My research is directed towards understanding physical processes in orogenic systems. I am particularly interested in structural aspects of these systems and interrelationships between deformation, magmatism, metamorphism, and mountain building. A significant number of geologic processes that affect humankind such as explosive volcanism, faulting, mass wasting, and mineralization occur in convergent tectonic margins, and ironically a disproportionate amount of our population lives in these potentially hazardous settings. Investigating ancient orogens in which sections of the crust have been exhumed provides essential constraints to our understanding of these processes and their interrelationships at various crustal levels.

I take an interdisciplinary approach to research, and in addition to field mapping my research incorporates techniques that include strain analysis, Ar/Ar and fission track methods, statistical analysis, XRF, INAA and electron microprobe methods, fluid inclusion techniques, petrogenetic modeling, quantitative thermobarometry, and stable isotope methods.

SOME OF MY ONGOING PROJECTS:

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