Dr. Kaczmarek is professor of geology and head of the Carbonate Petrology & Characterization Laboratory at Western Michigan University. He is a sedimentary petrologist with a research focus on ...

In the Niagaran (Silurian), we saw a general trend of increasing dolomitization shelfward, with limestone predominant in more basinward positions. One of our major findings was that these facies types ...

Recent hydrocarbon discoveries in diagenetic reservoirs, particularly in New York state and western Canada, have focused attention on these underexplored types of fields.