RESEARCH INTERESTS:


I am interested in how the continents form. I have focused my research on the Canadian Cordillera, the Precambrian orogenic belt of the southwestern United States, the Rio Grande Rift, the Laramide orogen, and the Himalayan-Tibet orogenic system. My research uses structural geology, metamorphic petrology, geophysical techniques and good old fashioned field mapping to understand the formation of continents. My students and I typically do a large amount of field mapping, thin section analysis and spend a lot of time in the electron microprobe lab. In addition, depending on the project, we use geophysical techniques such as gravity modeling, interpretation of seismic reflection profiles, and anything else that we can think of to get the job done. I am really big on working with people with different specialties and think my students should do the same.  

FORMER STUDENTS:

·        Robert Rorhbaugh, M.S., May 2001, Contractional and extensional deformation kinematics of the southern Indio Mountains, Trans-Pecos, Texas*

·        Carrick, Tina L., M.S., April 2002, Proterozoic Tectonics of the Cimarron Mountains in northern New Mexico, USA*

·        Wu Kaiwen, M.S., September 2002, Structural Geology and Tectonics of the Western Boundary Fault Zone of the Franklin Mountains, west Texas

·        Noel, Marc, M.S., October 2002, Structural Study of the Eolus Granite, Needle Mountains, Southwest Colorado: Constraints on Proterozoic Tectonics in Southern Laurentia

·        Robert Dean, M.S., April 2004, Aureole Structure of 1.4 Ga Plutons in Southern Colorado and Their Tectonic Implications*

·        Beverly House, M.S., May 2004, Thermal Evolution of the Shames River Mylonite Zone, Coast Mountains, British Columbia

·        Alfredo Ruiz, M.S., July 2004, Upper Crustal Structure of the southern Rio Grande Rift

CURRENT UNDERGRADUATE STUDETNTS:

• Sarah Cervera, Structural Geology of the Franklin Mountains
• David Fortenbury, Structural Geology of the Potrillo Mountains, New Mexico

CURRENT MASTERS STUDENTS:


·        Michael Mansfield, Structural Geology of the Grenville Channel Shear Zone, Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia

·        Mitchell Scharman, Topic to be decided

PHD STUDENTS:

·        Dana Carimachu, The Effects of Laramide Deformation on Diagenetic Processes in Cretaceous Sandstones from the Chihuahua Tectonic Belt: Implications for Petroleum Reservoir Development

·        Wu Kaiwen, Plastic Deformation Regimes in Proterozoic Quartzites: Implications for the Rheology of the Middle Crust Along a Proterozoic Terrane Boundary

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Andronicos, C. L., Velasco, A. A., and Hurtado, J.M., in review, Crustal Deformation in the India-Asia Collision Constrained by Earthquakes, GSA Bulletin.

Anthony, E. Y., Andronicos, C L.., Ren, M., and Kappus, E.,in revision, Characterization of the Continental Mantle in an Active Rift Zone: Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico,  Lithos.

Keller, G. R., Karlstrom, K. E., Williams, M. L., Miller, K. C., Andronicos, C. L., Lavander, A., Snelson, C., and Prodehl, C., (in press) The Dynamic Nature of the Continental Moho: Crustal Evolution in the Southern Rocky Mountain Region as an Example, American Geophysical Union Monograph.

Quezada, O. A., G. R. Keller, and Andronicos, C. L., (in press), A seismic reflection, gravity and remote sensing study of the southeastern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico, American Geophysical Union Monograph, accepted.

Quezada, O. A., Andronicos, C. L., and Keller, G. R., (2004), Structure of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains between Taos and Mora based on an intergrated Geophysical analysis, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 55th Field Conference.

Tervino, L., Keller, G. R., and Andronicos, C. L., (2004), Rootless Mountains and Gravity Lows in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, Southern Colorado-Northern New Mexico, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 55th Field Conference.

Andronicos, C. L., Chardon, D., Gehrels, G., Hollister, L.S., and Woodsworth, G.J., (2003), Strain partitioning in an obliquely convergent orogen, plutonism, and synorgenic collapse: the Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia, Canada, Tectonics, 22, doi:10.1029/2001TC001312.

Hollister, L. S. and Andronicos, C. L., (2000), The Central Gneiss Complex, Coast Mountains, British Columbia: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 343, pp.45-59.

Andronicos, C.L., Hollister, L.S., Davidson, C., and Chardon, D., (1999), Kinematics and tectonic significance of transpressive structures within the Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia, Jour. Struct. Geol., 21, p. 229-243.

Chardon, D. H., and Andronicos, C. L., and Hollister, L. S., (1999), Large-scale transpressive shear zone patterns and displacements within magmatic arcs: The Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia, Tectonics, 18, 278-292.

Hollister, L.S. and Andronicos, C. L., (1997), A Candidate for the Baja British Columbia Fault System in the Coast Plutonic Complex, GSA Today, 7, 1-7.

Kirby, E. K., Karlstrom, K.E., Andronicos, C. L., Dallmeyer, R.D., (1995), Tectonic Setting of the Sandia Pluton: An orogenic 1.4 Ga granite in New Mexico, Tectonics, 14, no. 1, p. 185-201.

Kirby, E. K., Karlstrom, K. E., and Andronicos, C. L., (1995), Structural and thermal setting during emplacement of the Sandia Pluton, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 46th Field Conference, p. 219-225.