Carol Dehler

(she/her)

Sedimentology

Professor & Undergraduate Mentor


Carol M. Dehler

Contact Information

Office Location: Geology 201
Phone: 435.797.0764
Email: carol.dehler@usu.edu
Additional Information:

Educational Background

PhD, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 2001
Basin analysis and carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona
MS, Geology, Northern Arizona University, 1995
Paleoenvironmental and stratigraphic analysis of the Lower Devonian Beartooth Butte Formation and associated strata, central-eastern Idaho
BA, Geology, Humboldt State University, 1991

Biography

PhD, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 2001; MS, Geology, Northern Arizona University 1995; BA, Geology 1991, Humboldt State University; prior geology courses, Santa Barbara City College.

Teaching Interests

Physical and historical geology; stratigraphy and sedimentology; sedimentary geochronology; sedimentary geochemistry; and field geology.

Research Interests

Precambrian geology; Neoproterozoic Earth Systems; Snowball Earth; ChUMP basins; detrital zircon and Re-Os geochronology, micropaleontology, Cambrian systems in the western US

Awards

Research Fellow, 2018

Geological Society of America

Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2018

College of Science USU

Gardner Junior Faculty Travel Fellowship, 2005

Utah State University

Wanek Award, 2000

University of New Mexico

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Merit Award, 1999

Graduate Research Support: Fellowship, 1999

Office of Graduate Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 1999

University of New Mexico

Regents Scholarship, 1998

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Teacher of the Year Scholarship, 1992

Northern Arizona University


Publications | Books

  • Dehler, C.M, Pederson, J., (2005). Interior Western U.S.: Geological Society of America Field Guide.
  • Dehler, C.M, Pederson, J.L, Sprinkel, D.A, Kowallis, B.J, (2005). Uinta Mountain Geology: Utah Geological Association Publication.

    Publications | Book Chapters

  • Dehler, C.M, Anderson, K., Nagy, R., (2011). New descriptions of the cap dolostone and associated strata, Neoproterozoic Pocatello Formation, southeastern Idaho, U.S.A: Geologic Field Trips to the Basin and Range, Rocky Mountains, Snake River Plain, and Terranes of the U.S. Cordillera. Geological Society of America Field Guide
  • Dehler, C.M, Sprinkel, D.A, Porter, S., (2005). Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain Group of northeastern Utah: Pre-Sturtian Geographic, Tectonic, and Biologic Evolution.. Interior Western U.S.: Geological Society of America Field Guide
  • Dehler, C.M, Sprinkel, D.A, (2005). Revised stratigraphy and correlation of the Uinta Mountain Group, north eastern Utah. Uinta Mountain Geology: Utah Geological Association Publication
  • Dehler, C.M, DeGrey, L.D, (2005). Stratigraphy and facies analysis of the eastern Uinta Mountain Group, Utah-Colorado border region: Uinta Mountain Geology. Utah Geological Association Publication
  • Dehler, C.M, Grader, G., (1999). Devonian Stratigraphy in east-central Idaho: New perspectives from the Lemhi Range and Bayhorse area: Rocky Mountain Section Guidebook. Geological Society of America

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Dehler, C.M, (2023). Precise U-Pb age models refine Neoproterozoic western Laurentian rift initiation, correlation, and Earth system changes . Precambrian Research, 396, 1-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107156
  • Planavsky, N.J, Asael, D., Dehler, C.M, Porter, S.M, (2023). A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle. Geobiology, 21:2, 168-174.
  • Karlstrom, K.E, Mohr, M.T, Schmitz, M.D, Sundberg, F.A, Dehler, C.M, Hagadorn, J.W, (2022). Redefining the Tonto Group of Grand Canyon and recalibrating the Cambrian time scale. Geology, 48:5, 425-430.
  • Rooney, A., Austermann, J., Smith, E., Yang, L., Selby, D., Dehler, C.M, Schmitz, M., Karlstrom, K., MacDonald, F., (2018). Coupled Re-Os and U-Pb geochronology of the Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon. Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • von Pogge Strandmann, P.A, Stüeken, E.E, Elliott, T., Poulton, S.W, Dehler, C.M, Canfield, D.E, Catling, D.C, (2015). Selenium isotope evidence for progressive oxidation of the Neoproterozoic biosphere.. Nature communications, 6, 10157.
  • Mahon, R., Dehler, C.M, KArlstrom, K., Link, P., (2014). Detrital zircon age constraints, provenance and revised stratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic Pahrump Supergroup, Death Valley region, California: Implications for Rodinia rifting and the evolution of the southwestern Laurentian margin. Precambrian Research
  • Dehler, C.M, (2014). Advances in Neoproterozoic biostratigraphy spark new correlations and insight into evolution of life. Geology
  • Yonkee, A., Dehler, C.M, Link, P., Balgord, E., Keeley, J., Hayes, D., Fanning, M.C, Wells, M., Johnston, S., (2014). Tectono-stratigraphic framework of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian strata, west-central U.S.: Protracted rifting, glaciation, and evolution of the North American Cordilleran margin. Earth Science Reviews/Elsevier
  • Mahon, R., Dehler, C.M, K., P., Gehrels, G., (2014). Geochronologic and stratigraphic constraints on the Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic Pahrump Group, Death Valley, CA: A record of the assembly, stability and breakup of Rodinia. Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Johnston, D.T, Poulton, S., Dehler, C.M, Porter, S.M, Husson, J., Canfield, D., Knoll, A.K, (2010). An emerging picture of Neoproterozoic ocean chemistry: Insights from the Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, U.S.A.. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290, 64-73.
  • Dehler, C.M, Fanning, C.M, Link, P.K, Kingsbury, E., Rybczynski, D., (2010). Maximum depositional age and provenance of the Uinta Mountain Group and Big Cottonwood Formation, northern Utah: Paleogeography of rifting western Laurentia. Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Nagy, R., Porter, S., Dehler, C.M, Shen, Y., (2009). Biotic turnover driven by eutrophication before low-latitude glaciation. Nature Geoscience, Letters, 2, 415-418.
  • Pitblado, B.L, Dehler, C.M, Neff, H., Nelson, S.T, (2008). Pilot Study Experiments Sourcing Quartzite, Gunnison Basin, Colorado. Geoarchaeology, 23:6, 742-778.
  • Pitblado, B.L, Neff, H., Nelson, S.T, Dehler, C.M, (2007). AD-ICP-MS vs. LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Quartzite Sources, Gunnison Basin, Colorado.. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 24, 133-136.
  • Dehler, C.M, Porter, S.M, De Grey, L.D, Sprinkel, D.A, Brehm, A., (2007). The Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain Group revisited: A synthesis of recent work on the Red Pine Shale and related undivided clastic strata, Northeastern Utah: in Link, P.K., and Lewis, R.S., eds., Proterozoic Geology of western North America and Siberia: Proterozoic Geology of western North America and Siberia. Society of Sedimentary Geology Special Publication, 86, 151-166.
  • Pitblado, B.L, Dehler, C.M, Nelson, S.T, (2006). Sourcing Quartzites from the Late Holocene Chance Gulch Site, Gunnison Basin, Colorado: A Pilot Study.. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 23, 135-138.
  • Dehler, C.M, Elrick, M.E, Bloch, J.D, Karlstrom, K.E, Crossey, L.J, DesMarais, D., (2005). High-resolution δ13C stratigraphy of the Chuar Group (~770-742 Ma), Grand Canyon: Implications for mid-Neoproterozoic climate change. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117:1/2, 32-45.
  • Dehler, C.M, Elrick, C.M, Karlstrom, K.E, Smith, G.A, Crossey, L.J, Timmons, J.M, (2001). Neoproterozoic Chuar Group (~800-742 Ma), Grand Canyon: A record of cyclic marine deposition during global cooling and supercontinent rifting. Sedimentary Geology,, 141-142, 465-499.
  • Dehler, C.M, Timmons, J.M, Karlstrom, K.E, Geissman, J.W, Heizler, M.T, (2001). Proterozoic multistage (~1.1 and ~8.0 Ga) extension in the Grand Canyon Supergroup and establishment of northwest and north-south tectonic grains in the southwestern United States. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113:2, 163-180.

Professional Journal

  • Farrell , T., Cothren, H., Sundberg, F., Schmitz, M., Dehler, C.M, Karlstrom, K., Revision of the late Cambrian timescale and the duration of the SPICE event using a novel Bayesian age modeling approach. Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Dehler, C.M, (2024). The Cambrian of the Grand Canyon: Refinement of a Classic Stratigraphic Model.. Geological Society of America Today, 34:11, 4-11.
  • Sundberg, F., Cothren, H., Dehler, C.M, (2024). Cambrian trilobites from the Nounan Dolomite and lower St. Charles Formation (upper Marjuman to lower Sunwaptan; Miaolingian to Furongian Series), Smithfield Canyon, northern Utah. Journal of Paleontology, 1-30. doi: doi: 10.1017/jpa.2023.48

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Technical Reports

Other Reports

  • Pitblado, B.L, Dehler, C.M, Robertson, C., Fowler, B., Brown, C., Canady, L., (2011). Summer 2009 Geoarchaeological Research Report: Quartzite Sampling and Sourcing in the Gunnison Basin, Colorado. USU Rocky Mountain Paleoindian Research Program
  • Lucchitta, I., Smith, S.J, Dehler, C.M, Finkel, R.C, Hanks, T.C, Davis, S.W, Davis, M.E, (1997). Late-Pleistocene to Early Holocene deposits, processes, vegetation, and climate from Oak Cave, southern Utah. USGS Open-File Report
  • Dehler, C.M, Lucchitta, I., Davis, M.E, Basdekas, P.G, Burke, K.J, (1996). Quaternary geologic map of the Tanner Creek-Unkar Creek area, eastern Grand Canyon, AZ.. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
  • Dehler, C.M, Lucchitta, I., Basdekas, P.G, Bohannon, R.G, Rieck, H.J, (1995). Geologic map of the Cane Springs quadrangle, Mohave County, AZ.. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
  • Lucchitta, I., Dehler, C.M, Basdekas, P.G, (1995). Geologic map of the Cane Springs southeast quadrangle, Mohave County, AZ.. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
  • Dehler, C.M, Lucchitta, I., Davis, M.E, Basdekas, P.G, Burke, K.J, (1995). Quaternary geologic map of the Palisades Creek-Comanche Creek area, eastern Grand Canyon, AZ. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

Magazine/Trade Publications

  • Dehler, C.M, (1999). Along the Shores of Chuar Beach. Boatman's Quarterly Review
  • Dehler, C.M, Timmons, J.M, Karlstrom, K.E, (1999). Grand Canyon Supergroup: Six unconformities makes one “Great Unconformity”—a record of supercontinent assembly and disassembly. Boatman’s Quarterly Review

Other

  • Kingsbury, E., Link, P., Dehler, C., Osterhaut, S., (2013). Geologic Map of the Kings Peak 7.5 mMinute Quadrangle Duchesne and Summit COunties, UT. Utah Geological Survey
  • DeGrey, L., Tressler, C., Dehler, C.M, Pederson, J.L, Link, P., Hadder, K., Geologic map of the Swallow Canyon Quadrangle, Daggett County, Utah and Moffat County, Colorado. Utah Geological Survey map
  • Pederson, J.L, Dehler, C.M, (2005). Geology of the Farmington North 7.5-minute quadrangle, NM. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-file Digital Map
  • Dehler, C.M, Pederson, J.L, Wagner, S., (2005). Geology of the Seven Rivers 7.5' quadrangle, Eddy County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources.
  • Pederson, J.L, Dehler, C.M, (2003). Geology of the Carlsbad East 7.5-minute quadrangle, NM. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
  • Pederson, J.L, Dehler, C.M, (2003). Geology of the Otis 7.5-minute quadrangle, NM. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
  • Dehler, C.M, Pederson, J.L, (2002). Geology of the Carlsbad West 7.5-minute quadrangle, NM. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Teaching

GEO 3900 - Geologic Field Methods (CI), Fall 2024
GEO 2205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2024
GEO 2205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2024
GEO 2205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2024
GEO 2200 - The Earth Through Time, Spring 2024
GEO 5200 - Geology Field Camp, Summer 2023
, Spring 2023
GEO 2205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2023
GEO 2205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2023
GEO 2205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2023
GEO 2200 - The Earth Through Time, Spring 2023
GEO 6450, 7450 - Deep Time: Studying the Earths Expansive Past, Fall 2022
, Spring 2022
GEO 2200 - Earth Through Time, Spring 2022
GEO 2205 - Earth Through Time Lab, Spring 2022
GEO 2205 - Earth Through Time Lab, Spring 2022
GEO 2205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2022
GEO 2205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2022
GEO 2200 - The Earth Through Time, Spring 2022
GEO 5200 - Geology Field Camp, Summer 2021
GEO 3200 - The Earth Through Time, Spring 2020
GEO 6450 - Deep Time: Studying the Earths Expansive Past, Fall 2019
GEO 4900 - Special Problems, Fall 2019
GEO 5200 - GE)52, Summer 2019
GEO 3205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2019
GEO 3205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2019
GEO 3200 - The Earth Through Time, Spring 2019
GEO 5490, 6490 - Facies Analysis of Sedimentary Rocks, Fall 2018
GEO 3205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2018
GEO 3205 - Earth Through Time Laboratory, Spring 2018
GEO 3200 - The Earth Through Time, Spring 2018
GEO 6450 - Deep Time: Studying the Earths Expansive Past, Fall 2017
GEO 5200 - Geology Field Camp, Summer 2017
GEO 3200 - The Earth Through Time, Spring 2017
GEO 5490, 6490 - Facies Analysis of Sedimentary Rocks, Fall 2016
GEO 6800 - Graduate Seminar, Fall 2016
GEO 5200 - Geology Field Camp, Summer 2016
GEO 6450, 7450 - Deep Time: Studying the Earths expansive past, Spring 2016
GEO 3200 - The Earth Through Time, Spring 2016
GEO 2500 - Geology Field Excursions, Fall 2015
GEO 3200 - Geology Field Camp, Summer 2015
GEO 5490,6490 - Facies Analysis of Sedimentary Rocks, Spring 2015
GEO 3200 - The Earth Through Time, Spring 2015
GEO 4700 - Geologic Field Methods, Summer 2013
GEO 5200 - Geology Field Camp, Summer 2013
GEO 3200 - The Earth Through Time, Spring 2013
GEO 5200 - Geology Field Camp, Summer 2012
GEO 7400 - Graduate Seminar in Sedimentary Geology (Topic), Fall 2011
GEO 5200 - Geology Field Camp, Summer 2011
GEO 3200 - EARTH THROUGH TIME (DSC), Spring 2011
GEO 2500 - GEOL FIELD EXCURSION, Spring 2011
GEO 6400 - Graduate Seminar in Sedimentary Geology (Topic), Fall 2010
GEO 7400 - Graduate Seminar in Sedimentary Geology (Topic), Fall 2010
GEO 5200 - Geology Field Camp, Summer 2010

Graduate Students Mentored

Katherine Paukert, Geosciences, May 2014
Weston Martin, Geosciences, May 2014
Joe Clevenger, Geosciences, June 2022 - June 2024
Hannah Cothren, Geosciences, July 2020 - December 2022
Matt Ellison, Geosciences, August 2018 - May 2021
Abigail Bullard, Geosciences, August 2016 - May 2018
Erin Lathrop, Geosciences, May 2015 - May 2018
Dawn Hayes, Geosciences, August 2010 - May 2013
Robin Nagy, Geosciences, August 2010 - May 2013
Dawn Hayes, Geosciences 2010
Dan Rybczynski, Geosciences, August 2006 - May 2009
Caroline Myer, Geosciences 2008
Andy Brehm, Geosciences 2007