David P. West, Jr.
Professor - Earth and Climate Sciences
428 McCardell Bicentennial Hall
Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont 05753

 

 

 

 


Education
B.S. (Geology) - Appalachian State University (1986)
M.S. (Geological Sciences) - University of Maine at Orono (1988)
Ph.D. (Geological Sciences) - University of Maine at Orono (1993)
e-mail: dwest@middlebury.edu; Office Phone: (802) 443-3476

Background and Teaching Philosophy

Prior to my arrival at Middlebury in the fall of 2001, I taught for five years at Earlham College in east-central Indiana, two years at Lafayette College in eastern Pennsylvania, and a year at Bowdoin College in Maine. I have taught a wide variety of introductory and upper-level geology courses during my teaching career, including: Physical Geology, Earth Resources, Mineralogy, Petrology, Structural Geology, Tectonics, and Field Methods. In addition, I have supervised over 30 undergraduate thesis projects in structural geology and petrology. The basic tenet of my teaching philosophy involves the integration of "hands-on" field experience with class work. Field experience lies at the heart of active learning in the Earth Sciences, and I am convinced that a thorough understanding of geology is best gained by actively observing and interpreting Earth features. Teaching geology at Middlebury has been a joy given the diversity of rock types exposed in the area, and that spectacular examples of folding, faulting, ductile shear, and cleavage development can all be found within a relatively short distance of campus. In addition to my on-campus teaching, I have organized and led several off-campus multi-week field courses during my teaching career including trips to Maritime Canada, northwestern Scotland and the Hawaiian Islands.


Research Interests

Broadly speaking, my research interests lie in the temporal and spatial distribution of deformational and thermal events during mountain building processes. In laypersons terms, I study the ways in which mountain systems grow and evolve in time and space. As one might expect, mountain belt evolution involves a number of complexly interrelated processes and I employ a multi-disciplinary field-based approach to studying such processes. I consider myself to be what is often referred to in the field as a "hard-rock geologist" and my research involves bedrock mapping, structural and microstructural analysis, igneous and metamorphic petrology as well as thermochronology. One of the main goals of my research has been to understand the evolution of deformational processes with time. Because most of this deformation is occurring many kilometers beneath active tectonic zones and is therefore inaccessible, most of my studies have concentrated on the deeply eroded roots of an older mountain belt - the Appalachians. I am currently working with several colleagues on a number of "sub-projects" within this Appalachian context, including projects on the thermal and deformational history of central and coastal Maine, the post-orogenic uplift history of the northern Appalachians, and the temporal and spatial evolution of strike-slip fault systems.


Publications  (* Denotes Student Co-Author)

Books Edited

Berry, H.N. IV, and West, D.P., Jr. (editors), 2016, Guidebook for Field Trips along the Maine Coast from Maquoit Bay to Muscongus Bay:  New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, 326 p.

 

West, D.P., Jr. (editor), 2011, Guidebook for Field Trips in Vermont and Adjacent New York: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, 347 p.

West, D.P., Jr., and Bailey, R.H. (editors), 2001, Guidebook for Geological Field Trips in New England: Geological Society of America National Meeting Field Trip Guidebook, Boston, MA, 401 pages.

Ludman, A., and West, D.P., Jr. (editors), 1999, The Norumbega Fault System of the Northern Appalachians: Geological Society of America Special Paper 331, 202 pages.

 

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Amidon, W.H., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., *Barr, M.N., *Graf, S.F.I., and West, D.P., Jr., 2022, Pace of passive margin tectonism revealed by U-Pb dating of fracture-filling calcite: Nature Communications, v. 13, p. 1-7.  

West, D.P., Jr., Peterman, E.M., and *Chen, J., 2021, Silurian-Devonian tectonic evolution of mid-coastal Maine, U.S.A.: Details of polyphase orogenic processes, American Journal of Science, v. 321, p. 458-489.

*Cartwright, S.F.A., West, D.P., Jr., and Amidon, W.H., 2019, Depositional constrains from detrital zircon geochronology of strata from multiple lithotectonic belts in south-central Maine, USA, Atlantic Geology, V. 55, p. 93-136.

West, D.P., Jr., Bradley, D.C., and Coish, R.A., 2016, Litchfield Pluton in South-Central Maine:  Carboniferous Alkalic Magmatism in northern New England, USA, Atlantic Geology, v. 52, p. 169-187. 

Abbott, R.N., Jr., West, D.P., Jr., Bandy, B.R., and McAleer, R.J., 2016, Petrology and tectonic history of Green Bay Schist, Portmore, St. Catherine Parish, Jamaica, Caribbean Journal of Earth Science, v. 48, p. 1-18.

Price, N.A., Song, W.J., Johnson, S.E., Gerbi, C., Beane, R.J., and West, D.P., Jr., 2016, Recrystallization fabrics from sheared quartz veins with a strong pre-existing crystallographic preferred orientation from a seismogenic shear zone, Tectonophysics, v. 682, p. 214-236.

Ryan, P.C., West, D.P., Jr., Hattori, K., *Studwell, S., Allen, D.N., and Kim, J., 2015, The influence of metamorphic grade on arsenic in meta-sedimentary bedrock aquifers: A case study from western New England, USA, Science of the Total Environment, v. 505, p. 1320-1330.

 

West, D.P., Jr., Abbott, R.N., Jr., Bandy, B.R., and Kunk, M.J., 2014, Protolith provenance and thermotectonic history of metamorphic rocks in eastern Jamaica: Evolution of a transform plate margin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 126, p. 600-614.

 

*Johnson, J.E., West, D.P., Jr., Condit, C.B., and Mahan, K.H., 2014, Strain localization in the Spanish Creek mylonite, northern Madison Range, southwest Montana, U.S.A., Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 49, p. 25-48.

 

McHone, J.G., Hussey, A.M., II, West, D.P., Jr., and Bailey, D.G., 2014, The Christmas Cove Dyke of coastal Maine, USA, and regional sources of Early Mesozoic flood basalts in northeastern North America: Atlantic Geology, v. 50, p. 66-90.

 

Price, N.A., Johnson, S.E., Gerbi, C.C., and West, D.P., Jr., 2012, Identifying deformed pseudotachylyte and its influence on the strength and evolution of a crustal shear zone at the base of the seismogenic zone: Tectonophysics, v. 518-521, p. 63-83.

 

Dorais, M.J., Atkinson, M., Kim, J., West, D.P., Jr., and Kirby, G.A., 2011, Where is the Iapetus suture in northern New England? A study of the Ammonoosuc Volcanics, Bronson Hill terrane, New Hampshire: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 49, p. 1-17.

 

Roden-Tice, M.K., West, D.P., Jr., Potter, J.K., Raymond, S.M., and Winch, J.L., 2009, Presence of a long-term lithospheric thermal anomaly: Evidence from apatite fission-track analysis in northern New England: Journal of Geology, v. 117, p. 627-641.

 

Johnson, S.E., Lenferink, H.J., Price, N.A., Marsh, J.H., Koons, P.O. West, D.P., Jr., and Beane, R., 2009. Clast-based kinematic vorticity gauges: the effects of slip at matrix/clast interfaces: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 31, p. 1322-1339.

 

Marsh, J.H., Johnson, S.E., Yates, M.G. and West, D.P. Jr., 2009. Coupling of deformation and reactions during shear zone development at the frictional-to-viscous transition: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 27, p. 531-553.

 

Johnson, S.E., Lenferink, H.J., Marsh, J.H., Price, N.A., Koons, P.O. and West, D.P., Jr., 2009, Kinematic vorticity analysis and evolving strength of mylonitic shear zones: new data and numerical results: Geology, v. 37, 1075-1078.

 

West, D.P., Jr., Roden-Tice, M.K., Potter, J.K., and *Barnard, N.Q., 2008, Accessing the role of orogen-parallel faulting in post-orogenic exhumation: Low-temperature thermochronology across the Norumbega fault system, Maine: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 45, p. 287-301.

 

West, D.P., Jr., Yates, M.G., Gerbi, C., and *Barnard, N.Q., 2008, Metamorphosed Ordovician iron- and manganese-rich rocks in south-central Maine: from peri-Gondwanan deposition through Acadian metamorphism:  American Mineralogist, v. 93, p. 270-283.

 

Gerbi, C., and West, D.P., Jr., 2007, Use of U-Pb geochronology to identify successive, spatially-overlapping tectonic episodes during Silurian-Devonian orogenesis in south-central Maine, USA: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 119, p. 1218-1231.

West, D.P., Jr., Tomascak, P.B., Coish, R.A., Yates, M.G., and *Reilly, M.J., 2007, Petrogenesis of the Lincoln Syenite, Maine: Late Silurian-Early Devonian melting of a source region modified by subduction driven metasomatism.  American Journal of Science, v. 307, p. 265-310.

West, D.P., Jr., Coish, R.A., and Tomascak, P.B., 2004, Tectonic setting and regional correlation of Ordovician metavolcanic rocks of the Casco Bay Group, Maine: Evidence from trace element and isotope geochemistry: Geological Magazine, v. 141, p. 125-140.

West, D.P., Jr., *Beal, H.M., and Grover, T.W., 2003, Silurian deformation and metamorphism of Ordovician arc rocks of the Casco Bay Group, south-central Maine: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 40, p. 887-905.

West, D.P., Jr., and Roden-Tice, M.K., 2003, Late Cretaceous reactivation of the Norumbega fault zone, Maine: Evidence from apatite fission track ages: Geology, v. 31, p. 649-652.

West, D.P., Jr., 1999, The timing of displacements along the Norumbega fault system, south-central and south-coastal Maine: in Ludman, A. and West, D.P., Jr., eds., The Norumbega Fault System of the Northern Appalachians: Geological Society of America Special Paper 331, p. 167-178.

Ludman, A., and West, D.P., Jr., 1999, Preface, Norumbega fault system of the Northern Appalachians, in Ludman, A. and West, D.P., Jr., eds., The Norumbega Fault System of the Northern Appalachians: Geological Society of America Special Paper 331, p. v-xii.

West, D.P., Jr., and Hubbard, M.S., 1997, Progressive localization of deformation during exhumation of a major strike-slip shear zone: Norumbega fault zone, Maine: Tectonophysics, vol. 273, p. 185-201.

West, D.P., Jr., Guidotti, C.V., and Lux, D.R., 1995, Silurian orogenesis in the Western Penobscot Bay region, Maine: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 32, p. 1845-1858.

Hubbard, M.S., West, D.P., Jr., Ludman, A., and Guidotti, C.V., 1995, The Norumbega fault zone, Maine: a mid to shallow level crustal section in a transcurrent shear zone: Atlantic Geology, v. 31, p. 109-116.

Hubbard, M.S., Spencer, D.A., and West, D.P., Jr., 1995, Tectonic exhumation of the Nanga Parbat massif, northern Pakistan: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 133, p. 213-225.

West, D.P., Jr., Lux, D.R., and Hussey, A.M., II, 1993, Contrasting thermal histories across the Flying Point fault, southwestern Maine: Evidence for Mesozoic displacement: Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 105, p. 1478-1490.

West, D.P., Jr. and Lux, D.R., 1993, Direct dating of mylonitization by the 40Ar/39Ar method: An example from the Norumbega fault zone, Maine: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 120, p. 221-237.

Marchant, D.R., Swisher, C.C., III, Lux, D.R., West, D.P., Jr., and Denton, G.H., 1993, Pliocene paleoclimate and East Antarctic Ice Sheet history from surficial ash deposits and geomorphological studies of southern Victoria Land: Science, vol. 260, p. 667-670.

West, D.P., Jr., Ludman, A., and Lux, D.R., 1992, Silurian age for the Pocomoonshine Gabbro-Diorite, southeastern Maine and its regional tectonic implications: American Journal of Science, vol. 292, p. 253-273.

Crelling, J.C., Hippo, E.J., Woener, B.A., and West, D.P., Jr., 1992, Combustion characteristics of selected whole coals and macerals: Fuel, vol. 71, p. 151-158.

West, D.P., Jr., Lux, D.R., and Hussey, A.M., II, 1988, 40Ar/39Ar hornblende ages from southwestern Maine:Evidence for Late Paleozoic metamorphism: Atlantic Geology, vol. 24, p. 225-240.

 

Bedrock Geologic Maps and Reports Published

West, D.P., Jr., and Hussey, A.M. II, 2022, Bedrock geology of the Pemaquid Point 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 21-10, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

West, D.P., Jr., and Hussey, A.M. II, 2022, Bedrock geology of the Bristol 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 22-7, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

Hussey, A.M. II and West, D.P., Jr., 2022, Bedrock geology of the Boothbay Harbor 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 22-9, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

Hussey, A.M. II, West, D.P., Jr., and Whittaker, A.T.H., 2022, Bedrock geology of the Phippsburg 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 22- , Scale = 1:24,000.

 

Whittaker, A.T.H., West, D.P., Jr., and Hussey, A.M. II, 2022, Bedrock geology of the Lisbon Falls North 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 22- , Scale = 1:24,000.

 

West, D.P., Jr., and Hussey, A.M. II, 2021, Bedrock geology of the Monmouth 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 21-15, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

Norton, S.A., Berry, H.N., IV, and West, D.P., Jr., 2021, Bedrock geology of the Union 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 21-1, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

West, D.P., Jr., 2020, Bedrock geology of the Bath 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine:  Maine Geological Survey Map 20-12, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

West, D.P., Jr., 2019, Bedrock geology of the Lisbon Falls South 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine:  Maine Geological Survey Map 19-7, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

West, D.P., Jr., and Hussey, A.M. II, 2018, Bedrock geology of the Freeport 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 18-11, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

Hussey, A.M. II, and West, D.P., Jr., 2018, Bedrock geology of the Brunswick, 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine, Maine Geological Survey Map 18-04, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

West, D.P., Jr., and Hussey, A.M. II, 2018, Bedrock geology of the Yarmouth 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 18-10, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

West, D.P., Jr., 2016, Bedrock geology of the Wiscasset 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 06-27, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

West, D.P., Jr., and Pollock, S.G., 2016, Bedrock geology of the Hampden 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine:  Maine Geological Survey Map 16-10, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

Pollock, S.G., and West, D.P., Jr., 2016, Bedrock geology of the Brewer Lake 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine:  Maine Geological Survey Map 16-9, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

West, D.P., Jr., 2016, Bedrock geology of the Snow Mountain 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine:  Maine Geological Survey Map 16-26, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

Grover, T.W., and West, D.P., Jr., 2014, Bedrock geology of the East Pittston 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 14-30 , Scale = 1:24,000.

 

West, D.P., Jr., 2014, Bedrock geology of the Brooks West 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 14-4, Scale = 1:24,000.

 

West, D.P., Jr., Berry, H.N. IV and Corbett, L.B., 2010, Bedrock geology of the Richmond 7.5’ quadrangle, Maine:  Maine Geological Survey Map 10-19, Scale = 1:24,000.

West, D.P., Jr., and *Ellenberger, E.D., 2008, Bedrock Geology Purgatory 7.5’ Quadrangle, Maine:  Maine Geological Survey Map 08-35: Scale = 1:24,000.

West, D.P., Jr. and *Cubley, J.F., 2006, Bedrock Geology of the Bowdoinham 7.5' Quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 06-54, Scale 1:24,000, includes 17 p. report.

West, D.P., Jr., 2006, Bedrock Geology of the Washington 7.5' Quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 06-79, Scale 1:24,000.

West, D.P., Jr. and *Peterman, E.M., 2004, Bedrock Geology of the Razorville 7.5' Quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Map 04-29, Scale 1:24,000.


Field Trip Guidebook Chapters

West, D.P., Jr. and Condit, C.B., 2016, Stratigraphy, structure, and plutonism in the Wiscasset-Dresden region of mid-coastal Maine; in Berry, Henry N., IV, and West, David P., Jr., editors, Guidebook for field trips along the Maine coast from Maquoit Bay to Muscongus Bay: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, p. 165-182.

 

West, D.P., Jr., and Hussey, A.M. II, 2016, Middle Ordovician to Early Silurian terranes of the northern Casco Bay region, Maine, in Berry, Henry N., IV, and West, David P., Jr., editors, Guidebook for field trips along the Maine coast from Maquoit Bay to Muscongus Bay: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, p. 249-266.

 

Berry H.N. IV, West, D.P., Jr., and Burke, W.B., 2016, Bedrock relationships along the Sennebec Pond fault: A structural puzzle, stratigraphic enigma, and tectonic riddle, in Berry, Henry N., IV, and West, David P., Jr., editors, Guidebook for field trips along the Maine coast from Maquoit Bay to Muscongus Bay: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, p. 43-70.

 

Whittaker, A.T.H., Berry, H.N. IV, and West, D.P., Jr., 2016, Plutonic rocks from Waldoboro to Richmond, Maine, in Berry, Henry N., IV, and West, David P., Jr., editors, Guidebook for field trips along the Maine coast from Maquoit Bay to Muscongus Bay: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, p. 267-294.

 

West, D.P., Jr., Thompson, W.B., Hooke, R., and Pollock, S., 2016, Bedrock and surficial geology in the greater Belfast-Brooks area, south-central Maine: Geological Society of Maine summer field trip, p. 1-26.

 

West, D.P., Jr., Kim, J., Klepeis, K., and Webber, J., 2011, Classic bedrock teaching localities in the Champlain Valley between Middlebury and Burlington, Vermont, in West, D.P., Jr., editor, Guidebook for Field Trips in Vermont and Adjacent New York: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, p. 325-347.

 

Marvinney, R.G., West, D.P., Jr., Grover, T.W., and Berry, H.N. IV, 2010, A stratigraphic review of the Vassalboro Group in a portion of central Maine, in C. Gerbi, M. Yates, and D. Lux, eds,  Guidebook for Field Trips in Coastal and Interior Maine:  102nd New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, p. 61-76.

 

Price, N.A., West, D.P., Jr., Johnson, S.E., and Marsh, J.H., 2010, Coupled deformation and metamorphism, ultramylonite development, and evidence for paleoseismicity during protracted dextral shearing in the Norumbega fault system, south-central Maine, in C. Gerbi, M. Yates, and D. Lux, eds,  Guidebook for Field Trips in Coastal and Interior Maine:  102nd New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, p. 109-131.

West, D.P., Jr., Hussey, A.M., II, Berry, H.N., IV, and *Cubley, J.F., 2006, Bedrock geology of the Falmouth-Brunswick and central Maine sequences, Bowdoinham quadrangle, southern Maine, in D.G. Gibson, J. Daly, and D. Reusch, editors, 98th New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, p. 43-56.

West, D.P., Jr., *Senese, M.A., and *Sterrett, J.B., 2000, Structural geology and tectonics of Silurian- Devonian terrane accretion in south-central Maine, in Yates, M.G., Lux, D.R., and Kelley, J.T., eds., Guidebook for Field Trips in Coastal and East-Central Maine, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook (92nd Annual Meeting), p. 107-128.

West, D.P., Jr., 1995, The Norumbega fault zone in south-central Maine: A trip through 80 million years of dextral shear deformation: in Hussey, A.M., II and Johnston, R.A., editors, Guidebook to Field Trips in Southwestern Maine and Adjacent New Hampshire, 87th New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, p. 125-143.

Stewart, D.B., Tucker, R.D., and West, D.P., Jr., 1995, Genesis of Silurian composite terrane in northern Penobscot Bay: in Hussey, A.M., II and Johnston, R.A., editors, Guidebook to Field Trips in Southwestern Maine and Adjacent New Hampshire, 87th New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Guidebook, p. 29-49.

 

Recent Conference Abstracts

*Johnson, S.A., West, D.P., Jr., and Peterman, E.M., 2022, Petrology, age, and geochemistry of the Yarmouth Island Formation, Casco Bay, Maine: Insights into the Paleozoic tectonic evolution of mid-coastal Maine, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs

 

West, D.P., Jr., and Peterman, E.M., 2022, Contact relationships between the Liberty-Orrington and Fredericton belts in the Boothbay region, mid-coastal Maine, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 54, no. 3, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022NE-375303.

 

West, D.P., Jr., and Peterman, E.M., 2021, Magmatism along the Norumbega fault system corridor in Maine: A review in honor of Sheila Seaman, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 53, no. 1, doi: 10.1130/abs2021NE-361891.

 

West, D.P., Jr., Peterman, E.M., and *Chen, J., 2020, Igneous petrogenesis and overprinting deformation and metamorphism of the Early Devonian Edgecomb Gneiss, Mid-coastal Maine, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 52, no. 2, abs/2020NE-344724.

 

*Cartwright, S.F.A., and West, D.P., Jr., 2019, Depositional ages and sediment provenance of multiple lithotectonic belts in south-central Maine: Constraints from detrital zircon geochronology, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 51, no. 2, abs2019NE-328244.

 

Guevara, V., Mako, C.A., Smail, N., and West, D.P., Jr., 2019, Cryptic “Barrovian” metamorphism in a regional low-pressure metamorphic terrane: An example from south-central Maine, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 51, no. 2 abs/2019NE-328605.

 

*Cartwight, S.F.A., and West, D.P., Jr., 2018, Detrital zircon geochronology of strata from multiple accreted terranes in south-central Maine, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vo. 50, no. 2, abs/2018NE-310993.

 

*Proctor, A.M., and West, D.P., Jr., 2018, Bedrock geology of the Ordovician Casco Bay Group, Harpswell, Maine, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 50, no. 2 abs/2018NE-310981.

 

West, D.P., Jr., 2017, A review of the pre-accretionary history of coastal Maine peri-Gondwanan terranes, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 49, no. 2, abs/2017NE-290854.

 

*Best, M.B., West, D.P., Jr., and Coish, R.A., 2017, An early record of Rheic Ocean formation in the Northern Appalachians: The North Haven Formation in Penobscot Bay, Maine, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 49, no. 6, abs2017AM-297867.

 

*Burke, W., West, D.P., Jr., and Coish, R.A., 2016, Petrology, geochemistry, and U-Pb zircon ages of metamorphosed Cambrian-Ordovician volcanic rocks of the St. Croix belt, western Penobscot Bay, Maine, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48, no. 7, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-280884.

 

*Burke, W., West, D.P., Jr., and Coish, R.A., 2016, Petrology and geochemistry of metamorphosed Cambrian-Ordovician volcanic rocks of the St. Croix belt, western Penobscot Bay, Maine, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48, no. 2,  doi: 10.1130/abs/ 2016NE-272605.

 

Felch, M., West, D.P., Jr., and Falster, A.U., 2016, A new spodumene-bearing LCT pegmatite occurrence in mid-costal Maine, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48, no. 2., doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-271906

 

West, D.P., Jr., Hussey, A.M., II, 2015, Juxtaposition of contrasting structural regimes across a portion of the Norumbega fault system in the northern Casco Bay region of Maine: Eos Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, T41C-2918, AGU Annual Meeting.

 

West, D.P., Jr., Hussey, A.M., II, Bothner, W.A., 2015, A review of the Casco Bay Group and Falmouth-Brunswick Sequence of southern Maine: Regional significance of an extensive Middle to Late Ordovician Peri-Gondwanan volcanic arc terrane, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, no. 3, p. 43.

 

Ryan, P.C., Kim, J., and West, D.P., Jr., 2015, Along-strike variation in arsenic and other trace elements in metapelites of the Connecticut Valley/Gaspe Sequence (NE Vermont and SE Quebec) , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, no. 3, p. 101.

 

Professional Service

Co-organizer with Emily Peterman (Bowdoin College) of the 6th Biennial Structural Geology and Tectonics (SG&T) Forum held at Bowdoin College in June, 2022.  This 5-day National Science Foundation funded conference brought together members of the SG&T community for field trips and technical sessions aimed at pedagogical and research topics unique to the discipline.

 

Co-organizer and guidebook co-editor for the 108th Annual Meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference: Conference held in mid-coastal Maine, October 14-16, 2016.

Geological Society of America Northeastern Section Management Board Officer (Secretary-Treasurer: 2013-present; Chair: 2006-2007; Vice Chair: 2005-2006).

Primary organizer and guidebook editor for the 103rd Annual Meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference: Conference held in west-central Vermont, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2011.

 

Joint Technical Programming Committee for the Geological Society of America Annual Meetings (Structural Geology and Tectonics Division representative) 2010 and 2011.

 

Editor of the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Newsletter for the Geological Society of America (2008 – 2012).

Vermont Geological Society Secretary (2002-2012).

New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference (Leader of 11 different NEIGC field trips)

NEGSA Theme Session Organizer: 2022, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2010, 2006, 2005, and 1998

2002 GSA GeoHostel Field Trip leader (Co-leader of a multi-day field trip along the southern coast of Maine)

2001 Geological Society of America Field Trip Co-Chair (involved the organization & coordination of 26 field trips associated with the 2001 GSA national meeting in Boston, MA).

Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America (2008)

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Isoclinal recumbent folding in the Western Gneiss region, Norway

 

Deformed Ordovician metavolcanic rocks, Outer Heron Island, Maine



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