B. Dorsey's Curriculum Vita

Curriculum Vita: Rebecca J. Dorsey

Associate Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
1272 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1272
Voice: (541) 346-4431
Fax: (541) 346-4692
E-mail: rdorsey@uoregon.edu
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Education:

1989:

Ph.D. Geology, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

1986:

M.A. Geology, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

1983:

B.Sc. Geology, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington (Magna Cum Laude)

Employment History:

2000 - present

Associate Professor, University of Oregon

1997 - 2000:

Assistant Professor, University of Oregon

1996 - 1997:

Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University

1990 - 1996:

Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University

1989 - 1990:

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wyoming

Published Papers:

in press

Dorsey, R.J. Fluette, A., McDougall, K.A., Housen, B.A., Janecke, S.U., Axen, G.J., and Shirvell, C.R. (in press) Chronology of Miocene-Pliocene deposits at Split Mountain Gorge, southern California: A record of regional tectonics and Colorado River evolution. (abstract) Geology.

Dorsey, R.J. , and Lenegan, R.J. (in press) Structural controls on mid-Cretaceous sedimentation in the Toney Butte area of the Mitchell Inlier, Ochoco basin, central Oregon. GSA Special Paper: Convergent Margin Terranes and Associated Regions, Edited by M. Cloos, W.D. Carlson, M.C. Gilbert, J.G. Liou, and S.S. Sorensen.

Kirby, S.M., Janecke, S.U., Dorsey, R.J., Housen, B.A., Langenheim, V., McDougall, K., and Steely, A.N. (in press) Pleistocene Brawley and Ocotillo formations: Evidence for initial strike-slip deformation along the San Felipe and San Jacinto fault zones, southern California. Journal of Geology.

2006

Dorsey, R.J. (2006) Stratigraphy, tectonics, and basin evolution in the Anza-Borrego Desert region. In: Jefferson, G.T. and Lindsay, L.E. (eds.) Fossil Treasures of Anza-Borrego Desert. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA, p. 89-104.

Dorsey, R.J. and Roering, J.J. (2006) Quaternary landscape evolution in the San Jacinto fault zone, Peninsular Ranges of southern California: Transient response to strike-slip fault initiation. Geomorphology, v. 73(1-2), p. 16-32.

Dorsey, R.J. Castro, R., Fletcher, J., Lizarralde, D. and Umhoefer, P.J. (2006) Report on RCL-Cortez Workshop: Lithospheric Rupture in the Gulf of California – Salton Trough Region. MARGINS Newsletter, No. 16, p. 9-13.

Lutz, A.T., Dorsey, R.J., Housen, B.A., and Janecke, S.U. (2006) Stratigraphic record of Pleistocene faulting and basin evolution in the Borrego Badlands, San Jacinto fault zone, southern California. GSA Bulletin, in press.

2005

Housen, B. A. and Dorsey, R.J., (2005) Paleomagnetism and tectonic significance of Albian and Cenomanian turbidites, Ochoco Basin, Mitchell Inlier, central Oregon, Jour. Geoph. Research. vol. 110, B07102, doi:10.1029/2004JB003458

2002

Dorsey, R.J. (2002) Stratigraphic record of Pleistocene initiation and slip on the Coyote Creek fault, lower Coyote Creek, southern California. In: Barth, A. (ed.) Contributions to Crustal Evolution of the Southwest United States: Boulder, Co. Geolgical Society of America Special Paper 365, p. 251-269.

Umhoefer, P.J., Mayer, L., and Dorsey, R.J. (2002) Evolution of the margin of the Gulf of California near Loreto, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. GSA Bulletin, vol. 114, p. 849-868.

2001

Dorsey, R.J., Umhoefer, P.J., Ingle, J.C., and Mayer, M. (2001) Late Miocene to Pliocene stratigraphic evolution of northeast Carmen Island, Gulf of California: implications for oblique-rifting tectonics. Sedimentary Geology, vol. 144, p. 97-123.

Umhoefer, P.J., Dorsey, R.J., Willsey, S., Mayer, L., and Renne, P. (2001) Stratigraphy and geochronology of the Comondú Group near Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sedimentary Geology, vol. 144, p. 125-147.

2000

Dorsey, R.J. and Umhoefer, P.J. (2000) Tectonic and eustatic controls on sequence stratigraphy of the Pliocene Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico.GSA Bulletin, v. 112, p. 177-199.

1999

Dorsey, R.J. and Kidwell, S.M. (1999) Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentation on a tectonically active margin: Example from the Pliocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Geology, v. 27, p. 935-938.

Dorsey, R.J. and Martín-Barajas, A. (1999) Sedimentation and deformation in a Pliocene-Pleistocene transtensional supradetachment basin, Laguna Salada, Northwest Mexico. Basin Research, vol. 11, p. 205-222.

Dorsey, R.J. and Falk, P. (1999) Reply. Rapid development of gravelly high-density turbidity currents in marine Gilbert-type fan deltas, Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sedimentology, v. 46, p. 763-767.

1998

Falk, P. and Dorsey, R.J. (1998) Rapid development of gravelly high-density turbidity currents in marine Gilbert-type fan deltas, Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sedimentology, vol. 45, p. 331-349.

1997

Umhoefer, P.J. and Dorsey, R.J. (1997) Translation of terranes: A perspective from the central domain of Baja California, Mexico. Geology, vol. 25, p. 1007-1010.

Dorsey, R.J. , Umhoefer, P.J., and Falk, P. (1997) Earthquake clustering inferred from Pliocene Gilbert-type fan deltas in the Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Geology, vol. 25, p. 679-682.

Dorsey, R.J. (1997) Origin and significance of rhodolith-rich strata in the Punta el Bajo section, southeastern Pliocene Loreto basin. In, Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vasquez, J. (eds.) Pliocene Carbonates and Related Facies Flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico. G.S.A. Special Paper 318, p.119-126.

Dorsey, R.J., Stone, K.A., and Umhoefer, P.J. (1997) Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and tectonic development of the southeastern Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. In, Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vasquez, J. (eds.) Pliocene Carbonates and Related Facies Flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico. G.S.A. Special Paper 318, p.83-109.

1996

Dorsey, R.J. and P. Roberts (1996) Evolution of the Miocene North Whipple Basin in the Aubrey Hills, western Arizona, upper plate of the Whipple detachment fault. In: Beratan, K.K. (ed.), Reconstructing the History of Basin and Range Extension Using Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, GSA Special Paper 303, p. 127-146.

1995

Dorsey, R.J., Umhoefer, P.J., and Renne, P.R. (1995) Rapid subsidence and stacked Gilbert-type fan deltas, Pliocene Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sedimentary Geology, vol. 98, p. 181-204 .

Bjerrum, C.J. and Dorsey, R.J. (1995) Tectonic controls on deposition of Middle Jurassic strata in a retroarc foreland basin, Utah-Idaho Trough, western interior, USA. Tectonics, vol. 14, p. 962-978.

Dorsey, R.J., and Becker, U. (1995) Evolution of a large Miocene growth structure in the upper plate of the Whipple detachment fault, northeastern Whipple Mountains, California.Basin Research, vol. 7, p. 151-163.

1994

Umhoefer, P.J., Dorsey, R.J., and Renne, P.R. (1994) Tectonics of the Pliocene Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico, and evolution of the Gulf of California. Geology, vol. 22, p. 649-652.

Dorsey, R.J. and Burns, B.A. (1994) Regional stratigraphy, sedimentology and tectonic significance of Oligocene-Miocene sedimentary and volcanic rocks, northern Baja California, Mexico. Sedimentary Geology, vol. 88, p. 231-251.

1992

Dorsey, R.J. (1992) Collapse of the Luzon volcanic arc during onset of arc-continent collision: Evidence from a Mio-Pliocene unconformity, eastern Taiwan. Tectonics, vol. 11, p. 177-191.

1990

Lundberg, N. and Dorsey, R.J. (1990) Rapid Quaternary emergence, uplift, and denudation of the Coastal Range, eastern Taiwan. Geology, vol. 18, p. 638-641.

1988

Dorsey, R.J. (1988) Provenance evolution and unroofing history of a modern arc-continent collision: Evidence from petrography of Plio-Pleistocene sandstones, eastern Taiwan; Jour. Sedimentary Petrology, vol. 58, p. 208-218.

Dorsey, R.J., E.J. Buchovecky, and N. Lundberg (1988) Clay mineralogy of Pliocene-Pleistocene mudstones, eastern Taiwan: Combined effects of burial diagenesis and provenance unroofing. Geology, vol. 16, p. 944-947.

Dorsey, R.J. and N. Lundberg (1988) Lithofacies analysis and basin reconstruction of the Plio-Pleistocene collisional basin, Coastal Range of eastern Taiwan. Acta Geologica Taiwanica, No. 26, p. 57-132.

Dorsey, R.J. (1988) Synorogenic sedimentation and subsidence in a Plio-Pleistocene collisional basin, eastern Taiwan. in Kleinspehn, K.L. and C. Paola (eds.), New Perspectives in Basin Analysis, Springer-Verlag, N.Y., p. 265-280.

1987

Keller, G., T. Herbert, R.J. Dorsey, S. D'hondt, M. Johnsson, and W.R. Chi (1987) Global distribution of late Paleogene hiatuses. Geology, vol .15, p. 199-203.

Mehrtens, C.J. and R.J. Dorsey (1987) Stratigraphy and bedrock geology of the northwestern portion of the St. Albans Quadrangle and the adjacent Highgate Center Quadrangle, Vermont. Vermont Geological Survey, Spec. Bull. No. 9, 28 pp.

Externally Funded Grants:

National Science Foundation

Collaborative Research: Testing Models of Mesozoic Arc Collision and Accretion in the Northwest U.S. Cordillera, Eastern Oregon, Using Sedimentary Provenance and Basin Analysis. 2/1/2006 - 1/31/2009. Collaboration with Jeff Vervoort.

National Science Foundation

Collaborative Research: Late Cenozoic Detachment Faulting in the Western Salton Trough: Strain Partitioning in an Oblique Active-Margin Rift. 2/1/2002 - 1/31/2004. Collaboration with Gary Axen, Susanne Janecke, and Bernie Housen.

National Science Foundation

Quaternary to Recent Basin Development and Neotectonics of the Central San Jacinto Fault Zone, Southern California: 9/1/1998 - 8/31/2001.

American Chemical Society (PRF)

Stratigraphic Architecture of a Marine Half-Graben: Integrated Sedimentologic and Taphonomic Analysis of the Pliocene Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico: 9/1/1996 - 8/31/1998. Collaboration with Susan Kidwell, University of Chicago

National Science Foundation

Active Tectonics of a Young Oblique-Rifted Continental Margin, Loreto Area, Baja California Sur, Mexico: 12/1/1995 - 11/30/1998. (in collaboration with Paul Umhoefer, NAU, and Larry Mayer, Miami University of Ohio)

American Chemical Society (PRF)

Miocene Basin Evolution, Upper Plate of the Whipple-Buckskin Detachment Fault, Southeastern California and Western Arizona. 9/1993 - 8/1996.

National Science Foundation

Tectonic and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Pliocene Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur: A Transform-Rift Basin. 1/1992 - 6/1994.

National Science Foundation

Miocene Sedimentation, Topography and Uplift History on the West Flank of the Proto-Gulf of California, Northern Baja California, Mexico. Funding Period: 7/1990 - 5/1992.

National Science Foundation

NSF Graduate Fellowship, support of dissertation research at Princeton University: 1984-1988.

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1989:	Ph.D. Geology, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
1986:	M.A. Geology, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
1983:	B.Sc. Geology, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington (Magna Cum Laude)

2000 - present	Associate Professor, University of Oregon
1997 - 2000:	Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
1996 - 1997:	Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University
1990 - 1996:	Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University
1989 - 1990:	Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wyoming

in press	Dorsey, R.J. Fluette, A., McDougall, K.A., Housen, B.A., Janecke, S.U., Axen, G.J., and Shirvell, C.R. (in press) Chronology of Miocene-Pliocene deposits at Split Mountain Gorge, southern California: A record of regional tectonics and Colorado River evolution. (abstract) Geology.
	Dorsey, R.J. , and Lenegan, R.J. (in press) Structural controls on mid-Cretaceous sedimentation in the Toney Butte area of the Mitchell Inlier, Ochoco basin, central Oregon. GSA Special Paper: Convergent Margin Terranes and Associated Regions, Edited by M. Cloos, W.D. Carlson, M.C. Gilbert, J.G. Liou, and S.S. Sorensen.
	Kirby, S.M., Janecke, S.U., Dorsey, R.J., Housen, B.A., Langenheim, V., McDougall, K., and Steely, A.N. (in press) Pleistocene Brawley and Ocotillo formations: Evidence for initial strike-slip deformation along the San Felipe and San Jacinto fault zones, southern California. Journal of Geology.
2006	Dorsey, R.J. (2006) Stratigraphy, tectonics, and basin evolution in the Anza-Borrego Desert region. In: Jefferson, G.T. and Lindsay, L.E. (eds.) Fossil Treasures of Anza-Borrego Desert. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA, p. 89-104.
	Dorsey, R.J. and Roering, J.J. (2006) Quaternary landscape evolution in the San Jacinto fault zone, Peninsular Ranges of southern California: Transient response to strike-slip fault initiation. Geomorphology, v. 73(1-2), p. 16-32.
	Dorsey, R.J. Castro, R., Fletcher, J., Lizarralde, D. and Umhoefer, P.J. (2006) Report on RCL-Cortez Workshop: Lithospheric Rupture in the Gulf of California – Salton Trough Region. MARGINS Newsletter, No. 16, p. 9-13.
	Lutz, A.T., Dorsey, R.J., Housen, B.A., and Janecke, S.U. (2006) Stratigraphic record of Pleistocene faulting and basin evolution in the Borrego Badlands, San Jacinto fault zone, southern California. GSA Bulletin, in press.
2005	Housen, B. A. and Dorsey, R.J., (2005) Paleomagnetism and tectonic significance of Albian and Cenomanian turbidites, Ochoco Basin, Mitchell Inlier, central Oregon, Jour. Geoph. Research. vol. 110, B07102, doi:10.1029/2004JB003458
2002	Dorsey, R.J. (2002) Stratigraphic record of Pleistocene initiation and slip on the Coyote Creek fault, lower Coyote Creek, southern California. In: Barth, A. (ed.) Contributions to Crustal Evolution of the Southwest United States: Boulder, Co. Geolgical Society of America Special Paper 365, p. 251-269.
	Umhoefer, P.J., Mayer, L., and Dorsey, R.J. (2002) Evolution of the margin of the Gulf of California near Loreto, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. GSA Bulletin, vol. 114, p. 849-868.
2001	Dorsey, R.J., Umhoefer, P.J., Ingle, J.C., and Mayer, M. (2001) Late Miocene to Pliocene stratigraphic evolution of northeast Carmen Island, Gulf of California: implications for oblique-rifting tectonics. Sedimentary Geology, vol. 144, p. 97-123.
	Umhoefer, P.J., Dorsey, R.J., Willsey, S., Mayer, L., and Renne, P. (2001) Stratigraphy and geochronology of the Comondú Group near Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sedimentary Geology, vol. 144, p. 125-147.
2000	Dorsey, R.J. and Umhoefer, P.J. (2000) Tectonic and eustatic controls on sequence stratigraphy of the Pliocene Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico.GSA Bulletin, v. 112, p. 177-199.
1999	Dorsey, R.J. and Kidwell, S.M. (1999) Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentation on a tectonically active margin: Example from the Pliocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Geology, v. 27, p. 935-938.
	Dorsey, R.J. and Martín-Barajas, A. (1999) Sedimentation and deformation in a Pliocene-Pleistocene transtensional supradetachment basin, Laguna Salada, Northwest Mexico. Basin Research, vol. 11, p. 205-222.
	Dorsey, R.J. and Falk, P. (1999) Reply. Rapid development of gravelly high-density turbidity currents in marine Gilbert-type fan deltas, Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sedimentology, v. 46, p. 763-767.
1998	Falk, P. and Dorsey, R.J. (1998) Rapid development of gravelly high-density turbidity currents in marine Gilbert-type fan deltas, Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sedimentology, vol. 45, p. 331-349.
1997	Umhoefer, P.J. and Dorsey, R.J. (1997) Translation of terranes: A perspective from the central domain of Baja California, Mexico. Geology, vol. 25, p. 1007-1010.
	Dorsey, R.J. , Umhoefer, P.J., and Falk, P. (1997) Earthquake clustering inferred from Pliocene Gilbert-type fan deltas in the Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Geology, vol. 25, p. 679-682.
	Dorsey, R.J. (1997) Origin and significance of rhodolith-rich strata in the Punta el Bajo section, southeastern Pliocene Loreto basin. In, Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vasquez, J. (eds.) Pliocene Carbonates and Related Facies Flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico. G.S.A. Special Paper 318, p.119-126.
	Dorsey, R.J., Stone, K.A., and Umhoefer, P.J. (1997) Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and tectonic development of the southeastern Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. In, Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vasquez, J. (eds.) Pliocene Carbonates and Related Facies Flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico. G.S.A. Special Paper 318, p.83-109.
1996	Dorsey, R.J. and P. Roberts (1996) Evolution of the Miocene North Whipple Basin in the Aubrey Hills, western Arizona, upper plate of the Whipple detachment fault. In: Beratan, K.K. (ed.), Reconstructing the History of Basin and Range Extension Using Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, GSA Special Paper 303, p. 127-146.
1995	Dorsey, R.J., Umhoefer, P.J., and Renne, P.R. (1995) Rapid subsidence and stacked Gilbert-type fan deltas, Pliocene Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sedimentary Geology, vol. 98, p. 181-204 .
	Bjerrum, C.J. and Dorsey, R.J. (1995) Tectonic controls on deposition of Middle Jurassic strata in a retroarc foreland basin, Utah-Idaho Trough, western interior, USA. Tectonics, vol. 14, p. 962-978.
	Dorsey, R.J., and Becker, U. (1995) Evolution of a large Miocene growth structure in the upper plate of the Whipple detachment fault, northeastern Whipple Mountains, California.Basin Research, vol. 7, p. 151-163.
1994	Umhoefer, P.J., Dorsey, R.J., and Renne, P.R. (1994) Tectonics of the Pliocene Loreto basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico, and evolution of the Gulf of California. Geology, vol. 22, p. 649-652.
	Dorsey, R.J. and Burns, B.A. (1994) Regional stratigraphy, sedimentology and tectonic significance of Oligocene-Miocene sedimentary and volcanic rocks, northern Baja California, Mexico. Sedimentary Geology, vol. 88, p. 231-251.
1992	Dorsey, R.J. (1992) Collapse of the Luzon volcanic arc during onset of arc-continent collision: Evidence from a Mio-Pliocene unconformity, eastern Taiwan. Tectonics, vol. 11, p. 177-191.
1990	Lundberg, N. and Dorsey, R.J. (1990) Rapid Quaternary emergence, uplift, and denudation of the Coastal Range, eastern Taiwan. Geology, vol. 18, p. 638-641.
1988	Dorsey, R.J. (1988) Provenance evolution and unroofing history of a modern arc-continent collision: Evidence from petrography of Plio-Pleistocene sandstones, eastern Taiwan; Jour. Sedimentary Petrology, vol. 58, p. 208-218.
	Dorsey, R.J., E.J. Buchovecky, and N. Lundberg (1988) Clay mineralogy of Pliocene-Pleistocene mudstones, eastern Taiwan: Combined effects of burial diagenesis and provenance unroofing. Geology, vol. 16, p. 944-947.
	Dorsey, R.J. and N. Lundberg (1988) Lithofacies analysis and basin reconstruction of the Plio-Pleistocene collisional basin, Coastal Range of eastern Taiwan. Acta Geologica Taiwanica, No. 26, p. 57-132.
	Dorsey, R.J. (1988) Synorogenic sedimentation and subsidence in a Plio-Pleistocene collisional basin, eastern Taiwan. in Kleinspehn, K.L. and C. Paola (eds.), New Perspectives in Basin Analysis, Springer-Verlag, N.Y., p. 265-280.
1987	Keller, G., T. Herbert, R.J. Dorsey, S. D'hondt, M. Johnsson, and W.R. Chi (1987) Global distribution of late Paleogene hiatuses. Geology, vol .15, p. 199-203.
	Mehrtens, C.J. and R.J. Dorsey (1987) Stratigraphy and bedrock geology of the northwestern portion of the St. Albans Quadrangle and the adjacent Highgate Center Quadrangle, Vermont. Vermont Geological Survey, Spec. Bull. No. 9, 28 pp.

National Science Foundation	Collaborative Research: Testing Models of Mesozoic Arc Collision and Accretion in the Northwest U.S. Cordillera, Eastern Oregon, Using Sedimentary Provenance and Basin Analysis. 2/1/2006 - 1/31/2009. Collaboration with Jeff Vervoort.
National Science Foundation	Collaborative Research: Late Cenozoic Detachment Faulting in the Western Salton Trough: Strain Partitioning in an Oblique Active-Margin Rift. 2/1/2002 - 1/31/2004. Collaboration with Gary Axen, Susanne Janecke, and Bernie Housen.
National Science Foundation	Quaternary to Recent Basin Development and Neotectonics of the Central San Jacinto Fault Zone, Southern California: 9/1/1998 - 8/31/2001.
American Chemical Society (PRF)	Stratigraphic Architecture of a Marine Half-Graben: Integrated Sedimentologic and Taphonomic Analysis of the Pliocene Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico: 9/1/1996 - 8/31/1998. Collaboration with Susan Kidwell, University of Chicago
National Science Foundation	Active Tectonics of a Young Oblique-Rifted Continental Margin, Loreto Area, Baja California Sur, Mexico: 12/1/1995 - 11/30/1998. (in collaboration with Paul Umhoefer, NAU, and Larry Mayer, Miami University of Ohio)
American Chemical Society (PRF)	Miocene Basin Evolution, Upper Plate of the Whipple-Buckskin Detachment Fault, Southeastern California and Western Arizona. 9/1993 - 8/1996.
National Science Foundation	Tectonic and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Pliocene Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur: A Transform-Rift Basin. 1/1992 - 6/1994.
National Science Foundation	Miocene Sedimentation, Topography and Uplift History on the West Flank of the Proto-Gulf of California, Northern Baja California, Mexico. Funding Period: 7/1990 - 5/1992.
National Science Foundation	NSF Graduate Fellowship, support of dissertation research at Princeton University: 1984-1988.