Processes by which thrust faults localize or ramp (e.g., Panian and Wiltschko, 2004, 2007)
Origin of syntectonic veins as deformation indicators in collisional mountain belts (e.g., Morse and Wiltschko, 2001; Wiltschko and Cervantes, 2005, 2006; Cervantes and Wiltschko, 2010; Wiltschko et al., 2009)
Origin of regions of thrust sense reversal, or triangle zones in fold and thrust belts (e.g., Couzens and Wiltschko, 1996)
The mechanisms by which rock constituents in thrust sheets respond to stress in a variety of structural environments (e.g., Wiltschko et al., 1985)
Mechanisms of delamination at collisional margins (e.g., Moore and Wiltschko, 2005)
Investigations of thrust fault motion in the active Taiwan orogen (e.g., Hung et al., 1999; Wiltschko et al., 2002; Rodriguez and Wiltschko, 2010; Wiltschko et al., 2010).

Experience

M. T. Halbouty Chair in Geology, Texas A&M, 2002–present
Professor, Texas A&M, 1994–present
Director, Center for Tectonophysics, Texas A&M, 1990–1994
Associate Director, Center for Tectonophysics, Texas A&M, 1988–1990
Associate Professor, Texas A&M, 1986
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 1980–1984
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 1978–1980

Selected Publications

Wiltschko, D.V., Dorr, J.A., 1983. Timing and deformation in overthrust belt and foreland of Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 67:1304–1322.
Couzens-Schultz, B. and Wiltschko, D.V., 2000, The control of the smectite-illite transition on passive-roof duplex formation: Canadian Rockies Foothills, Alberta: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 22, p. 207-230.
Panian, J. and Wiltschko, D., 2004, Ramp initiation in a thrust wedge: Nature, 427: 624-627.
Moore, V. M., and Wiltschko, D. V., 2004, Syntectonic delamination and tectonic wedge development in convergent orogens: Tectonics, doi 10.1029/2002TC001430, 27 pp.
Panian, J., and Wiltschko, D., 2007, Ramp initiation and spacing in a homogeneous thrust wedge, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B05417, doi:10.1029/2004JB003596.
Wiltschko, D. V., Lambert, G. R. And Lamb, W., 2009, Conditions during syntectonic vein formation in the footwall of the Absaroka Thrust Fault, Idaho–Wyoming–Utah fold and thrust belt: Journal of Structural Geology, 31:1039-1057, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2009.03.009.
Cervantes, P. And Wiltschko, D.V., 2010, Tip to midpoint observations on syntectonic veins, Ouachita orogen, Arkansas: trading space for time: Jour. Struct. Geology, 32:1085-1100, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2010.06.017.
Wiltschko, D.V., Hassler, L., Hung, J.-H., Liao, H.-S., 2010, From accretion of collision: motion and evolution of the Chaochou fault, southern Taiwan: Tectonics, 29:TC2015, doi:10.1029/2008TC002398.
Rodriguez-Roa, F. A. And Wiltschko, D.V., 2010, Thrust belt architecture of the central and southern Western Foothills of Taiwan: in, Goffey, G. P., Craig, J., Needham, T. & Scott, R. (eds) Hydrocarbons in Contractional Belts. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 348:137–168. DOI: 10.1144/SP348.8