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- Dynamic and geochemical evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica. Cathleen Doherty's graduate research project.
- The role of magmatism during early stage rifting - a multidisciplinary, multinational study in the southern part of the East African Rift. Gary Mesko's graduate research project.
- Plate tectonic and geochemical evolution of the young Walvis Ridge and implications for African plate motion modeling, plume zonation and sources related to the African large low shear wave velocity province. Cruise website.
- Evolution of the Galapagos mantle plume.
Lamont Associate Research Professor
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Geochemistry
Lecturer
Earth and Environmental Sciences
439 Comer
61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000
Palisades
NY
10964-8000
US
Phone:
(845) 365-8712
Fax:
(845) 365-8155

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Fields of interest:
Solid Earth Geochemistry and Dynamics
Some of my current projects include:
Honors & Awards:
Otto-Hahn-Medal of the Max-Planck-Society, Germany 06/22/1995
Educational Activities:
Congratulations to Cathleen Doherty for Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2012 Fall AGU Meeting
Lamont/DEES Student List:
Referenced in the Following News Items:
Selected Publications:
High precision Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotopic compositions of USGS Standard Reference Material BCR-2
Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
(2015)
Meter-scale Nd isotopic heterogeneity in pyroxenite-bearing Ligurian peridotites encompasses global-scale upper mantle variability
Geology
Volume: 41
p.: 1055-1058
(2013)
10.1130/g34438.1
How double volcanic chains sample geochemical anomalies from the lowermost mantle
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Volume: 359-360
p.: 240-247
(2012)
10.1016/j.epsl.2012.09.057
Hotspot trails in the South Atlantic hospot controlled by plume and plate tectonic processes
Nature Geoscience
Volume: 5
p.: 735-738
(2012)
10.1038/NGEO1583
South Atlantic DUPAL anomaly - Dynamic and compositional evidence against a recent shallow origin
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Volume: 305
p.: 92-102
(2011)
Osmium isotopes in Grande Comore lavas: constraints on EM-type mantle components
Earth and Planetary Letters
Volume: 284
p.: 219-227
(2009)
Ce anomalies in Gough Island lavas - Trace element characteristics of a recycled sediment component
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Jan 30
Volume: 265
Issue: 3-4
p.: 475-486
(2008)
DOI 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.030
Continental material in the shallow oceanic mantle - How does it get there?
Geology
Mar
Volume: 34
Issue: 3
p.: 129-132
(2006)
Doi 10.1103/G21943.1
Evolution of helium isotopes in the Earth's mantle
Nature
Aug 25
Volume: 436
Issue: 7054
p.: 1107-1112
(2005)
Doi 10.1038/Nature03930
Distinguishing melt and fluid subduction components in Umnak volcanics, Aleutian Arc
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Volume: 1
Issue: 6
(2000)
10.1029/1999GC000010
Plume-lithosphere interactions in the ocean basins: constraints from the source mineralogy
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Aug
Volume: 150
Issue: 3-4
p.: 245-260
(1997)