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Recent Refereed Publications

  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Huebner, M. T., Rehrer, J. R., Acker, L. L., Fullagar, P. D., Liu, A., and Goad, P. L., 2017 (in press), Geologic and kinematic insights from far-traveled horses in the Brevard fault zone, southern Appalachians: Geological Society of America Memoir.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Milici, R. C., 2015, Sequatchie Valley structure and stratigraphy, in Holmes, A.E., ed., Diverse Excursions in the Southeast: Paleozoic to Present: Geological Society of America Field Guide 39, p. 169–196, doi:10.1130/2015.0039(06).
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2014, The Appalachian orogen: Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Encyclopedia of Geology (digital edition), London, Elsevier, 2014. 24-Jun-14 18 p. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09096-5. 18 p.
  • Steltenpohl, M. G., Horton, J. W., Jr., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Zietz, I., Daniels, D. L., and Higgins, M. W., 2013, Upper crustal structure of Alabama from regional magnetic and gravity data: Using geology to interpret geophysics, and vice versa: Geological Society of America Geosphere, v. 9, p. 1–21.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Vaughn, J. D., and Obermeier, S. F., 2012, Large earthquake paleoseismology in the East Tennessee seismic zone: Results of an 18-month pilot study, in Cox, R. T., Boyd, O. L., and Locat, J., eds., Recent Advances in North American Paleoseismology and Neotectonics East of the Rockies: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 493, p. 111-142.
  • Sinha, A. K., Thomas, W. A., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Harrison, T. M., 2012, Geodynamic evolution of the central Appalachian orogen: geochronology and compositional diversity of magmatism from Ordovician through Devonian: American Journal of Science, v. 312, p. 907-966.
  • Fisher, C. M., Loewy, S. L., Miller, C. F., Berquist, P. Van Schmus, W. R., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Wooden, J. L., and Fullagar, P. D., 2010, Whole-rock Pb and Sm-Nd isotopic constraints on the growth of southeastern Laurentia during Grenvillian orogenesis: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 122, p. 1646-1659, doi: 10.1130/B30116.1.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2010, Tectonic map of the Appalachians, Figure 1 in Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2010, The Appalachian orogen: A brief summary, in Tollo, R. P. Bartholomew, M. J., Hibbard, J. P., and Karabinos, P. M., eds., From Rodinia to Pangea: The lithotectonic record of the Appalachian region: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 206, scale 1:12,000,000.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2010, The Appalachian orogen: A brief summary, in Tollo, R. P. Bartholomew, M. J., Hibbard, J. P., and Karabinos, P. M., eds., From Rodinia to Pangea: The lithotectonic record of the Appalachian region: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 206, p. 1–19.
  • Bartholomew, M. J., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2010, The Grenville orogenic cycle of southern Laurentia: Unraveling sutures, rifts, and shear zones as potential piercing points for Amazonia: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 29, p. 4–20.
  • Steltenpohl, M. G., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Mueller, P.A., Heatherington, A.L.,, and Wooden, J. L., 2010, Geologic history of the Pine Mountain window, Alabama and Georgia: Insights from a new geologic map and U-Pb isotopic dates, in, Tollo, R. P., Bartholomew, M. J., Hibbard, J. P., and Karabinos, P. M.,eds., From Rodinia to Pangea: The lithotectonic record of the Appalachian region: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 206, p. 837-857.
  • Wunderlich, A. L., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2009, Rescuing legacy digital data: Maps stored in Adobe Illustrator™ format, in Soller, D. R., ed., Digital Mapping Techniques ’08—Workshop Proceedings: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1298, p. 85–100.

Recent Student/Former Student Refereed Publications

  • Thigpen, J. R., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Kah, L. C., and Repetski, J. E., 2016 (in press), Reevaluating the age of the Walden Creek Group and the kinematic evolution of the western Blue Ridge, southern Appalachians: American Journal of Science: v. 316, p. YYY-YYY.
  • Huebner, M. T., Rehrer, J. R., 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, Georgia: Geological Society of America Map and Chart 105, 26 p., scale 1:50,000, doi: 10.1130/2014.MCH105.txt.
  • Huebner, M. T., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2013, Polyphase reactivation history of the Towaliga fault, central Georgia: Implications regarding the amalgamation and breakup of Pangea: Journal of Geology, V. 121, P. 75-90.
  • Merschat, A. J., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Byars, H. E., and Gilliam, W. G., 2012, The Neoacadian orogenic core of the southern Appalachians: A geo-traverse through the migmatitic Inner Piedmont from the Brushy Mountains to Lincolnton, North Carolina, in Eppes, M. C., and Bartholomew, M. J., eds., From the Blue Ridge to the Coastal Plain: Field Excursions in the Southeastern United States: Geological Society of America Field Guide 29, p. 171–217, doi: 10.1130/2012.0029(06).
  • Merschat, A. J., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Bream, B. R., Miller, C. F., Byars, H. E., Gatewood, M. P., Wooden, J. L., 2010, Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of southern Appalachian Blue Ridge and Inner Piedmont crystalline terranes, in Tollo, R. P. Bartholomew, M. J., Hibbard, J. P., and Karabinos, P. M., eds., From Rodinia to Pangea: The lithotectonic record of the Appalachian region: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 206, p. 661–699.
  • Thigpen, J. R., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2009, Geologic map of the western Blue Ridge and portions of the eastern Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge provinces in southeastern Tennessee, southwestern North Carolina, and northern Georgia: Geological Society of America Maps and Charts Series, MCH097, scale 1:200,000.