Dr. Kathleen Marsaglia, Professor

Ph.D., UCLA 1989; M.S. 1982, B.S., 1979University of IIllinois

CONTACT INFORMATION
               Address:
                              Department of Geological Sciences
                              California State University Northridge
                              18111 Nordhoff Street
                              Northridge, CA 91330-8266
               Office: Live Oak Hall, room 1233
               Phone:818-677-6309
               Fax:818-677-2820
               Email:kathie.marsaglia@csun.edu

COURSES TAUGHT
               Geology 101Geology of Planet Earth 
               Geology 341 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
               Geology 523 Sedimentation and Tectonics 
               Geology 521 Sedimentary Environments 

CURRENT FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Australian Research Council, Archaeology of the Gulf Province Lowlands, Papua New Guinea (B. David, PI, K. Marsaglia listed as Partner Investigator)

National Science Foundation, Title: Mentoring through research as a catalyst for success in the geosciences (Phase 2): A track 2 proposal for high school, undergraduate, and graduate (MS) underrepresented groups at CSUN. (PI)  Current Student Research  topics supported by this grant:  (1) Sand from source-to-sink  in the Waipaoa Sedimentary System: Defining and applying an actualistic model of sand provenance in a modern forearc basin;  (2) Miocene syntectonic gravels; (3) Quaternary “quake” lake deposits;  and (4) Marine shelf sand source and distribution.

CATALYST PROGRAM
The NSF supported Catalyst Program provides opportunities for students from under-represented groups in the Geosciences to complete BS and MS degrees at CSUN. The program centers around the formation of integrated undergraduate and graduate research groups that will foster student research and provide peer mentorship. Students in the Catalyst Program enroll in a special course designed to teach mentoring skills and research concepts. Through this course, students become familiar with each other and the four faculty advisors and research areas of the Catalyst Program. Students then may join one of the research groups centered on exciting and engaging projects of local to global significance. The projects have significant topical overlap (seismology, active tectonics, sedimentation and tectonics, and sedimentation and low-temperature geochemistry), providing common ground for student interaction in the classroom, in the field, and in the laboratory.

Research groups include graduate (CSUN MS candidates), undergraduate (from CSUN and community colleges), and high-school students. The multi-tiered approach connects students with mentors horizontally (peer) and vertically (near-peer and advisor). The various levels of mentoring relationships developed by students in the Catalyst Program will foster the academic and personal strengths needed for success in educational and professional careers.

According to the directive from the National Science Foundation, students eligible for the program during its initial year include African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans (American Indians and Alaskan Natives), Native Pacific Islanders (Polynesians or Micronesians) and persons with disabilities. Participation in the Catalyst Program will include some financial support for undergraduate and high school students and significant funding for graduate students. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (students in italics)

Fitzpatrick, S.M., Carstensen, J., Marsaglia, K.M., Descantes, C., Glascock, M., Kaye, Q., and Kappers, M., in press, Petrographic and chemical analysis of prehistoric ceramics from Carriacou, southern Grenadines, West Indies: Journal of Caribbean Archaeology.

Hiscott, R.N., Marsaglia, K.M., Wilson, R.C., Robertson, A.H.F., Karner, G.D., Tucholke, B., in press, Detrital sources and sediment delivery to the early post-rift (Albian-Cenomanian) Newfoundland Basin east of the Grand Banks: results from ODP Leg 210: Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geologists.

Gleason, J.D., Finney, S.C., Peralta, S.H., Gehrels, G.E., and Marsaglia, K.M., 2007, Zircon and whole rock Nd-Pb isotopic provenance of Middle and Upper Ordovician siliciclastic rocks, Argentine Precordillera, Sedimentology, v. 54, p. 107-136.

Marsaglia, K.M., Pavia, J., and Maloney, S., 2007, Petrology and provenance of Eocene to Albian sandstones and grainstones recovered during ODP Leg 210: Implications for passive margin (rift-to-drift) sandstone provenance models: Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results,v. 210. www.odp.tamu.edu/publications/210_SR/210TOC.HTM

James, D.E., DeVaughn, A.M., and Marsaglia, K.M., 2007, Sand and gravel provenance in the Waipaoa River System: Sedimentary recycling in an actively deforming forearc basin, North Island, New Zealand: Special Paper Geological Society of America v. 420, Sedimentary provenance and petrogenesis: Perspectives from petrography and geochemistry: J. Arribas et al., eds., 253-276.

Shapiro, S.A., Marsaglia, K.M., and Carter, L., 2007, The petrology and provenance of sand in the Bounty Submarine Fan, New Zealand: Special Paper Geological Society of America v. 420, Sedimentary provenance and petrogenesis: Perspectives from petrography and geochemistry: J. Arribas et al., eds., p. 277-296.

Milliken, K., Choh, S. and McBride, E.F. (Marsaglia listed a contributor  of section on volcanic grains), 2006, Sandstone Petrology: A Tutorial Petrographic Image Atlas on CD-ROM, 2nd Edition, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Marsaglia, K.M., Davis, A.S., Rimkus, K., Clague, D,A., 2006, Evidence for interaction of a spreading ridge with the outer California borderland: Marine Geology, v. 229, p. 259-272.

Fontilea, K. and Marsaglia, K.M., and Dean, N., 2006, A petrological and geochemical study of Cretaceous siliceous rocks from Shatsky Rise: Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, v. 198. www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/198_SR/107/107.htm

Finney, S. C., Peralta, S.H., Gehrels, G.E., and Marsaglia, K.M., 2005, The Early Paleozoic history of the Cuyania (greater Precordillera) terrane of western Argentina: evidence from geochronology of detrital zircons from Middle Cambrian sandstones, Geologica Acta. Barcelona. V. 3, p. 359-354.

Gadley, K. and Marsaglia, K.M., 2005, Petrography and correlation of Cenozoic ash layers recovered on Shatsky Rise, ODP Leg 198: Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, v. 198. www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/198_SR/108/108.htm

Marsaglia, K.M., 2005, Sedimentology, petrology, and volcanology of the lower Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE1a), Shatsky Rise, north-central Pacific Ocean. In Bralower, T.J., Premoli Silva, I., and Malone, M.J. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 198 [Online]. http://wwwodp.tamu.edu/publications/198_SR/109/109.htm .

Tucholke, B.E., Sibuet, J.-C., Klaus, A., and the Leg 210 Scientific Party (includes Marsaglia), 2004,  Margins of the Newfoundland-Iberia rift: ODP Leg 210 explores the Newfoundland Basin: JOIDES Journal, v. 30, no. 1, p. 20-24.

Marsaglia, K.M., Fukusawa, H., Cornell, W.C., Skilbeck, C.G., Meyers, P.A., Prasad, M., and Klaus, A., 2004, Eustatic signals in deep-marine sedimentary sequences recovered at ODP Site 978, Alboran Basin, western Mediterranean Sea, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 74, p. 378-390.

Tucholke, B.E., Sibuet, J.-C., Klaus, A., and the Leg 210 Scientific Party (includes Marsaglia), 2004, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, Volume 210, {CD-ROM}. (online at http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications)

Brassell, S.C., Dumitescu, M., and the ODP Leg 198 Shipboard Scientific Party (includes Marsaglia) (2004) Recognition of alkenones in a lower Aptian porcellanite from the west-central Pacific: Organic Geochemistry, v. 35, p. 181-188.

Marsaglia, K.M., 2004, Sandstone detrital modes support Magdalena fan displacement from mouth of Gulf of California: Geology, v. 32, p. 45-48.

Critelli, S., Arribas, J., La Pera, E., Tortosa, A., Marsaglia, K.M., and Latter, K.K., (2003) The recycled orogenic provenance sand suite from an uplifted thrust-belt, Betic cordillera, southern Spain and the Alboran  Basin: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 72-81.

Marsaglia, K.M., (2003) Biography and citation for Dr. Albert V. Carozzi, Distinguished Educator Award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 87, p. 1052-1053.

Marsaglia, K.M., (2002) The Mesoproterozoic section in the Franklin Mountains: Correlation and regional tectonic implications for a southern Arizona-west Texas extensional corridor (SAWTEC): in F. A. Corsetti, ed., Proterozoic-Cambrian of the Great Basin and Beyond, Pacific Section SEPM Book 93, p. 165-186.

Bralower, T.J., Premoli-Silva, I., Malone, M.J., and the Scientific participants of Leg 198 (includes Marsaglia) (2002) New evidence for abrupt climate change in the Cretaceous and Paleogene: An Ocean Drilling Program expedition to Shatsky Rise, northwest Pacific: GSA Today, v. 12, p.4-10.

Critelli, S., Marsaglia, K.M., and Busby, C.J., (2002) Tectonic history of a Jurassic backarc-basin sequence (the Gran Canon formation, Cedros Island, Mexico), based on compositional modes of tuffaceous deposits: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 515-527.

Marsaglia, K.M. (2001) Citation for Laurence L. Sloss Award, presented to George D. Klein: GSA Today, v. 11, #2, p. 47.

Navarette, R.C., Dearing, H.L, Constien, V.G., Marsaglia, K.M., Seheult, J.M., and Rogers, P.E. (2000) Experiments in fluid loss and formation damage with xanthan-based fluids while drilling.  IADC/SPE contribution 62732, Asia Pacific Drilling Technology  Conference, 20 p.

Marsaglia, K.M., Mann, P., Hyatt, R., and Olson, H. (1999) Evaluating the influence of aseismic ridge subduction and accretion(?) on the detrital modes of forearc sandstone: An example from the Kronotsky Peninsula, Kamchatka forearc. Lithos, v. 46, p. 17-42.

Marsaglia, K.M., and Tribble, J. (1999)  The evaporite to carbonate transition in the uppermost Messinian section at ODP Site      975, Western Mediterranean Sea. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 161, p. 3-20.

Marsaglia, K.M., Latter, K., and Cline, V. (1999) Sand provenance in the Alboran and Tyrrhenian Basins. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 161, p. 37-56.

Marsaglia, K. (1999) Some pointers on point-count analysis: TechNotes, Westport Technology Center International, p. 3.

Welch, J., Brown, S., Marsaglia, K., and Mese, A. (1999) Isolation of depleted zones while coil tubing drilling a horizontal sidetrack: PNEC Fifth International Conference on Reservoir Conformance, 21 p.

Bartolini, C., and Marsaglia, K.M. (1996) Mesozoic intra-arc volcanic-sedimentary sequences (Nazas Formation) in northern Durango, Mexico: A geological traverse through parts of northwestern Mexico, Guidebook for the 1996 Field Conference, Clark, K.F. and Hoffer, J.M., eds., p. 111-118.

Comas, M., Zahn, R., Klaus, A. and others (includes Marsaglia) (1996) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Volume 161, Initial Reports, Western Mediterranean: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program),  1023 p.

Comas, M.C., Zahn, R., Klaus, A., and ODP Leg 161 Scientific Party, (1996) Las perforaciones del ODP-Leg 161 en el Mediterráneo Occidental: Geogaceta, v. 20, p. 408-411.

Marsaglia, K.M., Garcia y Barragán, J.C., Padilla, I., and Milliken, K.L. (1996) Evolution of the Iberian passive margin as reflected in sand provenance. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 149, p. 269-280.

Ingersoll, R.V., Devaney, K.A., Geslin, J.K., Cavazza, W., Diamond, D.S., Jagiello, K.J., Marsaglia, K.M., Paylor, E.D., II, and Short, P.F. (1996) The Mud Hills, Mojave Desert, California: Structure, stratigraphy and sedimentology of a rapidly extended terrane, Geological Society of America Special Paper, K. Beratan and J. Schmitt, eds.

Platt, J.P., Soto, J.I., Comas, M.C., and Leg 161 Shipboard Scientists (1996) Decompression and high temperature-low-pressure metamorphism in the exhumed floor of an extension basin, Alboran Sea, western Mediterranean. Geology, v. 24, p. 447-450.

Marsaglia, K.M., Rimkus, K.C., and Behl, R.J. (1995) Provenance of sand deposited in the Santa Barbara Basin at ODP Site 893 during the last 155ka. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 146, p. 61-75.

Brown, K.M., Bangs, N., Marsaglia, K., Froleich, P.N., Zheng, Y., Didyk, B.M., Prior, D., Rochford, E.L., Torres, M., Kurnosov, V.B., Lindsley-Griffin, N., Osozawa, S., and Waseda, A. (1995) A summary of ODP Leg 141 hydrogeologic, geochemical, and thermal results: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 141, p. 363-372.

Marsaglia, K.M. (1995) Chapter 8, Interarc and backarc basins, in Busby, C. and Ingersoll R.V., eds., Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, Blackwell, p. 299-329.

Marsaglia, K.M., and Devaney, K.A. (1995) Tectonic and magmatic controls on backarc basin sedimentation: The Mariana Region re-examined: in Taylor, B., ed., Backarc Basins: Tectonics and Magmatism, Plenum, New York, p.497-520.

Marsaglia, K.M., Torrez, X., Padilla, I., and Rimkus, K. (1995) Provenance of Pleistocene and Pliocene sand and sandstone, ODP Leg 141, Chile Margin: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 141, 133-151.

Pavlis, T.L., Underwood, M., Sisson, V.B., Serpa, L.F., Prior, D., Marsaglia, K.M., Lewis, S.D., and Byrne, T. (1995) The effects of triple junction interactions at convergent plate margins. Report on the results of the joint JOI/USSAC and GSA Penrose conference, 44p.

Prior, D.J., Marsaglia, K.M., Rochford, E.L., Agar, S.M., and Coy, G. (1995) Textural evidence of diagenetic evolution at Site 863, Chile Triple Junction: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 141, 153-167.

Strand, K., Marsaglia, K., Forsythe, R., Kurnosov, V., and Vergara, H. (1995) Outer margin depositional systems near the Chile Margin Triple Junction: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 141, p. 379-397.

Torres, M., Marsaglia, K.M., Martin, J., and Murray, R. (1995) Fluid-rock interaction and sediment diagenesis in Western Pacific Basins: in Taylor, B., and Natland, J., eds., Active margins and marginal basins of the western Pacific, American Geophysical Union Monograph, v. 88, p. 241-258.

Underwood, M.B., Ballance, P.F., Clift, P., Hiscott, R.N., Marsaglia, K.M., Pickering, K.T., and Reid, R.P. (1995) Sedimentation in forearc basins, trenches, and collision zones of the western Pacific: A summary of results from the Ocean Drilling Program: in Taylor, B., and Natland, J., eds., Active margins and marginal basins of the western Pacific, American Geophysical Union Monograph, v. 88, p. 315-353.

Behrmann, J.H., Lewis, S.D., Cande, S.C., and the ODP Leg 141 Scientific Party (1994) Tectonics and geology of spreading ridge subduction at the Chile Triple Junction; a synthesis of results from Leg 141 of the Ocean Drilling Program: Geologische Rundschau, v. 83, p. 832-852.

Marsaglia, K.M., Borrego, P.F., Long, L.E., Keller, G.R., and Pingitore, N.E. (1994) Metamorphic petrology of the Ouachita Interior Zone: Findings from a deep drill hole in west Texas: Structure and tectonics of the Big Bend and southern Permian Basin, Texas.  West Texas Geological Society Publication 94-95, p. 149-154.

Pittenger, M.A., Marsaglia, K.M., and Bickford, M.E. (1994) Depositional history of the Middle Proterozoic Castner Marble and Basal Mundy Breccia, Franklin Mountains, West Texas, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. B64, p. 282-297.

Sawyer, D.S., Whitmarsh, R.B., Klaus, A., and others (including K. Marsaglia) (1994), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Volume 149, Initial Reports, Iberia Abyssal Plain: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 719 p.

Whitmarsh, B., Sawyer, D.S., and ODP Leg 149 Scientific Party, 1994, Upper mantle drilling in the ocean-continent transition west of Iberia: Terra Nova, v. 5, p. 327-331.

Marsaglia, K.M. (1993) Basaltic Island Sand Provenance, in Johnsson, M.J., and Basu, A., eds., Processes controlling the composition of clastic sediments: Geological Society of America Special Paper 284, p.41-65.

Marsaglia, K.M., and Ingersoll, R.V. (1992) Compositional trends in arc-related, deep-marine sand and sandstone: a reassessment of magmatic-arc provenance: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 104, p. 1637-1649.

Marsaglia, K.M., Ingersoll, R.V., and Packer, B.M. (1992) Tectonic evolution of the Japanese islands as reflected in modal compositions of Cenozoic forearc and backarc sand and sandstone: Tectonics, v. 11, p. 1028-1044.

Marsaglia, K.M., and Tazaki, K. (1992) Diagenetic trends in Leg 126 sandstones: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 126, p. 125-138.

Marsaglia, K.M. (1992) Petrography and provenance of volcaniclastic sands recovered from the Izu-Bonin arc, Leg 126: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 126, p. 139-154.

Lewis, S., Berhmann, J.H., and others (including K. Marsaglia) (1992) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Volume 141, Initial Reports, Chile triple junction: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 708 p.

ODP Leg 141 Scientific Party (1992) Geology and tectonics of the Chile Triple Junction: EOS, v. 73, #38, p. 404-410.

ODP Leg 141 Scientific Party (1992) Ocean drilling yields surprises at the Chile Triple Junction: Geotimes, v.37, p.19-21.Anthony, E.Y., Chen, W., Hoffer, J.M., Keller, G.R., Marsaglia, K.M., McLemore, V.T., Seward, M.A., Barnes, C.G., Shannon. W.M., Seeley, J.M., and Thomann, W.F. (1991) Examples of modern rift volcanism and Proterozoic anorogenic magmatism: the Potrillo Volcanic Field of southern New Mexico and the Franklin Mountains of west Texas: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Bulletin, v. 137, p. 1-20.

Nishimura, A., Marsaglia, K.M., Rodolfo, K.S., Colella, A., Hiscott, R.N., Tazaki, K., Gill, J.B., Janecek, T., Firth, J., Isiminger-Kelso, M., Herman, Y., Taylor, R.N., Taylor, B., Fujioka, K., and Leg 126 Scientific Party (1991) Pliocene-Quaternary submarine pumice deposits in the Sumisu Rift area, Izu-Bonin Arc: in R.V. Fisher and G.A. Smith (eds.), Sedimentation in Volcanic Settings, SEPM Special Publication 45, p. 201-208.

Gill, J., Torssander, P., Lapierre, H., Taylor, R., Kaiho, K., Koyama, M., Kusakabe, M., Aitchison, J., Cisowski, S., Dadey, K., Fujioka, K., Klaus, A., Lovell, M., Marsaglia, K., Pezard, P., Taylor, B., and Tazaki, K. (1990) Explosive deep water basalt in the Sumisu backarc rift: Science, v. 248, p. 1214-1217.

Egeberg P.K., & the Leg 126 Shipboard Scientific Party (1990) unusual composition of pore waters found in the Izu-Bonin fore-arc sedimentary basin: Nature, v. 344, p. 215-218.

Marsaglia, K.M., and Carozzi, A.V. (1990) Depositional environment, sand-provenance and diagenesis of the Basal Salina Formation, lower Eocene, Northwest Peru: Journal of South American Earth Science, v. 3, p. 253-267.

Taylor, B., Fujioka, K., and others (including Marsaglia) (1990) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports Volume 126, Sites 787-793, Bonin Arc-trench System: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1,002 p.

Leg 126 Scientific Drilling Party (1989) ODP Leg drills the Izu-Bonin arc: Geotimes, October, p. 36-38.

Leg 126 Shipboard Scientific Party (1989) Arc volcanism and rifting:  Nature, v. 342 p. 18-20.

Klein, G.deV., and K.M. Marsaglia (1987) Discussion: Hummocky cross-stratification, tropical hurricanes and intense winter storms:  Sedimentology, v. 34, p. 333-337.

Marsaglia, K.M., and G.deV. Klein (1985) The paleogeography of Paleozoic and Mesozoic storm depositional systems: a reply:  Journal of Geology, v. 93, p. 91-94.

Marsaglia, K.M., and G.deV. Klein (1983) The paleogeography of Paleozoic and Mesozoic storm depositional systems: Journal of Geology, v. 91, p. 117-142.