Peter Martini

University Professor Emeritus
Email: 
pmartini@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: 
(519) 824-4120 Ext.52488
Office: 
Alexander Hall
Lab: 
2nd floor

Research

   Main fields: Sedimentology, Glacial Geology

·         Other fields: Fossil Fuels, Geomorphology, Paleosols

·         Current research:

o        Sedimentology of Quaternary and ancient cold climate sediments (glacial and nonglacial):

- Glaciofluvial and glaciolacustrine deposits of southern Great Lakes, Canada

- Coarse-grained beach deposits of lower Great Lakes, Canada

- Coastal (beach ridges and tidal flats) and fluvial geomorphology and sediments of subarctic and arctic regions of Canada: Foxe Basin, Hudson Bay, and James Bay  

- Comparative analysis of the cold-climate peatland basins of Hudson Bay Lowland (Canada) and Western Siberian Plain (Russia)

- Comparative analysis of the modern, cold-climate peatland basins of Canada and the Permian--Carboniferous cold-climate coal measures of the southern hemisphere

o        Sedimentation in extensional--transtensional basins, Northern Apennines (Italy) and Galicia (Spain)

o        Landscape evolution and Landuse of Coastal Zone, Hainan Island, China

 

Publications

 

Published books, Monographs, guide books, chapters in books, special publications  

44

 

Books edited (5) and authored (4)

11

 

Monographs

3

 

Field guide books

10

 

Chapters in books

14

 

Edited Special Public. or No. of Int. Journals

6

Papers published in refereed journals and refereed proceedings(for abstract click on the year of publication, for larger figure click on the figure)

81

Technical memoranda and reports

32

Websites

2

Papers read at conferences and universities (seminars)

158

Short Courses at foreign Institutions

5

Supervised theses

19

Other publications

21