Research Interests
Professor Altaner's principal research interests lie in the fields of the petrology (occurrence, origin, and geological significance), geochemistry, and mineralogy of clay minerals and sedimentary rocks.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Illinois
Courses Taught
- GEOL 100: Planet Earth
- GEOL 110: Exploring Geology in the Field
- GEOL 118: Natural Disasters
- GEOL 333: Earth Material and the Environment
- GEOL 380: Environmental Geology
Recent Publications
Altaner, S. P., Demosthenous, C., Pozzuoli, A., & Rolandi, G. (2013). Alteration history of Mount Epomeo Green Tuff and a related polymictic breccia, Ischia Island, Italy: Evidence for debris avalanche. Bulletin of Volcanology, 75(5), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-013-0718-1
Altaner, S. P., Ylagan, R. F., Savin, S. M., Aronson, J. L., Belkin, H. E., & Pozzuoli, A. (2003). Geothermometry, geochronology, and mass transfer associated with hydrothermal alteration of a rhyolitic hyaloclastite from Ponza Island, Italy. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67(2), 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7037(02)01077-3
Finkelstein, D. B., Hay, R. L., & Altaner, S. P. (2001). Origin and diagenesis of lacustrine sediments, upper oligocene creede formation, southwestern Colorado Discussion: Reply. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 113(4), 541-544. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<0541:R>2.0.CO;2
Finkelstein, D. B., Altaner, S. P., & Hay, R. L. (2000). Alteration history of volcaniclastic sediments in the upper Oligocene Creede Formation, southwestern Colorado. Special Paper of the Geological Society of America, 346, 209-232. https://doi.org/10.1130/0-8137-2346-9.209
Ylagan, R. F., Altaner, S. P., & Pozzuoli, A. (2000). Reaction mechanisms of smectite illitization associated with hydrothermal alteration from Ponza Island, Italy. Clays and Clay Minerals, 48(6), 610-631. https://doi.org/10.1346/CCMN.2000.0480603