Peter P Flaig
Mailcode: E0630
Areas of Expertise
Research Focus: Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of North America, Texas Permian Basin and Onshore Wilcox, North Slope-Alaska, Central Transantarctic Mountains-Antarctica, Canada,- Clastic sedimentology - Fluvial sedimentology - Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of continental to shallow-marine systems using sedimentology, stratigraphy, architecture, and ichnology in outcrop studies - Photography and high-resolution imagery (e.g. Grone Photogrammetry LiDAR, GigaPan) of clastic systems - Paleopedology - Remote logistics.
Research Locations
Current Research Programs & Projects
Late Paleozoic to Mesozoic fauna, environment, climate, and basinal history, Beardmore Glacier Area, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica.
An Integrated High-Resolution Sedimentologic, Ichnologic, and Geocellular Modelling Study of the Sego-Neslen Formation Transition, Book Cliffs, Utah
Paleoenvironmental Evolution of the Mixed Carbonate-Clastic Strawn Group (mid-Desmoinesian), eastern Shelf of the Midland Basin, Texas
Graduate Students
Keri Belcher, M.S., 2019
(Co-supervisor)
Jackson School of Geosciences
Ashlyn Murphy, M.S., 2017
(Supervisor)
Jackson School of Geosciences
Timothy Prather, M.S., 2016
(Supervisor)
UT-Austin Jackson School
Identifying the Nature and Extent of the Loyd Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale in the Rangley Area of Colorado.
Jessica Hudock, M.S., 2014
(Co-supervisor)
UT-Austin Jackson School
Barrier Island Associated Washover Fan and Flood Tidal Delta Systems: A Geomorphologic Analysis and Proposed Classification Scheme for Modern Washover Fans and Examination of a Flood Tidal Delta Complex in the Cretaceous Upper McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada.
The Late Cretaceous coastal plain of Arctic Alaska: Sandy-splays, swamps, soils, and savagely surging streams, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Colloquium series, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2013)
The Late Cretaceous coastal plain of Arctic Alaska: Placing Pachyrhinosaurus Perotorum and other North Slope dinosaurs in a paleoenvironmental context, Southern Methodest University Colloquium Series, Dallas, Texas (2013)
Transantarctic tales: extraordinary geology and complex logistics in the Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, Lakeway Mens Club, Austin, Texas (2012)
The application of lidar (light detection and ranging) technology to outcrop geology with an example from Sagwon Bluffs on the North Slope of Alaska, Alaska Geological Society, Anchorage, Alaska (2012)
Cretaceous geology on the North Slope of Alaska, Austin Gem and Mineral Society, Austin, Texas (2010)
A tidally-influenced, high-latitude alluvial/coastal plain: the Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) Prince Creek Formation, North Slope, Alaska, West Texas Geological Society, Midland, texas (2010)
| Year | Semester | Course | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Spring | GEO 660A | Field Geology |
Alaska Fieldwork
Photo set includes images of fieldwork done on the North Slope of Alaska from 2005-2013
Antarctic Fieldwork
Photos of fieldwork in the Central Transantarctic Mountains during the 2003-2004 and 2010-2011 field seasons.
Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway Fieldwork
Photos of fieldwork on clastic wedges of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming
External Photo Galleries
Peter Flaig Photography Blog
Photos of Alaska, Antarctica and elsewhere