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Bill Ranson

Jack Garihan

Brannon Andersen

Suresh Muthukrishnan

Weston Dripps

Alan Coulson

Lee Mitchell

Nina Anthony

Lori Nelson

Melissa Strom

Education
Ph.D. Geology, Pennsylvania State University
B.S. Geology, Franklin & Marshall College

Research Interests
On-going program of basic 1:24,000 scale geologic mapping of metamorphic rocks in the Inner Piedmont of the Carolinas. Structural analysis of polyphase folding and thrust sequencing; granitoid intrusive geochronology and tectonic history of Paleozoic deformation in upstate South Carolina. Cataclastic rocks and brittle faulting related to the development of the Marietta-Tryon graben in the Inner Piedmont.

Current projects
1. Continuing the geologic mapping at 1:24,000 scale of the Zirconia, Paris Mountain, Table Rock, Standingstone Mountain, and Eastatoe Gap 7.5-minute quadrangles ( areato be covered is ~160 square kilometers each). Co-mapper is William A. Ranson. Furman University EES undergraduate mappers in the Dacusville quadrangle are John Allen, J.R.Lockery, and Jonathan Buffaloe, who is also completing the northern Mauldin quadrangle.
2. Regional synthesis of Piedmont polyphase fold chronology.

Course schedule
Fall 2002 EES 36 Structural Geology, EES 85 Independent Research; EES 11 laboratories.
Winter 2003 Earth Systems
Spring 2003 Earth Systems

Professional society affiliations
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Geological Society of America
National Association of Geology Teachers
Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association

Recent publications (* student authors)

Garihan, John M., 1999, The Sugarloaf Mountain thrust in the Western Inner Piedmont between Zirconia, North Carolina and Pumpkintown, South Carolina: in A Compendium of Selected Field Guides, Geological Society of America, Southeastern Sectional Meeting, p. 22-30.

Garihan, John M. Garihan, and William A. Ranson, 1999, Roadlog and descriptions of stops in parts of the Table Rock, Cleveland, and Standingstone Mountain quadrangles, SC-NC: in A Compendium of Selected Field Guides, Geological Society of America, Southeastern Sectional Meeting, p. 31-39.

Garihan, John M., 1999, Geologic map of the Hickory Tavern 7.5-minute quadrangle, Laurens and Greenville counties, South Carolina: SC Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open-file report 122 (1999), 1:24,000 scale.

Ranson, W. A., Williams, I. S. and Garihan, J.M., 1999, Shrimp zircon U-Pb ages of granitoids from the Inner Piedmont of South Carolina: Evidence for Ordovician magmatism involving mid to late Proterozoic crust: Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, n. 7, p. A-167.

Garihan, John M., *Kalbas, J., and Clendenin, C. W., 2000, Geologic map of the Slater 7.5-minute quadrangle, Greenville County, South Carolina: SC Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open-file report 129 (2000), 1:24,000 scale.

Garihan, John M., 2000, Geologic map of the Cleveland 7.5-minute quadrangle, Greenville and Pickens counties, South Carolina: SC Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open-file report 130 (2000), 1:24,000 scale.

Garihan, John M., 2001, Bedrock geology of the Hickory Tavern 7.5-minute quadrangle, southeastern Inner Piedmont, Laurens and Greenville counties, South Carolina: South Carolina Geology, v.42, p. 1-18.

Garihan, John M., 2001, Observations of the Seneca fault and their implications for thrust sheet emplacement in the Inner Piedmont of the Carolinas: in J. M. Garihan and W. A. Ranson, (eds), Geology of the Inner Piedmont in the Caesars Head and Table Rock State Parks area, northwestern South Carolina, South Carolina Geology, v. 43, p. 1-13.

Garihan, J. M. and W. A. Ranson, 2001, Geologic map of the Table Rock 7.5-minute quadrangle, Greenville and Pickens counties, South Carolina: SC Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open-file Report 141, 1:24,000 scale.

Garihan, J. M., and W. A. Ranson, 2001, Geologic transect across the Table Rock and Eastatoe Gap 7.5-minute quadrangles, western Inner Piedmont, Greenville and Pickens counties, SC-NC: Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, n. 2, p. A-3.

*Blackwell, S., *Maclean, J., Garihan, J., Ranson, W., Howard, S. and Clendenin, C. W., 2001, Geology of the Taylors 7.5-minute quadrangle, Inner Piedmont, Greenville County, SC: Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, n. 2, p. A-4.

*Blackwell, Seth S., John S. *MacLean, C. W. Clendenin, and John M. Garihan, 2001, Bedrock geologic map of Taylors 7.5 minute quadrangle (W 1/2), Greenville county, South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey Open-File Report 133, 1:24,000.

Clendenin, C. W., and Garihan, J. M., 2001, Timing of brittle faulting on Pax Mountain: a chicken or the egg question applicable to Piedmont mapping: Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, n. 2, p. A-18.

Clendenin, C.W., and Garihan, J.M., 2001, Brittle faulting in the South Carolina Inner Piedmont and relationships to regional tectonics: Seismological Society of America, Eastern Section, Programs & Abstracts, 73rd Annual Meeting, Columbia, South Carolina, p. 5.

Ranson, William A., and Garihan, John M., 2001, Geology of the Inner Piedmont in the Caesars Head and Table Rock State Parks area, northwestern South Carolina: 2001 Carolina Geological Society Field Trip: in J. M. Garihan and W. A. Ranson, (eds), Geology of the Inner Piedmont in the Caesars Head and Table Rock State Parks area, northwestern South Carolina, South Carolina Geology, v. 43, p. 73-86.

Clendenin, C. W., Howard, C. S., Niewendorp, C. A., Garihan, J. M., Ranson, W. A., and others, 2001, Notes on a brittle-fault kinematic indicator identified on Granny Apple Farm, Laurens County, South Carolina: South Carolina Geology, v.42, p. 19- 27.

*MacLean, John S., Seth S. *Blackwell, C. W. Clendenin, and John M. Garihan, 2001 Bedrock geologic map of Taylors 7.5 minute quadrangle (E 1/2), Greenville county, South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey Open-File Report 134, 1:24,000.

Garihan, John M. and Ranson, W. A., 2001, Geologic map of the Standingstone Mountain 7.5-minute quadrangle, Greenville and Pickens counties, South Carolina: SC Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open-file Report___, 1:24,000 scale.

Garihan, John M., 2002, Geology of the Standingstone Mountain 7.5-minute quadrangle, Inner Piedmont, SC-NC: Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, n. 2, p. A-11.

*Buffaloe, J.R., Clendenin, C.W., and Garihan, J.M., 2002 Paris Mountain Project, Part 2: Geology of the northern half of Mauldin 7.5-minute quadrangle, Greenville County, South Carolina: Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, n. 2, p. A-11.

*Buffaloe, Jonathan, C. W. Clendenin, C. Scott Howard, and John M. Garihan, 2002, Geology of Mauldin 7.5-minute quadrangle, Greenville County, South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey Open-File Report 142, 1:24,000.

Garihan, John M., 2002, Geology of Standingstone Mountain quadrangle, western Inner Piedmont, North and South Carolina: in Hatcher, Jr., R. D. and Bream, B. R., (eds.), Inner Piedmont Geology in the South Mountains-Blue Ridge foothills and the southwestern Brushy Mountains, central-western North Carolina, Carolina Geological Society Guidebook, p. ___