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Research

The research areas of our faculty members, as well as their current and recent research projects, are listed below.

• Matthew Becker, Conrey Endowed Chair, Hydrogeology
• Richard J. Behl, Sedimentology/Stratigraphy, Paleoceanography, Earth Systems Science
  • Paleoceanography of the California Margin
  • Sedimentology and Diagenesis of the Miocene Monterey Formation of Coastal California
  • Stratigraphy of the Eocene-Miocene Sespe Formation in the Santa Ana Mountains
  • Methane Hydrates and Climate Change: The Clathrate Gun Hypothesis
  • Student Publications
• Stanley C. Finney, Paleontology, Stratigraphy, Geochronology, Tectonics
  • Argentina
  • Late Ordovician mass extinction
  • The Roberts Mountains allochthon
  • Graptolites
  • Chronostratigraphy
• Robert D. Francis, Basin and Range Detachment Faults, Marine Seismic Studies (Palos Verdes Fault System)
• Ben Hagedorn, Environmental Forensics, Water Resources, Global Biochemical Cycles
• Groundwater Recharge and Interbasin Flow in Nevada
• The Hydrology of Ocean Islands
• Solute Sources and Weathering Rates in the Central Rocky Mountains
• Gregory Holk, Geochemistry, Isotope Geology, Metamorphic Core Complexes
• Thomas Kelty, Structural Geology
• Nate Onderdonk, Tectonics, Geomorphology
  • Neotectonics of the northern San Jacinto Fault Zone
  • Rotation of crustal blocks in Southern California and implications for crustal dynamics
  • Tectonic evolution of the Santa Maria Basin, southern California
  • Mud Volcanoes in the Salton Trough
• Lora Stevens (Landon), Paleoclimatology, Paleolimnology, Isotope Geochemistry
  • Hydrologic variation in Iran
  • Monsoon history of Vietnam
  • Biomarkers of Ancient Population Changes

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