Eric Cheney
  Emeritus Professor
  Office: JHN-061
     ESS Mailing Address
  Phone: 206-543-1163
  Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
  Email: cheney @ ess.washington.edu
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  Research Groups: Economic Geology, Sedimentology/Stratigraphy/Sedimentary Petrology

Areas of Interest:
Economic geology: spans metallic and nonmetallic ore deposits and the fossil fuels

Current Research Interests:
My interests in economic geology spans metallic and nonmetallic ore deposits and the fossil fuels. Lately I have concentrated on the geology of deposits of the rare earth elements (REEs) and on porphyry ore deposits of all types, as well as the societal issues of fossil fuels. As for regional geology, in Washington I am doing field work on the Tertiary history of the Cascade Range and on pre-Jurassic North America (Laurentia) in the northeastern corner of the State and adjacent British Columbia. In the latter project, I’m documenting a poorly known fold and thrust belt. I use sequence stratigraphy (of the Sloss- and Wheeler-type) as a major tool in economic geology and, especially, in my field work on the eastern flank of the Cascade Range and in Laurentia.

Selected Publications:

Cheney, E.S., 1994, Cenozoic unconformity-bounded sequences of central and eastern Washington: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Bulletin 80, p. 115-139(peer reviewed)

Cheney, E.S., 1996, Sequence stratigraphy and plate-tectonic significance of the Transvaal succession of southern Africa and its equivalent in Western Australia:  Precambrian Research, v. 79, p. 3-24 (peer reviewed).

Cheney, E.S., and Hayman, N.W., 2009, The Chiwaukum structural low: Cenozoic
shortening of the central Cascade Range, Washington State, USA:  Geological Society of America Bulletin,  v. 121, p. 1135-1153, doi 10.1130/B2666446,1;8. (peer reviewed).  

Cheney, E.S., and Hawkes, M.W., 2007, The future of hydrocarbons: Hubbert’s Peak or a plateau?:  Geological Society of America GSA Today, v. 17, No. 6, p. 69-70; doi: 10.1130/GSATO1706GW.l. (peer reviewed).

Cheney, E.S., Lange, I.M., and Barton, J.M., Jr., 2000, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, a 
sedimentary-hosted massive sulfide deposit: Boletin de la Sociedad Geologicá del
Perú, v. 90, p. 7-17. (peer reviewed).

Cheney, E.S., and Twist, D., 1991, The conformable emplacement of the Bushveld mafic rocks along a regional unconformity in the Transvaal succession of southern Africa:  Precambrian Research, v. 52, p. 115-132. (peer reviewed)