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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Edwin Joseph Anderson
7825 St. Martins Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19118
Department of Geology
Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122
Telephone: 215-204-8249 (office)
FAX: 215-204-3496
e-mail andy@astro.temple.edu
Education
A.B. in Geology, 1961, Cornell University
Sc.M. in Geology, 1964, Brown University
Ph.D. in Geology, 1967, Brown University
Specialty
Cyclostratigraphy, Facies Models, Paleoenvironments, Paleontology
Positions
Professor of Geology, Temple University, 1984 to present
Chairman of Department, July 1, 1990 to August 31, 1995
Grants and Fellowships
¨ Research Corporation, 1967 (Summer Research Grant).
¨ Temple University, Grant-in-Aid of Research, 1974.
¨ University of Liverpool, Leverhulm Fellowship 1974-75.
¨ Temple University, Summer Research Award, 1980.
¨ Temple University, Research Incentive Fund Grant, 1980.
, A Stratigraphic Study of the Helderberg Group in New York State as a Test of the Hypothesis of Punctuated Aggradational Cycles (with Peter W. Goodwin), 1981-83, $ 62,800.¨ NSF Grant EAR-8107690
¨ NSF Grant EAR-8305900, The PAC (Punctuated Aggradational Cycles) Approach to Intrabasinal Correlation (with Peter W. Goodwin), 1984-87, $139.000.
¨ NSF Grant INT-8400745, U.S. - U.K. Cooperative Science Program: Episodic Stratigraphic Accumulation: A Comparative Evaluation of Two Hypotheses, 1984-86, $9,200.
¨ Temple University, Research Incentive Fund Grant, 1998, $4000.
Correlation of Meter-scale Cycles and Cycle Sets in ‘Purbeckian’ Rocks in the Spanish Prebetic, the French Jura and Dorset England: an Application of the Milankovitch Orbital Forcing Hypothesis, 1999-2002, $140,000.¨ NSF Grant EAR-9902680,
Relevant Publications
¨ Anderson, E.J., Goodwin, P.W. and Sobieski, T.H., 1984. Episodic Accumulation and the Origin of Formation Boundaries in the Helderberg Group of N. Y. State. Geology,v.12, p. 120-123.
¨ Goodwin, P.W. and Anderson, E.J., 1985. Punctuated Aggradational Cycles: A General Model of Stratigraphic Accumulation. Journal of Geology, v. 93, p. 515-534.
¨ Goodwin, P.W., Anderson, E.J., Goodman, W.M. and Saraka, L.J., 1986. Punctuated Aggradational Cycles: Implications for Stratigraphic Analysis. in M.A. Arthur and R. Garrison, eds., Cycles in the Milankovitch Band, Paleoceanography, v. 1,p.417-429.
¨ Goodwin, P.W. and Anderson, E.J., 1988. Episodic Development of Helderbergian Paleogeography, New York State, Appalachian Basin. in N.J. McMillan , A.F. Embry and D.J. Glass, eds., Devonian of the World, Vol. II: Sedimentation, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Devonian System, Canadian Soc. of Petrol. Geol., p. 553-568.
¨ Anderson, E.J. and Goodwin, P.W., 1990. Characteristics of a Field Data Base for Developing and Evaluating Quantitative Stratigraphic Models. in T.A. Cross, ed., Quantitative Dynamic Stratigraphy, Part IV - Stratigraphic Resolution and Model Verification, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, p.479-490.
¨ Anderson, E.J. and Goodwin, P.W., 1990. The Significance of Meter-scale Allocycles in the Quest for a Fundamental Stratigraphic Unit. in D.G. Smith, ed., Nature and Analysis of the Stratigraphic Record, Thematic Issue, Journal of the Geological Society, London, v. 147, p. 507-518.
¨ Anderson, E.J. and Goodwin, P.W., 1992. The Primacy of the Precessional Signal. Geol. Soc. Amer., Abstracts, Annual Meeting, Cincinnati.
¨ Anderson, E.J. and Goodwin, P.W., 1997. A Milankovitch Based, Process-determined Hierarchy of Allocycles., Abstracts, Geol. Soc. Amer., N.E. Section Meeting, Philadelphia.
¨ Goodwin, P.W. and Anderson, E.J., 1997. Stratigraphic Incompleteness: Milankovitch in the Manlius at the Margin. in T.W. Rayne, D.G. Bailey and B.J. Tewksbury eds., Field Trip Guide for the 69th Annual Meeting of the N.Y. State Geological Assoc., p. 237-249.
¨ Anderson, E.J., 1999. The Cyclic Structure of the ‘Purbeckian’ at the Classic Sierra del Pozo Section of the Prebetic (Berriasian) Southern Spain. Abstracts, Geol. Soc. Amer., Annual Meeting, Denver.
¨ Anderson, E.J., 2000. Criteria for Recognizing an Orbitally Forced Cyclic Hierarchy: The ‘Purbeckian’ at the Classic Sierra del Pozo Section (Berriasian) Southern Spain. Sediment 2000, Abstracts, Leoben, Austria.
¨ Anderson, E.J., 2000. Cycle Boundaries and the Magnitude of Sea-level Rise Events: Examples from the Purbeckian of Dorset. Abstracts, IAS Regional Meeting, Dublin.
¨ Anderson, E.J., (submitted, May, 2000). Structure and Interpretation of the Cyclic Hierarchy in the ‘Purbeckian’ at the Classic Sierra del Pozo section (Berriasian) Southern Spain. Facies…(in revision).
¨ Anderson, E.J., 2001. The Cyclic Structure of the Purbeck Group, Lower Cretaceous Dorset, England. Abstracts, Geol. Soc. Amer., N.E. Section Meeting, Burlington.
¨ Anderson, E.J., 2001. Asymmetrical Facies patterns in Orbitally Forced 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Order Sequences: The Purbeckian of Dorset. Abstracts, SEPM Multidisciplinary Approach to Cyclostratigraphy Workshop, Sorrento.
¨ Anderson, E.J., 2001. Integration of Bed Descriptions, Molluscan Depth Zones and Faunicycles with an Orbitally Forced Four-tiered Hierarchy of Lithic Allocycles: In the Lower Cretaceous, Purbeckian of Dorset, England. Abstracts, 21st IAS-Meeting, Davos.
¨ Anderson, E.J., 2001. Lateral Continuity and Discontinuity of 100 ka Eccentricity Sequences within an Orbitally Forced Cyclic Hierarchy: The Purbeck Group, Lower Cretaceous, Dorset, England. Abstracts, Geol. Soc. Amer., Annual Meeting, Boston.