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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

2011

Ver Straeten, C.A., Baird, G.C., Brett, C., Lash, G., Over, J., Karaca, C., Jordan, T., Blood, R., 2011. The Marcellus Subgroup in its Type Area, Finger Lakes Area of New York, and Beyond. Albany, New York.

2010

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2010. Lessons from the Foreland Basin: Northern Appalachian Basin Perspectives on the Acadian Orogeny, in: Tollo, R.P., Bartholomew, M.J., Hibbard, J.P., Karabinos, P.M. (Eds.), From Rodinia To Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record Of The Appalachian Region. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 251-282. doi:10.1130/2010.1206(12)

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2010. Bedrock Geology of the Westerlo Quadrangle, New York. Map & Chart Series.

2009

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2009. Devonian T-R cycle IB: the 'Lumping' of Emsian Sea Level History. Palaeontographica Americana 63, 33-48.

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2009. Berne Earthquakes. Friends of Thacher and Thompsons Lake State Parks Newsletter 1.

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2009. The Classic Devonian of the Catskill Front: A Foreland Basin Record of Acadian Orogenesis, 81st Annual Meeting Guidebook. Albany, New York.

Bartholomew, A.J., Schramm, T.J., Ver Straeten, C.A., Over, D.J., 2009. Refining the Timing of Faunal Turnover in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin: Paleoecological Analysis of the Earliest Hamilton Fauna and a Revision of the Base of the Givetian Stage in Eastern North America, New York State Geological Association, 81st Annual Meeting Guidebook. Albany, New York.

2008

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2008. Volcanic Tephra Bed Formation and Condensation Processes: A Review and Examination from Devonian Stratigraphic Sequences. Journal of Geology 116, 545-557.

2007

DeSantis, M.K., Brett, R.T., Ver Straeten, C.A., 2007. Persistent Depositional Sequences and Bioevents in the Eifelian (Early Middle Devonian) of Eastern Laurentia: North American Evidence of the Kacak Events?, in: Becker, R.T., Kirchgasser, W.T. (Eds.), Devonian Events And Correlations. Geological Society, London, London, England, pp. 83-104. doi:10.1144/SP278.4

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2007. Basinwide Stratigraphic Synthesis and Sequence Stratigraphy, Upper Pragian, Emsian and Eifelian Stages (Lower to Middle Devonian), Appalachian Basin, in: Becker, R.T., Kirchgasser, W.T. (Eds.), Devonian Events And Correlations. The Geological Society of London, pp. 39-81. doi:10.1144/SP278.4