Dr. Peter Haproff

Assistant Professor of Geology

DeLoach 106 Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403-5944 Fax: 910 962-7077 email: haproffpATuncw.edu

Expertise:
Structural Geology and Tectonics

Education:
B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara (2011)
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (2018)

Teaching:
GLY 125: Natural Disasters
GLY 441: Structural Geology
GLY 443/543: Plate Tectonic Theory
GLY 470: Field Course in Geology
GLY 480/592: Collisional Tectonics
GLY 480/592: Geology of Asia

Research Interests:
Dr. Peter Haproff is a field-based structural geologist who studies lithospheric deformation and magmatism during tectonic processes throughout Earth’s history. Active research includes the Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the easternmost Himalaya, relationships between faulting and volcanism across rift zones, the nature of early Earth tectonics, and landscape evolution resulting from the interactions of tectonics, erosion, and climate change. His research integrates geologic field mapping and structural studies with geochronology, thermochronology, thermobarometry, geochemistry, and analysis of satellite imagery and geodetic data to solve first-order tectonic problems.