Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory  61 Route 9W Palisades, NY 10964 (845) 365-8375 bturrin@ldeo.columbia.edu http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~bturrin

Research Interest

• Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and the age distribution of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP)
• 40Ar/39Ar ages Pinacate volcanic field, Mexico

Selected Publications

Turrin, B.D., Champion, D.E., and Fleck, R.J., ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar laser-fusion ages from the Lathrop Wells volcanic center: implications for volcanic hazards in the Yucca Mountain Radioactive Repository Site, southwestern Nevada, Science, 253, 654-657, 1991.

Turrin, B.D., Champion, D.E., and Fleck, R.J., Reply to comment on "⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar laser-fusion ages from the Lathrop Wells volcanic center: implications for volcanic hazards in the Yucca Mountain radioactive repository site, southwestern Nevada," Science, 257, 555-558, 1992.

Turrin, B.D., Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., and Hearn, B.C., ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages from the rhyolite of Alder Creek, California: age of the Cobb Mountain normal-polarity subchron revisted, Geology, 22, 251-254, 1994.

Turrin, B.D., Christiansen, R.L., Clynne, M.A., Champion, D.E., Gerstel, W.J., Muffler L.J., Trimble, D.A., The Age of Lassen Peak, California, a Young Heterogeneous Dacite Dome, and Implication for the Ages of Late Pleistocene Glaciations in the SouthernCasade Range, Geological Society of America, Bulletin, 110, 931-945, 1998.

Gutman, J.T., Turrin, B.D., and Dohrenwend, J.C., Basalt Rock from the Pinacate Volcanic Field Yield notably young ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages, EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union, 81, 33, 2000.