Dr Jan Zalasiewicz
Senior Lecturer
Palaeobiology Group
Direct contact:
Tel: 0116 252 3928 Email:jaz1@le.ac.uk
Research interests
Mudrock processes: sedimentation, diagenesis and low-grade metamorphism.
Early Palaeozoic and Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentology; graptolite morphology and distribution.
Stratigraphic analysis, including study of the Anthropocene concept.
Four recent publications
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Zalasiewicz, J. 2010. The Planet in a Pebble: a Journey through Earth History. Oxford University Press. 227 pp.
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Gabbott, S.E., Zalasiewicz, J., Aldridge, R.J. & Theron, J.N. 2010. Eolian input into the Late Ordovician post-glacial Soom Shale, South Africa. Geology 38, 1103-1106.
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Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M., Steffen, W. & Crutzen, P. 2010. The New World of the Anthropocene. Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 2228-2231.
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Zalasiewicz, J.A., Taylor, L., Rushton, A.W.A., Loydell, D.K., Rickards, R.B. & Williams, M. 2009. Graptolites in British stratigraphy. Geological Magazine 146, 785-850.
Teaching
- GL1001 Palaeobiology and the Stratigraphic Record
- GL1019 Geological Maps and Structures
- GL1024 Planetary Geology
- GL1017 Sedimentary World
- GL1018 Geology and Society
- GL1021 Introductory Field Course
- GL2005 Depositional Processes and Environments
- GL2034 Geological Maps and Stratigraphic Methods
- GL3002 Earth Science in Education
- GL3066 Palaeobiology
- GL4068 Methods and Modelling in Palaeoclimatology
- GL4067 Evolutionary Palaeobiology
- Contributor to i-science degree
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