Gilletal_Nature_2011

Youngetal_P-cubed_2010

Gouldeyetal_P-cubed_2010

Young_etal_Geology_2009

Young_etal_P-cubed_2008

Gill_etal_P-cubed_2007

Babcock_Camb_2007

Cramer_Org_2007

Bergstrom_Ord_2006

Cramer_Sil_2006

Saltzman_Geology_2005

Geology_2005-data

Saltzman-Young_Geology_2005

Youngetal_P-cubed_2005

Cramer-Saltzman_P-cubed_2005

Peng_Camb_2004

Saltzmanetal_JSR_2004

Saltzmanetal_P-cubed_2004

Saltzman_JSR_2003

Saltzman_Geology_2003

Saltzman_GSABull_2002

Saltzman_Geology_2001

Saltzman_Geology_2000

Saltzmanetal_P-cubed_2000

Saltzmanetal_GSABull_1998

Saltzman_JSR_1999

Saltzmanetal_Geology_1995

Selected media articles

Dispatch science article, Feb 2007

Field Research : Matthew R. Saltzman

Project and class photos (under construction)

Western U.S. (Great Basin)
Fieldwork in the Great Basin (Nevada, Utah) is focused on obtaining high-resolution carbon (carbonate and organic mattter) and strontium isotope trends and relative sea level history for Paleozoic strata that are well-dated using biostratigraphy.   A spectacularly exposed succession in the Arrow Canyon Range of southeastern Nevada is pictured below.  A Great Basin composite carbon isotope curve was published in Geology in 2005 (see link above).

 

 
Shingle Pass, Nevada. Late Cambrian SPICE event in strata at far left, Middle Ordovician Eureka quartzite is buff layer at right, overlain by Ely Springs dolomite.
 
 

Northern Rocky Mountains (Wyoming and Montana)
The Paleozoic geology of Wyoming and surrounding areas of Utah and Montana has been an area of research because of its transtional paleotectonic setting between the rapidly subsiding Great Basin and the cratonal sequences in the midcontinent.  Projects are aimed at evaluation of roles of eustasy versus tectonics as drivers of relative sea level changes in the region.

Western europe (Dinant Basin)
Field study in southern Belgium looked at the chemo-, bio- and sequence stratigraphic signatures to compare with Nevada.

Midcontinent, U.S. (Upper Mississippi Valley)
Cambrian mass extinctions of trilobites (biomere boundaries) occur within meters of major sequence boundaries in the western U.S. and I am working with Clint Cowan (Carleton College) and Tony Runkel (Minnesota Geological Survey) to compare signals in nearshore environments of Minnnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin.