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Creator:: Ford, Mark T.
Abstract:: Understanding continental crust formation and modification is a fundamental and longstanding geologic problem. Influx of mantle-derived basaltic magma and partial melting of the crust are two ways to drive crustal differentiation. This process results in a low density upper crust and denser, more refractory lower crust, creating significant and vastly...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Bromley, Sarah Ashley
Abstract:: Inheritance from pre-existing mantle domains and fluid and melt contributions from active subduction together produce the geochemical signatures of mantle-derived arc basalts. In this context, this work evaluates the evolution of Cascadia mantle sources by documenting the isotopic and compositional characteristics of primitive basalts along a transect across the Eocene-Oligocene...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: endeavors, scientific and otherwise. I want to thank Bob Duncan, Adam Kent, and Armin Stuedlein for

Creator:: Drinnan, Megan R.
Abstract:: The subsurface microbial biosphere in the igneous oceanic crust has implications for global geochemical cycling, early life on Earth, and the search for life on Mars. Microscopic evidence of a subsurface microbial ecosystem includes biotic alteration textures associated with basaltic glass. The exact conditions in the basaltic layer that make...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Megan R. Drinnan for the degree of Master of Science in Geology

Creator:: Moore, Nicole E.
Abstract:: Continental flood basalts represent short-lived but immense blasts of mafic magma to the continental crust. The youngest and smallest continental flood basalt worldwide, the Columbia River Basalt, initiated with the eruption of the most mafic member, the Steens Basalt (~16.9 Ma). The Steens Basalt is exposed in southeast Oregon, southwest...
Resource Type:: Dataset and Dissertation

Creator:: Jordan, Brennan T.
Abstract:: The High Lava Plains province (HLP) of southeastern Oregon is a Miocene to Recent volcanic upland characterized by widespread basaltic volcanism and west-migrating rhyolitic volcanism. New ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages for HLP rhyolites demonstrate that the trend of migrating rhyolitic volcanism is robust, reflecting westward migration at a rate of -35 km/m.y....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: by way of a grant to Anita Grunder, Dave Graham, and Bob Duncan. Additional funding was provided by

Creator:: Sanville, Henri J.
Abstract:: The Hampton Tuff is a 3.9 ± .02 Ma (2σ) ignimbrite sheet from the High Lava Plains of central Oregon. The majority of known outcrops exist to the north, within ~22 mi (~35 km) of the Frederick Butte Volcanic Center, the proposed source of the tuff. Thickness of the tuff...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: heat step using 1/σ2 as the weighting factor, as described by Duncan and Hogan, 1995. Isochron ages

Creator:: McKee, Claire M.
Abstract:: Volcán Miño (21°11'S) is located on the westernmost periphery of a longlived complex of stratovolcarioes and domes called the Aucanquilcha Complex. The Aucanquilcha Complex ranges in age from 11 Ma to 1-lolocene and lies along the main N-S trending axis of Quaternary volcanoes in the Andean Central Volcanic Zone (CVZ)....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: University; Bob Duncan, Noble Gas Lab, Oregon State University; the Radiation Center; Oregon State

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