Associate Research Geologist
home office phone: (573)-447-0642
email:chris@crustal.ucsb.edu
home mailing: 1104 Maplewood Drive
Columbia, MO, 65203
3-D Map restoration using unfolding of depth-contoured horizons.
Modeling of relations between folding and faulting in southern California.
Development of tectonic models for California.
Seismic processing and interpretation, California Borderland (offshore) and Ross Sea (Antarctica).
View to east of faults deforming a stratigraphic horizon
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Field measurements of fault slip
3D visualization of structure using industry software.
Coring for paleo-climate.
Professional Activities:
Registered Geologist #5205, State of California.
Oblique view of late Quaternary horizons, Santa
Barbara basin.
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Institute for Crustal Studies, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Graduate Research Assistant, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, January 1988-1992
Geophysicist (summer), Mobil Oil Corporation, Bakersfield,
June-September 1989
Extension fractures, foliation, and right-lateral fault.
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February 1982 - July 1984
Cruise Participation:
Melville, August 2005, Santa Barbara basin
N. B. Palmer, Ross Sea, Antarctica; January-February 1996, also June-July 1995, New Zealand
S. P. Lee, U.S. Geological Survey, Offshore California; May, 1990
View to west of the Santa Cruz Island fault.
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Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, June 1994
M.S. Geophysical Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988
D.E.A. Structural Geology Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, (Paris VI), France, 1985
B.A. Geology University of Rhode Island, with distinction, 1981.
Fault-cored fold in Monterey Formation.
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