Jolante van Wijk, PhD
Professor of Geophysics
Earth & Environmental Science
Research
Please visit my webpage (www.jolantevanwijk.com) for an overview of research projects
Geodynamics Exploration Geophysics Basin Analysis Petroleum Systems
Landscape evolution modeling CO2 sequestration and enhanced oil recovery
Crustal magma storage systems Western U.S. geology
Teaching at New Mexico Tech
Please visit my webpage (www.jolantevanwijk.com) for an overview of courses
Earth Processes (ERTH101) Petroleum and Subsurface Geology (ERTH460)
Imperial Barrel Award Depositional Systems and Basin Analysis
Petroleum Exploration Geophysics The Lithosphere The Rio Grande rift
Mantle Mysteries and Controversies Geodynamics Reservoir Geophysics
Petroleum Source Rocks Shales
3 recent publications
Muirhead, J., Fischer, T.P., Oliva, S.J., Laizer, A., van Wijk, J.W., Currie, C.A., Lee, H., Judd, E.J., Kazimoto, E., Sano, Y., Takahata, N., Tiberi, C., Foley, S.F., Dufek, J., Reiss, M., Ebinger, C.J., Displaced cratonic mantle concentrates deep carbon during continental rifting, Nature, 582, p. 67-72, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2328-3, 2020: https://rdcu.be/b4BiA
van Wijk, J., Heyman, S., Axen, G., Persaud, P., Nature of the crust in the northern Gulf of California and Salton Trough, Geosphere, https://doi.org/10.1130GES02082.1, 2019: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/15/5/1598/573112/Nature-of-the-crust-in-the-northern-Gulf-of
Axen, G., J. van Wijk, and C. Currie, Base of the continental lithosphere scraped off by flat-subduction, Nature Geoscience, doi:1038/s41561-018-0263-9, 2018: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0263-9