Stephen Marshak
Stephen Marshak (born March 4, 1955 in Rochester , New York ) is an American geologist ( structural geology , tectonics ).
Stephen Marshak is the son of the physicist Robert Marshak . He studied geology at Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1976 and at the University of Arizona at Tucson with a master's degree in 1979. He then moved to Columbia University , where he received his doctorate in 1983, and was then at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor. From 1999 he headed the geology faculty. He was visiting scholar at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory , the University of Ouro Preto in Brazil , the University of Adelaide and the University of Leicester .
He was particularly concerned with the tectonics of fold and thrust belts, which he investigated in the field ( Appalachians , Rocky Mountains , Australia ) and also experimentally with sand and clay models. More recently, he has dealt with the tectonics of cratons , i.e. old continental masses, including old fault zones that are usually no longer noticeable geomorphologically on the surface as evidence of the distant geological history of these cratons, which are still partly characterized by seismic activity (such as the New Madrid Seismic Zone, where the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 took place). He also examined highly metamorphic Precambrian rock formations in Brazil and their tectonic history, particularly in the San Francisco Craton.
Marshak was the co-editor of Geology and is the author of several textbooks on geology and tectonics.
Fonts
- with Gautum Mitra: Basic Methods of Structural Geology, Pearson 1988
- with Ben van der Pluijm: Earth Structure: An Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics, McGraw Hill 1997, 2nd edition WW Norton 2004
- Earth, Portrait of a Planet, WW Norton, 5th edition 2015
- with Alan Ludman: Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology, WW Norton, 3rd edition 2015
- Essentials of Geology, WW Norton, 4th edition 2012
literature
- Alexander E. Gates: Earth Scientists from A to Z, Facts on File, 2003
Web links
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| SURNAME | Marshak, Stephen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4th 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rochester , New York |