Donald E. Hattin Media Materials, 1959-2016

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Summary

Creator:
Hattin, Donald E.
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Extent:
15 cubic feet Seven boxes, 24 x 15 x 10 1/4"; 26 folder boxes, 11.5 x 6.5 x 5.5"; bulk of documents
Language:
Materials are in English
Preferred citation:

[Item], Donald E. Hattin Media Materials, ca. 1959-2016, IU Paleontology Collection

Background

Scope and content:

Media includes open-reel video tape, 2x2 slides, negatives, photographs, graphs, drawing, and original material for publication in teaching, talk, specimens, and locality.

Correspondence consists of Hattin's routine administrative correspondence and etc. compiled by author.

Reprint consists of Hattin's reprints, publications, and manuscripts curated by author.

Map consists of locality map with detailed notes by Hattin.

Personal collection consists of slides, negatives, prints, letters, and postcard.

Biographical / historical:

Hattin’s work is in paleoecological studies of Upper Cretaceous benthic organisms, especially including oysters, cirripeds, and rudists. He also does taxonomic studies of Upper Cretaceous benthic organisms, including oysters, anomiids, and cirripeds.

In addition he studies Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Western Interior Basin, with emphasis on depositional environments, cyclicity, basinwide correlation of carbonate-rock intervals, and stratigraphic manifestations of contemporaneous tectonic uplift.

Hattin also collaborates with Katrina Gobetz (James Madison University) on the causes of recent rodent gnawings on rocks of Mississippian and Cretaceous age.

Acquisition information:

Inherited from the author.

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Processing information:

Processed by Gary J. Motz, Christine Naulty, and Wen Nie Ng

Completed on Aug, 22 2017

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Arrangement:

The Hattin collection is organized into five series: media, correspondence, reprint, map, and personal collection

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Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Advance notice required.

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Terms of access:

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator(s) or Collections Manager of the Paleontology Collection.

Preferred citation:

[Item], Donald E. Hattin Media Materials, ca. 1959-2016, IU Paleontology Collection

Campus:
Indiana University Bloomington