Research in Geology

The Geology faculty include both structural and sedimentary geologists whose research tends to be issue- and process-oriented and interdisciplinary, with a strong field component. Active areas of research include the processes of fault growth with an emphesis on normal faulting, the character and origins of sedimentary layering patterns, Neoproterozoic Earth history, and orbital forcing of the Earth's climate and its consequences in the geological record. The faculty has developed strong collaborations with Columbia University geophysicists, tectonophysicists, isotope geochemists, climatologists and American Museum of Natural History paleontologists.