Kieran O'Hara
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences Sciences
University of Kentucky
Lexington 40506



Tel: 859-257-6931
Email: geokoh@uky.edu

Research Interests and publications

  • Climate change: Methane ice core signals (Jan 08 GRL)


  • Faults: Frictional heating and melting on brittle faults



  • Shear zones: Chemical and textural changes in mylonites


  • Fluid inclusions I: Use in tectonic reconstructions (see Appalachians)


  • S.E. New England and S. Appalachians


    Fluid inclusions: Fluid-rock interaction in mylonites


    Appalachian tectonics: SE New England and Southern Appalachians

    Courses taught (more or less regularly)

    Earth dynamics - undergraduate seniors

    Structural geology - undergraduate majors

    Tectonics - graduate level

    Advanced structural geology - graduate level

    Environmental Geology - non-science majors