Ricardo A. Astini
Ph.D., Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (1991)
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Phone: +54 351-4344980/81 Int. 116
raastini@efn.uncor.edu

Biography
Born in Córdoba February 16th, 1962. B.S. & Ph.D. from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Ph.D. on the evolution of Ordovician siliciclastic successions, depositional environments and tectonic setting of the Argentine Precordillera. Twice visiting at Kentucky, Department of Earth Sciences. Abroad stays in the Alabama Geological Survey and Western Michigan University. Collaboration in various international projects and programs. Professor at the University of Córdoba of Stratigraphy and Historical Geology and present Director of the PhD program. Head of the Basin Analysis Group at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Since 1998, Independent Researcher at CONICET (National Council for Sciences and Technology). Coordinator of the Earth Sciences and Hydro-atmospheric Program of the National Agency on Science and Technology and Reviewer of various development programs. Author or coauthor on more than 100 papers in international Journals. Reviewer of various international Journals and Associate Editor of GSA Bulletin. Associate Editor of Revista Geológica Argentina. At present Advisor of several Ph.D. students at the Ph.D. program at the University of Córdoba.

Research Interests
My main interest is on proto-Andean basin evolution, however I am involved in various projects related with basin analyses and sedimentary environments along and across the Central Andes, involving the Precordillera, the Famatina Ranges and the basins to the northwest and into Bolivia and Perú. One particular interest is to understand how ancient basins can be affected by development of earlier cycles along accretionary margins. Accretionary margin tectonics and basin analysis is still a developing field and we pretend to develop lines of thought regarding this complex portrays in the Group at the Laboratorio de Análisis de Cuencas in the University of Córdoba, where we seek for international cooperation. Regional Geology, clastic and carbonate sedimentology, stratigraphic evolution and correlation, and reconstruction of ancient depositional systems, their tectonic settings and paleogeography are the focus of my work. Stratigraphic comparisons of foreland basins through time is another field of interest.