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

2023

C. Ver Straeten, D. Over, D. Woodrow 2023, Devonian of New York, Volume 1: Introduction and Přídolí to lower Givetian (Upper Silurian to Middle Devonian) stages, Bulletins of American Paleontology Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, New York
C. Ver Straeten, D. Over, D. Woodrow 2023, Devonian of New York, Volume 3: Frasnian to Famennian (Upper Devonian) stages and the Devonian terrestrial system in New York, Bulletins of American Paleontology Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, New York
C. Ver Straeten, D. Over, D. Woodrow 2023, Devonian of New York, Volume 2: Lower to upper Givetian (Middle Devonian) stage, Bulletins of American Paleontology Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, New York

2020

C. Ver Straeten, Ruliang He, Wanyi Lu, Christopher Junium, Zunli Lu 2020, Paleo-redox context of the Mid-Devonian Appalachian Basin and its relevance to biocrises, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 287, 328-340. 10.1016/j.gca.2019.12.019
C. Ver Straeten, E. Landing, F. Mannolini, William Stein, Christopher Berry, Jennifer Morris, Linda Hernick, John Marshall, Charles Wellman, David Beerling, Jonathan Leake 2020, Mid-Devonian Archaeopteris Roots Signal Revolutionary Change in Earliest Fossil Forests, Current Biology 30, 421-431. 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.067

2019

C. Ver Straeten, Carlton Brett, Gordon Baird, Diana Boyer, Richard Lindemann, Linda Ivany, Jeffrey Over, Brian Witzke 2019, Shallow-water onlap model for the deposition of Devonian black shales in New York, USA: COMMENT, Geology 47, e495. 10.1130/G46928C.1

2017

C. Ver Straeten, G.C. Baird, D. Over, E. Danielsen 2017, The Marcellus Subgroup in the Type Area, Central New York State, Stratigraphy 13, 155-162.

2013

C. Ver Straeten, V. Tollerton, H. van Iten, DM Leme, M. Simos, S. Rodrigues 2013, Life Mode of In Situ Conularia in a Middle Devonian Epibole, Palaeontology 56, 29-48. 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01146.x
C. Ver Straeten 2013, Beneath It All: Bedrock Geology of the Catskill Mountains and Implications of its Weathering, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1298, 1-29. 10.1111/nyas.12221

2012

C. Ver Straeten, C. Brett, G.C. Baird, P. Karabinos, S. Samson 2012, Silicic Appalachian magmatism during the Ordovician and Devonian: Perspectives from the Foreland Basin, and the Hinterland, New York State Geological Association, Annual Meeting Guidebook 84, 7-1.