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Dr. Charles Ver Straeten

Curator of Sedimentary Rocks

charles.verstraeten@nysed.gov

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

Ver Straeten, C.A., Over, D.J., Baird, G.C., 2020. Arc-to-craton: Devonian air-fall tephras in the eastern United States, in: Avary, K.L., Hassen, K.O., Diecchio, R.J. (Eds.), 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)

Stein, W.E., Berry, C.M., Morris, J.L., Hernick, L.VanAller, Mannolini, F., Ver Straeten, C.A., Landing, E., Marshall, J.E.A., Wellman, C.H., Beerling, D.J., Leake, J.R., 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

He, R., Lu, W., Junium, C.K., Ver Straeten, C.A., Lu, Z., 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

2019

Ver Straeten, C.A., Brett, C., Baird, G., Boyer, D., Lindemann, R., Ivany, L., D. Over, J., Witzke, B., 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

2018

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2018. Iron-rich Sedimentary Deposits of NewYork: An Overview, in: Pickands, M. (Ed.), Iron In New York. The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York, pp. 59-78.

Venti, N.L., Ver Straeten, C.A., Osgood, S.C., DiTroia, A.L., 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.

2017

Danielsen, E.M., Over, D.J., Baird, G.C., Ver Straeten, C.A., 2017. The Marcellus Subgroup in the Type Area, Central New York State . Stratigraphy 13, 155-162.

2016

Brocke, R., Fatka, O., Lindemann, R.H., Schindler, E., Ver Straeten, C.A., 2016. Palynology, dacryoconarids and the lower Eifelian (Middle Devonian) Basal Chotec Event: case studies from the Prague and Appalachian basins, in: Becker, R.T., Königshof, P., Brett, C. (Eds.), 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

2015

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2015. On a Winter's Night, All the Ice Came Down (1916). Friends of Thatcher State Park 19, 1.

Engel, T., Stander, E.J., Ver Straeten, C.A., 2015. Bedrock Geology of the Clarksville Quadrangle, Albany County, New York. Map & Chart Series 92.