Summary
Tom Anderson is a sedimentary petrologist/stratigrapher with research interests in Cambrian microbial reefs. His research goals are to document the nature of early reefs, determine the environments in which they thrived, and apply these studies to the early Paleozoic evolution of western North America. He has taught field geology in the Great Basin for over forty years and has been a part of the University of Nevada, Reno field camp since 2008. He has also studied Paleogene turbidites on the Gualala Block in northern California.