TeachingGeology 334 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy - Fall, 2008 Sediment Gravity Flows - Spring, 2008 Blue Mountains Field Trip - March, 2007 Blue Mountains Seminar - Fall, 2006 Geology 440-540 Sedimentary Basin Analysis - Spring, 2007 Summer 2003 Pictures somewhat dated but fun stuff. Geology 103 The Evolving Earth - Spring 1999 |
She can also be found working on alluvial fans in southern California, or roaming around the New Zealand countryside.
My research is focused on field studies of tectonically active sedimentary basins, with the goal of understanding the complex tectonic, sedimentary, and geomorphic evolution of active regions. Stratigraphy provides unique insights into past environments and tectonic events that often cannot be gained from other disciplines. Integrated basin analysis informs us about the dynamic interplay between ancient fault systems that create sedimentary basins, and the surface processes that fill them with sediment. Stratigraphy also provides a useful tool for analyzing the complex evolution of streams and geomorphology in active fault zones. I am working primarily in two areas: (1) Miocene to Pleistocene evolution of basins along the San Andreas plate boundary system in southern California and NW Mexico; and (2) Mesozoic stratigraphy and regional tectonics related to accretion and translation of oceanic terranes in central and eastern Oregon.
Link to some papers resulting from the following projects.Late Miocene Coastal Sonora project
Triassic-Jurassic collisional tectonics, Blue Mountains of NE Oregon
Late Cenozoic detachment faulting in the Western Salton Trough, southern California
Quaternary San Jacinto Fault Zone, southern California
Pliocene-Quaternary Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Older Projects, representative of my interests:
Pleistocene to Holocene Laguna Salada, southern San Andreas fault system, northern Mexico
Miocene Detachment Basins, SE California and W Arizona
Jurassic Utah-Idaho Trough, U.S. western interior
Rebecca Ambers - now teaching at Sweet Briar College, Virginia
Robin Beebee - now working for the U.S. Forset Service in Sitka, Alaska
Todd LaMaskin - working on Mesozoic stratigraphy and tectonics of eastern Oregon
Bob Lenegan - now advising Biology students at Northern Arizona University.
Andy Lutz - now working for William Lettis and Associates, San Francisco, CA.
Tom Peryam - interested in Cenozoic basins of northwestern Mexico.
Derek Ryter - now working at ASW Associates, Lincoln, Nebraska
See my Curriculum Vita here.
