Bill Sullivan

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

Academic Appointments

• 2020–Present: Whipple Coddington Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, Colby College
• 2015–2022; 2024–2025: Chair of the Geology Department, 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

Altair, T., Dragoti, E., Sojo, V., Li, Y., Skiffington, S., Sullivan, W. A., Drozd, G. T., McGlynn, S. E., Galante, D., Varela, H., Hudson, R., 2025, Carbon reduction powered by natural electrochemical gradients under submarine hydrothermal vent conditions: Journal of the American Chemical Society, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.5c01948.

Sullivan, W. A., 2024, Interrogating an along-strike variation in the evolution and rheology of a large continental strike-slip fault zone: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 188, 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