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Current Research Projects

Opportunities are available for motivated graduate students (M.S. and Ph.D.) to be involved in research projects in tectonics, economic geology, geochronology, and structural geology. Please e-mail me for more information.

 



Application of U-Pb geochronology to the solution of tectonic problems is the cornerstone of my research program.  These analytical studies are equally balanced with the fieldwork that provides their context. There are presently several dating methods required to cover the spectrum of tectonic problems being addressed. Conventional U-Pb analyses (ID-TIMS), whereby single crystals or groups of zircon grains are dissolved and analyzed, provide high precision ages for zircons with demonstrably simple systematics. Collaborations are available for completing CA-TIMS high resolution geochronology. Many dating projects require in situ analysis of parts of zircon grains by ion probe (SIMS) or Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) techniques. These analyses are completed at the USGS/Stanford SHRIMP facility. Finally, the laser ablation ICPMS method for routine analysis of detrital grains and magmatic ages have utilized the facility at Washington State University and the University of Arizona LaserChron facility.  All of my currently funded projects utilize a range of SIMS and LA-ICPMS U-Pb geochronology.  

 

 

Holm Land, NE Greenland


Colleagues in the Pearya terrane, northern Ellesmere Island

 

Carboniferous basin evolution in the Arctic

 

 

 

 

Age and significance of Proterozoic magmatism in Arctic Alaska, Arctic Canada, and Svalbard

 

 

 

 

Timing of formation and exhumation or unroofing of ultrahigh-pressure rocks in the Greenland Caledonides

 

 

Las Pirquitas thrust, Pie de Palo, Argentina

Las Pirquitas Thrust, Pie de Palo, Argentina

Lions Head, Jualin, Southeast Alaska

 

 

Early to mid-Paleozoic accretionary history of the Precordillera terrane, Argentina  and its possible transfer from the Laurentian margin to the Gondwana margin

 

 

 

Timing and tectonic setting of mid-Paleozoic magmatism and volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization in the Brooks Range, Alaska

 

 

 

 

Timing of and structural controls on gold mineralization in the Juneau gold belt

 

Kensington, Southeast Alaska

Bechtel Butte, northern Idaho

Post-accretionary translational history of crustal fragments along the western margin of the North American Cordillera

 

 

 

 

Evidence for Proterozoic contractional deformation and metamorphism along the western margin of the North American Cordillera

 

 

 

 

Graduate Students

Diar Ibrahim (Ph.D. - in progress)

William Ward (Ph.D. - in progress)

Jaclyn Ferraro (M.S., 2013)
Relationships Between Deformation and Meosthermal Veins in the Sunshine Mine Area, Coeur d'Alene District, Idaho

Shawn Malone (Ph.D., 2012)
Tectonic Evolution of Northern Ellesmere Island: Insights from the Pearya Terrane, Ellesmerian Clastic Wedge and Sverdrup Basin