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The Basin Analysis & Helium Thermochronology Lab at UConn focuses on reconstructing ancient phases of mountain building and erosion to understand how tectonics, erosion, and climate interact to influence Earth’s dynamic mountain belts. Dr. Julie Fosdick and her research group draw upon numerous methods – including field mapping and stratigraphy, low-temperature thermochronology, geochronology, sediment provenance analysis, thermal history modeling, and structural reconstructions – to study tectonics and sedimentation.
Ongoing projects include work in the southern Central Andes (Argentine Precordillera, Sierras Pampeanas, Paganzo Basin), the Patagonian and Fuegian Andes, the San Andreas Fault System and Basin and Range Province of the Western U.S., and the Acadian Basin of the northeast U.S.
BAHTL News
- OK… we did it! Follow our research updates on Twitter @UConnBAHTL
- We are excited to welcome new Research Faculty and Laboratory Technician, Dr. Megan Mueller, to the (U-Th)/He Thermochronology Lab!
- Welcome new graduate students, Julian Biddle and Tony Edgington!
- Dr. Fosdick was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant to launch a new research and education program on CAREER: Resolving the detrital thermal signatures of sediment recycling in the Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina. Stay tuned for project updates…
- Interested in acquiring new (U-Th)/He thermochronology data? Visit the website for our NSF-supported lab for information on schedule and rates.
Research highlights from the Fosdick Lab
- NEW Paper on the timing of Cenozoic Atlantic incursions and changing hinterland sediment sources during southern Patagonian orogenesis (Fosdick et al., 2020).
- Well done, Dr. Rebecca VanderLeest! Check out her new paper on a creative and integrative look at the ancestral Patagonian Andes volcanoes through the lens of ancient river cobbles: (VanderLeest et al., 2020)
- NEW paper on the erosional and tectonic evolution of the Oligocene – Miocene Patagonian Andes (Leonard et al., 2020).
- Check out our NEW paper on the thermochronometric signal of the Chile Ridge spreading center in Patagonia (Stevens Goddard and Fosdick, 2019)
- NEW paper on Sedimentary signals of recent faulting along an old strand of the San Andreas Fault, USA (Fosdick & Blisniuk, 2018)
- Visit our research page for additional information and project updates.
Contact Information
Dr. Julie Fosdick (she/her), Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences
Email: julie.fosdick@uconn.edu
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