Jennifer Aschoff, PhD Candidate

Curriculum Vita:

Education:

University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., Geology (in Progress)
New Mexico State University, M.S., Geology (March 2003)
Montana State University, B.S, Earth Sciences, (2000) 

Professional Experience:

(2004-  ) Teaching Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

(2002-2004) Research Associate, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University

(2002) Summer Geoscience Intern, Worldwide Deepwater-Angola Group, Phillips Petroleum, Houston, TX

(2000-2003) La Popa Basin, Mexico Joint Petroleum Industry Consortium Researcher, NMSU

(2000-2002) Teaching Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University

Peer-reviewed Publications: 

Lawton, T.F., Shipley, K.W., Aschoff, J.L., Giles, K.A. and Vega, F.J., 2005, Basinward transport of Chicxulub ejecta by tsunami-induced backflow, La Popa basin, northeastern Mexico: implications for distribution of impact-related deposits flanking the Gulf of Mexico: Geology, v. 33, no. 2 

Aschoff, J.L. and Giles, K.A., 2005, Salt diapir-influenced, shallow marine sediment dispersal patterns: insights from outcrop analogs: AAPG Bulletin, v. 89, no. 4, p. 1-23 

Aschoff, J.L. and Schmitt, J.G., (in review), Geologic map of the 1:24,000 Dell, MT 7.5’ quadrangle, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Open File Report 

Theses:

Aschoff, J.L., 2003, Sedimentation patterns within a salt-diapir influenced foreland basin: Upper Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary Delgado Sandstone Tongue, Potrerillos Formation, La Popa Basin, Nuevo Leon, Mexico: Master’s thesis, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 259 p. 

Aschoff, J.L., 2000, Provenance of the Paleocene Stag Creek conglomerate Central Idaho, USA: Implications for core complex exhumation: Bachelor’s thesis, Montana State University, Bozeman, 34p.

Abstracts: 

Aschoff, J.L. and Schmitt, J.G., 2005, Syntectonic unconformity development, facies stacking patterns, and unroofing history recorded in Upper Cretaceous synorogenic growth strata, Cordilleran Foreland Basin, Southern Nevada, AAPG Annual Meeting Abstracts  

Aschoff, J.L. and Mogk, D.W., 2004, Geoscience education using resource collections: an exemplar using the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 34, no. 2  

Schmitt, J.G., and Aschoff, J.L., 2003, Synorogenic sedimentation along the Cordilleran thrust  belt front, Southern Nevada: alluvial systems, sediment dispersal, and growth strata development: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no.1 

Shipley, K., Aschoff, J.L., Lawton, T.F., Giles, K.A., Vega, F.J., 2003, Detailed sedimentologic and petrographic analysis of enigmatic, Upper Cretaceous impact-related deposits, La  Popa basin, northeastern Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 1 

Aschoff, J.L., and Giles, K.A., 2002, Sequence stratigraphic framework of a shelfal siliciclastic succession in an Upper Cretaceous- Lower Tertiary salt diapir influenced basin, La Popa Basin, Northeastern Mexico, AAPG Abstracts with Programs

Aschoff, J.L., Giles, K.A. and Lawton, T.F., 2001, Origin of Upper Cretaceous (Latest Maastrichtian) massive, boulder-cobble conglomerates, Potrerillos Formation, La Popa Basin, Northeastern Mexico: incised valley fill or mega-tsunamite?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 6  

Aschoff, J.L., and Schmitt, J.G., 2000, Provenance of the Paleocene synorogenic conglomerates at Stag Creek, Idaho, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.32, no. 7