Dr. Rick Major has teaching and research interests in sedimentology, stratigraphy, oceanography, marine geology, and scientific writing.
Biography
Rick is a sedimentologist specializing in the transformation of lime sediments to rocks. His work has taken him to the modern sediments of the Bahamas, the young limestones of the Netherlands Antilles and the Marshall Islands, the older rocks of the continental United States (both surface and subsurface) and Italy,and the very ancient rocks of South Africa. He has been an exploration geologist for Amoco in New Orleans, a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Texas, and professor and laboratory director at Universiti Tecknologi Petronas in Malaysia. Rick is an elected Senior Fellow of the Geological Society of America, a Certified Professional Geologist of the American Institute of Professional Geologists, and a member of Sigma Xi. He is retired in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Rick holds a PhD in geology from Brown University, a MS in geology from the University of Connecticut, and a BS in geology from Union College. He was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow with the U. S. Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado.