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George McGill received his B.A. degree from Carleton College in 1953 with a major in geology and a minor in biology. M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geology were completed at the University of Minnesota in 1955 and Princeton University in 1958. Although he remained a generalist throughout, he acquired a special interest in structural geology while in residence at Princeton. McGill joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts in 1958 and served as Department Head from 1977 to 1984 and 1988 to 1993. Until 1970, McGill conducted field research on the structural geology and stratigraphy of the Montana Rockies, and laboratory research involving high-pressure rock deformation. Since 1970, most of his research has been in planetary geology, with emphasis on structural geology and crustal evolution of terrestrial planets, including relevant earth-analogue field studies in the Colorado Plateau area. Professor McGill was a member of the Science Steering Group and on the Radar Mapper Team for the Pioneer Venus Project of NASA, and compiled major global summaries of the geology and tectonics of Venus as a result of this activity. He also was a Guest Investigator for the Magellan radar mapping mission to Venus from 1990 to 1993.
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Representative Publications:
McGill, G.E., E.R. Stofan, and S.E. Smrekar, (2010), Venus Tectonics, /Chapter 3 in /Watters, T.R. and R.A. Schultz, eds., Planetary Tectonics, Cambridge University Press.
Tanaka, K.L., R. Anderson, J.M. Dohm, V.L. Hansen, G.E. McGill, R.T. Pappalardo, R.A. Schultz, and T.R. Watters (2010) Planetary Structural Mapping, /Chapter 8 in /Watters, T.R. and R.A. Schultz, eds., Planetary Tectonics, Cambridge University Press.
Basilevsky, A.T., and G. E. McGill (2007), Surface Evoluton of Venus, Chapter 3 in Esposito, L.W., E.R. Stofan, and T.E. Cravens, eds. Exploring Venus as a Terrestrial Planet, American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph 176.
McGill, G.E. and B.A. Campbell (2006), Radar properties as clues to relative ages of ridge belts and plains on Venus. Jour. Geophys. Res., 111, E12006, doi:10.1029/ 2006JE002705,.
McGowan, E.M., and McGill, G.E. (2006), The anomalous tilt of Isidis Planitia Mars, Geophys. Res. Letts., 33, L08S06, doi: 10.1029/2005GL024170.
McGill, G.E. (2005), Geologic map of Cydonia Mensae-southern Acidalia Planitia, Mars: Quadrangles 40007, 40012, 40017, 45007, 45012, and 45017, U.S. Geol. Survey, Geol. Invest. Map I-2811.
McGill, G.E. (2004), Geologic map of the Bereghinya Planitia (V8) Quadrangle, Venus, U.S. Geol. Survey, Geol. Invest. Map I-2794.
McGill, G.E. (2004), Tectonic and stratigraphic implications of the relative ages of venusian plains and wrinkle ridges, Icarus, 172, 603-612.
Smrekar, S.E., McGill, G.E., Raymond, C.A., and Dimitriou, A.M. (2004), Geologic evolution of the martian dichotomy in the Ismenius area of Mars and implications for plains magnetization, Jour. Geophys. Res., 109, E11002, doi: 10.1029/2004JE002260.
Bridges, N., and McGill, G.E. (2002), Geologic
map of the Kaiwan Fluctus (V44) Quadrangle, Venus, U.S. Geol. Survey,
Geol. Invest. Map I-2747.
Buczkowski, D.L., and G.E. McGill (2002), Topography within circular grabens: Implications for polygon origin, Utopia Planitia, Mars, Geophys. Res. Letts., 29, 10.1029/2001GL014100.
Rosenberg, E., and McGill, G.E. (2001), Geologic map of the Pandrosos Dorsa (V5) Quadrangle, Venus, U.S. Geol. Survey, Geol. Invest. Map I-2721.
McGill, G.E. (2001), The Utopia Basin revisited: Regional slope and shorelines from MOLA profiles, Geophys. Res. Letts., 28, 411-414.
McGill, G.E. (2000), Crustal history of north central Arabia Terra, Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 6945-6959.
McGill, G.E. (2000), Geologic map of the Sappho Patera (V20) quadrangle, Venus, U.S. Geol. Survey, Geol. Invest. Series, Map I-2627.
McGill, G.E., R.A. Schultz, and J.M. Moore (2000), Fault growth by segment linkage: an explanation for scatter in maximum displacement and trace length data from the Canyonlands Grabens of SE Utah: Discussion, J. Structural Geol., 22, 135-140.
Carruthers, M.W., and G.E. McGill (1998), Evidence for igneous activity and implications for the origin of a fretted channel in southern Ismenius Lacus, Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 31,433-31,443.
McGill, G.E., (1998), Central Eistla Regio: Origin and relative age of topographic rise, Jour. Geophys. Res., 103, 5889-5896.
McGill, G.E., (1994), Hotspot evolution and venusian tectonic style, Jour. Geophys. Res., 99, 23,149-23,161.
McGill, G.E., (1993), Wrinkle ridges, stress domains, and kinematics of venusian plains, Geophys. Res. Letts., 20, 2407-2410.
McGill, G.E., and L.S. Hills (1992), Origin of giant martian polygons, Jour. Geophys. Res., 97, 2633-2647.
Solomon, S.C., Smrekar, S.E., Bindschadler, D.L., Grimm, R.E., Kaula, W.M., McGill, G.E., Phillips, R.J., Saunders, R.S., Schubert, G., Squyres, S.W., and Stofan, E.R. (1992), Venus tectonics: An overview of Magellan observations, Jour. Geophys. Res. 97, 13,199-13,255.
Squyres, S.W., Jankowski, D.G., Simons, M., Solomon, S.C., Hager, B.H., and McGill, G.E. (1992), Plains tectonism on Venus: The deformation belts of Lavinia Planitia, Jour. Geophys. Res., 97, 13,579-13,599.
McGill, G.E. (1992), Structure and kinematics of a major tectonic contact, Michipicoten greenstone belt, Ontario, Canadian Jour. Earth Sci., 29, 2118-2132.
McGill, G.E., and Dimitriou, A.M. (1990), Origin of the martian global dichotomy by crustal thinning in the late Noachian or early Hesperian, Jour. Geophys. Res., 95, 12,595-12,605.