Dr Jan Zalasiewicz
Senior Lecturer
Palaeobiology Group
Direct contact:
Tel: 0116 252 3928 Email:jaz1@le.ac.uk
Research interests
Mudrock processes, including element fractionation during diagenesis and low-grade metamorphism.
Early Palaeozoic and Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentology; graptolite morphology and distribution.
Chair, Stratigraphy Commission of The Geological Society
Four recent publications
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Vandenbroucke, T.R.A., Williams, M., Zalasiewicz, J.A., Davies J.R. & Waters, R.A. 2008. Integrated Upper Ordovician graptolite-chitinozoan biostratigraphy of the Cardigan and Whitland areas, southwest Wales. Geological Magazine, 145, 199-214.
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Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M , Smith, A., Barry, T.L., Bown, P.R., Rawson, P., Brenchley, P., Cantrill, D., Coe, A.E., Cope, J.C.W., Gale, A., Gibbard, P.L., Gregory, F.J., Hounslow, M., Knox, R., Powell, P., Waters, C., Marshall, J., Oates & Stone, P. 2008. Are we now living in the Anthropocene? GSA Today, 18 (2), 4-8.
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Gabbott, S., Zalasiewicz, J. & Collins, D. 2008. Sedimentation of the Phyllopod Bed within the Cambrian Burgess Shale Formation of British Columbia. Journal of the Geological Society, 165, 307-318.
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Blackett, E., Zalasiewicz, J., Page, A., Williams, M., Rickards, B. & Davies, J. 2008. A refined graptolite biostratigraphy for the late Ordovician-early Silurian of central Wales. Lethaia. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00108.x
Teaching
- 1st Year co-ordinator and embedded maths tutor
- GL1013 Time, Fossils and the Stratigraphic Record
- GL1019 Maps and Structures
- GL1024 Planetary Geology
- GL1017 Sedimentary World
- GL1018 Geology and Society
- GL1021 Introductory Field Course
- GL2005 Sedimentology
- GL2034 Interpreting the Stratigraphic Record
- GL3050 Environmental Geoscience
- GL3065 Palaeobiology
- GL4068 Palaeoclimatology
- Contributor to i-science degree
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