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Peter H. Roth
Professor of Geology & Geophysics
Contact: Office: 227 FASB
Phone: (801) 581-6704
peter.roth@utah.edu
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FIELD OF STUDY
Micropaleontology, paleoceanography, marine geology
BACKGROUND
- 1965 Diploma Geology Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich
- 1965-1966 Exchange Scholar University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1966-1968 Exchange Student and Graduate Research Assistant School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Florida
- 1971 Dr. sc. nat.Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich
RESEARCH INTERESTS & PROJECTS
Biostratigraphy, preservation, and evolution of calcareous nannofossils, and paleoceaography.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Leader, A. J. Rahman, A., Johnson, T. J., and Roth, P. H., Plio-Pleistocene deepwater Paleoceanography at DSDP site 533 in the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Geology.
Bown P.R., and et al, 1996. Recent advances in Jurassic calcareous nannofossil research. GeoResearch Forum,1-2, p. 55-66.
Winter, A., Jordan, R., and Roth, P.H., 1994. Biogeography in oceanic waters. In: Amos Winter and William G. Siesser, editors. Coccolithophores . Cambridge University Press, p. 161-177.
Roth, P.H., 1994. Distribution in oceanic sediments. In: Amos Winter and William G. Siesser, editors. Coccolithophores . Cambridge University Press, p. 199-218.
Rahman, A. and Roth, P.H. 1991. New calcareous nannofossils of Jurassic and early Cretaceous age from the Oka River region in central Russia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abh., 184(2):251-277.
Rahman, A. and Roth, Peter H., 1991. New Calcareous nannofossil taxa of Mesozoic age from the DSDP Site 534A in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Eclogae geol. Helv., 84(3):765-789.
Thierstein, H.R. and Roth, P.H., 1991. Oxygen and carbon isotopic fluctuations in cyclic Cretaceous Deep Sea Sediments: Dominance of diagenetic effects. Marine Geology, 97:1-34.
Rahman, A. and Roth, P.H., 1989. Late Neogene biostratigraphy of the Gulf of Aden Region and Calibration of biogeochronology using tephro-correlations with East Africa. Marine Micropaleontology, 15:1-27.
Rahman, A. and Roth, P.H. , 1990. Late Neogene paleoceanography and paleoclimatology of the Gulf of Aden Region based on calcareous nannofossils. Paleoceanography, 5:91-107
