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Ryan Goldsby
Research Scientist
Geologic Mapping Program
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
University of Nevada, RenoE-mail: rgoldsby@unr.edu
Education
Ph.D. Geology, University of Kentucky, 2025 (expected)
M.S. Geology, Idaho State University, 2017
B.S. Geology, Idaho State University
Areas of Expertise
Geologic Mapping
Structural geology and tectonics
Geomechanics
Low-temperature thermochronology
Professional Work Experience
Research Scientist, Geologic Mapping (2024-present), Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Lecturer and Field Camp Director (2019-2020), Idaho State University
Geothermal Exploration Research Geologist (2017-2018), Blackrock Geoscience, Pocatello, ID
Current Projects
Cenozoic tectonics and magmatism in western Nevada
Basin and Range extension timing and magnitude
Geologic mapping in western and southern Nevada
Select Publications
Helfrich, A.L., Thigpen, J.R., Buford‐Parks, V.M., McQuarrie, N., Brown, S.J. and Goldsby, R.C., 2024. Constraining displacement magnitude on crustal-scale extensional faults using thermochronology
combined with flexural-kinematic and thermal-kinematic modeling: An example from the Teton fault,
Wyoming, USA. Tectonics, 43(7).
Goldsby, R.C., Thigpen, J.R., Preece, M.B. and Swanger, W.R., 2024. Developing evolutionary models
for deformation band formation in high-porosity suprasalt sandstones: An example from Paradox
Basin, Utah. Journal of Structural Geology, p.105188.
Swanger, W.R., Thigpen, J.R., Goldsby, R.C., Preece, M.B., Powell, N.E., Spencer, B.M. and Helfrich,
A.L., 2023. Understanding deformation band formation across a range of length scales in the Paradox
Basin, Utah. Journal of Structural Geology, 166, p.104775.
Goldsby, R., McCurry, M., Schmitt, A., Welhan, W., 2017, Dynamic open-system volatile evolution of a
shallow magmatic system, China Hat, SE Idaho: Implications for magmatic associated blind
geothermal systems: Geothermal Resources Council Transactions. v. 41
McCurry, M., McLing, T., Smith, R.P., Hackett, W.R., Goldsby, R., Lochridge, W., Podgorney, R., Wood,
T., Pearson, D., Welhan, J., and Plummer, M., 2016, Geologic setting of the Idaho National Laboratory
Geothermal Resource Research Area: Proceedings, 41st Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir
Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Feb. 22-24, 2016, SGP-TR-209.
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