Paleontology
and Magnetostratigraphy of
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Much of my current
research focuses on studying early Cenozoic sedimentary and paleontological
records in order to understand how climate change has influenced mammalian
evolution. This work can be broken down into three main topics: 1) studying
mammalian and sedimentological turnover across the
Paleocene-Eocene boundary and other early Paleogene
warm intervals, 2) calibrating the timing of the Paleogene
part of the North American Land Mammal Age (NALMA) framework and correlating
mammal faunas from other continents (Africa, Asia, South America) to this
framework using magnetostratigraphy, and 3) investigating the key variables that
control paleosol development. To the left is a picture
of early Eocene paleosols in the Wasatch Formation
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