Welcome to the Corsetti Lab!

My students and I use sedimentology, stratigraphy, organic and inorganic geochemistry, and paleobiology to address fundamentally geobiologic questions in Earth history. We study rocks and sediments from the Archean through the Holocene.

Within these pages you will find photos and information about our lab members, research, and publications.

We are part of the USC Geobiology and Astrobiology Research Group.

Berelson, W., Corsetti, F.A., Johnson, B., Vo, T., and Der, C., 2008, Carbonate-associated sulfate as a proxy for lake level fluctuations: a proof of concept for Walker Lake, Nevada, J. Paleolimnology (avail online August 31, 2008).

Marenco, P.J., Corsetti, F.A., Kaufman, A.J., Bottjer, D.J., 2008. Environmental and diagenetic variations in carbonate associated sulfate: An investigation of CAS in the Lower Triassic of the western USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 72 p. 1570-1582.

S. J. Loyd, T. W. Becker, C. P. Conrad, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, and F. A. Corsetti, 2007, Time variability in Cenozoic reconstructions of mantle heat flow: Plate tectonic cycles and implications for Earth's thermal evolution, PNAS, v. 104, p. 14266-14271.

Bailey, J.V., Joye, S.B., Kalanetra, K.M., Flood, B.E., Corsetti, F.A., 2007, Evidence of giant sulphur bacteria in Neoproterozoic phosphorites, Nature, v. 445, p. 198-201.

abiotic stromatolite from hydrothermal vein fill, Nevada