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Email: gdhoke@syr.edu

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116 Heroy Geology Laboratory
Phone: 315-443-1903

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Gregory Hoke

Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences

Research Interests

Tectonic geomorphology

Interactions between landscapes

Cimate and tectonics

Stable isotope paleoaltimetry

Understanding mountain belt evolution through the sedimentary record.




Current Research Projects

Climate, transient basin fill and faulting in a thin-skinned thrust belt, San Juan Province, Argentina (with M. R. Strecker (U. Potsdam, Germany; R. W. Allmendinger, Cornell U.).


Rock deformation events, range elevation change and sedimentary basin filling in the Andes Mountains between 30°S and 34°S latitude (with C. N. Garzione, U. Rochester; L. B. Giambiagi, IANIGLA, Argentina).


Paleoaltimerty of the SE Margin of the Tibetan Plateau (with C.N. Garzione, U. Rochester).


Isotope-elevation transect from monthly precipitation samples along the Aconcagua and Mendoza Rivers, Chile and Argentina (with D. Sachse, U. Potsdam, Germany; J. Aranibar IANIGLA, Argentina; E. M. Gayo, U. Católica, Chile, K. Huntington, U. Washington).


Courses

  • Earth System Science (EAR 203)
  • Geomorphology (EAR 342)
  • Dynamic Earth (EAR 101)


Students

Mariana Bonich

Siobhan Whadcoat

Greg Wissink


Facilities

Optical instruments:
Leica S8 120x binocular microscope with 1.3 MP camera attached to a Macintosh computer
Leitz student-grade petrographic microscope

Computing:
Trimble Recon X ruggedized field computers with bluetooth GPS and ArcPad software
2 dual quad-core workstations for GIS and image processing applications Network enabled data storage unit
Matlab ENVI

Field equipment:
2 Brunton Geotransits
1 Jacob's staff


Selected Publications

Hoke, G.D., Garzione, C.N., Araneo, D.C., Latorre, C., Strecker, M.R. and Williams, K.J.; 2009, Can Quaternary pedogenic carbonates be used to estimate modern elevations?: Geology v.37, p. 1015-1018, doi: 10.1130/G30308A.

Garzione, C. N., Hoke, G. D., Labarkin, J. C., Withers, S., MacFadden, B. J., Ghosh, P., and Mulch, A., 2008, Rise of the Andes: Science, v. 320, p. 1304-1307. doi: 10.1126/science.1148615

Hoke, G. D., and Garzione, C. N., 2008, Paleosurfaces, paleoelevation, and the mechanisms for the latest Miocene topographic development of the Altiplano Plateau: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 271, no. 1-4, p. 192-201. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.008

Hoke, G. D., Isacks, B. L., Jordan T.E., Tomlinson, A.J., Blanco Pavez, N., and Razmezani, J., 2007, Geomorphic evidence for post-10 Ma uplift of the western flank of the central Andes 18°30'-22°S: Tectonics 26 doi:/10.1029/2006TC002082

Loveless, J. P., Hoke, G. D., Allmendinger, R. W., Gonzalez, G., Isacks, B. L., and Carrizo, D. A., 2005, Pervasive cracking of the northern Chilean Coastal Cordillera: New evidence for forearc extension: Geology, v. 33, no. 12, p. 973-976. doi:10.1130/G22004.1

Allmendinger, R. W., Gonzalez, G, Yu, J, Hoke, G. and Isacks, B., 2005, Trench Parallel Shortening in the Northern Chilean Forearc: Tectonic and Climatic Implications: Geological Society of America Bulletin 116(1-2). doi: 10.1130/B25505.1

Hoke, G. D., and Turcotte, D. L., 2002, Weathering and damage: Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 107, no. B10, 2210, doi: 10.1029/2001JB001573