Graham R. Thompson
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, l97l
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Education
B.S., Bates College, l962, Geology
M.A., Dartmouth College, l965, Geology-Geochemistry/Petrology
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, l97l, Geochemistry/Clay Mineralogy/Petrology
Research Interests
Sedimentary basin analysis, with emphasis on clay mineral reactions during burial and petroleum generation; functional interactions between clay diagenesis and petroleum generation.
Publications
Selected Books and Articles:
Earth Science and the Environment, Fourth Edition, Graham R. Thompson and Jonathan Turk, Brooks-Cole Publishing, Belmont CA, 2006.
Modern Physical Geology, 2nd Edition, Graham R. Thompson and Jonathan Turk, Saunders College Publishing - Harcourt Brace, Philadelphia, PA, 520 pp, 1997
Environmental Geoscience, Jonathan Turk and Graham R. Thompson. Saunders College Publishing - Harcourt Brace, Philadelphia, PA, 622 pp, 1995
The Earth: Past and Present, Graham R. Thompson, Jonathan Turk, and Harold L. Levin, Saunders College Publishing - Harcourt Brace, Philadelphia, PA, 455 pp, 1994
Essentials of Modern Geology, Graham R. Thompson and Jonathan Turk, Saunders College Publishing - Harcourt Brace, Philadelphia, PA, 407 pp, 1994
Earth Science and the Environment, Graham R. Thompson and Jonathan Turk, Saunders College Publishing - Harcourt Brace, Philadelphia, PA, 650 pp, 1992
McCarty, D.K. and Thompson, G.R., 1991, Burial diagenesis in two 猎奇重口 Tertiary basins, Clays and Clay Minerals, v. 39, No.3, pp 293-305
Walker, J.R. and Thompson, G.R., 1990, Structural variations in chlorite and illite in a diagenetic sequence from the Imperial Valley, California, Clays and Clay Minerals, v. 38, No. 1, pp 25- 31
Jennings, S. and Thompson, G.R., 1986, Diagenesis of Plio-Pleistocene sediments of the Colorado River Delta, southern California, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 56, No. 1
Professional Experience
Research Geologist, Laboratoire de Petrographie, Sorbonne, Paris, March-June, l968
Member: Geological Society of America, Clay Minerals Society, American Alpine Club