Brian A. Hampton, Assistant Professor
Clastic Sedimentology and Tectonics
Ph.D., Purdue

Office: 13 Natural Science
Phone:  (517)432-3595
Email:   bhampton@msu.edu

Research group: Geodynamics and Tectonics

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Research Interests:     

• Long-term evolution of sedimentary basins and mountain belts (Southern Alaska).
• Spatial and temporal changes in stratigraphy and structure along convergent margins.
• Facies analysis and depositional systems; U-Pb detrital zircon provenance.

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Publications:

• Hampton, B.A., K.D. Ridgway, J.M. O'Neill, G.E. Gehrels, J. Schmidt, and R.B. Blodgett. 2007. Pre-, syn-, and postcollisional stratigraphic framework and provenance of Upper Triassic-Upper Cretaceous strata in the northwestern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska. In: Special Paper 431: Tectonic Growth of a Collisional Continental Margin: Crustal Evolution of Southern Alaska. pp. 401–438. Geological Society of America.
• Hampton, B.A. and B.K. Horton. 2007. Sheetflow fluvial processes in a rapidly subsiding basin, Altiplano plateau, Bolivi. Sedimentology, v.54(5), pp. 1121-1148.
• Horton, B.K., B.A. Hampton, B.N. Lareau, and E. Baldellón. 2002. Tertiary Provenance History of the Northern and Central Altiplano (Central Andes, Bolivia): A Detrital Record of Plateau-Margin Tectonics. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v.72(5), pp. 711-726.
• Horton, B.K., B.A. Hampton, and G.L. Waanders. 2001. Paleogene synorogenic sedimentation in the Altiplano plateau and implications for initial mountain building in the central Andes. GSA Bulletin, v. 113(11), pp. 1387-1400.