Dr. Erin K. Beutel

Associate Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences

E - mail: beutele@cofc.edu Phone: (843) 953 - 5591

PhD: Tectonophysics; Northwestern University 2000

Research Interests
Stress in the lithosphere
Driving Forces of Plate Tectonics
Break-up of Pangea and SE North America Geology
Mantle Lithosphere Interactions

In an en echelon Segment of a fault in South Iceland 2001
Students rejoice on excellent dike outcrop
 

Courses Taught

Geol 101 and Geol 101L Physical Geology
Geol 105 and Geol 105L Historical Geology
Geol 156L Honors Geology Lab
Geol 290 Geology and Civilization
Geol 352 and Geol 352L Structural Geology
Geol 411 Tectonics

Recent Publications

Beutel, E. K., Anderson, D.L., (accepted), Melting Anomalies that Cross Ridges. AGU Monograph

* Dove, D., Jaume, S., Beutel, E.K., (2006) Tectonic Core of a Sedimentary Drift: A Zero-Offset Fracture Zone Beneath the Blake Outer Ridge Revealed by Free-air Gravity and Magnetic Anomalies. Marine Geology

S. Nomade, S., Knight, K. B. Beutel, E., Renne, P. R., Verati, C., Feraud, G., A. Marzoli, A., Youbi, N., (accepted with minor revisions), The chronology of CAMP: relevance for the central Atlantic rifting processes and the Triassic-Jurassic biotic crisis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Beutel, E. K., (2005), Stress-induced seamount formation at ridge-transform intersections, in Foulger, G.R., Anderson, D.L., Natland, J.H. and Presnall, D.C. eds., Plates, Plumes & Paradigms: Geological Society of America Special Paper 338, p 581-593.

McHone, J.G., D.L. Anderson, E.K. Beutel & Y.A. Fialko, (2005), Giant dikes, rifts, flood basalts and plate tectonics: a contention of mantle models in Foulger, G.R., Anderson, D.L., Natland, J.H. and Presnall, D.C. eds., Plates, Plumes & Paradigms: Geological Society of America Special Paper 338, p401-420.

Beutel, E.K., Nomade, S., Fronabarger, A.K, Renne, P.R., (2005) Pangea’s complex breakup: A new rapidly changing stress field model, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 236, p471-485.

Beutel, E. K., Okal, E., (2003) Strength asperities along oceanic transform faults: A model for the origin of extensional earthquakes on the Eltanin Transform system, Earth and Planetery Science Letters, v. 216, p27-41.


* Denotes student author

In Progress
Beutel, E.K., Craddock, J.P., (in progress) Structure and geochemistry of Proterozoic mafic dikes, Central Wisconsin: Terrane reconstruction and back-arc magmatism. Journal of Structural Geology

Mailing Address
College of Charleston
Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences
66 George St.
Charleston, SC 29424-0001

UPS/FedEX Shipping Address
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Charleston, SC 29401

Last Updated: February 5, 2007