Paul K. Link
Professor
Geosciences
Idaho State University
United States of America
Biography
Paul K. Link, Ph.D, Professor Education Ph.D., 1982, University of California-Santa Barbara B.Sc. Honours, 1977 University of Adelaide B.S., 1976, Yale University Joined Idaho State University Faculty in 1980
Research Interest
Geology of Idaho, Belt Supergroup, Windermere Supergroup; Neogene stratigraphy on the Snake River Plain; Stratigraphy and basin analysis. Former field camp director for "Lost River Field Station" in Mackay, Idaho.
Publications
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Bestland EA, Link PK, Lanphere MA, Champion DE. Paleoenvironments of sedimentary interbeds in the Pliocene and Quaternary Big Lost Trough, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho. SPECIAL PAPERS-GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 2002 Jan 1:27-44.
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Beranek LP, Link PK, Fanning CM. Detrital zircon record of mid-Paleozoic convergent margin activity in the northern US Rocky Mountains: Implications for the Antler orogeny and early evolution of the North American Cordillera. Lithosphere. 2016 Oct 1;8(5):533-50.
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Beranek LP, Link PK, Fanning CM. Miocene to Holocene landscape evolution of the western Snake River Plain region, Idaho: Using the SHRIMP detrital zircon provenance record to track eastward migration of the Yellowstone hotspot. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2006 Sep 1;118(9-10):1027-50.
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Balgord EA, Yonkee WA, Link PK, Fanning CM. Stratigraphic, geochronologic, and geochemical record of the Cryogenian Perry Canyon Formation, northern Utah: Implications for Rodinia rifting and snowball Earth glaciation. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2013 Sep 1;125(9-10):1442-67.
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Anderson SL, and Link PK (1998) Lake Bonneville Sequence Stratigraphy, Pleistocene Bear River Delta, Cache Valley, Idaho, in Pitman, J. and Carroll, A., editors, Modern and Ancient Lakes: New Problems and Perspectives: Utah Geological Association Guidebook pp. 91-104.
