Stratigraphy and Sedimentology

• B.S. Geology, June 1977, University of California-Davis
• Ph.D. Geology, December 1982, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Clastic sedimentary geology, and multidisciplinary studies using aspects of facies, basin analysis, fluid flow, and modeling (with applications toward environmental and predictive problems).  Recent work examines sandstone color, iron oxide concretions, and weathering patterns as terrestrial analogs for the red planet Mars.

Bowen, B.B., Martini, B., Chan, M. A., and Parry, W. T.,  Feb. 2007 in press (accepted 3/06), Reflectance and Imaging Spectroscopic Mapping of Fluid Flow Pathways in the Navajo Sandstone:  AAPG Bulletin.

Parry, W. T., Forester, C., Evans, J., and Chan, M. A., June 2007, Geochemistry of CO2 Sequestration in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Colorado Plateau, Utah: Environmental Geosciences.

Hudson, S., and Chan, M. A., 2006,  Observations from the Mall Road Section: Whitmore Point Member of the Jurassic Moenave Formation (short contribution): in Harris, J., Kirkland, J. and Milner, A., eds., The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37,  p. 67-70.

Chan, M. A., Johnson, C. M., Beard, B.L., Bowman, J.R., and Parry, W.T., 2006, Iron isotopes constrain the pathways and formation mechanisms of terrestrial oxide concretions: A tool for tracing iron cycling on Mars?: Geosphere, v. 2, Issue 7 (December 2006) p. 324-332.

Bernier, J. and Chan, M. A., 2006, Sedimentology and Depositional Environments of the Tidwell Member, Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, East-Central Utah: The Mountain Geologist, v. 43, p. 313-332.

Gregory, M. A., Chan, M.A., Currey, D. R.,  and Schofield, I.,  2006, Transgressive shoreline landforms and lithofacies models of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah: in Kimm M. Harty and David E. Tabet, Editors, Geology of Northwestern Utah, Utah Geological Association Publication 34 (CD Rom, 14 p.). 
 
Souza-Egipsy, V., Ormö , J., Bowen, B.B., Chan, M.A., and Komatsu, G., 2006, Ultrastructural study of iron oxide precipitates: Implications for the search for biosignatures in the Meridiani hematite concretions, Mars: Astrobiology v.  6, No. 4, p. 527 -545.

Passey, B., Cerling, T., and Chan, M.A.,2006, Dam fun: A scale-model classroom experiment for teaching basic concepts in hydrology and sedimentary geology: Journal of Geoscience Education v. 54, n. 4  p.  487-490.

Felton, A., P. W. Jewell, M. A. Chan, and D. Currey, 2006, Controls of tufa development in Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah: Journal of Geology, v. 114, p. 377-389.

Beitler, B., Parry, W.T., and Chan, M.A., 2005, Fingerprints of fluid flow: Chemical diagenetic history of the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, southern Utah, USA: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 75, p. 545-559.

Chan, M. A., Beitler Bowen, B., Parry, W. T., Ormö, J. and Komatsu, G., 2005, Red Rock and Red Planet Diagenesis:  Comparisons of Earth and Mars Concretions: GSA Today  v. 15 n. 8, p.  4-10 (cover photo and feature article).

Roberts, E.M., Deino, A.D., and Chan, M.A., 2005, 40Ar/39Ar age of the Kaiparowits Formation, southern Utah, and correlation of contemporaneous Campanian strata and vertebrate faunas along the margin of the Western Interior Basin: Cretaceous Research 26(2): p. 307-318.

Chan, M. A., Moser, K., Davis, J.M., Southam, G., Hughes, K., and Graham,  T.,  2005, Desert potholes: Ephemeral aquatic Microsystems:  Aquatic geochemistry, v. 11, p. 279-302. DOI:10.1007/s10498-004-6274-8.

Godsey, H.S., Currey, D. R. and Chan, M.A., 2005, New evidence for an extended occupation of the Provo shoreline and implications for regional climate change,  Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah, USA: Quaternary Research v. 63, p. 212-223.

Chan, M. A., Beitler, B., Parry, W. T, Ormö, J. and Komatsu, G, 2004, A possible terrestrial analogue for hematite concretions on Mars:  Nature v. 429, p. 731-734.

Parry, W. T., Chan, M. A., and Beitler, B., 2004, Chemical bleaching indicates fluid flow in sandstone deformation bands: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 88, no. 2, p. 175-191.

Lemons, M. A., and Chan, M.A., 2004, Permeability distribution of a fine-grained lacustrine delta, late Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, northern Utah, in Spangler, Larry, editor, Ground Water in Utah:  Resource, Protection, and Remediation:  Utah Geological Association Publication 31, p. 107-122.

Beitler, B., Chan, M. A., Parry, W. T., Ormö, J. &, Komatsu, G., 2004, Diagenetic analogs to hematite regions on Mars: examples from Jurassic sandstones of Southern Utah, USA, in   Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology VIII,  edited by Richard B. Hoover, Gilbert V. Levin, and Alexei Y. Rozanov, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5555 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2004), p.162-169.  doi:10.1117/12.581625

Ormö, J., Komatsu, G., Chan, M.A., Beitler, B., & Parry, W.T., 2004, Geological features indicative of processes related to the hematite formation in Meridiani Planum and Aram Chaos, Mars: A comparison with diagenetic hematite deposits in southern Utah, USA: Icarus, Vol.171, p. 295-316. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.06.001

Chan, M.A., and Godsey, H., 2004,  Geoantiquities: Concepts and applications for education in the urban landscape:  Journal of Geological Education v. 52, p. 445-452. (download at http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/nov04.html)

Atwood, G., Felton, A., and Chan, M.A., 2004, Teacher workshop using geoantiquities: Case history of modern Great Salt Lake and Pleistocene Lake Bonneville shorelines, Utah:  Journal of Geological Education v. 52, p. 438-444. (download at http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/nov04.html)
 
Schofield, I. Jewell, P W., Chan, M. A., Curry, D., and Gregory, M, 2004,  Shoreline development, longshore transport and surface wave dynamics, Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 29, p. 1675-1690.

Jarrard, R.D., Sondergeld, C.H., Chan, M.A., and Erickson, S.N., 2004, Petrophysics of the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, central Utah, in Chidsey, T.C., Jr., Adams, R.D., and Morris, T.H., editors, Regional to wellbore analog for fluvial-deltaic reservoir modeling : the Ferron Sandstone of Utah: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 50, p. 227-249.

Mattson, A., and Chan, M.A., 2004, Facies and permeability relationships for wave-modified and fluvial-dominated deposits of the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, central Utah, in Chidsey, T.C., Jr., Adams, R.D., and Morris, T.H., editors, Regional to wellbore analog for fluvial-deltaic reservoir modeling : the Ferron Sandstone of Utah: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 50, p. 251-275.

Beitler, B., Chan, M. A., and Parry, W. T.,  2003, Bleaching of Jurassic Navajo Sandstone on Colorado Plateau Laramide Highs: Evidence of Exhumed Hydrocarbon Supergiants?: Geology, v.31, no.12, p.1041-1044. 

Chan, M.A., Currey, D.R., Dion, A.N., and Godsey, H.S., 2003, Geology for the Record (Geoantiquities and geoconservation): Geotimes v. 48 n. 6, p. 14-17. http://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/june03/feature_record.html

Chan, M. A., and Archer, A. A., 2003, A look at sedimentary extremes, in Chan, M. A., and Archer, A. A., editors, Sedimentary Giants- Extreme Depositional Environments: Mega end members in geologic time:  Geological Society of America Special Paper 370, ISBN 0-8137-2370-1, Boulder, Colorado, p. 1-4.

Chan, M.A., Currey, D.R., Dion, A. and Godsey, H., 2003, Geoantiquities – in the urban landscape (Chapter 2):, in  G. Heiken, R. Fakundiny, and J. Sutter, eds.,  Earth Science in the City: A Reader: American Geophysical Union monograph.  ISBN 0-87590-299-5, p. 21-42

Chan, M. A., Parry, W. T., Petersen, E.U.,  and Hall., C. M., 2001, 40Ar-39Ar age and chemistry of manganese mineralization in the Moab to Lisbon fault systems, southeastern Utah:   Geology  v. 29, p. 331-334.

Chan, M. A., and Currey, D. R., 2001 , Geoantiquities: Earth History in the Urban Landscape: Utah Geological Survey Notes, v. 33, n. 1, p. 8.

Chan, M. A., and Archer, A. W., 2000, Cyclic Eolian Stratification in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Zion National Park:  Periodicities and Implications for Paleoclimate, in Sprinkel, D. A., Chidsey, T.C., Jr., and Anderson, P. B., eds, Geology of Utah’s Parks and Monuments, Utah Geological Association National Parks Millenium Guidebook 2000, publication 28, p. 607-617.

Chan, M. A., Parry, W. T., and Bowman, J. R.,  2000, Diagenetic Hematite and Manganese oxides and fault-related fluid flow in Jurassic sandstones, southeastern Utah:   American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 84, p. 1281-1310.  (with cover photo on v. 84, n. 9)

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BOOKS
Chan, M. A., and Archer, A. A., 2003,  book editors, Sedimentary Giants- Extreme Depositional Environments: Mega end members in geologic time:  Geological Society of America Special Paper 370, ISBN 0-8137-2370-1, Boulder, Colorado, 281 p.

Chan, M. A., and Parry, W. T., 2002, Rainbow of Rocks: mysteries of sandstone colors and concretions in Colorado Plateau Canyon Country:  Utah Geological Survey Public Information Series 77  ISBN 1-55791-681-0 (publication co-sponsored by National Park Service-Geologic Resources Division, & Bureau of Land Management-Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument), 19 p. www.ugs.state.ut.us/online/pdf/pi-77.pdf

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DVDs
“Geoantiquity”  M. Chan, P.I.  NSF Grant ESI-0329669.  Educational film on geoconservation,  (11 minutes) Produced by Earth Images Foundation, 2006. http://www.customflix.com/208999