William H. Craddock, Ph.D.
William Craddock is a Research Geologist with the USGS Geology, Energy & Minerals (GEM) Science Center in Reston, VA.
William's interests include tectonics and the economic geology of sedimentary basins. He employs a broad range of techniques in order to address specific research questions, including geologic mapping, stratigraphic and structural analysis, geochronology, thermochronology and geomorphology. William obtained his Ph.D. in geology from Penn State University in 2011, his M.S. in geology from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2006, and his B.S. in environmental geology from the College of William and Mary in 2004. He is a member of the Geological Society of America, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Geological Society of Washington D.C.
Professional Experience
2010 - present: U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center Science Center, Reston, VA
Education and Certifications
Ph.D. Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, 2010
M.S. Geological Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2006
B.S. Environmental Geology, College of William and Mary, 2004
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Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources: Hanna, Laramie, and Shirley Basins, Wyoming: Chapter C in Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources
The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (Public Law 110-140) directs the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct a national assessment of potential geologic storage resources for carbon dioxide (CO2). The methodology used for the national CO2 assessment is non-economic and intended to be used at regional to subbasinal scales. This report identifies and contains geologic...
Authors
Matthew D. Merrill, Jacob A. Covault, William H. Craddock, Ernie Slucher, Peter D. Warwick, Madalyn Blondes, Mayur A. Gosai, Philip A. Freeman, Steven M. Cahan, Celeste Lohr
Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources: Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska: Chapter B in Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources
This report presents ten storage assessment units (SAUs) within the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska. The Powder River Basin contains a thick succession of sedimentary rocks that accumulated steadily throughout much of the Phanerozoic, and at least three stratigraphic packages contain strata that are suitable for CO2 storage. Pennsylvanian through...
Authors
William H. Craddock, Ronald M. Drake, John C. Mars, Matthew D. Merrill, Peter D. Warwick, Madalyn Blondes, Mayur A. Gosai, Philip A. Freeman, Steven M. Cahan, Christina A. DeVera, Celeste Lohr
Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources: Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and Montana: Chapter A in Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources
The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (Public Law 110–140) directs the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct a national assessment of potential geologic storage resources for carbon dioxide (CO2). The methodology used for the national CO2 assessment follows that of previous USGS work. The methodology is non-economic and intended to be used at regional to subbasinal scales...
Authors
Jacob A. Covault, Marc L. Buursink, William H. Craddock, Matthew D. Merrill, Madalyn Blondes, Mayur A. Gosai, Philip A. Freeman
Tectonic setting of Cretaceous basins on the NE Tibetan Plateau: Insights from the Jungong basin
Quantifying the Cenozoic growth of high topography in the Indo‐Asian collision zone remains challenging, due in part to significant shortening that occurred within Eurasia before collision. A growing body of evidence suggests that regions far removed from the suture zone experienced deformation before and during the early phases of Himalayan orogenesis. In the present‐day north‐eastern...
Authors
William H. Craddock, E. Kirby, Z. Dewen, L. Jianhui
Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Chaka basin and its implications for mountain building processes in the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau
Magnetostratigraphy of sedimentary rock deposited in the Chaka basin (north‐eastern Tibetan Plateau) indicates a late Miocene onset of basin formation and subsequent development of the adjacent Qinghai Nan Shan. Sedimentation in the basin initiated at ∼11 Ma. In the lower part of the basin fill, a coarsening‐upward sequence starting at ∼9 Ma, as well as rapid sedimentation rates, and...
Authors
H.-P. Zhang, William H. Craddock, Richard O. Lease, W.-T. Wang, D.-Y. Yuan, Peizhen Zhang, P. Molnar, D.-W. Zheng, W.-J. Zheng
Non-USGS Publications**
Craddock, W.H., Burbank, D.W., Bookhagen, Bodo, and Gabet, E.J., 2007, Bedrock channel geometry along an orographic rainfall gradient in the upper Marsyandi River valley in central Nepal: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 112(F3), F03007, doi: 10.1029/2006JF000589.
Craddock, W.H., Kirby, E., and Zhang, Huiping, 2011, Late Miocene-Pliocene range growth in the interior of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Lithosphere, v. 3(6), p. 420 – 438, doi: 10.1130/L159.1 ngeo777.
Craddock, W.H., Kirby, Eric, Harkins, N.W., Zhang, Huiping, Shi, Xuhua, and Liu, Jianhui, 2010, Rapid fluvial incision along the Yellow River during headward basin integration: Nature Geoscience, v. 3, p. 209-213, doi: 10.1038/ngeo777.
Duvall, A.R., Clark, M.K., Kirby, Eric, Farley, K.A., Craddock, W.H., Li, C., and Yuan, Daoyang, 2013, Low-temperature thermochronometry along the Kunlun and Haiyuan Faults, NE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence for kinematic change during late-stage orogenesis: Tectonics, v. 32, n. 5, p. 1190-1211, doi: 10.1002/tect.20072.
Yuan, Daoyang, Ge, Weipeng, Chen, Zhenwei, Li, Chuanyou, Wang, Zhicai, Zhang, Huiping, Zhang, Peizhen, Zheng, Dewen, Zheng, Wenjun, Craddock, W.H., Dayem, K.E., Duvall, A.R., Hough, B.G., Lease, R.O., Champagnac, J.-D., Burbank, D.W., Clark, M.K., Farley, K.A., Garzione, C.N., Kirby, Eric, Molnar, Peter, and Roe, G.H., 2013, The growth of northeastern Tibet and its relevance to large-scale continental geodynamics: A review of recent studies: Tectonics, v. 32, n. 5, p. 1358-1370.
Zhang, Huiping, Zhang, Peizhen, Champagnac, J.-D., Molnar, Peter, Anderson, R.S., Kirby, Eric, Craddock, W.H., and Liu, Shaofeng, 2014, Pleistocene drainage reorganization driven by the isostatic response to deep incision into the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Geology, v. 42, n. 4, p. 303-304, doi. 10.1130/G35115.1.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
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Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources: Hanna, Laramie, and Shirley Basins, Wyoming: Chapter C in Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources
The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (Public Law 110-140) directs the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct a national assessment of potential geologic storage resources for carbon dioxide (CO2). The methodology used for the national CO2 assessment is non-economic and intended to be used at regional to subbasinal scales. This report identifies and contains geologic...
Authors
Matthew D. Merrill, Jacob A. Covault, William H. Craddock, Ernie Slucher, Peter D. Warwick, Madalyn Blondes, Mayur A. Gosai, Philip A. Freeman, Steven M. Cahan, Celeste Lohr
Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources: Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska: Chapter B in Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources
This report presents ten storage assessment units (SAUs) within the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska. The Powder River Basin contains a thick succession of sedimentary rocks that accumulated steadily throughout much of the Phanerozoic, and at least three stratigraphic packages contain strata that are suitable for CO2 storage. Pennsylvanian through...
Authors
William H. Craddock, Ronald M. Drake, John C. Mars, Matthew D. Merrill, Peter D. Warwick, Madalyn Blondes, Mayur A. Gosai, Philip A. Freeman, Steven M. Cahan, Christina A. DeVera, Celeste Lohr
Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources: Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and Montana: Chapter A in Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources
The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (Public Law 110–140) directs the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct a national assessment of potential geologic storage resources for carbon dioxide (CO2). The methodology used for the national CO2 assessment follows that of previous USGS work. The methodology is non-economic and intended to be used at regional to subbasinal scales...
Authors
Jacob A. Covault, Marc L. Buursink, William H. Craddock, Matthew D. Merrill, Madalyn Blondes, Mayur A. Gosai, Philip A. Freeman
Tectonic setting of Cretaceous basins on the NE Tibetan Plateau: Insights from the Jungong basin
Quantifying the Cenozoic growth of high topography in the Indo‐Asian collision zone remains challenging, due in part to significant shortening that occurred within Eurasia before collision. A growing body of evidence suggests that regions far removed from the suture zone experienced deformation before and during the early phases of Himalayan orogenesis. In the present‐day north‐eastern...
Authors
William H. Craddock, E. Kirby, Z. Dewen, L. Jianhui
Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Chaka basin and its implications for mountain building processes in the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau
Magnetostratigraphy of sedimentary rock deposited in the Chaka basin (north‐eastern Tibetan Plateau) indicates a late Miocene onset of basin formation and subsequent development of the adjacent Qinghai Nan Shan. Sedimentation in the basin initiated at ∼11 Ma. In the lower part of the basin fill, a coarsening‐upward sequence starting at ∼9 Ma, as well as rapid sedimentation rates, and...
Authors
H.-P. Zhang, William H. Craddock, Richard O. Lease, W.-T. Wang, D.-Y. Yuan, Peizhen Zhang, P. Molnar, D.-W. Zheng, W.-J. Zheng
Non-USGS Publications**
Craddock, W.H., Burbank, D.W., Bookhagen, Bodo, and Gabet, E.J., 2007, Bedrock channel geometry along an orographic rainfall gradient in the upper Marsyandi River valley in central Nepal: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 112(F3), F03007, doi: 10.1029/2006JF000589.
Craddock, W.H., Kirby, E., and Zhang, Huiping, 2011, Late Miocene-Pliocene range growth in the interior of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Lithosphere, v. 3(6), p. 420 – 438, doi: 10.1130/L159.1 ngeo777.
Craddock, W.H., Kirby, Eric, Harkins, N.W., Zhang, Huiping, Shi, Xuhua, and Liu, Jianhui, 2010, Rapid fluvial incision along the Yellow River during headward basin integration: Nature Geoscience, v. 3, p. 209-213, doi: 10.1038/ngeo777.
Duvall, A.R., Clark, M.K., Kirby, Eric, Farley, K.A., Craddock, W.H., Li, C., and Yuan, Daoyang, 2013, Low-temperature thermochronometry along the Kunlun and Haiyuan Faults, NE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence for kinematic change during late-stage orogenesis: Tectonics, v. 32, n. 5, p. 1190-1211, doi: 10.1002/tect.20072.
Yuan, Daoyang, Ge, Weipeng, Chen, Zhenwei, Li, Chuanyou, Wang, Zhicai, Zhang, Huiping, Zhang, Peizhen, Zheng, Dewen, Zheng, Wenjun, Craddock, W.H., Dayem, K.E., Duvall, A.R., Hough, B.G., Lease, R.O., Champagnac, J.-D., Burbank, D.W., Clark, M.K., Farley, K.A., Garzione, C.N., Kirby, Eric, Molnar, Peter, and Roe, G.H., 2013, The growth of northeastern Tibet and its relevance to large-scale continental geodynamics: A review of recent studies: Tectonics, v. 32, n. 5, p. 1358-1370.
Zhang, Huiping, Zhang, Peizhen, Champagnac, J.-D., Molnar, Peter, Anderson, R.S., Kirby, Eric, Craddock, W.H., and Liu, Shaofeng, 2014, Pleistocene drainage reorganization driven by the isostatic response to deep incision into the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Geology, v. 42, n. 4, p. 303-304, doi. 10.1130/G35115.1.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.