Orogenic Systems

We have undertaken to strengthen our existing expertise in the the broad area which we call the "Evolution of Orogenic Systems". This area includes many "traditional subdisciplines" in the Geosciences related to deciphering the physical and chemical processes that have controlled the tectonic processes and internal structure of the earth. We have resolved to expand our historical strengths in regional tectonics, seismology, lithospheric processes, applied geophysics, satellite geodesy, igneous petrology, structural geology, petroleum exploration, and sequence stratigraphy into emerging new areas of study to create the environment needed to adequately study the inherrently multidisciplinary problems of orogenic processes.

Our existing faculty and their primary tools in this broad area include:

Thomas J. Owens: Seismology and Lithospheric Processes

Pradeep Talwani: Seismotechtonics, Paleoseismology, and Resevoir Induced Seismicity

James Kellogg: Global positioning and Andean Geophysics

Christopher Kendall: Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Evolution

Matt Kohn: Metamorphic Petrology and Stable Isotope Geochemistry

James Knapp: Seismology, Tectonics, and Lithospheric Processes

Gene Yogodzinski: Igneous Petrology, Geochemistry, and Volcanology

Donald Secor: Structural Geology

Ian Lerche: Basin Analysis