Michael Williams

Faculty/Staff

My research and teaching are focused at the cross-roads of ductile structural geology, metamorphic petrology, geochronology, igneous petrology, and most of all, tectonics. Much of my research has involved Precambrian rocks (southwestern U.S.A., northern Canada, Adirondack Mtns), but I am increasingly involved with rocks of western New England. I am particularly interested in finding better ways to “read” the P-T-t-D (i.e. Pressure-Temperature-time-Deformation) paths from deformed and metamorphosed rocks, and interpreting the paths in terms of the tectonic history that produced them. I love field work but I also love working with the electron microprobe and computer models.