Department of Geological Sciences

Charles Matsch
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin

Interests: Geomorphology, Quaternary Stratigraphy and Sedimentation, Glacial Geology, Glacial-marine Sedimentation, Pre-Pleistocene Glaciations
Office: HH 228
Phone: (218) 726-7586
E-mail: cmatsch@d.umn.edu

Charlie Matsch received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Maine in Orono, his MS from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, all in Geology. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and geomorphology of Quaternary deposits of Southwestern Minnesota. He came to the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 1970 and continued his studies of Quaternary geology, mainly in Minnesota. In 1975 he began a collaboration with his UMD colleague Dick Ojakangas on Late Precambrian glacial deposits in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, and then, in 1979 on deposits in the Ellsworth Mountains of West Antarctica associated with the Late Paleozoic glaciation of Gondwanaland. His participation for many years in the Commission on Genesis and Lithology of Quaternary Deposits established by the International Union of Quaternary Research (INQUA) culminated in his co-editing with R.P. Goldthwait "Genetic Classification of Glacigenic Deposits", published in 1988.

Publications:

Matsch, C.L. and Ojakangas, R.W., 1992, Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Whiteout Conglomerate; An upper Paleozoic glaciogenic unit, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica, in Webers, G.F. Craddock, C., and Splettstoesser, J.F., eds. Geology of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica: Geological Society of America Memoir 170, p. 37-62.

Matsch, C.L. and Ojakangas, R.W., 1991, Comparisons in depositional style of "polar" and "temperate" glacial ice; Late Paleozoic Whiteout Conglomerate (West Antarctica) and late Proterozoic Mineral Fork Formation (Utah), in Anderson, J.B., and Ashley, G.M., eds., Glacial Marine Sedimentation; Paleoclimatic significance: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 261, p. 191-206.

Goldthwait, R.P. and Matsch, C.L., Editors, 1988, Genetic Classification of Glacigenic Deposits: A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 294 p.

Borns, H.W. and Matsch, C.L., 1988, A provisional genetic classification of glaciomarine environments, processes, and sediments, in Goldthwait, R.P. and C.L. Matsch, editors, Genetic Classification of Glacigenic Deposits: A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 261-266.

Matsch, C.L. and Schneider, A.F., 1986, Stratigraphy and correlation of the glacial deposits of the Glacial Lobe Complex in Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin: in Richmond, G. and Fullerton, D., editors, Quaternary Glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere, vol. 5, Quaternary Science Reviews, p. 59-64.

Matsch, C.L., 1983, River Warren, The Southern Outlet of Glacial Lake Agassiz: Geol. Assn. of Canada Special Paper 26, p. 231-244.

Ojakangas, R.W. and Matsch, C.L. 1982, Upper Precambrian (Eocambrian) Mineral Fork Tillite of Utah: Discussions and Reply: Geol. Soc. America Bull., vol. 93, p. 186-187.

Andrews, J.T. and Matsch, C.L., 1983, Glacial Marine Sediments and Sedimentation: An Annotated Bibliography, Geo Abstracts Ltd., Norwich, England, 227 p.

Ojakangas, R.W. and Matsch, C.L., 1982, MINNESOTA'S GEOLOGY, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 255 p.

Ojakangas, R.W. and Matsch, C.L., 1981, The Late Paleozoic Whiteout Conglomerate: A Glacial and Glaciomarine Sequence in the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica: in Harland, B. and Hambrey, M., editors, Earth's Pre-Pleistocene Glacial Record, Cambridge University Press, p. 678-680.

Ojakangas, R.W. and Matsch, C.L., 1980, Upper Precambrian (Eocambrian) Mineral Fork Tillite of Utah: A continental glacial and glaciomarine sequence, Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 91, p. 495-501.

Matsch, C.L., 1976, North America and The Great Ice Age: McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 137 p.

Matsch, C.L., 1972, Quaternary geology of southwestern Minnesota, in P.K. Sims and G.B. Morey, eds., The Geology of Minnesota, Univ. Minn. Press, Minneapolis, p. 548-560.

Matsch, C.L. and Wright, H.E., 1967, The Southern Outlet of Lake Agassiz in Mayer-Oakes, W.J., ed., Life, Land and Water, University of Manitoba Press, p. 121-140.