Dr. John R. Groves Associate Professor of Geology Office: Latham 124 Phone: 319-273-3072 (3-3072 on campus) E-mail: John.Groves@uni.edu

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Education

• Ph.D., Geology (1983), University of Iowa
• M.S., Geology (1981), University of Oklahoma
• B.S., Geology (1979), University of Oklahoma

Research Interests

• Systematics, evolution, and biostratigraphy of Paleozoic foraminiferans
• Carbonate petrography and depositional environments

Publications

• GROVES, J. R., D. ALTINER, AND M. D. BOYCE. 2007. Lithostratigraphy, paleoenvironments, and extinction of lagenide foraminifers in the Permian-Triassic boundary interval, Central Taurides, Turkey. in the Proceedings of the XV International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, pp. 283-296.
• GROVES, J. R., KULAGINA, E., AND VILLA, E. 2007. Diachronous appearances of the Pennsylvanian fusulinid/Profusulinella in Eurasia and North America, Journal of Paleontology, vol. 81, no. 2., pp. 227-237.
• GROVES, J. R., 2006. Report from the Task Group to establish a GSSP close to the existing Bashkirian-Moscovian boundary, in Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, 22, pp 6-7.
• GROVES, J. R., and BEASON, S. R., 2006. Foraminiferal evidence for the age of the Mississippian Pella Formation (southeastern Iowa, USA). in Journal of Foraminiveral Research, 36, pp379-388.
• GARZANTI, E., GROVES, J. R., and RETTORI, R., 2005. Foraminiferal evidence for the age of clasts in the Kopria Melange (Rhodos, Greece), in Rivista Itallana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, vol. 111, pp. 11-20..
• GROVES, J. R. 2005. Fusulinid wall structure in the Profusulinella-Fusulinella evolutionary transition. Bulletins of American Paleontology. eds. J. E. Barrick and H. R. Lane, vol. 369, pp. 199-218.
• GROVES, J. R., ALTINER, D., AND RETTORI, R. 2005. Extinction, survival and recovery of lagenide foraminifers in the Permian-Triassic boundary interval, central Taurides, Turkey, The Paleontological Society Memoir 62, Supplement to Journal of Paleontology, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 1-38.
• GROVES, J. R., R. RETTORI AND D. ALTINER. 2004. Wall structures in selected Paleozoic lagenide foraminifera.Journal of Paleontology. 78:245-256.
• GROVES, J. R. 2003. Report from the Task Group to establish a GSSP close to the existing Bashkirian-Moscovian boundary. Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, 21:10.
• ALEMAN, A. M., VALASEK, D., ARDILES, C., WOOD, G. D., WAHLMAN, G. P., and GROVES, J. R., 2003. Petroleum systems and tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Madre de Dios Basin and its associated thrustbelt in Bolivia and Peru, 8th Symposium on Petroleum Exploration in Subandean Basins, Cartegena de Indias, Colombia, 25pp.
• GROVES, J. R., C. LARGHI, A. NICORA, AND R. RETTORI. 2003. Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) microfossils from the Chios Mélange (Chios Island, Greece). Geobios. 36:379-389.
• GROVES, J. R., D. ALTINER, AND R. RETTORI. 2003. Origin and early evolutionary radiation of the Order Lagenida (Foraminifera). Journal of Paleontology, 77:831-843.
• GROVES, J. R. 2002. Evolutionary origin of the genus Geinitzina (Foraminiferida) and its significance for international correlation near the Carboniferous-Permian boundary. in Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 19, p. 437-447.
• WOOD, G. D., J. R. GROVES, G. P. WAHLMAN, P. L. BRENCKLE, AND A. M. ALEMÁN. 2002. The paleogeographic and biostratigraphic significance of smaller foraminifers, and palynomorphs from the Copacabana Formation (Pennsylvanian-Permian), Madre de Díos Basin, Peru. in Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 19, p. 630-664.
• THOMAS, S. C. AND J. R. GROVES. 2002. Storm deposition of pisoids in the "Humboldt Oolite Member" of the Gilmore City Formation (Mississippian), north-central Iowa. Journal of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 109:35-40.
• SANDERSON, G. A., G. J. VERVILLE, J. R. GROVES, AND G. P. WAHLMAN. 2001. Fusulinaceans from the Virgilian Stage (Pennsylvanian) of Kansas. Journal of Paleontology, 75:883-887.
• BRENCKLE, P. L., G. P. WAHLMAN, AND J. R. GROVES. 2001. 2000 Joseph A. Cushman Award. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 31(1):1.
• GROVES, J. R. 2000. Suborder Lagenina and other smaller foraminifers from uppermost Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian rocks of Kansas and Oklahoma. Micropaleontology, 46(4):285-326.
• GROVES, J. R., AND M. A. MILLER. 2000. Donation of Amoco fossil collections. Journal of Paleontology, 74(6):1196-1197.
• GROVES, J. R., AND D. R. BOARDMAN, II. 1999. Calcareous smaller foraminifers from the Lower Permian Council Grove Group near Hooser, Kansas. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 29(3):243-262.
• GROVES, J. R., T. I. NEMYROVSKA, AND A. S. ALEKSEEV. 1999. Correlation of the type Bashkirian Stage (Middle Carboniferous, South Urals) to the Morrowan and Atokan Series of the midcontinental and western United States. Journal of Paleontology, 73(3):529-539.
• GROVES, J. R. 1998. Revue of "Taxonomie des petits foraminifères du Carbonifère supérieur-Permien inférieur du bassin de Sverdrup, Arctique canadien" by S. Pinard and B. L. Mamet. Geoscience Canada, 25(4):195-196. (in French and English)
• GROVES, J. R. 1997. Repetitive patterns of evolution in Late Paleozoic foraminifers, p. 51-54. In C. A. Ross, J. R. P. Ross and P. L. Brenckle (eds.), Late Paleozoic foraminifera - Their biostratigraphy, evolution and paleoecology, and the mid-Carboniferous boundary. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication No. 36.
• GROVES, J. R., AND P. L. BRENCKLE. 1997. Graphic correlation of Upper Paleozoic outcrop sections in the western Tarim Basin, China, p. 55-58. In C. A. Ross, J. R. P. Ross and P. L. Brenckle (eds.), Late Paleozoic foraminifera - Their biostratigraphy, evolution and paleoecology, and the mid-Carboniferous boundary. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication No. 36.
• GROVES, J. R., AND P. L. BRENCKLE. 1997. Graphic correlation in frontier petroleum provinces: Application to Upper Paleozoic sections in the Tarim Basin, western China. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 81(8):1259-1266.
• GROVES, J. R., AND G. P. WAHLMAN. 1997. Biostratigraphy and evolution of Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian smaller foraminifers from the Barents Sea (offshore Arctic Norway). Journal of Paleontology, 71(5):758-779.
• GROVES, J. R., W. W. NASSICHUK, RUI LIN, AND S. PINARD. 1994. Middle Carboniferous fusulinacean biostratigraphy, northern Ellesmere Island (Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Archipelago). Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 469, 55 p.
• GROVES, J. R. 1992. Stratigraphic distribution of non-fusulinacean foraminifers in the Marble Falls Limestone (Lower-Middle Pennsylvanian), western Llano region, central Texas, p. 145-162. In P. K. Sutherland and W. L. Manger (eds.), Recent advances in Middle Carboniferous biostratigraphy. Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 94.
• GROVES, J. R. 1991. Fusulinacean biostratigraphy of the Marble Falls Limestone (Pennsylvanian), western Llano region, central Texas. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 21:67-95.
• GROVES, J. R., AND G. A. SANDERSON. 1990. Systematics of the North American species of Profusulinella (Middle Pennsylvanian Fusulinidae). Micropaleontology, 36:105-140.
• GROVES, J. R., AND R. C. GRAYSON, Jr. 1990. Recent advances in Atokan biostratigraphy. Kansas Geological Survey Open-file Report 90-5, 3 p., 1 map.
• GROVES, J. R. 1988. Calcareous foraminifers from the Bashkirian stratotype (Middle Carboniferous, south Urals) and their significance for intercontinental correlations and the evolution of the Fusulinidae. Journal of Paleontology, 62:368-399. (Awarded "Best Paper" for 1988 volume of Journal of Paleontology.)
• GROVES, J. R. 1988. Insolentitheca and Insolentithecinae, inappropriate names for Paleozoic syzygial cysts. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 18:302-303.
• GROVES, J. R. 1987. Foraminiferal characterization of the Morrowan-Atokan (lower Middle Pennsylvanian) boundary: Discussion and reply. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 98:746.
• GROVES, J. R. 1987. Evidence for syzygy in Late Paleozoic calcareous foraminifers: early origin of an "advanced" reproductive strategy, p. 5-10. In P. L. Brenckle, H. R. Lane and W. L. Manger (eds.), Selected studies in Carboniferous paleontology and biostratigraphy. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 98.
• BRENCKLE, P. L., AND J. R. GROVES. 1987. Calcareous foraminifers from the Humboldt Oolite of Iowa: Key to early Osagean (Mississippian) correlations between eastern and western North America. Palaios, 1:561-581.
• GROVES, J. R. 1986. Calcareous algae and associated microfossils from Mid-Carboniferous rocks in east-central Idaho. Journal of Paleontology, 60:476-496.
• GROVES, J. R. 1986. Foraminiferal characterization of the Morrowan-Atokan (lower Middle Pennsylvanian) boundary. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 97:346-353.
• GROVES, J. R., AND B. L. MAMET. 1985. Masloviporidium, a cosmopolitan Middle Carboniferous red alga, p. 85-90. In D. F. Toomey and M. H. Nitecki (eds.), Paleoalgology - Contemporary research and applications. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
• LANE, H. R., J. F. BAESEMANN, AND J. R. GROVES. 1985. Is the base of the Reticuloceras-zone a reliably recognizable biostratigraphic level?, p. 137-148. In H. R. Lane and W. Ziegler (eds.), Toward a boundary in the middle of the Carboniferous: Stratigraphy and paleontology. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 74.
• GROVES, J. R. 1984. Taxonomic, nomenclatural and stratigraphic notes on the primitive fusulinid Pseudostaffella Thompson, 1942. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 14:69-76.
• GROVES, J. R. 1984. Biostratigraphic significance of Hemigordius harltoni, Cushman and Waters, 1928 (Foraminiferida). Journal of Paleontology, 58:78-81.
• GROVES, J. R. 1984. Foraminifers and biostratigraphy of the Arco Hills, Bluebird Mountain and lower Snaky Canyon formations (Mid-Carboniferous) of east-central Idaho. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 14:282-302.
• GROVES, J. R., AND R. C. GRAYSON, JR. 1984. Calcareous foraminifers and conodonts from the Wapanucka Formation (Lower-Middle Pennsylvanian), frontal Ouachita Mountains, southeastern Oklahoma, p. 81-89. In P. K. Sutherland and W. L. Manger (eds.), The Atokan Series and its boundaries -- A symposium. Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 136.
• GROVES, J. R. 1983. Calcareous foraminifers and algae from the type Morrowan (Lower Pennsylvanian) region of northeastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas. Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 133, 65 p.
• BRENCKLE, P. L., J. R. GROVES, AND B. SKIPP. 1982. A Mississippian/Pennsylvanian (Mid-Carboniferous) boundary in North America based on calcareous foraminifers, p. 42-51. In W. H. C. Ramsbottom, W. B. Saunders and B. Owens (eds.), Biostratigraphic data for a Mid-Carboniferous boundary -- Symposium on a Mid-Carboniferous Boundary, Proceedings Volume - Meeting of IUGS Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, Leeds.
• GROVES, J. R. 1980. Step-by-step procedure for mounting maps on cloth. Journal of Geological Education, 28:141-144.