Maya Elrick
Professor Emerita
- Education:
- Ph.D., Virginia Tech., 1990
- Email:
- dolomite@unm.edu
Related Website/s
Research Area/s:
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy/Paleoclimate/Paleontology
Research and Academic Interests:
Carbonate Stratigraphy-Sedimentology. Research interests in marine to marginal marine sedimentary deposits and how they record short- to long-term paleoceanographic, paleoclimatic, eustatic, and tectonic events in Earth history.
Recent Publications:
Theiling, B., Elrick, M., Asmerom, Y., 2012, Increased continental weathering flux
during orbital-scale sea-level highstands: Evidence from Nd and O isotope trends in Middle Pennsylvanian cyclic carbonates, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 342–343, p. 17–26.
Elrick, M., Rieboldt, S., Saltzman, M., and McKay, R., 2011, Oxygen-isotope trends and
interpreted paleoclimate changes across the Late Cambrian Steptoean positive carbon isotope excursion (SPICE), Geology, v. 39, p. 987–990.
Elrick, M. and Scott, L.A., 2010, Carbon and oxygen isotope evidence for
high-frequency (104-105 yr) and My-scale glacio-eustasy in Middle Pennsylvanian cyclic carbonates, central New Mexico, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.11.023
Elrick., M., Berkyova, S., Klapper, G., Sharp, Z., Joachimski, M., Fryda, J., 2009.
Stratigraphic and oxygen isotope evidence for My-scale glaciation driving eustasy in the Early–Middle Devonian greenhouse world, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 276, 170-181.
Elrick, M., Garza, Roberto, Duncan, R., Snow, L., 2009, C-isotope
stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental changes recorded in Cenomanian-Turonian (mid-Cretaceous) platform carbonates of southern Mexico, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 277, 295-306.
Elrick, M. and Hinnov, L., 2007, Millennial-scale paleoclimate cycles recorded in
widespread Paleozoic deeper water rhythmites of North America, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 243, 348-372.
Latta, D ., Anastasio, D., Hinnov, L., Elrick, M., Kodoma, K., 2006, Magnetic
record of Milankovitch rhythms in lithologically noncyclic marine carbonates, Geology, 34, 29-32.