Dr. Robert Jacobi

Office: 776 Natural Sciences Complex Phone: 716.645.6800 ext 2468 Email: rdjacobi@geology.buffalo.edu Website: Home Page Title: Professor Degree: PhD, Geology, Columbia University, 1980 Specialty: Fracture systems, tectonics, sedimentology, stratigraphy, marine geology Director: Graduate Studies Director: Sloan Master's Degree Program

Courses Offered

GLY 215 Soft Rocks I
GLY 326 Structure-Geophysics-Tectonics II
GLY 478/578 Advanced Field Methods (structure/fractures)
GLY 480/580 Geologic Evolution of North America I
GLY 596 Advanced Studies of Fractures

Research Interests

Recent Publications

Everett, John R., Staskowski, Ronald J., and Jacobi, Robert D., 2003, Fracture and satellite hyperspectral analysis for petroleum exploration: World Oil, Nov 2003, p. 44-47.

Smith, G.J., and Jacobi, R. D., 2002, Tectonic and Eustatic Signals in the Sequence Stratigraphy of the Upper Devonian Canadaway Group, New York State Reply: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 86, no. 4, p. 696-697.

Smith, G.J., and Jacobi, R. D., 2002, Anomalous paleoflow orientations: A potential methodology for determining recurrence rates and magnitudes in paleoseismic studies of syndepositional faults: in: Ettensohn, F. R., Rast, N., and Brett, C. E., (eds.,) Ancient Seismites; Geol. Soc. Am. (Boulder, Colorado) Special Paper 359, p. 145-164.

Jacobi, Robert D., 2002, Basement faults and seismicity in the Appalachian Basin of New York State, in Neotectonics and Seismicity in the Eastern Great Lakes Basin, R. H. Fakundiny, R. D. Jacobi, and C. F. M. Lewis (eds.): Tectonophysics, v. 353, p.75-113.

Jacobi, Robert D. and Fountain, John C, 2002, The character and reactivation history of the of the southern extension of the seismically active Clarendon-Linden Fault System, western New York State, in Neotectonics and Seismicity in the Eastern Great Lakes Basin, R. H. Fakundiny, R. D. Jacobi, and C. F. M. Lewis (eds.): Tectonophysics, v. 353, p.215-262.

Jacobi, Robert D., Eastler, Thomas E., and Xu, Jiandong, 2002, Methodology for remote characterization of fracture systems in enemy bedrock underground facilities, in The Environmental Legacy of Military Operations, Russell Harmon and J. Ehlen (eds.): Geol. Soc. Am. Engineering Geology Division, v. 14, p. 27-60.

Jacobi, Robert D., and Mitchell, Charles E., 2002, Geodynamical interpretation of a major unconformity in the Taconic Foredeep: slides scar or onlap unconformity?, In "Taconic Convergence: Orogen, Foreland Basin, and Craton", C. E. Mitchell and R. D. Jacobi, (eds.): Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, v. 27, p. 169-201. 

Kim , J., and Jacobi R. D., 2002, Boninites: characteristics and tectonic constraints, northeastern Appalachians, In: Taconic Convergence, Orogen, Foreland Basin, and Craton, Mitchell and Jacobi, Des: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, v. 27, n.1-3, p.109-147.

Jacobi, R. D. and Mitchell, C. E., 2002, Geodynamical interpretation of a major unconformity in the Taconic Foredeep: Slide scar or onlap unconformity?, In: Taconic Convergence, Orogen, Foreland Basin, and Craton, Mitchell and Jacobi (eds.): Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, v. 27, n.1-3, p.169-201.

Jacobi, Robert D., 2001, Part 2: Rapid and rigorous outcrop fracture mapping and analyses, in Regional Tectonics and Structural Control of Ore: in The Major Gold Trends of Northern Nevada, David R. Shaddrick, Elizabeth Zbinden, David C. Mathewson, and Camille Prenn (eds.): Geological Society of Nevada, Special Publication n. 33, p.225-242.