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Karena Gill Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Geoscience
A113
540-458-8101
kgill@wlu.edu
Research
Professor Gill studies sedimentary systems and focuses on understanding the Earth’s history through them and more recently how terrestrial rocks can be used as analogs to rocks from Mars and preserve biomarkers.
Selected Publications
[1] Gill, K.K., E.A., Jagniecki, E.A., K.C. Benison, M.E., Gibson, 2023, A Mars-analog sulfate mineral, mirabilite, preserves biosignatures, Geology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G51256.1.
[2] Prather, B. E., R. H., Goldstein, D. C., Kopaska-Merkel, E., Heydari, K. K.,Gill, M. M., Minzoni, 2023, Dolomitization of reservoir rocks in the Smackover Formation, southeastern Gulf Coast, U.S.A, Earth-Science Reviews, v. 244, p. 104512, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104512.