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Subduction Zone Research
Funded Grants:
- Texas A&M Research Foundation (JOI-USSSP): The Role of the Forearc in Subduction Zone Chemical Cycles: Fluid-Mobile Element and B-Li isotope signatures of serpentinites from S. Chamorro Seamount, ODP Leg 195.
Current Projects:
- Li, Be and B abundance Systematics of Off-Axis and Monogenetic Volcanic Edifices in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (REU Summer Project)
- Chemical Fluxes in the Forearc as Determined from Diapiric Serpentinites, Mariana Subduction system: ODP Legs 125 and 195 (Ivan Savov)
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Petrogenetic Insights into Lavas of the New
Georgia Arc and Woodlark Basin from B-Li-Be abundance and Li
isotope Systematics (Megan Hendren)
Current Projects:
- Assessing the role of subducted materials in the Mantle source regions of Mt. Erebus and other HIMU-reservoir intraplate volcanic centers (Jeff Ryan)
- The B-Li-Be and Li isotope systematics of intraplate lavas from Moorea and other EM-type reservoir intraplate centers (Judy Harden)
- Boron Isotope Systematics of Intraplate Volcanic Rocks (Jeff Ryan, Ivan Savov, Sonia Tornarini)
Past Funded Grants
- National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: REU: An integrated field-laboratory experience for undergraduates: constraints on the evolution of Southern Blue Ridge mafic-ultramafic massifs. (co-PI's: Sarah Kruse, V. Peterson, S. Yurkovich, and J. Burr) 4/1/00-12/31/02
- National Science Foundation: "REU: A combined field-laboratory experience for undergraduates: constraints on the tectonic evolution of ultramafic massifs in the southern Blue Ridge. (Co-PI: Dr. Virginia Peterson) 4/1/97-3/31/99
REU Program Post-Summer Projects :
- Rare-earth element systematics of Carroll Knob and Willets, NC amphibolites, and Webster-Addie pyroxenites. (R. Sorauf, J. Meyer)
- Petrology and evoluton of orthopyroxenite layers/lenses, Chestnut Gap Quarry, Addie, NC (R. McIlmoil )
- Petrogenesis and metamorphism of amphibolites from the Webster-Addie/Willits area, NC (A. Scherer)
- Assessment of Biogenic origins for Mg-Carbonates in ALH 84001 (Andy VanCleave)
- B-Li-Be systematics of Shergottites and Nahklites: the role of H2O in Martian basalt petrogenesis (collaborative w/ R. Lentz and H. McSween, Univ. Tennessee
- B,Be, and Li abundance and isotopic studies of Hawaii Drilling Project Lavas: A possible Analog to Tharsis-Type Volcanism on Mars (Valerie Slater and H. McSween, Univ. Tennessee)