Terry L. Pavlis Dept. of Geological Sciences University of Texas at El ...

Viana, Ricardo, 1999, Late Cenozoic deformational history of Wingate Wash, Death
Valley Region, California, Masters Thesis, Univ. of New Orleans, New Orleans,
LA
Golding, Heather, 2000, Syntectonic volcanism and sedimentation in a transtensional
environment: Late Cenozoic evolution of Wingate Wash, Death Valley, ,
Masters Thesis, Univ. of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Guest, Bernard, 2001, The geology of the northwestern Owlshead Mountains, Death
Valley, CA, , Masters Thesis, Univ. of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 71p.
Picornell, Carlos, 2001, Detachment folds in the Gulf of Alaska fold and thrust belt: New
implications for the tectonic framework of the eastern Aleutian arc, M. S. Thesis,
Univ. of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 117p.
O’Driscoll, Leland, 2006, Attachment zone models for strike-slip systems based on a
down-plunge section in southern Alaska, M.S. Thesis, Univ. of New Orleans,
New Orleans, LA (defended, final document in prep)
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE
Geology of Convergent Plate Margins and Alaskan Tectonics: Investigation of structural
processes in convergent plate margins centered largely on multidisciplinary studies in southern
Alaska. Particular interest in the role of ridge subduction in forearc evolution (near trench
plutonism and high-T metamorphism in forearcs), and the role of transpression in the structural
evolution of forearcs. Recent work has extended these studies to interactions between erosion
and tectonics. Studies have included geologic mapping; structural studies; petrologic studies;
and geochronology as well as theoretical studies of the thermal/mechanical evolution of
megathrusts and mechanical models of convergent systems.
Cordilleran Extensional/transtensional terranes: Role of magmatic intrusion in the structural
evolution of extensional systems; importance of extension in the Mesozoic of the northern
Cordillera, and role of transtension in Neogene extensional systems of the southern Cordillera.
Studies have included work in southern Idaho and southern Alaska as well as ongoing studies of
Neogene transtensional systems in Death Valley, California
Fold-Thrust Belt Systems: Importance of seismogenic mechanisms in the formation of faultrelated
folds. Work has include M.S. thesis work and studies of an active fold and thrust belt,
Soviet central Asia. More recent work has centered on active thrust systems both on and
offshore in southern Alaska
Fault Zone studies and earthquake hazard studies: Interests in the role of seismogenic processes
in the development of fault-rocks and application of kinematic analysis techniques to complex
fault arrays within fault zones. Past work on earthquake hazards along the Wasatch Front, Utah
as well as studies of late Cenozoic faulting in southern Alaska. Ongoing studies include studies