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Ellen J. Moore (email: Ellen.Moore@cmug.com)
Ellen J. Moore, a graduate in geology from Oregon State University, received her masters degree in paleontology from the University
of Oregon in 1950 followed by further graduate study at Johns Hopkins University. She had a long and productive
career with the U.S. Geological Survey, retiring in 1987. Ellen is now a courtesy
research associate in Oregon State University. She has written numerous professional
papers and several books for general readers, including her most recent one, Fossil Shells from Western Oregon--A Guide to Identification. A current project, with prepublication information available at this website, is a continuation of a series of books on Tertiary Marine Pelecypods of California and Baja California.
Recent publications:
Moore, E.J., 1997, T. rex and the Crater of Doom, by Walter Alvarez (book review): Earth Sciences History, v. 16, p. 158-159. Moore, E.J., 2001, Silence does not belong in science, in Bennis, W., Soleri, P., and Moore, E.J., Silence: Phoenix, Rphaus. Prothero, D.R., Bitboul, C.Z., Moore, G.W., and Moore, E.J., 2001, Magnetic stratigraphy of the lower and middle Miocene Astoria Formation, Lincoln County, Oregon, in Magnetic stratigraphy of the Pacific Coast Cenozoic: Pacific Section SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), Book 91, p. 272-283. Moore, E.J., and Moore, G.W., 2002, Miocene molluscan fossils and stratigraphy, Newport, Oregon, in Field guide to geologic processes in Cascadia: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Special Paper 36, p. 187-200. Useful worldwide links: UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology