B.A., Harvard, 1952; M.S., Colorado, 1954; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 1958.
Professor Emeritus
Sedimentology and Sedimentary Petrology
After taking his B.A. degree at Harvard, John Hubert received his M.S. at the University of Colorado and Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University. Before coming to the University of Massachusetts in 1970, Hubert taught at the University of Missouri at Columbia for 12 years, progressing from Assistant Professor to Professor.
Over the years, Hubert has published papers individually and with students on the paleoenvironments and petrology of sands and sandstones deposited in flysch basins, deltas, rivers, lakes, eolian dunes, alluvial fans, on shorelines, and in the deep ocean. He is now concentrating on the sequences and sedimentary petrology of terrestrial rocks and their modern analogs. His current research focuses on the fluvial, playa, and alluvial-fan redbeds and lacustrine gray strata of Triassic-Jurassic age in the Deerfield, Fundy, Hartford, and Newark rift basins of the eastern United States and Nova Scotia. Another current project is the paleogeography and paleoclimatology of the dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation of Jurassic age, Colorado-Utah. These studies emphasize sedimentary structures and sequences, petrology of the light and heavy minerals, diagenesis, and regional paleogeography.
Courses Taught:
- GEO 101: The Earth
- GEO 445: Sedimentology
- GEO 551: Geometrics
- GEO 621: Sedimentary Petrology
Representative Publications:
Hubert, J. F. and Dutcher, J. A.,2010, Scoyenia escape burrows in fluvial pebbly sand: Upper Triassic Sugarloaf Arkose, Deerfield rift basin, Massachusetts, USA: Ichnos, v. 17, p. 17-20.
Hubert, J. F., Dutcher, J. A., and Walsh, M. P. 2008, Tectono-sedimentary history of the Late Triassic New Haven Arkose, Deerfield rift basin, Massachusetts: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences: v. 30, p. 354-374.
Hubert. J. F. and Dutcher, J. A., 2005, Synsedimentary sand pillows on a lacustrine delta slope and sheet-flood deposition of alluvial-fan gravels, early Jurassic, Deerfield basin, Massachusetts: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences: v. 21, p. 18-36.McInerney, D. P. and Hubert, J. F., 2003, Meandering-river facies in the Upper Triassic New Haven Arkose, south-central Connecticut: early evolution of the Hartford rift basin: in The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America (P. M. Letourneau and P.E. Olsen, eds.), Columbia University Press: p. 88 –107. Note: This volume is dedicated to John Hubert, with a biography, list of publications, and several photographs, p. xiii-xxiii.
Wise, D. U. and Hubert J. F., 2003, Evolving fault types, stress fields, and tectonics of the early Mesozoic Deerfield basin, Massachusetts: in Guidebook for Field Trips in the Five College Region, (J. B. Brady and J. T. Cheney, eds.), New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference, Amherst and Northampton, MA, p. C5-1 to C5-30.
Tanner, L. H., Hubert, J. F., Coffey, B. P., and McInerney, D. P., 2001, Stability of CO2 levels across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary: Nature, v. 411, p. 675-677.
Hubert, J. F., Taylor, J. M., Ravenhurst, C., Reynolds, R., and Panish, P. T., 2001, Burial and hydrothermal diagenesis of the sandstones in the early Mesozoic Deerfield rift basin, Massachusetts: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 23, p. 109 - 126.
Hubert, J. F., Taylor, J. M., Ravenhurst, C., Reynolds, R., and Panish, P.
T., 2001, Diagenesis and thermal history of the sandstones in the early
Mesozoic Deerfield rift basin, Massachusetts: Abstracts volume,
Northeastern Section Geological Society of America, Burlington,
Vermont, p. 29.
Hubert, J. F. and Panish, P. T., 2000, Sedimentology and diagenesis of the
dinosaur bones exposed at Dinosaur Ridge along Alameda Parkway in the
Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Morrison, Colorado: The Mountain
Geologist, v. 37, p. 73-90.
Hubert, J. F. and Dutcher, J. A., 1999, Sedimentation, volcanism, stratigraphy, and tectonism at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the Deerfield basin, Massachusetts: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences: vol. 21, p. 188-201.
Tanner, L. H., Hubert, J. F., and Coffey, B., 1999, Isotopic composition of early Mesozoic calcretes: implications for atmospheric composition: Abstracts volume with program, National meeting of the Geologic Society of America, Denver, CO, vol. 31, no. 7.
Hubert, J. F. and Panish, P. T.,1999, Taphonomy of Marsh quarry 5 on Dinosaur Ridge in the Jurassic Morrison Formation, Morrison, Colorado: a preliminary report: 1998 Annual Report of the Friends of Dinosaur Ridge, Morrison, Colorado (E. Warren, ed.), p. 16-17.
Hubert, J. F. and Dutcher, J. A., 1999, Early Mesozoic Deerfield basin, Massachusetts: angular unconformity between the Sugarloaf Arkose and Fall River beds, and paleoflow to the east of the Deerfield flood basalt: Abstracts volume with program, Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, meeting at Providence RI, p.25.
Ockay, Clement and Hubert, J.F., 1996, Mineralogy and provenance of Pleistocene glacial-plain and modern beach sands of outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Marine Geology, v.30, p. 121-137.
Hubert, J.F., Panish, P. T., Prostak, K.S., and Chure, D.J., 1996, Chemistry, microstructure, petrology, and diagenetic model of Jurassic dinosaur bones, Dinosaur National Monument, Utah: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v.66, p.531-547.
Hubert, J.F., and Chure, D.J. (1992), Taphonomy of an Allosaurus quarry in the deposits of a Late Jurassic braided river with a gravel-sand bedload, Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation, Dinosaur National Monument. In Wilson, J.R. (Ed.), Field Guide to Geological Excursions in Utah and Adjacent Areas of Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming. Publication 92-3, Utah Geological Survey, pp. 375-381.
Hubert, J.F., Feshback-Meriney, P.E., and Smith, M.E. (1992), The Triassic-Jurassic Hartford rift basin, Connecticut and Massachusetts: Evolution, sandstone diagenesis, and hydrocarbon history: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 76, pp. 1710-1734.
Kruge, M.A., Hubert, J.F., Bensley, D.F., Crelling, J.C., Akes, R.J., and Meriney, P.E. (1990), Organic geochemistry of a Lower Jurassic synrift lacustrine sequence, Hartford basin, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Organic Geochemistry, 16, 689-701.
Mertz, K.A., Jr., and Hubert, J.F. (1990), Cycles of sandflat/playa-lacustrine mudstone in the Triassac-Jurassic Blomidon redbeds, Fundy rift basin, Nova Scotia: Implications for climatic and tectonic controls: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 27, 442-451.
Hubert, J.F., and Filpov, A.J. (1989), Debris-flow deposits in alluvial fans on the west flank of the White Mountains, Owens Valley, California, U.S.A.: Sedimentary
Geology, 61, 177-205.