George H. Denton (born 14 December 1939 in Medford, Massachusetts, USA) [1] is a Professor of Geological Sciences and Quaternary Studies at the University of Maine.
One current project (2015) deals with the Quaternary and late Tertiary history of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Studies of late Tertiary deposits bear on fundamental climatic changes that preceded Quaternary ice ages.
Another project deals with the alpine glacier history of the Chilean Andes.
He led a party of scientists doing field studies in Chile in 1991–99, and in New Zealand in 2000–08 together with his close colleague throughout his career, the late Norwegian Quaternary geologist Professor Bjørn G. Andersen of the University of Oslo.