13 Longstanding Problems and New Ideas About the Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Appalachians and Other Mountain Belts II: In Honor of the Career of Robert D. Hatcher Jr.

Thursday, 12 April 2018
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 301 C

DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAPPING LEGACY OF DR. ROBERT D. HATCHER, JR. AND HIS STUDENTS: 50-YEARS OF GEOLOGIC MAPPING, ONE OUTCROP AT A TIME WITH MORE THAN 51 MASTER’S THESES AND MORE THAN 17 PH.D. DISSERTATIONS

Paper number: 13-11
Program: Symposia Sessions
Time: 4:50 PM – 5:10 PM

Authors

Abstract

Dr. Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. and his students have mapped nearly ninety-one 7.5 minute quadrangles, an area of approximately 5,460 square miles, and across four states. This extensive amount of fieldwork has provided the residents of these states with detailed information on both the lithology and structural measurements on tens of thousands of locations in their states.

This detailed geologic mapping effort has also trained two generations of geology students and has spanned the revolution in mapping from Brunton compasses, colored pencils, and paper quadrangles to tablet computers, GPS, and LiDAR.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 3

doi: 10.1130/abs/2018SE-313132

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