Kenneth D. Ridgway

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Kenneth D. Ridgway

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Kenneth D. Ridgway's Degrees

PhD Geology Stanford University
Masters Geology Stanford University
Bachelors Geology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Kenneth D. Ridgway is a professor at Purdue University's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. He has been recognized by the Geological Society of America with the Randolph W. "Bill" and Cecile T. Bromery Award for Minorities. His research interests include sedimentary geology, basin analysis, tectonics, and petroleum geology. Ridgway identifies as a Lenape Indian and has been actively contributing to promoting minority student participation in the earth sciences through professional societies such as the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science , the American Indian Science and Engineering Society , and the American Geological Institute .

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Controls on synorogenic alluvial‐fan architecture, Beartooth Conglomerate (Palaeocene), Wyoming and Montana (1991) (195)
Geological Society of America Bulletin (1997) (179)
Kinematic history of a foreland uplift from Paleocene synorogenic conglomerate, Beartooth Range, Wyoming and Montana (1991) (168)
Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic growth of southern Alaska: A sedimentary basin perspective (2007) (151)
Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the eastern and central Alaska Range: Progressive basin development and deformation in a suture zone (2002) (145)
Quaternary tectonic response to intensified glacial erosion in an orogenic wedge (2008) (139)
Upper plate proxies for flat-slab subduction processes in southern Alaska (2011) (125)
Intense localized rock uplift and erosion in the St Elias orogen of Alaska (2009) (102)
Tectonic growth of a collisional continental margin : crustal evolution of southern Alaska (2007) (98)
Stream‐dominated alluvial fan and lacustrine depositional systems in Cenozoic strike‐slip basins, Denali fault system, Yukon Territory, Canada (1993) (93)
Mesozoic sedimentary-basin development on the allochthonous Wrangellia composite terrane, Wrangell Mountains basin, Alaska: A long-term record of terrane migration and arc construction (2002) (92)
Stratigraphic architecture, magnetostratigraphy, and incised-valley systems of the Pliocene-Pleistocene collisional marine foreland basin of Taiwan (2001) (78)
Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska (2015) (77)
Structure of the actively deforming fold-thrust belt of the St. Elias orogen with implications for glacial exhumation and three-dimensional tectonic processes (2012) (63)
A detrital record of Mesozoic island arc accretion and exhumation in the North American Cordillera: U‐Pb geochronology of the Kahiltna basin, southern Alaska (2010) (63)
Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of fan-delta and river-delta deposystems, Pennsylvanian Minturn Formation, Colorado (2003) (62)
Structural and sedimentological development of footwall growth synclines along an intraforeland uplift, east-central Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming (1997) (60)
Late Cretaceous paleogeography of Wrangellia: Paleomagnetism of the MacColl Ridge Formation, southern Alaska, revisited (2001) (58)
Thrust-top basin formation along a suture zone, Cantwell basin, Alaska Range: Implications for development of the Denali fault system (1997) (58)
Neogene transpressional foreland basin development on the north side of the central Alaska Range, Usibelli Group and Nenana Gravel, Tanana basin (2007) (58)
Syndepositional thrust-related deformation and sedimentation in an Ancestral Rocky Mountains basin, Central Colorado trough, Colorado, USA (2002) (51)
Transport of the Yakutat Terrane, Southern Alaska: Evidence from Sediment Petrology and Detrital Zircon Fission-Track and U/Pb Double Dating (2009) (50)
Kinematics of basin development during the transition from terrane accretion to strike‐slip tectonics. Late Cretaceous‐early Tertiary Cantwell Formation, south central Alaska (1999) (47)
Cooperation among tectonic and surface processes in the St. Elias Range, Earth's highest coastal mountains (2015) (47)
Stratigraphy, depositional systems, and provenance of the Lower Cretaceous Kahiltna assemblage, western Alaska Range: Basin development in response to oblique collision (2007) (46)
Sedimentary record of the tectonic growth of a collisional continental margin: Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Nutzotin Mountains sequence, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska (2007) (42)
Crustal structure across the central Alaska Range: Anatomy of a Mesozoic collisional zone (2011) (42)
Neotectonics of the Yakutat Collision: Changes in Deformation Driven by Mass Redistribution (2013) (40)
Kinematics of a diffuse North America–Pacific–Bering plate boundary in Alaska and western Canada (2011) (39)
Climatically induced floristic changes across the Eocene–Oligocene transition in the northern high latitudes, Yukon Territory, Canada (1995) (38)
Modification of Continental Forearc Basins by Flat‐Slab Subduction Processes: A Case Study from Southern Alaska (2012) (37)
Pre-, syn-, and postcollisional stratigraphic framework and provenance of Upper Triassic–Upper Cretaceous strata in the northwestern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska (2007) (34)
Sedimentary record of transpressional tectonics and ridge subduction in the Tertiary Matanuska Valley-Talkeetna Mountains forearc basin, southern Alaska (2003) (34)
Integration of Field Observations with Laboratory Modeling for Understanding Hydrologic Processes in an Undergraduate Earth-Science Course (2000) (34)
Seismicity within the actively deforming Eastern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina (2012) (31)
Neogene and Quaternary tectonics of the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Active intraplate deformation inboard of flat‐slab subduction (2013) (29)
Subduction Polarity in Ancient Arcs: A Call to Integrate Geology and Geophysics to Decipher the Mesozoic Tectonic History of the Northern Cordillera of North America (2019) (29)
Surface motions and intraplate continental deformation in Alaska driven by mantle flow (2015) (29)
Stratigraphy, palynology, and provenance of the Colorado Creek basin, Alaska, USA: Oligocene transpressional tectonics along the central Denali fault system (2004) (29)
Geomorphic evidence of active transpressional deformation in the Tanana foreland basin, south-central Alaska (2007) (28)
The Influence of Volcanism on Fluvial Depositional Systems in a Cenozoic Strike-slip Basin, Denali Fault System, Yukon Territory, Canada (1993) (28)
A thermochronometric view into an ancient landscape: Tectonic setting, development, and inversion of the Paleozoic eastern Paganzo basin, Argentina (2014) (27)
Sedimentary Basins—Evolution, Facies, and Sediment Budget, Second Edition (2003) (25)
Petrofacies and provenance of a Late Cretaceous suture zone thrust-top basin, Cantwell Basin, central Alaska Range (1997) (25)
Provenance signature of changing plate boundary conditions along a convergent margin: Detrital record of spreading-ridge and flat-slab subduction processes, Cenozoic forearc basins, Alaska (2015) (24)
Submarine fan deposystems and tectonics of a Late Cretaceous forearc basin along an accretionary convergent plate boundary, MacColl Ridge Formation, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska (1999) (23)
Active Tectonics of Interior Alaska: Seismicity, Gps Geodesy, and Local Geomorphology (2013) (23)
Petrology and Provenance of the Neogene Usibelli Group and Nenana Gravel: Implications for the Denudation History of the Central Alaska Range (1999) (22)
Detrital zircon record of Neogene exhumation of the central Alaska Range: A far-field upper plate response to flat-slab subduction (2015) (21)
Detrital Zircon Record of a Mesozoic Collisional Forearc Basin in South Central Alaska: The Tectonic Transition From an Oceanic to Continental Arc (2018) (20)
Late Miocene to Quaternary evolution of the McCallum Creek thrust system, Alaska: Insights for range-boundary thrusts in transpressional orogens (2018) (19)
Present-day geodynamics of the northern North American Cordillera (2014) (19)
Subduction and accretion of sedimentary rocks in the Yakutat collision zone, St. Elias orogen, Gulf of Alaska (2013) (18)
Contemporary Fault Mechanics in Southern Alaska (2013) (16)
Petrology of Mid-Cenozoic strike-slip basins in an accretionary orogeny St. Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory, Canada (1993) (16)
Source to sink evaluation of sediment routing in the Gulf of Alaska and Southeast Alaska: A thermochronometric perspective (2017) (14)
Stratigraphic and Provenance Data from the Upper Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous Kahiltna Assemblage of (2000) (12)
Expedition 341 summary (2014) (12)
Stratigraphic framework and estuarine depositional environments of the Miocene Bear Lake Formation, Bristol Bay Basin, Alaska: Onshore equivalents to potential reservoir strata in a frontier gas-rich basin (2009) (12)
Geology, U‐Pb Geochronology, and Hf Isotope Geochemistry Across the Mesozoic Alaska Range Suture Zone (South‐Central Alaska): Implications for Cordilleran Collisional Processes and Tectonic Growth of North America (2020) (11)
Cenozoic tectonic processes along the southern Alaska convergent margin (2007) (11)
Links between sedimentary basin development and Pacific Basin plate kinematics recorded in Jurassic to Miocene strata on the western Alaska Peninsula (2016) (10)
Lessons Online: Educational Technology for the Undergraduate Geology Classroom. (2003) (10)
Early Paleogene fluvial regime shift in response to global warming: A subtropical record from the Tornillo Basin, west Texas, USA (2018) (6)
Mesozoic sedimentation and deformation along the Talkeetna thrust fault, South-Central Alaska: New insights and their regional tectonic significance (2003) (6)
Detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of Mesozoic sedimentary basins in south-central Alaska: Insights into regional sediment transport, basin development, and tectonics along the NW Cordilleran margin (2020) (6)
CENOZOIC BASIN DEVELOPMENT AND STRIKE-SLIP DISPLACEMENT ALONG THE DENALI FAULT SYSTEM, EASTERN ALASKA RANGE, ALASKA: A PROVENANCE APPROACH (2018) (4)
The northwestern edge of Wrangellia; stratigraphic and intrusive links between crustal blocks from the Peninsular Terrane to Broad Pass (2003) (3)
U-PB AND HF ISOTOPE DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE NUTZOTIN MOUNTAINS SEQUENCE, SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CONFIGURATION OF THE MESOZOIC CONVERGENT MARGIN, NW CORDILLERA (2018) (3)
SEDIMENTOLOGY OF AN OLIGOCENE–MIOCENE INCISED PALEOVALLEY, TYONEK FORMATION, (2009) (2)
Site U1421 (2014) (2)
JURASSIC THROUGH PLIOCENE AGE MEGAFOSSIL SAMPLES COLLECTED IN 2005 BY THE ALASKA DIVISON OF GEOLOGICAL & GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS FROM THE BRISTOL BAY-PORT MOLLER AREA, ALASKA PENINSULA (2008) (2)
A RECONNAISSANCE VIEW OF AN UNNAMED FAULT NEAR CAPPS GLACIER, NORTHWESTERN COOK INLET BASIN, AND ITS POTENTIAL AS A REGIONAL-SCALE, BASIN-CONTROLLING STRUCTURE (2009) (2)
Flat-slab subduction and continental deformation: an integrated geophysical and geological investigation of basement uplifts within the eastern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina (2009) (2)
THE ROLE OF TERRANE RHEOLOGY VS FAULT GEOMETRY FOR MOUNTAIN FORMATION AND EXHUMATION ALONG THE DENALI FAULT OF SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA (2017) (2)
Overview of the new 1:25,000-scale geologic mapping of the McCallum-Slate Creek fault system, Eastern Alaska Range, Alaska (2019) (2)
SEDIMENTARY AND VOLCANIC RECORD OF NEOGENE TRANSPRESSIONAL FORELAND BASIN DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE CENTRAL DENALI FAULT SYSTEM, EASTERN ALASKA RANGE (2016) (2)
Site U1419 (2014) (1)
Reservoir Characterization of the Bear Lake and Milky River Formations, Bristol Bay Basin, Alaska Peninsula - Abstract (2005) (1)
Neogene exhumation in the eastern Alaska Range and its relationship to splay fault activity in the Denali fault system (2015) (1)
LOW TEMPERATURE THERMOCHRONOLOGY CONSTRAINTS ON EXHUMATION ALONG AND ACROSS THE EAST-CENTRAL DENALI FAULT, ALASKA (2018) (1)
Potential links between onshore tectonics and terrestrial organic carbon delivery to distal submarine fan environments: IODP Site U1417, Surveyor Fan, Gulf of Alaska (2013) (1)
Flat-slab subduction, orogenesis, intraplate deformation, and glacial erosion in southern Alaska: A tectonic-glacial progression from STEEP (2012) (1)
An Unparalleled Opportunity to Study Postseismic Processes (2002) (1)
Integrated reservoir characterization of enhanced oil recovery targets in mature basins: An example from the Tar Springs Formation, Rock Hill field, Illinois Basin, United States (2020) (1)
TERRANES, SPREADING RIDGES, AND OCEANIC PLATEAUS – A TALE OF THE SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKAN FOREARC (2021) (0)
New Insights on the Geologic Framework of Alaska and Potential Targets of Opportunity for Future Research (2015) (0)
in Detrital zircon geochronology of modern river sediment in south-central Alaska: Provenance, magmatic, and tectonic insights into the Mesozoic and Cenozoic development of the southern Alaska convergent margin GEOSPHERE (2021) (0)
CORE-LOG-SEISMIC STUDY ON THE PRE-GLACIAL HISTORY OF THE SURVEYOR FAN DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTARY SYSTEM, GULF OF ALASKA (2017) (0)
GEOLOGY, U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND HAFNIUM ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY ACROSS THE ALASKA RANGE SUTURE ZONE (SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA): INSIGHTS INTO COLLISIONAL PROCESSES AND CORDILLERAN TECTONICS (2016) (0)
Late Pleistocene biogenic sedimentation in the Gulf of Alaska: A biogeochemical perspective from IODP Expedition 341 (2014) (0)
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Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (2005) (0)
A DETRITAL ZIRCON RECORD OF THE PROTEROZOIC TO CENOZOIC TECTONIC GROWTH OF THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF NORTH AMERICA, TRANS-PECOS REGION, WEST TEXAS (2018) (0)
Applying Low Temperature Thermochronology to Constrain Exhumation Patterns along the Eastern Denali Fault Corner, Alaska (2017) (0)
THEMED ISSUE: Geologic Evolution of the Alaska Range and Environs (2022) (0)
Sediment Source to Sink Record of a Glaciated Convergent Plate Margin: an Example from Southeast Alaska (2019) (0)
Spatial and temporal patterns of Pleistocene biogenic sediment accumulation in the Gulf of Alaska (2013) (0)
U-PB ANALYSIS OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS FROM MESOZOIC STRATA IN THE NORTHERN TALKEETNA MOUNTAINS, SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA (2017) (0)
EXHUMATION WEST OF THE EASTERN DENALI FAULT–TOTSCHUNDA FAULT “FREEWAY JUNCTION” IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA: TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PATTERNS ADDRESSING THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF TERRANE RHEOLOGY VS FAULT GEOMETRY (2019) (0)
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Early Pleistocene to Holocene glacial activity along the southern Alaska continental shelf inferred from the sedimentary record in the northern Gulf of Alaska - preliminary results (2013) (0)
Southern Alaska glaciations recorded in deep-sea diamicts: Preliminary results from IODP Expedition 341 (Invited) (2013) (0)
INTEGRATED RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION FOR CHEMICAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY, TAR SPRINGS FORMATION, ILLINOIS BASIN, U.S.A (2018) (0)
STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD AND GEOLOGIC CONFIGURATION OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC-MESOZOIC NORTHWESTERN LAURENTIAN MARGIN: A RE-EVALUATION OF UPPER PALEOZOIC-CRETACEOUS STRATA, DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, CENTRAL ALASKA RANGE (2020) (0)
Evaluating the role of Cenozoic flat-slab subduction processes on the regional tectonic, sedimentary basin, and climatic framework of southern Alaska (2011) (0)
COBBLE THERMOCHRONOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATION TO CONSTRAINING HINTERLAND EXHUMATION: LESSONS LEARNT FROM THE PYRENEES AND SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA (2018) (0)
an intraforeland uplift , east-central Bighorn Mountains , Wyoming Structural and sedimentological development of footwall growth synclines along (1997) (0)
REGIONAL SEDIMENT PROVENANCE AND BASIN DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE SOUTHERN NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENTAL MARGIN OVER GEOLOGIC TIME SCALES: DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF WEST TEXAS (2016) (0)
SOURCE TO SINK RECORD OF EROSION ALONG A GLACIATED CONVERGENT MARGIN (2017) (0)
Supplemental Material: Detrital zircon geochronology of modern river sediment in south-central Alaska: Provenance, magmatic, and tectonic insights into the Mesozoic and Cenozoic development of the southern Alaska convergent margin (2021) (0)
Deformation of Eocene Synorogenic Conglomerate in the Footwall of the Clear Creek ~hrbst Fault, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming (1998) (0)
PALYNOLOGY AND TEPHROCHRONOLOGY: AN OLIGOCENE (~26 MA) TO PLIOCENE (~3.8 MA) RECORD OF FLORA CHANGE FROM THE EASTERN ALASKA RANGE FRAMED BY HIGH PRECISION RADIOMETRIC DATES OF NEIGHBORING TEPHRA LAYERS (2019) (0)
STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK, DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE, AND REGIONAL TECTONIC CONFIGURATION OF MESOZOIC SEDIMENTARY BASINS OF EAST-CENTRAL ALASKA (2019) (0)
Neogene Tectonic and Climatic Records in the Marine Sedimentary Strata of the ST. Elias Mountains and the Gulf of Alaska (2015) (0)
The Influence of Localized Glacial Erosion on Exhumation Paths in Accreting Coulomb Wedges: Insights from Particle Velocimetry Analysis of Sandbox Models (2015) (0)
OFFSHORE STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS IN THE SOUTHERN ALASKA SYNTAXIS AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE NEOGENE SEDIMENTARY COVER OFFSHORE ST. ELIAS MOUNTAINS (2015) (0)
Tectonic Growth of the Late Paleozoic‐Middle Mesozoic Northwestern Margin of Laurentia and Implications for the Farewell Terrane: Stratigraphic, Structural, and Provenance Records From the Central Alaska Range (2021) (0)
Kinematics and dynamics of the northern North American Cordillera: deformation related to plate convergence, flat-slab subduction, and gravitational potential energy (2009) (0)
INTEGRATED RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY, TAR SPRINGS FORMATION, ILLINOIS BASIN (2016) (0)

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