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David A. Dinter
Associate Professor / Lecturer of Geology & Geophysics
Contact: Office: 321 FASB Phone: (801) 581-7937 david.dinter@utah.edu
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FIELD OF STUDY
Structural geology, Tectonics, Seismic hazards
BACKGROUND
- B.S. Geology, 1982, Stanford University
- M.S. Geophysics, 1982, Stanford University
- Ph.D. Geology, 1993, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RESEARCH INTERESTS & PROJECTS
Paleoseismology of the East Great Salt Lake Fault; Development of Global lake Drilling Facility with Pilot testing in Bonneville Basin.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Dinter, D.A., and J.C. Pechmann (2005). Segmentation and Holocene displacement history of the Great Salt Lake fault, Utah, in Proceedings Volume, Basin and Range Province Seismic Hazards Summit II, W.L. Lund (Editor), Utah Geol. Survey, Misc. Publ. 05-2, CD, 5 p.
Dinter, D.A., and Pechmann, J.C., 2004a, Segmentation and Holocene displacement history of the East Great Salt Lake fault: Salt Lake City, PowerPoint presentation to 2004 Utah Geological Survey Earthquake Conference, 26 February, 2004.
Dinter, D.A., and Pechmann, J.C., 2004b, Holocene segmentation and displacement history of the East Great Salt Lake fault, Utah [ext. abs.]: in Proceedings of the Basin and Range Province Seismic Hazards Summit II, Reno, Nevada, May 16-19, 2004, 5 p.
Colman, S.M., Kelts, K., and Dinter, D., 2002, Depositional history and neotectonics in Great Salt Lake, Utah, from high-resolution seismic stratigraphy: Sedimentary Geology, v. 148. p. 61-78.
Dean, W., Rosenbaum, J., Valero-Garcés, B., Haskell, B., Kelts, K., Schnurrenberger, D., Cohen, A., Davis, O., Dinter, D. A., and Nielson, D., 2002, Progress in global lake drilling holds potential for global change research: EOS, v. 83, no. 9, p. 85-91.
Dinter, D. A., and Pechmann, J. C., 2001, Seismic risk in the Wasatch Front region, Utah, from the East Great Salt Lake normal fault: Estimates from high-resolution seismic reflection data: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 6, p. A346.
Dinter, D., Haskell, B., Valero-Garcés, B., Schnurrenberger, D., Heil, C., Dean, W., and Kruger, N., 2001a, GLAD1, Great Salt Lake Site 1, in Schnurrenberger, D., and Haskell, B., eds., Initial Reports of the Global Lakes Drilling Program, V. 1, Glad1: Great Salt Lake, Utah and Bear Lake, Utah/Idaho, Limnological Research Center, Univ. of Minnesota Minneapolis, p. 12-21.
Dinter, D., Haskell, B., Valero-Garcés, B., Schnurrenberger, D., Heil, C., Dean, W., and Kruger, N., 2001b, GLAD1, Great Salt Lake Site 2, in Schnurrenberger, D., and Haskell, B., eds., Initial Reports of the Global Lakes Drilling Program, V. 1, Glad1: Great Salt Lake, Utah and Bear Lake, Utah/Idaho, Limnological Research Center, Univ. of Minnesota Minneapolis, p. 22-29.
Dinter, D., Haskell, B., Valero-Garcés, B., Schnurrenberger, D., Heil, C., Dean, W., and Kruger, N., 2001c, GLAD1, Great Salt Lake Site 3, in Schnurrenberger, D., and Haskell, B., eds., Initial Reports of the Global Lakes Drilling Program, V. 1, Glad1: Great Salt Lake, Utah and Bear Lake, Utah/Idaho, Limnological Research Center, Univ. of Minnesota Minneapolis, p. 30-36.
Dinter, D. A., Pechmann, J. C., Kelts, K., Schnurrenberger, D., Haskell, B., Valero-Garcés, B., Nielson, D., Kruger, N., Cohen, A., Dean, W., and Palacios-Fest, M., 2000, Holocene paleoseismology of the East Great Salt Lake fault: Preliminary results of an integrated coring/high-resolution reflection seismic study of a submerged active normal fault: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 81 (48), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract OS11C-39.
Kelts, K., Schnurrenberger, D., Haskell, B., Palacios-Fest, M., Kruger, N., Cohen, A., Davis, O., Dean, W., Dinter, D. A., Nielson, D., and Valero-Garcés, B., 2000, Initial lithostratigraphic and paleoecologic results from GLAD1 drilling in Great Salt Lake, Utah: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 81 (48), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract OS11C-31.
Dean, W., Kelts, K., Schnurrenberger, D., Haskell, B., Cohen, A., Palacios-Fest, M., Kruger, N., Dinter, D. A., Nielson, D., and Valero-Garcés, B., 2000, Global Lake Drilling to 800 Meters (GLAD800): Engineering and Science Testing on Great Salt and Bear Lakes, Utah: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 81 (48), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract OS11C-34.
Dinter, D. A., and Pechmann, J. C., 2000, Late Quaternary slip rates and recurrence intervals of large earthquakes on the East Great Salt Lake normal fault, Utah: Estimates from high-resolution seismic reflection data: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 7, p. A506.
Cohen, A., Kelts, K., Nielson, D., Dean, W., Davis, O., Dinter, D., Johnson, R., Oviatt, C. G., Scholz, C. A., Johnson, T. C., and King, J., 2000, The Global Lake Drilling Initiative (GLAD 800): Digging deeper into lake history: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 7, p. A470.
Dinter, D. A., and Pechmann, J. C., 1999a, Multiple Holocene earthquakes on the East Great Salt Lake fault, Utah: Evidence from high-resolution seismic reflection data: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 80, no. 46 (Supplement), p. F934.
Dinter, D. A., and Pechmann, J. C., 1999b, Sublacustrine Paleoseismology: Reflection Seismic Evidence of Recent Earthquakes on the East Great Salt Lake Fault, Utah: Association of Engineering Geologists Program with Abstracts, 42nd Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 26-29, 1999, p. 62-63.
Dinter, D. A., and Bartley, J. M., 1999, Revised rolling-hinge model based on field and fluid-inclusion data from the Raft River metamorphic core complex, Utah: Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 95th Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA, June 4, 1999.
Colman, S. M., Kelts, K., Dinter, D. A., 1999, Depositional History and Neotectonics in Great Salt Lake, Utah, from high-resolution seismic stratigraphy: Abstracts, LENNOU Second International Congress of Limnogeology, May 25-29, 1999, Brest, France.
Dinter, D. A., 1999, Paleogeographic implications of large-magnitude Neogene extension in the north Aegean: Reassembling the Alpine orogen in northern Greece: European Geophysical Society Abstracts with Programs, EGS 1999 Annual Meeting, The Hague, April 19-22, 1999.
Carl, B. S., Glazner, A. F., Bartley, J. M., Dinter, D. A., and Coleman, D. S., 1998, Independence dikes and mafic rocks of the eastern Sierra: Guidebook to Fieldtrip #4, Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America, 94th Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, April 1, 1998, 26 p.
Dinter, D. A., 1998, Late Cenozoic extension of the Alpine collisional orogen, northeastern Greece: Origin of the north Aegean basin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 1208-1230.
Dinter, D. A., 1998, Tertiary structural evolution of the southwestern Rhodope metamorphic province: A fundamental revision; in Mountrakis, D. (ed.), Proceedings of the 7th Congress of the Geological Society of Greece with emphasis on the geology of Macedonia and Thrace, Thessaloniki, May 25-27, 1994: Aristotle University Press, Thessaloniki, 12 p.
Dinter, D. A., Selverstone, J., and Bartley, J. M., 1997, Fluid inclusion data concerning kinematics of core complex unroofing, Raft River Mountains, Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, p. A-233-234.
Dinter, D. A., Whitmarsh, R., Bartley, J. M., and Carl, B. S., 1996, AMS character of Late Jurassic(?) Independence Dikes near China Lake, California: Eos (American Geophysical Union Transactions), v. 77, p. F-621.
Dinter, D. A., and Schermer, E. R., 1996, Large magnitude extension in the northern Aegean: Exhumation of the Apulian plate: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Penrose Conference on Exhumation Processes, Orthodox Academy of Crete, Greece, October, 1996.
Dinter, D. A., Carl, B. S., Bartley, J. M., and Glazner, A. F., 1996, AMS evidence for sinistral shear during emplacement of Independence Dike Swarm, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, p. A-247.
Dinter, D. A., Macfarlane, A., Hames, W., Isachsen, C. Bowring, S., and Royden, L., 1995, U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Symvolon granodiorite: Implications for the thermal and structural evolution of the Rhodope metamorphic core complex, northeastern Greece, Tectonics, v. 14, p. 886-908.
Dinter, D. A., 1995, The Olympos-Falakron correlation: A piece of Apulia east of the Vardar suture?: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 76, p. 621.
Dinter, D. A., 1995, Grounding of shear- and pressure-thickened sea ice on the upper continental slope north of Alaska during the Late Wisconsinan glacial, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 5, May, 1995.
Dinter, D. A., 1994, Tertiary structural evolution of the southwestern Rhodope metamorphic province: A fundamental revision [abs.]: Abstracts, 7th Congress of the Geological Society of Greece with emphasis on the geology of Macedonia and Thrace, Thessaloniki, May 25-27, 1994, p. 48-49.
Dinter, D. A. and Royden, L., 1994, Reply: Late Cenozoic extension in northeastern Greece: Strymon Valley detachment and Rhodope metamorphic core complex: Geology, v.22, p. 283-285.
Dinter, D. A., 1994, Tectonic Evolution of the Rhodope Metamorphic Core Complex, Northeastern Greece [Ph.D. thesis]: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 320 p.
Dinter, D. A., 1993, Tertiary extensional evolution of the Rhodope metamorphic core complex, northeastern Greece [abs.]: Abstracts, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Boston, October 25-28, 1993, p. A-474.
Dinter, D. A. and Royden, L., 1993, Late Cenozoic extension in northeastern Greece: Strymon Valley detachment and Rhodope metammorphic core complex: Geology, v. 21, p. 45-48.
Dinter, D. A., 1991, Neogene detachment faulting and the Rhodope metamorphic core complexes, northern Greece [abs.]: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 72, p. 460.
Dinter, D. A., Carter, L. D. and Brigham-Grette, J., 1990, Late Cenozoic geologic evolution of the Alaskan North Slope and adjacent continental shelves; Chapter 25 in Grantz, A., Johnson, L., and Sweeney, J. F. (eds.), Decade of North American Geology (DNAG) Volume L: The Arctic Ocean Region: Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, p. 459-490.
Grantz, A., May, S. D., and Dinter, D. A., 1988, Geologic framework, petroleum potential, and environmental geology of the United States Beaufort and northeasternmost Chukchi Seas; in Gryc, G. (ed.), Geology and exploration of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, 1974-1982, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1399: p. 231-255.
Grantz, A., May, S. D., and Dinter, D. A., 1987, Regional geology and petroleum potential of the United States Beaufort and northeasternmost Chukchi Seas; in Scholl, D. W., Grantz, A., and Vedder, J. G. (eds.), Geology and resource potential of the continental margin of western North America and adjacent ocean basins – Beaufort Sea to Baja California: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Science Series, No. 6: p. 17-35.
Dinter, D. A., 1985, Records of Quaternary sea-level lowstands preserved beneath the Beaufort shelf [abs.]: Proceedings of the 14th Annual Arctic Workshop: Arctic Land-Sea Interaction, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Nov. 6-8, 1985.
Dinter, D. A., 1985, Late Quaternary depositional history of the Alaskan Beaufort shelf [abs.]: Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Anchorage, AK, May 22-24, 1985.
Dinter, D. A., 1985, Late Quaternary stratigraphy of the Alaskan Beaufort continental shelf near the Canadian border [abs.]; in Heginbottom, A. and Vincent, J.-S. (eds.), Correlation of Quaternary Deposits and Events in the Area Around the Beaufort Sea: Contributions from a Joint Canadian/American Workshop, April, 1984, Geological Survey of Canada OFR 1237.
Dinter, D. A., 1985, Quaternary sedimentation of the Alaskan Beaufort shelf: Sediment sources, glacioeustatism, and regional tectonics: Tectonophysics, v. 114, p. 133-161.
Grantz, A., Dinter, D. A., and Culotta, R. C., 1985, Geology of the continental shelf north of ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge); in Molenaar, C. M. (ed.), ANILCA Panel Report to Congress: Petroleum geology and geophysics of the ANWR 1002 Area in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaskan Coastal Plain.
Dinter, D. A., 1983, Quaternary sedimentation of the Alaskan Beaufort shelf: Sediment sources, glacioeustatism, and regional tectonics [abs.]: U. S. Geological Survey Polar Research Symposium, Abstracts with Program, U. S. Geological Survey Circular 911, p. 37-38.
Grantz, A., Dinter, D. A., and Biswas, N., 1983, Holocene faulting, warping, and earthquake epicenters on the Beaufort shelf north of Alaska: U. S. Geological Survey Map I-1182-C, with text, 7 p., scale 1:500,000.
Dinter, D. A., 1982, Holocene marine sediments on the middle and outer continental shelf of the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-1182-B, with text, 5 p., 2 map sheets, scale 1:500,000.
Grantz, A., Dinter, D. A., Hill, E. R., Hunter, R., May, S., McMullin, R., and Phillips, R. L., 1982, Geologic framework, hydrocarbon potential, and environmental conditions for exploration and development of proposed oil and gas lease sale 85 in the central and northern Chukchi Sea: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-1053, 84 p.
Grantz, A., Dinter, D. A., Hill, E. R., May, S. D., McMullin, R. H., and Phillips, R. L., 1982, Geologic framework, hydrocarbon potential, and environmental conditions for exploration and development of proposed oil and gas lease sale 87 in the Beaufort and northeast Chukchi Seas: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-482, 73 p.
Dinter, D. A. and Grantz, A., 1981, Environmental geology of Beaufort and Chukchi shelves of concern to petroleum development [abs.]: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Arctic Geology, Canadian Association of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, p. 41.
Grantz, A. and Dinter, D. A., 1981, Constraints of geologic processes on petroleum development in the western Beaufort Sea; in Proceedings of the Petromar 80 Conference on Petroleum and the Marine Environment, Association Europeeune Oceanique: Graham & Trottman, p. 285-298.
Miller, E. L., Bateson, J., Dinter, D., Dyer, J. R., Harbaugh, D., and Jones, D. L., 1981, Thrust emplacement of the Schoonover sequence, northern Independence Mountains, Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, Part I, v. 92, p. 730-737.
Miller, E. L., Bateson, J., Dinter, D., Dyer, J. R., and Harbaugh, D., 1980, Emplacement of allochthonous Mississippian and younger(?) deep-water rocks over Permo-Carboniferous overlap-assemblage rocks, northern Independence Mountains, Nevada [abs.]: Abstracts with Program, Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America, 76th Annual Meeting, v. 12, p. 141.
Grantz, A., Barnes, P. V., Dinter, D. A., Lynch, M. B., Reimnitz, E., and Scott, E. W., 1980, Geologic framework, hydrocarbon potential, environmental conditions, and anticipated technology for exploration and development of the Beaufort Sea shelf north of Alaska, a summary report: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-94, 42 p.
Grantz, A. and Dinter, D. A., 1980, Constraints of geologic processes on petroleum development in the western Beaufort Sea: Oil and Gas Journal, v. 78, p. 304-319.
Grantz, A., Eittreim, S., and Dinter, D. A., 1979, Geology and tectonic development of the continental margin north of Alaska; in, Keen, C. E. and Keen, M. J. (eds.), Crustal properties across continental margins: Tectonophysics, p. 263-291.