Geology & Planetary Science
403 SRCC
4107 O'Hara Street
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

412-624-8870

taco@pitt.edu

Degree

PhD in Geology (1969)
University of Texas at Austin

Research Areas

• Plate tectonic interactions in Mexico and Central America
• Appalachian fault evolution
• Geological and chronological evolution of mountain belts

Courses Offered

• GEOL 0055 Geology Laboratory
  Hands-on survey of the fundamentals of physical geology and the tools used to understand dynamic geologic systems. Offered every term.
• GEOL 1100 Structural Geology
  Introduction to basic geologic structures, and their use and interpretation in geologic mapping. For mid-level geology majors. Offered every spring term.
• GEOL 2110 Plate Tectonics
  In-depth study of plate tectonic processes and characteristics of plate interactions. Graduate level. Offered alternate years.

Representative Publications

Anderson, T.H. and Mahoney, J.B. (2006) Late Jurassic basins: The tracks of a continental-scale transform from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, in Haggart, J.W., Enkin, R.J. and Monger, J.W.H., eds., Paleogeography of the North American Cordillera: Evidence For and Against Large-Scale Displacements: Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 46, 369-375.

Harbert, W., Jones, V.T., Izzo, J., and Anderson, T.H. (2006) Analysis of light hydrocarbons in soil gases, Lost River region, West Virginia: Relation to stratigraphy and geological structures: AAPG Bulletin 90, 715-734.

Anderson, T.H., and Nourse, J.A. (2005) Pull-apart basins at releasing bends of the sinistral Late Jurassic Mojave-Sonora fault system, in Anderson, T.H., Nourse, J.A., McKee, J.W., and Steiner, M.B., eds., The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis: Development, Assessment, and Alternatives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, 97-122. DOI: 10.1130/2005.

Anderson, T.H., and Silver, L.T. (2005) The Mojave-Sonora megashear - Field and analytical studies leading to the conception and evolution of the hypothesis, in Anderson, T.H., Nourse, J.A., McKee, J.W., and Steiner, M.B., eds., The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis: Development, Assessment, and Alternatives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, 1-50. DOI:10.1130/2005.

Anderson, T.H., Rodrmguez-Castaqeda, J.L., and Silver, L.T. (2005) Jurassic rocks in Sonora, Mexico: Relations to Mojave-Sonora megashear and its inferred northwest extension, in Anderson, T.H., Nourse, J.A., McKee, J.W., and Steiner, M.B., eds., The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis: Development, Assessment, and Alternatives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, 51-95. DOI: 10.1130/2005.

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