Tammy Rittenour

(she/her)

Paleoclimatology and Quaternary Geology

Professor, Graduate Director, & OSL Director


Tammy M. Rittenour

Contact Information

Office Location:  Geology 110
Email: tammy.rittenour@usu.edu
Additional Information:

Educational Background

PhD, Geomorphology and Geochronology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2004
: Fluvial Evolution of the Lower Mississippi Valley over the Last Glacial Cycle
MS, Quartenary Geology and Geomorphology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999
Drainage History of Glacial Lake Hitchcock, Northeastern USA
BA, Geology and Biology, University of Minnesota, Morris, 1996

Biography

Please see GoogleScholar for my publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=epZZPYcAAAAJ

Teaching Interests

Geol 3600 - Geomorphology
Geol 5680/6680 - Paleoclimatology
Geol 6650/7650 - Quaternary Geochronology
Geol 6800 - Luminescence Geochronology

Research Interests

My research combines geomorphology, sedimentology/stratigraphy and geochronology to reconstruct past climate and landscape evolution from river, sand dune, glacial and geoarchaeological records. I am the Director of the USU Luminescence Lab and use luminescence dating to provide age control for the deposits I study.

Publications | Abstracts

  • Huckleberry, G., Rittenour, T.M, Mahan, S., (2016). Geological dating of indigenous reservoirs and adjudication of water rights, Laguna, New Mexico. GSA Annual Meeting

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Books

  • Rittenour, T.M, Blum, M.D, (2001). The Lower Mississippi Valley and Texas Coastal Plain, Field Trip Guidebook: International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, Lincoln, NE. *
  • Rittenour, T.M, Brigham-Grette, J., (2000). A Drainage History for Glacial Lake Hitchcock: Varves, Landforms, and Stratigraphy: North Eastern Friends of the Pleistocene Field Guidebook, Dept of Geosciences Contribution No. 7. University of Massachusetts *

    Publications | Book Chapters

  • Hayden-Lesmeister, A., Rittenour, T.M, (2015). Chronostratigraphy of Holocene valley-fill alluvium and arroyo cut-fill events in the upper Escalante River, southern Utah: Geology of Utah’s Far South: Utah Geological Association Publication 43. Utah Geological Association Publication
  • Huff, W., Rittenour, T.M, (2015). Holocene alluvial stratigraphy of Kitchen Corral Wash, southern Utah: Geology of Utah’s Far South: Utah Geological Association Publication 43. Utah Geological Association Publication
  • Gray, H., Mahan, S., Rittenour, T.M, Nelson, M., (2015). Invited Paper: Guide to Luminescence dating techniques and their application to paleoseismic research. Proceedings of the Basin and Range Province Seismic Hazards Summit III. Utah Geological Survey Special Publication
  • Harvey, J.E, Pederson, J.L, Rittenour, T.M, (2010). The alluvial records of Buckskin Wash. Geology of South-Central Utah: Utah Geological Association Publication
  • Harvey, J., Pederson, J.L, Rittenour, T.M, (2010). The alluvial records of Buckskin Wash, Utah.. Geology of South-Central Utah, Utah Geological Association Publication 39
  • Rittenour, T.M, Geiger, K.L, J.P, (1998). Glacial Lake Benson, west-central Minnesota: Contributions to Quaternary Studies in Minnesota. Minnesota Geological Survey Reports of Investigations

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

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Strange, M., Rittenour, T.M, Tanski, N.M, Woznick, H., (2026). User guide for scanning electron microscopy applications to luminescence dating. Quaternary Research, 1-10. doi: 10.1017/qua.2025.10062
  • Hoxey, A.K, Taylor, M.H, Murphy, M.A, Bemis, S., Chamlagain, D., Styron, R., Sutley, E., Adhikari, B.R, Fan, S., Daniel, M., Rittenour, T.M, (2025). Dextral slip along the Western Nepal Fault System accommodates significant orogen-parallel shear. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 137, 4971–4992. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B37994.1
  • Karlstrom, K., al, e., Rittenour, T.M, (2025). Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka. Geology, 53, 821--826. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G53571.1
  • Davis, M.L, Lombardi, R., Gage, M.D, Tootle, G., Rittenour, T.M, Quimby, A.C, (2025). High and dry: A~ 300-year record of hydrologic extremes from the French Broad River in the southeastern US. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 61, 102673. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102673
  • Penprase, S.B, Wilwerding, A.C, Wickert, A.D, McKenzie, M.A, Larson, P.H, Rittenour, T.M, (2025). Meltwater, mud, and the Mississippi: Upper Mississippi River Valley slackwater sediments reveal shifting deglacial meltwater sources associated with the Marquette Readvance of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. EGUsphere, 2025, 1--27.
  • Penprase, S.B, Wickert, A.D, Larson, P.H, Wood, J.J, Larsen, I.J, Rittenour, T.M, (2025). Plow versus Ice Age: Erosion rate variability from glacial--interglacial climate change is an order of magnitude lower than agricultural erosion in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, USA. Geology, 53:6, 535--539. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G52585.1
  • Marder, E., Gallen, S., Lifton, N., Rittenour, T.M, (2025). The Colorado Rocky Mountains Awaken: Understanding Topographic Rejuvenation in Postorogenic Mountain Belts. GSA today, 35:1, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG598A.1
  • Tanski, N.M, Pederson, J.L, Hidy, A.J, Rittenour, T.M, Mauch, J.P, (2025). The mystery of baselevel controls in the incision history of the central Colorado Plateau. AGU Advances, 6:1, e2024AV001359. doi: 10.22541/essoar.172081434.45667278/v1
  • Shulmeister, , Rittenour, T.M, Patton et al, , (2024). Chronology and evolution of the world’s largest sand island: K’gari (Fraser Island), South East Queensland, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 328, 108529. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108529
  • Pavano et al, , Rittenour, T.M, Catalano, , (2024). Integrated uplift, subsidence, erosion, and deposition in a tightly coupled source to sink system, Pagliara basin, northeastern Sicily, Italy. Basin Research, 36, doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12845
  • Romero et al, , Rittenour, T.M, Brignone et al, , (2024). Late Quaternary glacial maxima in southern Patagonia: insights from the Lago Argentino glacier lobe. Climate of the Past, 20, 1861-1883. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1861-2024
  • Prince, , Briner et al, , Rittenour, T.M, Harris, , (2024). New age constraints reveal moraine stabilization thousands of years after deposition during the last deglaciation of western New York, USA. Geochronology , 6, 409-427. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-6-409-2024
  • Tanski, N., Pederson, J., Rittenour, T.M, Hidy, A., (2024). Pleistocene Colorado River terraces in the canyonlands region (Utah, USA) record unsteady, transient incision and growth of the Cataract Canyon knickzone by salt tectonics. Geology, 52, 99-104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G51599.1
  • Tanski, N.M, Rittenour, T.M, Pavano et al, , (2024). Quartz luminescence sensitivity enhanced by residence time in the critical zone. Quaternary Geochronology, 84, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101613
  • Bierman et al, , Rittenour, T.M, Thomas et al, , (2024). Scientific history, sampling approach, and physical characterization of the Camp Century sub-glacial sediment core, a rare archive from beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet.. The Cryosphere, 18, 4029-4052. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2922
  • Bruno et al, L., Rittenour, T.M, (2024). Sedimentary response of the Po Basin to Mid-Late Pleistocene glacio-eustatic oscillations. Quaternary Science Reviews, 344, 109005.
  • Pederson et al, , Rittenour, T.M, Harris, , (2024). The how, when, and why of an abandoned bedrock meander of the Colorado River, Utah (US). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 49, 3283-3291. doi: https://doi/10.1002/esp.5886
  • Bartholomew et al, , Rittenour, T.M, Sun, , (2024). Timing of Holocene Surface-Ruptures Across Adjacent Rupture-Segments Where the Jinsha River Crosses the Yushu fault, Qinghai Province, China. Tectonics, 43, e2023TC007922 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007922
  • Tuzlak, D., Pederson, J.L, Bufe, A., Rittenour, T.M, (2022). Patterns of incision and deformation on the southern flank of the Yellowstone hotspot from terraces and topography. GSA Bulletin, 134:5-6, 1319--1333.
  • Kohler, M., Shulmeister, J., Rittenour, T.M, et al, , (2021). Holocene evolution of a spit complex and the interaction of tidal and wave processes in a drift dominated system, Inskip Peninsula, SE Queensland, Australia. The Holocene. 31, 1476-1488
  • Sweet, M., Gaillot, G., Rittenour, T.M, et al, , (2021). How fast do submarine fans grow? Insights from the Quaternary Golo fans, offshore Corsica. Geology 49, 1204-1208
  • Stagge, J., Rosenberg, D.E, DeRose, R.J, Rittenour, T.M, (2018). Monthly paleostreamflow reconstruction from annual tree-ring chronologies. Journal of Hydrology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.12.057
  • Finley, J.B, Ideker, C.J, Rittenour, T.M, (2017). Single-Grain Optically Stimulated Luminescence Ages of Brownware Pottery in the Central Rocky Mountains and the Spread of Numic Ceramic Technology. American Antiquity, 82, 761-780. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2017.38
  • Ideker, C.J, Finley, J.B, Rittenour, T.M, Summa-Nelson, M., (2017). Single-Grain Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating of Prehistoric Ceramics from the Greater Yellowstone Area, Wyoming, USA. Quaternary Geochronology, 42, 42-55. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2017.07.004
  • Jonell, T.N, Clift, P.D, Hoang, L.V, Hoang, T., Carter, A., Wittmann, H., Böning, P., Pahnke, K., Rittenour, T.M, (2016). Controls on erosion patterns and sediment transport in a monsoonal, tectonically quiescent drainage, Song Gianh, central Vietnam. Basin Research
  • Knabb, K.A, Erel, Y., Tirosh, O., Rittenour, T.M, Laparidou, S., Najjar, M., Levy, T.E, (2016). Environmental impacts of ancient copper mining and metallurgy: Multi-proxy investigation of human-landscape dynamics in the Faynan valley, southern Jordan. Journal of Archaeological Science, 74, 85–101.
  • Huckleberry, G., Ferguson, T., Rittenour, T.M, Banet, C., Mahan, S., (2016). Identification and dating of indigenous water storage reservoirs along the Rio San José at Laguna Pueblo, western New Mexico, USA. Journal of Arid Environments, 127, 171–186.
  • Gavillot, Y., Meigs, A., Yule, D., Heermance, R., Rittenour, T.M, Madugo, C., Malik, M., (2016). Shortening rate and Holocene surface rupture on the Riasi fault system in the Kashmir Himalaya: Active thrusting within the Northwest Himalayan orogenic wedge. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128:7-8, 1070–1094.
  • Layzell, A.L, Mandel, R.D, Rittenour, T.M, Smith, J.J, Harlow, R.H, Ludvigson, G.A, (2016). Stratigraphy, morphology, and geochemistry of late Quaternary buried soils on the High Plains of southwestern Kansas, USA. Catena, 144, 45–55.
  • Munyikwa, K., Rittenour, T.M, Feathers, J.K, (2016). Temporal constraints for the Late Wisconsinan deglaciation of western Canada using eolian dune luminescence chronologies from Alberta. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
  • Perkins, J.P, Finnegan, N.J, Henderson, S.T, Rittenour, T.M, (2016). Topographic constraints on magma accumulation below the actively uplifting Uturuncu and Lazufre volcanic centers in the Central Andes. Geosphere, 12:4, 1078–1096.
  • DeRose, J., Bekker, M., Allen, E., Buckley, B., Kjelgren, R.K, Rittenour, T.M, Wang, S., (2015). A millennium-length reconstruction of Bear River stream flow using Utah Juniper. Journal Hydrology, 529, 524-534.
  • Rittenour, T.M, Cotter, J.F, Arends, H.E, (2015). Application of single-grain OSL dating to ice-proximal deposits, glacial Lake Benson, west-central Minnesota, USA. Quaternary Geochronology
  • Layzell, A.L, Mandel, R.D, Ludvigson, G.A, Rittenour, T.M, Smith, J.J, (2015). Forces driving late Pleistocene (ca. 77–12 ka) landscape evolution in the Cimarron River valley, southwestern Kansas. Quaternary Research, 84:1, 106–117.
  • Pelletier, J.D, Brad Murray, A., Pierce, J.L, Bierman, P.R, Breshears, D.D, Crosby, B.T, Ellis, M., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Heimsath, A.M, Houser, C., Lancaster, N., Marani, M., Merritts, D., Moore, L., Pederson, J.L, Poulos, M., Rittenour, T.M, Rowland, J., Ruggiero, P., Ward, D., Yager, E., (2015). Forecasting the response of Earth’s surface to future climatic and land-use changes: A review of methods and research needs. Earth’s Future
  • Pazzaglia, F.J, Carter, M., Berti, C., Counts, R., Hancock, G., Harbor, D., Harrison, R., Heller, M., Mahan, S., Malenda, H., Rittenour, T.M, (2015). Geomorphology, active tectonics, and landscape evolution in the Mid-Atlantic region. Field Guides, 40, 109–169.
  • Rittenour, T.M, Coats, L.L, Metcalfe, D., (2015). Investigation of late and post-Fremont alluvial stratigraphy of Range Creek, east-central Utah: Use of OSL when radiocarbon fails. Quaternary International, 362, 63–76.
  • Wyshnytzky, C.E, Rittenour, T.M, Nelson, M.S, Thackray, G., (2015). Luminescence dating of late Pleistocene proximal glacial sediments in the Olympic Mountains, Washington. Quaternary International, 362, 116–123.
  • DeJong, B.D, Bierman, P.R, Newell, W.L, Rittenour, T.M, Mahan, S.A, Balco, G., Rood, D.H, (2015). Pleistocene relative sea levels in the Chesapeake Bay region and their implications for the next century. GSA Today, 25:8
  • Mahan, S.A, Nelson, M.S, Rittenour, T.M, Hanson, P., Rhodes, E., (2015). The 9th New World Luminescence Dating Workshop: Aim of the community and scope of the conference proceedings. Quaternary International362, 1–2.
  • Nelson, M.S, Gray, H.J, Johnson, J.A, Rittenour, T.M, Feathers, J.K, Mahan, S.A, (2015). User guide for luminescence sampling in archaeological and geological contexts. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 3:2, 166–177.
  • Nelson, M.S, Rittenour, T.M, (2015). Using grain-size characteristics to model soil water content: Application to dose-rate calculation for luminescence dating. Radiation Measurements
  • Pederson, J.L, Chapot, M.S, Simms, S.R, Sohbati, R., Rittenour, T.M, Murray, A.S, Cox, G., (2014). Age of Barrier Canyon-style rock art constrained by cross-cutting relations and luminescence dating techniques. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111:36, 12986–12991.
  • Huckleberry, G., Rittenour, T.M, (2014). Combining radiocarbon and single-grain optically stimulated luminescence methods to accurately date pre-ceramic irrigation canals, Tucson, Arizona. Journal of Archaeological Science, 41, 156–170.
  • Munyikwa, K., Gilliland, K., Gibson, T., Mann, E., Rittenour, T.M, Grekul, C., Blaikie-Birkigt, K., (2014). Late Holocene temporal constraints for human occupation levels at the Bodo archaeological locality, east-central Alberta, Canada using radiocarbon and luminescence chronologies. plains anthropologist, 59:230, 109–143.
  • Umhoefer, P., Maloney, S., Buchanan, B., Arrowsmith, R., Martinez-Gutierrez, G., Kent, G., Driscoll, N., Harding, A., Kaufman, D., Rittenour, T.M, (2014). Late Quaternary faulting history of the Carrizal and related faults, La Paz region, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Geosphere, 10
  • Kenworthy, M., Rittenour, T., Pierce, J., Sutfin, N., Sharp, W., (2014). Luminescence dating without sand lenses: An application of OSL to coarse-grained alluvial fan deposits of the Lost River Range, Idaho, USA. Quaternary Geochronology, 23, 9–25.
  • Pederson, J.L, Chapot, M.S, Simms, S.R, Sohbati, R., Rittenour, T.M, Murray, A.S, Cox, G., (2014). Reply to Simon and Reed: Independent and converging results rule out historic disturbance and confirm age constraints for Barrier Canyon rock art. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111:52, E5604–E5604.
  • Link, P.K, Crosby, B.T, Lifton, Z.M, Eversole, E.A, Rittenour, T.M, (2014). The late Pleistocene (17 ka) Soldier Bar landslide and Big Creek Lake, Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, central Idaho, USA. Rocky Mountain Geology, 49:1, 17–31.
  • Gunderson, K., Pazaglia, F., Picotti, V., Anastatio, D., Kodama, K., Rittenour, T.M, Frankel, K., Ponza, A., Berti, C., Negri, A., Sabbatini, A., (2014). Unraveling tectonic and climatic controls on synorogenic growth strata (Northern Apennines, Italy).. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 126, 532-552.
  • Allen, E., Rittenour, T.M, DeRose, R., Bekker, M., Kjelgren, R.K, Buckley, B., (2013). A tree-ring based reconstruction of Logan River streamflow, northern Utah. . Water Resources Research , 49, 1-10.
  • Gran, K.B, Finnegan, N., Johnson, A.L, Belmont, P., Wittkop, C., Rittenour, T.M, (2013). Landscape evolution, valley excavation, and terrace development following abrupt postglacial base level fall. Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • McAuliffe, L., Dolan, J., Kirby, E., Rollins, C., Haravitch, B., Alm, S., Rittenour, T.M, (2013). Paleoseismology of the southern Panamint Valley fault: Implications for regional earthquake occurrence and seismic hazard in southern California. . Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 118, 5126-5146.
  • Pederson, J.L, Burnside, N., Shipton, Z., Rittenour, T.M, (2013). Rapid river incision across an inactive fault - implications for patterns of erosion an deformation in the central Colorado Plateau.. Lithosphere , 5, 513-520.
  • Pederson, J.L, Hidy, A., Gosse, J., Rittenour, T.M, (2013). Reply to Comment: Colorado River chronostratigraphy at Lee’s Ferry, Arizona, and the Colorado Plateau bull’s-eye of incision. Geology, 41
  • Pederson, J.L, Cragun, W.S, Alan, H.J, Rittenour, T.M, Gosse, J.C, (2013). Colorado River chronostratigraphy at Lee’s Ferry, Arizona and the central Colorado Plateau bull’s-eye of incision. Geology
  • Summa-Nelson, M., Rittenour, T.M, (2012). Application of OSL dating to middle to late Holocene arroyo sediments in Kanab Creek, southern Utah, USA. Quaternary Geochronology , 10, 167-174.
  • Rittenour, T.M, Riggs, N.R, Kennedy, L.E, (2012). Application of single-grain OSL to date quartz xenocrysts within a basalt flow, San Francisco volcanic field, northern Arizona, USA. Quaternary Geochronology, 10, 300-307.
  • Rittenour, T.M, Riggs, N., Kennedy, L., (2012). Application of single-grain OSL to date quartz xenocrysts within a basalt flow, San Francisco volcanic field, northern Arizona, USA.. Quaternary Geochronology, 10, 300-307.
  • Connor, S., van Leeuwen, J., Rittenour, T.M, Knapp, P., Ammann, B., Bjorck, S., (2012). The ecological impact of oceanic island colonisation - a palaeoecological perspective from the Azores. Journal of Biogeography
  • Chapot, M., Sohbati, R., Murray, A., Pederson, J.L, Rittenour, T.M, (2012). Constraining the age of rock art by dating a rockfall event using single-grain and surface dating luminescence techniques. Quatarnary Geochronology
  • Munyikwa, K., Feathers, J., Rittenour, T.M, Shrimpton, H., (2011). Constraining the chronology of the Late Wisconsinan retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet from western Canada using luminescence ages from postglacial aeolian dune sequences. Quaternary Geochronology, 6, 407-422.
  • Janecke, S.U, Dorsey, R.J, Steely, A.N, Kirby, S.M, Lutz, A., Housen, B.A, Belgarde, B., Langehein, V., Forand, D., Rittenour, T.M, (2011). High Geologic Slip Rates since Early Pleistocene initiation of the San Jacinto and San Felipe Fault Zones in the San Andreas fault systems: Southern California, USA. GSA Special Paper, 475
  • Pierce, J.L, Meyer, G.A, Rittenour, T.M, (2011). The relation of Holocene fluvial terraces to changes in climate and sediment supply, South Fork Payette River, Idaho. Quaternary Science Reviews , 30, 628-645.
  • Harvey, J.E, Pederson, J.L, Rittenour, T.M, (2011). Exploring relations between arroyo cycles and canyon paleoflood records in Buckskin Wash, Utah--reconciling scientific paradigms. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123:11/12, 2266-2276.
  • Pitblado, B.L, Jackson, M.S, Pederson, J.L, Rittenour, T.M, (2008). OSL Dating the Paleoamerican Heath Site (5GN3418), Gunnison Basin, Colorado. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 25, 130-132.
  • Rittenour, T.M, (2008). Luminescence dating of fluvial deposits: applications to geomorphic, palaeoseismic and archaeological research. Boreas, 37, 613-635.
  • Pitblado, B.L, Jackson, M.S, Pederson, J.L, Rittenour, T.M, (2008). OSL Dating the Paleoamerican Heath Site (5GN3418), Gunnison Basin, Colorado. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 25, 130-132.
  • Rittenour, T.M, Blum, M.D, Goble, R.J, (2007). Fluvial evolution of the lower Mississippi River valley during the last 100-kyr glacial cycle: Response to glaciation and sea-level change. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117, 586-608.
  • Björck, S., Rittenour, T.M, Rosén, P., Bennike, O., Kromer, B., Möller, P., Sandgren, P., Westegård, , (2006). A Holocene lacustrine record in the central North Atlantic: proxies for volcanic activity, short-term NAO mode variability, and long-term precipitation changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25, 9-32.
  • Goble, R.J, Rittenour, T.M, (2006). A Linear Modulation OSL Study of the Unstable Ultrafast Component in Samples from Glacial Lake Hitchcock, Massachusetts, USA. Ancient TL, 24, 37-46.
  • Holbrook, J.M, Autin, W., Rittenour, T.M, Marshak, S., Goble, R., (2006). Stratigraphic evidence for millennial-scale temporal clustering of earthquakes on a continental-interior fault: Holocene Mississippi River floodplain deposits, New Madrid seismic zone, USA. Tectonophysics, 420, 431-454.
  • Pederson, J.L, Anders, M.D, Rittenour, T.M, Sharp, W.D, Gosse, J.C, Karlstrom, K.E, (2006). Using fill terraces to understand incision rates and evolution of the Colorado River in eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona. Journal of Geophysical Research (Earth Surface), 111, F02003. doi: 10.1029/2004JF000201
  • Rittenour, T.M, Goble, R.J, Blum, M.D, (2005). Development of an OSL chronology for late Pleistocene channel belts in the lower Mississippi valley. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24, 2539-2554.
  • van Leeuwen, J.N, Schäfer, H., van der Knapp, W.O, Rittenour, T.M, Björck, S., Ammann, B., (2005). Native or introduced? Fossil pollen and spores may say. An example from the Azores Islands. NEOBIOTA, 6, 27-34.
  • Anders, M.D, Pederson, J.L, Rittenour, T.M, Sharp, W.D, Gosse, J.C, Karlstrom, K.E, Crossey, L.C, Finkel, R.C, Goble, R.J, Stockli, L., Yang, G., (2005). Pleistocene geomorphology and geochronology of eastern Grand Canyon: linkages of landscape components during climate changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24, 2428-2448.
  • Rittenour, T.M, Goble, R., Blum, M., (2003). An Optical Age Chronology of Late Pleistocene Fluvial Deposits in the Northern Lower Mississippi Valley. Quaternary Science Reviews , 22, 1105-1110.
  • Rittenour, T.M, Brigham-Grette, J., Mann, M.E, (2000). El Nino-like Climate Teleconnections in New England during the Late Pleistocene. Science, 288, 1039-1042.
  • Rittenour, T.M, Brigham-Grette, J., Mann, M.E, (2000). El Nino-like Climate Teleconnections in New England during the Late Pleistocene. Science, 288, 1039-1042.
  • Tanski, N., Pederson, J., Hidy, A., Rittenour, T.M, A Mystery of baselevel controls – major changes in Pleistocene Colorado River incision across the Colorado Plateau. Science Advances, DOI:10.22541/essoar.172081434.45667278/v1
  • Gray et al, , Rittenour, T.M, Howard, K., Timing and Geometry of the Chemehuevi Formation Reveal a Late Pleistocene Sediment Pulse into the Lower Colorado River. GSA Bulletin
  • Duckworth, C., Amos, C., Rittenour, T.M, al, e., Slip and strain accumulation along the Sadie Creek fault, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth

Professional Journal

  • Pederson, J.L, Young, S., Turley, M., Tanksi, N., Rittenour, T.M, Harris, R., (2019). The how, when, and why of an abandoned bedrock meander – Jackson Hole rincon near Moab, Utah (U.S.). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

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

Publications | Technical Reports

AES Reports

    Research Reports

    • Hayden, A., Rittenour, T.M, (2010). Preliminary Geologic Map of a portion of the Canaan Creek Quadrangle, Garfield County, Utah, 1:24,000 scale. USGS EDMAP project, Utah Geological Survey *
    • Hayden, A., Rittenour, T.M, (2010). Preliminary Geologic Map of a portion of the Escalante Quadrangle, Garfield County, Utah, 1:24,000 scale. USGS EDMAP project, Utah Geological Survey *
    • Hayden, A., Rittenour, T.M, (2010). Preliminary Geologic Map of a portion of the Upper Valley Quadrangle, Garfield County, Utah, 1:24,000 scale. USGS EDMAP project, Utah Geological Survey *
    • Hayden, A., Rittenour, T.M, (2010). Preliminary Geologic Map of a portion of the Wide Hollow Reservoir Quadrangle, Garfield County, Utah, 1:24,000 scale. USGS EDMAP project, Utah Geological Survey *
    • Summa, M.C, Rittenour, T.M, (2009). Surficial Geologic Map of part of the Kanab Quadrangle, Kane County, Utah. USGS EDMAP project, Utah Geological Survey *
    • Summa, M.C, Rittenour, T.M, (2009). Surficial Geologic Map of part of the White Tower Quadrangle, Kane County, Utah. 1:12,000 scale. USGS EDMAP project, Utah Geological Survey *

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

    Publications | Other

    Bulletins

    • Oaks et al, , Rittenour, T.M, Erikson et al, , (2024). Implications and hydrographs for two Pre-Bonneville pluvial lakes and double geosols from 14 OSL-IRSL ages in Cache Valley, NE Bonneville Basin: UGA Vol. 51 (2024): Great Salt Lake and the Bonneville Basin: Geologic history and Anthropocene issues. Utah Geological Association

    Newsletter

    • Hall, S.A, Rittenour, T.M, (2010). Optical Dating and New Mexico Prehistory. Papers of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico *

    Other

    • Rittenour, T.M, Sharp, W., Pederson, J.L, O’Brien, G., Goble, R., (2006). OSL chronology from Colorado River tributaries in the western Grand Canyon and Grand Wash Trough: Comparison to U-series ages and application to fluvial deposits > 300 ka. US Geological Survey

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

    Teaching

    GEO, GEO, PSC, PSC, WATS, WATS 5680, 5680, 5680, 6680, 6680, 6680 - Paleoclimatology, Spring 2025
    GEO, GEO 6800, 7800 - Graduate Seminar, Fall 2024
    GEO 6800 - Luminescence Geochronology, Fall 2024
    GEO 6100, 7100 - Graduate Seminar in Geomorphology (Topic), Fall 2023
    GEO 6800 - Quaternary Geochronology, Fall 2023
    GEO 2500 - Geology Field Excursions, Spring 2023
    GEO, PSC 5680, 6680 - Paleoclimatology, Spring 2023
    GEO 5680, 6680 - Paleoclimatology, Spring 2021
    GEO 6800 - Graduate Seminar, Fall 2020
    GEO 5680, 6680 - Paleoclimatology, Spring 2020
    GEO, WATS 3600 - Geomorphology, Fall 2019
    WATS, GEO 3600 - Geomorphology, Fall 2019
    WATS, GEO 6800, 3600 - Geomorphology, Fall 2019
    GEO 6800 - Graduate Seminar, Fall 2019
    GEO 6800 - Graduate Seminar, Fall 2019
    GEO 6800 - Graduate Seminar, Fall 2018
    GEO 6100, 7100 - Graduate Seminar in Geomorphology (Topic), Fall 2018
    GEO, PSC 5680, 6680 - Paleoclimatology, Spring 2018
    GEO, WATS 3600 - Geomorphology, Fall 2017
    GEO 6800 - Graduate Seminar, Fall 2017
    GEO 6800 - Graduate Seminar, Fall 2017
    GEO 6990 - Continuing Graduate Advisement, Spring 2017
    GEO 7990 - Continuing Graduate Advisement, Spring 2017
    GEO 6990 - Continuing Graduate Advisement, Fall 2016
    GEO 7990 - Continuing Graduate Advisement, Fall 2016
    GEO, WATS 3600 - Geomorphology, Fall 2016
    GEO 6900 - Graduate Internship/Co-op Experience, Fall 2016
    GEO 6800 - Graduate Seminar, Fall 2016
    GEO 6800 - Graduate Seminar, Fall 2016
    GEO 6800 - Graduate Seminar, Summer 2016
    GEO 6990 - Continuing Graduate Advisement, Spring 2016
    GEO 6820 - Graduate Seminar Series, Spring 2016
    GEO 6100 - Graduate Seminar in Geomorphology (Topic), Fall 2015
    GEO 2500 - Geology Field Excursions, Spring 2014
    GEO 5680,6680 - Paleoclimatology, Spring 2014
    Geol 6100 - Graduate Seminar in Geomorphology, Fall 2013
    GEO 6100,7100 - Graduate Seminar in Geomorphology (Topic), Fall 2013
    GEO 6800 - Graduate Seminar, Summer 2013
    GEO 6650,7650 - Quaternary Geochronology, Spring 2013
    GEO 6100,7100 - Graduate Seminar in Geomorphology (Topic), Fall 2012
    GEO 6800 - OSL Short Course, Summer 2012
    GEO 5680,6680 - Paleoclimatology, Spring 2012
    GEO 6800 - OSL Short Course, Summer 2011
    USU 1360 - IPS: PLANET EARTH (BPS), Spring 2011
    GEO 6100 - Graduate Seminar in Geomorphology (Topic), Fall 2010
    Geol 2500 - Geology Field Trip, Spring 2010
    Geol 6800 - Luminescence Geochronology, Spring 2010
    Geol 5680 - Paleoclimatology, Spring 2010
    Geol 6680 - Paleoclimatology, Spring 2010
    Geol 6100 - Graduate Seminar in Geomorphology, Fall 2009
    USU 1360 - Planet Earth, Spring 2009
    Geol 6100 - Graduate Seminar in Geomorphology, Fall 2008

    Graduate Students Mentored

    Brooklyn Dib, Geosciences - December 2025
    Emma Krolcyzk, Geosciences 2024
    Hawke Woznick, Geosciences 2024
    Natalie Tanski, Geosciences 2024
    Mary Bailey, Geosciences 2023
    April Phinney, Geosciences, August 2020 2022
    Noah Slade, Geosciences, August 2020 2022
    Harriet Cornachione, Geosciences 2022
    Dominique Shore, Geosciences 2021
    Alexander Short, Geosciences 2021
    Tomsen Reed, Geosciences 2020
    Kerry Riley, 2019
    Brianna Hill, Geosciences 2018
    Carlie Ideker, School of Social Sciences, August 2012 2015
    Kirk Townsend, Geosciences, August 2013 - August 2015
    William Huff, Geosciences, August 2011 2013
    Emilee Skyles, August 2009 2013
    Cianna Wysnytzsky, Geosciences, August 2011 - August 2013
    Eric Allen, August 2010 - July 2013
    Justin Stout, Watershed Sciences, August 2010 - June 2012
    Anne Hayden, August 2008 - December 2011
    Michelle Summa, August 2007 - September 2009