Dr.
Ann E. Holmes
Assistant Professor
Geology
University of
Tennessee @ Chattanooga
Department of Physics, Geology and Astronomy
101 Bretske Hall, MC 6556
Chattanooga, TN 37403
(Dept) 423-425-4404
(Work) 423-425-1704
(Fax) 423-425-4423
Email Address: Ann-Holmes@utc.edu
date last updated August 19, 2005
Research/Teaching Areas
Current Projects
Publications
Personal Interests
Course materials online
Physical Geology 111
Physical Geology Lab 181
Historical Geology 112
Historical Geology Lab 182
Sedimentary
Geology 303 and lab
Research/Teaching Areas
Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Sequence Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Paleontology, Basin Analysis
Current Projects
Paleozoic stratigraphy and paleontology
I'm in the process of creating a fossil identification and local (Chattanooga
area) field trip website
Try these sites but beware, they're under construction
Mesozoic stratigraphy and paleontology
Editing second edition of Steven Stanley's Earth System History
Educational Background
DEGREES
Ph.D. Geology, Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory of Columbia University,
1996
Dissertation title: Paleozoic Depositional and Structural History of the
Canning Basin, Western Australia, and Constraints on Eustatic Change
M.S. Geology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, l981
Thesis title: Systematics and Paleoecology of the Stromatoporoids from a Lower
Devonian (Keyser Formation) Bioherm, Mustoe, Highland County, Virginia
B.A. Geology, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, l976
Publications
Holmes, A., and C. Ekstrom, 1999,
GIS-based template and data set for K-16 exploration of local plant
contributions to climate variability, abstract, GSA Denver meeting, Oct., 1999
Holmes, A.E., N. Christie-Blick
and M. Kominz, 1996, Subsurface constraints on the evolution of the Paleozoic
Canning basin, Western Australia, GSA Abstracts with Programs, vol. 28, n. 7.
Holmes, A.E., and N.
Christie-Blick, 1994, Evaluating the applicability of sequence stratigraphic
models for mixed systems: constraints from the Canning basin, Western
Australia, in High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy: Innovations and
Applications, Univ. of Liverpool, UK, 28-30 March, p. 43-47.
Holmes, A.E., and N.
Christie-Blick, 1993, Origin of sedimentary cycles in mixed
carbonate/siliciclastic systems: an example from the Canning Basin, Western
Australia, in Recent Advances and Applications of Carbonate Sequence
Stratigraphy, R.G. Loucks and J.F. Sarg, AAPG Memoir 57, p. 181-212.
Kennard, J.M., P.N. Southgate,
M.J. Jackson, P.E. O'Brien, N. Christie-Blick, A.E. Holmes, and J.F. Sarg,
1992, Devonian reef complex and the Frasnian-Famennian boundary, Canning Basin,
Australia: a new sequence perspective, Geology, v. 20, p. 1135-1138.
Christie-Blick, N., and A.E.
Holmes, 1992, Upper Devonian sequence stratigraphy of the Canning Basin,
Australia: a comparison with coeval carbonates in southwestern Alberta,
abstract, AAPG Calgary, Canada meeting, June 20-25.
Southgate, P.N., M.J. Jackson,
J.M. Kennard, P.E. O'Brien, V.L. Passmore, J.F. Lindsay, A.E. Holmes, and N.
Christie-Blick, 1991, Subsurface sequence stratigraphy of Devonian carbonates,
Canning Basin, Western Australia, AAPG Bulletin, v. 75, p. 674-675.
Holmes, A.E., 1991, Late Devonian
carbonate-conglomerate association in the Canning Basin, Western Australia,
AAPG Bulletin, v. 75, p. 596.
Personal Interests
Scotland 2009 trip to visit Patience Cowie. It's a small-format QuickTime movie (suitable for small screen, like an i-Pod. Don't try to watch it big. Scotland Slideshow Movie
gardening, hiking, riding motorcycles and bicycles, fishing, reading and above all, rocks!
WWW Links of Interest
UTC Geology Department webpage
University of
Missouri's Branson Field Laboratory
I teach here in the summers. Hard to believe they pay me.
2004 THEC
workshop for middle school Earth Science teachers
Jon and I co-taught a very successful workshop in the summer of 2004. Links to
products and images can be reached from this link.