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Kenneth D. Ridgway

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1967Rising activity

Publications

174

Citations

3,523

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

59

Publishing since 1967

Research summary
AI-generated

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.

Tectonics and strike-slip fault systems in AlaskaSedimentary basin evolution and provenance analysisDetrital zircon geochronology and isotope geochemistryOcean drilling records (IODP) and well-logging dataIndigenous inclusion and community-based approaches in geoscience education

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

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.0/year recently
2017: 6 publications172018: 9 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 5 publications202021: 11 publications11212022: 1 publication222023: 5 publications232024: 10 publications242025: 9 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America×35
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×8
  • Geosphere×5
  • Tectonics×3
  • GSA Today×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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