Dr. Aaron Yoshinobu

Education

• 1999 Ph.D. Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
• 1994 MS Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University
• 1992 BS Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University

Research

I am a structural geologist who explores questions relating to the nature of magma/melt migration and emplacement in the lithosphere and the structural/tectonic evolution of arcs, oceanic spreading centers, and collisional orogens. I combine field work with microstructural observations and theoretical models to explain the structural history of these systems. In collaboration with petrologists, geochemists, and geochronologists, I study arc evolution in the US Cordillera and Caledonian collisional tectonics in central Norway, Scotland, and Ireland. My passion is to combine a variety of datasets, observations, and collaborators, to optimally inform our understanding of geologic structures. In addition, I am also interested in the intersection of geology, stone masonry, art, and the poetics of 20th century American poet Robinson Jeffers.

Courses

• GEOL 3402 - Structural Geology
• GEOL 4201 – Sedimentary Field Methods
• GEOL 4301 – Advanced Field Mapping
• GEOL 4334 - Structural Analysis of Hydrocarbon Systems
• GEOL 4361/5361 - Advanced Structural Geology
• GEOL 4362/5362 - Tectonics