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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 |
In an en echelon Segment of a fault in South Iceland 2001 |
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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
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Charleston, SC 29401
Last Updated: February 5, 2007