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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

2001

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.

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.

Cadwell, D.H., Kelly, W.M., Ver Straeten, C.A., 2000. Down Below and Long Ago: Geology of Secret Caverns and Fossil Collecting, Schoharie County, New York. Albany, New York.

Brett, C., Ver Straeten, C.A., Baird, G.C., 2000. Anatomy of a Composite Sequence Boundary: The Silurian-Devonian Contact in Western New York State.

Baird, G.C., Brett, C., Ver Straeten, C.A., 2000. Facies and Fossils of the Lower Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in the Livingston County-Onondaga County Region.