Colby College
4000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
P: 207-859-4000
 
Walter A. Sullivan
Assistant Professor of Geology
Geology


Office: S G Mudd 206
Phone: 207-859-5803
Fax: 859-5868
Email:

Mailing Address:
5803 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8858

Semester Schedule
Education

Ph.D. in Geology, University of Wyoming, 2007

M.S. in Geology, Virginia Tech, 2003

B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies, Concord University, 2001

Areas of Expertise:
  • Structural geology
  • Microstructures
  • Quartz crystallographic fabrics
  • Deformation partitioning
  • Strain localization
  • 4-D evolution of mountain belts
  • Plate tectonics and structural geology of western North America

View Curriculum Vitae

Other Courses Taught
Course Course Title
GE141 Earth and Environment
GE231 Structural Geology
GE331 Plate Tectonics
GE334 Mountain Belts
Current Research

Personal web page with links to research and course pages

Publications

Sullivan, W. A., in press, L tectonites: Journal of Structural Geology.

Sullivan, W. A., Beane, R. J., Beck, E. N., Fereday, W. H., and Roberts-Pierel, A. M., 2011, Testing the transpression hypothesis in the western part of the Cheyenne belt, Medicine Bow Mountains, southeastern Wyoming: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 46, p. 111-135.

Sullivan, W. A., and Beane, R. J., 2010, Asymmetrical quartz crystallographic fabrics produced during constrictional deformation: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 32, p. 1,430-1,443.

Sullivan, W. A., 2009, Kinematic significance of L tectonites in the footwall of a major terrane-bounding thrust fault, Klamath Mountains, California: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 31, p. 1,197-1,211.

Sullivan, W. A., 2008, Significance of transport-parallel strain variations in part of the Raft River shear zone, Raft River Mountains, Utah, USA: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 30, p. 138-158.

Sullivan, W. A., and Snoke, A. W., 2007, Comparative anatomy of core-complex development in the northeastern Great Basin, U.S.A.: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 42, p. 1-29.

Sullivan, W. A., and Law, R. D., 2007, Strain path partitioning in the transpressional White Mountain shear zone, California and Nevada: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 29, p. 583-598.

Sullivan, W. A., 2006, Structural significance of L tectonites in the eastern-central Laramie Mountains, Wyoming: Journal of Geology, v. 114, p. 513-531.