Students under my supervision have rigorously pursued diverse sets of problems concerning orogenic evolution. Some of their names, graduation dates, current employers, thesis titles (italicized), and some published results follow.
David Keefer (1992), S.A.I.C., Inc.: Geology of the Tallassee synform and its relationship to the Brevard zone, Tallapoosa and Elmore Counties, Alabama; Keefer, W.D., Steltenpohl, M.G., and Cook, R.B., 1993, Geology of the Tallassee synform hinge zone along the Alabama fall line, in Steltenpohl, M.G., and Salpas, P.A., eds., Geology of the southernmost exposed Appalachian Piedmont rocks along the Alabama fall line: Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America Field Trip Guidebook, p. 36-66.
Mac McRae (1992), S.&M.E., Inc.: Geology of part of the Uchee belt, eastern Alabama, and its implications for Alleghanian development; McRae, M., and Steltenpohl, M.G., 1993, Geology of part of the Uchee belt, eastern Alabama, and its implications for Alleghanian development, in Steltenpohl, M.G., and Salpas, P.A., eds., Geology of the southernmost exposed Appalachian Piedmont rocks along the Alabama fall line: Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America Field Trip Guidebook, p. 142-168.
Janet Coker (1993), Mississippi State University:Structural, petrological, and thermochronological studies of exotic terranes of the Ofoten-Troms region, north Norway; Coker, J.E., Steltenpohl, M.G., Andresen, A., and Kunk, M.J., 1995, An 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the Ofoten-Troms region: Implications for terrane amalgamation and extensional collapse of the northern Scandinavian Caledonides: Tectonics, v. 14, no. 2, p. 435- 447.
Jonathan Grimes (1993), R.F. Weston, Inc.: Geology of the crystalline rocks along the fall line on the Carville, Notasulga, and Loachapoka quadrangles, Alabama; Grimes, J.E., Steltenpohl, M.G., Cook, R.B., and Keefer, W.D., 1993, Geological studies of the most southern part of the Brevard zone, Alabama, and their implications for southern Appalachian tectonostratigraphy, in Hatcher, R.D., Jr., and Davis, T., eds., Studies of Inner Piedmont geology with a focus on the Columbus Promontory: Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, p. 91-103.
Steve Van Winkle (1994), McCartney Construction, Inc.: Basement-cover relations, tectonostratigraphy, and tectonic evolution of Sandsøya, Grytøya, Akerøya, and Kjøtta, Western Gneiss Region, Ofoten, north Norway; Van Winkle, S.W, Steltenpohl, M.G., and Andresen, A., 1996, Basement-cover relations and Caledonian tectonostratigraphy of Sandsøya, Grytøya, Akerøya, and Kjøtta, Western Gneiss Region, north Norway: Norges Geologisk Undersøkelse Bulletin 431, p. 67-89.
Lee Yokel (1996), University of South Alabama:The geology of the Chewacla Marble and associated Pine Mountain Group units, Lee County, Alabama; Yokel, L.S., and Steltenpohl, M.G., 1997, Laurentian cover lithologies of the Pine Mountain massif, Alabama, and potential correlations with the Valley and Ridge and Western Blue Ridge units, in Bearce, D., Comparison of the Pine Mountain block basement-cover sequence with the Lower Cambrian clastic-carbonate sequence in the Talladega slate belt: Alabama Geological Society field trip guidebook, p. 1-26.
Neil Daniell (1996), Industrial Minerals: Evidence of separate protoliths for the Whatley Mill Gneiss, Pine Mountain massif, eastern Alabama: Daniell, N., and Salpas, P.A., 1993, Geochemistry of the Whatley Mill Gneiss, Pine Mountain belt, Alabama, in Steltenpohl, M.G., and Salpas, P.A., eds., Geology of the southernmost exposed Appalachian Piedmont rocks along the Alabama fall line: Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America Field Trip Guidebook, p. 132-141.
Alfred Lanphier (1996), N/A:Geological transects from the base of the Ofoten nappe complex into the Precambrian Baltic basement, Ofoten, north Norway, and their implications for Caledonian tectonics.
Joshua Holloman (1996), NC DOT: Structures, lithologies, and tectonic evolution of Rost, Lofoten, north Norway; Holloman, J., Klein, A., Mooney, L., Hames, W., Steltenpohl, M.G., 1996, Caledonian and later basement involved contraction and extension in the Lofoten archipelago, north Norway: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, p. 16.
Andre Klein (1997), Rice University: Geology of the Leknes group and underlying basement in west-central Vestvagoy, north Norway; Klein, A., and Steltenpohl, M.G., in press, Geology of the Leknes Group and underlying basement in west-central Vestvagoy, north Norway: Norsk geologisk tidsskrift.
Current Graduate Students
Below are are the names, anticipated graduation dates, previous institutions, tentative thesis titles (italicized), and agencies supporting my current M.S. students.
Robert Drake, 1998, University of North Carolina, Natural fractures in the Eocene Wasatch Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado: Fracture analysis in heterogeneous lithologies, DOE
Anthony Hall, 1998, Auburn University, Auburn University, Structural styles associated with the Anniston CSD in the Choccolocco 1:24,000 Quadrangle, northeast, Alabama Valley and Ridge and Talladega slate belt, USGS-EDMAP
Brannon McDonald, 1999, Auburn University, Geology of the 1:24,000 Heflin Quadrangle, northeast Alabama, Talladega slate belt, USGS-EDMAP
Brandon Coates, 1999, Auburn University, Geology of the Steigen area, north Norway: implications for late and post-Caledonian extension, Norwegian Petroleum Industry.
Brad Carter, 2000, Radford University, Geology of Engleoya, north Norway: implications for basement gneiss dome evolution during late-Caledonian extension, Norwegian Petroleum Industry.
Dan Zeltner, 2000, University of Pittsburg, Late- and post-Caledonian structural development of a part of eastern Vestfjord, north Norway: implications for Norwegian margin development, Norwegian Petroleum Industry.