Fields of Study
Geophysics and tectonics. Paleomagnetism and its application to mountain-building processes and pre-Mesozoic plate tectonics.
Link to Curriculum Vitae
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University of Michigan's Structure and Tectonics web site
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/Ben/Pastel/index.html
About Rob Van der Voo
Research
With interests in geophysics and tectonics, Rob van der Voo's research centers on paleomagnetism and its application to mountain-building processes and pre-Mesozoic plate tectonics. In addition, he and his students are involved in studies of the more theoretical aspects of the Earth's magnetic field and its history, and the processes by which sedimentary and igneous rocks acquire their magnetizations.
Publications
Publications of the last five years (2004 – 2008)
Levashova, N. M., Van der Voo, R., Abrajevitch, A. V., and Bazhenov, M. L.,
Paleomagnetism of mid-Paleozoic subduction-related volcanics from the Chingiz Range in NE Kazakhstan: The evolving paleogeography of an amalgamating Eurasian supercontinent, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., in press, 2008.
Torsvik, T. H., Müller, R. D., Van der Voo, R., Steinberger, B., and Gaina, C., Global plate motion frames: Toward a unified model, Reviews of Geophysics, in press, 2008.
Abrajevitch, A., R. Van der Voo, M. L. Bazhenov, N. M. Levashova and P. J. A. McCausland, The role of the Kazakhstan orocline in the late Paleozoic amalgamation of Eurasia, Tectonophysics, v. 455, 61-76, 2008.
Hnat, J. S., van der Pluijm, B. A., Van der Voo, R., and Thomas, W. A., Differential shortening or rotation in curved thrust fronts: A magnetic, calcite twinning and palinspastic study of the Jones Valley thrust, Alabama, US Appalachians, Jour Struct. Geol., v. 30, 725-738, 2008.
Bazhenov, M. L., Grishanov, A. N., Van der Voo, R., and Levashova, N. M., Late Permian paleomagnetic data east and west of the Urals: Geophysical and geological implications, Geophys. Jour. Intern., v. 173, 395-408, 2008.
Rowe, C., Loope, D., Oglesby, R., Van der Voo, R., and Broadwater, C. E., Inconsistencies between Pangean reconstructions and basic climate controls, Science, 318, 1284-1286, 2007.
Abrajevitch, A., Van der Voo, R., Levashova, N. M., and Bazhenov, M. L., Paleomagnetic constraints on the paleogeography and oroclinal bending of the Devonian volcanic arc in Kazakhstan, Tectonophysics, 441, 67-84, 2007.
Ong, P. F., B. A. van der Pluijm and R. Van der Voo, Early rotation in the Pennsylvania Salient (US Appalachians): Evidence from calcite-twinning analysis of Paleozoic carbonates, Geol. Soc. America Bull., 119, 796-804, 2007.
McCausland, P. J. A., Van der Voo, R., and Hall, C. M., Circum-Iapetus paleogeography of the Precambrian-Cambrian transition with a new paleomagnetic constraint from Laurentia, Precambrian Research, 156, 125-152, 2007.
Levashova, N. M., Mikolaichuk, A. V., McCausland, P. J. A., Bazhenov, M. L. and Van der Voo, R., Devonian paleomagnetic results from the North Tien Shan and their implications for the paleogeography of Kazakhstan’s tectonic units with respect to Baltica, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 257, 104-120, 2007.
Lotfy, H., and Van der Voo, R., Northeast Africa in the middle-late Eocene: Paleomagnetism of the marine-mammals sites and basalts in the Fayum Province, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 47, 135-152, 2007.
Hnat, J., B. A. van der Pluijm and R. Van der Voo, Primary curvature in the Midcontinent Rift: Paleomagnetism of the Portage Lake Volcanics (northern Michigan, USA), Tectonophysics, 425, 71-82, 2006.
Van der Voo, R., Levashova, N. M., Skrinnik, L. I., Kara, T. V., and Bazhenov, M. L., Late orogenic, large-scale rotations in the Tien Shan and adjacent mobile belts in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, Tectonophysics, 426, 335-360, 2006.
Cederquist, D. P., R. Van der Voo and B. A. van der Pluijm, Syn-folding remagnetization of Cambro-Ordovician carbonates from the Pennsylvania Salient postdates oroclinal rotation, Tectonophysics, 422, 41-54, 2006.
Yan, M. D., Van der Voo, R., Fang, X. M., Parés, J. M., and Rea, D. K., Paleomagnetic evidence for a mid-Miocene clockwise rotation of about 25° of the Guide Basin area in NE Tibet, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 241, 234-247, 2006.
Wang, D.M., R. Van der Voo and D. R. Peacor, Low-temperature alteration and magnetic changes of variably altered pillow basalts, Geophys. J. Intern., v. 164 (1), 25-35, 2006.
Schmidt, A. G., Riisager, P., Abrahamsen, N., Riisager, J., Pedersen, A. K., and Van der Voo, R., Paleomagnetism of the Eocene Talerua Member lavas on Hareøen Island, West Greenland, Bull. Geol. Denmark, v. 52, 27-37, 2005.
Wang, D.M., R. Van der Voo and D. R. Peacor, Why is the remanent magnetic intensity of Cretaceous MORB so much higher than that of mid- to late Tertiary MORB? Geosphere, v. 1 (3), 138-146, 2005.
Yan, M. D., Van der Voo, R., Tauxe, L., Fang, X. M., and Parés, J. M., Shallow bias in Neogene paleomagnetic directions from the Guide Basin, NE Tibet, caused by inclination error, Geophys. J. Intern., 163, 944-948, 2005.
Fang, X. M., Yan, M., Van der Voo, R., Rea, D. K., Song, C. H., Parés, J. M., Gao, J. P., Nie, J. S., and Dai, S., Late Cenozoic deformation and uplift of the NE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from high-resolution magnetostratigraphy of the Guide Basin, Qinghai Province, China, Geol. Soc. America Bull., 117, 1208-1225, 2005.
Kesler, S.E., J. T. Chesley, J. N. Christensen, R. D. Hagni, W. Heijlen, J. R. Kyle, K. C. Misra, P. Muchez, and R. Van der Voo, Discussion of “Tectonic Controls of Mississippi Valley-type Lead-Zinc Mineralization in Orogenic Forelands” by D.C. Bradley and D.L. Leach, Mineralium Deposita, 39, p. 512-514, 2004.
Van der Voo, R., Paleomagnetism, oroclines and the growth of the continental crust, GSA Today, v 14, no. 12, pp. 4-9, 2004.
Van der Voo, R., and Torsvik, T.H., The quality of the European Permo-Triassic paleopoles and its impact on Pangea reconstructions, American Geophysical Union Monograph on Timescales of the paleomagnetic field, J. E. T. Channell, D. V. Kent, W. Lowrie and J. G. Meert (Eds.), pp. 29-42, 2004.
Parés, J.M., Van der Voo, R., Yan, M., and Fang, X. M., After the dust settles: Why is the Blake Event imperfectly recorded in Chinese loess?, American Geophysical Union Monograph on Timescales of the paleomagnetic field, J. E. T. Channell, D. V. Kent, W. Lowrie and J. G. Meert (Eds.), pp. 191-204, 2004.
Wang, D., and Van der Voo, R., The hysteresis properties of multidomain magnetite and titanomagnetite/-maghemite in MORB, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 220, 175-184, 2004.
Weil, A.B., Geissman, J.W., Van der Voo, R., Paleomagnetism of the Neoproterozoic Chuar Group, Grand Canyon Supergroup, Arizona: Implications for Laurentia's Neoproterozoic APWP and Rodinia break-up, Precambrian Research, 129, 71-92, 2004.
Kent, D.V., B. S. Cramer, L. Lanci, D. Wang, J. D. Wright and R. Van der Voo, Reply to a comment by G. R. Dickens and J. M. Francis on ‘A case for a comet impact trigger for the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum and carbon isotope excursion’ by D.V. Kent et al., Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 217, 201-205, 2004.
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