Tectonic Development of the Yanshan Fold-Thrust Belt, NE China
Accepting Students! Potential projects include:
Using drone imagery to map out bank retreat of Big Walnut Creek, Putnam County, IN.
Dating the Ste. Genevieve Limestone using conodont microfossil analysis, DePauw Nature Park, IN.
Tectonic development of the Yanshan Fold-Thrust Belt, NE China.
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Using drone imagery to map out bank retreat of Big Walnut Creek, Putnam County, IN (2023 - Present)
Student Collaborators: Dipson Pradhan (GEO)
Dating the Ste. Genevieve Limestone using conodont microfossil analysis, DePauw Nature Park, IN (2021-Present)
Student Collaborators: Lannea Allen (GEO), Emily Kaiser (ENV), & Claire Wolfe (GEO)
Sedimentary Geology from Source to Sink textbook (2020 - Present)
Tectonic development of the Yanshan Fold-Thrust Belt, NE China (2012 - 2015) - National Science Foundation award EAR-1145230
Student Collaborators: Martha Parsons (GEO), Yihao Xu (GEO), & Stephen Dobbs (GEO)
Publications (italics indicates student authors):
Parsons, M., Dobbs, S., Xu, Y., & Cope, T., 2012, Multidirectional shortening in the Yanshan fold-thrust belt, China, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 44(7).
Geology beneath the Great Wall (2007 - 2011)
Student Collaborators: Jake Willingham (GEO), John Wellik (GEO), Paul Mooney (SRF), Ali Barnes (GEO/SRF),
Ben Gibson (GEO), & Ben Golden (SRF)
Publications (italics indicates student authors):
Willingham, J. T., Cope, T. D., Li, C.M., Teng, F., and Zhang, C. H., 2011, Crustal extension and volcanism interleaved with Jurassic shortening in the Yanshan fold-thrust belt, northeast China, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 43(5), p. 101.
Cope, T., Gibson, B., and Barnes, A., 2007, Mesozoic structural evolution of the Yanshan fold-thrust belt, NE China, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 39(6), p. 237.
Uplift history of the southeastern Tibetan plateau (2006)
Student Collaborators: Alex Breitinger (SRF)
The Chengde allochthon, NE China: one fault or two? (2004)
Student Collaborators: Audrey Gehlhausen (GEO)
Publications (italics indicates student authors):
Cope, T., and Gehlhausen, A., 2004, The Chengde allochthon, Hebei Province, NE China: one fault or two?, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 36(5), p. 429.
What killed the feathered dinosaurs of NE China?(2004)
Student Collaborators: Audrey Gehlhausen (GEO)
Other significant publications...
Graham, S. A., Cope, T., Johnson, C. L., and Ritts, B. D., 2012, Sedimentary basins of the late Mesozoic extensional domain of China and Mongolia, in Bally, B. (ed.), Phanerozoic Rift Systems and Sedimentary Basins, 421-439, DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-56356-9.00016-X.
Cope, T. D., Ping, L., Zhang, X. Y., Zhang, X. J., Song, J., Zhou, G., and Shultz, M. R., 2010, Structural controls on facies distribution in a small half-graben basin: Luanping basin, NE China, Basin Research, 22(1), 33-44.
Sullivan, C., Hone, D. W. E., Cope, T. D., Yang, L., and Liu, J., 2009, A new occurrence of small therapod tracks in the Houcheng (Tuchengzi) Formation of Hebei Province, China, Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 47(1), 35-52.
Cope, T. D., Shultz, M. R., and Graham, S. A., 2007, Detrital record of Mesozoic shortening in the Yanshan belt, NE China: testing structural interpretations with basin analysis, Basin Research, 19, 253–272, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00321.x.