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Current M.S. Students
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| Name | Undergrad Degree | Thesis Topic |
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| John Bultman | Univ. S. Mississippi | Structure of part of the Bays Mountain synclinorium, stratigraphic subdivision of the Sevier Shale (Middle Ordovician), and relationships between the Sevier, Bays, and Martinsburg clastic wedges, northeastern Tennessee |
| Shawna Cyphers | Univ. Tennessee | Structure and origin of block-in-matrix structures along two terrane boundaries, central Blue Ridge, North Carolina |
| Mat Gatewood | Univ. S. Alabama | Geology, high-temperature mylonite formation along a major fault and a terrane boundary, and SHRIMP geochronology of plutons and detrital zircons in the Moravian Falls quad, northeastern Inner Piedmont, North Carolina |
| Don Stahr | Ft. Lewis Coll. | Separating Taconian & Neoacadian deformation and granitoid pluton emplacement mechanisms, eastern Blue Ridge, North Carolina |
| Ryan Thigpen | Univ. Tennessee | Structure & stratigraphy/sedimentaion of part of the Blue Ridge Foothills, SE Tennessee, synthesis of western Blue Ridge geology, and geochemistry of associated carbonate rocks |
| Neil Whitmer | Indiana Univ. | Structure and palinspastic reconstruction of the southeastern Bays Mountain synclinorium, and Sevier Shale (Middle Ordovician) stratigraphy near Parrottsville, Tennessee |
| Crystal Wilson | Univ. W. Georgia | Structure and interrelationships between a deformed terrane boundary and a 428 Ma footwall pluton, and chemical petrology of granitoids and mafic rocks in the Gilreath quad, Inner Piedmont, North Carolina |
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Current Ph.D. Students
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| Name | Undergrad Degree | M.S. Degree | Dissertation Topic |
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| Jonathan Evenick | SUNY Coll at Fredonia | SUNY Buffalo | Subsurface structure beneath the Cumberland Plateau and eastern Highland Rim, and hydrocarbon reservoirs in the southern Appalachian basin, Tennessee, Kentucky, and southwestern Virginia |
| Arthur Merschat | Appalachian St. Univ. | Univ. Tennessee | Interrelationships between the Cartoogechaye terrane, Dahlonega gold belt, and Tugaloo terranes from structural, stratigraphic, and SHRIMP geochronologic data, central Blue Ridge, North Carolina |
| Jennifer Whisner | Univ. Michigan | Western Michigan Univ. | Analysis of 3-D foreland fold-thrust belt structure around the Tennessee salient and the problem of curved thrust belts, northern Georgia, Tennessee, southwestern Virginia |
Former Postdoctoral Research Associates
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| Name | Ph.D. Institution | Dates |
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| Steven H. Edelman | University of California-Davis | 1985-1989 |
| John R. Tabor | University of Minnesota | 1989-1991 |
| James O. Eckert, Jr. | Texas A & M University | 1992-1993 |
| Angang Liu | University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 1992-1993 |
| Joseph H. Allen | University of Kentucky | 1996-1997 |
| Peter J. Lemiszki | University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 1998-1999 |
