Dr. Charles Ver Straeten

Curator of Sedimentary Rocks
charles.verstraeten@nysed.gov
518-486-2004

My focus is on Devonian Period Sedimentation and Stratigraphy, including sea level history, mountain building and sedimentation, paleoecology, and Devonian volcanic ash layers. In addition, I also study the deposition and preservation of volcanic ash layers in shallow seas and lakes through time.

Publications

2012

Landing, E., 2012. Extended Abstract—The Great American Carbonate Bank in Eastern Laurentia: Its Births, Deaths, and Linkage to Paleooceanic Oxygenation (Early Cambrian), in: Derby, J., Fritz, R., Longacre, S., Morgan, W., Sternbach, C. (Eds.), The Great American Carbonate Bank: The Geology and Economic Resources of the Cambrian. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, pp. 253a-260a.
Landing, E., 2012. The Great American Carbonate Bank in Eastern Laurentia: Its Births, Deaths, and Linkage to Paleooceanic Oxygenation (Early Cambrian, in: Derby, J., Fritz, R., Longacre, S., Morgan, W., Sternbach, C. (Eds.), The Great American Carbonate Bank: The Geology and Economic Resources of the Cambrian. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, pp. 451-492.
E. Landing, B. Kroger 2012, Cephalopod Ancestry and Ecology of the Hyolith ’Allatheca’ degeeri s.l. in the Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 353-355, 21-30. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.023
E. Landing 2012, Correction: Proposal of the Four Global Series of the Cambrian, Bulletin of Geosciences 87, 625-627. 10.3140/bull.geosci.1332
E. Landing, S. Bowser, S. Reyes, A. Andreas 2012, First Discovery of Early Palaeozoic Bathysiphon (Foraminifera) - Test Structure and Habitat of a ’Living Fossil’, Geological Magazine 149, 1013-1022. 10.1017/S0016756812000155
E. Landing 2012, Time-specific Black Mudstones and Global Hyperwarming on the Cambrian-Ordovician Slope and Shelf of the Laurentia Palaeocontinent, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 367-368, 256-272. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.09.005
E. Landing, S. Westrop, B. Kroger, J. Adrian 2012, Tribes Hill-Rochdale Formations in East Laurentia: Proxies for Early Ordovician (Tremadocian) Eustasy on a Tropical Passive Margin (New York and West Vermont), Geological Magazine 149, 93-123. 10.1017/S0016756811000598

2011

E. Landing, M. Moczydlowska, W. Zang, T. Palacio 2011, Proterozoic Phytoplankton and Timing of Chlorophyte Algae Origins, Palaeontology 54, 721-733. 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01054.x
E. Landing, J. Keppie, M. Streng, B. Melbin 2011, Linguliform Brachiopods from the Terminal Cambrian and Lowest Ordovician of the Oaxaquia Microcontinent (Southern Mexico), Journal of Paleontology 85, 122-155. 10.1666/10-074.1
E. Landing, S. Westrop, J. Adrain 2011, The Cambrian (Sunwaptan, Furongian) Agnostoid Arthropod Lotagnostus Whitehouse, 1936, in Laurentian and Avalonian North America: Systematics and Biostratigraphic Significance, Bulletin of Geosciences 86, 569-594.