
Assistant Professor
Field Camp Director
Manager- Lost River Field Station
Idaho State University
Contact Information
(208)-282-5024
Email: ryananderson@isu.edu
Field Camp Director
Manager- Lost River Field Station
Idaho State University
Contact Information
(208)-282-5024
Email: ryananderson@isu.edu
Research:
I have two main areas of research interest. 1) The structural evolution of continental crust, both extensional and contractional, and the orogenic models that predict their behavior. 2) The structural controls of hydrothermal fluids, mainly in amagmatic settings within the Basin and Range of the Western U.S. My main approach is detailed geologic mapping coupled with construction of balanced and restored cross-sections, apatite and zircon thermochronology, geochronology, and peak temperature data using RSCM (Raman spectroscopy on carbonaceous material). See my research and publication pages for more details.
I have two main areas of research interest. 1) The structural evolution of continental crust, both extensional and contractional, and the orogenic models that predict their behavior. 2) The structural controls of hydrothermal fluids, mainly in amagmatic settings within the Basin and Range of the Western U.S. My main approach is detailed geologic mapping coupled with construction of balanced and restored cross-sections, apatite and zircon thermochronology, geochronology, and peak temperature data using RSCM (Raman spectroscopy on carbonaceous material). See my research and publication pages for more details.

Whats New (updated 8-12-20):
Excited to announce that I have moved to Idaho State University. I am the ISU Field Camp Director and Manager of the Lost River Field Station located at the foot of the Lost River Range.
For more information or if you are an undergraduate interested in attending the Idaho State University Field Camp please visit the field camp website:
https://www.isu.edu/geosciences/fieldcamp/
If you are interested in using the Lost River Field Station for teaching or research please contact me for rates and availability.
Most recent papers out on the central Andes (Bolivia) in Tectonics and AAPG Memoir
Anderson, R.B., Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., Thomson, S.N., Calle, A.Z., Stockli, D.F., 2018, Orogenic wedge evolution of the central Andes, Bolivia (21°S): Implications for Cordilleran cyclicity: Tectonics, v. 37, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005132 pdf
Calle, A.Z., Horton, B.K., Limachi, R., Stockli, D.F., Uzeda-Orellana, G.V., Anderson, R.B., Long, S.P., 2018, Cenozoic provenance and depositional record of the Subandean foreland basin during growth and advance of the central Andean fold-thrust belt, southern Bolivia, in Zamora, G., McClay, K., and Ramos, V., Petroleum Basins and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Andes of Peru and Bolivia: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 117, doi: 10.1306/13622132m1173777.
Some pictures from the 11th South American Symposium on Isotope Geology in Bolivia and field work in Argentina
Excited to announce that I have moved to Idaho State University. I am the ISU Field Camp Director and Manager of the Lost River Field Station located at the foot of the Lost River Range.
For more information or if you are an undergraduate interested in attending the Idaho State University Field Camp please visit the field camp website:
https://www.isu.edu/geosciences/fieldcamp/
If you are interested in using the Lost River Field Station for teaching or research please contact me for rates and availability.
Most recent papers out on the central Andes (Bolivia) in Tectonics and AAPG Memoir
Anderson, R.B., Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., Thomson, S.N., Calle, A.Z., Stockli, D.F., 2018, Orogenic wedge evolution of the central Andes, Bolivia (21°S): Implications for Cordilleran cyclicity: Tectonics, v. 37, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005132 pdf
Calle, A.Z., Horton, B.K., Limachi, R., Stockli, D.F., Uzeda-Orellana, G.V., Anderson, R.B., Long, S.P., 2018, Cenozoic provenance and depositional record of the Subandean foreland basin during growth and advance of the central Andean fold-thrust belt, southern Bolivia, in Zamora, G., McClay, K., and Ramos, V., Petroleum Basins and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Andes of Peru and Bolivia: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 117, doi: 10.1306/13622132m1173777.
Some pictures from the 11th South American Symposium on Isotope Geology in Bolivia and field work in Argentina