Anthony Chiasson

I love all aspects of geology, but I'm most interested in tectonic inheritance, the concept that structures from previous mountain-building or continental rifting events can be reactivated during later events. My doctoral project focuses particularly on examining the how and why behind the formation of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains, an enigmatic series of basement uplifts in the late Paleozoic of the American Southwest. These mountains were uplifted in the final stages of Pangea's formation and evidence of their existence is best seen in Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

Current Research Projects

Growth and Demise of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains: A Structural and Stratigraphic Analysis of Paleozoic Basin Systems in Colorado and New Mexico