Paul Sikora

 

 

 

Research Assistant Professor

phone 801.581.4122
faX 801.585.3540

EMAIL
psikora@egi.utah.edu

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Professional Research Interests and Expertise –

  • Mz and Cz foraminifer paleontologist, benthic and planktonic, free specimen and thin-sectioned
  • chronostratigraphic modeling
  • graphic correlation
  • paleoenvironmental reconstruction

regional and basin Experience –

  • Trinidad
  • North Sea
  • West Africa
  • Alaskan and Canadian Beaufort
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • Guyana Margin
  • East Canadian Margin
  • Moroccan/Mauretanian shelf
  • Libyan Sirt Basin
  • Persian Gulf
  • Mz section of Yemen and Oman
  • Romanian Carpathians
  • Bulgarian Black Sea
  • US Western Interior

Education –

  • 1981 B.Sc. in Earth Science, B.A., in History; Pennsylvania State University
  • 1984 M.A. in Geological Sciences; Univ. of Texas at Austin
  • 1989 Ph.D. in Geology; Rutgers University

Memberships –

  • AAPG
  • SEPM
  • GCSSEPM
  • NAMS
  • Gryzbowski Society
  • ICS Working Groups for the Coniacian
  • Santonian and Campanian Stages

 

Publications –

Sikora, P.J., Howe, R.W., Gale, A.S., and Stein, J.A., 2004. Chronostratigraphy of proposed Turonian-Coiniacian (Upper Cretaceous) stage boundary stratotypes: Salzgitter-Salder, Germany, and Wagon Mound, New Mexico, USA. in: Beaudoinn, A.B., and Head, M.J., (eds.), The Palynology and Micropalaeontology of Boundaries, Geol. Soc., London, Spec. Publ., no. 230, pp. 207-242.

Sikora, P.J., and Bergen, J.A., 2004. Lower Cretaceous planktonic foraminiferal and nannofossil biostratigraphy of Ontong Java Plateau sites from DSDP Leg 30 and ODP Leg 192. in: Fitton,k J.G., Mahoney, J.J., Wallace, P.J., and Saunders, A. D. (eds.), Origin and Evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau, Geol. Soc., London, Spec. Publ., no. 229, pp. 83-111.

Sikora, P.J., Ogg, J.G., Gary, A., Cervato, C., Gradstein, F., Huber, B.T., Marshall, C., Stein, J.A., and Wardlaw, B., 2006. An integrated chronostratigraphic data system for the twenty-first century. in; Sinha, A.K., (ed.), Geoinformatics: Data to Knowledge, Geol. Soc. America, Spec. Paper 397, pp. 53-59.

Howe, R. W., Sikora, P.J., Gale, A.S., and Bergen, J.A., in press. Calcareous nannofossil and planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of proposed stratotypes for the Coniacian/Santonian boundary: Olazagutia, northern Spain; Seaford Head, J.K.; and Ten Mile Creek, Texas, USA. Cretaceous Research, Special Publ.