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On the desert pavement at Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley National Park, CA.
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Professor and Chairman of the Geology Department
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Dr. R. LaRell Nielson was born and raised in Utah. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. His major interests while at Brigham Young University were geomorphology, sedimentology, paleontology, and stratigraphy. Thesis work involved modeling of volcanic landforms and study of geomorphic evolution of the Crater Hill Volcanic field of Zion National Park, Utah. He received a Ph.D. from University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he specialized in stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology and geomorphology. Dissertation work involved a stratigraphic
analysis of the Kaibab and Toroweap Formations on the western Colorado Plateau. Before coming to SFA he taught at Texas Christian University for two years. Dr. Nielson's hobbies include shooting, hiking, backpacking, hunting, and
fishing. Current research interests are late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau, and Rocky Mountains, and Eocene stratigraphy of East Texas. He teaches Introductory Geology, The Earth Through Time, Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, Advanced Historical Geology, Paleontology, Field Camp, Sequence Stratigraphy, Depositional Systems, and Basin Analysis. Dr. Nielson is the faculty advisor for the Geologic Student Association and American Association of Petroleum Geologists Student Chapter at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Phone: (936) 468-2248
Email: rnielson@sfasu.edu
Office: Room 304, Miller Science Building
Click here for images from Dr. Nielson's geologic expeditions in 1998.
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