marina suarez

Marina B. Suarez
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The University of Kansas, 2009

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Assistant Professor Low-Temperature Geochemistry < Field Photos >

Research Interests

Geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, paleoclimatology, sedimentaology and stratigraphy, and paleontology.Native San Antonian, took an interest in the Cretaceous rocks and fossils of South Texas at an early age. Interests involves using sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, petrography, and stable isotope geochemistry to reconstruct past environments. Interests in understanding global climate in deep-time particularly times of global warmth such as the mid-Cretaceous, the early Eocene and the Miocene to early Pliocene. Much of Suarez's research involves continental deposits, especially paleosols (fossilized soils), and the carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions of pedogenic carbonates. Field work has included collecting samples from South Texas to Utah, to as far as Northwest China.

Selected Publications

Suarez, M.B., González, L.A., and Ludvigson, G.A., 2010, Estimating the isotopic composition of equatorial precipitation during the mid-Cretaceous, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 80, p. 480-491.        Full Text at GeoScienceWorld:

Suarez, M. B., González, L. A., Ludvigson, G. A., Vera, F. J., and Alvarado-Ortega, J., 2009, Isotopic composition of low-latitude paleo-precipitation during the Early Cretaceous. GSA Bulletin, v. 121, p. 1584-1595.

Suarez, M. B., Suarez, C. A., Kirkland, J. I., González, L. A., Grandstaff, D. E., and Terry, D. O. Jr., 2007, Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and depositional environment of the Crystal Geyser Dinosaur Quarry, East-Central Utah. PALAIOS, v. 22, p. 513-527.

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