Edward Meyer Instructor / Research Associate

Overview of Research:

Ed is working on the trace element geochemistry of cap carbonate / diamictite pairs in the Neoproterozoic sediments of the Death Valley CA region. Laboratory techniques include bulk power digestions, ICP-OES and ICP-MS, XRD, and synchrotron analysis. Other projects involve using K/Ar to date illite in bentonites involved in orogenic belts.

Ed manages the Earth Sciences website and computer systems. He also works on to support department laboratory and field projects.

Courses:

Fall 2008 - Introduction to Earth Sciences

Fall 2008 - Mt. Segment - Off Campus Program - "The Stretch"

Publications:

Meyer, E.E ., Burgreen, B.N., Lackey, H., Landis, J.D., Quicksall, A.N., and Bostick, B.C., 2008 Evidence for Basin Restriction During Syn-Collisional Basin Formation in the Silurian Arisaig Group, Nova Scotia., Chemical Geology, in press

Meyer, E.E. , Bostick, B.C., Landis, J.D., Quicksall, A.N., and Theissen, K.M., 2008, Reduced Depositional Environments of A Neoproterozoic Synglacial Carbonate in the Kingston Peak Formation, Southern Death Valley Region, CA, in Roberts, J.A., ed., Perspectives in Redox Geochemistry and Microbial Processes---Chemical Geology special issue. Submitted

Theissen, K. M., Meyer, E. E., Bostick, B. C., Holter, S. A., Landis, J., Redox status in the Post-Snowball Ocean: Geochemical Evidence from the Noonday Formation, Death Valley, USA., Geology, Submitted

Meyer, E.E. , Bostick, B.C., Quicksall, A.N., Landis, J.D., and Link, P 2008, Ocean Overturn Initiates Microbial Bloom and the Deposition of a Late Sturtian Cap Carbonate, Pocatello Formation, Idaho : Geology. Submitted

Ryan, P.C., Corish, R.A., Kim, J., Meyer, E. E., Aronson, J.L. Joseph, K., 2008 Ordovician K-Bentonites in the Taconian Foreland: Stratigraphic, Mineralogical and Geochemical Evidence for their Occurrence and Tectonic Significance. GSA Bulletin. Submitted

Meyer, E.E. , Aronson, J.L., Nadeau, P., Reidiger, C., Hillier, S., and Asgar-Deen, M., 2008, Timing of K-bentonite Illitization as a Proxy for Hydrocarbon Maturation in the Exshaw and Fernie Formations, Alberta, Canada: Geology. in prep

Meyer, E.E. , Burgreen, B.N., Bostick, B.C., Aronson, J.L., and Lackey, H., 2008, Evidence for a Unified Avalon and Meguma Microcontinent Prior to the Acadian Orogeny; Illite Dates on Silurian K-Bentonites from Nova Scotia, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. in prep

Meyer, E.E. , Aronson, J.L., and Haynes, J., 2008, Early Permian K/Ar Dates of the Alleghanian Overthrusting Along the Blue Ridge Front in the Central and Southern Appalachians: Journal of Geology. in prep

Presentations / Abstracts:

Meyer, E.E. , Quicksall, A.N., and Bostick, B.C., 2007, Iron Speciation using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Neoproterozoic Cap Carbonates from the Pocatello Formation (Idaho) , American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, Abstract PP13A-1030.

Meyer, E.E., Bostick, B.C., Landis, J.D., Quicksall, A.N., and Link, P.K., 2007, Trace Element Geochemistry of a Sturtian Cap Dolostone in the Scout Mountain Member of the Pocatello Formation: Evidence for Ocean Anoxia Following Low Latitude Glaciation, Geological Society of America, Paper No. 172-27.

Burgreen, B.N., Bostick, B.C., Meyer, E.E., Lackey, H., and Aronson, J.L., 2007, Northern Appalachian accretion of Avalonia: Evidence from chemostratigraphy and K/Ar dating of illitization in the Silurian Arisaig Group, Nova Scotia, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 1, p. 51.

Nadeau, P.H., Meyer, E.E., Aronson, J.L., Riediger, C., Fowler, M., Hillier, S., and Asgar-Deen, M., 2007, Origin of the Alberta Oil Sands Bitumen Deposits: Isotopic Evidence from K-Bentonites in Key Source Rock Horizons, The Clay Minerals Society 44th Annual Meeting.

Meyer, E.E. , Aronson, J.L., Nadeau, P., Reidiger, C., Hillier, S., and Asgar-Deen, M., 2007, Timing of K-Bentonite Illitization as a Proxy for Hydrocarbon Maturation in the Exshaw and Fernie Formations, Alberta Canada, AAPG/SEG Spring Student Expo.

Meyer, E.E ., Bostick, B.C., Landis, J.D., and Quicksall, A.N., 2006, Trace Element Geochemistry of Neoproterozoic Low Latitude Glacial Strata of the Death Valley Region, CA, Dartmouth College Graduate Student Poster Presentations.

Nadeau, P.H., Meyer, E.E., Aronson, J., and Hillier, S., 2006, Clay Diagenesis in Foreland Basins, The Clay Minerals Society 43rd Annual Meeting.

Meyer, E.E., Bostick, B.C., Landis, J.D., Quicksall, A. M, and Theissen, K. M. 2006. Paleoredox Conditions During Deposition of Neoproterozoic Low Latitude Glacial Strata of the Death Valley Region, CA Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP41B-1190 . View the abstract.

Meyer, E.E., Aronson, and J., Haynes, J. 2005 K/Ar dating of Blue Ridge thrusting and its influance on sediment input to two Pennsylvanian-age depocenters in the Appalachian Basin Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Volume 37,No 1. p. 73. Download my 2005 NE-GSA Poster or view the abstract.

Meyer, E.E.; Aronson, J.; Haynes, J. 2005 “K/Ar Dating of Ordovician K-Bentonites Illitized by Blue Ridge Overthrusting During the Alleghenian Orogeny” Programs and Abstracts - Clay Minerals Society, 42nd Meeting.

Meyer, E.E., Beane, R.J., 2000, A petrographic study of the Spring Point Formation, Casco Bay, Maine, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Volume 33, p. 10. View the abstract.