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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

2004

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

Ver Straeten, C.A., Inners, J.D., Epstein, J.B., 2001. Stop 7. East Stroudsburg Railroad Cut: Schoharie Formation and Onondaga Limestone - Stratigraphy and Structure, Delaware Water Gap.

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.

2000

Murphy, A.E., Sageman, B.B., Ver Straeten, C.A., Hollander, D.J., 2000. Organic Carbon Burial and Faunal Dynamics in the Appalachian Basin during the Devonian (Givetian-Famennian) Greenhouse: An Integrated Paleoecological/Biogeochemical Approach, in: Huber, B.T., MacLeod, K.G., Wing, S.L. (Eds.), Warm Climates In Earth History. Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, pp. 351-385.

Ver Straeten, C.A., Brett, C., 2000. Bulge Migration and Pinnacle Reef Development, Devonian Appalachian Basin. Journal of Geology 108, 339-352.