Session: Mineralogy/Crystallography; Petrology, Experimental; Igneous; Metamorphic

Thursday, 9 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 351BE

Presiding:

Aaron S. Yoshinobu and William Evans

8:00 AM

Statistics of 2D Cuts through 3D Fractal Objects, with Application to Xenoliths in Plutons
Allen F. Glazner, Univ. of North Carolina; John M. Bartley, Univ. of Utah

8:15 AM

331-2

Determining Relative Magma-Xenolith Rheology during Magmatic Fabric Formation in Plutons: Examples from the Middle and Upper Crust
Aaron S. Yoshinobu, Texas Tech Univ; Jeannette Wolak, Texas Tech Univ; Scott R. Paterson, University of Southern California; Geoff Pignotta, University of Southern California; Heather S. Anderson, Texas Tech Univ

8:30 AM

331-3

Paleo-Viscometry of Magma Bodies
Tobias Höink, Rice University; Cin-Ty Lee, Rice Univ; Jessica C. Hawthorne, Princeton; Adrian Lenardic, Rice University

8:45 AM

331-4

Role of Isobaric Fractional Crystallization and Isobaric-Isenthalpic Magma Mixing in the Differentiation of the Small Hasandag Volcano, Central Anatolia, Turkey
Gokce K. Ustunisik, University of Cincinnati

9:00 AM

331-5

Volcanic-Plutonic Transition in the Carboniferous Gobi-Tienshan Intrusive Complex, Southern Mongolia
Rita Economos, University of Southern California; Scott Paterson, University of Southern California; Holly MacGillivray, University of Southern California

9:15 AM

331-6

Petrological Relationships between Mantle Xenolths and their Host Magmas in the Alkaline Province Mexico
Adalberto Treviño Cazares, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon; Juan Alonso Ramirez Fernandez, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon; Fernando Velasco Tapia, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon

9:30 AM

331-7

Pb Isotopes and Trace Elements of the Pinacate Volcanic Field, Northwestern Sonora, Mexico: A Basin and Range Mini-Plume near the EPR Spreading Center
Adam R. Goss, University of Florida; James T. Gutmann, Wesleyan University; Johan C. Varekamp, Wesleyan University; George Kamenov, University of Florida

9:45 AM

331-8

Research on the Eastern Mexican Alkaline Province. Facts and Open Questions
Juan Alonso Ramirez Fernandez, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon; Fernando Velasco Tapia, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon; Federico Viera Decida, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon; Maria Teresa Orozco Esquivel, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

10:00 AM

Break

10:15 AM

331-9

Decompression Melting of FOZO and FOZO-HIMU Sources by Extensional Focusing, Balcones Igneous Province, Texas
William R. Griffin, University of Texas at Dallas; Robert J. Stern, U Texas at Dallas; William I. Manton, University of Texas at Dallas; Matthew I. Leybourne, GNS Science; Steven C. Bergman, Shell Exploration R&D

10:30 AM

331-10

Petrology of the San Simeon Coast Range Ophiolite, San Simeon, California
Paul Mehring, University of Texas at Austin; Mark Cloos, University of Texas at Austin

10:45 AM

331-11

Volatile Evolution in Silicic Magmas of Torfajökull Volcano, as Determined by FTIR Micro-Spectroscopy
Anna Keskula, University of Massachusetts; Sheila Seaman, University of Massachusetts; M. Darby Dyar, Mount Holyoke College

11:00 AM

331-12

Gas Sources and Source Volumes at Mammoth Mountain Volcano CA
William C. Evans, U.S. Geological Survey; Chris D. Farrar, U.S. Geological Survey; Andrew G. Hunt, U.S. Geological Survey; B. Mack Kennedy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

11:15 AM

331-13

Removal of Tetracycline from Water by Palygorskite
Po-Hsiang Chang, National Cheng Kung University; Zhaohui Li; Jiin-Shuh Jean, National Cheng Kung University

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