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Associate Professor of Geology
Department of Geology
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0013
telephone 513-556-2547

e-mail
craig.dietsch@uc.edu

Education

B.S., magna cum laude (Geology), Dickinson College, 1978 (junior year at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

M.Sc., (Geology), Yale University, 1981

M.Ph., Yale University, 1981

Ph.D., Yale University, 1988

Experience
Director of Undergraduate Studies, September 1998-

Associate Professor of Geology, University of Cincinnati, September 1994-

Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Cincinnati, January 1987-August 1994

National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate, U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Isotope Geology, Reston, VA, October 1985-December 1986

Research Assistant, Yale University, September 1979-October 1985

Laboratory Assistant, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Minerals Division, Menlo Park, CA, June-September 1978

Laboratory Instructor, Dickinson College, January-June 1978

Professional Affiliations

Geological Society of America

American Geophysical Union

Mineralogical Society of America

Mineralogical Association of Canada

15-GEOL-101-102-103 Introduction to Geology/Physical & Historical Geology

15-GEOL-111

Geology Laboratory — Rocks!

15-GEOL-202

Mineralogy & Petrology

15-GEOL-351
The Discovery of Time

15-GEOL-503 Metamorphic Petrology

New Freshman Seminar:

15-GEOL-152

Gold, Iron, and Oil — The Geology & Economics of Mineral Deposits
Topical specializations
Tectonics, metamorphic petrology, 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb geochronology, regional geology, geochemistry

Regional specializations
New England, USA; Galicia, northwest Spain

Recent Publications
Chocyk-Jaminski, M. and Dietsch, C., 2002, Geochemistry and tectonic setting of metabasic rocks of the Gneiss Dome Belt, SW New England Appalachians: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, v. 27, p. 149-167.

Dietsch, C., 2002, The Hartland Block (a rifted fragment of Laurentian crust), W-dipping subduction, and a polarity flip: A tectonic model for southwestern New England: G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 1, p. A-78.

Dietsch, C. and Jercinovic, M.J., 2001, Constraints on arc accretion based on electron microprobe age mapping and chemical dating of monazite from Arenig or older, high-grade metasediments from the Waterbury dome, western Connecticut: G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 6, p. A-261.

DeJong, K., Dietsch, C., Gilpin, L., Roberts, T., and Stormer, J., 1999, Deformed zones in the Point Pleasant Formation (Upper Ordovician) along Locust Creek and Route 1159, northern Kentucky: in Algeo, T. and Brett, C., eds., Sequence, cycle, and event stratigraphy of Upper Ordovician and Silurian strata of the Cincinnati Arch region, field trip guidebook for the 1999 Field Conference of the Great Lakes Section SEPM-SSG and the Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists.

Reche, J., Martinez, F.J., Arboleya, M.L., Dietsch, C., and Briggs, W.D., 1998, Evolution of a kyanite-bearing belt within a HT-LP orogen: the case of NW Variscan Iberia: J. Metamorphic Geology, v. 16, p. 379-394.

Martinez, F.J., Carreras, J., Arboleya, M.L., and Dietsch, C., 1996, Structural and metamorphic evidence of local extension along the Vivero fault coeval with bulk crustal shortening in the Variscan chain (NW Spain): Journal of Structural Geology, v. 18, p. 61-73.

Department of Geology
P.O. Box 210013
Cincinnati OH 45221-0013

Box 210013
345 College Court, Cincinnati, OH 2452210-001

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