The LSU Department of Geology and Geophysics has a rich tradition of fundamental research in sedimentary geology, and strong historic links with the petroleum industry. Our research program in Surficial Processes and the Stratigraphic Record builds on the Department's traditional strengths in sedimentary and petroleum geology, and takes advantage of our special location within the natural laboratory of the lower Mississippi valley and delta, and the Gulf of Mexico coastal plain. And while a significant number of faculty in the Department maintain a high level of interest and expertise in Gulf Coast Mesozoic and Cenozoic geology, we also conduct research on a variety of exciting problems on a number of continents. Moreover, this part of the Department has been enhanced over the last few years by faculty additions in surficial processes, clastic sedimentology, Quaternary geology, seismic and sequence stratigraphy, and magnetostratigraphy.
- Sequence stratigraphy program
- Global tectonics and quantitative basin modeling program
- Sedimentology of continental margins
- Formation of submarine fans and turbidite systems
- Depositional architecture of oil and gas reservoirs
- Cenozoic biostratigraphy of the U.S. Gulf Coast
- Fluvial responses to climate and sea-level change, lower Mississippi valley and Gulf Coastal Plain
- Late Pleistocene and Holocene sea-level change, U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts
- Responses of large rivers of southern France to climate change
- Late Cenozoic fluvial-eolian-lacustrine depositional systems and sequences, Sahara of Tunisia
- Geological correlation program tied to global stratotypes
- Southern European paleoclimate and correlation program
- Evolution of marine invertebrates in the Neogene of tropical America
- Holocene shoreline evolution, depositional history of benthic communities of the northern Gulf of Mexico
- Biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and evolution of Antarctic dinoflagellate cysts
- Stratigraphic record of long-term anthropogenic effects causing oxygen depletion ("hypoxia") in the shallow Gulf of Mexico
- Rock magnetism and paleomagnetism laboratory
- JEOL JXA-733 Electron microprobe with four automated wavelength dispersive spectrometers, digital secondary and backscattered electron imaging and energy dispersive spectrometer
- Petrography and paleontology laboratories
- Optical microscopy laboratory with digital imaging
- Palynology preparation laboratory
- Thermal ionization mass spectrometry laboratory
- Sedimentology laboratories
- Cold storage core facility
- Vehicle mounted rotary coring capability
- Vibracoring capabilities
- Ground-penetrating radar equipment
- 20' Jon boat with 70 hp motor
- 16' Zodiac raft with 30 hp motor
- Image processing and GIS workstations and software
- Visualization software packages associated with several UNIX and Silicon Graphics workstations
- Tomographic capabilities using the synchrotron source at LSU's Center for Advanced Microdevices
- Antarctica, Greenland, North Africa, South Africa, Asia, China, Vietnam, Mahakam Delta of Borneo
- U.S., including: Mississippi Valley, Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains, Gulf of MexicoEurope, including: Albania, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain
- Latin America, including: Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Panama
- Laurie Anderson
E-mail: glande@lsu.edu - Phillip Bart
E-mail :pbart@lsu.edu - Michael Blum
E-mail: mblum@lsu.edu - Brooks Ellwood
E-mail: ellwood@lsu.edu - Juan Lorenzo
E-mail: gllore@lsu.edu - Barun Sen Gupta
E-mail: glbarun@lsu.edu
