Dr. Michael J. Harrison

Contact

Office: 303 Kittrell Hall
Phone: (931)372-3751
Fax: (931)372-3363
Email: mharrison@tntech.edu

Department of Earth Sciences
Tennessee Technological University
Box 5062
Cookeville, TN 38505

 

Links to Course Materials:

GEOL 1040                        GEOL 2000                    GEOL 3230

EVSG 6010                        GEOG 1130           

 

Education

Ph.D., 2002: Structural Geology and Tectonics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

M.S., 1997: Structural Geology, Bowling Green State University, OH

B.S., 1994: Environmental Geology; Philosophy (minor), Kutztown University, PA

Research Activity

• Geologic bedrock and surficial map of the Cookeville East quadrangle, TN: 5/05-5/06, USGS EDMAP
• Distribution and mechanism of Alleghanian micro-scale rock deformation across middle Tennessee: 7/05-7/06, TTU Faculty Research Award
• The role of water and fluid pathways in low-temperature deformation of quartz-rich rocks (assistant researcher with Charles Onasch, John Farver, and Bill Dunne): 1/01-1/04, NSF EAR
• Origin, architecture, and thermal state of the Lackawanna synclinorium: 9/99-9/2001, ACS PRF
• Geologic mapping of the Pittston 7.5’ quadrangle, Lackawanna synclinorium, PA: 4/98-4/00, USGS EDMAP

Courses Taught

The Dynamic Earth; Earth, Environment, Resources, and Society; Structural Geology and Tectonics; Field Geology; Environmental Geology (graduate-level course); Geology of the American Southwest; Geology of the Colorado Plateau; Advanced Historical Geology, Earth Evolution and Life History, Ecology of the Everglades, Introduction to Honors, Senior Thesis.

Selected Publications and Abstracts

 

Burmeister, K., Harrison, M., Marshak, S., Ferre, E, Bannister, R, and Kodama, K., 2009, Comparison of Fry ellipse and AMS ellipsoid trends to tectonic fabric trends in very low-strain sandstone of the Appalachian fold-thrust belt: Journal of Structural Geology, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2009.03.010.

Gentry, J., Mills., H., Harrison, M., and Leimer, W., 2007, Geographic distribution of old, high-level alluvium deposits in east-central Tennessee and implications for origin: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6.

Burmeister, K., Harrison, M., Marshak, S., Ferre, E., Bannister, R., and Kodama, K., 2007, Interpreting tectonic fabrics from AMS and normalized Fry measurements in low-strain sandstone of the Appalachian fold-thrust belt: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6.

Marshak, S., Harrison, M., and Burmeister, K., 2007, Puzzling interactions between the northern and central segments of the sinuous Appalachian foreland fold-thrust belt in New York and Pennsylvania: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6.

Boston, R., Harrison, M., Ferre, E., Gilreath, T., 2006, AMS petrofabrics of the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee: Alleghanian deformation along the western margin of the Appalachian fold-thrust belt: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38.

Harrison, M. J., 2006, Fold-thrust belt structures of the Lackawanna synclinorium, Pennsylvania: Insight into the tectonic evolution of the central Appalachians: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 28, no. 4, p. 358-367.

Shoffeitt, S., Hensley, J., McMillan, C., Harrison, M., and Mills, H., 2005, Geology and fluviokarst features of the Cookeville East, TN quadrangle: An EDMAP contribution to the National Geologic Map Database: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7.

Kington, J., Harrison, M., Knox, L, and Mills, H., 2005, The geology of Burgess Falls State Park: Public education in geology: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7.

Harrison, M.J., and Osborne, M., 2005, Brittle deformation and folding of the Tuscarora Sandstone, Wills Mountain anticline, WV: Southeastern Geology, v. 44, p. 19-26.

Harrison, M.J., Marshak, S., and McBride, J., 2004, The Lackawanna synclinorium, Pennsylvania: a salt-collapse structure, partially modified by thin-skinned folding: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, p. 1499-1514.

Harrison, M. J., Marshak, S., and Onasch, C. M., 2004. Stratigraphic control of hot fluids on anthracitization, Lackawanna synclinorium, Pennsylvania: Tectonophysics, v. 378, p. 85-103.

Tullis, J., Campbell, P., Czeck, D., Harrison, M., Kopf, C., Ormand, C., Reinan, L.Sussman, A. Torrez, B., and Wojtal, S., 2004, Why and how to include grain-scale deformation mechanisms, microstructures, and rheology in undergraduate structural geology courses: Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36.

Osborne, M., Harrison, M., Onasch, C, and Dunne, W., 2003. The influence of primary sedimentary features on fold-hinge development in quartz arenite deformed at low temperature: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35.

Harrison, M. J., et al., 2002. Structural geology and magnetic susceptibility anisotropy of the Lackawanna synclinorium, Pennsylvania: Insight into the formation of an Alleghanian orocline in the central Appalachians: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 490.

Harrison, M. J., Marshak, S., 2000. The Lackawanna synclinorium, Pennsylvania: A structurally-modified salt dissolution basin?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 7, p. 232.

Harrison, M. J., Onasch, C. M., 2000. Quantitative assessment of low-temperature deformation mechanisms in a folded quartz arenite, Valley and Ridge Province, WV: Tectonophysics 317, 73-91.

Harrison, M. J., 2000. Bedrock geologic map of the Pittston quadrangle, Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties, Pennsylvania: (in press, to be released by PA Survey as an Open File Report). Download Map (Photoshop file)

TTU Department of Earth Sciences | P.O. Box 5062| Cookeville, TN 38505 | Phone: (931)372-3523 | Fax: (931)372-3363