Miller, Brent
individual record
Professor
Positions:
- Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics, College of Arts and Sciences
- Professor, Geology and Geophysics, College of Arts and Sciences
education and training
- Syracuse University - (Syracuse, New York, United States), Postdoctoral Training
- Ph.D. in Geology, Dalhousie University - (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) 1997
- M.Sc. in Geology, Ohio University - (Athens, Ohio, United States) 1991
- B.Sc. in Geology, Ohio University - (Athens, Ohio, United States) 1987
selected publications
Academic Articles47
- Heintz, M. L., Yancey, T. E., Miller, B. V., & Heizler, M. T. (2015). Tephrochronology and geochemistry of Eocene and Oligocene volcanic ashes of east and central Texas. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 127(5-6), 770-780.
- Hughes, K. S., Hibbard, J. P., Miller, B. V., Pollock, J. C., Terblanche, A. A., Nance, D. M., & Lewis, D. J (2014). Does the Chopawamsic fault represent the main Iapetan suture in the southern Appalachians? Geology, geochemistry, and geochronology of the western Piedmont of northern Virginia. 35, 41-61.
- Park, A. F., Treat, R. L., Barr, S. M., White, C. E., Miller, B. V., Reynolds, P. H., & Hamilton, M. A. (2014). Structural setting and age of the Partridge Island block, southern New Brunswick, Canada: a link to the Cobequid Highlands of northern mainland Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 51(1), 1-24.
- Hughes, K. S., Hibbard, J. P., Pollock, J. C., Lewis, D. J., & Miller, B. V. (2014). Detrital Zircon Geochronology Across the Chopawamsic Fault, Western Piedmont of North-Central Virginia: Implications for the Main Iapetan Suture in the Southern Appalachian Orogen. Geoscience Canada. 41(4), 503-522.
- Steltenpohl, M. G., Schwartz, J. J., & Miller, B. V. (2013). Late to post-Appalachian strain partitioning and extension in the Blue Ridge of Alabama and Georgia. Geosphere. 9(3), 647-666.
Conference Papers4
- Miller, B. V., Dostal, J., Duncan Keppie, J., Nance, R. D., Ortega-Rivera, A., & Lee, J. (2007). Ordovician calc-alkaline granitoids in the Acatlan Complex, southern Mexico: Geochemical and geochronologic data and implications for the tectonics of the Gondwanan margin of the Rheic Ocean. Special Paper of the Geological Society of America. 423, 465-475.
- Middleton, M., Keppie, J. D., Murphy, J. B., Miller, B. V., Nance, R. D., Ortega-Rivera, A., & Lee, J. (2007). P-T-t constraints on exhumation following subduction in the Rheic Ocean from eclogitic rocks in the Acatlan Complex of southern Mexico. Special Paper of the Geological Society of America. 423, 489-509.
- Nance, R. D., Miller, B. V., Duncan Keppie, J., Murphy, J. B., & Dostal, J. (2007). Vestige of the Rheic Ocean in North America: The Acatlan Complex of southern Mexico. Special Paper of the Geological Society of America. 423, 437-452.
- Keppie, J. D., Dostal, J., Nance, R. D., Miller, B. V., Ortega-Rivera, A., & Lee, J. (2006). Circa 546 Ma plume-related dykes in the similar to 1 Ga Novillo Gneiss (east-central Mexico): Evidence for the initial separation of Avalonia. Precambrian Research. 147(3-4), 342-353.
researcher on
Principal Investigator1
recent teaching activities
- GEOL101 Principles Of Geology Instructor
- GEOL203 Mineralogy Instructor
- GEOL300 Field Geology: In-absentia Instructor
- GEOL302 Intro To Petrology Instructor
- GEOL350 Summer Field Geology Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Deluca, Michael James (2016-06). Ash Bed Analysis of the Cretaceous Eagle Ford Shale Using ID-TIMS U/Pb Methods: Implications for Biostratigraphic Refinement and Correlations Within the Western Interior Seaway. (Master's Thesis)
- Lewis, David John (2015-12). Detrital Zircon Trace Element Characterization of Middle to Late Ordovician Quartz Arenites along the Transcontinental Arch. (Master's Thesis)
- Hill, Joseph Roger (2014-11). Isotope Ratio Triangulation: A Method for Determining Uranium Isotope Ratios and Application to the Search for Uranium Isotope Anomalies in the Mineral Titanite. (Master's Thesis)
- Heintz, Mindi (2013-12). Tephrochronology and Stratigraphy of Eocene and Oligocene Volcanic Ashes of East and Central Texas. (Master's Thesis)
- Chapman, Shay Michael (2013-08). Thermal and Structural Constraints on the Tectonic Evolution of the Idaho-Wyoming-Utah Thrust Belt. (Master's Thesis)
Email
bvmiller@tamu.edu
First Name
Brent
Last Name
Miller
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Geology; 3115 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3115
USA