Implications of Eocene tufas and travertines in the badlands of South Dakota. Sedimentary evidencefor the uplift and the unroofing of the Black Hills. Tectonics and sedimentation of Eocene strike-slip basins in the Pacific Northwest. Submarine fan deposits in Fiji, South Pacific. The department is housed in a newly renovated building and is well equipped for modern sedimentological studies.
Laboratories exist for clastic sedimentology as well as student research.
Students doing sedimentology projects generally receive financial support from the department, university, or faculty research grants. In addition, many students have been successful in obtaining external funding for their work from the Geological Society of America, Sigma Xi, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.