Owen Anfinson

Office

Education

2012-2015        Jackson School Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Jackson School of Geoscience, The University of Texas at Austin. 

2008-2012        Ph.D., Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary. 

2005-2008        M.S., School of Earth and Environmental Science, Washington State University. 

2001-2005        B.A., Department of Geology, Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota.

Degrees

Academic Interests

I primarily consider myself a tectonic sedimentologist, meaning that most of my research focuses on utilizing tools such as detrital geochronology and thermochronology to understand tectonic problems. My research has spanned a wide range of field areas from the Channeled Scablands of Washington to the Canadian and Russian Arctic.  Locally, my current research focuses on sedimentologic and tectonic problems associated with strata of the Franciscan Complex and the Sur Series. Globally, I still remain closely tied to Arctic Tectonics and I have a small number of active projects in the Swiss and Italian Alps.  Unrelated to my main research focus, I am also a UAS (drone) pilot and collect aerial imagery to help create 3D models and 3D prints to better understand regional geologic outcrops. I am always looking for motivated students to join my research team and am open to new areas of research. 

Selected Publications & Presentations

* Advised students

Das, M., Anfinson, O.A., Rowe, C.D., and Schroeder, N. Age, sedimentology and deformation history of the Mesozoic Franciscan Accretionary Complex, Angel Island, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B37239.1

Ortega, Y, Galarza, D., Anfinson, O.A. 2024. Geology From Above: Utilizing Drones and Photogrammetry to Construct a Virtual Geologic Field Trip. Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Spokane, WA. Abstract ID: 399777

Anfinson, O.A., Odlum, M.L., Piepjohn, K., Poulaki, E.M., Shephard, G.E., Stockli, D.F., Levang, D., Jensen, M.A. and Pavlovskaia, E.A., 2022. Provenance Analysis of the Andrée Land Basin and Implications for the Paleogeography of Svalbard in the Devonian. Tectonics, 41(11), e2021TC007103.

Gaina, C., Shephard, G.E., Minakov, A., Anfinson, O., Ershova, V., Schaeffer, A., Senger, K., Stockli, D., Coakley, B., Eivind Augland, L., Audet, P., Midtkandal, I., and Jones, M. 2022. A digital Circum-Arctic geoscience data repository from the NORRAM project. International Geologic Congress. Busan, Korea.

Malusá, M.G, Anfinson, O.A, and Stockli, D.F. 2022. (Mis)Identification of magmatic and exhumation ages by double dating of detrital mineral grains: insights from the Bergell-Gonfolite system (European Alps). Chemical Geology. v.606, p. 1-11, doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.120970

Simoneau, V., Wakabayashi, J., Anfinson, O.A. 2022 Are Olistostromes of the Great Valley Group, California Remnants of Forearc Mud Volcano Deposits or Submarine Landslide Deposits from Sea-Floor Horsts? Geological Society of America National Meeting, Portland, OR.

Anfinson, O.A., Stockli, D.F., Miller, J.C., Möller, A., and Schlunegger, F., 2020. Tectonic Exhumation of the Central Alps Recorded by Detrital Zircon in the Molasse Basin, Switzerland. Solid Earth, v. 11, p. 1-24, doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1-2020

Bero, D.A., Anfinson, O.A., and Raymond, L., 2020. New insights on Franciscan Complex geology, architecture, depositional age, and provenance for the western Mt. Tamalpais area, Marin County, CA. International Geology Review. p.1-33 DOI:10.1080/00206814.2020.1785338.

Teaching Reviews - https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=2080447

Research Gate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Owen_Anfinson

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