Brian Hampton Research




 – EARLY CENOZOIC PRE – RIFT BASIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S.

(1) Basin evolution and sediment dispersal during the late (Eocene) phase of the Laramide orogeny (southern New Mexico)

(2) Reconstructing the middle-late Eocene paleo-volcanic landscape just prior to onset of the Rio Grande rift (southern New …..Mexico)

 

 – LATE CRETACEOUS BASIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA

(1) Sedimentology, provenance, and sediment dispersal during the late stages of island-arc accretion (northern Talkeetna …..Mtns.)

(2) Provenance and sediment dispersal in the southernmost part of the Sevier foreland basin (southern and northeastern …..New Mexico)

 

 – PALEOZOIC – MESOZOIC PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND ACCRETIONARY HISTORY OF SOUTHERN  ….ALASKA

(1) Silurian-Permain stratigraphy, paleogeography, and tectonic history of the Farewell terrane (Alaska Range)

(2) Late Triassic stratigraphy, paleogeography, and tectonic history of the Chulitna terrane (Alaska Range)

(3) Late Jurassic- Cretaceous stratigraphic record of island-arc accretion (Alaska Range and northern Talkeetna Mtns.)

**See more on our Alaska research and fieldwork/labwork here:

Shedding light on the Farewell terrane, SW Alaska” – Research Media/International Innovations

 

 – LATE PALEOZOIC EXHUMATION AND SEDIMENT DISPERSAL IN THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S.

(1) Provenance and dispersal patterns during the Early Permian (Wolfcampian) phase of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains (New …..Mexico)

 

 – PRECAMBRIAN AND LATE PALEOZOIC BASIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE U.S. MIDCONTINENT

(1) Stratigraphic history and sediment dispersal during Mesoproterozoic evolution of the Midcontinent rift (northern …..Michigan)

(2) Provenance and sediment dispersal during the Miss-Penn development of the Michigan basin (southern Michigan)

 

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