Dr. James Day
Professor of Geology
Geography-Geology-Environment
Office
FSA Felmley Hall Of Science Annex 441
Office Hours
M 2-5 PM, W afternoons by appointment for the Fall 2017 semester
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Current Courses
287Independent Study - Geology
Teaching Interests & Areas
Teaching: Principles of Geology, Evolution of the Earth, Ocean Science, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Invertebrate Paleontology.
Research Interests & Areas
Research Interests: Paleoecology, paleobiography and systematic paleontology of Ordovician-Devonian brachiopods, conodonts, and molluscs (gastropods); high-resolution biostratigraphy using integrated brachiopod and conodont sequences for correlation; integrated sequence-event stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of Devonian cratonic and continental platform deposits of North America; paleogeography of Devonian Luarussia and paleoceanography of the Devonian ocean.
Ph D Paleontology, Stratigraphy & Biostratigraphy
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
MS Geology
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona
BS Geology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
College of Arts and Sciences-Outstanding College Researcher Award
illinois State University-College of Arts and Sciences
2015
Summer Research Fellow
American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund
1998
Undergraduate Student Award
Society of Sedimentary Geology & Paleontological Society (SEPM & PS)
1978
Book, Authored
Hogencamp, N., Stolfus, B., & Day, J. The Devonian- Carboniferous Boundary in the Mississippi River Valley of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. Bradley Cramer, James Day, Ryan Clark (EDs), A Revised Conodont Zonation of the Tournaisian (Kinderhookian to Lower Osagean) and Implications for Stratigraphic Correlation in North America.. Iowa Geologcial Survey-Guidebook Series Guidebook 30.Guidebook 30 (2019): 1-75.
Book, Chapter
Cramer, B.D., Stolfus, B.M., Day, J., Clark, R. J., Hogancamp, N. J., Witzke, B. J., and S., Tassier-Surine, 2019. The Devonian-
Carboniferous Boundary in the Mississippi River Valley of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri.Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook 30, p. 1-9.
Carboniferous Boundary in the Mississippi River Valley of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri.Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook 30, p. 1-9.
Day, J. Garber, K., and B.J. Witzke, 2019. Brachiopod Sequence in the Latest Devonian Hangenberg Extinction and Devonian-
Carboniferous Boundary Intervals in Southeastern Iowa, Northeastern Missouri, and West-Central Illinois – Central North America Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook 30, p. 19-43.
Carboniferous Boundary Intervals in Southeastern Iowa, Northeastern Missouri, and West-Central Illinois – Central North America Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook 30, p. 19-43.
Day, J., and Witzke, B.J. Upper Devonian Biostratigraphy, Event Stratigraphy, and Late Frasnian Kellwasser Extinction Bioevents in the Iowa Basin: Western Euramerica. In: Michael Montenari, editor, Stratigraphy & Timescales, Vol. 2, Burlington: Academic Press, 2017, pp. 243-332. ISBN: 978-0-12-813077-3 © Copyright 2017 Elsevier Inc. Academic Press.
Day, J., and Witzke, B.J. Upper Devonian Biostratigraphy, Event Stratigraphy, and Late Frasnian Kellwasser Extinction Bioevents in the Iowa Basin: Western Euramerica. In: Michael Montenari, editor, Stratigraphy & Timescales, Vol. 2, Burlington: Academic Press, 2017, pp. 243-332. ISBN: 978-0-12-813077-3 © Copyright 2017 Elsevier Inc. Academic Press.
Day, J. Central North American Devonian Brachiopoda. Suttner, T.J., Kido, E., Konigshof, P., Waters, J.A., Davis, L., and F. Messner (eds. (EDs), Planet Earth In Deep Time: Paleozoic Series-Devonian & Carboniferous. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Book.1st (2016): 38-39.
Conference Proceeding
Day, J., Whalen, M., De Vleeshouwer, D., & Claeys, P. Biostratigraphic calibration of high resolution magnetic susceptibility stratigraphy of the Late Frasnian (Late Devonian) Lime Creek Formation in the subtropical Iowa Basin of western Laurussia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 44.7 (2012): 83.
Day, J., Gouwy, S., & MacLeod, K. Lower-Middle Devonian (Pragian-Lower Givetian) conodont biostratigraphy, Middle Devonian sea level record and estimated conodont apatite δO18 sea surface temperature changes in the southern Illinois Basin, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 44.7 (2012): 124.
Day, J., & Witzke, B. Timing of Upper Devonian Marine Flooding Events and Episodes of Organic-Rich Sweetland Creek, Grassy Creek and Saverton Shale deposition in the Iowa and NW Illinois Basin. GSA Abstracts with Programs 44.5 (2012): 7.
Gouwy, S., Day, J., & MacLeod, K. Pragian to Lower Givetian Conodont Biostratigraphy and Conodont Apatite δ 18O. 4th International Geologica Belgica Meeting (2012)
Gouwy, S., Day, J., & MacLoed, K. Upper Emsian to Lower Givetian Conodont Biostratigraphy and Conodont Apatite δO18 Results from the Grand Tower and St. Laurent Formations: Southern Illinois Basin-Reelfoot Embayment. GSA Abstracts with Programs 44.5 (2012): 2.
Journal Article
Uveges, B. Biogeochemical controls on black shale deposition during the Frasnian-Famennian biotic crisis in the Illinois and Appalachian Basins, USA, inferred from stable isotopes of nitrogen and carbon.. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology-Elseveir 531.Part A (2019): 15.
Craddock, J. P., Malone, D.H., Porter, R., Compton, J., Luczaj, J., Day, J. E., Johnson, S. T., 2018, Paleozoic reactivation structures in the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon foreland: Far-field deformation across Pangea (Reply to Discussion), Earth-Science Reviews, v. 181 p. 153–157.
Craddock, J.P., Malone, D.H., Porter, R., Compton, J., Luczaj, J., Konstantinou, A., Day, J.E., Johnston, S.T., Paleozoic reactivation structures in the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon foreland: Far-field deformation across Pangea. Earth Science Reviews, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.04.002, Earth Science Reviews 169 (2017) 1–34.
David De Vleeschouwer D., Da Silva A.-C., Sinnesael, M., Chen, D., Day, J.E., Whalen, M.T., Guo, Z., and P. Claeys 2017, Timing and pacing of the Late Devonian mass extinction event regulated by eccentricity and obliquity. Nature Communications | 8: 2268 | DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02407-1 |, December 22, 2017, 11 pp.
David De Vleeschouwer D., Da Silva A.-C., Sinnesael, M., Chen, D., Day, J.E., Whalen, M.T., Guo, Z., and P. Claeys 2017, Timing and pacing of the Late Devonian mass extinction event regulated by eccentricity and obliquity. Nature Communications | 8: 2268 | DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02407-1 |, December 22, 2017, 11 pp.
Other
Day, J., Quade, D., & Anderson, R. Geology of the Moscow Quarry, northwest Muscatine County. Geological Society of Iowa Guidebook 89 (2011): 31.
Day, J. New Developments and Refinements to Lower Cedar Valley Group Conodont Biostratigraphy in Eastern Iowa. T. Marshall and C. Fields (EDs), The Geology of Klein and Conklin Quarries, Johnson County, Iowa. Geological Society of Iowa Guidebook 87 (2010): 93-104.
Day, J. Lime Creek Formation in the vicinity of the Rockford Brick and tile Quarry. Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook 28, Stop 7 (2008): 85-95.
Day, J., Witzke, B., & Bunker, B. Overview of Middle and Upper Devonian Cedar Valley Group and Lime Creek Formation Carbonate Platform Facies, Faunas, and Event Stratigraphy of Northern Iowa. Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook 28 (2008): 15-39.
Day, J. Unusual Facies Relationships Within the Middle Frasnian Shell Rock Formation Recording Reefal Carbonate Bank Aggradation and Progradation & Offbank Facies Onlap. Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook 28, Stop 5 (2008): 72-76.
Presentations
High Resolution Inte- grated Conodont and Carbonate Carbonate Carbon Isotope Chemostratigraphy of the Hangenburg Excursion from the H-28 and H-32 Cores, Burlington, Iowa.. National Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America. (2020)
A Revised Conodont Biozonation for the Kinderhookian (Lower Mississippian). Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America. (2019)
Integrated Stratigraphy of the Middle Devonian Lake Church and Thiensville Formations, Western Michigan Basin, U.S.A.. 3rd International Congress on Stratigraphy (STRATI-2019). International Commission on Stratigraphy & UNESCO. (2019)
Integrated conodont, graptolite, and δ13C Bio-chemostratigraphy of the Silurian of the Illinois Basin: a complimentary approach. 3rd International Congress on Stratigraphy (STRATI-2019). International COmmission on Stratigraphy, UNESCO. (2019)
Late Devonian Mass Extinctions (Kellwasser Events) in Subtropical and Equatorial Laurussia (Central and Western North America). Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Northern Illinois University - Graduate Colloquium - Lecture. Department of Geosciences, Northern Illinois University. (2019)
Upper Devonian (Upper Frasnian-Lower Famennian) Biostratigraphy and Kellwasser Extinction Signatures in 4 the Iowa Basin-Central North America (Western Subtropical Euramerica). 11th North American Paleontological Convention. Paleontological Society. (2019)
Vertebrate Microfossil and Brachiopod Records of the Late Devonian Mass Extinction. Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois. College of DuPage. (2019)
Clark, R.J., Stolfus, B.M., Cramer, B.D., Day, J., Witzke, B.J., and Tassier-Surine, S.A. REVISITING THE DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY INTERVAL IN THE U.S. MIDCONTINENT: TYPE KINDERHOOKIAN AREA OF ILLINOIS, MISSOURI, AND IOWA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 6 - doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-301523
LAYNG, Alexander P., DAY, James and TIERNEY CRAMER, Kate, USING LANDMARK ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPINOCYRTIA SHELL MORPHOLOGY AND EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL VARIATION IN THE DEVONIAN. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 2 - doi: 10.1130/abs/2017NE-291025
MCGINN, Ezekiel, OVER, D. Jeffrey, KOSLOSKI, Mary Elizabeth and DAY, Jed. HIGH FRASNIAN CONODONTS FROM THE CANASERAGA SANDSTONE, JAVA GROUP, UPPER DEVONIAN, WESTERN NEW YORK. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 2 - doi: 10.1130/abs/2017NE-290088
Grants & Contracts
Investigation of Sr Isopte Chemostratigraphy of Devonian and Carboniferous Conodont Skeletal Apatite. United State Geological Survey. Federal. (2019)
United States Geological Survey-investigation of strontium and trace and rare earth element geochemistry of conodont apatites from the Devonian of central and western North America.. United States Geological Survey-Federal Center. Federal. (2015)
United States Geological Survey-investigation of strontium and trace and rare earth element geochemistry of conodont apatites from the Devonian of central and western North America.. United States Geological Survey-Federal Center. Federal. (2014)
United States Geological Survey-investigation of strontium and trace and rare earth element geochemistry of conodont apatites from the Devonian of central and western North America.. United States Geological Survey-Federal Center. Federal. (2013)
United States Geological Survey-investigation of strontium and trace and rare earth element geochemistry of conodont apatites from the Devonian of central and western North America. Federal Center. Federal. (2012)