Education Degrees
B.S., Penn State, 1964
M.S., University of Southern California, 1969
PhD., Virginia Tech , 1971
Research Interest
My interests span a wide range of geologic subjects and I am currently working with colleagues and students both at the University of Memphis and elsewhere on problems of mutual interest. One of those subjects includes research on active faults, paleoseismites, and tectonics primarily in the northern Basin and Range Province, the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and the Giles County (Virginia) seismic zone. These studies include trenching active faults, geomorphic analysis of Quaternary features, and collection of fracture data from quarries, clay pits, and road cuts. I also have long standing interests in the tectonics of Grenvillian basement rocks of the central and southern Appalachians and in the structural evolution of both the Appalachian and Cordilleran fold & thrust belts. Other subjects of interest include the structural development of Triassic rift basins in the SE USA, dike/laccolith emplacement in the Alkalic Province of Montana, Quaternary evolution of river basins, landslide and earthquake hazards, and mantle roots.
Recent Book
Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J., Bartholomew, M.J., 2004, Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America: Geological Society of America, Memoir 197, Boulder, CO, 820 p.
Recent Articles and Maps
Bartholomew, M.J., Rich, F.J., 2007, The walls of colonial Fort Dorchester: A record of structures caused by the August 31, 1886 Charleston, South Carolina earthquake and its subsequent earthquake history: Southeastern Geology, v. 44, no. 4, p.
Bartholomew, M.J., Tollo, R.P., 2004, Northern ancestry for the Goochland terrane as a displaced fragment of Laurentia: Geology, v. 32, no. 8, p. 669-672.
Bartholomew, M.J., Tollo, R.P., 2004, Reply to a Discussion by Bailey, C., Owens, B., Shirvell, C.R., of: Northern ancestry for the Goochland terrane as a displaced fragment of Laurentia: Geology, v. 32, no. 12, on line Forum.
Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J., Bartholomew, M.J., 2004, Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the Grenville orogen in North America: An introduction, in Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J., Bartholomew, M.J., Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America: Geological Society of America, Memoir 197, Boulder, CO, p.1-18.
Hughes, S.S., Lewis, S.E., Bartholomew, M.J., Sinha, A.K., Herz, N.,2004, Geology and geochemistry of granitic and charnockitic rocks in the central Lovingston massif of the Grenvillian Blue Ridge terrane, U.S.A., in Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J., Bartholomew, M.J., Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America: Geological Society of America, Memoir 197, Boulder, CO, p. 549-569.
Tollo, R.P., Aleinikoff, J.N., Bartholomew, M.J., Rankin, D.W., 2004, Neoproterozoic A-type granitoids of the central and southern Appalachians: Intraplate magmatism associated with episodic rifting of the Rodinian supercontinent: Precambrian Research, v. 128, no.1, p. 3-38.
Derkey, R.E., Watson, S. M., Bartholomew, M.J., Stickney, M.C., Downey, P. J., 2004, Geologic map of the Deer Lodge area with text on the geology of the Deer Lodge area, Deer Lodge and Powell counties, Montana by Derkey, R.E., Bartholomew, M.J.: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Open-File Report: MBMG 271, 1:48,000-scale map with 23 p. pamphlet.
Bartholomew, M.J., Stickney, M.C., Wilde, E.M., Dundas, R.G., 2002, Late Quaternary paleoseismites: Syndepositional features and section restoration used to indicate paleoseismicity and stress-field orientations during faulting along the main Lima Reservoir fault, southwestern Montana, in F.R. Ettensohn, N. Rast, C.E. Brett, editors, Ancient Seismites: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 359, p. 29-47.
Bartholomew, M.J., Brodie, B.M., Willoughby, R.H., Lewis, S.E., Syms, F.H., 2002, Mid-Tertiary paleoseismites: Syndepositional features and section restoration used to indicate paleoseismicity, Atlantic Coastal Plain, South Carolina and Georgia, in F.R. Ettensohn, N. Rast, C.E. Brett, editors, Ancient Seismites: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 359, p. 63-74.
Stewart, K. G., Dennison, J. M., Bartholomew, M.J., 2002, Late Mississippian paleoseismites from southeastern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia, in F.R. Ettensohn, N. Rast, C.E. Brett, editors, Ancient Seismites: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 359, p.127-144.
Wooten, R.M., Bartholomew, M.J., Malin, P.E., 2001, Structural features exposed in Triassic sedimentary rocks near the proposed low-level radioactive waste disposal site, southwestern Wake County, North Carolina, p.51-74 in Hoffman, W., editor, Guidebook for 2001 Geological Society of America - Southeastern Section Meeting, April 5-6, 2001, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 203p.
Lonn, J.D., Skipp, B., Ruppel, E.T., Janecke, S.U., Perry, W.J., Jr., Sears, J.W., Bartholomew, M.J., Stickney, M.C., Fritz, W.J., Hurlow, H.A., Thomas, R.C., 2000, Preliminary geologic map of the Lima 30’ x 60’ quadrangle, southwest Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, MBMG Open-file Report 408, 1:100,000-scale map and 54-page text.
Bartholomew, M.J., Rich, F. J., Whitaker, A. E., Lewis, S. E., Brodie, B. M., Hill, A. A., 2000, Preliminary interpretation of fracture sets in Upper Pleistocene and Tertiary strata of the lower Coastal Plain in Georgia and South Carolina, p.19-27 in C. Abate, editor, A Compendium of Field Trips of South Carolina Geology with Emphasis on the Charleston, South Carolina, Area; Conducted in Association with the Geological Society of America - Southeastern Section Meeting, March 23-24, 2000 Charleston South Carolina: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Columbia, South Carolina, 65p.
Whitaker, A.E., Bartholomew, M.J., 1999, Layer parallel shortening: a mechanism for determining deformation timing at the junction of the central and southern Appalachians: American Journal of Science, V. 299, no.3, p.238–254.
Recent Abstract:
Bartholomew, M.J., 2007, Syndepositional fracture sets and deflections of rivers and shorelines: tools for analysis of Cenozoic deformation in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Georgia and South Carolina: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.39, no.2, p.90.
Bartholomew, M.J., 2006, Revised distribution of Grenvillian terranes of the Appalalchians: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.38, no.3, p.62.
Bartholomew, M.J., Stickney, M.C., Wasklewicz, W.A., 2004, Interaction between stress fields of the northern Basin and Range and the Yellowstone hotspot near the Red Rock fault, southwestern Montana: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.36, No. 4, p.12.
Ballantyne, H., Stewart, K.G., Bartholomew, M.J., 2004, Laramide paleoseismites in the Clarks Fork Basin, Montana and Wyoming: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.36, No. 4, p.36.
Bartholomew, M.J., Wise, D.U., Stewart, K.G., 2004, Structural refinement of the northeastern corner of the Laramide Beartooth uplift, Montana: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.36, No.5, p.268.
Stewart, K.G., Ballantyne, H., Bartholomew, M.J., 2004, Reconstructing the timing and structural evolution of the eastern Beartooth uplift using paleoseismites and synkinematic alluvial fans: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.36, No.5, p. 268.
Bartholomew, M.J., Rich, F.J., 2002, Pleistocene shorelines and coastal rivers: sensitive indicators of Quaternary faults, Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysics Union, V. 83, No.19, p. S353.
Bartholomew, M.J., Rich, F.J., 2001, A new method for locating possible active faults beneath the Lower Coastal Atlantic Plain, southeastern USA: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.33, No. 6, p.A-393.
Bartholomew, M.J., Stewart, K.G., 2001, Paleoseismites and tectonics of the Deep River Triassic basin, North Carolina: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.33, No.3, p.A-27.
Greenwell, R.A., Bartholomew, M.J., James, L.A., 1999, Segmentation of the Red Rock fault, southwestern Montana, from new geomorphic evidence: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.31, No.4, p.A-14.
Bartholomew, M.J., Diaconescu, C.C., Knapp, J.H., 1999, The underside of plate tectonics: What happens to mantle roots?: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, V.31, No.7, p.A-295.
