Quaternary stratigraphy of the Lower Mississippi Valley
I begin investigating the Quaternary geology of the Lower Mississippi
Valley while working for the Louisiana
Geological Survey and conducting my graduate research in geology at Louisiana State University.
My research in this region deals mostly with century to millennia scale landscape
evolution. My primary interests include
- Pleistocene stratigraphy of Louisiana
- Holocene evolution of the Mississippi River flood plain
- Neotectonics of the New Madrid Seismic Zone
- Landscape evolution of the Five Islands salt domes
Geomorphology and stratigraphy of western New York
The photograph below shows how we conduct field work on stratified sands formed in a lacustrine delta.
- Surficial geologic mapping
- Paleohydrology of glaciofluvial channels
- Water level evolution of the western Lake Ontario Basin