John Westgate

Professor Emeritus
westgate@es.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Biogeosciences
  • Earth Surface Processes
  • Geochemistry

Areas of Interest

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.