UntitledTomas Capaldi

Assistant Professor

Sedimentary Geology, Tectonics, Basin Dynamics, Quaternary Geology

Office: LFG 221/221A
Phone: 702-895-1774
Email: tomas.capaldi@unlv.edu

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Education:

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (2019)
B.S. University of California Los Angeles (2014)

Research interests:

My research uses sedimentology, stratigraphy, and geochronology to trace the transport of sediments across Earth’s surface to address problems related to the timing and mechanisms driving mountain belt erosion, non-marine sediment transport processes, and basin evolution over variable timescales. My research employs (1) field techniques: measuring stratigraphic sections, facies analysis, and geologic mapping; (2) analytical methods involving sediment provenance proxies using U-Pb geochronology, Lu-Hf isotope geochemistry, and optically stimulated luminescence; and (3) forward modeling approaches that incorporates digital elevation models and sediment provenance datasets to compare to the stratigraphic record. This multi-disciplinary approach provides insights into sediment transfer dynamics in terrestrial systems and resulting feedbacks and relationships with continental stratigraphy, which has implications for paleoclimate reconstructions, resource management, and paleogeography.

Recent Publications:

Capaldi, T.N., Odlum, M.L., Curry, M. and Stockli, D.F., in review, Variable thermal histories across the Pyrenees orogen recorded in modern river sand detrital geo-/thermochronology and PECUBE thermokinematic modeling. Basin Research.
Garzanti, E., Capaldi, T.N., Limonta, M., Sosa, N. and Vezzoli, G. 2021, Transcontinental retroarc sediment routing controlled by subduction geometry and climate change ( Central and Southern Andes, Argentina). Basin Research, 33(6).
Capaldi, T.N., McKenzie, N.R., Horton, B.K, Mackaman-Lofland, C., Colleps, C.L., and Stockli, D.F., 2021, The detrital zircon record of Phanerozoic magmatism in the southern central Andes. Geosphere, 17(3).
Capaldi, T.N., Horton, B.K, McKenzie, N.R., Mackaman-Lofland, C., Stockli, D.F., Ortiz, G., and Alvarado, P., 2020, Neogene retroarc foreland basin evolution, sediment provenance, and magmatism in response to flat-slab subduction, western Argentina. Tectonics, 39(7).
Capaldi, T.N., George, S.W.M, Hirtz, J.A., Horton, B.K, Stockli, D.F., 2019, Fluvial and eolian sediment mixing during changing climate conditions recorded in Holocene Andean foreland deposits from Argentina (31-33° S). Frontiers in Earth Science, Research Topic Sedimentary System Responses to External Forcings: A Process-Based Perspective. v.7, 298

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