Education
B.S., Geology, University of Oregon 1993
M.S.,Geology, University of Michigan 1997
Ph.D., Geology, University of Michigan 2001
Professional Experience
The University of Oregon
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Worked with Columbia University and the University of Oregon
on the Colorado Seismic Array 1992
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Research assistant for Dr. Ray Weldon
Geology Department, University of Oregon 1992, 1993
US Geologic Survey
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Research Scientist and field geologist (surface water hydrology) 1994
The University of Michigan
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Graduate Research Assistant 1995 - 2001
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Graduate Teaching Assistant 1995 - 2001
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Geology Field-Camp Instructor 1997, 1998
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Paleomagnetic Laboratory manager 1997 - 2001
Bryn Mawr College
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Assistant Professor of structural geology/tectonics 2001 - present
General Research Interests
Tectonics of fold-and-thrust belts, paleomagnetism applied to tectonic problems, kinematics of
curved mountain belts, Variscan Europe, Precambrian paleogeography and tectonics, and the
evolution and lifecycle of supercontinents.
Awards/ Grants
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Outstanding Student Paper (Geomagnetism/Paleomagnetism Section) – Spring AGU 2000
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Outstanding Student Paper (Tectonophysics Section) – Fall AGU 2001
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NSF Academic Intern Fellowship
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University of Michigan - F. Scott Turner Fellowship (1996-1999)
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IRM Visiting Research Fellowship 1999 and 2002
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Bryn Mawr College Faculty Grant 2002, 2004
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NSF Research Grant 2004 – Three-Dimensional kinematic history of the Wyoming Salient: Implications for the development of curved orogens (136,466.00)
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NSF Equipment Grant 2004 - Acquisition of new paleomagnetic lab equipment for Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania ($114,446.90)
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union; Geological Society of America; Geological Society of Pennsylvania;
Geologic Society of Philadelphia; Sigma XI Academic Society; European Geophysical Society
Graduate Advisors: Dr. Rob Van der Voo and Dr. Ben A. van der Pluijm
Papers:
1998
Weil, A.B., Van der Voo, Mac Niocaill, C., and Meert, G.M., 1998. The Proterozoic supercontinent
Rodinia: Paleomagnetically derived reconstructions for the 1,100 to 800 Ma interval, Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 154, 13-24.
2000740 Ma, Geology,
28, 619-622.
Parés, J.M., Perez-Gonzalez, A., Weil, A.B. and Arsuaga, J.L., 2000. On the Age of the Hominid
Fossils at the Sima de los Huesos, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain: Paleomagnetic Evidence, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 111, 451-4
Weil, A.B., Van der Voo, R., van der Pluijm, B. and Parés, J.M., 2000. The Formation of an orocline
by multiphased deformation: a paleomagnetic investigation of the Cantabria-Asturias Arc Hinge-Zone (northern Spain), Journal of Structural Geology, 22, 735-756.
2001
Weil, A.B., Van der Voo, R. and van der Pluijm, B. New paleomagnetic data from the southern
Cantabria-Asturias Arc, northern Spain: Implications for true oroclinal rotation and the final amalgamation of Pangea, Geology, 29, 991-994, 2001.
2002
Weil, A.B. and Van der Voo, R., 2002 Insights into the mechanism for orogen related carbonate
remagnetization from growth of authigenic Fe-oxide: A SEM and rock magnetic study of Devonian carbonates from northern, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, B4.
*#Weil, A.B, Van der Voo, R., Application of the paleomagnetic fold test to complex geologic environments: A case study from northern Spain, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 27, 1223-1235, 2002.
2003
#Sussman, A., Chase, C.G. and Weil, A.B., The impact of vertical axis rotations on shortening and
thrust segmentation, accepted for publication in Journal of Structural Geology.
#Weil, A.B, Geissman, J., Heizler, M. and Van der Voo, R. A paleomagnetic investigation of Middle Proterozoic mafic intrusions and Upper Proterozoic redbeds from the Lower Grand Canyon Supergroup, Arizona, Tectonophysics, 375,199-220,2003.
2004
#Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Fernández-Suárez, J. and Weil, A.B, Orocline triggered lithospheric delamination?, in: Paleomagnetic and structural analysis of orogenic curvature, Geologic Society of America Special Paper 383, 121-131, 2004.
#Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Fernández-Suárez, J. and Weil, A.B, Oroclinales y delaminacion: relaciones y efectos, Geo-Temas, 6(3), 69-74, 2004
#Weil, A.B and Sussman, A., Classification of curved ororgens based on the timing relationships between structural development and
vertical-axis rotations, in: Paleomagnetic and structural analysis of orogenic curvature, Geologic Society of America Special Paper
383, 1-17, 2004.
#Weil, A.B, Geissman, and Van der Voo, R. Paleomagnetism of the Neoproterozoic Chuar Group, Grand Canyon Supergroup, Arizona: Implications for Rodinia break-up and Laurentia’s Neoproterozoic APWP, Precambrian Research, 129, 71-92, 2004.
# Sussman, A. and Weil, A.B (editors), Paleomagnetic and structural analysis of orogenic curvature,
Geologic Society of America Special Paper 383, p. 271.
Work in Review:
#Ashby, J.M., Geissman, J.W., and Weil, A.B., Paleomagnetic and fault kinematic assessment oif Laramide-age deformation in the eastern Uinta Mountains, submitted for publication in the Utah Geological Association Guidebook – Geology of the Uinta Mountains, 2005.
#Weil, A.B., Geissman, J.W., and Ashby, J.M., A new paleomagnetic pole for the Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain supergroup, Rocky Mountain States, USA, submitted to Precambrian Research.
# - Represents work done while at Bryn Mawr College
Selected Abstracts:
Ashby, J.M., Geissman, J.M. and Weil, A.B., 2001. Paleomagnetic results from the Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain Group, Utah and Colorado, Abstracts with Programs, GSA 2001 Annual Meeting.
Gage, J., Weil, A.W., and Pares, J., Preliminary AMS analysis of the Brevard Shear Zone, Rosman, NC, Abstracts with Programs, GSA 2004 Annual Meeting.
*Van der Voo, R., Weil, A. B. and Zegers, T, 1999. The making of a supercontinent with paleomagnetic data, abstract for the Aarhus meeting.
*Van der Voo, R., Weil, A. B. and Peacor, D.R., 2000. Paleomagnetism, Rock Magnetism, Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Remagnetized Carbonates: How Little Have We Learned About Models and Mechanisms for Remagnetizations, EOS Trans., Fall 1999 Meeting, 80, 45, p. F298.
*Van der Voo, R. and Weil, A. B., 2001. The Fold Test in Paleomagnetism, EGS abstracts, 2001 meeting, Annales Geophysicae.
*Weil, A.B., Van der Voo, R., Mac Niocaill, C., and Meert, J.G., 1996. The Proterozoic Supercontinent Rodinia: a Paleomagnetic look at 1,100 to 800 Ma continental reconstructions, EOS Trans., Spring 1996 Meeting, 77, p. S87.
Weil, A.B, Geissman, J., Van der Voo, R. and Karlstrom, K., 1999. Preliminary paleomagnetic results from a suite of Proterozoic dikes from the Grand Canyon Supergroup, Arizona, EOS Trans., Spring 1999 Meeting, 80, 17, p. S91.
*Weil, A.B., 2000. Deformation induced remagnetization of carbonates: A rock magnetic and SEM perspective, Santa Fe V conference on Rock Magnetism.
Weil, A.B., A revised look at Laurentia’s Proterozoic Apparent Polar Wander Path: Implications for paleogeography and the Rodinia supercontinent, Abstracts with Programs, GSA 2001 Annual Meeting.
Weil, A.B, Geissman, J. and Van der Voo, R., Paleomagnetic results from the Upper Unkar Group and overlying Nankoweap Formation form the Grand Canyon Supergroup (GCSG), Arizona: Implications for Laurentia's Neoproterozoic APWP, EOS Trans., Fall 2001 Meeting, 82, 47, p. F315.
*Weil, A. B. and Sussman, A.J., Oroclines and other curved thrust belts: Clarification and Classification, Abstracts with Programs, GSA 2002 Annual Meeting.
*Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Fernández-Suárez, J. and Weil, A.B, Orocline triggered lithospheric delamination? Field-Workshop, Variscan to Post-Variscan fluid flow and Zn-Pb Mineralisation in Europe.
Weil, A.B, Gutiérrez-Alonso and G., Fernández-Suárez, J., Orocline triggered lithospheric delamination, Abstracts with Programs, GSA 2003 Annual Meeting.
Weil, A.B., Deformation of Charelston Chew Candy Bars as a rheology analogue in the structural geology classroom, Abstracts with Programs, GSA 2004 Annual Meeting.
* - Invited talks/papers.
Invited Talks and Lectures
Bryn Mawr College
Science and Society
Science and Society
Spanish Colloquium
Bucknell University
Lehigh University
Franklin and Marshall College
University of Salamanca, Spain
Huelva University, Spain
Convened Professional Meeting Sessions
2000 - Rock- and Paleo-Magnetism
American Geophysical Union 2000 Spring Meeting
2001 - Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism
American Geophysical Union 2001 Fall Meeting
2002 - Topical Session - Thrust Belt Curvature: Integrating Paleomagnetic and Structural Analysis
Geological Society of America 2002 National Meeting
Refereed Publications
Tectonophysics (7 papers), EPSL (4 papers), Geofluids (2 papers), Geology (3 paper), Geophysical Journal International (5 paper), GSA Special Paper (Volume 364 - 1 paper), Tectonics (3), Journal of Geophysical Research (5 papers)
Teaching
Courses Taught, Bryn Mawr College (2001 – present)
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GEOL 101 How the Earth Works (Fall '01; '02; '03)
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GEOL 204 Structural Geology (Spring '02; '03; '04)
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GEOL 209 Natural Hazards and Human Populations (Spring '03: '04)
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GEOL 310 Tectonics (Fall '03)
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GEOL 610 Advanced Structure (Fall '01)
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GEOL 630 Tectonics (Spring '02)
Research Project Supervision
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Sara Toursher - Shear Sense Indicators, Geochemistry and Field Studies of Mylonitized Phenix City Gneiss in West Georgia, in completion of a senior thesis (2002).
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Amanda Rogers - Paleomagnetic investigation of the Uinta Mountain Supergroup: Implications for the Proterozoic Rodinia Supercontinent, Bryn Mawr Summer Science Research Program (2002).
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Kira Tushman - Formation of Curved Mountain Belts: An investigation of the Wyoming Fold-Thrust Belt, Bryn Mawr Summer Science Research Program (2003).
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Sara Nicole McCullough - Geologic Investigation of the Wyoming Fold-Thrust Belt, Bryn Mawr Summer Science Research Program (2003).
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Kira Tushman - Senior Thesis Research Project on the structural geology of the Wyoming Salient, completion date: Winter 2003.
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JoAnn Gage - Marshall Fellowship Research Project: Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility study of the Brevard Zone, North Carolina - Summer 2004.
College Committees
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Science Laboratory Committee 2001 - present
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Independent Majors Committee 2002 - present
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