John J. W. Rogers Global Tectonics and Environmental Geology Professor Department of Geological Sciences

Education | Contact Information | Research Interests | Research Activities | What's New | Research Publications

Education

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1955.

Contact Information

Department of Geological Sciences
313 Mitchell Hall, CB#3315
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315

email: jrogers@email.unc.edu

telephone: (919) 962-2581

fax: (919) 966-4519

Research Interests

A variety of topics, most of which deal with the areas where geochemistry overlaps the study of the nature: 

• origin, and significance of both igneous and sedimentary rocks. 
• application of petrology to studies of evolution of the continental crust. 

Research Activities

• Crustal evolution of Southern India, significance of Pan-African ages in India to assembly of Gondwana, development of transects to study the accretion of Gondwana.
• Evidence for global climate change

What's New

People and the Earth, by John J.W. Rogers and P. Geoffrey Feiss. Cambridge University Press, 1998. hardback ISBN 0-521-56028-4; paperback ISBN 0-521-56872-2 

 

Based on results of the Piedmont Environmental Project, Rogers is currently finishing a book dealing with the environmental impact of human growth on the North Carolina Piedmont region.

 

  1999 book titled "History and Environment of North Carolina's Piedmont"  by John J. W. Rogers available in Adobe PDF.  Download book HERE.  Download Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.01 HERE.

 

I am co-editor of a Special Issue of Gondwana Research on the possible existence of a Mesoproterozoic supercontinent. A suggested configuration is shown below, and an announcement and call for papers is on the Gondwana Research homepage

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Selected Research Publications

Naqvi, S.M., and Rogers, J.J.W., 1987, Precambrian Geology of India: Oxford University Press, 223 p. 

 

Rogers, J.J.W., 1993, A History of the Earth: Cambridge University Press, 292 p. 

 

Rogers, J.J.W., 1996, A history of continents in the past three billion years: Journal of Geology, v. 104, p. 91-107. 

 

Rast, N., and Rogers, J.J.W., eds., 1997, Assembly and Dispersal of Supercontinents: special issue of Journal of Geodynamics. 

 

Rogers, J.J.W., and Feiss, P.G., 1998, People and the Earth: Cambridge University Press, 350 p.