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Ryan T Tucker
Summary
My research interests include sedimentology, stratigraphy and palaeontology. I am a field-based geologist with a strong interest in the fossil record and the tectonics of sedimentary basins. My research has mainly focused on Mesozoic strata and entombed fossil assemblages. Furthermore, this research current is being utilized on both newly developed in Thailand and China, along with more established international collaborations in Australia, North America, France, and across Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, my research expertise draws upon my background in sedimentary environments, chemical tracers of sedimentary provenance (e.g., detrital zircon geochronology; Lu-Hf isotopes), and palaeontology, to address questions about the fossil record and the evolution of sedimentary basins. I am particularly interested in addressing questions concerning: 1) development of new strategies for improving the depositional age of clastic stratigraphic successions through the application of detrital mineral geochronology, 2) timing and pattern of basin development in Gondwana during the Late Paleozoic to Mesozoic, 3) vertebrate taphonomy, and 4) vertebrate palaeontology.
