Yvette D. Kuiper, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of New Brunswick (2003)
M.Sc. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands (1997)
INTERESTS:
Structural Geology, Tectonics, Geochronology
CONTACT INFO:
phone: 617-552-3647
e-mail: yvette.kuiper.1@bc.edu
Personal Home Page: www2.bc.edu/~kuipery/
COURSES:
GE 110 - Geology of National Parks (Fall 2008)
GE 285 - Introduction to Structural Geology (Fall 2008)
GE 134 - Exploring the Earth II (Spring 2009)
GE 288 - Geological Field Mapping and Methods (Spring 2009)
CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS AND PROJECTS:
| Eric McPherren | Rotational signatures in quartz overgrowth tails of the Purgatory Conglomerate, Rhode Island. |
| Erin Reynolds | 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Tadmuck Brook schist: dating the metamorphic events between the Nashoba and Merrimack terranes in Massachusetts. |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
• Kuiper, Y.D.*, 2008. The dry-erase cube: making three-dimensionals visualizatinos easy. Journal of Geoscience Education, 56, 261-268.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Jiang, D., Lin, S. , 2007. Relationship between non-cylindrical fold geometry and the shear direction in monoclinic and triclinic shear zones. Journal of Structural Geology 29, 1022-1033.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Williams, P.F., Kruse, S., 2006. Possibility of channel flow in the southern Canadian Cordillera; a new approach to explain existing data. In: R.D. Law, M. Searle and L. Godin (eds). Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation of Lower-mid Crust in Continental Collision Zones. Journal of the Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 268, 587-609.
• Kuiper, Y.D. 2005. Isotopic age constraints from electron microprobe UThPb dates, using a three-dimensional concordia diagram. American Mineralogist, 90, 586-591.
• Kuiper, Y.D., 2002. The interpretation of inverse isochron diagrams in 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 203, 499-506.