Amy Weislogel

Assistant Professor of Sedimentary Geology

Contact

Email: aweislogel@geo.ua.edu
Phone: 205-348-7089
Office: 246 Bevill
Fax: 205-348-0818

Education

Ph.D. 2006, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University

Research Interests

My research focuses on understanding the feedbacks between and controls on the linked processes of erosion, uplift and climate as preserved in the sedimentary record. I am currently investigating exhumation, erosion and basin evolution associated with the continent-continent collisional Qinling-Dabie orogen in central China during the Mesozoic through regional analysis of the synorogenic sedimentary record. In this project, I have integrated a varity of tools, including, detrital geochronometry, stable isotope geochemistry, sedimentary petrology, and sediment geochemistry. I also have interests in using clastic sedimentology, lithofacies analysis, sequence stratigraphy and sandstone petrology in basin analysis and salt tectonic evolution. I am developing new research projects directed at constraining sedimentation rates and linking variations in sedimentation rates to tectonic, climatic, and eustatic controls in order to provide physical data that can guide the development, testing, and calibration of models that predict the response of sedimentary systems to global change. Ultimately, such work will contribute toward fully understanding past tectonic-climate interactions via the four-dimensional sedimentary record.

Teaching

• Sedimentology/Stratigraphy, 2007

Representative Publications

Weislogel, A.L., Graham, S.A., Chang, E.Z., Wooden, J.L., Gehrels, G.E., and Yang, H., 2006, Detrital zircon provenance of the Late Triassic Songpan-Ganzi complex: Sedimentary record of collision of the North and South China blocks, Geology, v. 34, n. 2, p. 97-100.

Weislogel, A.L., Graham, S.A., and Chang, E.Z., in press, Accumulation of the Songpan-Ganzi complex turbidites during the Late Triassic: Tectonic controls and paleogeographic constraints, in Nilsen, T., Shew, R., Steffens, G., and Studlick, J., eds., Deep-Water Outcrops of the World Atlas: AAPG Special Publication

Ritts, B.D., Weisogel, A.L., Graham, S.A., and Darby, B.J., in press Mesozoic tectonics and sedimentation of the giant polyphase nonmarine intraplate Ordos Basin, western North China block, in Bally, A.W., and Roberts, D.G., eds., Phanerozoic Regional Geology of the World: Elsevier.

Weislogel, A.L., and Lawton, T.F., 2000, Facies assemblages of the tidally influenced deltaic system of the Maastrichtian Muerto Formation, La Popa basin, northeastern Mexico: An analogue for the Gulf of Mexico subsurface: 50th transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, v. L, p. 669-678.

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