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Dr. Kari Bassett (Postdoc with Cathy)

 
 

University of Canterbury, Chistchurch, New Zealand

Sedimentology & Basin Analysis

B.A. (C'nell)
Ph.D. (Minnesota)

 

  Contact Details
Phone: (#64-3) 364-2987 ext 7732
Fax: +64 3 364 2769
E-mail: kari.bassett@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal Address: Department of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
  Home page: http://www.geol.canterbury.ac.nz/people/karibassett.html
   
 

General Research Interests

  Sedimentology and basin analysis in tectonically active margins, particularly convergent margins and terrane accretion. Research interests include petrographic and geochemical techniques for provenance analysis, the interaction of volcanic and sedimentary processes, structural control on basin geometry and facies distributions, and basin response to oblique plate convergence. Geoarcheology is a new interest and we have recently developed a new programme in that area. Current areas of research include: quartz provenance analysis using cathodoluminescence, terrane accretion and provenance analysis in Antarctica, volcanic sedimentation and basin analysis along the modern plate boundary in New Zealand. Geoarcheology is a developing program.

 

Selected Publications with Cathy Busby

 

Busby, C.J. and Bassett, K., 2006, Volcanic facies Architecture of an intra-arc strike-slip basin, Santa Rita Mountains, southern Arizona: Bulletin of Volcanology, 38 ms pp. pdf text

 

 

Bassett, K. and Busby, C., 2005, Tectonic setting of the Glance Conglomerate along the Sawmill Canyon fault zone, southern Arizona: A sequence analysis of an intra-arc strike-slip basin: in, T.H. Anderson, J.A. Nourse, J.W. McKee and M.B. Steiner, (eds), The Mojave-Sonora megashear hypothesis: Development, assessment, and alternatives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, p. 377-400. pdf text

 

  Busby, C.J., Bassett, K, Steiner, M.B. and Riggs, N.R., 2005, Climatic and tectonic controls on Jurassic intra-arc basins related to northward drift of North America, in, T.H. Anderson, J.A. Nourse, J.W. McKee and M.B. Steiner, (eds), The Mojave-Sonora megashear hypothesis: Development, assessment, and alternatives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, p. 359-376. pdf text
   

 

 
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