Professor Brenda Beitler Bowen - Purdue University - Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences



Professor Brenda beitler bowen Sedimentary Geology Group (SED) Purdue University - Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
	Home Research Publications Contact People Links Earth & Atmospheric Sciences 550 Stadium Mall Drive Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 Phone: 765.494.3258 Fax: 765.496.1210	Welcome My research focuses on the inter-relationships between sediments and fluids in both modern and ancient continental sedimentary environments. I am interested in how fluids and sediments interact on microscopic to regional scales, and how these interactions are affected by differences in depositional environments and hydrogeochemical conditions, structural and tectonic settings, burial history and diagenesis. My work combines field-based studies and analytical laboratory work; including petrography, fluid inclusion analyses, major and trace element geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, and reflectance spectroscopy (in situ and remote) to map out spatial changes in authigenic minerals that reflect paleo fluid-rock interactions. This work has important implications for the evolution of petroleum systems and mineral and fluid resources. I am also interested in the sedimentary geology and fluid-rock history of Mars, and study depositional and diagenetic environments on Earth as analogs for potential processes on Mars.