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Stephen Marshak is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a particular focus on geophysics, as well as atmospheric science and geochemistry and petrology among other subfields.

Marshak's work explores several main topics including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, and geochemistry and geologic mapping.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Marshak include Michael S. DeLucia, Alison M. Anders, Hongyu Xiao, Benjamin S. Murphy, and D. Ravat.

Marshak's recent publications illustrate their active engagement with topics within structural geology, tectonics, and sedimentary research. Selected recent papers include:

  • Kinematic and tectonic implications of crenulation cleavage, kink bands, and mesoscopic folds in the Baraboo Syncline, Wisconsin (~1.45 Ga Picuris Orogen), 2023, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Magnetotelluric insights into the formation and reactivation of trans-crustal shear zones in Precambrian basement of the eastern U.S. Midcontinent, 2023, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Crustal Thickness Variations in the Central Midcontinent, USA, and Their Tectonic Implications: New Constraints Obtained Using the H-κ-c Method, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Development of Foreland Intracratonic Plateaus (Ozark Plateau and Appalachian Plateaus): A Consequence of Topographic Inversion Due To Erosion of Adjacent Fold-Thrust Belts, 2022, Tectonics
  • Paleotopography controls weathering of Cambrian-age profiles beneath the Great Unconformity, St. Francois Mountains, SE Missouri, U.S.A., 2020, Journal of Sedimentary Research

Marshak's publications are frequently found in venues such as Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Tectonics, Geophysical Research Letters, and Geological Society of America Bulletin.

Best Publications

  • Transamazonian orogeny in the Southern São Francisco craton region, Minas Gerais, Brazil : evidence for paleoproterozoic collision and collapse in the Quadrilátero Ferrı́fero.

    Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Stephen Marshak

  • Brine Migrations Across North America-The Plate Tectonics of Groundwater

    Craig M. Bethke;Stephen Marshak

  • Kinematic evolution of the Araçuaí-West Congo orogen in Brazil and Africa: Nutcracker tectonics during the Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana

    Fernando F. Alkmim;Stephen Marshak;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Guilherme Gravina Peres

  • Controls on the geometry of fold-thrust belt salients

    Juliano Macedo;Stephen Marshak

  • Inversion of Proterozoic extensional faults: An explanation for the pattern of Laramide and Ancestral Rockies intracratonic deformation, United States

    Stephen Marshak;Karl Karlstrom;J. Michael Timmons

  • Salients, Recesses, Arcs, Oroclines, and SyntaxesA Review of Ideas Concerning the Formation of Map-view Curves in Fold-thrust Belts

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  • Kinematics of orocline and arc formation in thin‐skinned orogens

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  • A clathrate reservoir hypothesis for Enceladus' south polar plume.

    Susan W. Kieffer;Xinli Lu;Craig M. Bethke;John R. Spencer

  • Assembling West Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic: Clues from the São Francisco craton region, Brazil

    Fernando F. Alkmim;Stephen Marshak;Marco A. Fonseca

  • Disjunctive cleavage formed at shallow depths in sedimentary rocks

    Terry Engelder;Stephen Marshak

  • Proterozoic contraction/extension tectonics of the southern SÃO Francisco Region, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Stephen Marshak;Fernando F. Alkmim

  • Modification of the Western Gondwana craton by plume–lithosphere interaction

    Jiashun Hu;Lijun Liu;Manuele Faccenda;Quan Zhou

  • Effect of overburden thickness on thrust belt geometry and development

    Stephen Marshak;M. Scott Wilkerson

  • Chemical and isotopic fractionation of wet andesite in a temperature gradient: Experiments and models suggesting a new mechanism of magma differentiation

    F. Huang;C.C. Lundstrom;J. Glessner;A. Ianno

  • Generation of curved fold-thrust belts: Insight from simple physical and analytical models

    S. Marshak;M. S. Wilkerson;A. T. Hsui

  • Development of cleavage in limestones of a fold-thrust belt in eastern New York

    Stephen Marshak;Terry Engelder

  • Proterozoic crustal extension and the generation of dome-and-keel structure in an Archaean granite–greenstone terrane

    Stephen Marshak;Fernando F. Alkmim;Hanna Jordt-Evangelista

  • Midcontinent U.S. fault and fold zones: A legacy of Proterozoic intracratonic extensional tectonism?

    Stephen Marshak;Timothy Paulsen

  • Stratigraphic evidence for millennial-scale temporal clustering of earthquakes on a continental-interior fault: Holocene Mississippi River floodplain deposits, New Madrid seismic zone, USA

    John Holbrook;Whitney J. Autin;Tammy M. Rittenour;Stephen Marshak

  • Hydrothermal alteration in anthracite from eastern Pennsylvania: Implications for mechanisms of anthracite formation

    Eric J. Daniels;Stephen P. Altaner;Stephen Marshak;Jane R. Eggleston

  • Extensional collapse in the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí orogen, eastern Brazil : a setting for reactivation of asymmetric crenulation cleavage.

    Stephen Marshak;Fernando F. Alkmim;Alan Whittington;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares

  • Mesoscopic fault array of the northern Umbrian Apennine fold belt, Italy: Geometry of conjugate shear by pressure-solution slip

    Stephen Marshak;Peter A. Geiser;Walter Alvarez;Terry Engelder

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary L. Pavlis
Gary L. Pavlis Indiana University
Fernando Flecha de Alkmim
Fernando Flecha de Alkmim Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Hannes K. Brueckner
Hannes K. Brueckner Columbia University
Craig C. Lundstrom
Craig C. Lundstrom University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Terry Engelder
Terry Engelder Pennsylvania State University
Stephen E. Laubach
Stephen E. Laubach The University of Texas at Austin
Stuart N. Thomson
Stuart N. Thomson University of Arizona
Karen M. Fischer
Karen M. Fischer Brown University
Gary D. Egbert
Gary D. Egbert Oregon State University
Susan W. Kieffer
Susan W. Kieffer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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