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Bill Sullivan

Title

The Whipple-Coddington Associate Professor of Geology; Chair of Geology

Department

Geology

Information

Address

5803 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
GE123 How to Build a Habitable Planet A
GE231 Earth Structure and Tectonics A

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
  • Deformation mechanisms
  • Fault process at the brittle-viscous transition
  • Strain localization
  • Plate tectonics and structural geology of western North America

Personal Information

  • 2024–Present; 2015–2022: Chair of the Geology Department, Colby College
  • 2020–Present: Whipple Coddington Associate Professor of Geology, Colby College
  • 2014–2020: Associate Professor of Geology, Colby College
  • 2008–2014: Assistant Professor of Geology, Colby College
  • 2007–2008: Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology, Colby College

Publications

  • Sullivan, W. A., in press, Interrogating an along-strike variation in the evolution and rheology of a large continental strike-slip fault zone: Journal of Structural Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105268.
  • Sullivan, W. A., and *O’Hara, E. J., 2022, A natural example of brittle-to-viscous strain localization under constant-stress conditions: A case study of the Kellyland fault zone, Maine, USA: Geological Magazine, v. 159, p. 421–440.
  • Sullivan, W. A., and Peterman, E. M., 2017, Pulverized granite at the brittle-ductile transition: An example from the Kellyland fault zone, eastern Maine, U.S.A.: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 101, p. 109–123.
  • Sullivan, W. A., and *Monz, M. E., 2016, Rheologic evolution of low-grade metasedimentary rocks and granite across a large strike-slip fault zone: A case study of the Kellyland fault zone, Maine, USA: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 86, p. 13–31.
  • Sullivan, W. A., *Boyd, A. S., and *Monz, M. E., 2013, Strain localization in homogeneous granite near the brittle-ductile transition: A case study of the Kellyland fault zone, Maine, USA: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 56, p. 70–88.
  • Sullivan, W. A., and Beane, R. J., 2013, A new view of an old suture zone: Evidence for sinistral transpression in the Cheyenne belt: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 125, p. 1319–1337.
  • Sullivan, W. A., 2013, L tectonites: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 50, p. 161–175.
  • 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.

 

* Denotes undergraduate-student coauthor