UMass-Amherst Petrology Research Group

Fall 2009 Petrology Seminar

Friday – 2:00pm - room 243 (Department Head's Office)

Sept. 1 8	S.A. Morse Testing the Validity of the Petrologic Hypothesis 'No Phenocrysts, No Post-Emplacement Differentiation' Latypov, 2009, Journal of Petrology, v.50, p.1047-1069
Sept. 24	Seminar Canceled for NEIGC meeting in Lyndonville, Vermont
Oct. 1	Chris Koteas 'Nanogranite' and glassy inclusions; the anatectic melt in migmatites and granulites Ceasre,Ferrero, Salvioli-Mariani, Pedron, Cavallo. 2009, Geology, v.37, p.627-630 GSA data repository supplement
Oct. 9	Terri Poruznick Scott Johnson, 2009, Porphyroblast rotation and strain localization: Debate settled! Geology, v.37, p.663-666.
Oct. 16	SEMINAR CANCELED National Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Oregon
Oct. 23	Chris Koteas B.R. Johnson and A.F. Glazner, 2009, Formation of K-feldspar megacrysts in granodiorite plutons by thermal cycling and late-stage textural coarsening. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, in-press for November issue.
Oct. 30	Jason Kaiser A.G. Simakin and I.N. Bindeman, 2008, Evolution of crystal sizes in the series of dissolution and precipitation events in open magma systems. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 177, p.997-1010.
Nov. 6	R.F. Weinberg, G. Mark, and H. Reichardt, 2009, Magma ponding in the Karakoram shear zone, Ladakh, NW India. GSA Bulletin, v. 121, p.278-285.
Nov. 13	Heather Clark G.R. Foulger, J.H. Natland, and D.L. Anderson, 2005, A source for Icelandic magmas in remelted Iapetus crust. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v.141, p. 23-44.
Nov. 20	Karen Van Wagner D.S. Coleman, W. Gray, and Glazner, A.F., 2004, Rethinking the emplacement and evolution of zoned plutons: Geochronologic evidence for incremental assembly of the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California. Geology, v. 32, p.433-436.
Nov. 27	Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 4	Julien Allaz A.B. Pietranik, C.J. Hawkesworth, C.D. Storey, A.I.S. Kemp, K.N. Sircombe, M.J. Whitehouse, and W. Bleeker, 2008, Episodic, mafic crust formation from 4.5 to 2.8 Ga: New evidence from detrital zircons, Slave craton, Canada. Geology, v.36, p.875-878.