Walter C. Sweet

Title: Professor Emeritus, Geological Sciences

Areas of Specialization:
Invertebrate Paleobiology conodonts, nautiloids);
Biostratigraphy of Ordovician and PermoTriassic rocks, worldwide

Telelphone:
Office: (614) 292-2326
Home: (614) 451-3555

FAX: (614) 292-1496

Email: wsweet@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

Curriculum vitae

Current Research Interests

Significant publications

Curriculum vitae

Born: October 17, 1927, Denver, Colorado. Married: (Lou Franken), 1957
Education:
B.Sc., The Colorado College, 1950
M.Sc., University of Iowa, 1952
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1954

Professional Experience:
Instructor, The Ohio State University, 1954-57
Fulbright Research Scholar, Oslo University,Norway, 1956-57
Asst. Professor, Geology, The Ohio State University, 1957-61
Assoc. Professor, Geology, The Ohio State University, 1961-66
Professor, Geology, The Ohio State University, 1966-1988
Visiting Professor, Lund University, Sweden, 1966
Professor Emeritus, Geological Sciences, 1988-present

Awards and Honors:
1950, Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
1950, Elected to Delta Epsilon
1952, Laudon Prize, University of Iowa
1972, 1982, Distinguished Teaching Award, Geology, O. S. U.
1988, S. E. P. M. Moore Medal
1994, Paleontological Society Medal

Membership in Professional Societies:
Geological Society of America, Fellow
Norsk Geologisk Forening, Life Member
Ohio Academy of Science, Fellow
PalŠontologisches Gesellschaft
Paleontological Research Institution
Paleontological Society
Pander Society
Society for Sedimentary Geology (S.E.P.M.)
Sigma Xi

Activities in Professional Societies
Geol. Soc. of America: Chm., North-Central Section, 1969-70
Editorial Board, Geology, 1975-78
Paleontological Society:
Councilor, 1972-73
Committee on N. American Resources in Invertebrate
Paleontology, 1975-77
Secretary, 1976-1982
President-elect, 1982-83
President, 1983-84
Past-President, 1984-85
Pander Society: Chief Panderer, 1975-1985
American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, 1979-82
IUGS Ordovician Subcommission, Corresp. Mbr. 1974-present
IUGS Permian Subcommission, Corresp. Mbr., 1979-present
IUGS Triassic Subcommission, Corresp. Mbr., 1979-present
IUGS Permo-Triassic Boundary Working Gp., 1984-present
IGCP Project 204 (Permian and Triassic of Eastern Tethys),
Co-leader, 1984-1988
S.E.P.M., Chm. Ann. Research Conf., Columbus, OH 1988

Current Research Interests

Significant Publications

1958.
(with A. K. Miller) Ordovician cephalopods from Cornwallis and Little Cornwallis Islands, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories. Canada, Dept Mines & Tech. Surveys, Geol. Surv. Canada, Bull. 38, 86 p.

1958.
The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway. 10. Nautiloid cephalopods. Norsk Geol. Tidsskr. 38(1):1-178, 21 pl., 20 figs.

1964.
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K, Mollusca 3, R. C. Moore, Editor. Chapters titled Cephalopods - General Features (p. 4-13), Phylogeny and evolution (with C. Teichert & B. Kummel, p. 106-114), Nautiloidea-Orthocerida (p. 216-161), Nautiloidea-Oncocerida (p. 277-319), Nautiloidea-Barrandeocerida (p. 368-382). Geol. Soc. America and Univ. Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS, 519 p.

1966.
(with S. M. Bergstršm) Conodonts from the Lexington Limestone (Middle Ordovician) of Kentucky and its lateral equivalents in Ohio and Indiana. Bull. Am. Paleont. 50(229):271-441, pls. 28-35, 13 figs.

1966.
(with R. L. Bates) Geology: An Introduction. D. C. Heath Co., Inc., Boston, 352 p.

1970.
Uppermost Permian and Lower Triassic conodonts of the Salt Range and Trans- Indus Ranges, West Pakistan, p. 207-275 in Stratigraphic Boundary Problems: The Permian and Triassic of West Pakistan, B. Kummel & C. Teichert, eds. Univ. Kansas, Dept. Geol. Spec. Pub. 4.

1971.
(with S. M. Bergstršm) The American Upper Ordovician Standard. XIII. A revised time-stratigraphic classification of North Amereican upper Middle and Upper Ordovician rocks. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 82(3):613-628.

1971.
(with R. L. Ethington & C. R. Barnes) North American Middle and Upper Ordovician conodont faunas, p. 163-193 in Symposium on Conodont Biostratigraphy, W. C. Sweet & S. M. Bergstršm, eds. Geol. Soc. America Memoir 127.

1971.
(with L. C. Mosher, D. L. Clark, J. W. Collinson & W. A. Hasenmueller) Conodont biostratigraphy of the Triassic, p. 441-465 in Symposium on Conodont Biostratigraphy, W. C. Sweet & S. M. Bergstršm, eds. Geol. Soc. America Memoir 127.

1972.
(with S. M. Bergstršm) Multielement taxonomy and Ordovician conodonts. Geol. et Palaeont. SB1-29-42, 4 figs.

1973.
(with C. Teichert & B. Kummel) Permian-Triassic strata Kuh-e-Ali Bashi, northwestern Iran. Harvard Univ., Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 145(8):359-472.

1974, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1991.
(with G. Klapper, M. Lindstršm, & W. Ziegler) Catalogue of Conodonts, volumes 1-5. E. Schweizerbarts'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart.

1976.
(with S. M. Bergstršm) Conodont biostratigraphy of the Middle and Upper Ordovician of the United States Midcontinent, p. 121-151 in M. G. Bassett, ed., The Ordovician System: Proceedings of a Palaeontological Association Symposium, Birmingham, September 1974. 696 p., Univ. Wales Press and Nat. Mus. Wales, Cardiff.

1979.
Conodonts and conodont biostratigraphy of post-Tyrone Ordovician rocks of the Cincinnati Region. U. S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 1066-G:1-26.

1981.
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, R. A. Robison, ed. Part W, Supplement 2, Conodonta, D. L. Clark, ed. Chapters on Macromorphology of Elements and Apparatuses (p. 5-20), Biostratigraphy and Evolution (with S. M. Bergstršm, p. 92-101), Family Ellisoniidae Clark, 1971 and Family Xaniognathidae Sweet, new, (p. 152-157). Geol. Soc. America and Univ. Kansas Press, Lawrence, 202 p.

1982.
Fossils and Time: An example from the North American Ordovician, p. 308-321 in E, Montanaro Gallitelli, ed., Palaeontology, Essential of Historical Geology (Proc. of an International Meeting, Venice 1981). S. T. E. M. Mucci, Modena, 524 p.

1983.
(with T. W. Amsden) Upper Bromide Formation and Viola Group (Middle and Upper Ordovician) in eastern Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geol. Survey Bull. 132, 76 p., 14 pl.

1984.
Graphic correlation of upper Middle and Upper Ordovician rocks, North American Midcontinent Province, U. S. A., p. 23-25 in D.L. Bruton, ed., Aspects of the Ordovician System. Paleont. Contrib. Univ. Oslo, 295, Universitetsforlaget, 228 p.

1985.
(Presidential Address) Conodonts: Those fascinating little whatzits. Jour. Paleontology, 59(3):485-494.

1986.
(with S. M. Bergstršm) Conodonts and biostratigraphic correlation. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 1986, 14:85-112.

1988.
A quantitative conodont biostratigraphy for the Lower Triassic. Senckenbergiana leth. 69:253-273.

1988.
The Conodonta: Morphology, Taxonomy, Paleoecology, and Evolutionary History of a Long-extinct Animal Phylum. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics, No. 10. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 212 p., illus.

1989.
(with C. E. Mitchell) Upper Ordovician conodonts, brachiopods, and chronostratigraphy of the Whittaker Formation, southwestern District of Mackenzie, N.W.T., Canada. Canadian Jour. Earth Sci., 26:74-87.

1992.
A conodont-based high-resolution biostratigraphy for the Permo-Triassic boundary interval, p. 120-133 in W.C.Sweet, Yang Zunyi, J. M. Dickins, &Yin Hongfu, eds., Permo-Triassic Events in the Eastern Tethys. Cambridge Univ. Press, World and Regional Geology 2, 182 p.

1995.
A conodont-based composite standard for the North American Ordovician: Progress report, p. 15-20 in J. D. Cooper, M. L. Droser, & S. C. Finney, eds., Ordovician Odyssey: Short papers for the 7th International Symposium on the Ordovician System. Pacific Section, Soc. Sedimentary Geol. (SEPM), Fullerton, CA, 498 p.

1995.
Graphic assembly of a conodont-based composite standard for the Ordovician System of North America, p. 139-150 in K. O. Mann & H. R. Lane, eds., Graphic Correlation. Soc. Sedimentary Geol. (SEPM), Spec. Pub. 53. Tulsa, OK, 263 p.