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Dyanna Czeck

Professor, Dept. Chair
Geosciences
 Lapham Hall 354
Faculty
Curriculum Vitae

Website: http://people.uwm.edu/dyanna/

Education

PhD, University of Minnesota
BS, University of Iowa

Research Interests

My research is in the area of structural geology focused on studying strain, deformation fabric formation, and rheology in naturally deformed rocks. I primarily study shear zones, tectonites including deformed conglomerates, and granite emplacement fabrics at a variety of scales. Most of my work combines field studies with other techniques like petrographic studies, electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD, to measure crystallographic orientations in rocks), FTIR (to measure water content in deformed rocks), mathematical modeling, or magnetic fabric studies. Over the last several years, I’ve had the opportunity to study rocks in Spain (Catalonia, Andalusia), Scotland (NW Highlands, Islay), Canada (Ontario, Nova Scotia), and the USA (Wisconsin, Utah, California, Minnesota). Students are collaborators on most of my research projects.

Teaching Areas

Structural Geology, Advanced Structural Geology, Tectonic History of Wisconsin, Structural Styles Around the World, Conducted Fieldtrips.

Other Activities

Graduate School, UW-Milwaukee Foundation Research Award, 2008

Selected Publications

Czeck, D. M., Traut, J. T., & Hudleston, P. J. (2019, March). Rheologic information determined from cleavage refraction in naturally deformed interlayered quartzites and phyllites. Bond, C. E. & Lebit, H. D. (Ed.). Folding and Fracturing of Rocks: 50 Years of Research since the Seminal Text Book of J. G. Ramsay, 487, 18. London: Geological Society Special Publications "Folding and Fracturing of Rocks: 50 Years of Research since the Seminal Text Book of J. G. Ramsay".
Díaz-Azpiroz, M., Barcos, L., Balanyá, C. C., Fernández, C., Expósito, I., & Czeck, D. M. (2014, November). Testing triclinic transpression models in highly partitioned brittle shear zones. A case study from the Torcal de Antequera massif, External Betics, southern Spain. Journal of Structural Geology, 68(Part B), 316-336.
Fernández, C., Czeck, D. M., & Díaz-Azpiroz, M. (2013, September). Testing the model of oblique transpression with oblique extrusion in two natural cases: steps and consequences. Journal of Structural Geology, 54(9), 85-102.
Yonkee, W. A., Czeck, D. M., Nachbor, A. C., Barszewski, C. E., Pantone, S., Balgord, E., & Johnson, K. R. (2013, May). Strain accumulation and fluid-rock interaction in a naturally deformed diamictite, Willard thrust system, Utah (USA): Implications for crustal rheology and strain softening. Journal of Structural Geology, 50(5), 91-118.
DeVasto, M. A., Czeck, D. M., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2012, December). Using image analysis and ArcGIS® software to improve automatic grain boundary detection and quantify geological images. Computers and Geosciences, 49, 38-45.
Druguet, E., Castaño, L. M., Czeck, D. M., Hudleston, P. J., & Carreras, J. (2012, July (3rd Quarter/Summer)). The significance of contorted veins in layered rocks. Geology, 40, 579-582.
Bauer, R. L., Czeck, D. M., Hudleston, P. J., & Tikoff, B. (2011). Structural geology of the subprovince boundaries in the Archean Superior Province of northern Minnesota and adjacent Ontario. Miller, J. D., Hudak, J. D., Wittkop, C., & McLaughlin, P. I. (Eds.). Archean to Anthropocene: Field Guides to the Geology of the Mid-Continent of North America, 24, 203–241. Geological Society of America Field Guide.
Carreras, J., Czeck, D. M., Druguet, E., & Hudleston, P. J. (2010, May). Structure and development of an anastomosing network of ductile shear zones. Journal of Structural Geology, 32(5), 656-666.