Associate
Professor
North Carolina Licensed Geologist
B.S.
Mount Union College, 1973
M.A.
Bryn Mawr College, 1975
Ph.D.
Bryn Mawr College, 1978
Telephone
910-962-3499
E-mail:
huntsmanj
Courses and Topics that I Teach
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Structural geology,
petrology, basic geology (physical, historical, and environmental), regional
geology, geologic mapping, engineering geology, and advanced topics dealing
with aspects of structural geology (directed studies, honors projects, special
topics)
Current Research
- My
current research interests focus on analyses and interpretation of brittle
structures within North Carolina.
To this end, undergraduate and graduate students are doing
inventories of joints and fractures in the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and
Blue Ridge regions.
- Former
projects and work in progress include studies of the rocks and structures observed
in the Valley and Ridge of western and southwestern Virginia and its
transition into the Blue Ridge of northeastern Tennessee and northwestern
North Carolina, the central and eastern Piedmont of North Carolina, and
the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North Carolina (including brittle
structures), and the Idaho-Wyoming Thrust Belt.
- My
interests include the entire realm of structures from brittle joints and
faults to ductile shear zones.
Selected
Publications
Grosser, B., Nettik, J., Sha, G., Tweedy, K.,
O’Shaughnessy, T. B., and Huntsman, J., 2001, An inventory of joints in
the Roanoke Rapids tailrace, northeastern North Carolina.Abstracts with
Programs, Geological Society of America, 33 (2): 66.
Huntsman, John R., Sr., and Kelley, Patricia H., 2000, A backward-looking
approach to teaching the historical geology of North Carolina. Abstracts
with Programs, Geological Society of America, 32 (7): 490.
Huntsman, J. R., 1999, An Evaluation of Alleghanian Structures
in the Eastern Piedmont of North Carolina. EOS, Transactions, American
Geophysical Union, 80 (17): S344.
Huntsman, J. R., 1998, Preliminary Structural Transect in the Eastern
Raleigh 100K Quadrangle, North Carolina. Abstracts with Programs, Geological
Society of America, 30 (4): 18.
Carpenter, P. A., III, Carpenter, R. H.,
Stoddard, E. F., and Huntsman, J. R., 1998, Bedrock geologic map of the
Selma 7.5-minute Quadrangle, Johnston County, North Carolina. Open-File Report
98-1. North Carolina Geological Survey: Raleigh, NC.
Carpenter, P. A., III, Carpenter, R. H.,
Stoddard, E. F., and Huntsman, J. R., and Speer, J.A., 1998, Bedrock
geologic map of the Flowers 7.5-minute Quadrangle, Johnston County, North
Carolina. Open-File Report 98-2. North Carolina Geological Survey: Raleigh, NC.
Huntsman, John R., 1994. Preliminary Structural Assessment of the
Central Flowers 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, Eastern Slate Belt, North Carolina.
Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, Vol. 26, No.4, p. 21.
Dockal, J. A. and Huntsman, J. R.,
1990. Application of Turbidite Sedimentology to Determination of Thrust Fault
Displacements in the Carolina Slate Belt. Journal of Structural Geology, Vol.
12, No. 3, p. 285-296.
Smits, A. D., and Huntsman, J. R.,
1990, Polyphase development of cleavage within the Carolina slate belt near
Albemarle, NC. Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, 22(4):
63.
Gibson, G.G. and Huntsman, J. R.,
1988. Re-Examination of the Gold Hill Shear Zone, Cabarrus and Stanley
Counties, Southcentral North Carolina. Southeastern Geology, Vol. 20, No. 1, p.
51-64.
Stoddard, E. F., Farrar, S., Huntsman, J.
R., Horton, J. W., Jr., and Boltin, W.R., 1987. Metamorphism and tectonic
setting of the northeasternmost North Carolina Piedmont and adjacent Virginia: In:
Whittecar, G. Richard, editor, Geological Excursions in Virginia and North
Carolina, Southeastern Section, Geological Society of America, 36th Annual
Meeting, Field Trip Guidebook, p. 43-86.
Huntsman, J.R. and Platt, L. B., 1985. Geologic map and cross
sections of the Caribou Mountain Area, Southeastern Idaho. U.S.G.S.
Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1715.