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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
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.
, 2006. 2005
Devonian Stratigraphy and K-bentonites in the Cherry Valley-Schoharie Valley Region, Fieldtrip Guidebook.
, 2005. 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
, 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.
, 2004. Volcanism in Eastern North America: A "Deep Time" Perspective. Members Update 15, 7-8.
, 2004. 2003
2001
Riccobono's 'Quarry in the Schoharie': Stratigraphy, Operations and Mass Movement, Delaware Water Gap.
, 2001. The Schoharie Formation in Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware Water Gap.
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