Harden, J.W., and Marchand, D.E. 1977. The soil chronosequence of the Merced River area. in Singer, M.J. (ed.), Soil development, geomorphology, and Cenozoic history of the northeastern San Joaquin Valley and adjacent areas, California. Guidebook for the joint field session of the American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America, and the Geological Society of America, Chapter VII; Davis, Univ. of California Press, p. 22-38.

Marchand, D.E., and Harden, J.W. 1978. Preliminary geologic maps showing Quaternary deposits of the lower Tuolumne and Stanislaus alluvial fans and the lower San Joaquin River, Stanislaus County, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 78-656, scale 1:24,000 (4 quadrangles).

Harden, J.W., and Marchand, D.E. 1980. Quaternary stratigraphy and interpretation of soil data from the Auburn, Oroville, and Sonora areas along the foothills fault system, western Sierra Nevada, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-305, 57 p.

Harden, J.W. 1982. An index of soil development from field descriptions: examples from a chronosequence in central California. Geoderma 28: 1-28.

Harden, J.W., and Taylor, E.M. 1983. A quantitative comparison of soil development in four climatic regimes. Quaternary Research 20(3): 342-359.

Pavich, M.J., Brown, L., Harden, J.W., Klein, J. and Middleton, R. 1986. ¹⁰Be distribution in soils from Merced River terraces, California. Geochemica Cosmochemica Acta 50: 1727-1735.

Harden, J.W. (editor) 1986. A series of soil chronosequences in the western United States: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1590.

Harden, J.W. 1986. Soils developed in granitic alluvium near Merced, California. In Harden, J.W. (ed), A series of soil chronosequences in the western United States. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1590-A, 35 p.

Harden, J.W., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., and Dembroff, G. 1987. Soils developed on coastal and fluvial terraces near Ventura, California. In Harden, J.W. (ed), A series of soil chronosequences in the western United States. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1590-B, 34 p.

Harden, J.W. 1989. Chemical differentiation of soils: elemental and mineralogical changes in a soil chronosequence. Geoderma 43: 179-193.

Switzer, P.S., Harden, J.W., and Mark, R.K. 1988. A statistical method for estimating rates of soil development and ages of geologic deposits: a design for soil--chronosequence studies. Mathematical Geolology 20(1): 49-61.

Harden, J.W., and Matti, J.C. 1989. Holocene and Late Pleistocene slip rates on the San Andreas fault in Yucaipa, California, using displaced alluvial-fan deposits and soil chronology. Geological Society of America Bulletin 101: 1107-1117.

Harden, J.W. 1988. Measurement of water penetration and volume percentage water-holding capacity for undisturbed, coarse-textured soils in SW California. Soil Science 146: 374-383.

Reheis, M.C., Harden, J.W., McFadden, L.D., and Shroba, R.R. 1989. Morphology, variation in description, and rates of development of Late Quaternary soils, Silver Lake, California. Soil Science Society of American Journal 53: 1127-1140.

Harden, J.W., Reheis, M.C., Sowers, J.M., and Slate, J.L. 1988. Comment on scanning electron microscope method for rock-varnish dating. Geology 16(11): 1051.

Sowers, J. M., and others. 1988. Geomorphology and pedology on the Kyle Canyon Alluvial Fan, Southern Nevada. In Weide, D.L., and Faber, M.L. (eds.), This extended land, Geological Journeys in the Southern Basin and Range. Field Trip Guidebook, Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, p. 137.

Harden, J.W., Taylor, E.M., Hill, C., Mark, R.K., McFadden, L.D., Reheis, M.C., and Wells, S.G. 1991. Rates of soil development from four soil chronosequences in the southern Great Basin. Quaternary Research 35: 383-399.

Harden, J.W. 1990. Soil development on stable landforms and implications for landscape studies. Geomorphology 3: 391-398.

Harden, J.W., Taylor, E.M., Reheis, M.C., and McFadden, L.D. 1991. Calcic, gypsic, and siliceous soil chronosequences in arid and semiarid environments, in Occurerence, Characteristics, and Genesis of Carbonate, Gypsum, and Silica Accumulation in Soils. Soil Science Society America Journal, Special Publication 26: 1-16.

Harden, J.W., Slate, J.L., Lamothe, P., Chadwick, O. Pendall, E. and Gillespie, A. 1991. Soil formation on the Trail Canyon alluvial fan, Fish Lake Valley, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-291, and in guidebook to 1991 Pacific Cell. Friends of the Pleistocene, 368 p.

Pendall, E., Harden, J.W., and Trumbore, S. 1991. Pedogneic isotopic indicators of climate and carbon cycling in Fish Lake Valley, Nevada. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-296, and in guidebook to 1991 Pacific Cell. Friends of the Pleistocene Field Trip, 368 p.

Terhune, C.L., and Harden, J.W. 1992. Seasonal variations of soil carbon dioxide concentrations in coarse-grained desert soils of southern Nevada, U.S.A.: Soil Science 151(6): 417-429.

Harden, J.W., Sundquist, E.T., Stallard, R.F., Mark, R.K. 1992. Dynamics of soil carbon during deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Science 258: 1921-1923.

Reheis, M.C., Sowers, J.M., Taylor, E.M., McFadden, L.D., and Harden, J.W. 1993. Morphology and genesis of calcic soils on the Kyle Canyon Fan, Nevada USA. Geoderma 34: 305-342.

Pendall, E., Harden, J.W., Trumbore, S., Chadwick, O. 1994. Isotopic approach to soil-carbonate dynamics: implications for paleoclimatic interpretations. Quaternary Research 42: 60-71.

Black, T.A., and Harden, J.W. 1994. Soil carbon and nitrogen data set for a soil sequence disturbed by timber harvest, Blodgett Experimental Forest, Georgetown, CA: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-188, 102 p.

Black, T.A., and Harden, J.W. 1995. Effect of timber harvest on soil carbon storage at Blodgett Experimental forest, California, Canadian Journal of Forest Research 25: 1385-1396.

Reheis, M.C., Goodmacher, J.C., Harden, J.W., McFadden, L.D., Rockwell, T.K., Shroba, R.R., Sowers, J.M., and Taylor, E.M. 1995. Quaternary soils and dust deposition in southern Nevada and California. Geologic Society of America Bulliten 107: 1003-1022.

White, A.F., Blum, A.E., Schulz, M.S., Bullen, T.D., Harden, J.W., and Peterson, M.L. 1996. Chemical weathering of a soil chronosequence on granite alluvium. I. Reaction rates based on changes in soil mineralogy. Geochemica Cosmochemica Acta 27: 1129-1245.

Bullen, T. , White, A. , Blum, A., Harden, J., and Schulz, J. 1997. Chemical weathering of a soil chronosequence on granitoid alluvium II. Mineralogic and isotopic constraints on the behavior of Sr. Geochemica Cosmochemica Acta 61(2): 291-306.

Trumbore, S.E. and Harden, J.W. 1997. Input, accumulation and turnover of carbon in soils of the BOREAS northern study area: Journal of Geophysical Research, 102: 28,816-28,923.

Harden, J.S., O'Neill, K.P., Trumbore, S.E., Veldhuis, H. and Stocks, B.J. 1997. Moss and soil contributions to the annual net carbon flux of a maturing boreal forest. Journal of Geophysical Research 102(D24): 28,817-28,830.