Chuck Bailey

Chuck Bailey
  • Professor, Geology

About Chuck Bailey

I am a professor of Geology at the university, where I teach courses such as the Earth’s Environmental Systems, Weather & Climate, Field Methods, and Earth Structure & Dynamics. My research focuses on structural geology and tectonics, this work takes me (and my students) from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia to the low deserts in southern Arizona and many places in between. I am a 1989 graduate of William & Mary where I doubled majored in Biology and Geology.

For more information about the W&M structure and tectonics group visit my personal website.

Posts by Chuck Bailey

Dispatches from Oman: We’re with the Band

After four days of field work in the Western Hajar Mountains, Alex and I returned to Muscat to get clean and then joined up

Dispatches from Oman: Wadi Jizzi – standing at the bottom of the Tethys Ocean

Our travels in Oman took us north from the capital region in Muscat to Sohar, a drive of some two hours along the Batinah

Dispatches from Oman: Ophiolite to Aflaj

The New Year finds me half-a-world away from William & Mary on a research trip to Oman.  I am here starting a project focused

Ivy Creek, the Old Stomping Ground

This post begins what I plan to be a recurring series on drainage basins and watersheds.  For earth scientists interested in landscapes and surface

Glimpses of the Past: The Rockfish Conglomerate

My family has a tradition of going camping about once per semester.  Back in the spring of 2011, as the Appalachians were beginning to

Summer Research: Going with the Flow

In April I delivered a talk on “Finding Faults in Old Virginia” as part of William & Mary’s Tack Faculty Lecture Series.  Our study

Summer Research: Introducing the Wayne WonderMonkeys

As I noted in my last post our summer geologic field research took us to the Beehive State. Our work is primarily focused on

Summer Research: The Gravity of the Situation

I’ve just returned to Williamsburg after a month of field research in Utah at Fish Lake and the High Plateaus.  I journeyed to Utah

Living the Dream: Back to Alberene

Remember the Alberene Dream Team from the summer of 2011?  This talented group of undergraduates poured themselves into research projects aimed at understanding the