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Possible
thesis/dissertation topics:
Petrogenesis and tectonic significance of Late Cenozoic bimodal basalt-rhyolite
volcanism in the northern Basin and Range and western Snake River Plain
regions, and in the Ethiopian and Afar Rifts.
Chronostratigraphic, geochemical, and petrologic studies of basalt, rhyolite
and mixed tephra in Ethiopia and the western Snake River Plain.
Understanding magma chamber processes from the volcanic and plutonic records;
Wrangell Volcanic Field, Alaska; Owyhee and Oregon Plateaus, northwestern
USA; Ethiopian and Afar Rifts.
Current/recent
graduate student research:
Ninad Bondre (Ph.D. in progress) Physical, geochemical, and tectonomagmatic
investigations of basaltic volcanism in the western United States and
India.
Matt
Brueseke (Ph.D. in progress) The evolution of Miocene volcanic systems
in the southeastern Oregon Plateau of Oregon and Nevada.
Stephen Pasquale (M.S. in progress) Magmatic and tectonic implications
of Miocene silicic volcanism along the southern margin of the Oregon Plateau,
northwestern United States..
Darin
Snyder (Ph.D. 2005) Processes and timescales in silicic magma chambers:
chemical and isotopic investigations.
Kurt
Shoemaker (Ph.D. 2004) The tectonomagmatic evolution of the Late Cenozoic
Owyhee Plateau, northwestern United States.
Shawn Irvin (M.S. 2002) Volcanology and stratigraphy of the Esa Dibo region,
Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia.
Selected
publications:
Brueseke, M.E., Hart, W.K., and Heizler, M.T. (in review) Diverse mid-Miocene
silicic volcanism associated with the Yellowstone-Newberry thermal anomaly:
Bulletin of Volcanology.
Bondre,
N.R., Hart, W.K., and Sheth, H.C. (accepted) Geology and geochemistry
of the Sangamner mafic dikes, Deccan Volcanic Province, India: implications
for chemostratigraphic interpretations: Journal of Geology.
Snyder,
D.C. and Hart, W.K. (accepted) Petrogenetic development and tectonic significance
of a Cretaceous granitoid suite, Wrangellia Terrane, Alaska: Geological
Society of America Special Paper.
WoldeGabriel,
G., Hart, W.K., Katoh, S., Beyene, Y., and Suwa, G. (2005) Correlation
of Plio-Pleistocene tephra in Ethiopian and Kenyan rift basins: temporal
calibration of geological features and hominid fossil records: Journal
of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, in press.
Preece,
S.J. and Hart, W.K. (2004) Geochemical variations in the <5 Ma Wrangell
Volcanic Field, Alaska: implications for the magmatic and tectonic development
of a complex continental arc system: Tectonophysics, 392, 165-191
WoldeGabriel,
G., Renne, P.R., Hart, W.K., Ambrose, S.H., Asfaw, and White, T.D. (2004)
Geoscience methods lead to paleo-anthropological discoveries in Afar Rift,
Ethiopia: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 85, 273,
276-277.
Shoemaker,
K.A. and Hart, W.K. (2002) Temporal controls on basalt genesis and evolution
on the Owyhee Plateau, Idaho and Oregon: in Bill Bonnichsen,
C.M. White, and Michael McCurry, eds., Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution
of the Snake River Plain Province: Idaho Geological Survey Bulletin 30,
313-328.
Selected
grants:
National Science Foundation, 2005 - 2010
Understanding the Causes of Continental Intraplate Tectonomagmatism: A
Case Study in the Pacific Northwest.
National Science Foundation, 2001 - 2005
The Santa Rosa-Calico volcanic field: a case study of magmatic processes
associated with the Yellowstone hotspot and lithospheric extension.
National Science Foundation, 2001 - 2004 (with E. Widom and H. Dong)
Acquisition of a thermal ionization spectrometer for geochemical and geochronological
applications.
Teaching
Interests:
GLG 115.H
- Understanding the Earth Honors Lab - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 175 - Environmental Science Seminar Honors Course - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 357 - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 411/511 - Field Geology - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 646 - Igneous Petrology - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 730 - Advanced Igneous Petrology - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 750 - Advanced Studies in Crust & Mantle Development - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 770 - Advanced Isotope Geochemistry - click here
for a complete description.
For more information please visit Dr. Hart's personal
web page.
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