Department of Earth and Biological Sciences
H. Paul Buchheim, PhD
Professor of Geology
Geology Graduate Program Coordinator
Department of Earth and Biological Sciences geology program
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, California 92350
Phone: (909) 558-1000, extension 48904
Fax: (909) 478-4259
Email: pbuchheim@llu.edu
Home: paulbuchheim@verizon.net
Society affiliations | Research projects | Reprints available | Grants | Publications
GSA- Geological Society of America
SEPM- Society for Sedimentology
NAGT- National Association of Geology Teachers
AAPG- American Association of Petroleum Geologists
SVP- Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists
Sigma Xi- The Scientific Research Society
AGU- American Geophysical Union
IAS- International Association of Sedimentologists
IAL- International Association of Limnogeologists
Archean and Proterozoic Lacustrine Stromatolites of Australia (with Dr. Stanley Awramik, UCSB)
Stromatolites on Flooding Surfaces: Climate and Paleoenvrionmental Indicators (with Carol Shultz, LLU Graduate Student)
Paleoenvironments, Climate, and Geochemistry of Fossil Lake during White Marker Time (with Tom Amato, Graduate Student)
Stable Isotope and Chemistry of Pleistocene Lake Cahuilla: studies of Shoreline Tufa (with Rick Peters, Graduate Student)
Presbyornis nesting sites, taphonomy, and paleoenvironments in the Green River Formation, Wyoming (with V. Leroy Leggitt, Graduate Student)
Salinity Gradients in Eocene Fossil Lake (Green River Formation) (with Mark Loewen)
Periodicity in Laminated Sediments of the Green River Formation (with Meredith Church, Graduate Student)
Near-shore deposition of laminated sediments in the Green River Formation (with Roberto Biaggi)
2001 Geological Mapping of Topographic Quadrangles associated with Fossil Butte National Monument, $209,000. National Park Service, Fossil Butte National Monument; May 1, 2002- April 1, 2004
2000 Mitigating Threats to a Highly Fossiliferous Locality at Fossil Butte National Monument; $160,000, National Park Service, Fossil Butte National Monument; May 1, 2000- April 1, 2002
1996 Archean and Proterozoic Lacustrine Stromatolites. National Air and Space Administration (NASA). $100,000. Jan. 1996-Dec. 1998. (Stanley Awramik, Primary Investigator; H.P. Buchheim, Primary Collaborator)
Buchheim, H. P., L. R. Brand, and H. T. Goodwin. 2000. Lacustrine to fluvial flood-plain deposition in the Eocene Bridger Formation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 162:191-209.
Oncoids of the Late Pleistocene Manix Formation, Mojave Desert region, California. Awramik, S.M., Buchheim, H.P., Leggitt, L., Woo, K.S., 2000. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, v. 47(2) p. 25-31.
Brand, L. R., H. T. Goodwin, P. G. Ambrose, and H. P. Buchheim. 2000. Taphonomy of turtles in the Middle Eocene Bridger Formation, SW Wyoming. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 162:171-189
Loewen, Mark A., V. Leroy Leggitt and H. Paul Buchheim, 1999, Caddisfly (Trichoptera) larval cases from Fossil Lake, Eocene Green River Formation, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming, National Park Service Technical Report NPS/NRGRD/GRDTR-98/01
Buchheim, H.P., 1998, A Walk Through Time at Fossil Butte: Historical Geology of the Green River Formation at Fossil Butte National Monument, National Park Service Technical Report NPS/NRGRD/GRDTR-98/01:73-80.
Leggitt, V.L., Buchheim, H.P., and Biaggi, R.E., 1998. The stratigraphic setting of three Presbyornis nesting sites: Eocene Fossil Lake, Lincoln County Wyoming. National Park Service Paleontological: Technical Reports of the National Park Service.
Loewen, Mark A., and H. Paul. Buchheim, 1998, Paleontology and paleoecology of the culminating phase of Eocene Fossil Lake, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming. National Park Service Technical Report NPS/NRGRD/GRDTR-98/01:73-80.
Buchheim, H. Paul, V. Leroy Leggitt, Roberto E. Biaggi and Mark A. Loewen, 1999, Paleoenvironments of Avian Trackway Sites within the Olla Member, Palm Spring Formation, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Proceedings of the 1999 Desert Research Symposium, San Bernardino County Museum Association, 46(2):47-52.
Loewen, Mark A., and H. P. Buchheim, 1999, Lithofacies and paleoenvironments of the culminating stages of Eocene Fossil Lake: Fossil Butte National Monument, WY, National Park Service: Technical Reports of the National Park Service
Buchheim, H.P., 1998, A Walk Through Time at Fossil Butte: Historical Geology of the Green River Formation at Fossil Butte National Monument; National Park Service Paleontological Research Volume 3
Loewen, M. A., and H. P. Buchheim, 1998, Paleontology and paleoecology of the culminating phase of Eocene Fossil Lake, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming. National Park Service Paleontological Research Volume 3:73-80.
Buchheim, H.P., and H. P. Eugster, 1998, Eocene Fossil Lake: The Green River Formation of Fossil Basin, Southwestern Wyoming, p. 1-17. In J. Pittman, and A. Carroll (eds.), Modern and Ancient Lacustrine Depositional Systems. Utah Geological Association Guidebook 26.
Buchheim, H.P., 1996, Salinity Gradients in Eocene Fossil Lake (Green River Formation), Abstract in American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 1996 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Leggitt, V.L., and Buchheim, H.P. , 1996, An Avian Botulism Epizootic Affecting a Nesting Site Population of Presbyornis on a Carbonate Mudflat Shoreline of Eocene Fossil Lake: North American Paleontological Conference Abstracts with Programs
Buchheim, H.P., 1995, Stromatolites: Living Fossils in Anza-Borrego State Park, in Remeika, P. and Sturz, A., Paleontology and Geology of the Western Salton Trough Detachment, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, p.119-124
Buchheim, H. P., 1994, Eocene Fossil Lake: a history of fluctuating salinity, in Renaut, R., and Last, W., ed., Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Modern and Ancient Saline Lakes, Society for Sedimentary Geology Special Publication 50, p. 239-247.
Buchheim, H. P., 1994, Paleoenvironments, lithofacies and varves of the Fossil Butte Member of the Eocene Green River Formation, Southwestern Wyoming: Contributions to Geology, vol. 30, No. 1, p. 3-14.
Grande, L., and Buchheim, H.P., 1994, Paleontological and sedimentological variation in early Eocene Fossil Lake: Contributions to Geology, v. 30, no. 1, p.33-56.
Benton, R., Buchheim, H.P., and Grande, L. 1994. Paleontology and Depositional Environments of the Fossil Butte Member of the Green River Formation. 1993 Partners in Paleontology Conference Guidebook and Abstracts. National Park Service Special Paper.
Leggitt, V.L., And Buchheim, H. P. 1993. Radiograph Aided Taphonomic Analysis of an Avian Fossil Quarry: Insights into the Paleohabitat of the Tertiary Bird Presbyornis: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.26(66), p. 58.
Benton, Rachel and Buchheim, H. P. 1992. The Dynamics of Fossil Lake. Park Science, vol. 12, no. 3, p. 14-15.
Buchheim, H. Paul. 1990. Paleoenvironments and Deposition of the Fossil Butte Member of the Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming. GSA Abstracts with Programs, vol. 22, no. 6, April 1990.
Buchheim, H. Paul. 1990. Discovery of Fresh Water Stromatolites in Carrizo Creek, California. GSA Abstracts with Programs, vol. 22, no. 7, October 1990
Buchheim, H.P. and Biaggi, R.E., 1988, Laminae counts within a synchronous oil shale unit: a challenge to the "varve" concept. (Abstract) Geological Society of America, Abstracts with programs, 20(7):A317.
Buchheim, H.P. and R.C. Surdam. 1984. Fossil Catfish in the Green River Formation, Wyoming: New Discoveries and Implications to Depositional Models. In: National Geographic Society Research Reports, vol. 17, Lea, J.S., N.L. Powars, and W. Swanson, Editors.
Jensen, Roy and H.P. Buchheim. 1983. Oocardium Tufa and the Depositional Environment of the Wasatch Formation, Wyoming; GSA Rocky Mountain Section meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah; Abstract in Abstracts with Programs, 1983 Rocky Mountain Cordilleran Joint Sectional Meeting, Geological Society of America.
Buchheim, H.P. and R.C. Surdam. 1981. Paleoenvironments and Fossil Fish of the Laney Member, Green River Formation, Wyoming. In Communities of the Past, Jane Gray, et. al, eds., Dowden, Hutchinson Ross Company, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
Surdam, R.C., K.O. Stanley, and H.P. Buchheim. 1980. Depositional Environment of the Laney Member of the Green River Formation. SEPM trip 5, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Denver 1980 Convention.
Buchheim, H.P. and R.C. Surdam. 1977. Fossil catfish and the depositional environment of the Green River Formation. Geology, vol. 5, number 4, p.196-198.
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