Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences

Dr. Levine joined the faculty at Appalachian State University in the fall of 2012.  She is best described as a structural petrologist, who combines approaches from structural geology and metamorphic petrology to investigate the interactions between deformation and metamorphism. Dr. Levine conducts field work on scales from centimeters to kilometers in conjunction with detailed microstructural and mineral chemistry analysis.  Her recent work has focused on the role of strain in promoting partial melting in migmatites, and positive feedbacks that exist between partial melting reactions and deformation. She is a winner of the 2024-2025 Board of Governor's Teaching Award.

Education

• B.A. Carleton College
• M.S. University of Texas – Austin
• Ph.D. University of Texas – Austin

Courses Taught

• GES 1101 - Introduction to Physical Geology (labs)
• GES 2750 - Preparation for Careers in the Earth and Environmental Sciences
• GES 2751 - Geology Field Methods I
• GES 3220 - Fundamentals of Mineralogy
• GES 4835 - Summer Field Geology (Geology Field Methods II and III)

CV

• Dr. Levine's curriculum vitae

Recent Publications (* denotes student research advisee)

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• Levine, J.S.F., *Powell, N.E., Casale, G., and *Martin, C., 2025, Timing of and pressure- temperature constraints on deformation in the Toxaway dome, eastern Blue Ridge: Evidence for continuous deformation from the Neoacadian orogeny to the Alleghanian orogeny: Geosphere, v. 21, p. 179-205. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02802.1.
• Casale, G., Levine, J.S.F., and *Economou, J., 2023, Extracting quartz deformation fabrics from polymineralic rocks: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 173, 104893.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104893
• Levine, J.S.F., and Rahl, J.M., 2021, Subgrain boundaries as sites of melt generation and pathways of melt flow: Implications for rheology from combined chemical and quantitative orientation
  analysis: Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB020487. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020487
• Levine, J. S. F., Merschat, A. J., McAleer, R. J., Casale, G., Quillan, K. R., Fraser, K. I., & BeDell, T. G. (2018). Kinematic, Deformational, and Thermochronologic Conditions Along the Gossan Lead and Fries Shear Zones: Constraining the Western‐Eastern Blue Ridge Boundary in Northwestern North Carolina. Tectonics, 37(10), 3500-3523.
• Casale, G., Levine, J. S., Craig, T. D., & Stewart, C. (2017). Timing and deformation conditions of the Tallulah Falls dome, NE Georgia: Implications for the Alleghanian orogeny. GSA Bulletin, 129(9-10), 1195-1208