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UTIG Research Projects

GBDS - Gulf of Mexico Basin Depositional Synthesis Active

CBTH - Caribbean Basins, Tectonics and Hydrocarbons Active

NicStrat: Effects of Eustatic and Tectonic Forcing on the Development of Forearc Basin Sequence Stratigraphy Active

Imaging and Modeling Impact Generated Deformation at the Chicxulub Crater Active

Crust Mantle Interactions During Continental Growth and High Pressure Rock Exhumation at an Oblique Arc Continent Collision Zone: SE Caribbean Margin Active

Regional Characterization of the Latest Pleistocene and Holocene Stratigraphy, Structure and Depositional Processes of Offshore Eastern Trinidad and Venezuela Active

Chicxulub KT Impact Crater, Yucatan, Gulf of Mexico - 2003

Tectonic Origin and History of the Chortis Block: Integration of Onshore Geological and Offshore Well and Seismic Data from Eastern Honduras

Accretionary Prism Plumbing in 3D: Fluid Pathways and Fluid-Structure Interaction Using the Costa Rica 3D Seismic Volume

Barbados Ridge Accretionary Prism, Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 156

Collaborative Research: A GPS Study of Caribbean Plate Kinematics and Distributed Deformation Between the Caribbean and North American Plates

Collaborative Research: What is Subducted Along the Southern Middle American Trench?

Investigation of Upper Plate Response to Subducting Plate Morphology and Seamounts as Subduction Zone Asperities: Cooperative German, Costa Rican and United States Project (TICOSECT)

Paleo-seismic Investigation of the North American-Caribbean Strike-Slip Plate Boundary, Dominican Republic

Post Mid-Cretaceous Sequence Stratigraphy, Depositional Systems, Sediment Transport Axes, and Depositional History, Gulf of Mexico Basin

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico: An Integrated Seismic, Well Log and Biostratigraphic Approach

Structure of the Nicaragua/Costa Rica subduction zone: A framework for the Subduction Factory and Seismogenic Zone Initiatives

Structure, Tectonics, and Sediment Flow into the Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone

Three-Dimensional Seismic Reflection Investigation of Fluid Flow and Structural Evolution:Northern Barbados Ridge

Time-Transgressive Deformational Effects of Oblique Underthrusting of Aseismic Ridges on the Puerto Rico Trench and Island Margin: Sidescan, Seismic Reflection, Gravity and Magnetic Studies


UTIG researchers

Researcher

Subject

Nathan Bangs

Costa Rica
Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone

Gail Christeson

Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone
Chicxulub KT Impact Crater
SE Caribbean Margin

Alejandro Escalona

Trinidad
SE Caribbean Margin

Craig Fulthorpe

Costa Rica

William Galloway

Gulf of Mexico

Sean Gulick

Chicxulub KT Impact Crater

Paul Mann

Caribbean Plate Kinematics (GPS)
Trinidad
Dominican Republic
Honduras
Puerto Rico
SE Caribbean Margin

Kirk McIntosh

Costa Rica

Yosio Nakamura

Costa Rica
Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone

Tom Shipley

Barbados Ridge Accretionary Prism
Costa Rica
Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone

Paul Stoffa

Costa Rica

 

Students working with UTIG research people/staff

Student

Thesis Subject

Emilio Garciacaro

Stratigraphic Architecture and Basin Fill Evolution of a Plate Margin Basin, Eastern Offshore Trinidad and Venezuela

Martin Hanzlik

Interpretation of high resolution seismic profiles from coastal areas of Puerto Rico

David Soto

Structure and sedimentation of eastern offshore Trinidad integrating 3D MCS seismic data, high resolution seismic data, and bottom cores

 

Department of Geological Sciences researchers

Researcher

Subject

Wulf Gose

Paleomagnetism of the Caribbean and Central and South America

Randall Marrett

Structural geology of Mexico and South America

Fred McDowell

Radiometric dating of Mexico


 

Bureau of Economic Geology researchers

Researcher

Subject

Edgar Guevara

Venezuela

Lesli Wood

Trinidad

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