Publications

 


Wei, S.S, D A. Wiens, Y. Zha, T. Plank, S. C. Webb, D. K. Blackman, R.A. Dunn, and J. A. Conder (2015) Seismological Evidence of Effects of Water on Mantle Melt Transport beneath the Lau Back-arc Basin. Nature, in press.


Moore, L., E, Gazel, R Tuohy, A Lloyd, R Esposito, EH Hauri, PJ Wallace, T Plank, RJ Bodnar (2015) Bubbles matter: An assessment of the contribution of vapor bubbles to melt inclusion volatile budgets. American Mineralogist, in press.


††Ferriss, E., Plank, T., Walker, D., Nettles, M.  (2015) The whole block approach: Measuring hydrogen diffusivity by geochemical tomography. American Mineralogist, DOI: http: //dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2015-4947.


Wallace P, Plank T, Edmonds M, Hauri EH. (2015) Volatiles in Magmas. In: H. Sigurdsson et al. (Editors) Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, second edition, Elsevier .


Abers, GA, KM Fischer, G Hirth, DA Wiens, T Plank, BK Holtzman, C McCarthy, E Gazel (2014) Reconciling mantle attenuation-temperature relationships from seismology, petrology and laboratory measurements. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 10.1002/2014GC005444.


Lloyd, A.S., Plank, T., Ruprecht, P., Hauri, E.H., Rose, W., and Gonnermann, H.M. (2014) NanoSIMS results from olivine-hosted melt embayments: Magma ascent rate during explosive basaltic eruptions. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 283, 1-18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.06.002.


Wanless, V.D., M.D.Behn, A.M.Shaw, T. Plank (2014)  Variations in melting dynamics and mantle compositions along the Eastern Volcanic Zone of the Gakkel Ridge: insights from olivine-hosted melt inclusions.  Contrib Mineral Petrol, 167:1005.  DOI 10.1007/s00410-014-1005-7


Plank, T. (2013) The Chemical Composition of Subducting Sediments. In: Holland H.D. and Turekian K.K. (eds.) Treatise on Geochemistry, Second Edition, vol. 4, pp. 607-629. Oxford: Elsevier.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-095975-7.00319-3. Data tables archived at EarthChem Library: DOI: 10.1594/IEDA/100416


Ruprecht, P. and Plank, T. (2013) Feeding andesitic eruptions with a high-speed connection from the mantle. Nature, v: 50, 68-72 doi:10.1038/nature12342.


Ferguson, D.J., J. Maclennan, I.D. Bastow, D.M. Pyle, S.M. Jones, D. Keir, J.D. Blundy, T. Plank, G. Yirgu (2013) Melting during late-stage rifting in Afar is hot and deep.  Nature, 499: 70-74. doi:10.1038/nature12292.

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Plank, T., Kelley, K.A., †Zimmer, M.M., Hauri, E.H. and Wallace, P.J. Why do mafic arc magmas contain ~4 wt% water on average? (2013)  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Frontiers Article, v. 364: 168-179.

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Waters, C.L., Sims, K.W.W, Soule, S.A, Blichert-Toft, J., Dunbar, N.W., Plank, T.,  Sohn, R.A., Tivey, M.A. (2013)  Recent Volcanic Accretion at 9-10°N East Pacific Rise as Resolved by Combined Geochemical and Geological Observations. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., v. 14, 14, 2547–2574, doi:10.1002/ggge.20134.


Prytulak, J., Nielsen, S.G., Plank, T. Barker, M. and Elliott, T. (2013) Assessing the utility of thallium and thallium isotopes for tracing subduction zone inputs to the Mariana arc. Chemical Geology, 345: 139–149. Link here


Davidson, J., Turner, S. and Plank, T. (2013) Dy/Dy*: variations arising from mantle sources and petrogenetic processes.  Journal of Petrology, 54(3): 525-537, doi:10.1093/petrology/egs076. Link here.


Lloyd, A.S., Plank, T., Ruprecht, P., Hauri, E. and Rose, W. (2013) Volatile Loss from Melt Inclusions in Pyroclasts of Differing Sizes.   Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 165: 129-153.  DOI 10.1007/s00410-012-0800-2 Link here


Gazel, E., Plank, T. Forsyth, D., Bendersky, C., Lee, C-T.A., Hauri, E.H. (2012) Lithosphere vs. Asthenosphere Sources at Big Pine Volcanic Field.  Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 13  doi:10.1029/2012GC004060.. Link to Abstract


†Cooper, L.B., Ruscitto, D., Plank, T., Wallace, P.J., Syracuse, E. and Manning, C.E. (2012)  Global Variations in H2O/Ce I: Slab Surface Temperatures beneath Volcanic Arcs. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 13, Q03024, 27 PP., doi:10.1029/2011GC003902  Link here


Ruscitto, D.,  P.J. Wallace, † L. Cooper and T. Plank (2012) Global Variations in H2O/Ce II: Relationships to Arc Magma Geochemistry and Volatile Fluxes. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 13, Q03025, 27 PP., doi:10.1029/2011GC003887 Link here


Hall, P.S., †Cooper, L.C. and Plank, T. (2012) Thermochemical evolution of the sub-arc mantle due to back-arc spreading.  Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, B02201, doi:10.1029/2011JB008507 Link here


Vervoort, J.D., Plank, T., and Prytulak, J. (2011) The Hf-Nd isotopic composition of marine sediments.  Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 75: 5903-5926. Link here


Parman, S.W., Grove, T.L., Kelley, K.A. and Plank, T. Along-arc variations in the pre-eruptive H2O contents of magmas inferred from fractionation paths.  Journal of Petrolog, 2011.  link to abstract


†Zimmer, M.M., T. Plank, E.H. Hauri, G.M. Yogodzinski, P. Stelling,  J. Larsen,  B. Singer, B. Jicha, Mandeville, C. and C.J. Nye. The role of water in generating  the calc-alkaline trend: New volatile data for Aleutian magmas and a new tholetiitic index. Journal of Petrology, doi:10.1093/petrology/egq062. link to article


†Kelley, K.A., Plank, T., Newman, S., Stolper, E. Grove, T.L., Parman, S. and Hauri, E. (2010) Mantle melting as a function of water content beneath the Mariana arc.  Journal of Petrology,  doi:10.1093/petrology/egq036 link to article


†Cooper, L. B., T. Plank, R. J. Arculus, E. H. Hauri, P. S. Hall, and S. W. Parman (2010), High-Ca boninites from the active Tonga Arc, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B10206, doi:10.1029/2009JB006367 link to abstract


Beier, C., Turner, S., Plank, T. and White, W.M. (2010)  A preliminary assessment of the symmetry of source composition and melting dynamics across the Azores plume.  Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 11, Q02004, doi:10.1029/2009GC002833 link to abstract


Plank, T., †Cooper, L. and Manning, C.E. (2009)  New geothermometers for estimating slab surface temperatures.  Nature Geoscience, 2: 611-615. link to abstract


Chadwick, J., Perfit, M., McInnes, B., Kamenov, G., Plank, T., Jonasson, I., Chadwick, C. (2009)  Arc lavas on both sides of a trench: Slab window effects at the Solomon Islands triple  junction, SW Pacific.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 279: 293-302. link to abstract


Lee, C-T., Luffi, P., Plank, T., Dalton, H., Leeman, W.P. (2009)  Constraints on the depths and temperatures of basaltic magma generation on Earth and other terrestrial planets using new thermobarometers.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters,  279: 20-33. link to abstract


Chauvel, C., Marini, J-C., Plank, T., Ludden, J.N. (2009)  Hf-Nd input flux in the Izu-Mariana subduction zone and recycling of subducted material in the mantle. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q01001, doi:10.1029/2008GC002101. link to abstract


Rychert, C. A., K. M. Fischer, G. A. Abers, T. Plank, E. Syracuse, J. M. Protti, V. Gonzalez, W. Strauch (2008)  Strong along-arc variations in attenuation in the mantle wedge beneath Costa Rica and Nicaragua.  Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q10S10, doi/10.1029/2008GC002040. link to abstract


Konter, J.G., Hanan, B.B., Blichert-Toft, J., Koppers, A.P., Plank, T., Staudigel, H. (2008)  One hundred million years of mantle geochemical history: Why retiring mantle plumes is premature. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,  275: 285-295. link to abstract


Ziegler, C., Murray, R.W., Plank, T. and Hemming, S.  (2008)  Sources of Fe to the equatorial Pacific Ocean from the Holocene to the Miocene.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 270: 258-270. link to abstract


†Wade, J., Plank, T., Zimmer, M., Hauri, E., Roggensack, K., Kelley, K. (2008)  Prediction of magmatic water contents via measurement of  H2O in clinopyroxene phenocrysts. Geology, v. 36: 799-802.


Plank, T. and van Keken, P. (2008)  News and Views, Geodynamics: Ups and downs of sediments.  Nature Geoscience, v.1, p. 17-18. link to article


†Benjamin, E.R., Plank, T., †Wade, J.A., Kelley, K.A., Hauri, E.H., Alvarado, G.E. (2007) High water contents in basaltic magmas from Irazu Volcano, Costa Rica. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 168: 68-92.


Feineman, M.D., Ryerson, F.J., DePaolo, D.J. and Plank, T.  (2007) Zoisite-aqueous fluid trace element partitioning with implications for subduction zone fluid composition.  Chemical Geology 239; 250-265.


Plank, T., †Kelley, K.A., Murray, R.W., and Quintin-Stern L. (2007) Chemical composition of sediment subducting at the Izu-Bonin trench. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, v. 8/4, Q04I16, doi:10.1029/2006GC001444, 16 pp. link to abstract


Feineman, M.D., Ryerson, F.J., DePaolo, D.J. and Plank, T.  Mineral-fluid partitioning of trace elements in phlogopite and clinohumite at subduction zone pressures and temperatures: implications for fluid transport in the mantle wedge.  Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., accepted 2006.


Prytulak, J., Vervoort, J.D., Plank, T., and Yu, C. (2006)  Astoria Fan sediments, DSDP Site 174, Cascadia Basin: Hf-Nd-Pb Constraints on Provenance and Outburst Flooding.  Chemical Geology,  233:  276-292.


Wiens, D.A., Kelley, K. and Plank, T. (2006)  Mantle temperature variations beneath back-arc spreading centers inferred from seismology, petrology and bathymetry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 248: 30-42. link to abstract


† Wade, J.A., Plank, T., Melson, W.G., Soto, G.J. and Hauri, E. (2006)  The volatile content of magmas from Arenal volcano.  J. Volcan. Geotherm. Res., 157: 94-120.


*  † Kelley, K.A., Plank, T., Newman, S., Stolper, E. Grove, T.L. and Hauri, E. (2006) Mantle melting as a function of water content beneath back-arc basins. J. Geophysical Research, 111: B09208. link to abstract


Chan, L-H., Leeman, W.P. and Plank, T.  (2006)  Lithium isotopic composition of marine sediments, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst,  v. 7, Q06005, doi:10.1029/2005GC001202. link to abstract


Ludden, J., Plank, T. Larson, R. and Escutia, C. (2006)  ODP Leg 185:  Sampling the oldest crust in the ocean basins to understand Earth's geodynamic and geochemical fluxes.  Leg Synthesis.  Proc. ODP, Sci. Res. [Online]. <http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/185_IR/185ir.htm>.


George, R., Turner, S., Morris, J.D, Plank, T., Hawkesworth, C.J. and Ryan, J. (2005)  Pressure-temperature-time paths of sediment recycling beneath the Tonga-Kermadec arc.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233: 195-211. link to abstract


†Wade, JA, T Plank, RJ. Stern, DL. Tollstrup, JB. Gill, JC.O’Leary, J Eiler, R B. Moore, JD Woodhead, F Trusdell, TP. Fischer, and DR. Hilton (2005) The May 2003 eruption of Anatahan volcano, Mariana Islands: geochemical evolution of a silicic island arc volcano.  J. Volcan. Geotherm. Res., v. 146: 139-170.


Hacker, B., Luffi, P., Lutkov, V., Minaev, V., Plank, T., Ducea, M., Patino-Douce, A., McWilliams, M., and Metcalf, J. (2005)  Near-ultrahigh pressure processing of continental crust: Miocene crustal xenoliths from the Pamir.  J. Petrology, 46: 1661-1687. link to article


†Kelley, K.A., Plank T., †Farr, L., Ludden, J. and Staudigel, H. (2005)  Subduction cycling of U, Th and Pb.  Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 234: 369-383. link to abstract


** Plank, T. (2005)  Constraints from Th/La on sediment recycling at subduction zones and the evolution of the continents.  J. Petrology, 46 (5), 921-44, doi:10.1093/petrology/egi005. link to article


Staudigel, H.,  B. Tebo, A. Yayanos, H., H. Furnes, K. Kelley, T. Plank, K. Muehlenbachs (2005) The Oceanic Crust as a Bioreactor: Deep Subsurface Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges, William S. D. Wilcock, Edward F. DeLong, Deborah S. Kelley, John A. Baross and S. Craig Cary (Eds.), AGU Geophysical Monograph Series 144, p 325-341.


** †Kelley, K.A., Plank, T., Ludden, J.N. and H. Staudigel (2003)  The composition of altered oceanic crust at ODP sites 801 and 1149. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.. 4 (6), doi: 10.1029/2002GC000435. link to abstract


Abers, G.A., Plank, T. and Hacker, B.R. (2003)  The wet Nicaragua slab.  Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(2), 1098, doi: 10.1029/2002GL015649, 2003.


Plank, T., †Balzer, V. and Carr, M. (2002)  Nicaraguan volcanoes record paleoceanographic changes accompanying closure of the Panama gateway.  Geology, v. 30: 1087-1090.


Smith, E.I., Keenan, L., and Plank, T. (2002)  Episodic Volcanism and Hot Mantle:  Implications for Volcanic Hazard Studies at the Proposed  Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.  GSA Today v. 12, p. 4-10. 


* †Wang, K., Plank, T., Walker, J.D. and Smith, E.I. (2002)  A mantle melting profile across the Basin and Range, SW USA. J. Geophys. Res., 107: 10.1029/2001JB000209, ECV 5-1-21. link to abstract


** Johnson, M. C., and T. Plank (1999)  Dehydration and melting experiments constrain the fate of subducted sediments, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 1:  doi:10.1029/1999GC000014. link to abstract


** Plank, T. and Langmuir, C.H. (1998)  The chemical composition of subducting sediment: implications for the crust and mantle.  Chemical Geology, 145: 325-394.


Clark, S.K.,  Reagan, M.K., and Plank, T. (1998)  Trace element and U-series systematics for 1963-1965 tephras from Irazú Volcano, Costa Rica: Implications for magma generation processes and transit times. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta., 62: 2689-2699.


** Elliott, T., Plank, T., Zindler, A., White, W. and Bourdon, B. (1997)  Element transport from subducted slab to volcanic front at the Mariana arc, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102: 14991-15019. link to abstract


** Staudigel, H., Plank, T., White, W.M. and Schmincke, H. (1996)  Geochemical fluxes during seafloor alteration of the upper oceanic crust: DSDP Sites 417 and 418, Bebout and Kirby, eds., SUBCON: Subduction From Top to Bottom, AGU Geophysical Monograph, 96, 19-38.


Plank, T.  (1996)  The brine of the Earth, News and Views, Nature, 380: 202-203


Plank, T., M. Spiegelman, C.H. Langmuir and D. Forsyth (1995)  The meaning of "Mean F": Clarifying the mean extent of melting at ocean ridges, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 15045-15052.  link to abstract


Plank, T. and Langmuir, C.H. (1994)  A view from the Sunda arc, Reply.  Nature, 367: 224.


** Plank, T. and C.H. Langmuir  (1993)   Tracing trace elements from sediment input to volcanic output at subduction zones, Nature, 362, 739-743. 


** Langmuir, C.H., E.M. Klein and T. Plank  (1992)  Petrological systematics of mid-ocean ridge basalts: Constraints on melt generation beneath ocean ridges.  In Mantle Flow and Melt Generation at Mid-Ocean Ridges, J. Phipps-Morgan, D.K. Blackman and J. Sinton, eds., AGU Geophysical Monograph, 71, 183-280. 


** Plank, T. and C.H. Langmuir  (1992)  Effects of the melting regime on the composition of the oceanic crust,  Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 19749-19770. link to abstract 


Plank, T. and J.N. Ludden (1992)  Geochemistry of sediments in the Argo Abyssal plain at ODP Site 765: A continental margin reference section for sediment recycling in subduction zones, Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 123, 167-189. 


Gillis, K.M., J.N. Ludden, T. Plank and L.D. Hoy (1992) Low temperature alteration and subsequent reheating of the shallow oceanic crust at ODP Site 765D. Argo Abyssal Plain, Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 123, 191-200. 


** Plank, T. and C.H. Langmuir  (1988)  An evaluation of global variations in the major element chemistry of arc basalts.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 90, 349-370.  link to abstract


Plank, T. (1987)  Magmatic garnets from the Cardigan pluton and the Acadian thermal event in southwest New Hampshire.  American Mineralogist, 72, 681-688.  link to pdf download page (found in the July-August section)