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Sian Davies-Vollum, D.Phil.

Associate Professor ; Graduate Faculty
  • D.Phil., Geology, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, 1994.
Dept: Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Room: SCI 226
Phone: 253-692-4624
E-mail: ksdavies@u.washington.edu
Davies-Vollum, Sian My area of specialty within geology is sedimentology and paleontology and my research focuses on ancient floodplain environments and vegetation. My main field research area is in Wyoming but I have recently also worked with students in Utah, New Mexico, and Saskatchewan, Canada. I teach classes in geology and environmental science, many of which have field and lab components.

Selected Publications

  • Kraus, M.J., and Davies-Vollum, K.S., 2004, Heterolithic channel fills formed during avulsions: examples from the Willwood Formation, Wyoming. Sedimentology 51: 1127-1144
  • Davies-Vollum, K.S. and Kraus, M.J., 2001, The relationship between alluvial backswamps and avulsion cycles: An example from the Willwood Formation of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Sedimentary Geology, 140 (3-4): 235-249
  • Davies-Vollum, K.S, 1999, The formation of beds underlying carbonaceous shales as aquic paleosols: examples form the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming. International Journal of Coal Geology 41: 239-255.
  • Davies-Vollum. K.S., 1999, Reply to comments on Post K-T boundary paleoclimate inferences from fossil floras of the Western Interior, U.S.A. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 150: 347-349.
  • Davies-Vollum, K.S, Edgar, K.C., Fox, M.J., Fuller, E.R., Levin, E.C., McCaffrey, D.B., Reist, M.R. and Stamski, R.E., 1999, Using dendroclimatology in a student-directed research project. Journal of Geoscience Education 47(3): 266-271.