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Dr. Michael (Mike) C. Pope
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Associate Professor |
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Campus Address: |
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences |
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Office: |
1155 Webster Hall | |
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509-335-5989 | |
E-mail: |
mcpope@wsu.edu | |
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Research interests:
My research interests focus on four main topics:
- Integrating litho-, chemo- and chronostratigraphy in a regional sequence stratigraphic framework to understand high-frequency and long-term climatic and oceanic processes affect development of sedimentary successions; towards this end I am currently most interested in the transitions that occur between global icehouse and greenhouse conditions.
- How the reactivation of basement structures act to control sedimentation patterns in basins; are basement structures consistently reactivated during compression and extension events? And if so, what are their signatures?
- Determining the structural deformation (twinning, cataclasis, brecciation, etc.) produced in carbonates by meteorite impacts as a means to establish objective criteria for cratering – similar to shocked quartz.
- Using detrital zircon geochronology coupled with high-resolution sequence stratigraphy to determine changes in provenance caused by changes in base level.
Courses:
- GEOL 210 Earth History and Evolution
- GEOL 221 FieldTrip
- GEOL 308 Field Camp
- GEOL 421 Stratigraphy
- GEOL 525 Carbonate Depositional Systems
- GEOL 523 Seismic and Sequence Stratigraphy
Graduate Student:
- Sarah Huson (Ph.D.)
- Pat Cabbage (Ms)
- Eric Baar (Ms)
Graduate Student (past):
- Bonny Archuleta (Ms)
- Liselle Batt (Ph.D.)
- Jason Burt (Ms)
- Kelly Dilliard (Ph.D)
- George Grader (Ph.D.)
- Jessica Steffan (now Mitchell) (Ms)
Selected Publications:
- Archuleta, B. H., Pope, M.C., Isaacson, P.E., Tremblay, M.L., and Webster, G.D., 2006, Pennsylvanian Cyclothems in East-Central Idaho: A Record of Sea Level Fluctuations on the Western Margin of Laurentia: Mountain Geologist, v. 43, p. 93-114.
- Weber, J.C., Poulos, C., Donelick, R.A., Pope, M.C., and Heller, N., 2005, The Kentland Impact Crater, Indiana (USA): An Apatite Fission-Track Age Determination Attempt: in Impact Tectonism, Koeberl, C., Ed.; Springer Verlag's Impact Series, p. 447-466.
- Randell, R.D., Lieberman, B.S., Hasiotis, S.T., and Pope, M.C., 2005, New Chancellorids from the Early Cambrian Sekwi Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada: Evidence for a Cnidarian relationship for the Chancelloriidae: Journal of Paleontology, v. 79, p. 987-996.
- Burt, J.B., Pope, M.C., and Watkinson, A.J., 2005, Petrographic, X-ray Diffraction, and Electron Spin Resonance Analysis of Deformed Calcite in the Kaibab Limestone, Meteor Crater, Arizona: Meteoritics and Planetary Science, v. 40, p. 297-306.
- Pope, M.C., 2004, Upper Ordovician Montoya Group Outcrops in the Cooks Range, New Mexico and the southern Franklin Mountains, Texas: Permian Basin Society-SEPM Fieldtrip to accompany 2004 Southwest Section A.A.P.G. Meeting in El Paso, TX; 25 p.
- Pope, M.C., 2004, Cherty carbonate facies of the Montoya Group, southern New Mexico and western Texas and its regional correlatives: A record of Late Ordovician Paleoceanography on southern Laurentia: Palaeoclimatology, Palaeogeography, and Palaeoecology, v. 210, p. 367-384.
- Pope, M.C., 2004, Upper Ordovician and Lower Silurian Miogeosynclinal Rocks: in G. Mack and K. Giles, eds. The Geology of New Mexico, A geologic history, New Mexico Geological Society Special Publication 11, Socorro, New Mexico, p. 45-58.
- Pope, M.C., and Steffen, J. B., 2003, Widespread, prolonged Late Middle to Late Ordovician upwelling in North America: A proxy record of glaciation?: Geology, v. 31, p. 63-66.
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