Geology & Environmental Science Faculty Member
LYNN S. FICHTER
Professional Information
- Title: Professor, Stratigraphy & Paleontology
- Educational Background:
MS University of Michigan, 1967
PhD University of Michigan, 1972
- CV (pdf)
Contact Information
- Office: Memorial Hall 7100E
- Office Phone: 540.568.6531
- E-Mail: fichtels_at_jmu.edu (replace _at_ with @)
- Website: http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/fichter/fichter/fichterls.html
Teaching
GSCI102: Environment Earth
GEOL200: Evolutionary Systems
GEOL230: Evolution of the Earth
GEOL364: Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis
BIO/GEOL350: Inverebrate Paleontology
GEOL405: Vertebrate Paleontology
GEOL415: Geological Evolution of North America
GEOL491: Geological Literature Research
HONORS200B: Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence
Research Interests
My research interests are in several areas (and include undergraduates in conducting parts of the research):
-Interpreting the depositional processes in the Juniata Formation and relating them to the
cyclicity described in this formation by Diecchio.
-Reconstructing Ordovician regional paleogeography in western Virginia and eastern West
Virginia.
-Discovering the effects of a sudden drop in sea level on the distribution of depo-systems in the Foreknobs Formation in the Catskill clastic wedge of Virginia and West Virginia.
