Peter G. DeCelles

Research Interests

Regional structural evolution of collisional and cordilleran orogenic belts and sedimentary basins, including the Himalayan, Tibetan, Andean, North American Cordilleran, Pamir, and Alpine-Apennine orogenic systems

Structural geology of fold-thrust belts

Petrology, provenance (conventional and geochemical), and detrital geo-petro-thermochronology of clastic sediments and sedimentary rocks

Physical sedimentology and depositional systems in fluvial, alluvial, eolian and marine settings

Landscape evolution in orogenic highlands

Awards and Recognitions

• Francis J. Pettijohn Medal, Society for Sedimentary Geology-SEPM (2018)
• American Geophysical Union Fellow (2017)
• Geosciences Alumni Board Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Arizona (2017)
• Galileo Circle Fellow, University of Arizona (2009)
• Laurence L. Sloss Award, Geological Society of America (2008)
• Cox Professorship, Stanford University (2007)
• Most Cited Paper Award, Earth & Planetary Science Letters (2004-2007)
• Geological Society of America (Fellow)

Education

B.S. in Geology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1980

Ph.D. and M.S. in Geology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1984

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1984-86