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

C. Ver Straeten, C. Brett, G.C. Baird, P. Karabinos, S. Samson 2012, Silicic Appalachian magmatism during the Ordovician and Devonian: Perspectives from the Foreland Basin, and the Hinterland, New York State Geological Association, Annual Meeting Guidebook 84, 7-1.

2011

C. Ver Straeten, C. Brett, G.C. Baird, A. Bartholomew, M. DeSantis 2011, Sequence Stratigraphy and a Revised Sea-level Curve for the Middle Devonian of Eastern North America, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304, 21-53. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.009
C. Ver Straeten, C. Brett, B. Sageman 2011, Mudrock Sequence Stratigraphy: A Multi-proxy (Sedimentological, Paleobiological, Geochemical) Approach, Devonian Appalachian Basin, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304, 54-73. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.010

2009

C. Ver Straeten 2009, Devonian T-R cycle IB: the ’Lumping’ of Emsian Sea Level History, Palaeontographica Americana 63, 33-48.

2008

C. Ver Straeten 2008, Volcanic Tephra Bed Formation and Condensation Processes: A Review and Examination from Devonian Stratigraphic Sequences, Journal of Geology 116, 545-557.

2007

C. Ver Straeten 2007, Rock of Deep Ages, Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 3, 10-11.

2006

C. Ver Straeten, C. Brett 2006, Pragian to Eifelian Strata (Mid Lower to Lower Middle Devonian), Northern Appalachian Basin — A Stratigraphic Revision, Northeastern Geology and Environmental Science 28, 80-95.

2004

C. Ver Straeten 2004, K-bentonites, Volcanic Ash Preservation, and Implications for Lower to Middle Devonian Volcanism in the Acadian Orogen, Eastern North America, Geological Society of America Bulletin 116, 474-489. 10.1130/B25244.1
C. Ver Straeten 2004, Sprout Brook K-bentonites: New Interval of Devonian (Early Emsian?) K-bentonites in Eastern North America, Northeastern Geology and Environmental Science 26, 298-305.

2003

C. Ver Straeten, B. Sageman, A. Murphy, J. Werne, D. Hollander, T. Lyons 2003, A Tale of Shales: The Relative Roles of Production, Decomposition, and Dilution in the Accumulation of Organic-rich Strata, Middle-Upper Devonian, Appalachian Basin, Chemical Geology 195, 229-273.