Department of Geosciences and Natural Resources
Lecturer, Geology
Phone: 828-227-3916
Email: btormey@wcu.edu
Office Address: Stillwell 337
Areas of Interest:
Stratigraphy, paleoclimate, coal and petroleum resources.
Courses:
- GEOL 140: "Investigations in Environmental Geology"
Education:
- M.S., University of North Carolina, 1999
- B.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1996
Recent Publications & Presentations:
Tormey, B.R. (2008) Fenestral Porosity in Bahamian Eolianites: Evidence of Intensified Storms During the Last Interglacial; GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 40, No. 4.
Tormey, B. R. and Neumann, A. C. (2007) Rapid Sea-level Change and Intensified Storms During the Last Interglacial: A High Resolution Record from the Bahamas; GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6.
Duncan, L., LeBlanc, R, and Tormey, B., (2007) Evidence of Climate Change During the Last Interglacial from Eolian and Nearshore Carbonates: San Salvador Island, Bahamas; GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 2.
Hearty, P., Tormey, B., and Neumann, A., (2002) Discussion of Palaeoclimatic significance of co-occurring
wind- and water-induced sedimentary structures in the last-interglacial coastal deposits
from Bermuda and the Bahamas, (Kindler and Strasser, 2000, Sedimentary Geology, 131,
1-7); Sedimentary Geology, Vol. 147, 429-435.
Tormey, B. and Neumann, A., (2000) Storminess of the Last Interglacial: Geologic Evidence of
Intensity From Eleuthera, Bahamas; GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 32, No. 7.