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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

2006

Ver Straeten, C.A., Brett, C., 2006. Pragian to Eifelian Strata (Mid Lower to Lower Middle Devonian), Northern Appalachian Basin -- A Stratigraphic Revision. Northeastern Geology and Environmental Science 28, 80-95.

2005

Ver Straeten, C.A., Ebert, J.R., Bartholomew, L.J., Benedict, L.J., Matterson, D.K., Shaw, G.H., 2005. Devonian Stratigraphy and K-bentonites in the Cherry Valley-Schoharie Valley Region, Fieldtrip Guidebook.

2004

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2004. K-bentonites, Volcanic Ash Preservation, and Implications for Lower to Middle Devonian Volcanism in the Acadian Orogen, Eastern North America. Geological Society of America Bulletin 116, 474-489. doi:10.1130/B25244.1

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2004. Sprout Brook K-bentonites: New Interval of Devonian (Early Emsian?) K-bentonites in Eastern North America. Northeastern Geology and Environmental Science 26, 298-305.

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2004. Volcanism in Eastern North America: A "Deep Time" Perspective. Members Update 15, 7-8.

2003

Sageman, B.B., Murphy, A.E., Werne, J.P., Ver Straeten, C.A., Hollander, D.J., Lyons, T.W., 2003. A Tale of Shales: The Relative Roles of Production, Decomposition, and Dilution in the Accumulation of Organic-rich Strata, Middle-Upper Devonian, Appalachian Basin. Chemical Geology 195, 229-273.

2001

Inners, J.D., Ver Straeten, C.A., 2001. Riccobono's 'Quarry in the Schoharie': Stratigraphy, Operations and Mass Movement, Delaware Water Gap.

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2001. Event and Sequence Stratigraphy and a New Synthesis of the Lower to Middle Devonian, Eastern Pennsylvania and Adjacent Areas, Delaware Water Gap.

Ver Straeten, C.A., Monteverde, D.H., Inners, J.D., 2001. Stop 8. Fairway and U.S. 209 Shale Pit: Upper Onondaga Limestone, Union Springs Formation, and Basal Union Springs Decollement, Delaware Water Gap.

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2001. The Schoharie Formation in Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware Water Gap.