Faculty

Austin, James

jamie@utig.ig.utexas.edu

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Department: Geophysics

Education: Ph.D., M.I.T., 1979 B.A., Amherst College, 1973

Research interests: High-resolution seismic profiling and coring of Lago Fagnano, Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) to decipher the geologic record of lake basins and contained sediments; use of this neotectonic and stratigraphic record to understand both the recent structural evolution of the Patagonian orocline and the history of oscillations of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds