Publications
Articles
(* Student Advisee)
In Review
Baker, D.M, Head, J.W., and Marchant, D.R. 2009. Flow patterns of lobate debris aprons and lineated valley fill north of Ismeniae Fossae, Mars: Evidence for extensive mid-latitude glaciation in the late Amazonian. Icarus, in review.
Dickson, J.L., Head, J.W., and Marchant, D.R. 2009. Kilometer-scale ice accumulation and glaciation in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars: Evidence for crater-filling events in the Late Amazonian at the Phlegra Montes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in review.
*Shean, D.E., and Marchant, 2009. Seismic and GPR surveys of Mullins Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Ice thickness measurements, internal structure, and implications for surface ridge formation. Journal of Glaciology, in review.
*Kowalewski, D.E., Marchant, D.R., and Head, J.W. Debris-covered alpine glaciers of Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews, in review.
*Swanger, K.M., Marchant, D.R., and Head, J.W. Buried glacier ice in Antarctica: the influence of microclimate on long-term ice preservation. Geomorphology, in review.
Levy, J.S., Head, J.W., and Marchant, D.R. 2009. Cold and Dry Processes in the Martian Arctic: Geomorphic Observations at the Phoenix Landing Site and Comparisons with Terrestrial Cold Desert Landforms.Geophysical Research Letters, in review.
Fassett, C.I., Dickson, J.L., Head, J.W., Levy, J.S., and Marchant, D.R. 2009. Supraglacial and proglacial valleys on Amazonian Mars. Icarus, in review.
In Press
Head, J.W., Marchant, D.R., Dickson, J.L., Kress, A.M., and Baker, D.M. 2009. Northern Mid-Latitude Glaciation in the Amazonian Period of Mars: Criteria for the Recognition of Debris-Covered Glacier and Valley Glacier Landsystem Deposits in the 30o-50o N Latitude Band. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in press.
Levy, J.S., Head, J.W., and Marchant, D.R. 2009. Concentric Crater Fill in Utopia Planitia: History and Interaction Between Glacial “Brain Terrain” and Periglacial Mantle Processes. Icarus, in press.
Published
Morgan, G.A., Head, J.W., and Marchant, D.R. 2009. Lineated Valley Fill (LVF) and Lobate Debris Aprons (LDA) of the Northern Dichotomy Boundary, Mars: Constraints on the Extent, Age and Episodicity of Amazonian Glacial Events. Icarus 202, 22-38. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.017.
Levy, J.S., Head, J.W., and Marchant, D.R. 2009. Thermal Contraction Crack Polygons on Mars: Classification, Distribution, and Climate Implications from HiRISE Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 114, E01007, doi:10.1029/2008JE003273.
Levy, J.S., Head, J.W., Marchant, D.R., Dickson, J.L., and Morgan, G.A. 2009. Geologically recent gully-polygon relationships on Mars: Insights from the Antarctic Dry Valleys on the roles of permafrost, microclimates, and water sources for surface flow. Icarus 201, 113-126. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.043
Kadish, S.J., Head, J.W., Parsons, R.L., and Marchant, D.R. 2008. The Ascraeus Mons fan-shaped deposit: Volocano-ice interactions and the climatic implications of cold-based tropical mountain glaciation. Icarus 197, 84-109. doi: 0.1016/j.icarus.2008.03.019.
Levy, J.S., Head, J.W., and Marchant, D.R. 2008. The role of thermal contraction crack polygons in cold-desert fluvial systems. Antarctic Science 20(6), 565-579.
Fastook, J.L., Head, J.W., Marchant, D.R., and Forget, F. 2008. Tropical Mountain Glaciers on Mars: Altitude-Dependence of Ice Accumulation, Accumulation Conditions, Formation Times, Glacier Dynamics, and Implications for Planetary Spin-Axis/Orbital History. Icarus 198(2) 305-317. 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.08.008
Head, J.W., Marchant, D.R., and Kreslavsky, M.A. 2008. Formation of gullies on Mars: link to recent climate history and insolation microenvironments implicate surface water flow origin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi 10.1073 pnas.0803760105.
Kadish, S.J., Head, J.W., Barlow, N.G., and Marchant, D.R. 2008. Martian pedestal craters: Marginal sublimation pits implicate a climate-related formation mechanism. eophysical Research Letters, 35, L16104, doi:10.1029/2008GL034990.
*Lewis, A.R., Marchant, D.R., Ashworth, A.C., Hedenas, L., Hemming, S.R., Johnson, J.V., Leng, M.J., Machlus, M.L., Newton, A.E., Raine, J.I., Willenbring, J.K., Williams, M., and Wolfe, A.P. 2008. Mid-Miocene cooling and the extinction of tundra in continental Antarctica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, (31) 10676-10689, doi 10.1073 pnas.0802501105
Williams, M. Siveter, D.J., Ashworth, A.C., Wilby, P.R., Horne, D.J., *Lewis, A.R., and Marchant, D.R. 2008. Exceptionally preserved lacustrine ostracods from the middle Miocene of Antarctica: implications for high-latitude paleoenvironment at 77°S. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0396
Dickson, J.L., Head, J.W., and Marchant, D.R. 2008. Late Amazonian Glaciation at the Dichotomy Boundary on Mars: Evidence for Glacial Thickness Maxima and Multiple Glacial Phases. Geology 36, 411-414.
Bao, H., Barnes, J.D., Sharp, Z.D., and Marchant, D.R. 2008. Two chloride sources in soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113 (D3) D03301, doi:10.1029/2007JD008703.
Levy, J.S., Head, J.W., Marchant, D.R., and *Kowalewski, D.E. 2008. Identification of sublimation-type thermal contraction crack polygons at the proposed NASA landing site: implications for substrate properties and climate-driven morphological evolution. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L04202, doi:10.1029/2007GL032813.
Krevslavsky, M.A., Head, J.W. III, and Marchant, D.R., 2008. Periods of active permafrost layer formation during the geological history of Mars: implications for circum-polar and mid-latitude surface processes. Planetary and Space Sciences 56, 289-302doi:10.1016/j.pss.2006.02.010.
*Shean, D.E., Head, J.W., and Marchant, D.R. 2007. Shallow seismic surveys and ice thickness estimates of the Mullins Valley debris-covered glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 19, 485-496, doi:10.1017/S0954102007000624
*Lewis, A.R., Marchant, D.R., Ashworth, A.C., Hemming, S.R., and Machlus, M.L. 2007. Major middle Miocene global climate change: evidence from East Antarctica and the Transantarctic Mountains. Geological Society of America Bulletin 119, (11/12), 1449-1461, doi: 10.1130B26134.1
Marchant, D.R. and Head, J.W. 2007. Antarctic Dry Valleys: Microclimate zonation, variable geomorphic processes, and implications for assessing climate change on Mars. Icarus 192(1), 187-222, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2007.06.018
Bidle, K.D., SangHoon L., Marchant, D.R., and Falkowski, P.G. 2007. Fossil genes and microbes in the oldest ice on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (no. 33), 13455-13460.
Levy, J.S., Head, J.W., III, and Marchant, D.R., 2007. Lineated Valley Fill and Lobate Debris Apron Stratigraphy in Nilosyrtis Mensae, Mars: Evidence for Phases of Glacial Modification of the Dichotomy Boundary. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, E08004, doi:10.1029/2006JE002852.
*Swanger, K.M. and Marchant, D.R. 2007. Sensitivity of ice-cemented Antarctic soils to greenhouse-induced thawing: are terrestrial archives at risk? Earth and Planetary Science Letters 259, 347-359.
*Shean, D.E., Head, J.W. III, Fastook, J.L., and Marchant, D.R. 2007. Recent glaciation at high elevations on Arsia Mons, Mars: Implications for the formation and evolution of large tropical mountain glaciers. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, E03004, doi:10.1029/2006JE002761.
Levy, J.S., Marchant, D.R., and Head, J.W., III. 2006. Distribution and origin of patterned ground on Mullins Valley debris-covered glacier, Antarctica: the role of ice flow and sublimation. Antarctic Science 18, 385-398.
*Kowalewski, D. E., Marchant, D.R., Levy, J.S., and Head, J.W. III. 2006. Quantifying low rates of summertime sublimation for buried glacier ice in Beacon Valley, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 18, 421-428.
Garvin, J., Head, J.W., Marchant, D.R., and Kreslavsky, M., 2006. High-latitude cold-based glacial deposits on Mars: multiple superposed drop moraines in a crater interior at 70N latitude. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 41 (10), 1423-1690.
Bao, H., and Marchant, D.R. 2006. Quantifying sulfate components and their variations in soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D16301, doi:10.1029/2005JD006669.
*Lewis, A.R., Marchant, D.R., Baldwin, S.L, and Webb, L.E. 2006. The age and origin of the Labyrinth, western Dry Valleys, Antarctica: evidence for extensive middle Miocene subglacial floods and freshwater discharge to the Southern Ocean. Geology 34 (7), 513-516.
*Staiger (Willenbring), J.W, Marchant, D.R., Schaefer, Oberholzer, P.J., Johnson, J.V., *Lewis, A.R., and *Swanger, K.M. 2006. Plio-Pleistocene history of Ferrar Glacier, Antarctica: Implications for climate and ice sheet stability. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 243, 489-503.
Milkovich, S.M., Head J.W., Marchant, D.R., 2006. Debris-covered piedmont glaciers along the northwest flank of the Olympus Mons scarp: Evidence for low-latitude ice accumulation during the Late Amazonian of Mars. Icarus 181 (2), 388-407.
Head, J.W. III, Nahm, A.L., Marchant, D.R., Neukum, G., 2006. Modification of the dichotomy boundary on Mars by Amazonian mid-latitude regional glaciation. Geophysical Research Letters 33 (8): Art. No. L08S03 MAR 10.
Head, J.W. III, Marchant, D.R., Agnew, M.C., Fassett, C.I., and Kreslavsky, M.A. 2006. Extensive valley glacier deposits in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars: Evidence for late Amazonian obliquity-driven climate change. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 241, 663-671 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.016
*Shean, D.E., Head, J.W. III, and Marchant, D.R. 2005. Origin and evolution of a cold-based tropical ice sheet on Mars: The Pavonis Mons fan-shaped deposit. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, E05001, doi:10.1029/2004JE002360.
Head, J.W. III, Marchant, D.R., and Ghatan, G.L. 2004. Glacial deposits on the rim of an Hesperian-Amazonian outflow channel source trough: Mangala Valles, Mars. Geophysical Research Letters 31, L10701, doi:10.1029/2004GL020294.
Head, J.W. III, Mustard, J.F., Kreslavsky, M.A., Milliken, R.E., and Marchant, D.R. 2003. Recent ice ages on Mars. Nature, 426, 792-802.
Head, J.W. III and Marchant, D.R. 2003. Cold-based mountain glaciers on Mars: western Arsia Mons. Geology 31, 641-644.
Marchant, D.R., *Lewis, A., Phillips, W.C., *Moore, E.J., Souchez, R., and Landis, G. P. 2002. Formation of patterned-ground and sublimation till over Miocene glacier ice in Beacon Valley, Antarctica. Geological Society of America Bulletin 114, 718-730.
*Jansson, K. N., Kleman, J., and Marchant, D.R. 2001. The succession of ice-flow patterns in north-central Quebec, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews 21,503-523.
Kleman, J., Marchant, D.R., and Borgstrom, I. 2001. Late glacial ice dynamics on southern Baffin Island and in Hudson Strait. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research 33(3), 249-257.
Dochat, T.M., Marchant, D.R. and Denton, G.H. 2000. Glacial geology of Cape Bird, Ross Island, Antarctica. Geografiska Annaler 82(A), 237-247.
Denton, G.H. and Marchant, D.R. 2000. The geologic basis for a reconstruction of a grounded ice sheet in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, at the last glacial maximum. Geografiska Annaler 82(A), 167-211.
Schaefer, J.M., Baur, H., Denton, G.H., Ivy-Ochs, S., Marchant, D.R., Schluchter, C., and Wieler, R. 2000. The oldest ice on Earth in Beacon Valley, Antarctica: new evidence from surface exposure dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 179, 91-99.
Summerfield, M.A., Sugden, D.E., Denton, G.H., Marchant, D.R., Cockburn, H.A.P., and Stuart, F.M., 1999. Cosmogenic isotope data support previous evidence of extremely low rates of denudation in the Dry Valleys region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 162, 255-267.
Sugden, D.E., Summerfield, M.A., Denton, G.H., Wilch, T.I., McIntosh, W.C., Marchant, D.R., and Rutford, R.H. 1999. Landscape development in the Royal Society Range, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica: stability since the mid-Miocene. Geomorphology 28, 181-200.
Denton, G.H., Heusser, C.J., Lowell, T.V., Moreno, P.I., Anderson, B.G., Heusser, L.E., Schluchter, C., and Marchant, D.R. 1999. Interhemispheric linkage of paleoclimate during the last glaciation. Geografiska Annaler 81(A), 107-154.
Denton, G.H., Lowell T.V., Heusser, C.J., Schluchter, C. Anderson, B.G., Heusser, L.E., Moreno, P.I., and Marchant, D.R. 1999. Geomorphology, stratigraphy, and radiocarbon chronology of Llanquihue drift in the area of the southern Lake District, Seno Reloncavi, and Isla Grande de Chiloe, Chile. Geografiska Annaler 81(A), 167-230.
Summerfield, M.A., Stuart, F.M., Cockburn, H.A.P., Sugden, D.E., Denton, G.H., Dunai, T., and Marchant, D.R. 1998. Long-term rates of denudation in the Dry Valleys region of the Transantarctic Mountains, southern Victoria Land based on in-situ produced cosmogenic Ne-21. Geomorphology 27, 113-129.
Marchant, D.R., Denton, G.H., Swisher III, C.C., and Potter, N., Jr. 1996. Late Cenozoic Antarctic paleoclimate reconstructed from volcanic ashes in the Dry Valleys region, south Victoria Land. Geological Society of America Bulletin 108, (2) 181-194.
Marchant, D.R., and Denton, G.H. 1996. Miocene and Pliocene paleoclimate of the Dry Valleys region, southern Victoria Land: A geomorphological approach. Marine Micropaleontology 27, 253-271.
Sugden, D.E., Marchant, D.R., Potter, N. Jr., Roland Souchez, Denton, G. H., Carl C. Swisher, and Jean-Louis Tison. 1995. Miocene glacier ice in Beacon Valley, Antarctica. Nature 376, 412-416.
Lowell, T.V., Heusser, C.J., Anderson, B.G., Moreno, P.I., Hauser, A., Heusser, L.E., Schlücter, C., Marchant, D.R., and Denton, G.H. 1995. Interhemispheric correlation of Late Pleistocene glacial events. Science 269, 1541-1549.
Sugden, D.E., Denton, G.H., and Marchant, D.R. 1995. Landscape evolution of the Dry Valleys, Transantarctic Mountains: Tectonic implications. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100 (B7), 9949-9967.
Marchant, D.R., Denton, G.H., Bockheim, J.G., Wilson, S.C., and Kerr, A.R. 1994. Quaternary ice-level changes of upper Taylor Glacier, Antarctica: Implications for paleoclimate and ice-sheet dynamics. Boreas 23, 29-42.
Marchant, D.R., Denton, G.H., and Sugden, D.E. 1993. Miocene glacial stratigraphy and landscape evolution of the western Asgard Range, Antarctica. Geografiska Annaler 75 A, 303-330.
Denton, G.H., Sugden, D.E., Marchant, D.R., Hall, B.L., and Wilch, T.I. 1993. East Antarctic Ice Sheet sensitivity to Pliocene climatic change from a Dry Valleys perspective. Geografiska Annaler 75 A, 155-204.
Marchant, D.R., Swisher III, C.C., Lux, D.R., West, D.P., Jr., and Denton, G.H. 1993. Pliocene paleoclimate and East Antarctic ice-sheet history from surficial ash deposits. Science 260, 667-670.
Marchant, D.R., Denton, G.H., and Swisher, C.C. III. 1993. Miocene-Pliocene-Pleistocene Glacial History of Arena Valley, Quartermain Mountains, Antarctica. Geografiska Annaler 75 A, 269-302.
Sugden, D.E., Marchant, D.R., and Denton, G.H. 1993. The case for a stable East Antarctic Ice Sheet: The Background. Geografiska Annaler 73 A, 151-154.
Sugden, D.E., Denton, G.H., and Marchant, D.R., 1991. Subglacial meltwater channel systems and ice-sheet overriding, Asgard Range, Antarctica. Geografiska Annaler 73(A), 109-121.