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Recent Presentations by Bob Hatcher, Former Graduate Students, and other Professional Colleagues at Professional Meetings (* invited paper)

  • Scruggs, P. L., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Wunderlich, A. L., Hansen, B., and Rehrer, J. R., 2015, Detailed geologic mapping of the Obed Wild and Scenic River and surrounding area: Fox Creek, Hebbertsburg, and Lancing 7.5-minute quadrangles: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, no. 7, p. 114.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Horton, J. W., Jr., Daniels, D. L., and Snyder, S. L., 2015, Gravity low-high pairs in orogens: Thickened-thinned crust, sutures, or hybrid mechanisms?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, no. 7, p. 463.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2015, Alps-Appalachians comparison: Worthwhile exercise or “apples and oranges”?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, no. 7, p. 225.
  • Glasbrenner, J. C., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Li, Y., 2015, Cosmogenic 26Al-10Be burial dating of Little Tennessee River terrace deposits: An application to the East Tennessee seismic zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, no. 7, p. 465.
  • Gamble, E., Cox, R. T., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Glasbrenner, J. C., and Bouzeid, K., 2015, Quaternary faulting in Blount County Tennessee and its implications for active tectonism in the eastern Tennessee seismic zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, no. 7, p. 36.
  • Cox, R. T., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Glasbrenner, J., and Gamble, E., 2015, Are surface Quaternary faults in the East Tennessee seismic zone connected?: Seismological Society of America Eastern Section Meeting, October 7, Session V.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Horton, J. W., Jr., Daniels, D. L., and Snyder, S. L., 2015, The need to understand crustal structure and regional geology in siting critical structures: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, News 58 Annual Meeting Program with Abstracts, p. 62.*Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Horton, J. W., Jr., Daniels, D. L., and Snyder, S. L., 2015, Shaping of the Appalachian orogen by the breakup of Rodinia and middle-to-late Paleozoic, zippered, transpressional processes: Geologic and geophysical evidence: Geological Association of Canada Joint Assembly (AGU-GAC-MAC-CGU), Montreal, p. 77.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2015, Retrenchment should not be part of our profession: Tennessee Oil & Gas Association 44th Annual Convention, p. 9.
  • Walker, T. J., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2015, Sturzstroms in the Smokies: Long Runout landslides at Gatlinburg and Cobbly Knob, Tennessee: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section), v. 47, no. 2, p. 4.
  • Scruggs, P. L., Hatcher, R. D. Jr., and Hansen, B., 2015, Cumberland Plateau overthrust and Sequatchie anticline: Genetically indistinguishable structures studied through detailed mapping in Lancing, Hebbertsburg and Fox Creek quadrangles: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section), v. 47, no. 2, p. 34.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Cox, R. T., Counts, R. C., Glasbrenner, J. C., Warrell, K. F., and Vaughn, J. D., 2015, New data to help understand the paleoseismic history of the East Tennessee seismic zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section), v. 47, no. 2, p. 7.
  • Glasbrenner, J. C., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Gamble, E., and Counts, R. C., 2015, Investigating possible paleoseismic evidence in the East Tennessee seismic zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section), v. 47, no. 2, p. 7.
  • Feng, L., Cox, R. T., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2015, Distribution of Quaternary fractures and folds in the East Tennessee seismic zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section), v. 47, no. 2, p. 7.
  • Biswal, M., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2015, Evidence for recent uplift of the Appalachians from detrital zircon geochronology: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section), v. 47, no. 2, p. 34.
  • Glasbrenner, J. C., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Cox, R. T., 2014, The East Tennessee seismic zone: Paleoseismic deformation: Eastern Section of the Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Program and Abstracts, p. 13.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Cox, R. T., Vaughn, J. D., Glasbrenner, J. C., and Warrell, K. F., 2014, Progress in understanding the paleoseismology of the East Tennessee seismic zone: Eastern Section of the Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Program and Abstracts, p. 16.
  • Cox, R. T., Gamble, E., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Glasbrenner, J. C., and Counts, R., 2014, Surface faulting and possible kinematics of the East Tennessee seismic zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 6, p. 765.
  • Glasbrenner, J. C., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Cox, R. T., and Gamble, E., 2014, Possible evidence for Quaternary deformation in the East Tennessee seismic zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 6, p. 593.
  • Scruggs, P. L., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Hansen, B., and Rehrer, J. R., 2014, Cumberland Plateau overthrust and Pine Mountain blocks, TN, KY, VA: Symmetrical features around the undisturbed Wartburg basin with contrasting kinematics and mechanics: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 6, p. 171.
  • *Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Horton, J. W., Jr., Zietz, I., Daniels, D. L., and Snyder, S. L., 2014, Aeromagnetic and gravity data: Keys to crustal structure and seismic source zones, central and eastern U.S. And adjacent Canada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 6, p. 59.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2014, Structural history of the Nashville Dome: Tennessee Oil and Gas Association 43rd Annual Convention, Gatlinburg, TN.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Huebner, M. T., and Rehrer, J. R., 2014, Avalonian/Carolina Terrane exotic crystalline rock horses along the Alleghanian Brevard fault in South Carolina: insight into late Paleozoic Brevard fault kinematics and displacement: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 3, p. 86.
  • Smith, B., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2014, Regional and contact metamorphism of Tallulah Falls formation calc-silicates in the eastern Blue Ridge of SW North Carolina, NE Georgia, and NW South Carolina: Can they help us better understand the metamorphic evolution of the southern Appalachians?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 3, p. 76.
  • Biswal, M. S., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2014, Tertiary origin of the Appalachian Mountains: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 3, p. 69.
  • Rehrer, J. R., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Huebner, M. T., 2014, Cat Square basin development: Tectonic implications of whole-rock amphibolite geochemistry: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 3, p. 69.
  • Scruggs, P. L., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Lockyear, G., and Fitzgerald, F., 2014, Supratenuous folds and soft-sediment deformation of crinoid reefs of the lower Mississippian Fort Payne Formation on State Route 52 near Celina, TN: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 3, p. 36.
  • Hansen, B., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2014, The Saltville and Great Smoky faults: Mesofabrics, microfabrics, and emplacement conditions: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 3, p. 31.
  • Rehrer, J. R., Huebner, M. T., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Wunderlich, A. L., 2014, Detailed geologic map of the Inner Piedmont and Carolina superterrane at the northeast end of the Pine Mountain window, central Georgia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 3, p. 13.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Merschat, A. J., and Huebner, M. T., 2014, Crustal structure and accretionary history of the southern and central Appalachians: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 2, p. 38.
  • Hatcher, R. D. Jr., Prowell, D. C., Biswal, M. S., 2013, Lithospheric processes and the late Cenozoic origin of the Appalachian Mountains: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 7 (Annual Meeting), p. 60.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Prowell, D. C., and Huebner, M. T., 2013, Development of the Appalachians from Paleozoic orogenies to the Anthropocene: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (NE Section), v. 45, no. 1, p. 130.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Karlstrom, K. E., Muehlberger, W. R., Saleeby, J., Saleeby, Z., Keller, G. R., Van der Lee, S., and Martinez, C. M., 2013, Transcontinental geologic section through the North American plate near 36° latitude: Atlantic Ocean crust to Pacific Ocean crust‹A tribute to Bill Muehlberger: Geological Society of American Abstracts with Programs (S-C Section), v. 45, no. 3, p. 14.
  • Hatcher, R. D. , Jr., 2013, Exploration options for the Cumberland Plateau, enhanced with applications of “new” technologies: Tennessee Oil and Gas Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, May 16.
  • Warrell, K. F., Cox, R. T., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Counts, R. C., Vaughn, J. D., and Obermeier, S. F., 2012, Paleoseismic evidence for large, prehistoric earthquakes in the East Tennessee seismic zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Mtg), v. 44, no. 7, p. 291.
  • Walker, A. E., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2012, Structural analysis of the Tablerock thrust sheet, Grandfather Mountain window, northwestern North Carolina: Emplacement kinematics of a large horse in a major thrust system: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Mtg), v. 44, no. 7, p. 483.
  • Rehrer, J. R., Huebner, M. T., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2012, Rheological and timing contrasts of major faults framing the northeastern end of the Pine Mountain window, central Georgia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Mtg), v. 44, no. 7, p. 595.
  • Merschat, A. J., Bream, B. R., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Huebner, M. T., 2012, Provenance of Blue Ridge and Inner Piedmont terranes from detrital zircon geochronology and whole-rock isotopic data, NC-SC-GA-TN: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Mtg), v. 44, no. 7, p. 173.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2012, The bumpy road from Rodinia to Pangea: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Mtg), v. 44, no. 7, p. 292.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2012, Geologic interpretation of geophysical data useful to structural geologists—and teaching the students to use the data in constructing cross sections: Teaching Structural Geology, Geophysics, and Tectonics in the 21st Century Workshop, Knoxville, Tennessee, July.
  • Huebner, M. T., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2012, Interactions of sinistral faults and CAMP diabase dikes during the final stages of Pangea breakup in the southern Appalachians, v. 35. p. 60.
  • Hatcher, R.D., Jr., 2012, Appalachians tectonic maps: Geological Association of Canada Abstracts, v. 35 p. 54-55.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2012, Understanding long-term fault behavior: Lessons learned from well-exposed ancient faults: Seismological Research Letters, v. 83, no. 2, p. 451.
  • Walker, A. E., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2012, Was the Tablerock thrust sheet deformed by sheath folding?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 44, no. 4, p. 82.
  • Merschat, A. J., Bream, B. R., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Huebner, M. T., 2012, Paleozoic assembly of the Blue Ridge and Inner Piedmont recorded by metamorphic zircon geochronology: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 44, no. 4, p. 73.
  • Huebner, M. T., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Merschat, A. J., 2012, Implications regarding the evolution of the Inner Piedmont from the southwest end of the Cat Square terrane, central Georgia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 44, no. 4, p. 65.
  • Bream, B. R., Merschat, A. J., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2012 Amalgamation and breakup of eastern Rodinia, Part I: The southern Appalachians: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 44, no. 4, p. 63.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Merschat, A. J., and Bream, B. D., 2012, Basis of southern Appalachian tectonostratigraphic terrane analysis: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 44, no. 4, p. 63.
  • Merschat, A. J., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Huebner, M. T., 2012, Orogen-scale significance of dextral strike-slip faults: Links between terrane collision, deformation and clastic wedge sedimentation: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 44, no. 4, p. 23.
  • Warrell, K. F., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Blankenship, S. A., Howard, C. W., Derryberry P. M., Wunderlich, A. L., Obermeier, S. F., Counts., R. C., and Vaughn, J. D., 2012 Detailed geologic mapping of paleoseismic features: an added tool for seismic hazard assessment in the East Tennessee seismic zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 44, no. 4, p. 19.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Jessup, M. J., 2012, Comparing modern and ancient orogens: Himalayas and Appalachians similarities and differences: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (NE Section), v. 44, no. 2, p. 38.
  • Howard, C. W., Huebner, M. T., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2011, Detailed geologic mapping of a plutonic complex in the southern Appalachian Inner Piedmont: Geochemical and geochronologic analyses and their tectonic implications: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 43, no. 5, p. 143.
  • Huebner, M. T., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2011, Sinistral Mesozoic inversion of the dextral Alleghanian Towaliga fault: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 43, no. 5, p. 35.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Horton, J. W., Jr., Zietz, I., Daniels, D. L., and Steltenpohl, M. G., 2011, Aeromagnetic clues to the final assembly of Pangea: Was Florida the last addition?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 43, no. 5, p. 550.
  • *Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2011, Comparison of Appalachian and Himalayan foreland clastic wedges: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 43, no. 5, p. 44.
  • *Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2011, The Alleghanian Appalachian foreland-fold thrust belt: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 43, no. 5, p. 366.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2011, Brief comments about shale gas & structures formed before the Chattanooga Shale was deposited: Do they have any bearing on Ordovician oil & gas accumulations?: Tennessee Oil and Gas Association 40th Annual Meeting, May 11-13.
  • Huebner, M. T., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Howard, C. W., 2011, Insights into Paleozoic orogenesis and Mesozoic rifting from detailed mapping in the Georgia Inner Piedmont: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section Meeting), v. 43, no. 2, p. 68.
  • Robertson, P. B., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Derryberry, P. M., 2011, Structural and stratigraphic/sedimentological analysis of part of the Middle Ordovician Sevier foredeep basin, southeastern Greene County, Tennessee: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section Meeting), v. 43, no. 2, p. 67.
  • Derryberry, P. M., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2011, The Pulaski fault in NE TN and SW VA: A possible recorder of two-phase Alleghanian deformation: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section Meeting), v. 43, no. 2, p. 67.
  • Howard, C. W., Derryberry, P. M., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Vaughn, J. D., and Obermeier, S. F., 2011, Detailed geologic maps of two sites south of Dandridge, Tennessee, record evidence of polyphase paleoseismic activity in the East Tennessee seismic zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section Meeting), v. 43, no. 2, p. 31.
  • Huebner, M. T., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Wooden, J. L., 2011, Evidence for Paleozoic orogenies, terrane boundaries, and Mesozoic rifting from the central Georgia Inner Piedmont: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section Meeting), v. 43, no. 2, p. 21.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Merschat, A. J., Huebner, M. T., and Bream, B. R., 2011, New insight into Inner Piedmont (and Blue Ridge) geology from detailed geologic mapping and modern geochronology: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Southeastern Section Meeting), v. 43, no. 2, p.16_.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Merschat, A. J., and Huebner, M. T., 2011, Confirmation of the Acadian-Neoacadian orogeny driven by mid-Paleozoic accretion of the Carolina superterrarne in the southern-central Appalachians: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Northeastern and North-Central Sections Meeting), v. 43, no. 1, p. 159.
  • Huebner, M. T., Wooden, J. L., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2010, A terrane boundary in the central Georgia (USA) Inner Piedmont confirmed using new U-Pb SHRIMP ages of granitic rocks: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 42, no. 5, p. 196.
  • Hatcher, Robert D., Jr., Obermeier, S. F., Vaughn, J. D., Mills, H. H., Whisner, S. C., and Howard, C. W., 2010, Evidence for a lengthy late-Quaternary earthquake history in the East Tennessee seismic zone, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 42, no. 5, p. 218.
  • Derryberry, P. M., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr.,  2010, Structural and stratigraphic relationships near the southern terminus of the Pulaski fault, one of the dominant structures in the Appalachian foreland fold-thrust belt: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 42, no. 5, p. 34.
  • Merschat, A. J., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Bream, B. R., and Miller, C. F., 2010, Age and distribution of southern Appalachian metamorphism delimited by SHRIMP U-Pb metamorphic zircon ages: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts), v. 74, no. 11, p. A701.
  • Vaughn, J. D., Obermeier, S. F., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Howard, C. W., Mills, H. H., and Whisner, S. C., 2010, Evidence for one or more major late Quaternary earthquakes and surface faulting in the East Tennessee seismiczone: Seismological Research Letters, v. 81, no. 2, p. 323-324.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2010, Southern Appalachian unconformities, faults, and faults reinterpreted as unconformities: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, no. 1, p. 172.
  • Steltenpohl, M., Horton, J. W., Jr., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Zietz, I., and Daniels, D. L., 2010, Digitally enhanced regional aeromagnetic and gravity data permit tracing surface geology in Alabama southward beneath the Gulf Coastal Plain: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (NE-SE Sections Meeting), v. 42, no. 1, p. 140.
  • Sinha, A. K., Thomas, W. A., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2010, Ordovician to Devonian magmatism associated with Taconic collisional tectonics in the central Appalachians: An example of an orogenic cycle: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (NE-SE Sections Meeting), v. 42, no. 1, p. 98.
  • Merschat, A. J., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2010, A review of the field relationships and geochronology of the Cat Square terrane and their implications for middle Paleozoic accretion of the Carolina superterrane: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (NE-SE Sections Meeting), v. 42, no. 1, p. 148.
  • Huebner, M. T., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Davis, B. A., 2010, Extent, kinematics, and Mesozoic reactivation of the Alleghanian Towaliga fault, central Georgia Appalachians: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (NE-SE Sections Meeting), v. 42, no. 1, p. 128.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Steltenpohl, M. G., Mueller, P. A., and Wunderlich, A. L., 2010, Detailed geologic map of the Pine Mountain window and vicinity, west-central Georgia and east-central Alabama: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (NE-SE Sections Meeting), v. 42, no. 1, p. 93.
  • Bartholomew, M. J., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2010, The rifted edge of the Grenville orogen of southern Laurentia: Potential piercing points for Amazonia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (NE-SE Sections Meeting), v. 42, no. 1, p. 78.

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