Tectonics and Sedimentation Research Group
Current and Recent Research

Structural Geology

The influence of fold and fracture development on reservoir behavior of the Lisburne Group of northern Alaska

Crustal scale evolution of northern Alaska

Evolution and geometry of the range front region of the central and eastern Brooks Range

In situ horizontal stress distribution in Colville basin and North Slope

Geologic evolution of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

The Geometry and Kinematics of Detachment Folds in the Northeastern Brooks Range

Origin of Arcuate Structural Trends in the Chersky Range, Northeastern Siberia

Structure of the north-central Brooks Range along the Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect

Distribution and Character of Fractures in the Lisburne Group, Northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Geologic Reconnaissance in Arctic Regions

Current graduate student projects

Sedimentology

Sea level history, paleogeography, and reservoir analysis of the Carboniferous Lisburne Group, Northern Alaska

Integrated Devonian Event Stratigraphy, Western North America

Subsurface to Outcrop Correlation of the Shublik Formation: Implications for Triassic Paleoceanography, Paleogeography, and Source Rock Accumulation

Sedimentology, paleosols and nonmarine sequence stratigraphy of the Kekiktuk Formation, northeastern Brooks Range and North Slope subsurface, Alaska

Facies architecture of late stage carbonate platform progradation, Upper Devonian , western Alberta

Interregional sequence stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of Upper Devonian carbonate platforms, western Canada

Current graduate student projects

Geochronology

40Ar/39Ar Dating of Eocene Obsidian from the BatzaTena Archeological Site, West-Central Alaska

40Ar/39Ar Dating of the McKinley Pluton, Denali National Park, Alaska

Geochronologic Studies of Yakutia (Northeast Russia)

Cooling History of the Okpilak Batholith Determined from 40Ar/39Ar K-Feldspar Thermochronometry

Paleomagnetism

North Pacific Region Paleomagnetic Studies

Northeast Russia Seismic Studies

Bering Sea Seismic Experiment

Paleomagnetic Studies of the Okhotsk-Chuktka Volcanic Belt

Taskan river transect of the Omolon Terrane

Cherskii Mountains Study, Sakha Republic

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