We have been studying the structural & petrologic evolution of pluton-host rock systems with the goals of understanding the nature of magma chamber construction and the physical evolution of these systems. This work utilizes detailed & extensive field mapping coupled with microstructural and strain analysis.
Structural & petrologic studies of poly-deformed regional migmatites, gabbroic to granitic plutons, migmatites associated with 'contact-heating' by plutons, regional tectonics as related to multiple collisional events, and everything else that falls along with the rain in central Norway. This work is collaborative and involves Drs. Cal Barnes & Aaron Yoshinobu at Tech and scientists from the Norwegian Geological Survey and the Norwegian University of Science & Technology in Trondheim.
This work involves field and microstructural studies of ophiolites (Josephine, northern California, southern Oregon, Torguta, southern Chile, Oman) as well as modern oceanic crust (Southwest Indian Ridge).
Josephine Ophiolite • Tortuga Ophiolite, southern Chile • Oman Ophiolite • Southwest Indian Ridge
My research seeks to visualize the interconnections between science, literature, and the environment through study of the poetry and stone masonry of 20th Century California poet Robinson Jeffers.
Robinson Jeffers as poet and Earth scientist
Click this link for information as well as a field guide that relates California rocks to poetics