Chris Suczek, Associate Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1977
Stratigraphy, sedimentary petrology, tectonics

Research Activities:
Sandstone composition, provenance, and tectonics; geologic history of western North America, especially the Cenozoic of Washington and Paleozoic of Nevada.

Tel: (360) 650-3590

E-mail: suczek@geol.wwu.edu

Selected Publications

Suczek, C. A., Babcock, R. S., and Engebretson, D. C., 1994, Tectonostratigraphy of the Crescent terrane and related rocks, Olympic Peninsula, Washington: in Swanson, D. A., and Haugerud, R. A., eds., Geologic Field Trips in the Pacific NW, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, vol. 1, p. H1-H11.

Dickinson, W.R., and Suczek, C.A., 1979, Plate tectonics and sandstone composition: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin v.63, p. 2164-2182.