Assistant Professor
160 Rich Lab
335 Brackett Hall
864.656.5015
E-mail: apullen@clemson.edu
Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2010, Geosciences
M.S. University of Arizona, 2006, Geosciences
B.S. University of Arizona, 1999, Economics
Classes | Publications
Faculty Overview
Dr. Pullen’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of structural geology, sedimentology, and geochronology. He takes a field and laboratory based approach to research by conducting geologic and geomorphic mapping, measuring stratigraphic sections, and applying U-Th-Pb geochronology. His research interests are broadly in the areas of continental tectonics and orogenic systems. Some of his current research projects focus on mountain building, aridification, and eolian processes. His research projects cross traditional disciplinary boundaries to study processes ranging from lithospheric evolution to Earth surface processes.
Class Information
For current syllabi, please search the Clemson University Syllabus Repository.
GEOL 3020 Structural Geology
GEOL 3021 Structural Geology Laboratory
GEOL 4050 Surficial Geology
GEOL 4051 Surficial Geology Laboratory
GEOL 4500 Paleoclimate Change
Selected Publications
Bruner, A., Leier, A.L., Jr., D.L.B., Pullen, A., Fidler, M.K., Stubbins, B., 2022. Detrital zircon provenance and transport pathways of Pleistocene-Holocene eolian sediment in the Pampean Plains, Argentina. GSA Bull. doi:10.1130/B36267.1
Pullen, A., Barbeau, D.L., Leier, A.L., Abell, J.T., Ward, M., Bruner, A., Fidler, M.K., 2022. A westerly wind dominated Puna Plateau during deposition of upper Pleistocene loessic sediments in the subtropical Andes, South America. Nat. Commun. 2022 131 13, 1–8. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31118-5
Zhang, D., Wang, G., Abell, J.T., Pullen, A., Winckler, G., Schaefer, J.M., Shen, T., 2022. Quantifying Late Pleistocene to Holocene Erosion Rates in the Hami Basin, China: Insights Into Pleistocene Dust Dynamics of an East Asian Stony Desert. Geophys. Res. Lett. 49. doi:10.1029/2021GL097495
Zhang, L., Fan, W., Ding, L., Pullen, A., Ducea, M.N., Li, J., Wang, C., Xu, X., Sein, K., 2022. Forced subduction initiation within the Neotethys: An example from the mid-Cretaceous Wuntho-Popa arc in Myanmar. GSA Bull. 134, 849–870. doi:10.1130/B35818.1
Smeraglia, L., Giuffrida, A., Grimaldi, S., Pullen, A., La Bruna, V., Billi, A., Agosta, F., 2021. Fault-controlled upwelling of low-T hydrothermal fluids tracked by travertines in a fold-and-thrust belt, Monte Alpi, southern apennines, Italy. J. Struct. Geol. 144, 104276. doi:10.1016/J.JSG.2020.104276
DiPietro, J.A., Pullen, A., Krol, M.A., 2021. Geologic history and thermal evolution in the hinterland region, western Himalaya, Pakistan. Earth-Science Rev. 223, 103817. doi:10.1016/J.EARSCIREV.2021.103817
Zhang, Haobo, Nie, J., Liu, X., Pullen, A., Li, G., Peng, W., Zhang, Hanzhi, 2021. Spatially variable provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau. Geology 49, 1155–1159. doi:10.1130/G48867.1
Clinkscales, C., Kapp, P., Thomson, S., Wang, H., Laskowski, A., Orme, D.A., Pullen, A., 2021. Regional Exhumation and Tectonic History of the Shanxi Rift and Taihangshan, North China. Tectonics 40, e2020TC006416. doi:10.1029/2020TC006416
Corradino, J.I., Pullen, A., Leier, A.L., Jr., D.L.B., Scher, H.D., Weislogel, A., Bruner, A., Leckie, D.A., Currie, L.D., 2021. Ancestral trans−North American Bell River system recorded in late Oligocene to early Miocene sediments in the Labrador Sea and Canadian Great Plains. GSA Bull. doi:10.1130/B35903.1
Smeraglia, L., Giuffrida, A., Grimaldi, S., Pullen, A., La Bruna, V., Billi, A., Agosta, F., 2021. Fault-controlled upwelling of low-T hydrothermal fluids tracked by travertines in a fold-and-thrust belt, Monte Alpi, southern apennines, Italy. J. Struct. Geol. 144, 104276. doi:10.1016/J.JSG.2020.104276
