Dr. Jerry Bartholomew
Professor and Chair
Phone: (901) 678-4536
Fax:
E-mail: jbrthlm1@memphis.edu
Office: 001 Johnson Hall

Education Degrees

B.S., Penn State, 1964

M.S., University of Southern California, 1969

PhD., Virginia Tech , 1971

Research Interest

My interests span a wide range of geologic subjects and I am currently working with colleagues and students both at the University of Memphis and elsewhere on problems of mutual interest. One of those subjects includes research on active faults, paleoseismites, and tectonics primarily in the northern Basin and Range Province, the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and the Giles County (Virginia) seismic zone. These studies include trenching active faults, geomorphic analysis of Quaternary features, and collection of fracture data from quarries, clay pits, and road cuts. I also have long standing interests in the tectonics of Grenvillian basement rocks of the central and southern Appalachians and in the structural evolution of both the Appalachian and Cordilleran fold & thrust belts. Other subjects of interest include the structural development of Triassic rift basins in the SE USA, dike/laccolith emplacement in the Alkalic Province of Montana, Quaternary evolution of river basins, landslide and earthquake hazards, and mantle roots.

BOOKS (LAST 10 YEARS)

Tollo, R.P., Bartholomew, M.J., Hibbard, J.P., Karabinas, P.M., editors, 2010, FROM RODINIA TO PANGEA: THE LITHOTECTONIC RECORD OF THE APPALACHIAN REGION: Geological Society of America Memoir 206, Boulder, Colorado, _p. (accepted 12/7/2009; 36 manuscripts; in press).

Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J.B., Bartholomew, M.J., editors, 2004, PROTEROZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE GRENVILLE OROGEN IN NORTH AMERICA: Geological Society of America Memoir197, Boulder, Colorado, 820p.

PUBLICATIONS (LAST 10 YEARS)

Bartholomew, M.J., Whitaker, A.E., 2010, The Alleghanian deformational sequence at the foreland junction of the central and southern Appalachians, p. __ in Tollo, R.P., Bartholomew, M.J., Hibbard, J.P., Karabinas, P.M, editors, 2010, From Rodinia to Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record of the Appalachian Region: Geological Society of America Memoir 206, Boulder, Colorado, _p. (accepted 12/7/2009; in press).

Bartholomew, M.J., Lewis, S.E., 2010, Orphans of the far-traveled Pulaski thrust sheet: Exotic detached duplexes and their implications for original fold-thrust geometry, p.__ in Tollo, R.P., Bartholomew, M.J., Hibbard, J.P., Karabinas, P.M, editors, 2010, From Rodinia to Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record of the Appalachian Region: Geological Society of America Memoir 206, Boulder, Colorado, _p. (accepted 12/7/2009; in press).

Evans, M.A., Bartholomew, M.J., 2010, Crustal fluid evolution during deformation, uplift, and exhumation of the southeastern Piedmont of the southern Appalachians: Late Paleozoic through Mesozoic rifting, p.__ in Tollo, R.P., Bartholomew, M.J., Hibbard, J.P., Karabinas, P.M., editors, 2010, From Rodinia to Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record of the Appalachian Region: Geological Society of America Memoir 206, Boulder, Colorado,_p. (accepted 12/7/2009; in press).

Bartholomew, M.J., Hatcher, R.D., Jr., 2010, The Grenville orogenic cycle of southern Laurentia: Unraveling sutures, rifts, and shear zones as potential piercing points for Amazonia (invited paper), p.4-20 in Casquet, C., Cordani, U., Pankhurst, R.J., eds., The Grenville Orogen of Central and South America:Special Issue 1, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 159p.

Schultz, A.P., Bartholomew, M.J., 2009, Geologic map of the Radford North quadrangle, Virginia: Virginia Division of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open File Report 09-01, 1:24,000-scale map.

Schultz, A.P., Bartholomew, M.J., 2009, Geologic map of the Staffordsville quadrangle, Virginia: Virginia Division of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open File Report 09-02, 1:24,000-scale map.

Bartholomew, M.J., Evans, M.A., Rich, F.J., Brodie, B.M., Heath, R.D., 2009, Rifting and drifting in South Carolina: Fracture history in Alleghanian granites and Coastal Plain strata. Carolina Geological Society 2009 Annual Field Trip: Georgia Southern University, Department of Geology and Geography, Contribution Series no.2, 50p.

Bartholomew, M. J., Greenwell, R.A., Wasklewicz, T.A., Stickney, M.C., 2009, Alluvial fans: sensitive tectonic indicators of fault-segmentation and stress-field partitioning along the Red Rock fault, northern Basin and Range of southwestern Montana, U.S.A.: Northwest Geology, v. 38, p. 41-66.

Bartholomew, M.J., Stewart, K.G., Wise, D.U., and Ballantyne, H.A., 2008, Field Guide: Paleoseismites: Indicators of Laramide tectonism and other events near the Bighorn Basin, Montana and Wyoming, p. 135-158 in Thomas, R.C., and Gibson, R.I., eds., The Red Lodge Area, Montana:Tobacco Root Geological Society 33th Annual Field Conference – July 31 – August 3, 2008: Northwest Geology, v. 37, 172p.

Stewart, K.G., Bartholomew, M.J., Ballantyne, H.A., 2008, Laramide paleoseismites of the Bighorn Basin, p.249-264 inR.G. Raynolds, editor, Roaming the Rocky Mountains and Environs: Geological Field Trips:,Geological Society of America Field Guide 10, Denver, Colorado, 310p.

Bartholomew, M.J., Rich, F.J., 2007, The walls of colonial Fort Dorchester: A record of structures caused by the August 31, 1886 Charleston, South Carolina earthquake and its subsequent earthquake history: Southeastern Geology, V.44, no.4, p.147-169.

Bartholomew, M.J., Rich, F.J., Lewis, S.E., Brodie, B.M., Heath, R.D., Slack, T.Z., Trupe, C.H., III, and Greenwell, R.A., 2007, Preliminary interpretation of Mesozoic and Cenozoic fracture sets in Piedmont metamorphic rocks and in Coastal Plain strata near the Savannah River, Georgia and South Carolina, p.7-37 inF.J. Rich, editor, Guide to Field Trips - 56^thAnnual Meeting,Southeastern Section Geological Society of America: Georgia Southern University, Department of Geology and Geography, Contributution Series no.1, 198p.

Bartholomew, M.J., Tollo, R.P., 2004, Reply to a Discussion by Bailey, C., Owens, B., and Shirvell, C.R. of: Northern ancestry for the Goochland terrane as a displaced fragment of Laurentia: Geology, v. 32, no. 12, Online Forum.

Bartholomew, M.J., Tollo, R.P., 2004, Northern ancestry for the Goochland terrane as a displaced fragment of Laurentia: Geology, v. 32, no.8, p.669-672.

Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland,J.,  Bartholomew, M.J., 2004, Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the Grenville orogen in North America: An introduction, p.1-18 in R.P. Tollo, L. Corriveau, J.B. McLelland, M.J. Bartholomew, editors, 2004, Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America: Geological Society of America Memoir197, 820p.

Hughes, S.S.,  Lewis, S.E.,  Bartholomew, M.J., Sinha, A.K., Herz, N., 2004, Geology and geochemistry of granitic and charnockitic rocks in the central Lovingston massif of the Grenvillian Blue Ridge Terrane, U.S.A., p.549-569 in R.P. Tollo, L. Corriveau, J.B. McLelland, M.J. Bartholomew, editors, 2004, Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America: Geological Society of America Memoir197, 820p.

Tollo, R.P., Aleinikoff, J.N., Bartholomew, M.J., Rankin, D.W., 2004, Neoproterozoic A-type granitoids of the central and southern Appalachians: Intraplate magmatism associated with episodic rifting of the Rodinian supercontinent: Precambrian Research, V.128, no.1, p.3-38.

Derkey, R.E., Watson, S. M., Bartholomew, M.J., Stickney, M.C., Downey, P. J., 2004, Geologic map of the Deer Lodge area with text on the geology of the Deer Lodge area, Deer Lodge and Powell counties, Montana by Derkey, R.E., Bartholomew, M.J.: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Open-File Report: MBMG 271, 1:48,000-scale map with 23 p. pamphlet.

Bartholomew, M.J., Stickney, M.C., Wilde, E.M., Dundas, R.G., 2002, Late Quaternary paleoseismites:  Syndepositional features and section restoration used to indicate paleoseismicity and stress-field orientations during faulting along the main Lima Reservoir fault, southwestern Montana, p. 29-47 inF.R. Ettensohn, N. Rast, C.E. Brett, editors, Ancient Seismites: Geological Society of America, Special Paper359, 190p.

Bartholomew, M.J., Brodie, B.M., Willoughby, R.H., Lewis, S.E., Syms, F.H., 2002, Mid-Tertiary paleoseismites: Syndepositional features and section restoration used to indicate paleoseismicity, Atlantic Coastal Plain, South Carolina and Georgia, p. 63-74 in F.R. Ettensohn, N. Rast, C.E. Brett, editors, Ancient Seismites: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 359, 190p.

Stewart, K. G., Dennison, J. M., Bartholomew, M.J., 2002, Late Mississippian paleoseismites from southeastern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia, p.127-144 in F.R. Ettensohn, N. Rast, C.E. Brett, editors, Ancient Seismites: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 359, 190p.

Wooten, R.M., Bartholomew, M.J., Malin, P.E., 2001, Structural features exposed in Triassic sedimentary rocks near the proposed low-level radioactive waste disposal site, southwestern Wake County, North Carolina, p.51-74 inHoffman, W., editor, Guidebookfor 2001 Geological Society of America - Southeastern Section Meeting, April 5-6, 2001, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 203p.

Bartholomew, M.J., Rich, F. J., Whitaker, A. E., Lewis, S. E., Brodie, B. M., Hill, A. A., 2000, Preliminary interpretation of fracture sets in Upper Pleistocene and Tertiary strata of the lower Coastal Plain in Georgia and South Carolina, p.19-27 inC. Abate, editor, A Compendium of Field Trips of South Carolina Geology with Emphasis on the Charleston, South Carolina, Area; Conducted in Association with the Geological Society of America - Southeastern Section Meeting, March 23-24, 2000 Charleston South Carolina: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Columbia, South Carolina, 65p.

Lonn, J.D., Skipp, B., Ruppel, E.T., Janecke, S.U., Perry, W.J., Jr., Sears, J.W., Bartholomew, M.J., Stickney, M.C., Fritz, W.J., Hurlow, H.A., Thomas, R.C., 2000, Preliminary geologic map of the Lima 30’ x 60’ quadrangle, southwest Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, MBMG Open-file Report 408, 1:100,000-scale map and 54-page text.

RECENT ABSTRACTS (PAPERS NOT YET PUBLISHED)

Bartholomew, M.J., Diaconescu, C.C., Knapp, J.H., 1999, The underside of plate tectonics: What happens to mantle roots?: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.31, No.7, p.A-295.

Bartholomew, M.J., Stewart, K.G., 2001, Paleoseismites and tectonics of the Deep River Triassic basin, North Carolina:Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.33, No.3, p.A-27.

Bartholomew, M.J., Rich, F.J., 2001, A new method for locating possible active faults beneath the Lower Coastal Atlantic Plain, southeastern USA: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.33, No. 6, p.A-393.

Bartholomew, M.J., Rich, F.J., 2002, Pleistocene shorelines and coastal rivers: sensitive indicators of Quaternary faults, Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysics Union, V. 83, No.19, p. S353.

Bartholomew, M.J., 2007, Syndepositional fracture sets and deflections of rivers and shorelines: tools for analysis of Cenozoic deformation in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Georgia and South Carolina: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.39, no.2, p.90.

Heatherington, A. L., Bartholomew, M.J., 2008, Geological constraints on Grenvillian deformational events in the Blue Ridge, Baldwin Gap quadrangle, NW North Carolina: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.40, no.2, p.28.

Brezina, T.M., Pujol, J., Bartholomew, M.J., Rich, F.J., 2009, Shallow geophysical investigation of Trail Ridge, Georgia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.41, no.1, p.20.

Bartholomew, M.J., Bone, M.J., Rittenour, T.M., Mickelson, A.M., Stickney, M.C., 2009, “Stress switching” along the Lima Reservoir fault in Yellowstone’s wake: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.41, no.7, p.55.

Bartholomew, M.J., Hatcher, R.D., Jr, 2010, The rifted edge of the Grenville orogen of southern Laurentia: Piercing points for Amazonia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.42, no._, p.__.