- Faculty Research Areas
- Laboratories, Facilities, and Research Groups
- Climate & Paleoclimate
- Environmental Sciences
- Geobiology
- Geochronology & Thermochronology
- Geophysics
- Hydrology & Surface Processes
- Low-Temperature Geochemistry
- Oceanography
- Paleontology
- Petrology & High Temperature Geochemistry
- Sedimentology & Stratigraphy
- Structural Geology & Tectonics
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Determining the timing of geologic events is essential for elucidating both Earth history and for understanding rates of Earth processes. Researchers at UM use both thermochronology (U-Th/He methods) and geochronology (U-Pb methods) to undertake absolute dating of geologic materials in order to deepen our understanding of tectonic, petrologic, climatic and biologic processes.
| Faculty | Specialties | Associated Laboratories and Research Groups |
| Eliel Anttila | Field Geology, U-Pb Geochronology, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Low-Temperature Geochemistry and Chemostratigraphy, Earth History, Organo-Mineral Interactions | |
| Marin Clark | Landslides, Geomorphology, Earthquakes, Crustal Dynamics, Tectonics | Personal Website, Thermochronology Lab |
| Robert Holder | U–Pb Geochronology/Petrochronology, Metamorphism and Its Relationship to Tectonics, Orogenesis, Secular Changes in Plate Tectonics, High-Temperature Metamorphism and Crustal Melting, Laser-Ablation ICP-MS, Chemical Diffusion | |
| Nathan Niemi | Active Tectonics, Low-Temperature Thermochronology, Field Geology, Structural Geology | Personal Website, Thermochronology Lab |
