Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Ronald Cole (chair) B.S., Allegheny College; M.S., Ph. D., University of Rochester
Todd Grote
Rachel O'Brien B.A., Colgate University, 1986; M.S., Washington State University, 1992; Ph.D., 2000
Robert Schwartz B.S., Allegheny College; M.S., Ph.D., Indiana University
Selected Publications and Achievements
- " Middle Tertiary volcanism during ridge-trench interactions in
western California" published in Science
- "Sedimentology of subaqueousvolcaniclastic sediment gravity flows
in the Neogene Santa Maria basin, California" published in Sedimentology
- "Kinematics of basin developmentduring the transition from terrane
accretion to strike-slip tectonics, Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary Cantwell
Formation, south central Alaska" published in Tectonics
- "Seasonal variability of adsorption and exchange equilibria in
soil waters" published in Aquatic Geochemistry
- "Multiple tracers of shallow ground-water flow and recharge in
hilly loess" published in Ground Water
- "A framework for integrating quantitative geologic problem solving
into courses across the undergraduate geology curriculum" published
in the Journal of Geoscience Education
- "Summary of depositional environments, paleogeography, and structural
control on sedimentation in a late Jurassic foreland basin, western Montana" published
in Mesozoic Systems of the Rocky Mountain Region, USA
- "Foreland basin evolution in response to interactive thrusting
and foreland partitioning" published in Geological Survey of America
Memoir
- "Sedimentology and morphodynamics of a barrier island shoreface
and implications to engineering practices" published in Marine Geology