- Professor Emeritus
- Department of Geosciences
- Phone: 401.874.2197
- Email: dpmurray@uri.edu
- Office Location: Office: 333 Woodward
Biography
Research
- Appalachian Tectonics
- Application of GIS and GPS to Geology
- Granite Petrogenesis
- Geoscience Education
Education
Ph.D., 1976, Brown University
M.S., 1968, Brown University
AB, 1966, Dartmouth College
Selected Publications
- Kuiper, Y.D., Murray, D.P., Ellison, S., and Crowley, J.L., 2022, U-Pb detrital zircon analysis of sedimentary rocks of the southeastern New England Avalon terrane in the U.S. Appalachians: Evidence for a separate crustal block, in Kuiper, Y.D., Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., Strachan, R.A., and Thompson, M.D., eds., New Developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan Orogen: Geological Society of America Special Paper 554, p. 93–119, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2554(05).
- Kuiper, Y.D. and Murray, D.P., 2022, Possible crustal blocks of the southeastern part of the New England Avalon terrane in the US Appalachians, International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP) 683, Halifax Canada, virtual field guide, 35 pp.
- Fetherston, D.B., Murray, D.P. and Wintsch, R.P., 2014, Alleghanian metamorphism of the southern Narragansett Basin, RI: Hinged burial and exhumation: in Thompson, M. D., ed., Guidebook to Field Trips in Southeastern New England (MA-NH-RI): New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 106th Annual Meeting, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, p. B5-1 –B5-19.
- Kortz, K.M., Murray, D.P., 2009, Barriers to College Students Learning How Rocks Form: JGE, v. 57, n. 4, p. 300-315.\
- Murray, D.P., Skehan, J.W., and Raben, J., 2004, Tectonostratigraphic relationships and coalification trends in the Narragansett and Norfolk basins, New England: Journal of Geodynamics, v.37, p.583-611.
- Murray, D.P., 1998, editor, Guidebook to field trips in Rhode Island and adjacent regions of Connecticut and Massachusetts, 1998 New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, 388 pp.
- Hermes, O. D., Gromet, L.P., and Murray, D. P., 1994, Bedrock geologic map of Rhode Island: Rhode Island Map Series No. 1, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Scale = 1:100,000.