JAMES E. BARRICK

Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University,
Box 41053, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1053

PHONE (806) 742-3107
FAX (806) 742-0100
E-MAIL Jim.Barrick@ttu.edu

Texas Tech University

Department of Geosciences

Pander Society

Paleontological Society

Major specialities are Silurian-Carboniferous conodonts (taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and paleoecology), micropaleontology, and paleoecology. Other research interests include Paleozoic stratigraphy, carbonate sedimentology, biostratigraphic methodology and practice, chemostratigraphy, and sedimentary geochemistry.

EXPERIENCE

1995- Professor, Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University.Professor, Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University.
1987-1995 Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University.
1981-1987 Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University
1980-1981 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University.
1979-1980 National Science Foundation NATO Postdoctoral Fellow Institute für Geologie und Paläontologie der Philipps Universität, Marburg/Lahn, Federal Republic of Germany.
1978-1979 Visiting assistant professor, School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

EDUCATION

1978 Ph.D. Geology.
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
1975 M.S. Geology.
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
1973 B.S. summa cum laude, and with Distinction in Geology and Mineralogy.
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Geological Society of America (Management Board, South-Cent. Sec. 1995-1998)
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists
Paleontological Society (chair, South-Central section, 1996-1997)
Palaeontological Association (Great Britain)
International Palaeontological Association
Paleontological Research Institute
Pander Society (conodont workers)
Sigma Xi

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Conodont faunas and stable isotope chemostratigrapgy across Silurian oceanic events and episodes in Midcontinent North Ameruca (withM. Kleffner).

Conodont biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Henryhouse Formation (Ludlovian-Pridolian; Silurian), Oklahoma (with Klapper)

Evolution of Idiognathodus across the Middle/Upper Pennsylvanian boundary and the origin of Streptognathodus (with Boardman and Heckel)

Pennsylvanian conodont biostratigraphy of the Horquilla Limestone, Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico (with S. Rtter and S. Lucas)

RECENT GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

Collaborative Research:  Late Wenlock-Ludlow (Silurian) oceanic events and episodes, southern Laurentia.  National Science Foundation, Geology and Paleontology:  $166,109; 8/2005-7/2008.

Conodont characterization of proposed Carboniferous Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian Series boundary.  NATO Cooperative Science & Technology Sub-Programme:  Expert Visit Grant, $2100; 5/2003-6/2003


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Heckel, P.H., Alekseev, A. S., Barrick, J. E., Boardman, D. R., Goreva, N. V., Nemyrovska, T. I., Ueno, K., Villa, E., and Work, D, M. 2007, Cyclothem (“Digital”) correlation and biostratigraphy across global Moscovian-Kasomovian-Gzehlian stage boundary interval (Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian Series) in North America and Eurasia.  GEOLOGY, v. 35, p. 607-610.

Barrick, J. E., (in press), The Silurian stratigraphic succession in the southern Midcontinent region of North America, in E. Landing and M. E. Johnson, (eds.), Silurian Lands & Seas, Part II:  Laurentia, New York State Museum Bulletin

Gibson, M. A., Barrick, J. E., and Broadhead, T. W. (in press), Silurian stratigraphic, biota, and sea-level changes in western Tennessee, in E. Landing and M. E. Johnson, (eds.), Silurian Lands & Seas, Part II:  Laurentia, New York State Museum Bulletin

Barrick, J. E. and Männik, P., 2005, Silurian conodont biostratigraphy and palaeobiology in stratigraphic sequences, p. 103-116, in M.A. Purnell and P. C. J. Donoghue (eds.), 2005, Conodont biology and phylogeny - interpreting the fossil record.  The Palaeontological Association Special Papers in Palaeontology 73.

Barrick, J. E., Meyer, B. D. and Ruppel, S. C., 2005, The Silurian-Devonian boundary and the Klonk event in the Frame Formation, subsurface west Texas.  Bulletins of American Paleontology 369:  105-122.

Barrick, J. E., Lambert, L. L., Heckel, P. H. and Boardman, D. R., II, 2004, Pennsylvanian conodont zonation for Midcontinent North America. Revista Española de Micropaleontología 36:  231-250.

Heckel, P. H., Lambert, L. L., Barrick, J. E. and Pope, J. P., 2003, Field Trip Three:  Conodont-rich Pennsylvanian dark shales of the Kansas City region, p. 53-11l, in. T. M. Niemi, (ed.) Fieldtrips in the Greater Kansas City Area (Western Missouri, Northeastern Kansas and Southeastern Nebraska), North-Central Meeting, Geological Society of America, Missouri Department of Natural Resources Special Publication 11.

Lambert, L. L., Heckel, P. H., and Barrick, J. E., 2003, Swadelina new genus (Pennsylvanian Conodonta), a taxon with potential chronostratigraphic significance. micropaleontology, 49:151-158

Ritter, S. M., Barrick, J. E. and Skinner, M. R., 2002, Conodont sequence biostratigraphy of the Hermosa Group (Upper Carboniferous) at Honaker Trail, Paradox Basin, Utah. Journal of Paleontology, 76:495-517.

Heckel, P. H., Boardman, D. R., and Barrick, J. E., 2002, Desmoinesian-Missourian regional stage boundary reference position for North America, p. 710-724, in L. V. Hills, C. M. Henderson and E. W. Bamber (eds.), Carboniferous and Permian of the World: XIV International Congress on Caboniferous and Permian Proceedings.  Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 19.

RECENT ABSTRACTS

Barrick, J. E., Kleffner, M. A., Karlsson, H. R., and Kohl, M.  2006.  Conodont faunas and stable isotope chemostratigraphy across the Homerian (Late Wenlock; Silurian) Mulde Secundo-Secundo Event in West Texas and southern Oklahoma.  Programme & Abstracts, International Conodont Symposium 2006 (ICOS 2006), Leicester, p. 16.

Kleffner, M. A., Barrick, J. E., Ebert, J. R., and Matteson, D. K., 2006, Conodont biostratigraphy, ∂13C chemostratigraphy, and recognition of Silurian/Devonian boundary in the Appalacjian Basin at Cherry Valley, Yew York. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs

Manship, L. I., Strauss, R. E., and Barrick, J. E., 2006, Discrimination of Frasnian (Late Devonian) Palmatolepis species using multivariate analysis of platform elements. Programme & Abstracts, International Conodont Symposium 2006 (ICOS 2006), Leicester, p. 55.

Rasbury, E. T., Hemming, N. G., Dickson, J. A. D., Barrick, J. E., and Saller, A, H., 2006, 87Sr/86Sr chemostratigraphy across the Carboniferous-Permian Boundary.  2006 Goldschmidt Conference

Rosscoe, S. J., Barrick, J. E., Boardman, D. R., and Heckel, P. H. 2006.  Idiognathodus morphotypes across the Desmoinesian-Missourian boundary in Midcontinent North America:  Significance for placement and correlation of the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian boundary.  Programme & Abstracts, International Conodont Symposium 2006 (ICOS 2006), Leicester, p. 72.

Barrick, J. E., Ritter, S. M., Lucas, S., and Krainer, K., 2005, Latest Pennsylvanian to earliest Permian conodonts from the Horquillia Formation, Big Hatchet Mountains, southwestern New Mexico.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 37:37

Rosscoe, S. J., Barrick, J. E., and Boardman, D. R., 2005, Conodonts of the Desmoinesian (Middle Pennsylvanian) Lost Branch Formation, Midcontinent Basin, Oklahoma and Kansas.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 37:13. 

Barrick, J. E., Jacobi, D., and Beville, C. E. 2004. Characterization of the Silurian/Devonian boundary in the southern United States using conodont biostratigraphy and carbon isotope chemostratigraphy. Joint Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada and the Mineralogical Association of Canada, Abstracts, 29:86.

Houck, K., Fleming, J., Guerrero, R, Heberton, A., Heimink, N., Itano, W. and Barrick, J. E., 2004. Paleontology of the Bassam Park foissil beds (Pennsylvanian), San Isabel National Forest, Coloardo Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 36:413.

Kleffner, M. A., Barrick, J. E.,and Tychsen, A.  2004.  Conodont-, graptolite, and chitinozoan-based Silurian composite standard developed using graphic correlation aids new calibration of current Silurian chronostratigraphy. Joint Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada and the Mineralogical Association of Canada, Abstracts, 29:96

Lucas, S. G., Krainer, K., and Barrick, J. E.  2004. Stratigraphy and structure:  The Borrego section of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Horquilla Formation, Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico.  New Mexico Geological Society Spring Meeting, Abstracts, p. 40. (Reprinted in New Mexico Geology 26:68)

RECENT STUDENT THESES

M.S.

Miller, M. T., 2001, Petrographic, petrophysical, and biostratigraphic investigation of the Caddo Limestone (Pennsylvanian), Stephens County, Texas.

Musgrave, Bryan, 2003, Stratigraphic and sedimentologic analysis of a Lower Pennsylvanian mixed carbonate-clastic sections in the central Colorado Trough.

Headd, Brendan J., 2004, Microstructural analysis of Lower Ordovician Cool Creek stromatolites, Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma.

Jacobi, David, 2004 (co-chair), Stable isotope chemostratigraphy across the Silurian-Devonian boundary in Oklahoma and west Texas.

Kohl, Michael, 2004, Integrated stratigraphy and petrology of the Silurian Wink Formation (Wenlock-Ludlow), Howard County, Texas.

Rosscoe, S., 2005, Conodonts of the Desmoinesian (Middle Pennsylvanian) Lost Branch Formation, Oklahoma and Kansas

Ph.D.

Nail, R. S., 1996, Middle-Late Pennsylvanian fusulinid faunas from Midcontinent North America and the Paradox Basin, Utah and Colorado.

Wernlund, R. J., 1996, Taxonomy, distribution, and paleoecology of holothurian (Echinodermata) sclerites in Upper Pennsylvanian cyclothem shales, north-central Texas and south-central Kansas.

Keairns, Carter, 2002, Applications of Conodonts in Resolving Pennsylvanian-Permian Stratigraphic Problems in North-Central Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.

Meyer, Beverly, 2002, Conodont biostratigraphy of Devonian strata of West Texas and eastern New Mexico and the apparatus of Early Devonian Icriodus species.

Walsh, Tim, 2002, Permian foramol carbonates from a variable salinity shelf environment: the Elm Creek Formation (Artinskian), of North-central Texas.

CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH

M. S.

Bader, J.  Late Llandovery (Silurian) conodonts from the “upper” Cochrane Formation in subsurface Lincoln County, Oklahoma.

Proske, Ann.  Conodont biostratigraphy of Mississippian strata, San Andres Mountains, New Mexico.

 Ph.D.

Mann, Lori, Applications of GIS techniques in the analysis of complex shapes in ammonoids and conodonts.

Rosscoe, Steve.  Revision of Missourian (Late Pennsylvanian) conodonts, Midcontinent  North America

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH WITH STRATIGRAPHIC WORKING GROUPS

Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, corresponding member.
Working Group on the base of Protriticites Zone (base of Upper Pennsylvanian)-Project leader: Elisa Villa, Oviedo, Spain.
Midcontinent Pennsylvanian Stratigraphic Working Group - Head: P. H. Heckel, Iowa.