Kenneth D. Ridgway
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
174
Citations
3,523
Est. group size
~2
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
59
Publishing since 1967
Kenneth D. Ridgway studies the geological history of Alaska, focusing on how tectonic plate movements, ancient fault systems, and sedimentary basins have shaped the region over millions of years. His work combines fieldwork, dating of rock and mineral samples (geochronology), and offshore drilling data to reconstruct how landmasses collided and shifted over time, and he has also contributed to work on supporting Indigenous students and communities in geoscience graduate programs.
Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade with no clear long-term increase or decrease, showing recent peaks in 2021, 2024, and 2025 interspersed with lower-output years like 2022.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Supporting the Next Generation of Indigenous STEM Scholars Demands Indigenous Leadership
Journal of Geography · 2025
- Progressive Stages of Cenozoic Displacement and Strike-Slip Basin Development along the Denali Fault System: Sedimentary, Provenance, and Geochronologic Records
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2025
- EXEMPLIFYING THE CARE PRINCIPLES WITHIN GEOSCIENCE CONTEXTS
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2024
- QUANTIFYING ALASKAN TECTONIC-CLIMATE FEEDBACKS WITH A DRILL BIT: TERRY PAVLIS’ OFFSHORE LEGACY
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2024
- REVISITING ONE OF TERRY PAVLIS’ FIRST STOMPING GROUNDS: DETRITAL RECORD OF THE YUKON-TANANA TERRANE AND MANLEY BASIN OF CENTRAL ALASKA
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2024
- BUILDING GRADUATE PROGRAMS FOR INDIGENOUS STUDENTS: RESPECTFUL APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY-BASED SCIENCE
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2024
- Neogene sedimentary record of the evolution of a translated strike-slip basin along the Denali fault system: Implications for timing of displacement, composite basin development, and regional tectonics of southern Alaska
Geosphere · 2022
- Detrital zircon geochronology of modern river sediment in south-central Alaska: Provenance, magmatic, and tectonic insights into the Mesozoic and Cenozoic development of the southern Alaska convergent margin
Geosphere · 2021
- TERRANES, SPREADING RIDGES, AND OCEANIC PLATEAUS – A TALE OF THE SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKAN FOREARC
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2021
- IODP Expedition 341, Hole U1417E - Well Logging Data
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2021
- IODP Expedition 341, Hole U1421A - Well Logging Data
Figshare · 2021
- IODP Expedition 341, Hole U1418F - Well Logging Data
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2021
- IODP Expedition 341, Hole U1418F - Well Logging Data
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2021
- IODP Expedition 341, Hole U1420A - Well Logging Data
Figshare · 2021
- IODP Expedition 341, Hole U1420A - Well Logging Data
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2021
- Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America×35
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×8
- Geosphere×5
- Tectonics×3
- GSA Today×2
- Michael P. Eddy
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- T. J. Wilson
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Anne Grunow
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Abhijit Basu
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Indiana University
- Robert P. Wintsch
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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