Charles H. Trupe

Chuck Trupe at Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, CA, March 2001.

Dr. Charles H. Trupe received his B.S. in Geology from George Mason University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Geology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Teaching

Before coming to Georgia Southern, I taught introductory geology courses at Appalachian State University, and taught a variety of courses as a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At Georgia Southern, my teaching responsibilities include Introductory Geology (Physical, Environmental), Structural Geology, Field Methods, and Tectonics.

Research

My research interests are structural geology and tectonics, with particular emphasis on the tectonothermal evolution of the southern Appalachians. Topics of special interest include the petrology of fault-related rocks, crystallographic fabric analysis of mylonitic rocks, and metamorphic pressure-temperature paths. I am involved in several ongoing field-based research projects. One project concerns structural relationships and petrology of metamorphic rocks of the Blue Ridge in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. Another project in progress involves detailed geologic mapping and petrology of rocks in the vicinity of the Linville Falls shear zone in northwestern North Carolina. A third project concerns fractures in sedimentary rocks of the Coastal Plain in Georgia and the Carolinas.

Senior Thesis Supervision

Colin O. Berry: "Joint Sets Of The South Carolina And Georgia Coastal Plains"

Cori Cowan: "Structural and kinematic analysis of the eastern-western Blue Ridge contact in the northern half of the Weaverville, NC 7.5 minute quadrangle"

Issac D. Standard: "Structural Geology Of The Contact Between The Eastern And Western Blue Ridge In The Southeast Corner Of The Mars Hill Quadrangle, North Carolina"

Publications with students
Cowan, C. and Trupe, C.H., 2001, Structural and kinematc analysis of the eastern-western Blue Ridge contact in the Weaverville quadrangle, western North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. 232.

Austin, A.J., Cowan, C., Harris, B.M., Harris, S.M., Helfrich, S.F., Jones, K.A., Lyon, R.A., Moore, A.R., Page, A.L., Stringer, J.C., Tapley, T.A., Tingle, C.A., Walzer, B.H., Wink, J.E., Trupe, C.H., Vance, R.K., 2001, Geologic mapping of Carolina Slate Belt rocks at Clark Hill Reservoir, Woodlawn, GA quadrangle: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, p. A-77.

Berry, C.O., and Trupe, C.H., 2000, Fracture patterns in the Coosawhatchie Formation of the Georgia-South Carolina Coastal Plain: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 2, p A-6.

Standard, I.D., and Trupe, C.H., 2000, Structural relationships and sense of shear in the Burnsville fault, Mars Hill quadrangle, western North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 2, p A-75.

Recent Publications and Presentations - Click on this link to read abstracts

Adams, M.G., and Trupe, C.H., 2004, Extent and significance of Alleghanian faulting near the Grandfather Mountain window, northwestern North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 2, p. 139.

Trupe, C.H., in press, Structural geology of the Linville Falls shear zone along the western margin of the Grandfather Mountain window, northwestern North Carolina: Southeastern Geology.

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, v. 115, p. 1365-1376.

Trupe, C. H., Stewart, K. G., Adams, M. G., and Foudy, J. P., 2004, Deciphering the Grenville of the southern Appalachians through the post-Grenville tectonic history in northwestern North Carolina, in Tollo, R. P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J. , and Bartholomew, M. J., eds., Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 197, p. 679-695.

Trupe, C.H., Stewart, K.G, Adams, M.G., and Foudy, J.P., 2002, An evaluation of the post-Grenville tectonic history of the rocks of western North Carolina: Implications for understanding the Grenville orogeny in the southern Appalachians: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 41.

Trupe, C.H., Adams, M.G., and Stewart, K.G., 2001, Diversity of basement rocks along the eastern-western Blue Ridge contact in northwestern North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. 29.

Welford, M.R., and Trupe, C.H., 2001, Possible connections among frequent shallow landslides, sub-surface geology and intense weathering, and tropical montane trees:  Poster presented at the 2001 Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium: Mountain Geomorphology:  Integrating Earth Systems, Chapel Hill, NC, Abstracts Volume p. 53.

Trupe, C.H., Stewart, K.G., and Adams, M.G., 2000, The eastern-western Blue Ridge contact in western North Carolina: Evolving interpretations of a complex structure: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 2, p A-78.

Adams, M.G., Stewart, K.G., and Trupe, C.H., 1999, The association of eclogite and ultramafic rocks in the Blue Ridge thrust complex, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, p 1.

Stewart, K.G., Adams, M.G., Trupe, C.H., Hewitt, L.K., and 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, p. 69.

Trupe, C.H., 1999, Evidence of high ductile strains and high fluid pressures in the Tablerock thrust sheet, western North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, March, v. 31, p. 72.

Adams, M.G., and Trupe, C.H., 1997, Conditions and timing of metamorphism in the Blue Ridge thrust complex, northwestern North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, in, Stewart, K.G., Adams, M.G., and Trupe, C.H., editors, Paleozoic Structure, Metamorphism, and Tectonics of the Blue Ridge of Western North Carolina: Carolina Geological Society 1997 Field Trip Guidebook, p. 33-48.

Stewart, K.G., Adams, M.G., and Trupe, C.H., 1997, Paleozoic structural evolution of the Blue Ridge thrust complex, western North Carolina, in, Stewart, K.G., Adams, M.G., and Trupe, C.H., editors, Paleozoic Structure, Metamorphism, and Tectonics of the Blue Ridge of Western North Carolina: Carolina Geological Society 1997 Field Trip Guidebook, p. 21-32.

Trupe, C.H., 1997, Structural relationships in the Linville Falls shear zone, Blue Ridge thrust complex, northwestern North Carolina, in Stewart, K.G., Adams, M.G., and Trupe, C.H., editors, Paleozoic Structure, Metamorphism, and Tectonics of the Blue Ridge of Western North Carolina: Carolina Geological Society 1997 Field Trip Guidebook, p. 49-66.

Stewart, K.G., Adams, M.G., and Trupe, C.H., 1997, editors, Paleozoic structure, metamorphism, and tectonics of the Blue Ridge of western North Carolina: Carolina Geological Society 1997 Field Trip Guidebook, 101 p.

Adams, M.G., Mallard, L.D., Trupe, C.H., and Stewart, K.G., 1996, Computerized geologic map compilation, in DePaor, D., editor, Structural Geology and Personal Computers; Computer Methods in the Geosciences: Elsevier Science Ltd., p. 457-470.

Adams, M.G., Stewart, K.G., Trupe, C.H., and Willard, R.A., 1995, Tectonic significance of high-pressure metamorphic rocks and dextral strike-slip faulting along the Taconic suture, in Hibbard, J., van Staal, C., Cawood, P., and Colman-Sadd, S., editors, New Perspectives in the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 41, p. 21-42.

Goldberg, S.A., Butler, J.R., Trupe, C.H., and Adams, M.G., 1992, The Blue Ridge thrust complex northwest of the Grandfather Mountain window, North Carolina and Tennessee, in Dennison, J.M., and Stewart, K.G., editors, Geologic field guides to North Carolina and vicinity: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Department of Geology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geologic Guidebook No. 1, p. 213 - 233.

Goldberg, S.A., Butler, J.R., Mies, J.W., and Trupe, C.H., 1989, The southern Appalachian orogen in northwestern North Carolina and adjacent states: International Geological Congress Field Trip T365 Guidebook, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 55 p.