Schell Creek RangeI am working with Professor Phil Gans to unravel the structural evolution of the central Schell Creek Range in eastern Nevada. I spent three month mapping 35 square mile area along the eastern flank of the range in order to shed light on two main topics: 1) How do extensional accommodation zones work in the Basin and Range 2) What are the kinematics and geometries of pre-Miocene normal faults in the Basin and Range.
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Teaching AssistantEarth 185/285 Physical Volcanology Spring 2013: Helped students understand physical, textural, and chemical variation with a wide array of volcanic rocks in thin section and hand sample. Earth 114 Earth Materials Winter 2013: Helped teach lab section on identifying minerals and rocks in hand sample. Earth 177 Ore Deposits Fall 2012: Helped organize and teach lab exercises identifying and classifying different types of ore deposits. This class also included a 4 day field trip visiting different active and inactive mines in southern California. Earth 118 6 week Summer Field Camp (Northern Snake Range and Santa Cruz Island) Summer 2012: TA'ed six week summer field camp in Northern Snake Range (4 weeks) and Santa Cruz Island (2 weeks). Mapping projects covered a wide variety of rock type including marine and terrestrial sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks, and igneous rocks. Earth 104 B Field methods (Rainbow Basin and Owl Canyon, Barstow, CA Spring 2012: One week course mapping lacustrine, fluvial, and gravity derived sedimentary rocks and reworked volcanics that have had a complex history of normal faulting, strike slip faulting and folding. Earth 104 A Introduction to field methods Fall 2011: Helped sophomores, juniors, and seniors learn the basics of field geology including, measuring stratigraphic section, use of a Brunton compass, and the identification of rocks and structures in the field. Earth 118 Summer Field camp (Northern Snake Range) Summer 2011:TA'ed the last three weeks of summer field camp, which included 5 mapping projects ranging from Tertiary sediments and slide blocks to highly strained and metamorphosed quartzites, schists, marbles, and granites. |
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