Sedimentary Geology and Stratigraphy at FSU
RESEARCH AREAS
Students may concentrate in several specialties under the broad framework of sedimentary geology, and may work on either modern or
ancient sedimentary deposits, or both. Current research at FSU covers a broad range of topics, including: sediment transport, coastal
evolution; modern and ancient depositional environments; tectonic controls on sedimentologic processes in convergent and collisional margins;
lithofacies and provenance of synorogenic deposits; marine micropaleontology; shipboard participation on Ocean Drilling Program cruises to
the Southern and Pacific oceans; and structural and isotope geology applied to sedimentary deposits.
FACILITIES
The department houses or has available various kinds of equipment, from a sea-going research vessel, a marine seismic profiling
system, mass spectrometers, alpha and gamma spectrometers, Coulter counter, magnetic separator, computerized image-capture system,
automated settling tube, SEM, and TEM.
FACULTY
Anthony J. Arnold
Micropaleontology, macropaleontology, stratigraphy.
Joseph F. Donoghue
Geology of coastal environments and continental margins; causes and
effects of sea-level change; Quaternary geology and geochronology;
environmental geology; contaminants in sediments.
Neil Lundberg
Convergent margin tectonics and sedimentation; synorogenic sedimentation at collision zones;
petrology of clastic deposits in tectonically active settings; and deformational fabrics at active margins.
William C. Parker
Carbonate sediments, their depositional environments, and their evolution.
James F. Tull
Thrust belt evolution, successor basin formation and genesis, Appalachian and Caledonian mountain systems.
Sherwood W. Wise
Micropaleontology, stratigraphy, continental margin and deep-sea marine geology.
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