| Home | Education | Employment | Research | Grants | publications | Public Outreach | Lectures | | Field Experience | Media Reports | Awards & Honors | Students | Photos | Contact | CES Home |

Field Experience

 

Experience in Field Mapping and Regional Tectonic Synthesis

  • South China’s Mesozoic granites and Proterozoic ophiolites.
  • Central China’s Longmenshan thrust belt and Sizhuan foreland basin
  • China’s Dabie Shan, Ultra-high pressure metamorphic belt, diamonds.
  • Madagascar, eastern jungle environment and mineral resources.
  • Italy, Appenides
  • Taiwan, accretionary prism
  • Inner Mongolia, Proterozoic - Mesozoic orogens.
  • South Africa, Kaapvaal craton gneiss and greenstone terranes, Gondwana sequences.
  • Madagascar, Tsarantana/Andriamena sheets, geology and Cr mineralization.
  • Wutai Shan, China.  Massive Sulfide Minerals, Rift sediments, tectonics.
  • North China, Inner Mongolia, foreland basin, high-grade metamorphic rocks
  • United Arab Emirates, ground water in fracture networks
  • North China Craton, MesoProterozoic sedimentary sequences.
  • Alaska, metamorphic core complex, gold deposits of Fairbanks district
  • Madagascar, Proterozoic shelf sequence and basement involved nappe tectonics
  • North China Craton, Archean ophiolite sequences and ancient gneissic rocks
  • Southern Alaska. Accretionary wedge dynamics.
  • Hajar Mountains, Oman. Samail ophiolite and metamorphic sole relationships.
  • Dakhliyah (Interior Oman).  Quaternary Faulting, Neotectonics and Hazard Assessment.
    Cordillera Septentrional, Dominican Republic. Seismic Risk Assessment, Neotectonics.
  • Dhofar/Salalah region, Oman/Yemen. Neoproterozoic basement and Arabian platform.
  • Northeastern Oman (Sharkiyah). Uplifted Quaternary terraces, Neotectonics.
  • Ruby Terrane, Alaska. Superimposed deformation and chronology in Precambrian basement rocks.
  • Chugach Mountains and Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Field characteristics of ultramafic massifs and chromite deposits.
  • Northern Oman. Arabian platform; Characterization and hydrological significance of late faults.
  • Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia.  Proterozoic Najd fault system kinematics and mineralization.
  • Nixon Fork terrane, Alaska. Paleozoic carbonate rocks and MVT mineral deposits.
  • Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.  North Sinai fold belt; Neotectonics and fractured bedrock aquifers.
  • Semail Ophiolite, Oman. Characterization and hydrological significance of late faults.
  • Steep Rock Lake area, Canadian Shield, NW Ontario Canada. Greenstone/gneiss boundary relationships and iron ore mineralization.
  • Northern Chugach Mountains, Alaska. Gold and PGE mineralization.
  • Palmer- Liberty Creek, Alaska. Border Ranges Fault Structure, Regional Tectonics.
  • Prince William Sound, Alaska. Emplacement of Resurrection Peninsula Ophiolite.
  • Northern Appalachians. Regional structure and tectonics.
  • Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Regional geology, mineral resources and hydrogeology of Precambrian crystalline basement.
  • Prince William Sound, and Wrangell- St. Elias Mountains, Alaska. Regional tectonics.
  • Ungava Peninsula, Canada. Structure and gold mineralization in Archean granulites.
  • Zimbabwe. Archean greenstone belt tectonics, gold and serpentine mineralization.
  • Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska. Granites and gold in an accretionary prism.
  • Kenai Peninsula, Chugach Terrane, southern Alaska. Investigations of the effects of ridge subduction on structure and metallogeny, deformation mechanisms and kinematics in an accretionary prism.
  • Anchorage Quadrangle, Alaska. Structural investigation of faults and lode gold deposits of the Chugach accretionary prism.
  • Yilgarn Craton, Australia. Regional structural and metallogenic  reconnaissance.
  • Sierra Nevada, California. Relationships between deformation and plutonism.
  • Southern India. Granulite Terranes and fluid - rock interactions.
  • Slave Province, Northwest Territories. 9 months of mapping including Point Lake fold and thrust belt, Detour Lake carbonate/clastic sequences, Cameron River Greenstone Belt, Beaulieu River Greenstone Belt, Yellowknife Greenstone Belt.
  • Mohawk Valley, New York. Stratigraphy and Tectonics of the Ordovician foreland basin.
  • Dunnage Zone, Newfoundland. Frozen Ocean Lake/New Bay Pond area; Mapping Ordovician island arc sequence and volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits.
  • Rensselaer County, N.Y. Mapping surficial deposits for the New York State Geological Survey.
  • Colorado Plateau, Arizona. 1:15,000 scale mapping in the Basin and Range Province.
  • Mt. St. Helens. Observation of active eruption, collection of eruption plume gas samples.
  • Southern Florida: U.S.G.S. Fisher Island Station. Modern Carbonate Environments.
  • Taconic Allochthon, Vermont. 1:15,000 scale mapping.
 

  Kusky was mentioned by several news media for his new findings, 08/07/2007;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;Discovery Provides Key Evidence Of Life's Beginnings, 07/31/2007 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;New Orleans and Katrina ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;Dr. Kusky has been appointed to the Inspection Team for the National Committee of UNESCO in China.