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Dr. Charles Ver Straeten

Curator of Sedimentary Rocks

charles.verstraeten@nysed.gov

518-486-2004

My focus is on Devonian Period Sedimentation and Stratigraphy, including sea level history, mountain building and sedimentation, paleoecology, and Devonian volcanic ash layers. In addition, I also study the deposition and preservation of volcanic ash layers in shallow seas and lakes through time.

Publications

2015

Engel, T., Stander, E.J., Ver Straeten, C.A., 2015. Bedrock Geology of the Clarksville Quadrangle, Albany County, New York. Map & Chart Series 92.

2014

Stander, E.J., Ver Straeten, C.A., Engel, T., Stander, J., 2014. Bedrock Geology of the Gallupville Quadrangle, Albany, Schoharie and Schenectady Counties, New York. Map & Chart Series 81.

2013

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2013. Beneath It All: Bedrock Geology of the Catskill Mountains and Implications of its Weathering. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1298, 1-29. doi:10.1111/nyas.12221

van Iten, H., Tollerton, Jr., V.P., Ver Straeten, C.A., J. Leme, D.M., Simos, M.G., Rodrigues, S.C., 2013. Life Mode of In Situ Conularia in a Middle Devonian Epibole. Palaeontology 56, 29-48. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01146.x

Ver Straeten, C.A., Stander, E., Engel, T.D., 2013. Bedrock Geology of the Altamont Quadrangle, Albany and Schenectady Counties, New York. Map & Chart Series 62.

2012

Ver Straeten, C.A., Baird, G.C., Karabinos, P., Samson, S., Brett, C., 2012. Silicic Appalachian magmatism during the Ordovician and Devonian: Perspectives from the Foreland Basin, and the Hinterland. New York State Geological Association, Annual Meeting Guidebook 84, A7-1 - A7-59.

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2012. The Collapse of 'Chimney Rock'--The Cliffs in Action at Thatcher Park. Friends of Thacher and Thompsons Lake State Parks Newsletter 16, 1.

2011

Brett, C., Baird, G.C., Bartholomew, A.J., DeSantis, M.K., Ver Straeten, C.A., 2011. Sequence Stratigraphy and a Revised Sea-level Curve for the Middle Devonian of Eastern North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304, 21-53. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.009

Ver Straeten, C.A., Brett, C., Sageman, B.B., 2011. Mudrock Sequence Stratigraphy: A Multi-proxy (Sedimentological, Paleobiological, Geochemical) Approach, Devonian Appalachian Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304, 54-73. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.010

Ver Straeten, C.A., 2011. Bedrock Geology of the Rensselaerville Quadrangle, New York. Map & Chart Series.