for high altitude snow in the Laramide Rocky Mountains of North America during the late Cretaceous and Paleogene, Geology, v. 28, pp. 243-246.

 

Garzione, C.N., D.L. Dettman, J. Quade, P.G. DeCelles, and R.F. Butler, 2000, High times on the Tibetan Plateau: Paleoelevation of the Thakkhola graben, Nepal, Geology, v. 28, pp. 339-342.

 

Dettman, D.L., A.K. Reische, and K.C Lohmann, 1999, Controls on the stable isotope composition of seasonal growth bands in aragonitic fresh-water bivalves (Unionidae), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 63, pp. 1049-1057.

 

Wells, T.M., A.S. Cohen, L.E. Park, D.L. Dettman, B.A. McKee, 1999, Ostracode stratigraphy and paleoecology from surficial sediments of Lake Tanganyika, Africa, Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 22, pp. 259-276.

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Research Center for Coastal Lagoon Environments,
Shimane University,
1060 Nishikawatsucho, Matsue 690-8504, Japan

Phone & fax: +81-852-32-6447
Through July 2004 --  E-mail: dettman@soc.shimane-u.ac.jp

After August 1 2004 -- E-mail: dettman@geo.arizona.edu

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