Dr. Jack Deibert

Professor of Geology

 

Under construction

 

Education

Ph.D. University of Wyoming

M.S. University of Nevada, Las Vegas

B.S. Sonoma State University

 

Areas of Expertise: clastic sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, sedimentation and tectonics

Teaching Responsibilities

GEOL 3600 Petrology

GEOL 3601 Petrology Laboratory

GEOL 3500 Mineralogy

GEOL 3501 Mineralogy Laboratory

GEOL 3100 Stratigraphy and Sedimentation

GEOL 3101 Stratigraphy and Sedimentation Laboratory

GEOL 1050 Historical Geology

GEOL 1051 Historical Geology Laboratory

GEOL 1040 Physical Geology

GEOL 1041 Physical Geology Laboratory

Selected Publications and Conference Proceedings

Camilleri, P. A., Deibert, J. E., and Perkins, M. E., 2007, Structural and chronologic constraints on the nature of tertiary extension and basin formation in the knoll mountain region, northeastern Nevada:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 226.

Deibert, J. E. and Camilleri, P. A., 2006, Sedimentologic and tectonic origin of an incised-valley-fill sequence along an extensional marginal-lacustrine system in the Basin and Range province, United States.: implications for predictive models of the location of incised valleys: AAPG Bulletin, v. 90, p. 209-235. PDF Cover photo of valley fill

Deibert, J. E. and Breithaupt, B. H., 2005, In search of Ferdinand V. Hayden’s 1868 “lost tracks”: new field evidence for the location and description of the first dinosaur fossil discovery in Wyoming: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, No. 7, p. 406.


Frederick, D. L and Deibert, J.E., 2005, Murder mystery in middle Tennessee: provenance analysis of natural sediment recovered from human remains and its role in a homicide investigation and criminal trial: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, No. 2, p. 11.


Camilleri, P. A., and Deibert, J. E., 2004, Tectonic controls on incised valley systems along extensional-lacustrine margins: an example from the Miocene Humboldt Formation near Knoll Mountain (HD range), northeast Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, p. 72.

Deibert, J.E.; Benda, T.; Loseth, T.; Schellpeper, M.; and Steel, R.J.; 2003, Eocene Clinoform Growth in Front of a Storm-Wave Dominated Shelf, Central Basin, Spitsbergen: No Significant Sand Delivery to Deepwater Areas: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, no. 4, p. 546-558.


Camilleri, P. A., and Deibert, J. E., 2003, Digital geologic map of Knoll basin, Nevada with detailed layers of structural and sedimentologic data: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, p. 58.
Steel, R.J., Bjorklund, P.P., Crabaugh, J., Deibert, J., Mellere, D., 2003, Types of Shelf-Margin Clinoform and their Role in Basin Filling: (abs) Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, p. 625.


Outlaw, R.K, Erickson, R.C., and Deibert, J., 2001, Petrology of a meta-anorthositic gabbro block, Franciscan Complex, Sonoma County, California: (abs) Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs.
Steel, R.J., Mellere, D., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Crabaugh, J., Deibert, J., Loeseth, T., and Schellpeper, M., 2000, Deltas vs. Rivers on the Shelf Edge: their Relative Contributions to the Growth of Shelf-Margins and Basin-Floor Fans (Barremian & Eocene, Spitsbergen): GCS-SEPM Deep-Water Reservoirs of the World Meeting, p. 981-1009.


Deibert, J.E., 2000, Sedimentology and Depositional History of Eolian Volcaniclastic Sandstone units of the Miocene Humboldt Formation, Northeastern Nevada: (abs.), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. A-308.


McKelvey, M.A., and Deibert, J.E., 2000, Stratification features of eolian volcaniclastic sandstone units of the Miocene Humboldt Formation, northeast, Nevada: (abs.), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. A-272.


Deibert, J., T. Benda; J. Crabaugh; T. Loeseth; D. Mellere; P. Plink; M. Schellpeper; and R. Steel, 2000, Geometric and Facies Contrasts Between Fluvio-Deltaic and Storm-Wave Driven Clinoforms in the Eocene Central Basin, Spitsbergen: (abs.), America Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin Abstracts with Programs, v. 9, p. A38.


Deibert J., T. Benda, M. Jensen, T. Loseth, M. Schellpeper, and R. Steel, 1999, Characteristics of an Eocene Shelf-Slope Clinoform Complex from a Storm-Wave Dominated Regime, Spitsbergen: its relevance for prediction of deepwater sand accumulation Characteristics of shelf-slope-basin floor clinoforms from a storm-wave dominated regime, Central Basin, Spitsbergen: (abs.), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, p. A-456.

Deibert J., T. Benda, M. Jensen, T. Loseth, M. Schellpeper, and R. Steel, 1999, Characteristics of shelf-slope-basin floor clinoforms from a storm-wave dominated regime, Central Basin, Spitsbergen: (abs.), America Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin Abstracts with Programs, v. 8, p. A31-A31.
Harlan, S.S., Duebendorfer, E.M., and Deibert, J.E., 1998, New 40Ar/39Ar dates from Miocene volcanic rocks in the Lake Mead area and southern Las Vegas Range, Nevada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 35, no. 5, p 495-503.


Deibert, J.E., 1994, Tectonic subsidence and progradation of coarse sediment: quantitative basin modeling of a Cretaceous foreland basin, southern Utah: (abs.), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 7, p. A-180.


Deibert, J.E., 1994, How many "sequences" formed during the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) marine transgressive-regressive cycle in southern Utah, 5?, 3?, 2?, or just 1,: (abs.), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 6, p. 10.


Deibert, J.E., 1993, Regional development of a sequence boundary and its relationship with fluvial facies migration in a foreland basin: an example from the Cretaceous (Turonian) Smoky Hollow Member of southern Utah: (abs.), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. A-403-A-404.


Deibert, J.E., 1993, Differential subsidence in the Sevier foreland basin and its control on deposition of the Middle to Late Turonian Ferron Sandstone of the Henry Basin and Wasatch Plateau, south-central Utah: (abs.), America Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v.77/8, p. 1446.


Deibert, J.E., 1988, Depositional evolution of a Miocene extensional basin, southern Las Vegas Range, Nevada: (abs.), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 20, p. 154.


Guth, P., Schmidt, D., Deibert, J., and Yount, J., 1988, Tertiary extensional basins of northwestern Clark County, Nevada: in Weide, D., This Extended Land, Geological Journeys in the Southern Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Field Trip Guidebook, p. 239-253.

 

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