Dr. Matthew P. McKay

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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

Additional resources

• Missouri State Tectonics Group