Nadine Grambling has joined the Mantle Processes group as a postdoctoral scholar! She will be studying olivine fabric development by combining rock deformation experiments with analysis of samples from the Talkeetna Intraoceanic Arc in Alaska. Her work is supported by NSF project EAR-2113408 and is a collaboration with Ningli Zhao (Carnegie Institution) and Greg Hirth […]
Graduate student Abigail Nalesnik and UD affiliate professor Kendra J. Lynn are featured in this amazing interactive piece by Tracey Bryant and Dave Barczak for the UD Research magazine. The story describes their encounter with a volcanic eruption at Kīlauea’s Halema’uma’u crater in 2021.
Current lab members Kuan-Yu Lin and Abby Nalesnik, along with affiliated lab member Kendra J Lynn, will present their research at the 2022 Goldschmidt Conference in Honolulu, HI: Lin, K.-Y., Warren, J. M., & Davis, F. A. (2022). Evaluating the effects of spreading rate and melt addition on the closure temperatures recorded by peridotite thermometers. […]
Leg 3 of the 2019-2021 Gofar Transform Fault Earthquake Prediction Experiment set sail from San Diego earlier this month and arrived on site in the equatorial Pacific this week. The scientists, engineers, and crew aboard the R/V Thompson are now working to recover ocean bottom seismometers, use the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry to image the […]
After two years of virtual conferences, Mindy Bahruth and Kuan-Yu Lin where able to attend the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans!
An article on the role of seawater infiltration for oceanic transform fault seismicity has been published in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience. Oceanic transform faults are a major category of plate-bounding faults that cross-cut the mid-ocean ridge system. This study by Arjun Kohli, Monica Wolfson-Schwehr, Cecile Prigent, and Jessica Warren incorporates seawater hydration into […]
Former lab member Suzanne Birner has published an open access paper titled “Melt addition to mid-ocean ridge peridotites increases spinel Cr# with no significant effect on recorded oxygen fugacity“. In this paper, we report geochemical data, petrographic observations, and oxygen fugacity estimates for Southwest Indian Ridge peridotites. We show that low to moderate degrees of […]
Read the UDaily feature article on former lab member Sierra Patterson here!
An article by Kendra J. Lynn and Jessica M. Warren on the timescales of hydrogen re-equilibration in nominally anhydrous minerals from peridotites is now published in American Mineralogist, as part of the special collection “Volatile Elements in Differentiated Planetary Interiors”. Lynn, K.J. and J.M. Warren, 2021. The potential for aqueous fluid-rock and melt-rock interactions to […]
Sierra Patterson’s recent paper on deep hydrothermal alteration of Gakkel peridotites is now available as an open access article from Lithos. Thanks to the Department of Earth Sciences at UD for supporting the costs of open access publishing! Patterson, S.N., K.J. Lynn, C. Prigent, J.M. Warren, 2021. High temperature hydrothermal alteration and amphibole formation in […]