Dyanna Czeck

Professor, Geosciences

Education

PhD, University of Minnesota BS, University of Iowa

Teaching Schedule

Course Num	Title	Meets
GEO SCI 414-401	Structural Geology	TR 2:30pm-3:45pm
GEO SCI 414-801	Structural Geology	W 5:30pm-8:10pm
GEO SCI 414-802	Structural Geology	F 11:30am-2:10pm

Teaching Interests

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

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.

Awards

Graduate School, UW-Milwaukee Foundation Research Award, 2008

Selected Publications

Czeck, Dyanna M., Traut, Jolene T., and Hudleston, Peter J.“Rheologic information determined from cleavage refraction in naturally deformed interlayered quartzites and phyllites” Folding and Fracturing of Rocks: 50 Years of Research since the Seminal Text Book of J. G. Ramsay487. London: Geological Society Special Publications "Folding and Fracturing of Rocks: 50 Years of Research since the Seminal Text Book of J. G. Ramsay". (2019): 18.

Díaz-Azpiroz, Manuel, Barcos, Leticia, Balanyá, C. C., Fernández, Carlos, Expósito, I., and Czeck, Dyanna M.“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 Geology68.Part B (2014): 316-336.

Fernández, Carlos, Czeck, Dyanna M., and Díaz-Azpiroz, Manuel. “Testing the model of oblique transpression with oblique extrusion in two natural cases: steps and consequences” Journal of Structural Geology54.9 (2013): 85-102.

Yonkee, W. A., Czeck, Dyanna M., Nachbor, Amelia C., Barszewski, Christine E., Pantone, Spenser, Balgord, Elizabeth, and Johnson, Kimberly R.“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 Geology50.5 (2013): 91-118.

DeVasto, Michael A., Czeck, Dyanna M., and Bhattacharyya, Prajukti. “Using image analysis and ArcGIS® software to improve automatic grain boundary detection and quantify geological images” Computers and Geosciences49. (2012): 38-45.

Druguet, Elena, Castaño, Lina M., Czeck, Dyanna M., Hudleston, Peter J., and Carreras, Jordi. “The significance of contorted veins in layered rocks” Geology40. (2012): 579-582.

Bauer, Robert L., Czeck, Dyanna M., Hudleston, Peter J., and Tikoff, Basil. “Structural geology of the subprovince boundaries in the Archean Superior Province of northern Minnesota and adjacent Ontario” Archean to Anthropocene: Field Guides to the Geology of the Mid-Continent of North America24. Ed. Miller, J. D., Hudak, J. D., Wittkop, C., and McLaughlin, P. I.Geological Society of America Field Guide. (2011): 203–241.

Carreras, Jordi, Czeck, Dyanna M., Druguet, Elena, and Hudleston, Peter J.“Structure and development of an anastomosing network of ductile shear zones” Journal of Structural Geology32.5 (2010): 656-666.

Czeck, Dyanna M., Fissler, Darlene A., Horsman, Eric, and Tikoff, Basil. “Strain analysis and rheology contrasts in polymictic conglomerates: an example from the Seine metaconglomerates, Superior Province, Canada” Journal of Structural Geology31.11 (2009): 1365-1376.

Druguet, E., Czeck, D. M., Carreras, J., and Castano, Lina M.. “Emplacement and deformation features of syntectonic leucocratic veins from Rainy Lake Zone (western Superior Province, Canada)” Precambrian Research163.3-4 (2008): 384-400.