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Donn Gorsline
Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences

Contact Information
Phone: (213)740-5125
E-mail: gorsline@usc.edu

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Education

B.S. Petroleum Engineering, Montana School of Mines, 1/1950
M.S. Geology, University of Southern California, 1/1954
Ph.D. Geology, University of Southern California, 1/1958
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Gorsline studies sedimentology, marine geology, processes and history, California Continental Borderland and sedimentary history. He also researches paleooceanography, Gulf of California margin basins, coastal geology and Baja California.
 

Honors and Awards

USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 1993  
 
 
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