Peter Isaacson

Professor Paleontology, Stratigraphy isaacson@uidaho.edu Mines 308 (208)885-7969

EDUCATION

• PhD, Geology, 1974—Oregon State University, Corvallis
• BA, Geology, 1968—University of Colorado, Boulder

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Late Devonian glaciations of western Gondwana and its consequences
• Late Paleozoic stratigraphy and paleogeography of the central Andes
• Devonian through Permian sequence stratigraphy of southern Idaho
• Late Paleozoic biogeography

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Abplanalp, J., Isaacson, P.E, Batt, L.S., and Pope, M..C. 2009. Conodont biostratigraphy and new zonation of Chesterian strata (late Mississippian and early Pennsylvanian), east-central Idaho and southwest Montana. Mountain Geologist. in review.
• Arefifard, S., and Isaacson P.E. 2009. Permian sequence stratigraphy in east-central Iran: microplate records of peri-Tethyan and North Gondwana events. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology: in review.
• Isaacson, P.E., Díaz-Martínez, E., Grader, G. Kalvoda, J., Babek, O., and Devuyst, F.X. 2008. Late Devonian Glaciation in Gondwana. In: Soreghan, G.S., and Montañez, I.P. (Eds.), Geosystems: investigations of the Late Paleozoic Tropical Earth System. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Special Issue, v. 268, p. 126-142.
• Grader, G.W., Isaacson, P.E., Diaz-Martinez, E., and M.C. Pope. 2008. Pennsylvanian and Permian Sequences in Bolivia: Direct Responses to Gondwana Glaciation. In: Fielding, C.R, Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L. (eds.), The Late Paleocoic Gondwanan Ice Age: Timing, Extent, Duration and Stratigraphic Records. Geological Society of America Special Paper 441, p. 143- 160.
• Batt, L.S., Pope, M.C., Isaacson, P.E., Montañez, I.P., and Abplanalp, J. 2008. Late Mississippian Antler foreland basin carbonates and siliciclastics, east-central Idaho and southwestern Montana: distinguishing tectonic and eustatic controls. In: Lukasik, J. and Simo, T.T. (Eds.), Carbonates through time, Society of Sedimentary Geology, Special Publication No. 89, p. 147-170.
• Isaacson, P.E. 2008. Devonian brachiopods from N.E. Washington: evidence for a non-allochthonous terrane and Late Devonian biogeographic update. In: Stanley, G.D. and Blodgett, R.B. (Eds.), The terrane puzzle: New perspectives on paleontology and stratigraphy from the North American Cordillera. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 442, p. 99-106.
• Batt, L.S., Montañez, I.P., Isaacson, P.E., Pope, M.C., Butts, S.H., and Abplanalp, J. 2007. Multi-carbonate component reconstruction of mid-Carboniferous (Chesterian) seawater 13C. In: Pope, M.C., Saltzman, M.T., and Bartley J.K. (Eds.), Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic Ocean Chemistry, Precambrian and Paleozoic Ocean Chemistry, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 256: 298-318.