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Chance Ronemus

@chance-ronemus.bsky.social
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Asst Prof of Sed Geology, UCalgary. Tectonics, sed basins, and geo/thermo/petrochronology in the Andes and Rockies. **Recruiting grad students for 2027** I <3 rocks: climbing them, and hitting them with hammers/lasers. He/Him. Site: chanceronemus.com

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Chance Ronemus @chance-ronemus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🧪⚒️ New paper in JGR: Solid Earth: K-Q volcanic rocks in Chile's Tinguiririca valley record how the Andean crust thickened. doi.org/10.1029/2026JB034002 Intl. co-lab with UArizona, UniBucarest, and CONICET researchers, and first paper after joining UCalgary.
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Building the Andean Crust at ∼35°S: Arc Geochemistry Reveals Cretaceous Thinning and Rapid Neogene Thickening
Zircon and whole-rock crustal thickness proxies align with field evidence for extensional and contractional deformation Modest Late Cretaceous crustal thinning coincided with normal faulting and ...
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Chance Ronemus @chance-ronemus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hello Geosky 🧪⚒️, and thanks for the introduction @watershedlab.bsky.social! I'm a new Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. I use sedimentary basins as archives of mountain building: how shortening, crustal thickness, and surface elevation evolve as an orogen rises and falls.
Sunset over a braided river in a broad valley of the High Andes, Argentina; snow-capped peaks in the background, gravel bars and channels in the foreground.Chance in the field in Tinguiririca, Chile. Headshot in field gear.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hi 🧪⚒️ Geosky - please give a warm welcome to @chance-ronemus.bsky.social, brand new professor of sedimentary geology at @ucalgary.bsky.social. He’s looking for grad students, so you know what to do…
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