Vita

Eric A. Erslev


Education

1981 Ph.D. Harvard University
1978 A.M. Harvard University
1976 B.A. Wesleyan University

Employment

1981-83 Assistant Professor Lafayette College
1983-88 Assistant Professor Colorado State University
1988-95 Associate Professor Colorado State University
10-12/2001 Visiting Scientist Phillips Petroleum Co.
1995- Professor Colorado State University

Honors and Activities

2001-02 Co-chair, annual GSA meeting field trip committee
2001-03 Geology Editorial Board
2001-02 Software development with Midland Valley Exploration
1998-02 Funded participant, N.S.F. Rocky Mountain project
1998 President, Colorado Scientific Society
1983-02 5 Petroleum Research Fund grants, 6 N.S.F. grants, 1 D.O.E. grant, 1 USGS grant
1995-97 Co-convener, Penrose Conference on fault-related folds and co-editor of Journal of Structural geology special volume of fault-related folds
1987-95 Structure Series Editor, The Mountain Geologist
1993 Co-editor, G.S.A. Special Paper 280, "Laramide basement deformation in the Rocky mountain foreland of the western United States"

Professional Affiliations

  • Geological Society of America
  • Rocky Mountain Assoc. of Geologists
  • Colorado Scientific Society
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

    Selected Publications

    Erslev, E.A., 1989, Basement balancing of Rocky Mountain foreland uplifts, in Foster and Beaumont (eds), 1989, Structural Concepts and Techniques II, AAPG Treatise of Petroleum Geology Reprint Series No. 10, p. 145-148.

    Erslev, E.A. and Sutter, J., 1990, Evidence for Proterozoic mylonitization in the northwestern Wyoming Province: G.S.A. Bulletin, v. 102, p. 1681-1694.

    Erslev, E.A., and Ge, H., 1990, Quantitative fabric analysis: Least-squares center- to-center and mean object ellipse fabric analysis: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 12, p. 1047-1059.

    Rowan, M.G., Kligfield, R., and Erslev, E.A., 1991, Volume flux during folding in the Helvetic nappes, Switzerland: Geology, v. 19, p. 1001-1004.

    Erslev, E.A., 1991, Trishear fault-propagation folding: Geology, v. 19, p. 617-620.

    Mueller, P.A., Shuster, R.D., Wooden, J.L., Erslev, E.A., and Bowes, D.R., 1993, Age and composition of Archean crystalline rocks from the southern Madison Range, Montana: Implications for crustal evolution in the Wyoming craton: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 437-446.

    Houston, R.S., Erslev, E.A., Frost, C.D., Karlstrom, K.E., Page, N.J., Zientek, M.C., Reed, J.C., Jr., Snider, G.L., Worl, R.G., Bryan, B., Reynolds, M.W., and Peterman, Z.E., 1993, The Wyoming Province, in Reed, J.C., Jr. (ed.), Precambrian,: Conterminous U.S.: G.S.A. DNAG volume C-2, p. 121-170.

    Schmidt, C.J., Chase, R., and Erslev, E.A., (eds.), 1993, Laramide basement deformation in the Rocky Mountain foreland of the western United States: G.S.A. Special Paper 280, 365 p.

    Erslev, E.A., and Rogers, J.L., 1993, Basement-cover geometry of Laramide fault- propagation folds, in Schmidt, C.J., Chase, R., and Erslev, E.A., (eds.), Laramide basement deformation in the Rocky Mountain foreland of the western United States: G.S.A. Special Paper 280, p. 125-146.

    Erslev, E.A., 1993, Thrusts, back-thrusts, and detachment of Laramide foreland arches, in Schmidt, C.J., Chase, R., and Erslev, E.A., (eds.), Laramide basement deformation in the Rocky Mountain foreland of the western United States: G.S.A. Special Paper 280, p. 339-358.

    Erslev, E.A., and Ward, D.J., 1994, Element and volume flux in coalesced slaty cleavage: Journal of Structural Geology v. 16, p. 531-554.

    Erslev, E.A., and Molzer, P., 1995, Oblique convergence on east-west Laramide arches, Wind River Basin, Wyoming: A.A.P.G. Bulletin, v. 19, p. 1377-1394.

    Erslev, E.A. and Mayborn, K. R., 1997, Multiple geometries and modes of fault- propagation folding in the Canadian thrust belt: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 19, p. 321-336.

    Anastasio, D.J., Erslev, E.A., and Fisher, D.M., 1997, Fault-related folding: Journal of Structural Geology Special Issue, v. 19, p. 243-602.

    Gregson, J., and Erslev, E.A., 1997, Heterogeneous Laramide deformation in the Uinta Mountains, Colorado and Utah: in Hoak, T., Klawitter, A.L., & Blomquist, P.K., (eds.) Fractured reservoirs: characterization and modeling, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p. 137-154.

    Erslev, E.A., and Wiechelman, D., 1997, Fault and fold orientations in the central Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Utah, in Hoak, T., Klawitter, A.L., & Blomquist, P.K., (eds.) Fractured reservoirs: characterization and modeling, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p. 131-136.

    Erslev, E.A., 1998, Limited, localized non-violatile element and volume flux in Appalachian slates: G.S.A. Bulletin, v. 110, p. 900-915.

    Erslev, E.A., and Holdaway, S.M., 1999, Laramide faulting and tectonics of the northeastern Front Range of Colorado, in Lageson, D.R., Lester, A.P., and Trudgill, B.D., eds., Colorado and adjacent areas: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Field Guide 1, p. 41-49.

    Erslev, E.A., Kellogg, K.S., Bryant, B., Ehrlich, T.K., Holdaway, S.M., and Naeser, C.W., 1999, Laramide to Holocene structural development of the northern Colorado Front Range, in Lageson, D.R., Lester, A.P., and Trudgill, B.D., eds., Colorado and adjacent areas: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Field Guide 1, p. 21-40.

    Bolay, N.V., Erslev, E.A., and Laituri, M., 2000, Orientation analysis of geologic map data within ARCVIEW: ESRI Web site, 9p.: http://www.esri.com/library/userconf/proc00/professional/professional_content.html.

     

    Computer Programs

      INSTRAIN-PC , INSTRAIN-MAC, TRISHEAR, TRIDEMO, digitizing and structural analysis programs