Department Head, Geosciences and Natural Resources
Associate Professor, Geology
Phone: 828-227-2271
Email: cherylwt@wcu.edu
Office Address: Stillwell Building 331A
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Interest:
Structural geology and plate tectonic history, especially Appalachian and Precambrian
Australia; relationship between bedrock structures and slope stability.
Courses:
- GEOL 140: "Investigations in Environmental Geology"
- GEOL 330: "Geophysics"
- GEOL 371: "Structural Geology"
- GEOL 471: "Tectonics"
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2004
- M.S., University of North Carolina, 1999
- B.S., Duke University, 1995
Publications:
- Waters-Tormey, C., Ashley, K.T., Tracy, R., Jones, D., 2016. The Mount Hay block, central Australia:
An important puzzle piece for Paleo-Mesoproterozoic tectonic history. Precambrian
Research, 22 pp.
- Latham, R.S., Wooten, R.M., Billington, N., Witt, A.C., Gillon, K.A., Douglas, T.J.,
Fuemmeler, S.J., Bauer, J.B., Kinner, D., Waters-Tormey, C., 2011. The Hunters Crossing weathered-rock slide, Haywood County, North Carolina,
USA. In: Calcaterra, D. (Ed.), Weathering and landslides, Geological Society, London,
Engineering Geology Special Publications 23, 149-166
- Waters-Tormey, C., Stewart, K., 2010. Heterogeneous wrench-dominated transpression in the deep crust
recorded by the Burnsville fault and related structures, Blue Ridge, North Carolina:
Implications for the Acadian orogeny in the Southern Appalachians. In: Tollo, R.P.,
Bartholomew, M.J., Hibbard, J.P., and Karabinos, P.M. (Eds.), From Rodinia to Pangea:
The Lithotectonic Record of the Appalachian Region. Geological Society of America
Memoir 206.
- Waters-Tormey, C., Goodwin, L.B., Tikoff, B., Staffier, K., Kelso, P., 2009. A granulite facies normal
shear zone exposed in the Arunta Inlier of central Australia: Implications for deep
crustal deformation during oblique divergence. In: Miller, R.B., and Snoke, A.W. (Eds.),
Crustal cross sections from the western North American Cordillera and elsewhere: Implications
for tectonic and petrologic processes. Geological Society of America Special Paper 456, p. 267–286.
- Waters-Tormey, C., Tikoff, B., 2007, Characteristics of a kilometer-scale high strain zone in the lower
continental crust: Mt. Hay block, central Australia. Journal of Structural Geology 29, 562-582.
- Trupe, C.H., Stewart, K.G., Adams, M.G., Waters, C.L., Miller, B.V., 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, 1365-1376.
- Waters, C., Tikoff, B., Goodwin, L.B., Little, T.A., 2002. Ductile instabilities and structural
heterogeneity in the lower continental crust. In: Goff, J.A., Holliger, K. (Eds.),
Heterogeneity in the crust and upper mantle: nature, scaling and seismic properties.
Kluwer, pp. 1-36.
- 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, pp. 57-73.
- Waters, C. L., 1999. Mapping and related studies of pre-Alleghenian tectonic features within the
Blue Ridge thrust complex of western North Carolina: Micaville Quadrangle. M.S. thesis,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Selected Conference Presentations: (undergraduate co-authors indicated by *)
*Keever, Jr., M., Waters-Tormey, C. , Mills, R., 2016. Field and geochemical constraints on the origin of the Panthertown
Valley felsic complex: western NC. Geological Society of AmericaAbstracts with Programs
48, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016SE-273879.
*Allen, K., *Haddon, A., *Brazelton J., *Dodgin, L., *Gatlin, J., *Hartigan, S., *Howard,
S., *Lilly, C., *Reiford, M., Waters-Tormey, C. , 2016. Using ductile strain patterns to infer development of fractures: an example
from the Panthertown conservation area, NC. Geological Society of AmericaAbstracts
with Programs 48, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016SE-273402.
Waters-Tormey, C. , *Fowler, A., Beyer, E., Reno, B., Weisheit, A., Whelan, J., 2015. Constraints on
the evolution of structural compartments with unconventional reservoir potential in
the southeastern Georgina Basin area, Australia, from adjacent basement exposures.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Annual Convention Abstracts.
*Fowler, A., Waters-Tormey, C. , 2015. Microstructural evidence of cyclic hydraulic and cataclastic brecciation in
a dilational fault zone, Jervois Range region, Central Australia. Geological Society
of AmericaAbstracts with Programs 47, p. 78.
*Williams, G., Waters-Tormey, C. , Kinner, D., 2015. Fold-related structures: implications for variability in groundwater
storage and recharge in the Blue Ridge, western North Carolina. GSA Abstracts with
Programs 47, p. 78.
Waters-Tormey, C. , Ashley, K.T., Tracy, R., 2014. Two-stage deformation, and two styles of localization,
in a deep crustal normal sense shear zone: Mount Hay block, Central Australia. GSA
Abstracts with Programs 46, p. 238.
*Williams, G., Waters-Tormey, C. , Kinner, D., 2014. Relationships between fracture patterns and km-scale structures
in low-porosity rock as inferred from geomorphology: implications for fluid/gas storage
and permeability. GSA Abstracts with Programs 46, p. 97.
Waters-Tormey, C. , Whelan, J., Kositcin, N., Beyer, E., Kraus, S., Reno, B., 2014. Using basement exposures
to better understand influence of deep structure on the structural evolution of intracontinental
basins with unconventional reservoir potential. AAPG Annual Convention Abstracts.
Whelan, J.A., Beyer, E.E., Reno, B.L., Kraus, S., Kositcin, N., Waters-Tormey, C. , 2014. Building on the geological framework of the eastern Arunta Region: recent
regional geological investigations in the Jervois Range area. In, Annual Geoscience
Exploration Seminar (AGES), Abstracts. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Record
2014-001.
*Weir, A. F., *Harrison, C.S., *Wiggins, J.N., Waters-Tormey, C. , Jones, D., 2012. The Capricorn Ridge shear zone: an exposed natural laboratory in
central Australia and its implication on strain localization during crustal extension.
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 44, p. 8.
*Savitsky, L., Waters-Tormey, C. , Kinner, D., Campbell, T., 2011. Groundwater flow through fractures in crystalline
rock in the Coweeta group at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North Carolina. Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs 43, p. 6.
