I use thermochronology, geochronology, and geologic observations to address problems in continental tectonics and mantle dynamics, with particular focus on understanding the coupling of deeper Earth ...

The book is a masterpiece of presentation...an amazing work that provides a new standard for both geochronology, and for committee-driven scientific project reports." The Leading Edge, John Stockwell ...

This advanced undergraduate textbook provides a thoroughly modern overview of plate tectonics and is the perfect resource for a capstone geology course. It presents plate tectonics as a multifaceted, ...

I employ a multi-disciplinary approach to research that draws upon a variety of analytical techniques applicable to tectonic studies, including: detailed field-based mapping, structural and petrologic ...

The End Triassic Extinction, one of Earth’s most significant mass extinctions, reshaped life on the planet 201.6 million ...

Office: McGlothlin-Street Hall 226 Email: [[rxlock]] Office Phone: 757 221 2878 Research Areas: Paleontology, Paleobiology, Cenozoic Global Climate Change, Evolution/Ecology of Fossil Marine ...

A new study reconstructs how an ancient North American rift system was uplifted in space and time due to subsequent continent-continent collision.

"Thick, pulsing flows of glowing magma gushed out from numerous broad, flat volcanoes," said geologist Paul Renne of the Berkeley Geochronology Center. "Hundreds of cubic miles spread across ...