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  • 2012 - Randolph W. “Bill” and Cecile T. Bromery Award for Minorities, The Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Kenneth D. Ridgway is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including geophysics, geology, environmental chemistry, atmospheric science, and mechanics of materials.

The main topics in Ridgway's research include geological studies and exploration, geological and geochemical analysis, methane hydrates and related phenomena, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, geological and geophysical studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Ridgway has published extensively, with notable recent papers such as:

  • "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, Tectonics)
  • "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, Geosphere)
  • "Neogene sedimentary record of the evolution of a translated strike-slip basin along the Denali fault system: Implications for timing of displacement, composite basin development, and regional tectonics of southern Alaska" (2022, Geosphere)
  • "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: REPLY" (2020, GSA Today)
  • "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, Tectonics)

Frequent co-authors in Ridgway's research include:

  • Michael P. Eddy
  • Brandon Keough
  • L. L. Worthington
  • J. M. Jaeger
  • Sean S. Gulick

Ridgway has published in several venues multiple times, such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geosphere
  • Tectonics
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Among the awards received are the Randolph W. "Bill" and Cecile T. Bromery Award for Minorities from The Geological Society of America in 2012 and recognition as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Controls on synorogenic alluvial‐fan architecture, Beartooth Conglomerate (Palaeocene), Wyoming and Montana

    P. G. DeCELLES;M. B. Gray;K. D. Ridgway;R. B. Cole

  • Kinematic history of a foreland uplift from Paleocene synorogenic conglomerate, Beartooth Range, Wyoming and Montana

    P. G. Decelles;M. B. Gray;K. D. Ridgway;R. B. Cole

  • Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic growth of southern Alaska: A sedimentary basin perspective

    Jeffrey M. Trop;Kenneth D. Ridgway

  • Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the eastern and central Alaska Range: Progressive basin development and deformation in a suture zone

    Kenneth D. Ridgway;Jeffrey M. Trop;Warren J. Nokleberg;Cameron M. Davidson

  • Quaternary tectonic response to intensified glacial erosion in an orogenic wedge

    Aaron L. Berger;Sean P. S. Gulick;James A. Spotila;Phaedra Upton

  • Upper plate proxies for flat-slab subduction processes in southern Alaska

    Emily S. Finzel;Jeffrey M. Trop;Kenneth D. Ridgway;Eva Enkelmann

  • Mesozoic sedimentary-basin development on the allochthonous Wrangellia composite terrane, Wrangell Mountains basin, Alaska: A long-term record of terrane migration and arc construction

    Jeffrey M. Trop;Kenneth D. Ridgway;Jeffrey D. Manuszak;Paul Layer

  • Intense localized rock uplift and erosion in the St Elias orogen of Alaska

    E. Enkelmann;P. K. Zeitler;T. L. Pavlis;J. I. Garver

  • Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of fan-delta and river-delta deposystems, Pennsylvanian Minturn Formation, Colorado

    Richard G. Hoy;Kenneth D. Ridgway

  • Stream-dominated alluvial fan and lacustrine depositional systems in Cenozoic strike-slip basins, Denali fault system, Yukon Territory, Canada

    Kenneth D. Ridgway;Peter G. Decelles

  • Stratigraphic architecture, magnetostratigraphy, and incised-valley systems of the Pliocene-Pleistocene collisional marine foreland basin of Taiwan

    Wen-Shan Chen;Kenneth D. Ridgway;Chorng-Shern Horng;Yue-Gau Chen

  • Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska

    Sean P. S. Gulick;John M. Jaeger;Alan C. Mix;Hirofumi Asahi

  • A detrital record of Mesozoic island arc accretion and exhumation in the North American Cordillera: U‐Pb geochronology of the Kahiltna basin, southern Alaska

    Brian A. Hampton;Kenneth D. Ridgway;George E. Gehrels

  • Neogene transpressional foreland basin development on the north side of the central Alaska Range, Usibelli Group and Nenana Gravel, Tanana basin

    Kenneth D. Ridgway;Evan E. Thoms;Paul W. Layer;Mark E. Lesh

  • Late Cretaceous paleogeography of Wrangellia: Paleomagnetism of the MacColl Ridge Formation, southern Alaska, revisited

    John A. Stamatakos;Jeffrey M. Trop;Kenneth D. Ridgway

  • Structural and sedimentological development of footwall growth synclines along an intraforeland uplift, east-central Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming

    Richard G. Hoy;Kenneth D. Ridgway

  • Syndepositional thrust-related deformation and sedimentation in an Ancestral Rocky Mountains basin, Central Colorado trough, Colorado, USA

    Richard G. Hoy;Kenneth D. Ridgway

  • Thrust-top basin formation along a suture zone, Cantwell basin, Alaska Range: Implications for development of the Denali fault system

    Kenneth D. Ridgway;Jeffrey M. Trop;Arthur R. Sweet

  • Stratigraphy, depositional systems, and provenance of the Lower Cretaceous Kahiltna assemblage, western Alaska Range: Basin development in response to oblique collision

    James L. Kalbas;Kenneth D. Ridgway;George E. Gehrels

  • Kinematics of basin development during the transition from terrane accretion to strike-slip tectonics. Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary Cantwell Formation, south central Alaska

    Ronald B. Cole;Kenneth D. Ridgway;Paul W. Layer;Jeffery Drake

  • Tectonic Growth of a Collisional Continental Margin: Crustal Evolution of Southern Alaska

    Kenneth D. Ridgway

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean P.S. Gulick
Sean P.S. Gulick The University of Texas at Austin
Heinrich Bahlburg
Heinrich Bahlburg University of Münster
Matthias Forwick
Matthias Forwick University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Eva Enkelmann
Eva Enkelmann University of Calgary
Terry L. Pavlis
Terry L. Pavlis The University of Texas at El Paso
Paul G. Fitzgerald
Paul G. Fitzgerald Syracuse University
George E. Gehrels
George E. Gehrels University of Arizona
Alan C. Mix
Alan C. Mix Oregon State University
Erin L. McClymont
Erin L. McClymont Durham University
Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer University of Alaska Fairbanks

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