Steven Kidder is a Ph.D. candidate at Caltech studying the rheology of the middle crust.
His thesis combines field-based observations of well-constrained natural laboratories with deformation experiments and finite element modeling to better quantify differential stress magnitudes and variations. Steven's research interests include tectonics, deformation mechanisms and microstructures, paleopiezometry, subduction erosion, arc magmatism and evolution of the continental crust.
Steven has a Master's Degree from the University of Arizona and field experience in structurally complex sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous terrains in Taiwan, Central and Southern California, the Nepalese Himalaya, the Argentine Sierras Pampeanas, and the Colorado Plateau. |
