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Alison B. Till Title: Research Geologist Address: 4210 University Dr., Anchorage, AK 99508-4626 Phone: (907) 786-7444 Fax: (907) 786-7401 Email: atill@usgs.gov

Education and/or Training

Ph.D.	1994	University of Washington, Seattle WA	Geology
M.S.	1980	University of Washington, Seattle WA	Geology
A.B.	1976	University of California, Santa Cruz CA	Geology

Areas of Specialization and/or Research Interests

Metamorphic petrology and structural geology; tectonics; thermochronology.

Current research projects (task leader):
1) Investigation of the syngenetic massive sulfide (Pb-Zn-Cu) potential of the Nome Group, an extensive metamorphic unit on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska;
2) Synthesis of a new geologic map of the Yukon Flats region, Alaska;
3) Synthesis of a new geologic map of the southern Brooks Range, Alaska.

Professional Experience

2001 - 2005	Research Geologist, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage AK
1996 - 2001	Supervisory Geologist, USGS, Anchorage AK
1980 - 1996	Research Geologist, USGS, Anchorage AK

Significant Recent Publications

Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Harris, A.G., Moore, T.E., Bleick, H.A., and Siwiec, B.R., 2008, Bedrock geologic map of the southern Brooks Range, Alaska, and accompanying conodont data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1149, 1 pamphlet, 71p., 2 sheets, scale 1:500,000 [digital data release: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1149/].

Till, A.B., Roeske, S.M., Bradley, D.C., Friedman, R., and Layer, P.W., 2007, Early Tertiary transtension-related deformation and magmatism along the Tintina fault system, Alaska, in Till, A.B., Roeske, S.M., Foster, D.A., and Sample, J., eds., Exhumation and continental strike-slip fault systems: Geological Society of America Special Paper 434, p. 233-264.

Till, A. B., Roeske, S. M., Foster, D.A., and Sample, J., editors, 2007, Exhumation and continental strike-slip fault systems, Geological Society of America Special Paper 434, 270 p.

Till, A.B., Harris, A.G., Wardlaw, B.R., and Mullen, M., 2007, Upper Triassic continental margin strata of the central Alaska Range: implications for paleogeographic reconstruction, in Ridgway, K.D., Trop, J.M., Glen, J.M.G., and O'Neill, J.M., eds., Tectonic growth of a collisional continental margin crustal evolution of southern Alaska: Geological Society of America Special Paper 431, p. 191-205.

Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Phillips, J.D., Stanley, R.G., and Crews, J., 2006, Generalized Bedrock Geologic Map, Yukon Flats region, East-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1304, 1 sheet, scale 1:500,000 [digital data release: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1304/]