AARON SEI YOSHINOBU
Department of Geosciences,
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
Phone: 806-742-4025,
Email: Aaron.Yoshinobu@TTU.EDU,
http://www.gesc.ttu.edu/Fac_pages/Yoshinobu_index.html
Education
Ph.D.,
Earth Sciences, 1999. ÒMagma chamber construction and deformation at oceanic
spreading centersÓ, University of Southern California. Advisor: S.R. Paterson
M.S.,
Geological Sciences, 1994. ÒQuantitative relation of structural and geochemical
studies to the emplacement of shallow crustal plutonsÓ, San Diego State
University. Advisor: G.H. Girty
B.S., Geological Sciences, 1992. ÒDynamothermal
contact metamorphism in the aureole of the shallowly emplaced Emigrant Gap
pluton, northern Sierra Nevada, CAÓ, San Diego State University.
Professional Experience
2005-present: Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences,
Texas Tech University.
1999
(Fall)-present: Assistant Professor,
Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University.
1999: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, Declined.
1997: Shipboard scientist, Structural Geologist, Ocean
Drilling Program Leg 176, Return to Hole 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge.
1994: Mobil Production and Exploration, U.S.A., Production
Geologist, Kern Asset Team, Bakersfield, CA.
American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of
America, National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Robinson Jeffers
Association
2007:
Barnes, C.G., Frost, C.D., Yoshinobu, A.S., McArthur,
K., Barnes, M.A., Allen, C.M., Nordgulen, ¯., and Prestvik, T. Timing of
sedimentation, metamorphism, and plutonism in the Helgeland Nappe Complex,
north-central Norwegian Caledonides. Geosphere, v. 3, p. 683-703.
Yoshinobu, A.S. and Barnes, C.G. In press. Discussion
of, Is stoping a volumentrically significant pluton emplacement process?
Geological Society of America Bulletin.
2006:
Chatterjee, S., Guven, N., Yoshinobu, A., Donofrio,
R., Shiva structure: A possible KT boundary impact crater on the western shelf
of India: Special Publications of the Museum of Texas Tech University, v. 50,
39 p.
2005:
Dumond,
G., Yoshinobu, A.S., Barnes, C.G., Mid-crustal emplacement of the Sausfjellet
pluton, central Norway: Ductile flow, stoping and in situ assimilation. Geological Society of America Bulletin,
v. 117, p. 383-395. [First author is an
M.S. student co-advised by Yoshinobu.]
2004:
Barnes,
C.G., Dumond, G., Yoshinobu, A.S., Prestvik, T., Assimilation and crystal
accumulation during construction of a mid-crustal magma chamber: The
Sausfjellet pluton, north-central Norway. Lithos, v. 75, p. 389-412.
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Harper, G.D. 2004. Hypersolidus
deformation in the lower crust of the Josephine ophiolite: Evidence for
kinematic decoupling between the upper and lower oceanic crust: Journal of Structural Geology, v.
26, p. 157-169.
2003:
Yoshinobu, A.S., Fowler, T.K., Paterson, S.R.,
Llambias, E., Sato, A., Tickji, H. A view from the roof: magmatic stoping in
the shallow crust, Chita pluton, Argentina. Journal of Structural Geology, v.
25, p. 1037-1048.
2002:
Barnes, C.G., Yoshinobu, A.S., Prestvik, T.,
Nordgulen, ¯., Karlsson, H.R., and Sundvoll, B., 2002, Mafic magma
intraplating: Anatexis and hybridization in arc crust, Bindal Batholith,
Norway: Journal of Petrology, v. 43, p. 2171-2190. [2]
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Hirth, G. 2002, Experimental and
microstructural constraints on the rheology of partially molten gabbro beneath
oceanic spreading centers: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 24, p. 1101-1107. [1]
Yoshinobu, A.S., Barnes, C.G., Nordgulen, ¯.,
Prestvik, T., Fanning, M., Pedersen, R.B., 2002, Ordovician contractional
deformation, magmatism, and rapid exhumation in the Caledonides of central
Norway. Geology, v. 30, p.
883-886. [Includes cover photograph of October 2002 issue] [10]
2000:
Dick, H.J.B. and Leg 176 Shipboard Party, 2000, A
long, in-situ section of the lower oceanic crust: Results of ODP Leg 176 Drilling at the Southwest Indian
Ridge: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 179, p. 31-51. [40]
Robinson, P.T., Dick, H.J.B., Natland, J.H., and Leg
176 Shipboard Party, 2000, Lower oceanic crust formed at an ultra-slow-spreading
ridge: Ocean Drilling Program Hole 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge: In Dilek, Y.,
Moores, E.M., Elthon, D., Nicolas, A., eds., Ophiolites and oceanic crust: new
insights from field studies and the ocean drilling program: Boulder,
Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 349, p. 75-86.
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Girty, G.H., Measuring host rock
volume changes during magma emplacement:
Reply: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 22, p. 521-522.
1999:
Dick, H.J.B., Natland, J., and Miller, J., and Leg
176 Shipboard Party. Initial
Results from ODP Leg 176, Return to Hole 735B. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, College Station TX.
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Schmidt, K.L., Pluton
emplacement during transpression in brittle crust: New views from analogue experiments: Comment: Geology, v. 27, p. 670-671. [1]
Yoshinobu, A.S. and Girty, G.H., Measuring host-rock volume changes
during magma emplacement. Journal
of Structural Geology, v. 21, p. 111-116. [6]
1998:
Paterson, S.R., Fowler, T.K., Schmidt, K.L.,
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Miller, R.B., Interpreting magmatic fabrics in plutonic
rocks: Lithos, v. 44, p. 53-82. [36]
Yoshinobu, A.S., Okaya, D.A., and Paterson, S.R.,
Modeling the thermal evolution of fault-controlled magma emplacement models: Implications for the solidification of
granitoid plutons: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 20, p. 1205-1218. [15]
Publications
prior to 1998
Girty, G.H., Hanson, A.D., Yoshinobu, A.S., Knaack,
C., and Johnson, D., 1993.
Provenance of Paleozoic mudstones within a contact metamorphic aureole
determined by REE, Th, and Sc analyses, Sierra Nevada, California: Geology, v. 21, p. 363-367. [11]
Girty, G.H., Yoshinobu, A.S., Girty, M.S., Bryan,
K.A., Skinner, J.E., Wracher, M.D., McNulty, B.A., Hanson, R.E., and Harwood,
D., 1993. U/Pb geochronology of
the Emigrant Gap composite pluton:
Implications for the
Nevadan
orogeny: in Dunne, G. and
McDougall, eds., Mesozoic Paleogeography of the Western United States-II, SEPM,
p. 332-342. [3]
Girty, G.H., Girty, M.S., Hanson, R.E., Harwood,
D.S., Schweickert, R.A., Yoshinobu, A.S., Bryan, K.A., and Skinner, J.E.,
1995. Timing of emplacement of the
Haypress Creek and Emigrant Gap plutons:
Implications for the timing and controls of Jurassic orogenesis, northern
Sierra Nevada, California. in
Miller, D., and Busby, C. eds., Jurassic Magmatism and Tectonics of the
North American Cordillera:
Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 299, p.
191-200. [3]
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Paterson, S.R., 1996,
Fracture-controlled magma conduits in an obliquely convergent continental
magmatic arc: Comment: Geology, v. 24, p. 669-670.
Marko, W.T., and Yoshinobu, A.S., One contact
aureole, two rheologies: Emplacement of the White Horse pluton, eastern Nevada,
U.S. Geological
Society of America Bulletin.
Marko, W.T., and Yoshinobu, A.S., Microstructural
& deformation mechanisms from a contact aureole: Estimates of stress,
strain rate, & viscosity. Journal of Structural Geology.
Salisbury, M., and Yoshinobu, A.S., To be submitted.
Structural evolution of portions of the Josephine peridotite.
Yoshinobu, A.S., Harper, G.D., and Kelemen, P.B. To
be submitted. Construction and evolution of magma chambers in the Josephine
ophiolite.
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Leiss, B. To be submitted.
Hypersolidus to subsolidus transition in oceanic gabbros: evidence from neutron
diffraction measurements. Tectonophysics.
Yoshinobu, A.S., Schmidt, K.L., Pignotta, G.,
Pauffin, O., Structural and magmatic evolution of the Tortuga ophiolite,
remnants of a rifted margin in southern South America. Geological Society of America
Bulletin.
Hanson, R.E., Girty, G.H., Schweickert, R.A.,
Harwood, D.S., Templeton, J., Yoshinobu, A.S., Girty, M.S., and Wracher, M.D.,
1993. Paleozoic and Mesozoic
volcano-plutonic complexes in the northern Sierra Nevada terrane. in Lahren, M.M., Trexler, J.H., and
Spinosa, C., eds., Crustal Evolution of the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada. Geological
Society of America Joint Cordilleran-Rocky Mt. Guidebook, University of
Nevada, Reno, p. 97-128.
Yoshinobu, A.S., 2004. Rock Consciousness &
Robinson Jeffers at Point Lobos – A field guide linking salient geologic
features of Point Lobos & the Santa Lucia Mountains to the poetry of Robinson
Jeffers. Robinson Jeffers Association, 10th Annual Meeting, Carmel,
CA. [pdf available at:
http://www.gesc.ttu.edu/Fac_pages/Yoshinobu/RJ/RJ_index.html]
2007:
Anderson, H.A., Yoshinobu,
A.S., Chamberlain, K., 2007, Xenolith Incorporation In Plutons: Implications To
Stoping, Assimilation, And Incremental Pluton Construction, Andalshatten
Pluton, Norwegian Caledonides, Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 225.
Barnes, C.G., Miller, K., Snoike, A.W., Yoshinobu,
A.S., Snelson, C.M., Frost, C.D. and Metcalf, R.V., 2007. Imaging accreted
terranes at the Cascadia margin: The Klamath Mountains Province of CA and OR.
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 612.
Martin, D.M., Anderson, T.K., Troyer, S.J.,
Yoshinobu, A.S., 2007, Structural evolution of the McKinney Hills
laccolith-host host rock system: Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, v. 39, no. 7, p. 70.
Marko, W.T., Barnes, C.G.,
Yoshinobu, A.S., 2007, Magma chamber construction in the mid to lower crust:
observations from a large S-type intrusion, southern Nordland, Norway, poster
presentation at the Sixth International Hutton Symposium, Origin of Granites
and Related Rocks, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2006:
Anderson, H.S.,
Yoshinobu, A.S. ., Marko, W.T. A composite view of magma organization
and emplacement mechanisms from the upper crust of Argentina and the middle
crust of Norway. Geological Society of America, Backbone of the Americas
Meeting, Mendoza, Argentina, no. 2, p. 54.
Marko, W., Yoshinobu, A., Barnes, C. Multiple
pre-Scandian tectonothermal events preserved in the central Norwegian
Caledonides. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, p.
418.
Martin, D.M., Anderson, T.K., Troywer, S.J., and
Yoshinobu, A.S., Structural Evolution of McKinney Hills Laccolith-Host Rock
System. AAPG Student Expo, Fall 2006.
Yoshinobu, A.S. Magmatic and structural evolution of
the Tortuga ophiolite, Southern Chile. Geological Society of America, Backbone
of the Americas Meeting, Mendoza, Argentina, no. 2, p. 24.
Yoshinobu, A.S. Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Earth
Scientist. Texas Tech Center for the Southwest Conference: Natural History and
the Art and Literature of Place, 17-18 February, 2006.
Yoshinobu, A.S., Gurrola, H., Brown, S. Lithospheric
architecture of the Klamath Mountains Province, Cascadia subduction zone,
California and Oregon, USA. Geological Society of America, Backbone of the
Americas Meeting, Mendoza, Argentina, no. 2, p. 24.
2005:
Anderson, H.S., Yoshinobu, A.S., Barnes, C.G., 2005.
Deformation, migmatization, and intrusive diatexites along the contact of the
470 Ma Vega pluton, Helgeland Nappe Complex, north-central Norway. EOS
Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 86(52), Fall Meeting.
Undergraduate
student presentation.
Barnes, C., Prestvik, T., Yoshinobu, A., McCulloch,
L., 2005. Piecemeal emplacement (and contamination?) of a Caledonian pluton. Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.
Fuhrman, M., Kraft, K., Linneman, S., Srogi, L.,
Yoshinobu, A., Zalles, D., 2005. The Geoscience Concept Crystal: A map to
facilitate development of well-aligned undergraduate geoscience curricula and
assessments. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.
Marko, W., Barnes, M., Viette., L., McCulloch, L.,
Anderson, H., Barnes, C., and Yoshinobu, A. Xenolith incorporation,
distribution, and dissemination in a mid-crustal granodiorite, Vega pluton,
central Norway. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 86(52), Fall
Meeting.
Yoshinobu, A.S., Reid, K., Barnes, C., and Allen, C.,
2005. Crustal Melting in the Helgeland Nappe Complex, central Norway. EOS
Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 86(52), Fall Meeting.
Zimmerman, N., Yoshinobu, A.S., Lehman, T. Fracture
development and laccolith growth in Big Bend National Park. Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.
2004:
Krueger, R., Zimmerman,
N., Blevins, M., Martin, D., Wolak, J., Yoshinobu, A., Structural evolution of
the Sing Peak pendant, central Sierra Nevada, California: Implications to
pluton emplacement and regional deformation. Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v. 36.
Marko, W.T. and Yoshinobu, A.S., Magma
emplacement-related stress, strain rate, and viscosity estimates from a contact
aureole. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36.
Wolak, J., Blevins, M.,
Krueger, R., Martin, D., Zimmerman, N., and Yoshinobu, A., Field constraints on magma, host rock,
and xenolith rheology during pluton emplacement. Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v. 36.
Yoshinobu, A.S., Robinson
Jeffers: Poet and Earth Scientist. Jeffers Studies, v. 8.
2003:
Barnes, C.G., Dumond, G., Yoshinobu,
A.S., Prestvik, T., Asymmetric zoning of a middle crustal pluton in the
Norwegian Caledonides: Selective assimilation of host rocks. Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, v. 35, n. 6.
Chatterjee, S., Guven, N.,
Yoshinobu, A.S., Donofrio, R., The Shiva Crater: Implications for Deccan
volcanism, India-Seychelles rifting, Dinosaur extinction, and the petroleum
entrapment at the KT boundary. Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, n. 6.
Marko, W.T., Yoshinobu,
A.S., Chipping away at magma emplacement processes: The ductile to brittle
transition in the White Horse pluton contact aureole. Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, v. 35, n. 6.
Nordgulen, ¯., Barnes, C.G., Pedersen, R.B., Skar, O.,
Yoshinobu, A.S., Mid-Ordovician to Early Silurian Granitoid Plutonism in the
Scandinavian Caledonides. Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, n. 6.
Yoshinobu, A.S., The Geological Consciousness of
Robinson Jeffers: Mapping the influence of geology at Tor House and in verse (invited
presentation): Jeffers Studies, v. 7.
Yoshinobu,
A.S., Marko, W.T., Dumond, G., Wolak, J., Barnes, C.., Nordgulen, ¯., Stoping
happens! Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, n. 6.
2002:
Barnes, C.G., Prestvik, T., Yoshinobu, A.S.,
Nordgulen, ¯., Development of contact migmatites in the Helgeland Nappe
Complex, Norwegian Caledonides: Scandinavian Winter Meeting.
Dumond,
G., Yoshinobu, A.S., Barnes, C.G., Strain patterns, stoping, and subsidence in
the 7kb Sausfjellet pluton, central Norway. Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, n. 5, p. A31.
Marko, W.
and Yoshinobu, A.S., Ductile to brittle transition in host rock rheology during
pluton emplacement: Observations from the NE Great Basin, USA. Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, n. 6, p. 373.
Yoshinobu,
A.S., and Harper, G.D., Hypersolidus displacement patterns in the lower crust
of the Josephine ophiolite. Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, v. 34, n. 5, p. A79.
2001:
Barnes,
C.G., Yoshinobu, A.S., Nordgulen, O., Prestvik, T., Granite Formation During
Interaction Of Mafic Magmas And Migmatitic Rocks, Helgeland Nappe Complex,
Norwegian Caledonides, Geological Society of America Abstracts,
v. 33, p. 212.
Barnes,
C.G., Yoshinobu, A.S., Nordgulen, O., Prestvik, T., Migmatization associated
with emplacement of mafic plutons, Helgeland Nappe Complex, Norwegian
Caledonides, Geological Society of America Abstracts, v. 33, p. 6.
Barnes,
C.G., Dumond, G., Chapman, K., Yoshinobu, A.S., Nordgulen, O., Prestvik, T.,
Karlsson, H., 2001, Mafic plutons in the Caledonian Bindal batholith, Norway, Geological
Society of America Abstracts, v. 33, p. 32.
Dumond,
G., Yoshinobu, A.S., Barnes, C.G., Magma chamber construction and evolution in
the middle crust: Insights from
the Sausfjellet pluton, Bindal batholith, Norway, Geological Society of America
Abstracts, v. 33, p. 81.
Yoshinobu, Aaron S., Barnes, Calvin G., Nordgulen,
¯., Dumond, Greg, And Fanning, M., Ordovician Magmatism And Deformation In The
Uppermost Allochthon, Central Norway: An Orphan Of The Taconic Orogeny? Geological
Society of America Abstracts, v. 33, p. 204.
Yoshinobu,
A.S, Barnes, C.G., Nordgulen, O., 2001, Exhumation And Probable Extension In
The Helgeland Nappe Complex, Uppermost Allochthon, Central Norway, Geological
Society Of America Abstracts, V. 33, P. 32.
2000:
Yoshinobu, A.S., Hirth, G., Leiss, B., 2000,
Deformation of partially molten gabbro beneath oceanic spreading centers:
olivine as a rheological "Rosetta stone". Geological Society of Australia Abstracts, v. 59, p. 557.
(Invited Speaker)
Yoshinobu, A.S., 2000, Magma emplacement in the lower
crust at oceanic spreading centers. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts,
v. 59, p. 556. (Invited Speaker)
Yoshinobu,
A.S., Pignotta, G., Schmidt, K.L., 2000, Geometry of intrusion and magma
migration in the Tortuga ophiolite, Chilean Tierra del Fuego. Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p, 236.
1999:
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Hirth, G., 1999, Experimental
and microstructural constraints on the rheology of partially molten gabbro
beneath oceanic spreading centers. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 80, p. 974.
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Paterson, S.R., Implications of
differing rates and durations of magmatic and tectonic processes for
construction of cordilleran batholiths: Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, (Invited
Speaker), v. 31, p. 111.
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Harper, G.D. Strain partitioning in the lower crust
of oceanic spreading centers:
Insights from the Josephine ophiolite. NSF-Ridge Cyprus Field School
Abstracts.
1998:
Hirth, G., Ildefonse, B., John, B., Trimby, P.,
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Leg 176 Scientific Party, Deformation of the lower oceanic
crust at a slow spreading ridge:
Results from ODP Leg 176, Site 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge. EOS
Transactions, American
Geophysical Union.
Ildefonse, B., Hirth, G., John, B., Trimby, P.,
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Leg 176 Scientific Party, Structural evolution of the
lower crust at slow-spreading ridge:
preliminary results from ODP Leg 176, Site 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge. European Geophysical Society, Annales Geophysicae 16,
293
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Harper, G.D., Complex intrusive
history in the cumulate rocks of the Josephine Ophiolite: Implications for slow-spreading center
magma chambers: NSF-RIDGE Oman Winter School.
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Harper, G.D., Construction of
the lower crust in the Josephine ophiolite: Implications for the size and geometry of magma chambers at
slow-spreading ridges. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union,
v. 79, p. S368.
Yoshinobu, A.S., Hirth, G., Ildefonse, B., and Leg
176 Scientific Party, Foliation development across the magmatic to
crystal-plastic transition in oceanic gabbros: Preliminary results from ODP Leg 176, Hole 735B, Southwest
Indian Ridge. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 79, p. S376.
1997:
Yoshinobu, A.S., Okaya, D.A., and Paterson, S.R.,
Thermal viability of fault-controlled magma emplacement models: Geological
Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Abs. with Progs. v. 22, p. A161.
1996:
Paterson, S.R., Fowler, T.K., Yoshinobu, A.S.,
Deciphering magmatic structural patterns:
Examples from the Bateman Legacy: Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs. v. 29, p.
1995:
Fowler, T.K., Paterson, S.R., Crossland, A., and
Yoshinobu, A.S., Pluton
emplacement mechanisms: A view
from the roof. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1129, p. 57.
Fowler, T.K., Yoshinobu, A.S., Paterson, S.R.,
Llambias, E., Sato, A.M., and Tickjy, H., Emplacement of the Chita pluton by
magmatic stoping, NW Argentina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs. v. 28, p. 125.
Paterson, S.R., Schmidt, K., Yoshinobu, A.S., and
Fowler, T.K., Evaluating the spatial relationship between plutons and faults in
arcs: RIDGE Theoretical Institute, Faulting and Magmatism at Mid-Ocean Ridges,
p. 44.
Yoshinobu, A.S., and Paterson, S.R., Multiple
space-making mechanisms and vertical material transfer in the Sierra Nevada
batholith: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs., v. 27,
p. 85.
Yoshinobu, A.S., Fowler, T.K., Okaya, D.A., and
Paterson, S.R., Testing fault-controlled magma emplacement mechanisms: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1129,
p. 166. [2]
Pre-1995:
Girty, G.H., Yoshinobu, A.S., Girty, M.S., Bryan,
K.A., Skinner, J.E., Wracher, M.D., McNulty, B.A., Hanson, R.E., and Harwood,
D., 1993. U/Pb geochronology of
the Emigrant Gap composite pluton:
Implications for the Nevadan orogeny: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin [abs], v.
77, p. 698-699.
Lewis, J.G., Ridge, D.L., Al-riyami, R., Ward, K.L.,
Yoshinobu, A.S., Girty, G.H., 1994.
Multiple sources determined by geochemical aspects, lower Paleozoic Shoo
Fly Complex (SFC), Sierra Nevada, CA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs. v. 26, p. 66.
Skinner, J.E., Yoshinobu, A.S., Mengano, R., Pubentz, M., Shar, T.,
Girty, G.H., Girty, M.S., 1994.
Geochemistry, geochronology, and petrologic evolution of the Emigrant
Gap Composite Pluton (EGCP): Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs. v. 26, p. 92.
Yoshinobu, A.S., Skinner, J.E., Girty, G.H.,
1994. Ductile to brittle wall rock
response during pluton emplacement, Emigrant Gap composite pluton (EGCP),
northern Sierra Nevada, CA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs. v. 26, p. 106.
Yoshinobu, A.S. and Girty , G.H., 1994. Mass transfer and volume loss during
contact metamorphism: A possible
Òspace-makingÓ mechanism during pluton emplacement?: Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs. v. 26, p. 106.
Yoshinobu, A.S., Bryan, K.A., Seeliger, T.E.,
Skinner, J.E., Girty, MS., and Girty, G.H., 1992. Evidence for Middle Jurassic deformation and emplacement of
the Emigrant Gap composite pluton, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 24, p. 91.
Yoshinobu, A.S., Hanson, A.D., Girty, G.H., Knaack,
C., and Johnson, D., 1993.
Provenance discrimination of Paleozoic mudstones within a contact
metamorphic aureole determined by REE, Th, and Sc analyses, Sierra Nevada,
California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 25.
p. 78.
Research Awards and Grants,
1997-2006 that have funded research at TTU
2007: Big-12 Research Fellowship. $3000 award to fund
research at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U.T. Austin. This
focuses on archival research of the Robinson Jeffers collection at the HRHRC
that includes photographs and manuscripts from the 1920-1930 era. My research
involves elucidating the chronology of construction of JeffersÕ home Tor House
and Hawk Tower, and his thoughts on geology and Earth evolution.
2005-2007: National Science Foundation, ÒCollaborative
Research: Magma-host Rock Interactions Processes of Assimilation in the
Mid-Crustal Hortavaer Intrusive Complex, Central NorwayÓ, $229,000 over three
years, third year contingent on progress, with Cal Barnes (TTU) and Carol Frost
(University of Wyoming) (submitted 1 June 2004; Fully-funded beginning 1 January 2005). Research is nominally
divided into ÔthirdsÕ with each Co-PI fully collaborating on field and lab
work.
2005: TTU TLTC: GEOWALL: Accessing and evaluating the spatial and
visualization skills in Geoscience students. $9,600, PI, funded 100% to PI.
2005: Halliburton Corporation: GEOWALL: 3-D imaging of
subsurface geometry in petroleum systems, $20,000, PI, funded 100% to PI.
2003: Texas Tech University, Faculty Research Enhancement
Grant, ÒPlutons & Plate MotionsÓ, $4,680, PI.
2001-2004: National Science Foundation, ÒContact Aureole
RheologyÓ, $114,000, PI.
2000: Texas Tech University, Faculty Research Enhancement
Grant, Ô3-D Mapping of a Rifted MarginÕ, $3,500, PI.
1998-2000: National Science Foundation: ÒInvestigating the
magmatic and tectonic evolution of oceanic gabbros: Insights from the Tortuga
OphioliteÓ, Yoshinobu conceived and wrote proposal, conducted all research,
$204,000, PI Dr. Scott R. Paterson (USC). Funds from this proposal partially
supported TTU M.S. student, Mike Salisbury.
1998-1999: JOI-USSSP: ÒFoliation development across the
hypersolidus to subsolidus transition: Implications to the rheology of the
lower oceanic crustÓ, $23,000, PI.
1997-1998: National Geographic Society Grant for Research and
Exploration: The Rocas Verdes
ophiolites: Mapping the formation
of oceanic crust, Yoshinobu conceived and wrote proposal, conducted all
research, $37,000, PI Dr. Scott R. Paterson (USC).
2008-2010: ÒCollaborative Research: Evaluating
Magma Emplacement and Xenolith Incorporation in Middle Crustal PlutonsÓ,
$325,563, submitted to NSF with Cal Barnes (TTU) and Carol Frost (Univ. Wyo.).
Rejected.
2008-2010: Collaborative Research: Processes of Terrane Accretion and Crustal
Modification in the Klamath Mountains Province of CascadiaÓ, $421,787,
submitted to NSF Earthscope with Cal Barnes (TTU), Art Snoke (Univ. Wyo.) Cathy
Snelson (NMT), Kate Miller (UTEP), Rod Metcalf (UNLV), Terry Spell (UNLV).
Rejected.
2008: Halliburton Corporation: Rejected.
2006: Collaborative Research: Assimilation and magma
chambger assembly from thin section to batholith scale. Co-PI with Cal Barnes,
TTU, and Carol Frost, Univ. of Wyoming, National Science Foundation, $275,160
(rejected).
2005: Collaborative Research: Processes of terrane
accretion and modification: The Klamath Mountains of Cascadia. With Cal Barnes
and Harold Gurrola (TTU), National Science Foundation, $703,006. (rejected).
2003: ÒMagma emplacement, assimilation, and the fate of stoped blocksÓ, PI,
submitted 1 December 2003 to NSF, amount requested $284,183 (rejected).
2003: ÒCollaborative Research: Magma-host rock interaction. Processes of
assimilation in a zone of magma transfer: Hortavar intrusive complex, north
central NorwayÓ, Co-PI, submitted 1 June 2003 to NSF, amount requested $223,390
(rejected).
2002: ÒMigmatite-pluton connections: testing models of the generation,
segregation, and transport of magmas in collisional orogensÓ, Co-PI, submitted
1 June 2002 to NSF, amount requested $298,960 (rejected).
2000: ÒCollaborative Research: Contact Aureole RheologyÓ, PI, submitted to
NSF, amount requested $106,150 (rejected).
2006: Elected to the Board of Directors, Robinson Jeffers
Association, February 2006.
2005: Participant ÔUnderstanding what our geoscience
students are learning: Observing and assessingÕ workshop run by the National
Association of Geoscience Teachers at Carleton College, MN, 12-14 May.
While this workshop benefited my
teaching, it also provided necessary background into means of assessing
learning and provided tools to utilize in researching how students learn. My
research emphasis in learning focuses on spatial reasoning skills and
visualization.
2005: Co-Convener, Geological Society of America Symposium,
Plutons and their host rocks in the Sierra Nevada batholith: A forum and
discussion on magma emplacement, magmatic differentiation, and pluton
solidification. San Jose, CA, 29 April – 2 May.
2005: Co-Leader, Geological Society of America Field Forum,
ÒRethinking the assembly and evolution of plutons: Field tests and
perspectives, 7-14 October, Yosemite National Park.
These latter two items are outcomes of my
NSF-sponsored research on the tectonics of magmatic systems.
2005: Nominated to the Board of Directors, Robinson
Jeffers Association, Dec. 2005.
Although the results of my nomination will
not be known until the Board meeting in February 2006, this recognition is the
result of my continued collaboration with Jeffers Scholars and the Tor House Foundation.
2004: Co-Convener, Cordilleran Magmatism from the Forearc
to the Hinterland, Geological Society of America, Cordilleran-Rocky Mt.
Meeting, May 3-5, 2004.
1999: Participant in the RIDGE/NSF Cyprus Field School on
Ophiolites and
Oceanic
Crust.
1998: Participant Geological Society of America Penrose
Conference on Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust.
1998: Participant in the RIDGE/NSF Oman Winter School,
February, Muscat, Oman.
1994: Geological Society of America Short Course: GPS geodesy and active tectonics.
1991: Geological Society of America Short Course: Deformation and kinematics of high
strain zones.
Reviewer of National Science Foundation proposals, Journal of Structural Geology, Journal of
Petrology, Geological Society of America publications (GSA Bulletin, GSA
Special Papers), Journal of Metamorphic Geology, Tectonics.
Ph.D. Committees –
Chair
Wayne T. Marko – Beginning Fall of 2004.
Ph.D. Committee Member
Yujia Li. Carbonate assimilation in magmas.
M.S.
Committees - Chair
Greg Dumond, M.S., 2002, ÒMagma chamber construction
in the middle crust: Insights from the Sausfjellet pluton, Bindal BatholithÓ,
(Co-advised with Cal Barnes).
Now in the PhD program at University of
Massaschusettes working with Mike Williams.
Mike Salisbury, M.S. 2003, ÒHigh-temperature
deformation in the Josephine peridotiteÓ. Salisbury
has been invited to submit his M.S. work to a Geological Society of America
Special Paper on the Klamath Mountains. Now working in environmental geology,
Los Angeles, CA.
Wayne Marko, M.S. 2004, ÒContact Aureole RheologyÓ.
Marko has presented his results from his M.S.
research at the National Geological Society of America meeting during 2002 and
2003 (see Publications) and will begin the Ph.D. program in Geosciences at TTU
in the Fall of 2004.
Jeannette Wolak, M.S. 2004, Field constraints on the removal
and incorporation of host rock xenoliths in the Jackass Lakes pluton, central
Sierra Nevada, CA. M.S., Texas Tech University, 75 p. Wolak
presented her initial findings at the 2004 Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain GSA
Meeting in Boise, ID. Wolak was employed at Devon Oil and Gas before returning
to Montana State University for her PhD.
Ryan Krueger, M.S. 2005, Structural evolution of the Sing Peak pendant: Implications
for magma chamber construction and mid-Cretaceous deformation in the central
Sierra Nevada batholith, M.S., Texas Tech University, 94 p. Employed by
ExxonMobil.
Nathan Zimmerman, M.S. 2005, ÒEvaluating host rock
deformation mechanisms in folds developed above laccoliths, Big Bend National
Park, TexasÓ.
Zimmerman was a recipient of a Geological
Society of America Research Grant to partially fund his research. Employed at
Dominion Oil and Gas. Returned to graduate school in 2006 to obtain a MS in
Petroleum Engineering.
David M. Martin, M.S. 2007. ÒStructural Evolution of
the McKinney Hills Laccolith, Big Bend National Park, TexasÓ. Martin is
employed by Mewbourne Oil and Gas.
Tim Anderson, M.S. expected May 2008. ÒInfluence of
tectonics and climate on the topography of the Klamath Mountains Province.
Heather S. Anderon, M.S. expected December 2008.
ÒEvaluating Stoping and Assimilation in the Andalshatten Pluton, Norway.
M.S. Committee Member
Kyle Chapman, M.S. candidate, member since Spring 2000, ÒPetrologic
evolution of the Hilstadtfjellet pluton, Bindal batholith, central NorwayÓ,
expected graduation, Dec. 2003.
Indrani Chattopadhyay, M.S. 2003, ÒCrustal xenoliths from Patrillo
MaarÓ.
Jason Lewis, M.S. 2004, ÒImaging the mantle beneath Southern California
using receiver functionsÓ.
Kristin Reid, M.S. M.S. 2004, ÒPetrologic evolution of the Tosen DikesÓ.
James Green, M.S. candidate, ÒSedimentary petrography of the Ogallala
Formation, Southern High Plains, Texas and New MexicoÓ.
Lindy McCulloch, M.S. expected Dec. 2007, Ò Petrology and structure of
the Hortavar pluton, central NorwayÓ.
Shanna Brown, M.S. expected May 2007, ÒReceiver functions beneath the
Klamath Mountains Province.Ó
Jackie Arellano, B.S. 2002. Rock/thin section preparation and analysis
Jason Foster, B.S. 2002, McNair Scholar co-advisor, ÔGeophysical investigations of a South
Plains Archeological SiteÕ.
Brian Cornwell, B.S. expected graduation December
2004, ÔStrain analysis of deformed conglomerates from the Helgeland Nappe
Complex, central NorwayÕ.
David Martin, B.S. 2004, ÒMagmatic fabrics &
stoped blocks in the Jackass Lakes pluton, central Sierra Nevada, CAÕ.
Mike Blevins, B.S. 2004, ÔStructural analysis of
folded dikes in the Jackass Lakes pluton, central Sierra Nevada, CAÕ.
Sean Troyer, B.S. 2006, ÔStructural analysis of a
portion of the McKinney Hills laccolithÕ.
Tim Anderson, B.S. August 2006, ÔFault kinematic
analysis along Tornillo creekÕ.
Jeff Hoemberg, B.S. December 2006, ÔEvaluation of
restored cross sections at Dog Canyon, Big Bend National Park.
Heather Anderson, B.S. December 2006, ÔPetrologic and
structural evolution of a portion of the contact aureole around the Vega
plutonÕ. Co-advised Anderson in the field and lab.
Kyle Metz, B.S. May 2007
Mike Muncy, B.S. Dec. 2007
Jeffrey Wood, B.S. May 2008.
Teaching Awards
2003: South Central Federation of Mineral Societies, Inc.
Honorary Scholarship Award Winner for the American Federation of Mineral
Societies Scholarship Foundation. Includes two $4000 grants to be given to
exceptional gradate students.
2002: Outstanding Non-Petroleum Engineering Professor of
the Year Award, Society of Petroleum Engineers.
1999-present:
Texas Tech University:
Physical
Geology (GEOL 1303)
Structural
Geology (GEOL 3302)
Tectonics
(GEOL 5362),
Advanced
Structural Geology (GEOL 4361/5361),
Tectonic
Evolution of Western North America (GEOL 5305),
Advances
in Historical Geology (GEOL 5340),
Graduate
Seminars
1998: Guest Lecturer, University of Southern California,
Advanced Structural Geology (graduate class): Lectured on dislocation theory, deformation mechanisms, and
olivine crystallography and rheology.
1996: U.S.C. Curriculum Fellowship to design new curriculum
for an introductory geophysics class on earthquakes.
1996: Guest Lecturer, University of Southern California,
Earthquakes 240 (general education course): Lectured on oceanic spreading centers and divergent plate
boundaries to general education class.
1995: Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department
of Earth Science, University of Southern California.
1994-1997: University of Southern California: Earthquakes -- An introduction to
geophysics laboratory (13 classes), Structural Geology (1 class).
1994-1997: 4.55 average out of 5.0 teaching evaluation scores at
the University of Southern California.
1993-1994: San Diego State University: Introductory Geology Laboratory (2 classes), Introductory
Field Mapping (1 class).
Physical Geology (GEOL 1303)
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Developed class field trip for 200-student course;
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Developed in-class discussion/problem solving groups in 200-seat class;
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Involved thirteen non-majors in a 3-day field trip to New Mexico.
Evaluations
(out of 5): Fall 2002: 4.3 (first
time taught at TTU)
Fall
2003: 4.3
Structural Geology (GEOL 3402)
During
my first year I increased this to a 4 hour course that includes two field trips
(Cap Rock Canyon, TX, Manzano Mountains, NM). This course is taught to both
Geoscience majors and Petroleum Engineering majors and enrollments have ranged
from 22 to 55.
Evaluations
(average of response 2, per Annual Reports, Òoverall effectiveness of
instructorÓ:
Fall 1999: 2.92,
Fall 2000: 4.33,
Fall 2001 (using new form): 4.19,
Fall 2002: 4.6 (Geology majors), 3.96 (Petroleum
Engineering majors),
Fall 2003: 4.56 (Geology majors), 4.36 (Petroleum
Engineering majors)
Tectonics (GEOL 5362)
This
is a new course that I developed and have taught during spring 2000 and Fall
2001. This course focuses on the history of the development of the Plate
Tectonic Paradigm and the geodynamic and kinematic constrains on our
understanding of plate boundaries and intraplate deformation. This class has
one field trip.
Evaluations:
Spring 2000: 4.5.
Fall 2001: not compiled but on file (~4.0).
Spring 2004: in progress.
Advanced Structural Geology (GEOL 5361)
This
is a new course that I developed and first taught during Spring of 2001. This
course is topical and is designed around various field projects and samples
that I have acquired from the Western US as well as my ongoing research in
Norway and southern Chile. The course is a combination of lecture, lab, and
field work when appropriate.
Evaluations:
Spring 2001: evaluations are not in file; For insights into the class, graduate
students Dumond, Salisbury, Rothengass, and undergraduate Cornwell were
enrolled and may be contacted for review.
Tectonic Evolution of Western North America (GEOL
5305)
This
is a new course that I developed and have taught during Fall 2000 and Spring
2002. This is a survey course of the plate tectonic and geologic evolution of
the western US. During the Spring of 2002 this course has focused on the field
aspects of three major ÒCordilleranÓ tectonic phenomena: Proterozoic
continental collision and crustal accretion, Mesozoic contractional deformation
and sedimentation, and Cenozoic rifting and volcanism. The course has three
field trips to west Texas and central/southern New Mexico.
Evaluations:
Fall 2000: 4.6;
Spring
2002: not available.
In addition to the above courses, I have also
taught/lead graduate seminars including Geodynamics (Fall 2001 co-lead with Dr.
Barnes) and GEOL 5101 (Spring 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
2007-2008: Mineralogy Search Committee
2005-present: Undergraduate Committee, Graduate Committee, Field
Camp Committee.
2003-present: Multi-disciplinary Science Graduate Degree Committee
member
2003: Petroleum Geology Faculty Search Committee
2002-2004: Department Committees:
Outreach Committee, Chair
Graduate Committee
Undergraduate
Committee
Executive
Committee
2001-2004: Physical Geology Lab
Coordinator.
Involves organizational aspects of TA positions,
overseeing lab curriculum, periodic in-class TA evaluations, etc.
2001-present: Advisor to Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Geoscience Honor
Society.
2001-present: Advisor to TTU Climbing Club.
2004-present: Advisor to the Geoscience Society
2000-present: Department webmaster.
Involves maintaining and creating new Departmental
www sites, functionality and influence.
2000-present: Organizer of
Department Colloquia
2000: Committee on Graduate Recruitment, Department of Geosciences.
2000-2002: Committee to develop strategic plan for Department
of Geosciences.
2000: Search Committee for Assistant Professor in GIS
1999: Ad hoc committee on TTU Field Camp.
Thesis Committee Members
Ph.D, University of Southern California: Drs. Scott R. Paterson (Ph.D. advisor),
J. Lawford Anderson, Gregory A. Davis, Jean Morrison, William Weber.
M.S., San Diego State University: Drs. Gary H. Girty, Michael Walawender,
Ned
Greenfield.
Research Collaborators
Drs.
Cal Barnes (TTU)
Kevin
Chamberlain (U. Wyo.)
Henry
Dick (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
T.
Kenneth Fowler, Jr. (Exxon Prod. Research)
Carol
Frost (U. Wyo.)
Gregory
Harper (SUNY Albany)
David
Harwood (USGS)
Greg
Hirth (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
Pete
Holterhoff (TTU)
Benoit
Ildefonse (U. Montpellier, France)
Barbara
John (U. Wyoming)
Peter
Kelemen (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
Bernd
Leiss, (Univ. of Gottingen)
Eduardo
Llambias (U. La Plata, Argentina)
¯ystein
Nordgulen (Norwegian Geological Survey)
David
Okaya (USC)
Scott
R. Paterson (USC, PhD Advisor)
Tore
Prestvik (NTSU)
Sarah
Roeske (UC Davis)
Keegan
Schmidt (Lewis and Clark State College)
Invited Talks
1998: ÔMagma emplacement into the crust: Constraints from
thermal models and field studiesÕ,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
1999: ÔMagma emplacement into the crust: Constraints from
oceanic and arc environmentsÕ, Rice University
1999: Ô Implications of differing rates and durations of
magmatic and tectonic processes for construction of cordilleran batholithsÕ,
Special Symposium on Cordilleran Plutonism in the Americas, Geological Society
of America Cordilleran Section Meeting.
1999: ÔMagma chamber construction and destruction at
oceanic spreading centersÕ, U.T. El Paso.
1999: ÔMagma chamber construction and destruction at
oceanic spreading centersÕ, New Mexico State University.
2000: ÒThe Ron Vernon SymposiumÓ, Geological Society of
Australia, (two invited papers)
2002: ÔTectonic evolution of the Tortuga ophiolite,
southern ChileÕ, University of New Orleans.
2002: Geological Society of America, Paleogeodesy and
displacement in arcs – a symposium in honor of Dr. O. T. Tobisch
2003: Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Conference,
Flagstaff, AZ; invited presentation on the influence of geology in the
construction of Tor House and in JeffersÕ verse.
2003: Tor House Foundation: invited presentation on the
geologic influences in the construction of Tor House, Carmel, CA.
2004: Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Conference,
Carmel, CA; invited presentation on the role of geological influences and early
development of continental drift theory to JeffersÕ verse.
2004: ÔCookie cutters, balloons, and candles: New and old
views of magma emplacement in the crustÕ, Texas Christian University.
2006: 2-D or not 2-D: 3-D is the Answer! Accessing and
evaluating student spatial reasoning skills using Geowall. Scholarhips of
Teaching and Learning Spotlight Talk, Teaching, Learning and Technology Center,
Texas Tech University, 18 April, 2006.
2006: Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Earth Scientist. Texas
Tech Center for the Southwest, Natural History and the Art and Literature of
Place Conference, 17 & 18 February, 2006.
2007: Stoping Happens! Louisiana State University, 26
January, 2007.
Research Experience
2007-present: Field structural analysis of the Fresnal fault zone,
Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico.
2004-2007: Field and structural analysis of laccoliths and
Cenozoic deformation in the Big Bend region.
2001-present:
Field and microstructural analysis
of contact aureole rocks using quartz and calcite piezometry and experimentally
derived flow laws to evaluate rheology of contact aureoles during magma
emplacement. NSF Funded through 2004.
2000-present:
Deformation and magmatism in the
central Norwegian Caledonides. In
collaboration with Dr. Cal Barnes, Texas Tech University, Dr. ¯ystein
Nordgulen, Norwegian Geological Survey. Funded by NSF through 2007.
1998-present:
Use of olivine microstructures in
rocks deformed at hypersolidus conditions from ophiolites and modern oceanic
crust to constrain the rheological parameters of partially molten gabbro, with
implications to the viscosity of the lower crust beneath fast-spreading oceanic
ridges.
1997-present:
Deformation, melt migration, and the
rheology of slow-spreading lower oceanic crust: ODP Leg 176, return to Hole 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge.
1997: Shipboard Scientist, Structural Geologist,
JOIDES-Resolution, on ODP Leg 176, return to Hole 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge.
1996-present:
Nature of deformation in ÒcumulateÓ
rocks during oceanic spreading:
Examples from the Rocas Verdes ophiolites, southern Chile and Josephine
ophiolite, California, with implications to the partitioning of deformation at
slow-spreading oceanic ridges.
1996-1998: Two-dimensional, finite-difference thermal modeling
of fault-controlled magma emplacement and magma solidification in arc settings.
1994-1995: Pluton roofs: Testing pluton emplacement mechanisms
around shallow-crustal granitoids in Northwestern Argentina.
1993-1994: Nature and significance of contact metamorphic volume
loss and mass transfer during pluton emplacement.
1991-1995: Timing of pluton emplacement and regional
deformation in the northern Sierra:
Implications to Middle Jurassic orogenesis.
1991-1994: Geochemical analysis of Lower Paleozoic
chert-argillite sequences to determine depositional environment and provenance
of clastic material and the behavior of the REE during deformation and contact
metamorphism.
1992-1993: Kinematic and microstructural study of the
Cuyamaca-Laguna Mountains shear zone, Peninsular Ranges, California.
1990-1991: Field mapping in the Sierra Mejor metamorphic core
complex, NE Baja California, Mexico.
1989-1990: Field mapping of lower and upper plate rocks of the
Pinyon Mountains extensional detachment fault, SE California.
Pre-1998
Research Awards and Grants
1998: Participant in the RIDGE/NSF Oman Winter School,
February, Muscat, Oman.
1997: Outstanding
Student Paper, Department of Earth Sciences, USC: ÒModeling the thermal
evolution of fault-controlled magma emplacement models: Implications for the solidification of
granite plutonsÓ Journal of Structural
Geology.
1997: AMOCO Fellowship: Testing oceanic crustal accretion
models at the Josephine Ophiolite, northern California.
1996-1998: Keck Fellowship, University of Southern California.
1996-1997: Geological Society of America Research Grant.
ÒStructure and magmatic processes in the Sarmiento ophiolite, southern Chile: A
physical proxy for modern back arc basin spreading centers?Ó.
1995-1996: Outstanding
Graduate Research Proposal, Geological Society of America. ÒMechanical
links during pluton emplacement: When, why, and how strong?Ó.
1995: USC Graduate Student Research Grant. ÒDiachronous
formation of oceanic crust in a paleo back-arc basin: The Rocas Verdes marginal basin, southern Chile.Ó
1995: USC Graduate Student Research Grant. ÒWhat process
forms magmatic structures in batholiths?Ó.
1994-1995: Stones Fellowship, University of Southern California.
1993: Chevron Research Scholarship. ÒMass transfer and
volume strain during contact metamorphismÓ.
1993: Amoco Research Scholarship.
1992: Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Department of
Geological Sciences, San Diego
State University, 1992.
1992: N.A.G.T./U.S.G.S. Field Program Nominee.