Dr. Darryl Granger

Associate Professor

E-mail: dgranger@purdue.edu

Associated Website(s) : Personal Web Page , Geodynamics & Active Tectonics (GAT)

Education

Ph.D.- University of California-Berkeley.

Research Interests

Tectonic geomorphology, landscape evolution, cosmogenic nuclides applied to geomorphology and surficial processes, environmental geosciences.

Teaching Interests

EAS 391A Earth Surface Processes

EAS 591R Seminar - Geology of Western U.S.

Awards and Honors

  • 1992-1995 NASA Global Change Fellow

  • 2000 EAS outstanding teacher award

  • 2001 NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) award

Professional Experience

  • 2002 Associate Professor of AMS/Geochemistry, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences , Purdue University.

  • 1996 Assistant Professor of AMS/Geochemistry, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences , Purdue University.

Selected Publications

  • Javorsek, D. II, Elmore, D., Fischbach, E., Granger, D., Miller, T., Oliver, D., and Teplitz, V., (2002) Search for anomalously heavy nuclei in gold and iron, Physical Review D, v. 65, p. 072003 (1-9).

  • Kadlec, J., Hercman, H., Benes, Vojtech, Sroubek, P., Diehl, J., and Granger, D., 2001, Cenozoic history of the Moravian karst (northern segment): Cave sediments and karst morphology, Acta Mus. Moraviae, Sci. geol., v. LXXXVI, p. 111-160.

  • Javorsek, D. II, Elmore, D., Fischbach, E., Granger, D., Miller, T., Oliver, D., and Teplitz, V., (2001) New experimental limits on strongly interacting massive particles at the TeV scale, Physical Review Letters, v. 87, no. 23, p. 231804 (1-4).

  • Riebe, C.S., Kirchner, J.W., and Granger, D.E., (2001) Quantifying quartz enrichment and its consequences for cosmogenic measurements of erosion rates from alluvial sediment and regolith, Geomorphology v. 40, no. 1-2, p. 15-19.

  • Granger, D. E., Fabel, D., and Palmer, A. N., (2001) Pliocene-Pleistocene incision of the Green River, Kentucky, determined from radioactive decay of cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be in Mammoth Cave sediments, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, no. 7, p. 825-836.

  • Kirchner, J. W., Finkel, R. C., Riebe, C. S., Granger, D. E., Clayton, J. L., Megahan, W. F., (2001) Episodic mountain erosion inferred from sediment yields over 10-year and 10,000-year timescales, Geology, v. 29, no 7., p. 591-594.

  • Riebe, C. S., Kirchner, J. W., Granger, D. E., and Finkel, R. C., (2001) Strong tectonic and weak climatic control of long-term chemical weathering rates, Geology, v. 29, no. 6, p. 511-514.

  • Riebe, C. S., Kirchner, J. W., Granger, D. E., and Finkel, R. C., (2001) Minimal climatic control on erosion rates in the Sierra Nevada, California, Geology, v. 29, no. 5, p. 447-450.

  • Granger, D. E., and Muzikar, P., (2001) Dating sediment burial with cosmogenic nuclides: Theory, techniques, and limitations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 188, no. 1-2, p. 269-281.

  • Granger, D. E., Riebe, C. S., Kirchner, J. W., and Finkel, R. C., (2001) Modulation of erosion on steep granitic slopes by boulder armoring, as revealed by cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 186, no. 2, p. 269-281.