Dr. Andrew Kozlowski

Curator of Quaternary Landscape Materials
andrew.kozlowski@nysed.gov
518-486-2012

My research focuses on geologic mapping of sediments deposited and landforms created during the Pleistocene epoch (2.6 million - 11,700 years ago), the most recent time that episodes of global cooling, or ice ages, took place. Much of the world's temperate zones were alternately covered by glaciers during cool periods and uncovered during the warmer interglacial periods when the glaciers retreated.

I utilize field mapping, exploratory drilling and coring, geophysical methods and age dating (geochronology) to better understanding of three-dimensional geologic frameworks of glacial deposits and reconstruct former positions and locations of glaciers in New York State. It is my long term research goal to provide better understanding and resolution of glacial stratigraphy and glacial chronology in New York State and the Great Lakes Region.

My work directing the geologic mapping program in the State Museum and Quaternary research helps to address societal and land use issues for example geologic hazards such as landslides, water quality & resources, and aggregate resources, etc. most of which are the direct result of repeated glaciations.

My Research Project (new)

Publications

1996

Landing, E., 1996. Avalon-Insular Continent by the Latest Precambrian, in: Nance, R., Thompson, M. (Eds.), Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic. Geological Society of America, , pp. 27-64.
E. Landing, S. Westrop, L. Knox 1996, Conodonts, Stratigraphy, and Relative Sea-Level Changes of the Tribes Hill Formation (Lower Ordovician, East-Central New York), Journal of Paleontology 70, 656-680.
E. Landing, K. Bartowski 1996, Oldest Shelly Fossils from the Taconic Allochthon and Late Early Cambrian Sea-Levels in Eastern Laurentia, Journal of Paleontology 70, 741-761.
E. Landing 1996, Reconstructing the Avalon Continent: Marginal-to-Inner Platform Transition in the Cambrian of Avalonian New Brunswick, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33, 623-632. 10.1139/e96-089
E. Landing, A. Knoll, A. Kaufman, M. Semikhatov, J. Grotzinger, W. Adams 1996, Sizing up the Sub-Tommotian Unconformity in Siberia; Discussion and Reply, Geology 24, 860-862. 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0860:SUTSTU>2.3.CO;2
E. Landing, S. Westrop 1996, Upper Lower Cambrian Depositional Sequence in Avalonian New Brunswick, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33, 404-417. 10.1139/e96-030

1995

E. Landing, A . Y. Rozanov 1995, Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary Global Stratotype Ratified and a New Perspective of Cambrian Time: Comment and Reply, Geology 23, 285-286.
E. Landing, S. Westrop, J. Tremblay 1995, Declining Importance of Trilobites in Ordovician Nearshore Paleocommunities; Dilution or Displacement?, Palaios 10, 75-79.
Geyer, G., Heldmaier, W., Landing, E., 1995. Arthropod Traces in the Middle Cambrian of Morocco, in: Geyer, G., Landing, E. (Eds.), Morocco ’95-The Lower-Middle Cambrian Standard of Western Gondwana. Beringeria, , pp. 254.
Geyer, G., Landing, E., 1995. The Cambrian of the Moroccan Atlas Regions, in: Geyer, G., Landing, E. (Eds.), Morocco ’95-The Lower-Middle Cambrian Standard of Western Gondwana. Beringia, , pp. 7-46.