Michael Krol

Department of Geological Sciences

Bridgewater State University

Bridgewater MA 02325

(508) 531-2121

mkrol@bridgew.edu

Education
Ph.D. Geological Sciences, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, May 1996.
M.S. Geology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, August 1990.
B.S. Geology, State University of New York at Oneonta, New York, May 1988.
A.S. Physical Sciences, Nassau Community College, New York, May 1986.

Professional & Teaching Experience

2008-2014 Chairman: Department of Geological Sciences, Bridgewater State University

2012-present Professor: Department of Geological Sciences, Bridgewater State University
2006-2012 Associate Professor: Department of Geological Sciences, Bridgewater State University
2001-2006 Assistant Professor: Department of Earth Sciences, Bridgewater State University
1998-2001 Adjunct Professor/Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University
1996-1998 Post-Doctoral Research Associate: 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology Lab, Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1995-1996 Research Assistant: Quantitative Basin Analysis Lab, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
1994-1995 Teaching Assistant: Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University
1994 Research Assistant: Stable Isotope Lab, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University
1992-1993 Research Assistant: 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology Lab, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University
1991-1992 Teaching Assistant: Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University
1988-1990 Teaching Assistant: Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University
1989 Teaching Assistant: Geology Field Camp, Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University

Bridgewater State University Community Service
2008-current Chairman: Department of Geological Sciences
2009, 2010 Search Committee-Sedimentology Faculty Position, Laboratory Technician
2006-present Campus Representative for the Geological Society of America
2006 Peer Evaluation Committee-Promotion
2006 Member of an Academic Misconduct Review Panel
2005-current Member of the New Science Building Planning Team
2004-current Member of the MSCA Executive Committee
2004-2006 Member of the Academic Policy Committee
2003-2004 Member of the Parking Committee
2002-2005 Mentor in the Adrian Tinsley Program for Undergraduate Research

Professional Society Memberships & Awards
Geological Society of America (Bridgewater State College campus representative)
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Tobacco Roots Geological Society
Best Paper Award, Zimbabwe Geological Society

Research Grants Awarded
2010 STREAMS Course Development Grant

2009 Center for the Advancement of Research & Teaching Summer Grant "Timing of basalt magmatism in the Ruby and Blacktail Mountains: Implications for the sedimentologic, geomorphic, and tectonic evolution of SW Montana"

2008 Center for the Advancement of Research & Teaching Summer Grant "Geochemistry of the Dillon Granite Gneiss: Implications for the Nature of Magmatism in the Ruby Mountains, Montana"

2007 Center for the Advancement of Research & Teaching Summer Grant "Geochemical analysis of Basalts in the Ruby and Blacktail Mountains, Montana"

2006 Center for the Advancement of Research & Teaching Faculty-Librarian Research Grant “40Ar/39Ar Laser Dating of Detrital Muscovite from the Teddy Creek Group & Renova Formation, Blacktail Mountains, Montana: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of the Western Cordillera”

2005 Center for the Advancement of Research & Teaching Summer Grant “Petrogenesis of the Price Creek Volcanic Rocks, Blacktail Mountains, Montana: A Geochemical Approach”

2004 Center for the Advancement of Research & Teaching Summer Grant “Unraveling the Geologic History of the Blacktail Mountains, Southwestern Montana”

2001 Center for the Advancement of Research & Teaching Small Award Grant “Petrology of the Blacktail & Sweetwater Mountains, southwestern Montana”

1999 National Science Foundation “40Ar/39Ar dating of metamorphism and crustal reworking in the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas orogenic belt, Argentina”

Invited Lectures

Gate Elementary School, Mrs. Olson's 3rd grade class, June 2010

Gates Elementary School, Ms. Subsick's kindergarten class, Feburary 2010

Gates Elementary School, Mrs. Lamonakis's kindergarten class, March 2010

Gates Elementary School, Mrs. Bitteker's 1st grade class, June 2008

Gates Elementary School, Ms. Subsick's kindergarten class, May 2007

Gates Elementary School, Ms. Subsick's kindergarten class, January 2007

SUNY-Oneonta, March 2006

Publications in Refereed Scientific Journals
2003

Clift, P. D., Carter, A. Krol, M., & Kirby, E., Constraints on India-Eurasia Collision in the Arabian Sea Region taken from the Indus Group, Ladakh Himalaya, India. In, Clift, P.D., Kroon, D., Craig, J., and Gaedicke, C. (Editors), The Tectonic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region, Geological Society of London Special Publication 195, p. 97-116.

Singletary, S.J., Hanson, R.E., Martin, M.W., Crowley, J.L., Bowring, S.A., Key, R.M., Ramokate, L.V., Direng, B.B., & Krol, M.A., Geochronology of basement rocks in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, and implications for regional Proterozoic tectonics: Precambrian Research, v. 121, p. 47-71.

2002

Kirby, E., Reiners, P., Krol, M., Whipple, K., Hodges, K., Farley, K., Tang, W., & Chen, Z., Late Cenozoic evolution of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from 40Ar/39 Ar and (U- Th)/He thermochronology: Tectonics, v. 21, p. 1-19.

2001

Simpson, C., Whitmeyer, S.J., De Paor, D.G., Gromet, L.P., Miro, R., Krol, M.A., & Short, H., Sequential ductile through brittle reactivation of major fault zones along the accretionary margin of Gondwana in central Argentina, in Holdsworth, R.E., Strachan, R.A., Magloughlin, J.F., & Knipe, R.J. (eds.) in The Nature and Tectonic Significance of Fault Zone Weakening, Geological Society of London Special Paper 186, 233-255.

1999

Krol, M.A., Muller, P.D., & Idleman, B., Late Paleozoic deformation within the Pleasant Grove Shear Zone, Maryland: Results from 40Ar/39Ar dating of white mica, In Valentino, D. & Gates, A., eds., The Mid-Atlantic Piedmont: Tectonic Missing Link of the Appalachians,Geological Society of America Special Paper 330, p.93-111.

Gates, A.E., Muller, P.D., & Krol, M., Alleghanian transpressional orogenic float in the Baltimore terrane, central Appalachian Piedmont, In Valentino, D. & Gates, A., eds., The Mid-Atlantic Piedmont: Tectonic Missing Link of the Appalachians, Geological Society of America Special Paper 330, p.127-139.

Vinyu, M.L., Hanson, R.E., Martin, M.W., Bowring, S.A., Jelsma, H.A., Krol, M.A., & Dirks, P.H., U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronological constraints on the tectonic evolution of the easternmost part of the Zambezi orogenic belt, northeast Zimbabwe, Precambrian Research, v. 98, p. 67-82.

1998

Hodges, K.V., Bowring, S., Davidek, K., Hawkins, D., & Krol, M.A., Evidence for rapid displacement on Himalayan normal faults and the importance of tectonic denudation in the evolution of mountain ranges, Geology, v. 26, p. 483-486.

1996

Krol, M.A., Zeitler, P.K., Poupeau, G., & Pecher, A., Temporal variations in the cooling and denudation history of the Hunza plutonic complex, Karakoram Batholith, revealed by 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, Tectonics, v. 15, p. 403-415.

Krol, M.A., Zeitler, P.K., & Copeland, P., Episodic unroofing of the Kohistan Batholith, Pakistan: Implications from K-Feldspar thermochronology, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, p. 28,149-28,164.

1995

Krol, M.A. and Muller, P.D., Microstructural evidence for dextral shearing within the Pleasant Grove Zone, Maryland, Northeastern Geology, v. 17, no. 2., p. 151-161.

Field Trip Guides
1999

Gates, A. E., Valentino, D.W., & Krol, M.A., The Grenville Province in the western Hudson Highlands, southern New York, Friends of the Grenville Annual Field Meeting.

Papers Presented at Professional Scientific Meetings

2013

Bell, L. & Krol, M.A., Timing of deformation associated with a major ductile shear zone, Ruby Mountains, SW Montana, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No. 5, p. 12.

2011

Schaen, A. J. & Krol, M.A., Preliminary 40Ar/39Ar laser dating of detrital biotite from Cenozoic sandstones, Ruby Valley, Montana, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 43, No. 5, p. 114.

2009

Holt, R.S. & Krol, M.A., Sedimentary Petrology of the Teddy Creek Group, Blacktail Mountains, MT: Implications for Provenance and Landscape Evolution, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, p. 666.

2008

Muller, P.D. & Krol, M.A., Re-interpretation of the range-bounding faults of the Blacktail Mountains, SW Montana: Implications for Cenozoic tectonics, paleo-topography, and sedimentation, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 40, No. 1, p. 52.

Sousa, J.L., Krol, M.A. & Muller, P.D., Petrologic investigation of amphibolites across a major ductile shear zone in the Ruby Mountains, SW Montana: Implications for the nature of early Proterozoic(?) mafic magmatism, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 40, No.1, p. 54.

2007

Olsen, R., Krol, M.A., Muller, P.D. & Alcock, J., Preliminary kinematic analysis of mylonite zones within the southern Ruby Mountains, SW Montana: Implications for regional Proterozoic(?) tectonic activity, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 1, p. 74.

2006

Alcock, J., Muller, P. & Krol, M., Contact metamorphism adjacent to the Paleoproterozoic Wolf Creek ultramafics, southern Ruby Range, SW Montana, Evidence for magmatic emplacement, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 7, p. 384.

Clement, E. & Krol, M.A., Origin of gabbroic xenoliths within the Lone Mountain dacite intrusion, Big Sky, Montana: A field and petrographic analysis. 20th National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Abstracts with Programs.

Kirkwood, A. & Krol, M.A., Microstructural analysis of a drill core from the Narragansett Basin, Somerset, MA. 20th National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Abstracts with Programs.

Lynn, E. & Krol, M.A., Microstructural Analysis of the Rhode Island Formation from the Somerset drill core, Narragansett Basin, MA: Evidence for Alleghanian upper greenschist-facies metamorphism and deformation, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 2, p. 91.

2005

Nevens, E. & Krol, M.A., Multiple Episodes of Magmatism, Deformation, and Metamorphism in the Avalon Terrane of Eastern Massachusetts, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5.

McCormick, R., Krol, M.A., & Muller, P.D., Genetic Relationship between the Price Creek and Dillon Volcanics? A Petrographic Analysis, Blacktail Mountains, Montana, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5.

Callahan, D. & Krol, M.A., Sedimentary Petrology of the Teddy Creek Group, Blacktail Mountains, Montana, 19th National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Abstracts with Programs.

2004

Muller, P.D. & Krol, M.A., Early Cenozoic volcanism, sedimentation, and faulting, southeast Blacktail Mountains, Montana, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5.

Rofe, N.Q. & Krol, M.A., Geologic mapping of volcanic rocks in the Blacktail Mountains, Montana, 18th National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Abstracts with Programs, p.157.

2001

Dougherty, A. Fitzgerald, D.M., Krol, M.A., & Idleman, B.D., Provenance study of barrier sands using 40Ar/39Ar laser-probe dating of single crystals detrital muscovites, Merrimack Embayment barriers, New England, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, p. 274.

Hanson, R, Singletary, S., Martin, M., Bowring, S., Key, R., Direng, B., Majaule, T., Ramokate, L., & Krol, M., Tectonic links between Proterozoic orogenic belts in southern Africa beneath the Kalahari Desert, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, p. 436.

2000

Krol, M.A., Whitmeyer, S., & Simpson, C., 40Ar/39Ar dating of ductile shear zones in the Sierras Pampeanas, central Argentina: Implications for the Middle Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Paleo-Pacific Gondwana margin, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. 506.

Gates, A.E., Krol, M.A., & Valentino, D.W., Dextral strike-slip escape tectonics in the final assmebly of Rodinia in the Appalachians, Hudson Highlands, NY, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. 20.

Simpson, C., Krol, M., Short, H., Whitmeyer, S., & Miro, R., Sequential ductile through brittle reactivation of major fault zones along the accretionary margin of Gondwana in central Argentina, Joint International Research Meeting, The Nature and Tectonic Significance of Fault Zone Weakening, Geological Society of London & Geological Society of America.

Shaw, B., Simpson, C., Krol, M.A., Metamorphic history of accretionary prism rocks in the Sierras de Cordoba, Argentina: Petrographic evidence for high temperature/low pressure metamorphism, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. 73.

1999

Krol, M. & Simpson, C., 40Ar/39Ar Cooling Ages from Micas in Eastern Sierras Pampeanas Accretionary Prism Rocks, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, p.114-115.

Krol, M.A., Sherwood, M., & Dougherty, A., Tertiary denudation history of the Indian plate, Naran, Pakistan: Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, p.29.

Kirby, E., Reiners, P., Farley, K., Krol, M., Liu, Y., Chen, Z., & Tang, W., Late Cenozoic uplift and landscape evolution of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from 40Ar/39Ar and U-Th-He thermochronology, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, p. 129.

1998

Krol, M. & Hodges, K., 40Ar/39Ar constraints on extensional unroofing in the Bitterroot mylonite zone and adjacent footwall, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. 73.

Krol, M.A., Muller, P.D., & Idleman, B.D., Multiple orogenic pulses in the central Appalachian Piedmont? Insights from 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb thermochronology, Geological Association of Canada and Mineralogical Association of Canada Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. 96-97.

Gates, A.E. & Krol, M.A., Kinematics and thermochronology of late Grenville escape tectonism in the central Appalachians, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. 124.

Dougherty, A., Krol, M., & Hodges, K., Miocene tectonic unroofing and cooling of the Greater Himalayan sequence, Nyalam region, southern Tibet, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. 270.

Snyder, N.P., Hodges, K.V., & Krol, M.A., Depositional and tectonic evolution of an extensional basin revealed through 40Ar/39Ar geochronology: The Nova Basin, Panamint Mountains, California, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. 234.

Hanson, R.E., Hargrove, U.S., Martin, M.W., Bowring, S.A., Krol, M.A., Hodges, K.V., Munyanyiwa, H., & Blenkinsop, T.G., New geochronological constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Pan-African Zambezi belt, south-central Africa, Journal of African Earth Sciences, Gondwana 10: Event Stratigraphy of Gondwana, v. 27, p. 104-105.

Papers Presented at Professional Scientific Meetings, continued
1998 Hargrove, U., Martin, M., Hanson, R., Singletary, S., Bowring, S., Krol, M., & Munyanyiwa, H., Tectonic inversion of Paleo- to Neoproterozoic metamorphic rocks in the Zambezi belt, Mt. Darwin area, NE Zimbabwe, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. 292.

1997

Krol, M.A., Hodges, K.V., & Bodnar, R.J., A synthetic fluid inclusion approach to understanding excess argon in silicates, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6, p. 451.

Krol, M.A., Muller, P.D., & Idleman, B., Late Paleozoic deformation within the Pleasant Grove Zone, Maryland: Results from 40Ar/39Ar dating of white mica, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 1, p. 59.

Hanson, R., Vinyu, M., Jelsma, H., Martin, M., Bowring, S., Krol, M., & Hodges, K., Geochronological constraints on the Pan-African tectonic evolution of the Zambezi orogenic belt in northeastern Zimbabwe, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6, p. 468.

1995

Gates, A.E., Valentino, D.W., Muller, P.D., & Krol, M.A., The Alleghanian central Appalachian Piedmont: A dextral restraining-releasing bend model, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 1, p. 46.

1994

Krol, M.A. and Zeitler, P.K., 40Ar/39Ar constraints on regional thermal resetting of alkali feldspars from the Newark Basin and adjacent Reading Prong, Eighth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1107, p. 180.

Krol, M.A., Zeitler, P.K., & Copeland, P., Temporal and spatial variations in the cooling history of the Kohistan island arc terrane, Pakistan: Implications from 40Ar/39Ar K-Feldspar thermochronology, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 7, p. 136.

1993

Krol, M.A. and Zeitler, P.K., Uplift and denudation of the Karakoram Axial Batholith: Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar analysis of biotite and K-Feldspar, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. 122.

1992

Krol, M.A., Gosse, J., Hedlund, C., Messina, T., Tenore-Nortrup, J., Winslow, D., & Zeitler, P., 40Ar/39Ar constraints in the extent of both Paleozoic and Mesozoic thermal overprinting of Reading Prong basement adjacent to the Newark Basin, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union Abstracts with Programs, v. 73, no. 14, p. 279.

1990

Krol, M.A., Onasch, C.M., & Muller, P.D., Kinematic analysis of the Pleasant Grove Shear Zone: Eastern Maryland Piedmont, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 22, no. 2, p. 28-29.

1989

Muller, P.D., Krol, M.A., & Fakundiny, R., Iron Mountain Complex, eastern Adirondack mountains, NY: in situ intrusion or tectonic sheet?, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 21, no. 2, p. 53-54.