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Carl Richter
Ph.D. University Tuebingen (1990)
Professor

Email: crichter@louisiana.edu
Phone: 337-482-5353
Hamilton Hall, Room 314
 
Research:
Applications of geomagnetism to geological problems, rockmagnetic properties of terrestrial and marine sediments, geological records of climate change, environmental magnetism, magnetic fabric analysis and application to structural and tectonic problems. Research activities with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).

Courses at UL Lafayette:
Geology and Man, Remote Sensing, Field Methods, Geological Data Analysis, Computer Methods, Field Camp, Oceanography, Historical Geology, Physical Geology, Earth History, Geology Seminar.

Principal Publications

Richter, C., Venuti, A., Verosub, K., and Wei, K.Y., 2006. Variations of the geomagnetic field during the Holocene: relative paleointensity and inclination record from the West Pacific (ODP Hole 1202B). Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 156, 179-193.

Guyodo, Y., Richter, C., and Valet, J.-P., 1999. Paleointensity record from Pleistocene sediments (1.4-0 Ma) off the California Margin. J. Geophys. Res., 104 (B10), 22953-22964.

Richter, C., Hayashida, A., Guyodo, Y., Valet, J.-P., and Verosub, K., 1999. Magnetic intensity loss and core diagenesis in long-core samples from the east Cortez Basin and the San Nicolas Basin (California Borderland), Earth, Planets, and Space, 51, 329-336.

Richter, C., Roberts, A.P., Stoner, J.S., Benning, L.D., and Chi, C.T., 1998. Magnetostratigraphy of Pliocene-Pleistocene sediments from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 160: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 61-73.

Richter, C. and van der Pluijm, B.A., 1994. Separation of paramagnetic and ferrimagnetic susceptibilities using low-temperature magnetic susceptibilities and comparison with high-field methods. Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 82, 113-123.

Richter, C., van der Pluijm, B.A. and Housen, B.A., 1993. The quantification of crystallographic preferred orientation using magnetic anisotropy. J. Struct. Geol., 15, 113 - 116.

 

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