Dr. Matthew P. McKay

Department

Schl of Earth Enviro and Sustain
Role: Faculty
Campus: Springfield

Postal mail

Missouri State University
Schl of Earth Enviro and Sustain
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65897

Details

Education

  • PhD, Geology, 2015, West Virginia University
  • MS, Geology, 2011, University of Alabama
  • BS, Geology, 2009, University of Alabama

Teaching

  • GLG 113 Earth: An Instruction Manual
  • GLG 340 Structural Geology
  • GLG 413 Field Geology (summer field course)

Professional experience

  • Geological Survey of Alabama (2014-2016): Field geologist

Recent publications

1. McKay, M.P. and Jackson, W.T., Jr. (2026), A virtual field trip across the Alabama Valley and Ridge and Blue Ridge, Geological Society of America Field Guide,.
2. Jackson, W.T., Jr, McKay, M.P., Shaulis, B., Konopinski, M.** (2026), Late Mississippian (Chestarian) sediment provenance during initial Black Warrior foreland basin development, in McKay, M.P., Jackson, W.T., Jr, Allen, J., Weislogel, A.L. (eds.), Late Proterozoic to Paleozoic North American Tectonics: A Celebration of the Life and Career of William A. Thomas, Geological Society of America Memoir 225.
3. Lane, J.L.**, Mickus, K., McKay, M.P. (2026), Crustal structure of the Black Warrior basin through the modeling of gravity and magnetic data and its relationship to its formation, in McKay, M.P., Jackson, W.T., Jr, Allen, J., Weislogel, A.L. (eds.), Late Proterozoic to Paleozoic North American Tectonics: A Celebration of the Life and Career of William A. Thomas, Geological Society of America Memoir 225.
4. McKay, M.P. and Jackson, W.T. (2024), Geology of the Ouachita Mountains and Linkages to North American Late Paleozoic Orogenesis, Geol. Society of Am. Field Guide 68.
5. McKay, M.P., Jackson, W.T., Jr., Spurgeon, D**, Ionescu, A.**, Shaulis, B., (2021), Detrital zircon geothermochronology reveals pre-Alleghanian exhumation of regional Mississippian sediment sources in the southern Appalachian Valley and Ridge Province, GEOSPHERE.
**MSU graduate student co-author

Research and professional interests

  • Field geology
  • Tectonics
  • Structural geology
  • Clastic and volcanic stratigraphy
  • Metamorphic petrology
  • Spatial learning

Awards and honors

  • CNAS Student Nominated Award for Faculty/Staff Excellence, Missouri State University, 2019
  • Outstanding Graduate Mentor, Missouri State Graduate College, 2018

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