Selected Publications
Bruce Harrison, Associate Professor of Geology

Hendrickx, J.M.H., Phillips, F.M., Harrison, J.B.J. 2003. “Water flow processes in arid and semi-arid vadose zones.” In Understanding water in a dry environment: hydrological processes in arid and semi-arid zones (Ed. Ian Simmers). IAH International Contributions to Hydrogeology 23, AA Balkema, Netherlands, 353 pp. Overview.

Phillips, F., Ayarbe, J.P., Harrison, J.B.J.  2003. Dating rupture events on alluvial fault scarps using cosmogenic nuclides and scarp morphology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 215:203-218. Abstract.

Zhang, H.,Niemi, T.M., Atallah, M.,Harrison, J.B.J. 2001. Late Pleistocene and Holocene slip rate of the northern Wadi Araba fault, Dead Sea transform, Jordan Journal of Seismology 5: 449-474.

Eppes, M.C and Harrison, J.B.J. 1999. Spatial variability of soils developed on basalt flows in the Potrillo Volcanic Field southern New Mexico: prelude to a chronosequence study Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 24. 1009-1024.

Harrison, J.B.J. and Yair, A. 1998. Eolian and fluvial interactions in the development of the Nizzana Dune Field.  Sedimentology 45, 507-518.

Amit, R. Harrison, J.B.J., Enzel, Y., Porat, N. 1996. Soils as a tool for estimating ages of Quaternary fault scarps in a hyperarid environment-the southern Arava valley, the Dead Sea Rift, Israel. CATENA, 28, p. 21-45. Abstract

Enzel, Y., Amit, R., Porat, N., Zilberman, E., and Harrison, J.B.J., 1996. Estimating the Ages of Fault Scarps in the Arava, Israel. Tectonophysics 253, 305-317. Abstract

Amit, R. and Harrison, J.B.J., 1995. Biogenic Calcic Horizon Development Under Extremely Arid Conditions, Nizzana Sand Dunes, Israel. Advances in GeoEcology, 28, 65-88. Abstract

Amit, R., Harrison, J.B.J., and Enzel, Y., 1995. Use of Soils and Colluvial Deposits in Analyzing Tectonic Events - The Southern Arava Rift, Israel. Geomorphology 12, 91-107. Abstract

Enzel, Y., Amit, R., Harrison, J.B.J., and Porat, N., 1994. Morphologic Dating of Fault Scarps and Terrace Risers in the Southern Arava, Israel: Comparison to Other Age-Dating Techniques and Implications for Paleoseismicity. Isr. J. Earth Sci.; 43: 91-103. Abstract

Harrison, J.B.J., McFadden, L.D., and Weldon II, R.J., 1992. The Influence of Colluvial Deposition on Rates of Soil Development in the Transverse Ranges, Southern California. Isr. J. Earth Sci. 41: 139-154. Abstract

Harrison, J.B.J., McFadden, L.D., and Weldon III, R.J., 1990. Spatial Soil Variability in the Cajon Pass Chronosequence: Implications for the Use of Soils as a Geochronological Tool. In: P.L.K. Knuepfer and L.D. McFadden (Editors), Soils and Landscape Evolution. Geomorphology, 3: 399-416. Abstract

Rose, A.B., Harrison, J.B.J., and Platt, K.H., 1988. Alpine Tussockland Communities and Vegetation-landform-soil Relationships, Wapiti Lake, Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, Vol. 26: 525-540. Abstract

Stewart, G.H. and Harrison, J.B.J., 1987. Physical Influences on Forest Types and Deer Habitat, Northern Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 10. Abstract

Stewart, G.H. and Harrison, J.B.J., 1987. Plant Communities, Landforms, and Soils of a Geomorphically Active Drainage Basin, Southern Alps, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, Vol. 25: 385-399. Abstract

Harrison, J.B.J., 1985. Soil Distribution and Landscape Dynamics, Camp Creek, Westland. Forest Research Institute, Christchurch. Proceedings of the Soil Dynamics and Land Use Seminar. Ed: I.B. Campbell. Abstract

Tonkin, P.J., Harrison, J.B.J., Whitehouse, I.E., and Campbell, A.S., 1981. Methods for Assessing Lake Pleistocene and Holocene Erosion History in Glaciated Mountain Drainage Basins. I.A.H.S. Publ. No. 132. Abstract