As a sedimentologist, she investigates these questions from a sedimentary basin’s perspective, using information preserved in eroded material to interpret the geologic evolution of source areas. Her recent work has focused on understanding the roles and potential feedbacks between climate and tectonics on erosion, sediment routing, and landscape evolution. She has focused specifically on orogenic systems in Alaska, the western USA, and the Central and Southern Andes. She is also interested in the formation of intracratonic basins and their relationship with plate boundary processes and has active, funded projects in the US midcontinent.
Research keywords:
- sedimentology, basin analysis, thermochronology, tectonics
Dr. Stevens Goddard combines fieldwork with analytical techniques such as thermochronology and geochronology to understand the timing and rates of Earth processes over geologic time. As a sedimentologist, she investigates these questions from a sedimentary basin’s perspective, using information preserved in eroded material to interpret the geologic evolution of source areas.
Her recent work has focused on understanding the roles and potential feedbacks between climate and tectonics and lithospheric scale processes on erosion, sediment routing, and landscape evolution. Her research includes work understanding orogenic systems as well as the formation of intracratonic basins and their relationship with plate boundary processes.
