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David B. Rowley
Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the College

Department of the Geophysical Sciences
5734 S. Ellis Ave.
HGS 513
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
Phone: 773/702-8146
E-mail: rowley@geosci.uchicago.edu

Publications

Professor Rowley's Website

Solid Earth and Planetary Sciences

Current Research Interests

  • Paleoaltimetry and Paleohypsometry
  • History of Ridge Production
  • Age of Initiation of India-Asia Collision
  • Paleogeography
  • Publications

My current research interests include paleoaltimetry and paleohypsometry, past history of plate production and destruction, age of initiation of the India-Asia collision, exhumation of ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks, modelling of global plate kinematics, and reconstructing global paleogeographic evolution.

Education:

  • Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany,1983