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Recent Presentations by Graduate Students at Professional Meetings

Graduate students are encouraged to participate in local, regional, national, and international professional meetings. Fortunately, we have been able to cover most travel expenses from research funds so students do not have to bear the cost out of pocket. Second-year MS and Ph.D. students generally present results of their research at GSA and/or AAPG meetings. Occasionally, course project results are of sufficiently high quality that they are also presented at meetings.

  • Montes, C., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 1997, The premetamorphic Greenbrier and Hayesville faults in the western Blue Ridge, central-western North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 29, no. 3, p. 60.
  • Curl, D. C., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 1997, Central-eastern Inner Piedmont geology in the Wellford and Reidville Quadrangles, South Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 29, no. 3, p. 11.
  • Bream, B. R., Hill, J. C., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 1997, Value of traditional detailed geologic mapping, augmented by technology to resolve the structure in part of the western Inner Piedmont, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, (Annual Meeting) v. 29, p. 306.
  • Hill, J. C., Bream, B. R., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 1998, Structure and stratigraphy of part of the Inner Piedmont near Marion, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 30 , p. 17.
  • Bream, B . R., Hill, J. C., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 1998, Use of detailed digital geologic and derivative maps to resolve the structure and stratigraphy in part of the western Inner Piedmont, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 30, p. 5.
  • Montes, C., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 1998, Structure of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia: A doubly vergent thrust belt, or the surface expression of the transpressive Southern Caribbean Plate Boundary?: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Annual Meeting), v. 2, p. A470.
  • Giorgis, S. D., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Riedel, J. J., 1998, Evolution of thrust sheets in the western Inner Piedmont, NC: Geological Society of America (Annual Meeting).
  • Riedel, J. J., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Giorgis, S. D., 1998, Structural and preliminary strain analysis of the South Mountains in the western Inner Piedmont, North Carolina: Geological Society of America (Annual Meeting).
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Whisner, J. B., 1998, Deformation in the core of the southern Appalachian Triangle Zone: Geological Society of America (Annual Meeting), v. 30, p. A234.
  • Bream, B. R., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Hill, J. C., 1998, The Henderson augen gneiss of the western Inner Piedmont, NC & SC: Geological Society of America (Annual Meeting).
  • Williams, S. T., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 1999, Agmatite structures within extensive migmatite in the western Inner Piedmont, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 31, p. A77.
  • Bream, B. R., Hill, J. C., Giorgis, S. D., Williams, S. T., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 1999, New digital geologic 7.5′ quadrangle maps from part of the western Inner Piedmont of North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 31, p. A-7.
  • Curl, D. C., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 1999, Geological investigation of part of the eastern Inner Piedmont, South Carolina: Evidence for a post-peak-metamorphic ductile deformation event: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 31, p. A-12.
  • Giorgis, S. D., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 1999, Suspect Henderson Augen Gneiss contact relationships in the western Inner Piedmont, NC: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 31, p. A-17.
  • Bier, S. E., Giorgis, S. D., Bream, B. R., Williams, S. T., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2000, Temperature and pressure estimates of Acadian metamorphism in the Inner Piedmont, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 32, p. A-6.
  • Whisner, S. C., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Munsey, J. W., and Mills, H. H., 2000, Disturbed Quaternary terrace deposits in eastern Tennessee: Smoking gun for old earthquakes, hillslope creep, or evidence for megatherium trip and fall?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 32, p. A-82.
  • Williams, S. T., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2000, Detailed geologic mapping from the western to central Inner Piedmont, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 32, p. A-83.
  • Bier, S. E., Bream, B. R., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2000, Detailed geologic mapping of the western and central Inner Piedmont, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 32, p. A-234.
  • Bream, B. R., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Miller, C. F., and Fullagar, P. D., 2000, Paragneiss geochemistry and preliminary ion microprobe geochronology of zircons from the southern Appalachian crystalline core: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 32, p. A-31.
  • Carrigan, C. W., Bream, B. R., Miller, C. F., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2001, Ion microprobe analyses of zircon rims from the eastern Blue Ridge and Inner Piedmont, NC-SC-GA: Implications for the timing of Paleozoic metamorphism in the southern Appalachians: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 33, p. A-7.
  • Montes, C., Settles, D. J., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2001, Digital geologic map/database via graphic-only software: Dying method or valid option for the future?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 33, p. A-23.
  • Whisner, S. C., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Munsey, J. W., 2001, The possible link between east-west trending faults in the Valley and Ridge province of eastern Tennessee and the Gray fossil site: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 33, p. A-59.
  • Bream, B. R., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Miller, C. F., and Fullagar, P. D., 2001, Geochemistry and provenance of Inner Piedmont paraagneisses, NC and SC: Evidence for an internal terrane boundary?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 33, p. A-65.
  • Settles, D. J., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Bream, B. R., 2001, Tectonostratigraphic relationships that define a fundamental Appalachian terrane boundary within the central Blue Ridge of North Georgia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 33, p. A-66.
  • Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2001,Additional factors brought into play in hydrocarbon exploration in the southern Appalachian foreland fold-thrust belt: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Easter Section Meeting (Kalamazoo, Michigan) Abstracts, p. 19.
  • Bream, B. R., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Miller, C. F., Carrigan, C. W., and Fullagar, P. D., 2001, Provenance and geochemistry of Late Proterozoic southern Appalachian crystalline core paragneisses, NC-SC-GA-TN: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 33, p. A-29.
  • Kalbas, J. L., Merschat, A. J., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Bream, B. R., 2001, Detailed geologic mapping of the Brushy Mountains, Inner Piedmont near Lenoir, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. A-82.
  • Whisner, J. B., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2001, Geologic GIS database to facilitate kinematic analysis of the Valley and Ridge Province, East Tennessee: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 33, p. A-176.
  • Settles, D. J., Bream, B. R., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2001, The Sally Free mafic complex and associated mafic rocks of the Dahlonega gold belt: Evidence or Ordovician arc volcanism and intrusion northwest of Dahlonega, GA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. A-262.
  • Kalbas, J. L., Bream, B. R., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Maybin, A. H., 2002, Evidence for mafic Ordovician magmatism and Acadian metamorphism in the Brushy Mountains, western Inner Piedmont of North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 34, p. A-119.
  • Heath, M. A. II, and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2002, Use of geometric and kinematic tests to determine mechanical formation of a regional scale footwall syncline: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Meeting), v. 34, p. A-118.
  • Whisner, J. B., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2002, Developing a regional 3D model of deformation in the Valley And Ridge Province, East Tennessee: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Annual Meeting), Houston, v. 11, p. A-189.
  • Bream, B. R. and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2002, Southern Appalachian terranes amended: Timing of accretion and delimiting provenance ffrom new detrital zircon and Nd isotopic data: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 34, no. 6, p. 41.
  • Merschat, A. H., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Bream, B. R., 2002, The Brindle Creek thrust: A major fault and terrane boundary in the southern Appalachian Inner Piedmont, North Carolina-South Carolina-Georgia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 34, no. 6, p. 327.
  • Eckert, J. O., Jr., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2003, Defining the Hayesville fault and terrane boundary between the Central-Eastern Blue Ridge, Georgia-North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 1., p. 20.
  • Merschat, A. J., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2003, Digital geologic map of the northern Inner Piedmont, NC-SC-GA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 1, p. 59-60.
  • Thigpen, J. R., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2003, Structural and stratigraphic analysisof part of a Middle Ordovician syncline near Mt. Vernon, Tennessee: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 1., p. 24.
  • Whitmer, N. E., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Whisner, C. S., Whisner, J. B., Thigpen, J. R., and Bultman, J. G., 2003, Middle Ordovician clastic wedges in Tennessee: A new look at an old basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Eastern Section), Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Evenick, J. C., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2003, Potential Ordovician hydrocarbon plays in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee and southern Kentucky: Finding a needle in a haystack; American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Eastern Section), Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Gatewood, M. P., Merschat, A. J., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Kalbas, J. L., 2004, Detailed Geologic Mapping, Brushy Mtns, NC: Key to Timing and KIinematics of a Terrane Boundary: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 2, p. 59.
  • Thigpen, J. R. and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2004, Stratigraphic (Age and Position) and Structural Problems in the Ocoee Basin: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 2, p. 91.
  • Arthur J. Merschat, A. J., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Bream, B. R., and Mapes, R., 2004, Middle to Late Paleozoic accretion of the Carolina terrane: Evidence from the Brindle Creek thrust sheet, Inner Piedmont, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 2, p. 105.
  • Evenick, J. C., Hatcher, R. D. Jr., and Whisner, J. B., 2004, Continuity of C. W. Wilson’s Middle Ordovician stratigraphy from the Nashville Dome to the footwall of Whiteoak Mountain-Clinchport thrust: Key to understanding the Middle Ordovician (Trenton-Black River) petroleum system: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 2, p. 118.
  • Whisner, J. B., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Merschat, A. J., Bultman, J., Evenick, J.C., Gatewood, M. P., Stahr, D., Thigpen, J. R., Whitmer,, N., Wilson, C. G., 2004, 3-D reconstruction of Alleghanian structure of the Appalachian foreland fold-thrust belt, NW Georgia to SW Virginia around the Tennessee salient: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 2, p. 139.
  • Merschat, A. J., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2004, The Cat Square terrane: A Siluro-Devonian remnant ocean basin in the Inner Piedmont, southern Appalachians: Oak Ridge, TN, 17th International Basement Tectonics Conference, Abstracts with Programs, p. 97-99.
  • Evenick, J. C., Hatcher, R. D. Jr., and Whisner, J. B., 2004, Continuity of C. W. Wilson’s Middle Ordovician stratigraphy from the Nashville Dome to the footwall of Whiteoak Mountain-Clinchport thrust: Key to understanding the Middle Ordovician (Trenton-Black River) petroleum system: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 2, p. 118.
  • Whisner, J. B., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., Merschat, A. J., Bultman, J., Evenick, J.C., Gatewood, M. P., Stahr, D., Thigpen, J. R., Whitmer,, N., Wilson, C. G., 2004, 3-D reconstruction of Alleghanian structure of the Appalachian foreland fold-thrust belt, NW Georgia to SW Virginia around the Tennessee salient: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 2, p. 139.
  • Bultman, J. G., Hatcher, R. D., Jr., and Whitmer, N. E., 2004, Reexamination of the Sevier-Blountian basin through detailed geologic mapping, structural and stratigraphic analysis: Bays Mountain synclinorium, northeastern Tennessee: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Eastern Section Abstracts, p. 66.
  • Evenick, J. C., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2004, Identifying possible pre-Chattanooga structures in the Cumberland Plateau of kentucky and Tennessee using trend-surface residual anomaly maps: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Eastern Section Abstracts, p. 77.
  • Stahr, D. W. III, and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2004, Emplacement of the Devonian Rabun granodiorite, northeast Georgia and North Carolina Blue Ridge: Detailed geologic mapping, and structural and petrologic analysis: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p. 406.
  • Bultman, J. G., Whitmer, N. E., Lemiszki, P., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2004, Detailed geologic mapping: Geological acumen for Sevier-Blountian basin dynamics: Bays Mountain synclinorium, northeastern Tennessee: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 36, no. 5, p. 503.
  • Thigpen, J. R., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2004, New digital geologic map of the western Blue Ridge, SE Tennessee, SW North Carolina, northern Georgia: A tool for regional analysis of the Ocoee Basin: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Annual Meeting), v. 36, no. 5, p. 503.
  • Hatcher, R.D., and Merschat, A. J., 2004, The Appalachian Inner Piedmont: An Orogenic Channel: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p. 534.
  • Merschat, A. J., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2004, The Appalachian Inner Piedmont, I: Boundary conditions of mid-Paleozoic SW-directed mid-crustal flow: Geological Society of London Meeting, December 6-7 Abstracts, p. 52
  • Evenick, J. C., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2005, Evidence for a décollement soled in the Chattanooga Shale in the southern Appalachian Plateau: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 37, no. 2, p. 34.
  • Wilson, C. G., Cyphers, S. R., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2005, Cleavage development and folding in the southern Appalachian foreland fold-thrust belt, NE Tennessee: Case study of an exposure on I-181 in part of the Middle Ordovician Sevier Basin: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 37, no. 2, p. 35.
  • Merschat, A. J., Bultman, J. G., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2005, Polydeformed Proterozoic basement in the Blue Ridge thrust complex of northeast Tennessee-northwest North Carolina Part I: Deciphering 1 billion years of southern Appalachian history preserved in an outcrop of Middle Proterozoic rocks in the western Blue Ridge, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 37, no. 2, p. 36.
  • Stahr, D. W. III, Thigpen, J. R., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2005 Polydeformed Proterozoic basement in the Blue Ridge thrust complex of northeast Tennessee-northwest North Carolina Part II: Insights gained from micro- and mesostructural analysis of a Grenvillian shear zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 37, no. 2, p. 36.
  • Wilson, C. G., Merschat, A. J., Gatewood, M. P., and Hatcher, R. D., Jr., 2005, Metamorphism, kinematics and crustal flow of the southern Appalachian orogenic core: Evidence from detailed geologic mapping in the Brushy Mountains, NC: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (SE Section), v. 37, no. 2, p. 40.

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