Dr. Matthew P. McKay

Department

Schl of Earth Enviro and Sustain

Role: Faculty
Campus: Springfield

Postal mail

Missouri State University
Schl of Earth Enviro and Sustain
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65897

Details

Education

  • PhD, Geology, 2015, West Virginia University
  • MS, Geology, 2011, University of Alabama
  • BS, Geology, 2009, University of Alabama

Teaching

  • GLG 110 Physical Geology
  • GLG 340 Structural Geology
  • GLG 412 Field Geology of the Mid-Continent
  • GLG 413 Field Geology (summer field course)
  • GLG 676 Geosciences Computing

Professional experience

  • Geological Survey of Alabama (2014-2016): Field geologist
  • Geological Society of America: member

Research and professional interests

  • Field geology
  • Tectonics
  • Structural geology
  • Clastic and volcanic stratigraphy
  • Metamorphic petrology
  • Spatial learning

Recent publications

  • McKay, M.P., Stowell, H.H., Gray, K.D., Schwartz, J.J., Bollen, E., (in press) Metamorphism records thrust faulting during prolonged terrane accretion: Sm-Nd garnet and U-Pb zircon geochronology and P-T paths from the Salmon River suture zone, west-central Idaho, Lithosphere.
  • Fildani, A., McKay, M.P. , Stockli, D.F., Clark, J.D., Weislogel, A.L., Dykstra, M., Hessler, A.M., (2016) The ancestral Mississippi drainage archived in the late Wisconsin Mississippi deep-sea fan, Geology, vol. 44 (6), p. 479-482.
  • McKay, M.P., Coble, M., Hessler, A.M.,Weislogel, A.L., Fildani, A. (2016), Petrogenesis and provenance of distal, airfall tuffs in the Permian-Triassic Karoo Basin, South Africa: a window into a dissected, magmatic province, Geosphere, v. 12 (1).
  • McKay, M.P., Weislogel, A.L., Fildani, A., Brunt, R., Hodgson, D., Flint, S. (2015), U-PB zircon tuff geochronology from the Karoo Basin, South Africa: implications of zircon recycling on stratigraphic age controls, International Geology Review, vol. 57 (4), pp. 393-410.

Awards and honors

  • CNAS Student Nominated Award for Faculty/Staff Excellence, Missouri State University, 2019
  • Outstanding Graduate Mentor, Missouri State Graduate College, 2018

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