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John Diemer
Professor, Assoc. Director of INES Ph.D.
OFFICE: 230 McEniry
PHONE: 704-687-5994
E-MAIL: jadiemer@uncc.edu
HOMEPAGE:
SHORT VITAE: To be added later
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Sedimentology
• Facies analysis
• Depositional environments
• Basin analysis
• History of geology
DEGREES:
Ph.D. (1985) Geology, Binghamton University
M.A. (1979) Geology, Binghamton University
A.B. (1977) Geology, Oberlin College
PROFILE:
I am a sedimentary geologist interested in clastic depositional
environments, basin analysis, the influence of tectonics on sedimentation,
and in addressing applied environmental problems such as sedimentation
in lakes and streams caused by urbanization. Sedimentary sequences
I have worked on include Quaternary deposits in New York, the Canadian
Rockies and the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, the Devonian Old
Red Sandstone of Ireland and Pennsylvania, the Paleocene Fort Union
Formation of Montana, Mesozoic rocks of the Stikine terrane of northern
British Columbia, forearc basin deposits of the Chile margin triple
junction region of Patagonia, and Permian basin deposits of west
Texas and southeastern New Mexico. My sedimentological work has
resulted in more than twenty refereed publications and fifty conference
presentations.
In addition, I have an active research program in the history of
geology where I concentrate on the geologic work of Roderick Murchison
in Scotland, Russia and Scandinavia. That research has resulted
in numerous publications including two well-received books prepared
in collaboration with Michael Collie. Our most recent book was published
by the British Geological Survey in 2004 and is entitled Murchison’s
Wanderings in Russia. It is an annotated edition of Murchison’s
autobiographical journal where he describes his experiences during
two field seasons in Russia, 1840 and 1841. During those field campaigns,
Murchison, together with his colleagues Edouard de Verneuil and
Alexander von Keyserling, mapped all of Russia in Europe including
the Ural Mountains. It was this work that led to the naming of the
Permian System.
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