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Faculty
Other active faculty
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Extinction Events and
Community Change
- Fieldwork in the Great Basin, Mid-Continent, and the
Caribbean
- Quantitative analyses of fossil communities
- Geoinformatics and online databases (http://nmita.geology.uiowa.edu)
- Extinction and the closure of the Central American
Isthmus
- Taxic diversity patterns and Paleozoic global change
- Vertebrate paleontologic and paleobotanical applications
of paleoecology
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Systematics and Phylogeny
Reconstruction
- Morphometrics and the species problem
- Cladistic theory and applications
- Classification and the origin of higher taxa
- Fossils and molecules
- Paleobiology of problematic fossils
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- Fieldwork in Midcontinent and eastern North America
- Petrographic analyses of siliciclastic and carbonate
rocks
- Construction and application of depositional models
- Correlations using litho-, bio-, and chemostratigraphy
- Computer applications in basin modeling
- Sedimentary geochemistry
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Sequence Stratigraphy
and Large-scale Correlations
- Recognition of genetic stratigraphic sequences
- Relation of cyclostems to paleoclimates and tectonics
- Stable isotope excursions and their correlations with
biotic events
- Evaluation of global stratigraphic boundaries
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