Erin Beutel
Associate Chair, Associate Professor
Education
Northwestern University
Ph.D. 2000
Research Interests
My research explores stress in the Earth from a large global tectonic scale to a regional perspective on the Charleston Earthquake. I have published on everything from mid-ocean ridge tectonics to the break-up of Pangea and stress in the East African Rift. Currently my focus is on stress in the lithosphere and its relationship to magmatism during continental break-up. However, I have worked with students on everything from gravestone weathering to arsenic in groundwater
Courses Taught
GEOL 105 and GEOL 105L Earth History
GEOL 156L Honors Geology Lab
GEOL 235 Geology and Civilization
GEOL 352 and GEOL 352L Structural Geology
GEOL 411 Tectonics
GEOL 492 Senior Seminar
Honors and Awards
2018 NACADA Regional Faculty Advising Award
2017 College-Wide Distinguished Advising Award, College of Charleston
2005 Distinguished Achievement Award, School of Science and Math, College of Charleston
Publications
Filina, I and Beutel, E (invited) Geological and Geophysical Constraints Guide New Tectonic Reconstruction of the Gulf of Mexico (AGU Special Volume)
Filina, I., Liu, M., & Beutel, E. (2020). Evidence of ridge propagation in the eastern Gulf of Mexico from integrated analysis of potential fields and seismic data. Tectonophysics, 775, 228307.
Clarke, D. B., & Beutel, E. K. (2019). Davis Strait Paleocene picrites: Products of a plume or plates?. Earth-Science Reviews.
Talwani, P., Beutel, E.K., Levine, N., Aalto, K., Jaume, S., Adams, M., (2012) The Great 1886 Earthquake: Seismic hazard and visible damager from the most damaging earthquake in the United States in the 1800s., in Eppes, M., Bartholemew, J., eds., From the Blue Ridge to the Coastal Plain: Field Excursions in the Southeastern United States: 29, p. 137-169, doi:10.1130/2012.0029(05)
Beutel, E.K., Ebinger, C.J., Van Wijk, J, Keir, D., (2010) Formation and stability of magmatic segments in the Main Ethiopian and Afar rifts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 293, no. 3-4, pp.225-235.
Beutel, E.K., (2009), Magmatic rifting of Pangea linked to onset of South American plate motion. Tectonophysics Special Issue: Role of magmatism. 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.06.019
Beutel, E.K., and Anderson, D.L., (2007), Ridge-crossing seamount chains; a non-thermal approach, in Foulger, G., Jurdy, D., eds., The Origins of Melting Anomalies: Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes: Geological Society of America Special Paper 430, p. 375-386.
Nomade S., Knight, K B., Beutel, E., Renne, P R., Verati, C., Feraud, G., Marzoli, A., Youbi, N., Bertrand, H., (2007), Chronology of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province; implications for the central Atlantic rifting processes and the Triassic-Jurassic biotic crisis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology vol.244, no.1-4, p.326-344.
*Dove, D., Jaume, S., Beutel, E.K., (2007) Tectonic Core of a Sedimentary Drift: A Potential Ridge Propagation Feature Beneath the Blake Outer Ridge. Marine Geophysical Researches, vol.28, no.1.
Beutel, E. K., (2005), Stress-induced seamount formation at ridge-transform intersections, in Foulger, G.R., Anderson, D.L., Natland, J.H. and Presnall, D.C. eds., Plates, Plumes & Paradigms: Geological Society of America Special Paper 338, p 581-593.
McHone, J.G., D.L. Anderson, E.K. Beutel & Y.A. Fialko, (2005), Giant dikes, rifts, flood basalts and plate tectonics: a contention of mantle models in Foulger, G.R., Anderson, D.L., Natland, J.H. and Presnall, D.C. eds., Plates, Plumes & Paradigms: Geological Society of America Special Paper 338, p401-420.
Beutel, E.K., Nomade, S., Fronabarger, A.K, Renne, P.R., (2005) Pangea’s complex breakup: A new rapidly changing stress field model, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 236, p471-485.
Beutel, E. K., Okal, E., (2003) Strength asperities along oceanic transform faults: A model for the origin of extensional earthquakes on the Eltanin Transform system, Earth and Planetery Science Letters, v. 216, p27-41.
* Denotes student author