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

• Zalasiewicz, J.  2010.  The Planet in a Pebble:  a Journey through Earth History.  Oxford University Press.  227 pp.
• 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.
• Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M., Steffen, W. & Crutzen, P. 2010. The New World of the Anthropocene. Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 2228-2231.
• 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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