Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller is Professor Emerita of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Stanford University, specializing in structural geology and tectonics. Her research reconstructs the geological evolution of Arctic Alaska and Chukotka through field-based studies integrating structural analysis, geochronology, and thermochronology.

Her investigations focus on Mesozoic-Cenozoic orogenic systems, metamorphic core complexes, and plate tectonic reconstructions of the circum-Arctic region using detrital zircon provenance analysis.

Research Contributions:

• Arctic Alaska-Chukotka microplate evolution
• Metamorphic core complex formation mechanisms
• Paleogeographic reconstructions of Beringia