Professor
Tel. (919) 515-7242
E-mail: jim_hibbard@ncsu.edu
Hibbard's Home Page
Curriculum Vitae

B.A. Honors 1973 Colgate University - Geology

M.SC. 1976 Memorial University of Newfoundland

PhD 1988 Cornell University - Geological Sciences

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS
My research focuses on field geology, structural geology and tectonics, particularly in the Appalachian orogen. I offer courses in Regional Geology, Appalachian Geology, Structural and Advanced Structural Geology, Geotectonics, and Natural Hazards.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Hibbard, J., van Staal, C., and Miller, B., 2007, Links between Carolinia, Avalonia, and Ganderia in the Appalachian peri-Gondwanan Realm, in Sears, J., Harms, T., and Evenchick, C., eds., Whence the Mountains? Inquiries into the Evolution of Orogenic Systems: A Volume in Honor of Raymond A. Price: Geological Society of America Special Paper 433, p. 291-311, doi: 10.1130/2007.2433(14).

Hibbard, J., van Staal, C., and Rankin, D., 2007, A comparitive analysis of pre-Silurian crustal 'building blocks' of the northern and southern Appalachians, for American Journal of Science, v. 307, p. 23-45, doi: 10.2475/01.2007.02.

Hibbard, J., van Staal, C., Rankin, D., & Williams, H., 2006.  Geology, Lithotectonic Map of the Appalachian Orogen (South), Canada-United States of America. Geological Survey of Canada, Map 02096A, scale 1:1500000.

Hibbard, J., Miller, B., Tracy, R., & Carter, B., 2006.  The Appalachian peri-Gondwanan realm: A paleogeographic perspective from the south.  In Vaughan, A. & Leat, P. (eds.) Terrane Processes at the Pacific Margin of Gondwana.  Geological Society of London Special Volume. 246, 97-112.

Hibbard, J., 2004, The Appalachian Orogen, in van der Pluijm, B. and Marshak, S., 2nd edition, Earth Structure: An Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics, WCB/McGraw Hill, 582-592.