Newfoundland offers a unique cross section of major crustal segments that comprise the Appalachian mountain belt. The field camp curriculum is designed to meet the requirements of most undergraduate ...

Research in structural geology and tectonics seeks to define how and why deformation ... and at time frames ranging from short-lived earthquake ruptures lasting only minutes to growth of mountain ...

At CU Boulder, we use petrology to study the formation of volcanoes and their magmatic sources, the evolution of continental crust during the growth and destruction of mountain belts, the genesis of ...

Willett received Bachelors of Sciences in both Geology and Geophysics in 1982 and his PhD in ... erosional and sedimentation processes affect the structure and evolution of mountain belts, and their ...