In terms of research, I received Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award, the outstanding paper award at the 1991 SEPM National Meeting, and I was an American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer in 1993-94. Selected Publications Woods, S., Elmore, R. D. , and Engel. Elmore, R. Douglas , 2000b, A Review of Paleomagnetic Data on the Timing and Origin of Multiple Fluid-Flow Events in the Arbuckle Mountains, Southern Oklahoma, Petroleum Geoscience, in press. Invited paper for Reviews of Geophysics, v. 27, p. 471-493. Diagenetic investigations are frequently limited by the difficulty in constraining the time frame in which most past events have occurred.
Paleomagnetic analysis is one method that can provide information on such events.
One of the most commonly invoked remagnetization mechanisms is the migration of orogenic fluids which are hypothesized to be triggered by mountain building. Most of our current work is focused on testing this orogenic fluid hypothesis. For example, in the central Appalachians we are testing for a connection between remagnetization and alteration by orogenic fluids by examining units that were paleoaquifers as well as the units that were aquitards. This could lead to a method to date such events. We are also dating fluid migration events in veins and along faults in Scotland.