Chris Fedo
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Research Interest
Much of my research is focused on problems in understanding Precambrian sedimentary basin evolution. Within my <web space> you can find links that navigate to my research interests and people doing research with me, representative publications and downloads, information about courses I teach, and virtual geologic field trips from places I am working.
Recent Publications
Whitehouse, M.J., and Fedo, C.M., in press, Searching for Earth’s earliest life in southern West Greenland - history, current status, and future prospects, in M.J. Van Kranendonk, R. Hugh Smithies, and Vickie Bennett, eds., Developments in Precambrian Geology - Earth’s Oldest Rocks: Elsevier.
Whitehouse, M.J., and Fedo, C.M., 2007, Microscale heterogeneity of Fe isotopes in >3.71 Ga BIF from the Isua Greenstone Belt, southwest Greenland: Geology, v. 35, p. 719-722.
Fedo, C.M., and Whitehouse, M.J. and Kamber, B.S., 2006, Critical evaluation of the geologic and isotopic evidence concerning the timing of the origin of life: a perspective from southwest Greenland: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, v. 361, p. 851-867.
Whitehouse, M.J., Kamber, B.S., Fedo, C.M., and Lepland, A., 2005, Integrated Pb- and S-isotope investigation of sulphide minerals from the early Archaean of southwest Greenland: implications for the interpretation of anomalous S-isotope signatures: Chemical Geology, v. 222, p. 112-131.
Farmer, G.L., Bowring, S.A., Matzel, J., Espinosa Maldonado, G., Fedo, C., and Wooden, J., 2005, Paleoproterozoic Mojave province in northwestern Mexico? Isotopic and U-Pb zircon geochronologic studies of Precambrian and Cambrian crystalline and sedimentary rocks, Caborca, Sonora, in Anderson, T.H., Nourse, J.A., McKee, J.W., and Steiner, M.B., eds., The Mojave-Sonora megashear hypothesis: Development, assessment, and alternatives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, p. 183–198.
Lepland, A., van Zuilen, M.A., Arrhenius, G., Whitehouse, M.J., and Fedo, C.M., 2005, Questioning the evidence for Earth's earliest life - Akilia revisited: Geology, v. 33, p. 77-79.
Young, G.M., Shaw, C.S.J. and Fedo, C.M., 2004, New evidence favouring an endogenic origin for supposed impact breccias in Huronian (Paleoproterozoic) sedimentary rocks: Precambrian Research, v. 133, p. 63-74.
Bolhar, R., Kamber, B.S., Moorbath, S., Fedo, C.M., and Whitehouse, M.J., 2004, Characterization of early Archaean chemical sediments by trace element signatures: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 222, p. 43-60.
Krogstad, E.J., Fedo, C.M., and Eriksson, K.A., 2004, Provenance ages and alteration histories of shales from the Middle Archean Buhwa greenstone belt, Zimbabwe: Pb and Nd isotopic evidence: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 68, p. 319-322.
Contact Information
Chris Fedo
Associate Professor
Sedimentary Geology
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
1412 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
Phone: (865) 974-6002
Email: cfedo@utk.edu