Mark A. Evans, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geology

Joined the Faculty in 2004

Office: Copernicus Hall, Room 237
Telephone: 860-832-2936
Fax: 860-832-2946
E-Mail: evansmaa@ccsu.edu

Education

B.S.,   1978, Geology: West Virginia University
M.S.,   1980, Geology: West Virginia University
Ph.D., 1989, Geology: University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests

Structural Geology

Rock strain and deformation mechanisms

Paleofluid evolution and migration

Paleohydrostrtigraphy

Paleomagnetism and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS)

History of Geology

My primary area of interest is establishing environmental conditions (pressure, temperature, strain rate, and stress) of deformation in orogenic belts. I am particularly interested in applying deformation mechanism regimes, strain partitioning, metamorphic petrology, and fluid inclusion analysis to determine these conditions. More recently, my research has focused on paleofluid evolution and migration, and the relationship of paleofluid flow to paleo-remagnetization events.

Selected Publications

Evans, M. A. and Battles, D. A., 1997, Regional syn-orogenic fluid migration in the central Appalachians: Fluid geochemistry and fluid migration    pathways in Hendry, J. P., Carey, P. F., Parnell, J., Ruffell, A. H., and Worden, R. H., eds., Contributions to the Second International Conference on Fluid Evolution, Migration and Interaction in Sedimentary Basins and Orogenic Belts, p. 87-92.

Evans, M. A., and Battles D. A., 1999, Fluid inclusion and stable isotope analysis of veins from the central Appalachian Valley and Ridge province: Implications for regional syn-orogenic hydrologic structure and fluid migration: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 1841-1860.

Evans, M. A., Elmore, R. D., and Lewchuk, M. T., 2000, Examining the relationship between remagnetization and orogenic fluids: central Appalachians: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 69-70, p. 139-142.

Evans, M. A., Lewchuk, M. T., and Elmore, R. D., 2003, Strain partitioning and deformation mechanisms in limestones: examining the relationship of strain and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS): Journal of  Structural Geology, v. 25, p. 1525-1549. 

Evans, M. A., and Hobbs, G. C., 2003, Fate of ‘warm’ migrating fluids in the central Appalachians during the Late Paleozoic Alleghanian orogeny: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 78-79, p. 327-331.

Evans, M. A., and Elmore, R. D., 2006. Fluid control of localized mineral domains in limestone pressure solution structures: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 28, p. 284-301.

Cox, E., Elmore, R. D., and Evans, M. A., 2005, Paleomagnetism of Devonian red beds in the Appalachian Plateau and Valley and Ridge Provinces: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.  110, B08102.

Elmore, R. D., J. Kelley, M. Evans, M. Lewchuk, 2001, Remagnetization and Orogenic Fluids: Testing the hypothesis in the central Appalachians: Geological Journal International, 144, 568-576.

Ferrill, D. A., Morris, A. P., Evans, M. A., Burkhard, M., Groshong, R. H., Jr., and Onasch, C. M., 2004, Calcite twin morphology: A low temperature  deformation geothermometer: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 26/8, p. 1521-1529.

Gray, M. B., Stamatakos, J. A., Ferrill, D. A., and Evans, M. A., 2005, Fault-zone deformation in welded tuffs at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Journal of Structural Ggeology. v27, p. 1873-1891.

Lewchuk, M. T., Evans, M., and Elmore, R. D., 2002, Remagnetization signature of Paleozoic sediments from the Patterson Creek Anticline in West Virginia, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 27, 1141-1150.

Lewchuk, M. T., Evans, M., and Elmore, R. D., 2003, Synfolding remagnetization and deformation: results from the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in West Virginia, Geophysical Journal International, 151, 1-15.  

O’Brien. V.J., Elmore, R.D., Engel, M.H., Evans, M.A., 2006, Timing and origin of orogenic remagnetizations in Mississippian carbonates, Sawtooth Range, Montana. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 89, 297-301.

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