UCSB Earth Science Stratigraphy

Department of Earth Science

University of California, Santa Barbara

Photo by Richard Lease

Rainbow rising above Neogene basin fill on the northeastern Tibetan
Plateau

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Stratigraphy

Stratigraphic studies at UCSB cover diverse areas. These include the stratigraphy of active margins and sedimentary basins, Proterozoic and early Paleozoic stratigraphy of southwestern North America, Neoproterozoic bio- and chemostratigraphy, and using vertebrate paleontology to refine the stratigraphy of the Andes.

Department Faculty Research

	Douglas Burbank	Alpine-Himalayan foreland basins; intramontane depositional systems; terrestrial climato- stratigraphy
	Cathy Busby	Sequence stratigraphy along active margins; nature of turbidite reservoirs
	Lorraine Lisiecki	Plio-Pleistocene climate, paleoceanography, and marine isotope stratigraphy
	Susannah Porter	Proterozoic and Cambrian Paleontology, Neoproterozoic stratigraphy
	André Wyss	Vertebrate paleontology and Andean stratigraphy