Charles A.
Ver Straeten (Ph.D.,1996, University
of
Rochester)
(518)-486-2004 email
Adjunct Professor
Senior
Scientist,
New
York State Museum
Center for Stratigraphy and Paleontology
New York State Museum
Albany, NY 12230
Present Research Projects:
Basin-wide
synthesis of Pragian-Eifelian (upper Lower and lower Middle Devonian)
strata, Appalachian Basin (NY, NJ, PA, MD, VA, WV, OH).
Development
of Devonian terrestrial systems, Catskill Mountains, New York State.
Comparative
study of geologic and paleontologic events, Lower and Middle Devonian,
New
York-Appalachian Basin and Central European successions.
Integrated
geochemical (elemental/isotopic/coulometric), sedimentological, and
paleoecological analysis of ancient marine shales, Western New York;
study
examines sedimentary processes (e.g., sequence stratigraphic trends),
the
relationship of paleoenvironmental change and community-level faunal
turnover,
and carbon burial during late stages of a greenhouse episode.
Conodont biostratigraphy of poorly documented
intervals, Lower and Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin, New York.
Devonian
K-bentonites and Geochronology, eastern North America.
Description
and documentation of a tropical Middle Devonian brachiopod-dominated
fauna ("Variatrypa arctica fauna").
Graduate students supervised by Dr. Ver
Straeten at the University at Albany
Selected Publications:
Ver Straeten, C.A., 2001,
Event and sequence stratigraphy and a new
synthesis of the Lower to Middle Devonian, eastern Pennsylvania and
adjacent
areas: in Inners, J.D., and Fleeger,
G.M., eds., 66th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania
Geologists,
Delaware Water Gap, p. 35-53.
Ver Straeten, C.A., 2001. The Schoharie Formation in
eastern
Pennsylvania: in Inners, J.D., and
Fleeger, G.M., eds., 66th Annual Field Conference of
Pennsylvania
Geologists, Delaware Water Gap, p. 54-60.
Ver Straeten, C.A., and Brett,
C.E., 2000, Bulge Migration and
Pinnacle Reef Development, Devonian Appalachian Foreland Basin: J.
Geol., 108, p. 339-352.
Brett, C.E., Ver Straeten,
C.A., and Baird, G.C., 2000, Anatomy of a composite sequence boundary:
The
Silurian-Devonian contact in Western New York State: New York State
Geological
Association, 72nd Annual Meeting, Field Trip Guidebook.
Baird, G.C., Brett, C.E., and
Ver Straeten, C.A., 2000, Facies and fossils of the lower Hamilton
Group
(Middle Devonian) in the Livingston County-Onondaga County Region: New
York
State Geological Association, 72nd Annual Meeting, Field
Trip Guidebook.
Murphy, A.E., Sageman, B.B., Ver
Straeten, C.A., and Hollander, D.J., 2000, Organic carbon burial and
faunal
dynamics in the Appalachian basin during the Devonian
(Givetian-Famennian)
greenhouse: An integrated paleoecological/biogeochemical approach: in Huber, B.T., MacLeod, K.G., and Wing,
S.L., eds., Warm Climates in Earth
History, Cambridge University Press, New
York, p. 351-385.
Baird, G.C., Brett, C.E., and Ver
Straeten, C.A., 1999, The first great Devonian flooding episodes in
Western
New York: Reexamination of Union Springs, Oatka Creek, and Skaneateles
Formation successions (upper Eifelian to lower Givetian) in the
Buffalo-Seneca
Lake region: in Lash, G.G., ed., New
York State Geological Association, 71st Annual Meeting Guidebook, p.
A1-A44.
Tucker, R.D., Bradley, D.C., Ver Straeten, C.A.,
Harris, A.G., Ebert, J.R., and McCutcheon, S.R., 1998, New U-Pb ages
and the
duration and division of Devonian time: Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
158, p. 175-186.
Brett, C.E., and Ver
Straeten, C.A., eds., 1997, Devonian cyclicity and sequence
stratigraphy in
New York State: Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy (International
Union of
Geological Sciences Commission on Stratigraphy), Field Trip Guidebook
for
Meeting, Rochester, NY, July 20-29, 1997, 369 p.
Ver Straeten, C.A., and Brett,
C.A., 1995, Lower and Middle Devonian
foreland basin fill in the Catskill Front: Stratigraphic synthesis,
sequence
stratigraphy, and the Acadian Orogeny: in
Garver, J.I., and Smith J.A., eds., New York State Geological
Association, 67th
Annual Meeting Guidebook, p. 313-356.
Ver Straeten, C.A., 1994, Microstratigraphy and depositional
environments of a Middle Devonian foreland basin: Berne and Otsego
Members,
Mount Marion Formation, eastern New York State: in
Landing, E., ed., Studies in Stratigraphy and Paleontology in
Honor of Donald W. Fisher, New York State Museum Bulletin 481, p.
367-380.
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