My general interests are in tectonics and sedimentation, tectonic geomorphology, and metallogenic evolution of the Cordilleran margin.

PUBLICATIONS
Beranek, L.P., Link, P.K., and Fanning, C.M., 2006, Miocene to Holocene landscape evolution of the western Snake River Plain region, Idaho: Using the SHRIMP detrital zircon record to track eastward migration of the Yellowstone hotspot: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, no.9/10, p. 1027-1050.

Link, P.K., Fanning, C.M., and, Beranek, L.P., 2005, Reliability and longitudinal change of detrital-zircon age spectra in the Snake River system, Idaho and Wyoming: An example of reproducing the bumpy barcode: Sedimentary Geology, v. 182, p. 101-142.

FIELD REPORTS
Beranek, L.P., and Mortensen, J.K., 2008, New stratigraphic and provenance studies of Triassic sedimentary rocks in Yukon and northern British Columbia, in Emond, D.S., Blackburn, L.R., Hill, R.P., Weston, L.H., Yukon Exploration and Geology 2007, p. 115-124.

Beranek, L.P., and Mortensen, J.K., 2007, Investigating a Triassic overlap assemblage in Yukon: On-going field studies and preliminary detrital zircon age data, in Emond, D.S., Lewis, L.L., and Weston, L.S., Yukon Exploration and Geology 2006: Yukon Geological Survey, p. 83-92.

Beranek, L.P., and Mortensen, J.K., 2006, Triassic overlap assemblages in the northern Cordillera: Preliminary results from the type section of the Jones Lake Formation, Yukon and Northwest Territories (NTS 105/13), in Emond, D.S., Bradshaw, G.D., Lewis, L.L., and Weston, L.S., Yukon Exploration and Geology 2005: Yukon Geological Survey, p. 79-91.

MEETING ABSTRACTS
Mortensen, J.K., Beranek, L.P., and Murphy, D.C., 2007, Permo-Triassic orogeny in the northern Cordillera: Sonoma north?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 4.
Beranek, L.P., and Mortensen, J.K., 2007, Latest Permian to Middle Triassic accretions of the Yukon-Tanana, Stikine, and Quesnel terranes to North America: New detrital zircon age data from Triassic rocks in Yukon: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no.4 [oral]
Beranek, L.P., and Mortensen, J.K., 2006, A Triassic link between Yukon-Tanana terrane and North America: New detrital zircon age, geochemical, and biostratigraphic data: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no.5. [oral]
Beranek, L.P., Link, P.K., and Fanning, C.M., 2004, Detrital zircons from Miocene to Recent sediments of the western Cordilleran Orogen: Oregon-Idaho Graben and Western Snake River Plain, Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no.5. [oral]
Beranek, L.P., Link, P.K., and Fanning, C.M., 2004, Ghost Neoproterozoic (750-600 Ma) detrital zircons with no known source: Quaternary fluvial and aeolian sands, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 4. [oral]
Beranek, L.P., Burton, B.R., and Ihinger, P.D., 2002, Geochemistry and field geology of shoshonitic magmas in the Late Cretaceous foreland fold and thrust belt of southwestern Montana: Results from the North Doherty Mountain Intrusive Complex: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, v. 83, no. 47. [poster]

AWARDS
Geological Society of America Student Research Grant (2006)
Geological Society of America-Sedimentary Division Student Research Award (2006)
UBC Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences Teaching Assistant Award (2006)
UBC University Graduate Fellowship (2007-2008)
Ores and Orogenesis 2007: Symposium in honor of Bill Dickinson - 2nd Place Poster, Tectonics

ENDORSEMENTS
Luke Beranek proudly uses a JKM Series collapsing Jacob Staff made with pride and joy in Delta, British Columbia.