University of Delaware
Graduate Catalog 1996-1997
College of Arts and Science
Department of Geology
Faculty in the Graduate Program

Billy P. Glass, Ph.D. (Columbia), Professor and Chair; also Professor,
   College of Marine Studies: Marine geology, impact ejecta,
   paleomagnetism.
Robert R. Jordan, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr), Professor and State Geologist; also
   Professor, College of Marine Studies: Sedimentary petrology,
   stratigraphy, Atlantic Coastal Plain.
John C. Kraft, Ph.D. (Minnesota), H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Geology;
   also H. Fletcher Brown Professor, College of Marine Sludies: Holocene
   coastal sedimentology and micropaleontology, geoarcheology, Ordovician
   ostracoda, petroleum geology.
Peter B. Leavens, Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor and Curator of Minerals; also
   Professor, Art Conservation: Crystal structure analysis, systematic
   mineralogy, metacarbonates.
Frederick M. Swain, Ph.D. (Kansas), Professor Emeritus: Micropaleontology,
   organic geochemistry, stratigraphic paleontology.
John F. Wehmiller, Ph.D. (Columbia), Professor; also Professor, College of
   Marine Studies: Organic geochemistry, Quaternary geochronology, coastal
   plain Quaternary stratigraphy.
Richard N. Benson, Ph.D. (Minnesota), Associate Professor; also Senior
   Scientist, Delaware Geological Survey: Stratigraphy, micropaleontology,
   petroleum geology.
John A. Madsen, Ph.D. (Rhode Island), Associate Professor; also Associate
   Professor, College of Marine Studies: Marine geophysics, marine
   tectonics, environmental geophysics.
Ronald E. Martin, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley), Associate Professor; also
   Associate Professor, College of Marine Studies: Taphonomy and biology of
   foraminifera, ecostratigraphy and paleoceanography, graphic correlation,
   stratigraphic (time) resolution, dynamics of nutrient cycling and food
   webs, evolution of biogeochemical cycles, evolution and extinction in
   Phanerozoic marine ecosystems.
Susan McGeary, Ph.D. (Stanford), Associate Professor; also Associate
   Professor, College of Marine Studies: Continental lithospheric
   structure, seismic investigations of continental margins, environmental
   geophysics.
James E. Pizzuto, Ph.D. (Minnesota), Associate Professor: Geomorphology,
   sedimentology.
Allan M. Thompson, Ph.D. (Brown), Associate Professor: Petrology,
   structural geology, sedimentology and paleoenvironmental analysis,
   tectonics.