Paul K. Link, Professor
Email: linkpaul@isu.edu - - - Phone: 208-282-3846 - - - Fax: 208-282-4414
Specialities:
- Sedimentary Geology
- Precambrian Geology
- Regional Tectonics
- Field Geology
- Ore Deposits
Education:
- Ph.D., 1982, University of California-Santa Barbara
- B.Sc., 1977 University of Adelaide
- B.S., 1976, Yale University
- Joined the Idaho State University faculty in 1980
Current Research and Interests:
Tectonics and ore deposits, Belt Supergroup, central Idaho; Neogene stratigraphy on the Snake River Plain; cretaceous
congomerates of Southern British Columbia and Baja B.C.; Geologic mapping in Southeast Idaho; stratigraphy and basin
analysis of Paleozoic rocks, south-central Idaho.
Publications:
Anderson, S.L., and
Link, P.K., 1998, Lake Bonneville Sequence Stratigraphy, Pleistocene Bear
River Delta, Cache Valley, Idaho, in Pitman, J. and Carroll, A.,
editors, Modern and Ancient Lakes: New Problems and Perspectives: Utah
Geological Association Guidebook 26, p. 91-104.
Bartholomay, R.C.,
Davis, L.C., and Link, P.K., 2002, Introduction to the Hydrogeology of
the eastern Snake River Plain, in Link, P.K., and Mink, L.L., editors,
, Geology, Hydrogeology and Environmental Remediation, Idaho National
Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Eastern Snake River Plain,
Idaho: Geological Society of America Special Paper 353, p.3-10.
Bestland, E.A., Link,
P.K., Lanphere, M.A., and Champion, D.E., 2002, Paleoenvironments of sedimentary
interbeds in the Pliocene and Quaternary Big Lost Trough (eastern
Snake River Plain, Idaho): in Link, P.K., and Mink, L.L., editors, , Geology,
Hydrogeology and Environmental Remediation, Idaho National Engineering
and Environmental Laboratory, Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Geological
Society of America Special Paper 353, p. 27-44.
Burton, B.R., and Link, P.K.,
1995, Structural setting of ore deposits in the Lake Creek Mineralized
area, Blaine County, South-Central Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey
Bulletin 2064-F, p. F1-F15.
Carr, J., and Link, P.K.,
1999, Neoproterozoic conglomerate and breccia in the formation of Leaton
gulch, Grouse Peak, northern Lost River Range, Idaho: Relation
to Beaverhead Impact structure, in Hughes, S.S. and G.D. Thackray, editors,
Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum
of Natural History, p. 21-30.
Crane, T.J., Link,
P.K., and Oriel, S.S., 2001, Geologic Map of the Lava Hot Springs quadrangle,
Bannock County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report 01-3,
scale 1:24,000.
Ehlers, T.A., Chan, M.A.,
and Link, P.K., 1997, Proterozoic tidal, glacial and fluvial sedimentation
in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah: Brigham Young University Geology
Studies, v. 42, part 1, p. 31-58.
Fortsch, D.E., and Link, P.K.,
Regional geology and fossil sites from Pocatello to Montpelier, Freedom,
and Wayan, southeastern Idaho and western Wyoming: in Hughes, S.S.
and G.D. Thackray, editors, Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho:
Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History, p. 281-334.
Geslin, J.K., Gianniny, G.L.,
Link, P.K., and Riesterer, J.W., 1997, Subsurface sedimentary facies and
Pleistocene stratigraphy of the northern Idaho National Engineering
Laboratory: Controls on Hydrogeology: Proceedings of the 32nd Symposium
on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering: Boise, Idaho,
College of Engineering Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, p.15-28.
Geslin, J.K., Link, P.K.,
and Fanning, C.M., 1999, High-precision provenance determination using
detrital-zircon ages and petrography of Quaternary sands on the
eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Geology, v. 27, no. 4, p. 295-298.
Geslin, J.K., Link,
P.K., Riesterer, J.W., Kuntz, M.A., and Fanning, C.M., 2002, Pliocene
and Quaternary stratigraphic architecture and drainage systems
of the Big Lost Trough, northeastern Snake River Plain, Idaho, in Link,
P.K., and Mink, L.L., editors, , Geology, Hydrogeology and Environmental
Remediation, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory,
Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Geological Society of America Special
Paper 353, p. 11-26.
Levy, M, Christie-Blick,
N., and Link, P.K., 1994, Neoproterozoic incised valleys of the eastern
Great Basin, Utah and Idaho: Fluvial response to changes in depositional
base level: in Dalrymple, R.W., Boyd, R., and Zaitlin, B.A., editors,
Incised Valley Systems: Origin and Sedimentary Sequences, Tulsa, OK.,
SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 51, p. 369-382.
Link, P.K., editor,
1993 (revised 2nd edition 1997), Geologic Guidebook to the Belt-Purcell
Supergroup, Glacier National Park and Vicinity, Montana and adjacent Canada:
Field Trip Guidebook for Belt Symposium III, Belt Association, 125 p.
Link, P.K., editor, 1994,
Hydrogeology, Waste Disposal, Science and Politics, Proceedings of the
30th Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering,
College of Engineering, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, 652
p.
Link, P.K., 1999,
Regional Geologic perspectives on the Belt Supergroup gained since Belt
Symposium II, 1983: in Berg, R.B., ed., Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
Special Publication 112, p. 2-10.
Link, P.K., Christie-Blick,
N., Devlin, W.J., Elston, D.P., Horodyski, R.J., Levy, M., Miller, J.M.G.,
Pearson, R.C., Prave, A., Stewart, J.H., Winston, D., Wright, L.A.,
and Wrucke C.T., 1993, Middle and Late Proterozoic stratified rocks of
the western United States Cordillera, Colorado Plateau, and Basin
and Range Province: in Reed., J., Sims, P., Houston, R.S., Rankin, D.W.,
Link, P.K., Van Schmus, W.R., and Bickford, M.E., editors, Precambrian:
Conterminous United States: Geological Society of America Decade of North
American Geology Series, v. c-3, p. 474-690.
Link, P.K., and Hackett, W.R.,
editors, 1988, Guidebook to the Geology of central and southern Idaho:
Idaho Geological Survey Bulletin 27, 318 p.
Link, P.K., and
Janecke, S.U., 1999, Geology of east-central Idaho: Geologic roadlogs
for the Big and Little Lost River, Lemhi, and Salmon River Valleys,
in Hughes, S.S., and G.D. Thackray, editors, Guidebook to the Geology
of Eastern Idaho: Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello, Idaho,
p. 295-334.
Link, P.K., Kaufman,
D.S., and Thackray, G.D., 1999, Field guide to Pleistocene Lakes Thatcher
and Bonneville and the Bonneville Flood, southeastern Idaho: in
Hughes, S.S. and G.D. Thackray, editors, Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern
Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History, p. 251-266.
Link, P.K., and Kowallis,
B.J., editors, 1997, Proterozoic to Recent stratigraphy, Tectonics and
volcanology: Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho and central Mexico: Brigham
Young University Geology Studies, v. 42, Part 1, 528 p.
Link, P.K., and Kowallis,
B.J., editors, 1997, Mesozoic to Recent Geology of Utah: Brigham Young
University Geology Studies, v. 42, Part 2, 404 p. 1998.
Link, P.K., Kuntz, M.A., and
Platt, L.B., editors, 1992, Regional Geology of Eastern Idaho and Western
Wyoming: Geological Society of America Memoir 179, 310 p.
Link, P.K., Mahoney, J.B.,
Batatian, L.D., Bruner, D.J., and Williams, F., 1995, Stratigraphic setting
of sediment-hosted mineral deposits in the eastern part of the
Hailey 1o x 2o quadrangle, and part of the southern part of the Challis
1° x 2° quadrangle, South-Central Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
2064-C, p. C1-C33.
Link, P.K., and Mink, L.L.,
editors, 2002, Geology, Hydrogeology and Environmental Remediation, Idaho
National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Eastern Snake
River Plain, Idaho: Geological Society of America Special Paper 353. 296
p.
Link, P.K. and Phoenix, E.C.,
1994 (2nd edition 1996), Rocks, Rails and Trails, Pocatello, Idaho, Idaho
Museum of Natural History, 194 p.
Link, P.K., Miller,
J.M.G., and Christie-Blick, N., 1994, Glacial-marine facies in a continental
rift environment: Neoproterozoic rocks of the western ;United States Cordillera,
in Deynoux, M., Miller, J.M.G., Domack, E.W., Eyles, N., Fairchild, I.J.,
and Young, G.M., editors, International Geological Correlation Project
260: Earth's Glacial Record, Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press,
p. 29-59.
Link, P.K., Peterson,
C.R., Sommer, S., Lewis, R., Petrich, Cosgrove, D., 2002, Digital Atlas
of Idaho. (http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/). Multi ;component website
devoted to Natural History of Idaho. Link was Primary PI on the project
and contributed geologic maps and descriptions of the geology of 44 Idaho
counties.
Link, P.K., Reading,R.W.,
Godfrey, A.E. and Prevedel, D., 1999, Topographic development of the Snake
River Plain, Idaho: in S.S. Hughes and G.D. Thackray, editors, Guidebook
to the geology of eastern Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History,
back cover.
Link, P.K., and Stanford,
L.R., 1999, Geologic compilation map of the Pocatello 30 by 60 minute
quadrangle, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report 99-02, scale
1:100,000.
Link, P.K., Warren,
Ian, Preacher, J.M., and Skipp, Betty, 1996, Stratigraphic analysis and
interpretation of the Copper Basin Group, McGowan Creek ;Formation and
White Knob Limestone, south-central Idaho: in Longman, M. W. and Sonnenfeld,
M. D eds., Paleozoic Systems of the Rocky Mountain Region, Rocky Mountain
Section, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), p. 117-144.
Mahoney, J.B., Vaughn,
J., Link, P.K., Riesterer, J.W., Hickson, C.J., and Friedman, R.M., 1999,
Late Cretaceous and Paleocene strata along the Intermontane-Methow terrane
boundary, southern Chilcotin Plateau, south-central British Columbia,
in Current Research 1999-A; Geological Survey of Canada, p. 215-224.
Ore, H.T., Reid,
R.V., and Link, P.K., 1996, Pre-Bonneville-Level, Catastrophic Overflow
of Plio-Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, South of Rockland, Idaho: Northwest
Geology, v. 26, p. 1-15.
Piper, D.Z., and
Link, P.K., 2002, An upwelling model for the Phosphoria sea: A Permian,
ocean-margin sea in the northwest United States: AAPG Bulletin, v. 86,
no. 7, p. 1217-1235.
Pope, A.D., Blair,
J.J., and Link, P.K., 2002, Geologic Map of the Wakley Peak quadrangle,
Bannock and Oneida Counties, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Technical
Report 01-4, scale 1:24,000.
Riesterer, J.W., Mahoney,
J.B., and Link, P.K., 1998, Re-examination of Late Albian-Cenomanian conglomerate
in Churn Creek, Gang Range area, ;southern British Columbia; in Current
Research 1998-A; Geological Survey of Canada, p. 165-174.
Riesterer, J.K.,
Link, P.K., and Rodgers, D.W., 2000, Geologic map of the Bonneville Peak
quadrangle, Bannock County, Idaho: Idaho Geological ;Survey Technical
Report 00-05, scale 1:24,000.
Riesterer, J.W.,
Mahoney, J. B., and Link, P.K., 2001, The conglomerate of Churn Creek:
late Cretaceous basin evolution along the Insular-Intermontane superterrane
Boundary, southern British Columbia: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences,
v. 38, p. 59-73.
Rodgers, D.W. Link, P.K.,
and Huerta, A.D., 1995, Structural framework of mineral deposits hosted
by Paleozoic rocks in the northeastern part of the ;Hailey 1o x 2o quadrangle,
south-central Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2064-B, p. B1-B18.
Smith, L.H., Kaufman, A.J.,
Knoll, A.H., and Link, P.K., 1994, Chemostratigraphy of predominantly
siliciclastic Neoproterozoic successions: a case ;study of the Pocatello
Formation and Lower Brigham Group, Idaho, USA: Geological Magazine, v.
131, no. 3, p. 301-314.
Stewart, J.H., Gehrels,
G.E., Barth, A.P., Link, P.K., Christie-Blick, N., Wrucke, C.T., 2001,
Detrital zircon provenance of Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian arenites in
the western Untied States and northwestern Mexico: Geological Society
of America Bulletin, v. 113, no. 10, p. 1343-1356.
Wilson, E., Preacher, J.M.,
and Link, P.K., 1994, New constraints on the nature of the Early Mississippian
Antler sedimentary basin in Idaho: in Embry, A.F., Beauchamps, B. and
, Glass, D.J.,eds., Pangea: Global Environments and Resources: Canadian
Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 17, p.155-174.
Winston, Don,
P.K. Link, and Nate Hathaway, 1999, The Yellowjacket is not the Prichard
and other heresies: Belt Supergroup Correlations, Structure and Paleogeography,
east-central Idaho: in Hughes, S.S. and G.D. Thackray, editors, Guidebook
to the Geology of Eastern Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History,
p. 3-20.
