DRY VALLEYS

Porter, S. C.. (1969). Weathering and soil-forming processes in the Antarctic dry valleys. Antarctic Journal of the U. S. 4, 136.

Porter, S. C., and Begét, J. E. (1978). Provenance and depositional environments of late Cenozoic sediments in permafrost cores from lower Taylor Valley, Antarctica: Dry Valley Drilling Project Bulletin 8, 74-76.

Porter, S. C., and Begét, J. E. (1981). Provenance and depositional environments of Late Cenozoic sediments in permafrost cores from lower Taylor Valley, Antarctica. In "Dry Valley Drilling Project" (L. D. McGinnis, ed.). American Geophysical Union Antarctic Research Series 33, 351-363.

NORTH AMERICA

BROOKS RANGE

Porter, S. C. (1962). Geology of Anaktuvuk Pass, central Brooks Range, Alaska: Ph. D. dissertation, Yale University, 276 p.

Porter, S. C. (1964). Late Pleistocene glacial chronology of north-central Brooks Range, Alaska. American Journal of Science 262, 446-460.

Porter, S. C. (1964). Antiquity of man at Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska. American Antiquity 29, 493-496.

Porter, S. C. (1966). Stratigraphy and deformation of the Paleozoic section at Anaktuvuk Pass, central Brooks Range, Alaska. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 50, 952-980.

Porter, S. C. (1966). Pleistocene geology of Anaktuvuk Pass, central Brooks Range, Alaska. Arctic Institute of North America Technical Paper 18, 100 p.

Hamilton, T. D., and Porter, S. C. (1975). Itkillik glaciation in the Brooks Range, northern Alaska. Quaternary Research 5, 471-497.

CASCADE RANGE

Porter, S. C. (1964). Composite Pleistocene snowline of Olympic Mountains and Cascade Range, Washington. Geological Society of America Bulletin 75, 477-482.

Porter, S. C. (1965). Day 5: Yakima to Seattle. In "Guidebook for Field Conference J - Pacific Northwest" (C. B. Schultz and H. T. U. Smith, eds.). VII INQUA Congress, Boulder, CO, 34-50.

Czamanske, G. K., and Porter, S .C. (1965). Titanium dioxide in pyroclastic layers from volcanoes in the Cascade Range. Science 150, 1022-1025.

Porter, S. C. (1969). "Pleistocene geology of the east-central Cascade Range, Washington". Guidebook for Pacific Coast Friends of the Pleistocene Field Conference, 54 p.

Porter, S. C. (1975). Weathering rinds as a relative-age criterion: application to subdivision of glacial deposits in the Cascade Range. Geology 3, 101-104.

Porter, S. C. (1975). Glacial geology across the crest of the North Cascade Range between Seattle and Ellensburg. In "The last glaciation." International Geological Correlation Program Field Conference Guidebook, Bellingham, Washington, 61-68.

Porter, S. C. (1976). Pleistocene glaciation in the southern part of the North Cascade Range, Washington. Geological Society of America Bulletin 87, 61-75.

Porter, S. C. (1976). Stratigraphy and distribution of tephra from Glacier Peak (of 12,000 years ago) in the northern Cascade Range, Washington. U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 76-185.

Porter, S. C. (1978). Glacier Peak tephra in the North Cascade Range, Washington: stratigraphy, distribution, and relationship to late-glacial events. Quaternary Research 10, 30-41.

Porter, S. C. (1977). Present and past glaciation threshold in the Cascade Range, Washington, U. S. A.: topographic and climatic controls, and paleoclimatic implications. Journal of Glaciology 18, 101-116.

Porter, S. C. (1981). Lichenometric studies in the Cascade Range, Washington: establishment of Rhizocarpon geographicum growth curves at Mount Rainier. Arctic and Alpine Research 13, 11-23.

Juvigné, E., and Porter, S. C. (1985). Mineralogical variations within two widespread Holocene tephra layers from Cascade Range volcanoes, U .S. A. Geographie Physique et Quaternaire 39, 7-12.

Porter, S. C. (1994). Alpine glaciation of western Washington, in R. Lasmanis and E. S. Cheney (eds.), Regional Geology of Washington State. Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Bull. 80, 226.

Swanson, T. W., and Porter, S. C. (1997). Cosmogenic isotope ages of moraines in the southeastern North Cascade Range. Guidebook for Pacific Northwest Friends of the Pleistocene Field Excursion, September 19-21, 1997, 18 pp.

NEW ENGLAND

Porter, S. C. (1960). Surficial geology of the Wallingford quadrangle (with map). Connecticut Geolological and Natural History Survey Quadrangle Report 10, 42 p.

Hansen, E., Porter, S .C., Hall, B., and Hills, F. A. (1961). Décollement structures in glacial lake sediments. Geological Society of America Bulletin 72, 1415-1418.

PUGET LOWLAND

Porter, S. C. (1970). Fort Lawton's sea cliffs -- a geologic record. Pacific Search 4, No. 7.

Porter, S. C. and Carson, R. J., III (1971). Problems of interpreting radiocarbon dates from dead-ice deposits, with an example from the Puget Lowland of Washington. Quaternary Research 1, 410-414.

Porter, S. C., and Swanson, T. W. (1998). Radiocarbon age constraints on rates of advance and retreat of the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the last glaciation. Quaternary Research 50, 205-213.

SOUTHERN ALASKA

Porter, S. C. (1967). Glaciation of Chagvan Bay area, southwestern Alaska. Arctic 20, 227-246.

Porter, S. C. (1989). Late Holocene fluctuations of the fiord glacier system in Icy Bay, Alaska. Arctic and Alpine Research 21, 364-379.

ASIA

LOESS PLATEAU, CHINA

An, Zhisheng, Lu Yahnchou, Porter, S. C., Kukla, G., Wu Xihao, and Hua Yingming (1990). The long-term paleomonsoon variation recorded by the loess-paleosol sequence in central China. Quaternary International 7/8, 91-95.

An Zhisheng, Kukla, G., Porter, S. C., and Xaio Jule (1991). Late Quaternary dust flux on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Catena 18, 125-132.

An Zhisheng, Kukla, G. J., Porter, S. C., and Xiao Jule (1991). Magnetic susceptibility evidence of monsoon variation on the Loess Plateau of central China during the last 130,000 years. Quaternary Research 36, 29-36.

Porter, S. C., An, Zhisheng, and Zhang, Hongbo (1992). Cyclic Quaternary alluviation and terracing in a nonglaciated drainage basin on the north flank of the Qinling Shan, central China. Quaternary Research 38, 157-169.

Zhou, Weijian, An, Zhisheng,Lin, Benhai, Xiao, Jule, Zhange, Jinzhao, Xie, Jun, Zhou, Mingfu, Porter, S. C., Head, M. J., and Donahue, D. J. (1992). Chronology of the Baxie loess profile and the history of monsoon climates in China between 17,000 and 6000 years BP. Radiocarbon 34, 818-825.

An, Zhisheng, Porter, S. C., Zhou, Weijian, Lu ,Yanchou, Donahue, D. J., Head, M. J., Wu, Xihuo, Ren, Jianzhang, and Zheng, Hongbo (1993). Episode of strengthened summer monsoon climate of Younger Dryas age on the Loess Plateau of central China. Quaternary Research 39, 45-54.

Xiao, J., Porter, S. C., An, Z. S., Kumai, H., and Yoshikawa, S. (1995). Grain size of quartz as an indicator of winter monsoon strength on the Loess Plateau of central China during the last 130,000 yr. Quaternary Research 43, 22-29.

Porter, S. C. and An, Zhisheng (1995). Correlation between climate events in the North Atlantic and China during the last glaciation. Nature 375, 305-308

Zhou, Weijian, Doinahue, D. J., Porter, S. C., Jull, T. A., Li, Xiaoqiang, Stuiver, M., An, Zhisheng, Matsumoto, E., and Dong, Guangrong (1996) Variability of monsoon climate in East Asia at the end of the last glaciation. Quaternary Research 46, 219-229.

An, Z.S., and Porter, S. C. (1997) Millennial-scale climatic oscillations during the last interglaciation in central China. Geology 25, 603-606.

Porter, S. C. (2000). High-resolution paleoclimatic information from Chinese eolian sediments based on grayscale intensity profiles. Quaternary Research 53, 70-77.

An, Z.S., Porter, S. C., Kutzbach, J. E., Wu, X., Wang, X., Liu, X., Li, W., and Zhou, W. (2000). Asynchronous Holocene Optimum of the East Asian Monsoon. Quaternary Science Reviews 19, 743-762.

An, Z. S., Kutzbach, J. E., Prell, W. L., and Porter, S. C. (2001). Evolution of Asian monsoons and phased uplift of the Himalaya-Tibetan plateau since Late Miocene times. Nature 411, 62-66

Porter, S. C. (2001). Chinese loess record of monsoon climate during the last glacial-interglacial cycle. Earth-Science Reviews 54, 115-128.

Porter, S. C., Hallet, B., Wu, X.H., and An, Z. S. (2001). Dependence of near-surface magnetic susceptibility on dust accumulation rate and precipitation on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Quaternary Research 55, 271-283.

TIBETAN PLATEAU

Porter, S. C., Singhvi, A., An, Z. S., and Lai, Z. P. (2001). Luminescence age and paleoenvironmental implications of a Lake Pleistocene ground wedge on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 12, 203-210.

HINDU KUSH AND SWAT KOHISTAN

Porter, S. C. (1970). Quaternary geologic and climatic history of Swat Kohistan, northern West Pakistan. American Philosophical Society Year-book 1969, 326-327.

Porter, S. C. (1970). Quaternary glacial record in Swat Kohistan, West Pakistan. Geological Society of America Bulletin 81, 1421-1446.

Porter, S. C. (1985). Extent of late Pleistocene glaciers in Afghanistan based on interpretation of LANDSAT imagery. In "Climate and geology of Kashmir and central Asia: the last four million years" (D. P. Agrawal, S. Kusumgar, and . Krishnamurthy , eds.). Current Trends in Geology 4, 191-195. (New Delhi, Today and Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers).

EUROPE

ITALIAN ALPS

Porter, S. C., and Orombelli, G. (1980). Catastrophic rockfall of September 12, 1717 on the Italian flank of the Mont Blanc massif. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 24, 200-218.

Porter, S. C. (1981). La "Piccola glaciazione" nelle Alpi Italiane e nella catena delle Cascades. Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria 4, 198.

Orombelli, G., and Porter, S. C. (1981). Il rischio di frane nelle Alpi. Le Scienze 27, 68-79.

Porter, S. C., and Orombelli, G. (1981). Alpine rockfall hazards. American Scientist 69, 67-75.

Porter, S. C., and Orombelli, G. (1982). Late-glacial ice advances in the western Italian Alps. Boreas 11, 125-140.

Orombelli, G., and Porter, S. C. (1982). Late Holocene fluctuations of Brenva Glacier. Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria 5, 14-37.

Orombelli, G., and Porter, S. C. (1983). Lichen growth curves for the southern flank of the Mont Blanc massif in the western Italian Alps. Arctic and Alpine Research 15, 193-200.

Porter, S. C., and Orombelli, G. (1985). Glacier contraction during the middle Holocene in the western Italian Alps: evidence and implications. Geology 13, 296-298.

Orombelli, G., and Porter, S. C., 1988, Boulder deposit of uppr Val Ferret (Courmayeur, Aosta Valley): deposit of a historic giant rockfall and debris avalanche or a late-glacial moraine?: Eclogae Geol. Helv. 81, .

Porter, S. C. and Orombelli, G. (1986). Reply to Beget's comment on "Glacier contraction during the middle Holocene in the western Italian Alps: evidence and implications." Geology 14, 89-90.

PACIFIC ISLANDS

HAWAII

Porter, S. C. (1971). Holocene eruptions of Mauna Kea volcano, Hawaii. Science 172, 375-377.

Porter, S. C. (1972). Distribution, morphology, and size-frequency of cinder cones on Mauna Kea volcano, Hawaii. Geological Society of America Bulletin 83, 3607-3612.

Porter, S. C. (1972). Buried caldera of Mauna Kea volcano, Hawaii. Science 175, 1458-1460.

Porter, S. C. (1973). Stratigraphy and chronology of late Quaternary tephra along the south rift zone of Mauna Kea volcano, Hawaii. Geological Society of America Bulletin 84, 1923-1940.

Porter, S. C. (1973). Subglacial volcanism in Hawaii (abs.). Abstracts, IX INQUA Congress, Christchurch, New Zealand, 296.

Porter, S. C. (1974). Mauna Kea. In "Guidebook to the Hawaiian Planetology Conference" (R. Greeley, ed.). NASA TMX 62362, 240-246.

Porter, S. C., Stuiver, M., and Yang, I. C. (1977). Chronology of Hawaiian glaciations. Science 195, 61-63.

Porter, S. C. (1979). Quaternary stratigraphy and chronology of Mauna Kea, Hawaii: a 380,000-yr record of mid-Pacific volcanism and ice-cap glaciation. Geological Society of America Bulletin 90, Part I : Summary, 609-611; Part II: Complete article, 980-1093.

Porter, S. C. (1979). Geologic map of Mauna Kea volcano, Hawaii. Geological Society of America Map and Chart Series MC-30.

Porter, S. C. (1979). Hawaiian glacial ages. Quaternary Research 12, 161-187.

Porter, S. C. (1981). Glaciazioni nelle Hawaii. Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria 4, 198-199.

Porter, S. C. (1986). Glaciation of Mauna Kea. In Quaternary glaciations in the United States of America (G. M. Richmond and D. S. Fullerton, eds). Quaternary Science Reviews 5 (Quaternary glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere), 181-182.

Porter, S. C. (1987). Pleistocene subglacial eruptions on Mauna Kea. In (R. Decker, T. L. Wright, and P. Stauffer, eds.). Volcanism in Hawaii. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1350, 587-598.

Porter, S. C., Garcia, M. O., Lockwood, J. P., and Wise, W. S. (1987). Guidebook for Mauna Loa-Mauna Loa-Kohala field trip. Hawaii Symposium on "How volcanoes work" (Hilo, Hawaii), 38 p.

Wolfe, E. W., and Morris, J. (compilers)(1996). Geologic map of the island of Hawaii. U. S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2524A (Porter mapped eastern half of Kohala Volcano for this map).

Porter, S. C. (1997). Late Pleistocene eolian sediments related to pyroclastic eruptions of Mauna Kea volcano. Hawaii: Quaternary Research 47, 261-276.

SOUTHERN ALPS, NEW ZEALAND

Porter, S. C. (1975). Glaciation limit in New Zealand's Southern Alps. Arctic and Alpine Research 7, 33-37.

Porter, S. C. (1975). Equillibrium-line altitudes of late Quaternary glaciers in the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Quaternary Research 5, 27-47.

Porter, S. C. (1975). Late Quaternary glaciation and tephrochronology of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. In "Quaternary studies" (R. P. Suggate and M. M. Cresswell, eds.). Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 13, 247-251.

SOUTH AMERICA

CHILEAN LAKE DISTRICT

Porter, S. C. (1981). Pleistocene glaciation in the southern Lake District of Chile. Quaternary Research 16, 263-292.

MAGELLANES

Porter, S. C., Heusser, C. J., and Stuiver, M. (1984). Holocene sea-level changes along the Strait of Magellan and Beagle Channel, southernmost South America. Quaternary Research 22, 59-67.

Porter, S. C. (1990). Character and ages of Pleistocene drifts in a transect across the Strait of Magellan. Quaternary of South America and Subantarctic Islands 7, 35-49.

Porter, S. C., Clapperton, C. M., and Sugden, D. E. (1992). Chronology and dynamics of deglaciation along and near the Strait of Magellan, southernmost South America. Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, Series Ca. 81, 233-239

QUATERNARY GLACIAL AGES

Porter, S. C. (1971). Fluctuations of late Pleistocene alpine glaciers in western North America. In "The late Cenozoic glacial ages" (K. K. Turekian, ed.). New Haven, Yale University Pres, 307-329.

Porter, S. C. (1977). The glacial ages: late Cenozoic climatic variability on several time scales. In "Man and nature - makers of climatic variation." College of Geosciences, Texas A and M University, 1-27.

Porter, S. C. (1983), Introduction. In "Late Quaternary environments of the United States. Volume 1, the late Pleistocene" (S. C. Porter, ed.). Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, xi-xiv.

Porter, S. C., Pierce, K. L., and Hamilton, T. D. (1983). Late Pleistocene mountain glaciation in western United States. In "Late Quaternary environments of the United States. Volume 1, the late Pleistocene." (S. C. Porter, ed.). Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 71-111.

Porter, S. C. (1988). Landscapes of the last ice age in North America. In Americans Before Columbus: Ice-age Origins" (R. C. Carlisle, Ed.). Ethnology Monographs 12, 1-24.

Porter, S. C. (1989). Some geological implications of average Quaternary glacial conditions. Quaternary Research 32, 245-261.

Porter, S. C. (2001). Snowline depression in the tropics during the last glaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 20, 1067-1091.

NEOGLACIATION

G. Osborn

Porter, S. C., and Denton, G. H. (1967). Chronology of Neoglaciation in the North American Cordillera. American Journal of Science 265, 177-210.

Denton, G. H., and Porter, S. C. (1970). Neoglaciation. Scientific American 222,100-110.

Porter, S. C. (1979). Glaciologic evidence of Holocene climatic change. Review Papers Volume, International Conference on Climate and History (Norwich, England), 148-179.

Porter, S. C. (1981). Recent glacier variations and volcanic activity. Nature 291, 139-142.

Porter, S. C. (1981). Glaciological evidence of Holocene climatic change. In "Climate and history" (T. M. L. Wigley, M. J. Ingram, and G. Farmer, eds.). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 82-110.

Porter, S. C. (1986). Pattern and forcing of Northern Hemisphere glacier variations during the last millennium. Quaternary Research 26, 27-48.

Porter, S. C. (2000). Onset of Neoglaciation in the Southern Hemisphere. Journal of Quaternary Science 15, 395-408.

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES

Porter, S. C. (1978). Memorial to Richard Foster Flint, 1902-1976. Geological Society of America, 7 p.

Porter, S. C. (1981). Use of tephrochronology in the Quaternary geology of the United States. In "Tephra studies" (S. Self and R. S. J. Sparks, eds.). D. Reidel Publishing Company, 135-160.

Porter, S. C. (1986). A. Lincoln Washburn -- an appreciation. Quaternary Research 26, 1.

Porter, S. C. (1987). Early description of pro-talus ramparts. Journal of Glaciology 33, 247-248.

Porter, S. C. (1989). Volcanic records and loess deposits, in R. S. Bradley (ed.), Global changes of the past: UCAR/Office of Interdisciplinary Earth Studies, Univ. Colorado, Global Change Institute 2, 295-310.

Porter, S. C. (1999). INQUA and Quaternary Science at the millennium: a personal retrospective. Quaternary International 62. 111-117.

TEXTBOOKS

Skinner, B. S., and Porter, S. C. (1987). "Physical Geology". New York, John Wiley and Sons, 740 p.

Skinner, B. S., and Porter, S. C. (1988). "The Dynamic Earth, an introduction to Physical Geology": New York, John Wiley and Sons, 540 p.

Skinner, B. S., and Porter, S. C. (1992). "The Dynamic Earth, an introduction to Physical Geology" (2nd ed.): New York, John Wiley and Sons, 570 p.

Skinner, B. J. and Porter, S. C. (1995). The Blue Planet, An Introduction to Earth Systems Science. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 493 pp.

Skinner, B. J., and Porter, S. C. (1995). The Dynamic Earth, An Introduction to Physical Geology (3d Edition). New York, John Wiley and Sons, 567 pp.

Murck, B. W., Skinner, B. J., and Porter, S. C. (1996). Environmental Geology. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 535 p.

Murck, B. W., Skinner, B. J., and Porter, S. C. (1997). "Dangerous Earth, an introduction to geologic hazards." New York, John Wiley and Sons, 300 p.

Skinner, B. J., Porter, S. C., and Botkin, D. B. (1999) The Blue Planet; an introduction to Earth System Science (2nd edition). New York, John Wiley and Sons, 552 pp.

Skinner, B. J., and Porter, S. C. (2000). The Dynamic Earth, An Introduction to Physical Geology (4th Edition). New York, John Wiley and Sons, 575 p.

EDITED VOLUMES

Porter, S. C. (ed.) (1983). "Late Quaternary environments of the United States. Volume 1, the late Pleistocene." Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 407 p.

Porter, S. C. (ed) (1995). Directory of North American Quaternary Scientists. Quaternary Research 44, No. 1.