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Nancye H. Dawers
Associate Professor, Ken & Ruth Arnold Early Career Professor in Earth and Ecological Science, 2006-2007  
Dept. Earth & Env. Sciences
Tulane University 
New Orleans, LA 70118
Room
202 Blessey Hall
Phone: (504) 862-3200
Fax: (504) 865-5199

ndawers@tulane.edu

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Education

Columbia University, Ph.D., 1997

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.S., 1987

University of Kentucky, B.S., 1984

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Research Interests

  • Fault growth and interaction; Scaling in fault populations
  • Neotectonics and landscape evolution
  • Structural geology and syn-tectonic stratigraphy using 3-D seismic data

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 Selected Publications

Densmore, A.L., Dawers, N.H., Gupta, S., and Guidon, R. , 2005, What sets topographic relief in extensional footwalls?, Geology, 33, 453-456.

Dawers, N.H., and Underhill, J.R., 2000, The role of fault interaction and linkage in controlling syn-rift stratigraphic sequences: Late Jurassic, Statfjord East area, northern North Sea, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 84, 45-64.

McLeod, A.E., Dawers, N.H., and Underhill, J.R., 2000, The propagation and linkage of normal faults: Insights from the Strathspey-Brent-Statfjord fault array, northern North Sea, Basin Research, 12, 263-284.

Dawers, N.H., Berge, A.M., Hager, K.-O., Puigdefabregas, C., and Underhill, J.R., 1999, Controls on Late Jurassic, subtle sand distribution in the Tampen area, northern North Sea, In:  Fleet, A. J., and Boldy, S.A.R., eds., Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: Proceedings of the 5th Conference, The Geological Society, London, v. 2,  827-838.

Gupta, S., Cowie, P.A., Dawers, N.H., and Underhill, J.R., 1998.  A mechanism to explain rift basin subsidence and stratigraphic patterns through fault array evolution, Geology, 26, 595-598.

Dawers, N.H., and Anders, M.H., 1995, Displacement-length scaling and fault linkage, Journal of Structural Geology, 17, 607-614.

Dawers, N.H., Anders, M.H., and Scholz, C.H., 1993, Growth of normal faults: Displacement-length scaling, Geology, 21, 1107-1110.

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