John Westgate

John Westgate

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John
Last Name: 
Westgate
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Professor Emeritus

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Title of Research Field
Late Cenozoic Tephrochronology and Glass-Fission-Track Dating

Members of Research Group
Professor Emeritus John Westgate
Dr. Shari Preece, Research Associate

Brief statement of nature of research:
Tephrochronology is concerned with the use of tephra beds (volcanic ash layers) to develop reliable, regional, time-stratigraphic frameworks and an improved understanding of the record of volcanism through their identification, correlation, and dating. The major thrust of current studies is in support of palaeoenvironmental/palaeoecological studies of Late Cenozoic sediments in the Yukon Territory and interior Alaska.

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Professor of geochemistry and earth surface processes, focusing on tephrochronology