BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHE
John S. Oldow
Born: Mount Vernon, Washington; December 11, 1949
Education: Anacortes High School, 1968
University of Washington (1968-1972) B.S. Geology, June 1972
Northwestern University (1972-1976) Ph.D. Geology, June 1978
Experience:
1972 - 1976 Research Assistant, Northwestern University
1976 - 1978 Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University
1978 - 1983 Assistant Professor, Rice University
1983 - 1988 Associate Professor, Rice University
1985 - 1986 Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia
1985 - 1986 Visiting Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada
Spring 1987 Visiting Professor, University of Naples, Italy
1988 - present President, Tectonic Analysis Group, Inc.
1988 - 1995 Professor, Rice University
1988 - 1994 Associate Editor, Geological Society of America Bulletin
1989 - 1993 Secretary-Treasurer, International Division, Geological Society of
America
1992 - 1994 Editorial Board, Geology
1995 - present Professor and Head, Department of Geology and Geologic
EngineeringUniversity of Idaho
Professional Activities:
Industrial Consultant (Petroleum Companies; Amoco, ARCO, Conoco, Exxon, Gulf, Mobil,
Shell, and Texaco: Mineral Companies; Callahan Mining, Kennecott Exploration, Occidental
Minerals, Union Carbide, Ventures West)
Consultant to Government Agencies (Los Alamos National Laboratory; Nevada Bureau of Mines
and Geology; United States Geological Survey; Defense Nuclear Agency, Department of
Defense)
Consultant to the Southwest Research Institute
Service on National Committees (National Research Council: National Science Foundation
Fellowship Committee; Organizing Committee for the Trans-Alaska Lithospheric
Investigation (TALI); National Science Foundation: Review panel on the success and future
direction of Reflection Profiling in the Earth Sciences - review of the Continental Lithosphere
Program; NSF-USGS-DOE Continental Dynamics Workshop)
Professional Affiliations:
Geological Society of America
American Geophysical Union
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Honors:
Wernecke Memorial Scholarship (1971 - 1972) University of Washington
University Fellowship (1973 - 1975) Northwestern University
Charlie Ney Lectureship (1985 - 1986) Geological Association of Canada
Fellow of the Geological Society of America
Selected Publications
Ave Lallemant, H.G. and Oldow, J.S., 1988, Early Mesozoic southward migration of Cordilleran transpressional terranes: Tectonics, v. 7, p. 1057-1088.
Oldow, J.S., Bally, A.W., Avé Lallemant, H.G., and Leeman, W.P., 1989, Phanerozoic evolution of the North American Cordillera (United States and Canada) in Bally, A.W., and Palmer, A.R., eds., The Geology of North America: An Overview: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. A, p. 139-232.
Oldow, J.S., 1992, Late Cenozoic displacement partitioning in the northwestern Great Basin, in Craig, S.D., ed., Structure, tectonics, and mineralization of the Walker Lane, Reno, Nevada, Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings Volume, p. 17-52.
Oldow, J.S., D'Argenio, B., Ferranti, L., Pappone, G., Marsella, E., and Sacchi, M., 1993, Large-scale longitudinal extension in the southern Apennines contractional belt, Italy: Geology, v. 21, p. 1123-1127.
Oldow, J.S., Bally, A.W., and Avé Lallemant, H.G., 1990, Transpression, orogenic float, and lithospheric balance: Geology, v. 18, p. 991-994.
Oldow, J.S., Aiken, C.L.V., Ferguson, J.F., and Hare, J.L., 1994, Central Walker Lane strain network, Part 1: Late Cenozoic transtensional tectonism in the western Great Basin: EOS, v. 75, p. 164.
Aiken, C.L V., Oldow, J.S., Ferguson, J.F., and Hare, J.L., 1994, Central Walker Lane strain network, Part 2: Assessing contemporary deformation in the western Great Basin: Deployment of the Rice/UTD GPS strain network: EOS, v. 75, p. 164.
Hare, J.L., Ferguson, J.F., Oldow, J.S., and Aiken, C.L.V., 1994, Central Walker Lane strain network Part 3: High resolution topography of Lake Lahontan shoreline terraces: Estimation of vertical strain in the Walker Lane: EOS, v. 75, p. 164.
Oldow, J.S., Kohler, G., and Donelick, R.A., 1994, Late Cenozoic extensional transfer in the Walker Lane strike-slip belt, Nevada: Geology, v. 22, p. 637-640.
Harry, D.L., Oldow, J.S., and Sawyer, D.S., 1994, Stress and strain partitioning in orogenic belts: the role of pre-existing structural heterogeneities: Geological Society of America, Bulletin, v. 107, 1411-1426.
Oldow, J.S., and Ave Lallemant, H.G., 1998, Architecture of the central Brooks Range fold and thrust belt, Arctic Alaska: Geological Society of America Special Paper (17 Chapters), in press.
Graduate Students, Post-Doctoral Fellows, and Associated Scientists
F.E. Julian, student
E.M. Seidensticker, student
R.L. Bartel, student
G. Kohler, student
J.I. Satterfield, student
R.R. Gottschalk, post-doc
E. Marsella, post-doc
R.C. Speed, graduate advisor
H.G. Avé Lallemant, collaborator
J.W. Geissman, collaborator
W.P. Leeman, collaborator
A.W. Bally, collaborator
J.E. Wright, collaborator
B. D'Argenio, collaborator
R. Catalano, collaborator
J.E.T. Channell, collaborator
C.L.V. Aiken, collaborator
J.F. Ferguson, collaborator
D. Geist, collaborator