Dr. Jones received his D.Phil. in geology at Oxford University in 1992. He was a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Michigan from 1992 to 1996, taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1996 to 2000, and came to the University of Pittsburgh in 2000. He is both lecturer and advisor to the geology bachelor of science program.
Jones, C.E., and Jones, N.W., 2013, Laboratory Manual for Physical Geology, 8th edition, McGraw-Hill, 352pp.
Jones, C.E. and Jenkyns, H.C., 2001, Seawater Sr isotopes, oceanic anoxic events, and sea-floor hydrothermal activity in the Jurassic and Cretaceous, American Journal of Science v. 301, p. 112-149.
Jones, C.E., Halliday, A.N., Rea, D.K., and Owen, R.M., 2000, Eolian inputs of Pb to the North Pacific, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 64, p. 1405-1416.
Jones, C.E., Halliday, A. N., and Lohmann, K. C., 1995, The impact of diagenesis on high-precision U-Pb dating of ancient carbonates; an example from the Late Permian of New Mexico: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 134, no. 3-4, p. 409-423.
Jones, C.E.., Halliday, A. N., Rea, D. K., and Owen, R. M., 1994, Neodymium isotopic variations in North Pacific modern silicate sediment and the insignificance of detrital REE contributions to seawater: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 127, no. 1-4, p. 55-66.
Jones, C.E., Jenkyns, H. C., Coe, A. L., and Hesselbo, S. P., 1994, Strontium isotopic variations in Jurassic and Cretaceous seawater: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 58, no. 14, p. 3061-3074.
Jones, C.E., Jenkyns, H. C., and Hesselbo, S. P., 1994, Strontium isotopes in Early Jurassic seawater: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 58, no. 4, p. 1285-1301.
Jones, C.E., 1991, Characteristics and origin of rock varnish from the hyperarid coastal deserts of northern Peru: Quaternary Research, v. 35, no. 1, p. 116-129.
Dr. Jones’ past research has focused on seawater strontium isotopes in the Jurassic and Cretaceous, the causal relationships between negative excursions in the strontium-isotope curve and the so-called oceanic anoxic events, eolian inputs of rare earth elements and lead into the North Pacific, and the radiometric dating of carbonates. More broadly, Dr. Jones is interested in many facets of sedimentary geology, stratigraphy, evolution, extinction, paleoceanography, paleoclimate, and geochemistry. The world is, after all, an interesting place.