Dr. Frank W. Stapor, Jr.

Contact

Office: 205 Kittrell Hall
Phone: (931)372-3695
Fax: (931)372-3363
Email: fstapor@tntech.edu

Department of Earth Sciences
Tennessee Technological University
Box 5062
Cookeville, TN 38505

Education

Ph.D., 1973: Florida State University (Geology)

M. S., 1968: University of Wisconsin at Madison (Geology)

B. S., 1965: Florida State University (Geology)

Research Interests

Courses Taught

Physical Geology, Geology and the Environment, Field Geology, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Environmental Geology, Advanced Historical Geology, Senior Thesis

Honors/Awards

TTU Geoclub Outstanding Faculty Award, 1986, 1989, 1991

Selected Publications

Refereed Papers:
Hurd, Steve A. and Frank W. Stapor, Jr., 1997. Facies, stratigraphy, and provenance of the Warren Point Sandstone (Pennsylvanian), Cumberland Plateau, Central Tennessee: Southeastern Geology, v. 36, n. 4, p. 187-201.


Donoghue, J. F.; Stapor, F. W.; and W. F. Tanner, 1998. Discussion of Otvos, E., 1995. Multiple Pliocene-Quaternary Marine Highstands, Northeast Gulf Coastal Plain--Fallacies and Facts: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 11, p. 984-1002: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 14, p. 669-674.


Stapor, F. W. and Gregory W. Stone, 2004. A new depositional model for the buried 4000 yr BP New Orleans barrier: implications for sea-level fluctuations and onshore transport from a nearshore shelf source: Marine Geology, v. 204, p. 215-234.

Field Trip Guidebooks:
Castillo, G., Stapor, F., Socorro, H., Fanti, O., Reiser, R. and Puche, E., 2002. Taller Geologico de Campo, Arenas B y C, Formacion Misoa (Carretera El Venado/Agua Viva/Carora): Sociedad Venezolana de Geologos, Filial Zulia, 9 p. y 44 figuras.


Knox, Larry W. and Stapor, Frank, 2003. Clay-rich, Waulsortian-like mounds in the Mississippian (Osagean) Fort Payne Formation of central Tennessee, in Cox, Randel Tom (Compiler), Field Trip Guidebook, Joint Meeting South-central and Southeastern Sections, Geological Society of America, State of Tennessee, Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Geology, Report of Investigations 51, Chapter 5, p. 83-104.

Abstracts:
Stapor, Frank W., Jr. and Daniel L. North, 1999, Facies and conodont content of a condensed interval: Mississippian (Chesterian) Bangor Limestone, central Tennessee and north Alabama: American Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 83, no. 8, p. 1373.


May, James P., and Stapor, Jr., Frank W., 2000, Littoral and onshore/offshore sediment cells in the Edisto Island region of South Carolina, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 2.


Stapor, Jr., Frank W., 2000, Altered amphibolite hypothesis for the origin of the Todd-type chlorites in the Ashe Formation, NW North Carolina, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 2.

Invited Presentations:
Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Alabama (Tuscaloosa): Sequence stratigraphic analysis of the Bangor Limestone, Kentucky to Alabama. 20 October 1998.

Senior Theses:
Davis, Matthew, 2001. Sandy and Oolitic Skeletal Grainstones in the Mississippian Monteagle Limestone, Central and South-Central Tennessee: Senior Thesis, Dept. of Earth Science, Tenn. Tech. Univ., 18p.

Kington, Joe, 2005. Transgressive Stacking Patterns in the Upper Mississippian (Chesterian) Hartselle Sandstone, North-Central Tennessee: Senior Thesis, Dept. of Earth Science, Tenn. Tech. Univ., 19p.

Grants:
Stapor, F. W., 1999. The origin of Chlorite-rich rocks withing the Ashe Formation, northwestern North Carolina, and their significance to mountain-building in the southern Appalachians, Tenn. Tech. Faculty Research Fund.

Stapor, F. W. and Larry W. Knox, 2001. Biostratigraphy of a newly recognized limestone section, Scottsboro, Alabama, and its relationship to the Upper Mississippian rocks of central Tennessee and northwest Georgia, Tenn Tech. Faculty Research Fund.

Proprietary Reports:
Stapor, Frank W., 2002. SEDIMENTOLOGY and STRATIGRAPHY of the Eocene Misoa Formation, Informal Units C-7 and C-4, and the Miocene La Rosa Formation in the Lagomar Field, Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela: contract report for the Compagnie Generale de Geophysique, 33 p., 4 Figures, 47 Plates (BW photos and stratigraphic cross-sections), 1 data appendix.

TTU Department of Earth Sciences | P.O. Box 5062| Cookeville, TN 38505 | Phone: (931)372-3523 | Fax: (931)372-3363