PUBLICATIONS/ABSTRACTS/POSTERS (Selected List; Students in italics)

Southern Appalachian Geology

Peterson, V., Ryan_, J., Yurkovich, S., Burr_, J., Kruse_, S., and the 1997-2001 REU Program Participants_, 2006, The Petrogenesis and Tectonic Implications of Blue Ridge Mafic-Ultramafic Rocks: The Buck Creek and Carroll Knob complexes, and rocks of the Addie-Willets region, Southeastern Geological Society Of America Guidebook, Knoxville, TN.

Ryan, J., Yurkovich, S., Peterson, V., Burr, J., and Kruse, S., 2005, Geology and petrogenesis of mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Willets-Addie area, central Blue Ridge, NC, in Hatcher, R.D. and Merschat, A.J., Blue Ridge geology geotraverse east of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, western North Carolina, pp. 91-98.

Swanson, S., Raymond, L., Warner, R., Ryan, J., Yurkovich, S., and Peterson, V., 2005, Petrotectonics of mafic and ultramafic rocks in Blue Ridge terranes of western North Carolina and northern Georgia, in Hatcher, R.D. and Merschat, A.J., Blue Ridge geology geotraverse east of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, western North Carolina, pp.73-90.

Yurkovich, S.P., and J. Eckerd, 1994, Geologic Map of the Corbin Knob, NC Quadrangle, Open File Report, NC Geologic Survey and U. of Tennessee’s Southern Appalachian Geologic Transect program

Raymond, L., S.P. Yurkovich, and M. McKinney, 1989, Block‑in‑Matrix Structures in the N.C. Blue Ridge Belt and their significance for the tectonics history of the Southern Appalachian Orogeny, Invited paper, in Geol. Soc. Amer. Special Paper 228, pp. 195‑215

Southern Appalachian Geology (Abstracts/Posters)

Doughty, D., Loehn, C., Allison, B., Newby, J., REU Program, 2001, Ryan, J., Peterson, V., Yurkovich, S., Burr, J., and Kruse, S, 2002, Field and geochemical comparison of the Webster-Addie and Balsam Gap ultramafic bodies, Eastern North Carolina Blue Ridge, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. with Programs, SE-NC Section Meeting.

Primm, S., Shannon, R, Akers, S., Bruinsma, C., REU Program, 2001, Kruse, S., Yurkovich, S., Ryan, J., Peterson, V., and Burr, J., 2002, Geophysical Imaging of Ultramafic and mafic rock bodies within gneissic metasedimentary country rock, Western North Carolina, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. with Programs, SE-NC Section Meeting.

Soraruf, R., Scherer, A., Harden, J., McIlmoil, R., REU Program, 2001, Ryan, J., Peterson, V., Yurkovich, S., Burr, J., and Kruse, S, 2002,  Field Relations and Petrogenesis of amphibolites from the Webster-Addie/Willits region, Eastern NC Blue Ridge, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. with Programs, SE-NC Section Meeting.

Ryan, J. G., Peterson, V. L., Yurkovich, P. P., Burr, J. L, and Kruse, S. E., 2001, Mafic and ultramafic rocks of olistostromal assemblages of the Blue Ridge in sw NC: Insights into convergent margin processes of the Paleozoic, Geol. Soc. Amer.  Abstr. with Program, Vv39 no.6, p262

Bierly  L., Sullivan, W, Tibbits, M., Natoli, J., Csontos, R., Meyer, J., Nettik, J., Dean, R., Dearmond, B., Gerseny, M., Lesmerises, M., Pollock, M., Yurkovich, S., Peterson, V., Burr, J., Kruse, S., Schneider, J., and  Ryan, J., 2001, Petrographic and field relations of a portion of the Carroll Knob Mafic/Ultramafic Complex, Eastern Blue Ridge, Macon Co., NC, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. with Programs

Dean, R., Dearmond, B., Gerseny, M., Pollock, M., Csontos, R., Lesmerises, M., Natoli, J., Meyer, J., Bierly, L., Nettik, J., Sullivan, W., Tibbits, M., Schneider, J., Kruse, S., Peterson, V., Yurkovich, S, Burr, J., and Ryan, J., 2001, Geophysical transects across the margins of the Carroll Knob Mafic/Ultramafic Complex, Macon County, North Carolina, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. with Programs

Meyer, J., Nettik, J., Pollock, M., Sullivan, W., Bierly, L., Tibbits, M., Gerseny, M., Dearmond, B., Dean, R., Natoli, J, Csontos, R., Lesmerises, M., Ryan,J., Yurkovich, S., Savov, I., Peterson, V., Burr, J., and Kruse, S., 2001, Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Carroll Knob Mafic/Ultramafic Complex, Macon County, North Carolina, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. with Programs

Sediment Provenance

Miller, J.R., Lord, M., Yurkovich, S., Mackin, G., and Kolenbrander, L., 2005, Historical trends in sedimentation rates and sediment provenance, Fairfield Lake, Western North Carolina, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, pp. 1053-1075.

Miller, J., Kolenbrander, L., Lord, M., and Yurkovich, S., Mackin, G., 2003, Assessment of changing land-use practices on basin sediment yields and provenance in Western North Carolina using multivariate fingerprinting techniques, Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina Report No. 345, 50p.

Lord, M., Miller, J., Yurkovich, S., Kolenbrander, L., and Mackin, G., 2001, Assessment of changing land-use practices on basin sediment yields and provenance in western North Carolina using multivariate finger printing techniques, Geol. Soc. Amer.  Abstr. with Program, v 39 no.6, p439.

Geosciences Education

Yurkovich, S. and Lord, M, 2006, Designing a curriculum around undergraduate research, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. With Programs, March Regional Meeting in Knoxville, TN.

Lord, M., Allmendinger, N., Waters-Tormey, C., Caldwell, E., and Yurkovich, S., 2005, Stream Restoration: A course runs through it, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. With Programs, v. 37, p. 279.

Peterson, V., Ryan, J., Yurkovich, S., Burr, J., and Kruse, S., 2005, A two institution field and laboratory collaborative research experience for undergraduates, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. With Programs, v. 37, p. 492.

Peterson, V., Ryan, J., Yurkovich, S., Burr, J., and Kruse, S., 2003, A collaborative field-laboratory summer research experience for undergraduates (REU) program in geosciences, Invited manuscript, CUR Quarterly, V.24, pp. 13-17

Peterson, V. L., Ryan, J. G., Yurkovich, S., Kruse, Sarah, and Burr, J., 2001, A successful collaborative field-laboratory summer research experiences for undergraduates (REU) program based in the southern Appalachian Blue Ridge; Geol. Soc. Amer.  Abstr. with Program, v. 33, no. 6, p. 179.