Dr. Andrew Clift

Curator of Bedrock Core
518-473-4153

My research background is in structural geology and stratigraphy, with a focus on subsurface geologic mapping and modeling. I use a variety of geologic data types and methods to understand how Earth's layers and features have formed, shifted, and interacted over time. My research incorporates geologic and structural mapping, core studies, laboratory analyses, sequence stratigraphy, geophysics, and advanced computer modeling to create accurate representations of New York’s geology. This research is important for improving our understanding of New York’s geologic history and natural resources, and for supporting applied geosciences.

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.