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Overview

Raymond V. Ingersoll is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with an emphasis on geophysics, atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, geochemistry, and artificial intelligence. The breadth of their work spans several interconnected subfields.

They have contributed significantly to the following main topics of research:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

Ingersoll frequently publishes in venues that include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geosphere
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Geological Society London Special Publications

Their recent publications illustrate a range of topics within geology and tectonics. These include:

  • "Interpreting post-depositional alterations in deep-marine sandstones: Butano Sandstone, central CaliforniaUSA" (2024, Marine and Petroleum Geology)
  • "Temporal and spatial significance of volcanic particles in sand(stone): implications for provenance and palaeotectonic reconstructions" (2022, Geological Society London Special Publications)
  • "Evaluating the Shinumo-Sespe drainage connection: Arguments against the "old" (70-17 Ma) Grand Canyon models for Colorado Plateau drainage evolution" (2020, Geosphere)
  • "Kinematics and paleogeology of the western United States and northern Mexico computed from geologic and paleomagnetic data: 0 to 48 Ma" (2022, Geosphere)
  • "INITIATION OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT DURING MID-MIOCENE TRANSROTATION" (2020, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America)

Throughout their career, Ingersoll has collaborated with several researchers, including frequent co-authors:

  • Peter Bird
  • Salvatore Critelli
  • Massimo Civitelli
  • Sara Criniti
  • William Cavazza

Best Publications

  • The Effect of Grain Size on Detrital Modes: A Test of the Gazzi-Dickinson Point-Counting Method

    Raymond V. Ingersoll;Thomas F. Bullard;Richard L. Ford;Joel P. Grimm

  • Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation

    A. Yin;P.E. Rumelhart;R. Butler;E. Cowgill

  • Tectonics of sedimentary basins

    Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Petrology and Provenance of Neogene Sand from Nicobar and Bengal Fans, DSDP Sites 211 and 218

    Raymond V. Ingersoll;Christopher A. Suczek

  • Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, with Revised Nomenclature

    Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Himalayan-Bengal Model for Flysch Dispersal in the Appalachian-Ouachita System

    Stephan A. Graham;William R. Dickinson;Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Common Provenance for Lithic Grains in Carboniferous Sandstones from Ouachita Mountains and Black Warrior Basin

    Stephan A. Graham;Raymond V. Ingersoll;William R. Dickinson

  • Petrofacies and Provenance of Late Mesozoic Forearc Basin, Northern and Central California

    Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Actualistic sandstone petrofacies: Discriminating modern and ancient source rocks

    Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Compositional trends in arc-related, deep-marine sand and sandstone: A reassessment of magmatic-arc provenance

    Kathleen M. Marsaglia;Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Petrofacies and Petrologic Evolution of the Late Cretaceous Fore-Arc Basin, Northern and Central California

    Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Evolution of the Late Cretaceous forearc basin, northern and central California

    Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Paleogeographic and paleotectonic evolution of the Himalayan Range as reflected by detrital modes of Tertiary sandstones and modern sands (Indus transect, India and Pakistan)

    Eduardo Garzanti;Salvatore Critelli;Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • The effect of sampling scale on actualistic sandstone petrofacies

    Raymond V. Ingersoll;Andrea G. Kretchmer;Peter K. Valles

  • Interpretation of neovolcanic versus palaeovolcanic sand grains: an example from Miocene deep-marine sandstone of the Topanga Group (Southern California)

    Salvatore Critelli;Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Provenance of Franciscan graywackes in coastal California

    William R. Dickinson;Raymond V. Ingersoll;Darrel S. Cowan;Kenneth P. Helmold

  • Three-stage evolution of the Los Angeles basin, southern California

    Raymond V. Ingersoll;Peter E. Rumelhart

  • Provenance Modelling as a Technique for Analysing Source Terrane Evolution and Controls on Foreland Sedimentation

    S. A. Graham;R. B. Tolson;P. G. Decelles;R. V. Ingersoll

  • Submarine fan facies of the Upper Cretaceous Great Valley sequence, northern and central California

    Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Cenozoic sedimentation and paleotectonics of north-central New Mexico: Implications for initiation and evolution of the Rio Grande rift

    Raymond V. Ingersoll;William Cavazza;W. Scott Baldridge;Muhammad Shafiqullah

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan A. Graham
Stephan A. Graham Stanford University
Salvatore Critelli
Salvatore Critelli University of Calabria
William Cavazza
William Cavazza University of Bologna
William R. Dickinson
William R. Dickinson University of Arizona
Marty Grove
Marty Grove Stanford University
An Yin
An Yin University of California, Los Angeles
Paul E. Damon
Paul E. Damon University of Arizona
Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
W. Scott Baldridge
W. Scott Baldridge Los Alamos National Laboratory
Axel K. Schmitt
Axel K. Schmitt Curtin University

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