Profs. Hollocher, Garver publish paper

Kurt Hollocher and John Garver, professors of geology, have published a paper, "Provenance and tectonic settings of accretionary wedge sediments on northeastern Karaginski Island (Kamchatka, Russian Far East)" in Russian Journal of Earth Sciences (v. 6. No. 2,  2004, p. 1-28). Co-authors are Ledneva, G.V.; Shapiro, M.N.; Lederer, J.R.; and Brandon, M.T. This work summarizes the findings of Russian Visitor Galina Ledneva and Jason Lederer '01 on the tectonic evolution of the eastern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, a remote frontier area has been little studied by geologists. Findings suggest that a terrane collided with Kamchatka about 45 million years ago, and then sediment built up along the edge of that collided block. This work has important implications for tectonic models in the Pacific Northwest, as it relates to oil exploration and mineral studies. Lederer, one of the few students to do field research in the Russian Far East, went on to earn a master's degree at the University of Indiana. His senior thesis was titled "Fission-track ages of clasts in mélange, Karaginsky Island, Kamchatka Russia: Implications for the timing of terrane accretion."