THESES AND PUBLICATIONS

Ph.D. Dissertation

"Structural geology of a ten kilometer scale lower crustal shear zone: Mt. Hay granulites, central  Australia" (reference)  (publications, in process)   advisor: Dr. Basil Tikoff

Masters Thesis

"Mapping and related studies of pre-Alleghanian tectonic features within the Blue Ridge thrust complex of western North Carolina:  Micaville Quadrangle" (reference) (publication)   advisor: Dr. Kevin Stewart

"Crystal Size Distribution Theory: Application to Chromitite from the Stillwater Complex, Montana"     advisor: Dr. Alan Boudreau

Waters-Tormey, Cheryl, submitted for 2007 SEGSA meeting, Tectonic events recorded in the Mt. Hay block, central Australia: implications for interpretation of high-grade tectonic events in the North Carolina Blue Ridge, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs

Waters-Tormey, Cheryl, Tikoff, Basil, in press, Characteristics of a kilometer-scale high strain zone in the lower continental crust:  Mt. Hay block, central Australia., Journal of Structural Geology.

Waters-Tormey, Cheryl, Tikoff, Basil, Goodwin, Laurel, Staffier, Kathy, and Kelso, Paul, in review, A granulite-facies, normal shear zone exposed in Mt. Hay block, Arunta block, central Australia: Implications for lower crustal deformation during oblique divergence (submitted to GSA Special Publications)

Watrous, Karen, and Waters-Tormey, Cheryl, Meadow Fork and Rector Branch mylonite zones, southwest of the Hot Springs window, western NC.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38, p. 75. abstract

WATERS-TORMEY, Cheryl, Tikoff, Basil, and Newman, Julie, 2005, Evidence for mechanical heterogeneity in a high temperature, high strain zone: Mt Hay block, central Australia.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 37, p. 557.  abstract

Lord, Mark, Allmendinger, Nicholas E., Waters-Tormey, Cheryl, Caldwell, Erik, and Yurkovich, Steven, 2005, Stream restoration: a course runs through it. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 37, p. 279.  abstract

Waters-Tormey, Cheryl, Goodwin, Laurel B., and Tikoff, Basil, 2004, Lithologic heterogeneity and structural ordering in shear zones: possible implications for seismic anisotropy in the lower crust. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs No. 5, p. 437. abstract

Waters-Tormey, Cheryl, Structural geology of a ten kilometer scale lower crustal shear zone: Mt. Hay granulites, central  Australia:  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 188 p.

Trupe, C.H., Stewart, K.G., Adams, M.G., Waters, C.L., Miller, B.V., and Hewitt, L.K., 2003. The Burnsville fault: Evidence for the timing and kinematics of Acadian dextral transform tectonics in the southern Appalachians. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 115, p, 1365-1376.

Waters-Tormey, C., Tikoff, B., Kelso, P., 2003. A km-scale lower crustal shear zone recording oblique extension in a back-arc setting, Mt. Hay block, central Australia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 35, p. 348.  abstract

Waters, Cheryl, and Tikoff, Basil, 2002, Lithological Heterogeneity and fabric intensity in granulites, Arunta block, central Australia:  evidence for strain partitioning. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 34.  abstract

Waters, C. L.,  Tikoff, B., Prior, D.J., 2002, Scales of competency contrast in granulite facies deformation, Arunta block, central Australia, Abstracts and Program, Joint International Tectonic Studies Group, Transport and flow processes in shear zones, Sept. 2-3, 2002 (London).

Waters, C., Tikoff, B., Goodwin, L.B., and Little, T.A., 2002, Ductile instabilities and structural heterogeneity in the lower continental crust, in, Heterogeneity in the crust and upper mantle: nature, scaling and seismic properties, Goff, J.A., and Holliger, K., eds., Kluwer, 1-36.   contact me for a pdf copy  | link to publisher

Waters, C., Tikoff, B., 2001, Geology of the Mt Hay Region, Arunta Block, Central Australia, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 33.

Tikoff, B., Teyssier, C., Waters, C., 2001. Clutch tectonics and the attachment of lithospheric layers. In: Bertotti, G., Schulmann, K., Cloetingh, S.A.P.L., (Eds.), EGU Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series 1, 57-73.

Waters, C.L., Tikoff, B., Kelso, P., 2000, AMS fabric in granulites:  Mount Hay-Mount Chapple region, Arunta Block, Central Australia:  Abstracts of the 15th Australian Geological Convention, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.  July 3-7, No. 59, p. 521.

Waters, C., Hewitt, L., Stewart, K., 2000, Tectonothermal evolution of the Ashe Metamorphic Suite south of the Grandfather Mountain Window, NC:  Implications for Paleozoic orogenic events in the eastern Blue Ridge:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 32.

Waters, C. L., 1999, Mapping and related studies of pre-Alleghanian tectonic features within the Blue Ridge thrust complex of western North Carolina:  Micaville Quadrangle:  M.S. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 101 p.

Waters, C., Hewitt, L., Stewart, K., 1999, Mapping and related studies of pre-Alleghanian tectonic features within the Blue Ridge thrust complex of western North Carolina,  Micaville Quadrangle:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 31.

Stewart, K.G., Adams, M.G. , Trupe, C.H., Hewitt, L., Waters, C.L., 1999, Paleozoic structural and metamorphic history of the eclogite-bearing Fries thrust sheet and adjacent thrust sheets of the Blue Ridge thrust complex, North Carolina:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31.

Tivey, M.A., Johnson, H.P., Fleutelot, C., Hussenoeder, S., Lawrence, R.M., Waters, C., & Wooding, F.B., 1998,  Direct measurement of magnetic reversal polarity boundaries in a cross-section of oceanic crust:  Geophysical Research Letters, v. 25, p. 3631.

Waters, C. L., Lawrence, R. M., Karson, J. A., Hurst, S. D., 1996, Photogeology of the SMARK area median valley floor at 22°30'N to 22°50'N half-graben segment with no neovolcanic zone:  EOS (Supplement), 77, p. 273.

Waters, C., Boudreau, A.E., 1996. A reevaluation of crystal size distributions in chromite cumulates. American Mineralogist 81, 1452-1459.