Department of Geosciences

 
Name: Tim M. Chowns

 
Phone: (678) 839-4052

 
e-mail: tchowns@westga.edu
Education:

Ph.D.   University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1968

BSc.    University of Leicester, England, 1963
Teaching:
GEOL 1121 Physical Geology,
GEOL 1122 Historical Geology,
GEOL 2503 Oceanography,
GEOL 3053 Sedimentary Petrology,
GEOL 3042 Optical Mineralogy,
GEOL 4074 Regional Applications of Field Geology, 
GEOL 4501 Geology Seminar

Link to Course Schedules


Research:
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy; Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of Paleozoic rocks in the Valley and Ridge Province of the Southern Appalachians,
Pre-Cretaceous rocks beneath the Southeastern Coastal Plain.
Petrology of Sedimentary ironstones, carbonates, cherts and evaporites.
Link to C.V.