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Roger P. Denlinger is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions also to Environmental Science. Within these areas, they have specialized in subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and aspects related to Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, geological and geochemical analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, seismic waves and analysis, and landslides and related hazards.

Roger P. Denlinger has published research in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Bulletin of Volcanology
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Eos

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Jim E. O'Connor
  • Richard B. Waitt
  • Charles M. Cannon
  • David L. George
  • A. F. Flinders

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Roger P. Denlinger include:

  • The Missoula and Bonneville floods-A review of ice-age megafloods in the Columbia River basin (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Density structure of the island of Hawai'i and the implications for gravity-driven motion of the south flank of Kīlauea Volcano (2021, Geophysical Journal International)
  • Evolution of Faulting Induced by Deep Fluid Injection, Paradox Valley, Colorado (2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America)
  • Real-time lava flow forecasting during the 2022 Mauna Loa eruption response (2024, Bulletin of Volcanology)
  • Density structure of Kīlauea volcano: implications for magma storage and transport (2024, Geophysical Journal International)

Best Publications

  • Flow of variably fluidized granular masses across three‐dimensional terrain: 1. Coulomb mixture theory

    Richard M. Iverson;Roger P. Denlinger

  • Emplacement and inflation of pahoehoe sheet flows: observations and measurements of active lava flows on Kilauea volcano, Hawaii

    Ken Hon;Jim Kauahikaua;Roger Denlinger;Kevin Mackay

  • Flow of variably fluidized granular masses across three‐dimensional terrain: 2. Numerical predictions and experimental tests

    Roger P. Denlinger;Richard M. Iverson

  • Intermediate-Depth Intraslab Earthquakes and Arc Volcanism as Physical Expressions of Crustal and Uppermost Mantle Metamorphism in Subducting Slabs

    Stephen H. Kirby;E. Robert Engdahl;Roger P. Denlinger

  • Granular avalanches across irregular three-dimensional terrain: 1. Theory and computation

    Roger P. Denlinger;Richard M. Iverson

  • Granular avalanches across irregular three‐dimensional terrain: 2. Experimental tests

    Richard M. Iverson;Matthew Logan;Roger P. Denlinger

  • Ductile deformation and the origin of layered gabbro in ophiolites

    James E. Quick;Roger P. Denlinger

  • Role of olivine cumulates in destabilizing the flanks of Hawaiian volcanoes

    D. A. Clague;R. P. Denlinger

  • CYCLIC ERUPTIVE BEHAVIOR OF SILICIC VOLCANOES

    Roger P. Denlinger;Richard P. Hoblitt

  • The initial cooling of pahoehoe flow lobes

    Laszlo Keszthelyi;Roger Denlinger

  • Rapid deformation of Kilauea Volcano: Global Positioning System measurements between 1990 and 1996

    Susan Owen;Paul Segall;Michael Lisowski;Asta Miklius

  • Structure of the mobile south flank of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

    Roger P. Denlinger;Paul Okubo

  • Rapid Deformation of the South Flank of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

    Susan Owen;Paul Segall;Jeff Freymueller;Asta Mikijus

  • An exact solution for ideal dam‐break floods on steep slopes

    Christophe Ancey;R. M. Iverson;Martin Rentschler;R. P. Denlinger

  • Volcanic spreading at Kilauea, 1976–1996

    Paul T. Delaney;Roger P. Denlinger;Michael Lisowski;Asta Miklius

  • Ash3d: A finite-volume, conservative numerical model for ash transport and tephra deposition

    Hans F. Schwaiger;Roger P. Denlinger;Larry G. Mastin

  • A robust method to forecast volcanic ash clouds

    Roger P. Denlinger;Michael J. Pavolonis;Justin Sieglaff

  • A model for generation of ash clouds by pyroclastic flows, with application to the 1980 eruptions at Mount St. Helens, Washington

    Roger P. Denlinger

  • SPREADING VOLCANOES 1

    Andrea Borgia;Paul T. Delaney;Roger P. Denlinger

  • Simulations of cataclysmic outburst floods from Pleistocene Glacial Lake Missoula

    Roger P. Denlinger;D. R. H. O'Connell

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. Iverson
Richard M. Iverson United States Geological Survey
Larry G. Mastin
Larry G. Mastin United States Geological Survey
Jim E. O'Connor
Jim E. O'Connor United States Geological Survey
Asta Miklius
Asta Miklius United States Geological Survey
Daniel Dzurisin
Daniel Dzurisin United States Geological Survey
Paul Segall
Paul Segall Stanford University
Richard P. Hoblitt
Richard P. Hoblitt United States Geological Survey
Thomas R. Walter
Thomas R. Walter University of Potsdam
Paul G. Okubo
Paul G. Okubo United States Geological Survey
Mike R. James
Mike R. James Lancaster University

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