Frederick
L. Schwab
Chairman of the Department of Geology Washington and Lee Univ. Lexington, VA 24450 540-463-8870 (office) 540-463-5830 (home) 540-463-8142 (fax) schwabf@wlu.edu |
Research
I continue to work in the general area of "soft rock" geology.
I'm especially interested in the relationship between sedimentation and
tectonics, and in deciphering what the sedimentary rock record can tell
us about the origin and evolution of mobile belts. I've invested
considerable time and energy studying the late Precambrian-Early Paleozoic
sequences throughout the Appalachians, and am presently working on contemporaneous
clastic sedimentary rocks in Utah and Montana. I continue my interest
in reinterpreting classical collisional belts like the Appalachians and
French-Italian Alps in terms of plate tectonic models and suspect terrance
thory.
Education
Darmouth College, B.A.., 1961
University of Wisconsin, M.S., 1963
Harvard University, PhD.,1967