Research Interests

• Structural and metamorphic core evolution
• Thrust belt evolution
• Tectonic modeling of Paleozoic orogenic belts, emphasis on Appalachian and Caledonian mountain systems
• Successor basin formation and genesis

Selected Publications

• Tull, J.F., Allison, D.T., and Drummond, M.S., 1999, Geology of the Millerville 7 1/2 Minute USGS Quadrangle, Alabama, Alabama Geological Survey Quadrangle Series Map, (with description and plates).


• Tull, J. F., Ragland, P. C., and Durham, R. B., 1998, Geologic, geochemical, and tectonic setting of felsic metavolcanic rocks along the Alabama recess, southern Appalachian Blue Ridge, Southeastern Geology, v. 38, no. 1, September 1998, p. 39-64.


• Tull, J.F, 1998, Analysis of a regional Middle Paleozoic unconformity along the distal southeastern Laurentian margin, southernmost Appalachians: implications for tectonic evolution, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, no. 9, p. 1149-1162.


• Tull, J.F., Kish, S. A., Groszos, M. S., and Campbell, S. K., 1998, Laurentian magmatism of the southern Appalachian Blue Ridge: post-Iapetian rifting, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, no. 10, p 1281-1303.