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Dr. Charles Ver Straeten
Curator of Sedimentary Rocks
518-486-2004
My focus is on Devonian Period Sedimentation and Stratigraphy, including sea level history, mountain building and sedimentation, paleoecology, and Devonian volcanic ash layers. In addition, I also study the deposition and preservation of volcanic ash layers in shallow seas and lakes through time.
Publications
2020
Arc-to-craton: Devonian air-fall tephras in the eastern United States, in: , The Appalachian Geology Of John M. Dennison: Rocks, People, And A Few Good Restaurants Along The Way. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 35-54. doi:10.1130/2020.2545(03)
, 2020. Mid-Devonian Archaeopteris Roots Signal Revolutionary Change in Earliest Fossil Forests. Current Biology 30, 421-431.e2. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.067
, 2020. Paleo-redox context of the Mid-Devonian Appalachian Basin and its relevance to biocrises. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 287, 328-340. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2019.12.019
, 2020. 2019
Shallow-water onlap model for the deposition of Devonian black shales in New York, USA: COMMENT. Geology 47, e495. doi:10.1130/G46928C.1
, 2019. 2018
Iron-rich Sedimentary Deposits of NewYork: An Overview, in: , Iron In New York. The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York, pp. 59-78.
, 2018. Evaluation of John Boyd Thacher Park, Albany County, New York, For its Merit in Meeting National Criteria as a National Natural Landmark, Final Report. Submitted to the National Park Service. Massachusetts Geological Survey.
, 2018. 2017
The Marcellus Subgroup in the Type Area, Central New York State . Stratigraphy 13, 155-162.
, 2017. 2016
Palynology, dacryoconarids and the lower Eifelian (Middle Devonian) Basal Chotec Event: case studies from the Prague and Appalachian basins, in: , Devonian Climate, Sea Level And Evolutionary Events. Presented at the Feb-09-2016, The Geological Society of London, London, England, pp. 123-169. doi:10.1144/SP423.8
, 2016. 2015
On a Winter's Night, All the Ice Came Down (1916). Friends of Thatcher State Park 19, 1.
, 2015. Bedrock Geology of the Clarksville Quadrangle, Albany County, New York. Map & Chart Series 92.
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