SPODDS
Stanford Project on Deep-water Depositional Systems
Don Lowe and Steve Graham jointly lead this group working on deep-water depositional systems in Chile, offshore southern California, Oklahoma/Arkansas, New Zealand, the alpine foreland basin in Austria, offshore West Africa, the South China Sea, South Africa, and the Gulf of Mexico.
China Research Project
The China Research group focuses on the tectonics, sedimentary basin development and petroleum geology of China. Faculty involved with this project include Steve Graham, Page Chamberlain, and Mike Moldowan.
Archean Geology and Astrobiology
This group is working in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa and the Pilbara region of Western Australia, and is led by Don Lowe. Different members of the group are studying surface environments on the early Earth, Archean atmospheric and climatic evolution, the nature and paleoecology of early microbial communities, and the role of large meteorite impacts on early environmental and crustal development.
Paleobiology
The goal of research in the Paleobiology Lab is to understand the interaction between environmental change and biological evolution using fossils and the sedimentary rock record. How does environmental change influence local and global diversity and ecology? And conversely, how does ecological change affect the physical environment? We are focused primarily on finding answers to these questions on two timescales: 1) the timescale of catastrophic extinction events and their immediate aftermaths (up to a few million years); and 2) the timescale of geological periods and eras (tens to hundreds of millions of years). Our sedimentary work combines micro-scale work on the petrography and geochemistry of individual limestone samples and mineral phases with macro-scale work on the stratigraphy and paleontology of carbonate platforms.
Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling
SPODDS
Stanford Project on Deep-water Depositional Systems
Don Lowe and Steve Graham jointly lead this group working on deep-water depositional systems in Chile, offshore southern California, Oklahoma/Arkansas, New Zealand, the alpine foreland basin in Austria, offshore West Africa, the South China Sea, South Africa, and the Gulf of Mexico.
China Research Project
The China Research group focuses on the tectonics, sedimentary basin development and petroleum geology of China. Faculty involved with this project include Steve Graham, Page Chamberlain, and Mike Moldowan.
Archean Geology and Astrobiology
This group is working in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa and the Pilbara region of Western Australia, and is led by Don Lowe. Different members of the group are studying surface environments on the early Earth, Archean atmospheric and climatic evolution, the nature and paleoecology of early microbial communities, and the role of large meteorite impacts on early environmental and crustal development.
Paleobiology
The goal of research in the Paleobiology Lab is to understand the interaction between environmental change and biological evolution using fossils and the sedimentary rock record. How does environmental change influence local and global diversity and ecology? And conversely, how does ecological change affect the physical environment? We are focused primarily on finding answers to these questions on two timescales: 1) the timescale of catastrophic extinction events and their immediate aftermaths (up to a few million years); and 2) the timescale of geological periods and eras (tens to hundreds of millions of years). Our sedimentary work combines micro-scale work on the petrography and geochemistry of individual limestone samples and mineral phases with macro-scale work on the stratigraphy and paleontology of carbonate platforms.
Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling