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

2011

C. Ver Straeten, C. Brett, B. Sageman 2011, Mudrock Sequence Stratigraphy: A Multi-proxy (Sedimentological, Paleobiological, Geochemical) Approach, Devonian Appalachian Basin, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304, 54-73. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.010
C. Ver Straeten, C. Brett, G.C. Baird, A. Bartholomew, M. DeSantis 2011, Sequence Stratigraphy and a Revised Sea-level Curve for the Middle Devonian of Eastern North America, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304, 21-53. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.009

2009

C. Ver Straeten 2009, Devonian T-R cycle IB: the ’Lumping’ of Emsian Sea Level History, Palaeontographica Americana 63, 33-48.

2008

C. Ver Straeten 2008, Volcanic Tephra Bed Formation and Condensation Processes: A Review and Examination from Devonian Stratigraphic Sequences, Journal of Geology 116, 545-557.

2007

C. Ver Straeten 2007, Rock of Deep Ages, Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 3, 10-11.

2006

C. Ver Straeten, C. Brett 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.

2004

C. Ver Straeten 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. 10.1130/B25244.1
C. Ver Straeten 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.

2003

C. Ver Straeten, B. Sageman, A. Murphy, J. Werne, D. Hollander, T. Lyons 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.

2000

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