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RESEARCH
My current research includes collisional processes of the Himalaya and gneiss domes of southern Tibet, the tectonic evolution of the ultrahigh-pressure Qinling-Dabie-Sulu orogen in eastern China, the tectonometamorphic history of subduction complexes in the Ural Mountains of Russia, and the eclogites of Norway. I am a field geologist with research interests in geochronology, igneous and metamorphic petrology, structural geology and tectonics, and geochemistry.

Curriculum vitae and Publications

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25^th HIMALAYA-KARAKORAM-TIBET WORKSHOP

Skeleton website for the 25^th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop - San Francisco - 2010

E-mail hkt25sf "at" gmail.com for more information but please note that updates to the existing website will not be available until 2009

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CURRENT STUDENTS

• Erika Amir - Plio-Pleistocene exhumation rate of the Black Mountains footwall block, central Death Valley, using (U-Th)/He thermochronology (co-advisor John Caskey)
  
• Molly Cornell - Material science investigation of the graphite-diamond transition
  
• Willie Hassett - U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the Renbu granitic gneiss dome, southeast Tibet
  

FORMER STUDENT(S)

• Christina Polito (B.S. 2006) - Eclogitization of Proterozoic gabbros in the Lofoten Islands, Norway (Now at the Berkeley Geochronology Center)

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LABORATORY FACILITIES IN GEOSCIENCES
New in Fall 2008! High-resolution scanning electron microscope with BSE, EDS and CL capabilities
X-ray diffractometer
Transmission electron microscopes
Sample preparation lab - Rock saws, thin sectioning equipment, jaw crusher, lap wheels, seives (currently being renovated)

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COURSES TAUGHT
Currently offered:
Geochemistry * (Spring semesters, odd years)
Volcanology * (Fall semesters)
Mineralogy and Petrology I * (Spring semesters)
Mineralogy and Petrology II * (Fall semesters)
The Violent Earth (Spring semesters, even years)

Offered in the past:
Tectonic Geomorphology *
Earthquakes and the San Andreas fault *
Geology of the National Parks
California Rocks!
* External users can contact me via e-mail for access to course materials on iLearn

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CLASSROOM EXERCISES
Geologic provinces of the U.S. (with David Howell at the U.S. Geological Survey)

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Personal web page

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** Updated 11 August 2008 **

Department of Geosciences
San Francisco State University