Courtney Beck
Email: clbeck at email.unc.edu
Office: Mitchell 327
B.S., Geology, Texas A&M University, 2010
My master’s project involves using CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon geochronology to analyze the pattern of Cretaceous magmatic arc migration preserved in the plutonic rocks of the central Sierra Nevada batholith. I am working with samples from the Bass Lake Tonalite and Dinkey Creek Granodiorite and will also incorporate data from fellow graduate student Ryan Frazer’s analysis of the Mt. Givens Granodiorite.
I work with Drew Coleman in the Isotope Geochemistry Lab and am also a teaching assistant for Introductory Geology lab. When I’m not in Mitchell, I enjoy going to yoga, officiating Carrboro bingo, listening to music and drinking lots of Diet Coke. Don’t mess with Texas.
Puente del Incas travertine bridge, Argentina.