Dave Blake
Assoc Professor
Dr. David E. Blake is a geologic mapper, petrologist, and structural geologist who uses lithotectonic analysis to study the tectonic evolution of the Laurentian-North American craton and its accreted terranes. His work primarily focuses on Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic rocks in the eastern Piedmont of North Carolina for the U.S. Geological Survey-North Carolina Geological Survey STATEMAP program. DB has taught a variety of geology and geoscience courses from GLY 101 Earth Revealed to GLY 470 Geologic Field Course and specializes in core courses including GLY 201 Mineralogy, GLY 310 General Petrology, GLY 390 Field Techniques in Geosciences, and GLY 471 Applied Techniques in Geology. He has also mentored and advised numerous M. S. Geology and Geoscience graduate students.
Education
Ph.D. in Geology, Washington State University
M.S. in Geology, North Carolina State University
B.S. in Geology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests
Conducting detailed traditional and iPad geologic mapping of deformed igneous, metamorphic, and volcanogenic sedimentary rocks within the North Carolina eastern Piedmont.
Establishing the lithodemic and lithologic framework of the easternmost Carolina, Falls Lake, Crabtree, Raleigh, Warren, Spring Hope, Triplet, and Roanoke Rapids lithotectonic terranes.
Evaluating the late Paleozoic crystal plastic to brittle deformation overprint of dextral shear zones of the Eastern Piedmont fault system and normal faults associated with the Deep River Triassic rift basin.