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John Westgate is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on tephrochronology, which involves the use of tephra beds, or volcanic ash layers, to develop reliable, regional, time-stratigraphic frameworks. This work aims to improve the understanding of the record of volcanism through identification, correlation, and dating of these layers. A major thrust of his current studies supports palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological investigations of Late Cenozoic sediments in Yukon Territory and interior Alaska. He leads a research group that includes members engaged in various facets of geoscience, emphasizing biogeosciences, Earth surface processes, and geochemistry.
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