Possible
thesis/dissertation topics:
Structure, petrology, geochemistry and tectonics of a young back-arc basin:
Black Sea of the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belts (involves field work
in Turkey and/or the Republic of Georgia).
Passive margin development, rift-drift tectonics, and sedimentary basin
evolution in Eastern Europe (involves field work in Greece and/or Albania).
Structure, tectonics and geomorphology of the Northern Owens Valley and
Evolution of the Great Basin-Sierra Nevada Boundary in Eastern California.
Current/recent
graduate student research:
John
Alten (M.S. in progress) Structure and hydrogeology of the Rough Creek
fault system, west-central Kentucky.
Guoxiang
Lin (M.S. 2000) Spreading rate dependency of brittle deformation and hydrothermal
alteration in modern oceanic crust.
Krista
Morisen (M.S. in progress) Structure and tectonics of the Kentucky River
and Lexington fault systems (nothern Kentucky) and implications for the
Appalachian Basin.
Charity
Phillips (M.S. 2004) Structure, tectonics and hydrothermal alteration
history of a suprasubduction zone ophiolite in Albania.
Tatia
Taylor (M.S. 2002) Origin and structure of the Poverty Hills, Owens Valley
Fault Zone, Owens Valley, California.
Craig
Thomas (M.S. 2000) Structure of the sheeted dike complex of the Kizildag
ophiolite, southern Turkey, and implications for seafloor spreading processes.
Selected
publications:
Dilek, Y. and Harris, R. (2004) Continental Margins of the Pacific Rim:
Tectonophysics Special Issue, Elsevier Science
Dilek,
Y. and Flower, M.F.J. (2003) Arc-trench rollback and forearc accretion:
2. Model template for Albania, Cyprus, and Oman: in Ophiolites in
Earth History, Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 218,
p. 43-68.
Dilek,
Y. (2003) Ophiolites, plumes and orogeny: in Ophiolites in Earth History,
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 218, p. 9-19.
Dilek,
Y. and Newcomb, S. (2003) Ophiolite Concept and the Evolution of Geological
Thought: Geological Society of America Special Paper 373, 504 p. ISBN
0-8137-2373-6.
Dilek,
Y. and Robinson, P.T. (2003) Ophiolites in Earth History, Geological Society,
London Special Publications 218, 717 p. ISBN 1-86239-145-9.
Selected
grants:
NATO Science Program 2001
Comparative Study of the Tethyan Orogenic Belts in Anatolia (Turkey) and
the Caucasus (Georgia)
NATO Science Program 1999
Petrology, Geochemistry and Tectonics of the Albanian Ophiolites (Albania)
National Science Foundation
Structure and tectonics of the Inner-Tauride suture zone in Turkey.
Teaching
Interests:
GLG 111
- The Dynamic Earth - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 180.S - The Mediterranean (Honors course).
GLG 322 - Structural Geology - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 492/592 - Global Tectonics - click here
a complete description.
For
more information please send Dr. Dilek an email.
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