Basin Analysis Group Research


Kevin Eastham and Mark Lesh getting ready for a day of measuring section in the Kahiltna Assemblage, above the Ruth Glacier, Alaska Range.	Reorganizing gear at Bradley staging area. Thank God for these folks!	Base camp in Broad Pass, south central Alaska

Brian Hampton mapping in central Alaska	Which way to the ridge top? Talkeetna Mountains	We have company!!

Active Research Projects

Tectonic Development of the Alaska Range Suture Zone

Hydrostratigraphy of Cenozoic Sedimentary Basins, Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Sedimentary Configuration of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Foreland Basin of Taiwan

Sedimentary Basin Development in Extensional Settings

Stratigraphic, Structural, and Basin Modeling of Kuskokwim Group, Southwestern Alaska

Stratigraphy, Provenance, and Tectonic Setting of Mesozoic Strata in the Northwestern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska

Growth of an Accretionary Prism Associated with Arc-Continent Collision in the Hengchun Peninsula, Southern Taiwan

Cretaceous-Early Eocene Development of Yukon Flats Basin, North-Central Alaska

Strike-Slip Basins Along 1999 Earthquake Rupture, Anatolian Fault, Turkey

Stratigraphy and Geologic Mapping of Upper Oligocene and Lower Miocene Strata in the Funeral Mountains, California

Inactive Research Projects

Sedimentary Basin Development in Intraplate Settings, Colorado

Forearc Basin Evolution Along Accretionary Convergent Margins, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska

Cenozoic Paleoclimates in High-Latitude Terrestrial Environments

Analysis of Collisional Basins, Nutzotin and Mentastna Mountains, Alaska

Structural and Sedimentological Development of Footwall Growth Synclines, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming

Science Education

Recent Publications of the Basin Analysis Group

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