Maurice Meylan, Ph.D.
Professor

E-mail: Maurice.Meylan@usm.edu
Office: Walker Science Building, Room
Phone : (601) 266-5026
Fax : (601) 266-5026

Education

B.A. 1964 State University of New York at Buffalo
M.S. 1968 Florida State University
Ph.D.  1978 University of Hawaii

Teaching Interests

GLY 101	Physical Geology
GLY 103	Historical Geology
GLY 308	Structural Geology
GLY 401/501	Sedimentology
GLY 450/550	Geologic Marine Science
GLY 470/570	Petroleum Geology
GLY 608	Gulf Coast Geology

Research Interests

Geologic mapping of southern Mississippi, focusing on criteria for distinguishing mapping units.

Relationship between surface mapping units and stratigraphic units define in the subsurface of southern Mississippi.

Subsurface stratigraphy and structure of southern Mississippi, particularly the interaction between salt and fault tectonics and sediment accumulation, and on a larger scale, the structural development of the Mississippi Salt Basin as it served as an Early Cretaceous depocenter

Upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic sequence stratigraphy along the Lower Cretaceous shelf margin hingeline

Nature and recognition of sediment facies boundaries

Pathways of migration for petroleum in the Mississippi Salt Basin

Marine ferromanganese oxide mineral deposits (nodules and crusts)

Diagenetic alteration of marine volcanic ash layers to smectite and phillipsite