Bill Deane
Instructor
I teach Geology 101 in the fall semester and Geology 103 in the spring semester. Plus, I usually teach 101 or 103 in summer.
Each fall, I host 500 to 600 primary and secondary students and their teachers from around East Tennesse for a day-long introduction to a wide
variety of topics in Gelogy.
And I honcho the Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs).
My primary research interest are terrestrial impact craters, which are caused by an asteroid or comet smashing into the Earth. Perhaps the most famous example is the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona. Fortunately, we have two proven (Flynn Creek & Wells Creek) and two suspected (Howell Structure & Dycus Disturbance) impact sites in Tennessee. Over the past couple of years, Keith Milam, Jonathan Evenick and I made numerous trips to Flynn Creek. Keith and I have a forthcoming paper on the topic of central uplifts.
Exploring
inside the central uplift of Flynn Creek impact crater
I am a founding member of the Impact Field Studies Group (IFSG), an international organization devoted to promoting field work on impact sites. Each year, in conjunction with the the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) near Houston, Texas, I help lead a field trip to an impact crater. For example, in March 2006, we toured the Sierra Madera impact crater near the Big Bend area in Texas.
The 2006 IFSG
field trip to the Sierra Madera impact crater. We are standing on the north rim looking south toward the central uplift.
Bill Deane
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
1412 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
Phone: (865) 974-0401
Email: wdeane@utk.edu