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Office: 716 Natural Sciences Complex
Phone: 716.645.4265
Email: mib@geology.buffalo.edu
Website: Home Page
Title: Professor
Degree: PhD, Geology, California Institute of Technology, 1989
Specialty: Volcanic and geologic hazards,
Plumes, Tephrochronology,
Mapping
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Courses Offered
GLY 106 Introduction to Field Mapping
GLY 312 Surface Processes and Hydrology I
GLY 407 Geologic Field Training
GLY 477/577 Geological Fluid Dynamics
GLY 478/578 Advanced Field Methods - Explosive Voclanism of Colima Volcano
Research Interests
Explosive volcanism, tephra stratigraphy,
volcanotectonics, Mono-Inyo Craters;
geological fluid dynamics, volcanic
plumes, avalanches, pyroclastic flows, Niagara Falls
Recent Publications
Jose Luis Macias, Ricardo Saucedo,
Juan Carlos Gavilanes, Nick Varley,
Sergio Velasco Garcia, Marcus Bursik, Victor Vargas Gutierrez, and
Abel Cortes. Flujos piroclasticos asociados a la actividad explosiva
del volcan de colima y perspectivas futuras. GEOS, 25:340-351, 2007.
B. Rupp, M. Bursik, L. Namikawa, A.Patra, R. Saucedo, J.L. Macias and
C. Renschler. Computational Modeling of the 1991 Block and Ash Flows
at Colima Volcano, Mexico, in "Neogene-Quaternary Continental Margin
Volcanism: A New Perspective from Mexico" (editors Claus Siebe and
Jose Luis Macias and Gerardo Aguirre-Diaz), Geological Society of
America, Special Paper 402:237-252, 2006.
M. Bursik and G. Rogova. Use of neural networks and decision fusion
for lithostratigraphic correlation with sparse data, Mono-Inyo
Craters, California. Computers and Geosciences, 32:1564-1572,
2006. online 31 March 2006, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2006.02.012.
A.K. Patra, C.C. Nichita, A.C. Bauer, E.B. Pitman, M. Bursik, and
M.F. Sheridan. Parallel adaptive discontinuous galerkin approximation
for thin layer avalanche modeling. Computers and Geosciences,
32:912-926, 2006. online 24 March 2006,
doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2005.10.023.
M. Bursik, A. Patra, E. B. Pitman, C. Nichita, J. L. Macias,
R. Saucedo, and O. Girina. Advances in studies of dense volcanic
granular flows. Reports on Progress in Physics, 68:271-301,
2005. doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/2/R01.
A. K. Patra, A. C. Bauer, C. Nichita, E. B. Pitman, M. F. Sheridan,
M. Bursik, B. Rupp, A. Webb, L. Namikawa, and C. Renschler. Parallel
adaptive numerical simulation of dry avalanches over natural
terrain. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 139:121,
2005. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.06.014; available online Oct,
2004.
R. Saucedo, J. L. Mac as, M. F. Sheridan, M. I. Bursik, and
J. C. Komorowski. Modeling of pyroclastic flows of Colima Volcano,
Mexico: implications for hazard assessment. Journal of Volcanology
and Geothermal Research, 139:103-115,
2005. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.06.019.
M. Bursik and J. Reid. Lahars in Glass Creek and Owens River during
the Inyo eruption, California. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal
Research, 131:321-331, 2004. doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(03)00385-8.
R. Saucedo, J. Macias, and M. Bursik. Merapi-type pyroclastic flows of
the 1991 eruption of Colima Volcano. Bulletin of Volcanology,
66:291-306, 2004.
M. Bursik, B. Martinez-Hackert, H. Delgado, and A. Gonzalez-Huesca. A
smoothed-particle hydrodynamic automaton of landform degradation by
overland flow. Geomorphology, 53:25-44, 2003.
M. Bursik, C. Renshaw, J. McCalpin, and M. Berry. A volcanotectonic
cascade: Activation of range front faulting and eruptions by dike
intrusion, Mono Basin-Long Valley Caldera, California. Journal of
Geophysical Research, 108:2393, 2003.
D. Hooper, M. Bursik, and F. Webb. Application of high-resolution,
interferometric DEMs to geomorphic studies of fault scarps, fish lake
valley, nevada-california, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment,
84:255-267, 2003.
E. B. Pitman, C. C. Nichita, A. K. Patra, A. C. Bauer, M. Bursik, and
A. Webb. A numerical study of granular flows on erodible
surfaces. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B,
3:589-599, 2003.
E. B. Pitman, C. Camil Nichita, Abani Patra, Andrew Bauer, Michael
Sheridan, and Marcus Bursik. Computing debris flows and
landslides. Physics of Fluids, 15:3638-3646, 2003.
