Bio
Research
Most of my research centers around the application of structural geology, metamorphic petrology, thermochronology, and detrital zircon dating to understanding the Mesozoic through Cenozoic tectonic evolution of western North America, with particular emphasis on southern California, southwestern Arizona, and northwestern Sonora Mexico. Much of this work involves the Pelona, Orocopia, and Rand schists, which are high-pressure/low-temperature oceanic assemblages thrust beneath North American continental basement during low-angle subduction related to the Laramide orogeny.