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PublicationsCont. CrustCont. dynamicsWater CycleMantle geochemWeatheringNatureNatura-AvifloraGroup Members

 

 

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ctlee

Cin-Ty A. Lee

Associate Professor

 

PhD. Harvard University (2001)

B.A. Univ. California Berkeley (1996)

 

Awards

2009 Donath Medal (Geol. Soc. America)

2009 Clarke Medal (Geochemical Society)

2008 Kuno Award (Am. Geophys. Union)

2005 David and Lucile Packard Fellow

2004 Great Texas Birding Classic – 1st place UC

 

Department of Earth Science
Rice University
MS-126
6100 Main Street,
Houston, Texas 77005

 

713 348 5084               

ctlee_at_rice.edu

 

 

 

 

Getting here

 

 

:: Opportunities

students

Do you love the earth?

Are you curious about the earth?

Do you live, breathe and dream of the earth, night and day?

 

If you answer YES to all of these, then we want to work with you!!!

 

Post-doctorates

I currently don’t have funding for post-docts (although we can always write a proposal together)

 

 

 

 

 

:: Main Menu

 

 

·  People and faces

   

    Group photos

       June 2007

 

    Faculty

      Cin-Ty A. Lee 

         CV – (click here)

         (Pubs, misc)

 

    Post-doctorates

      Tobias Höink (geodynamics)

      Peter Luffi  ( ig/met petrology, continental dynamics)

      Bing Shen (Mg isotopes, continent formation)

      Veronique Le Roux

     Graduate students

      Heather Dalton (Martian meteorites)

      Emily Chin (petrology; arcs)

     

    Undergraduates

      Blake Dyer (troctolite xenoliths Sierra Nevada)

    

         

 

   Previous group members

      H. Patrick Young (BSc 07, MS 09; PhD cand Yale U)

      Michael Kallstrom (BSc ’08; MSc. Cand UT Austin)

      Masaru Oka (Stanford U) (Li-B in serpentine)

      Stephen Turner (BSc ’08; Harvard PhD cand))

      Artemis Harbert (BSc)

      Maik Pertermann (p.d., 06-07; prof. San Jacinto Coll.)

      Arnaud Agranier (p. d., 05-07); prof. U. Bretagne)

      Martin Collier (BSc; grad school Columbia)

      Janelle Homburg (BSc; grad school Columbia)

      Ulyana Horodyskyj (BSc. ’07; grad school Brown U)

      Min Hu (MSc. ’07)

      Zhengxue A  Li (PhD ’07; Veritas)

      Mark Little (PhD ’07; Luce Fellow; GSA Congressional

         Science fellow)

      Amy Maloy (MSc ’07)

      Shayda Naficy (BSc)

      Nivedita Thiagarajan (BSc; grad school Caltech)


·  Facilities

   

       ThermoFinnigan Element II Sector ICP-MS

       New-wave 213 nm laser ablation system

       ThermoNicolet FT-IR microscope

       General Laboratory protocols

 

      Interested in using facilities? Click here

 


·  Current Funding

     NSF – Petrology and Geochemistry

      NSF – Instrumentation and Facilities

      Packard Foundation

 


 

·  Course Webpages and materials

    ESCI 412 – Advanced Petrology (Spring)

     ESCI 322 – Earth Chemistry and Materials (Spring)

     ESCI 430 -  Trace-element and isotope geochemistry (Fall)

     ESCI 463 – Field Geology (Spring)

     ESCI 471 – Isotope Geology (Fall)

     ESCI 434 – Introduction to ICP-MS (Fall)

     ESCI 518 – Dimensional Analysis for Earth scientists

     ESCI 562 – Advanced topics in Geophysics

     BIOS 337 – Field Bird Biology Laboratory

 


·  Reading groups

    Planetary Differentiation

 

 


 

 

Field Trip Photos

ESCI322 - 2006

ESCI322 - 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

:: Periodicals of interest

 

Annual Reviews of Earth & Planetary Sciences

American Mineralogist

Astrophysical Journal

Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology

Chemical Geology

Earth & Planetary Science Letters

G-cubed

Geophysical Research Letters

Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta

Geoderma

Geological Society of America journals

Geophysical Journal International

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Journal of Geology

Journal of Geophysical Research

Journal of Metamorphic Petrology

Journal of Petrology

Lithos

Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences

Nature

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

PNAS

Reviews of Geophysics

Science

Tectonophysics

 

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Journal of Materials Chemistry

American Ceramic Society Bulletin

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Journal of Tribology

 

Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data Retrieval

JSTOR

 

American Midland Naturalist

Ecological Monographs

Oecologia

 

AUK

Condor

Wilson Bulletin & Journal of Ornithology

Ibis

SORA

 

 

 

 

:: Links

 

 

Earth Science Links

GERM database

NAVDAT

Earthtime

Geological Society of America

American Geophysical Union

Geochemical Society

Mineralogical Society of America

MELTS Homepage

 

Other links

Lynn Lowrey Arboretum at Rice (Tree Map)

Tide locator (Texas)

Digital Images of Texas Flora

Antiquarian Books in California

Oxford University Herbaria Image database

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Chicago Field Museum

American Natural History Museum

Smithsonian Institute

UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Arnold Arboretum

Yale Peabody Museum

California Academy of Sciences

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum

Oxford Museum of Natural History

San Diego County Natural History Museum

San Bernardino County Natural History Museum

Museum nationale dhistoire naturelle

Natural History Museum of London

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Royal Ontario Museum

U. Puget Sound Slater Museum of Nat. Hist.

Bird sounds from the Americas

Surfbirds.com = best birding site in the world

 

Artist links

Lars Jonsson Gallery

Houston Watercolor Society

Barry Van Dusen

Andrew Birch

Ian Lewington

Julie Zickefoose

James Coe

David Sibley

Scientific Illustrators Guild

American Society of Botanical Illustrators

Science-Art.com

 

Some favorite used bookstores! (quality used bookstores, not too expensive, and not just a bunch of paperbacks)

Moes Books, Berkeley CA

Black Oak Books, Berkeley CA

Black Oak Books, San Francisco, CA

Powells Books, Portland OR

Powells Bookstores, U. Chicago, IL

Half-price books, Rice Village, Houston, TX

Frank Mikesh, Walnut Creek, CA

Buteo Books, Shipman, VA

Los Angeles Audubon Society, Hollywood, CA

Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA

Bryn Mawr Bookshop, New Haven, CT

McIntyre and Moore, Somerville, MA

Quarter Price Books, Houston, TX

Beckers Books, Houston, TX

Cliffs Books, Pasadena, CA

Book Alley, Pasadena, CA

Book Haven, Monterey, CA

Bookbuyers, Monterey, CA

Bookstop Used Books, Tucson, AZ

Bookmans, Tucson, AZ

Bibliomania, Oakland, CA

Strand Bookstore, New York City

Bryn Mawr bookstores, New Haven & Cambridge

The book exchange, Toronto

BMV Books, Toronto

Dencan Books, Toronto

Booked Up, Archer City, TX

 

When all else fails, you can resort to the internet

www.abebooks.com

www.biblio.com

www.amazon.com

 

 

 

Random sites

Horse Acappella

 

 

Botany sites

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Projects

 

A brief synopsis of research in this group

Research in this group strives to wed observations in the laboratory and field to theory. We work at the scale of microns to the scale of the whole Earth, all in an attempt to better understand how our planet has differentiated into the diverse planet we experience today.  Our observational tools are the rock hammer, the petrographic microscope, mass spectrometry for trace element and isotopic studies, and spectroscopy.  We use our observations to drive simple geodynamic models, ranging from growth of thermal boundary layers to the development of soil profiles. Actually, we’re just trying to have fun.

 


 

:: The origin of continental crust

 

The tectonic and petrologic origin of continental crust is still an important, but not fully resolved, question.  Central to this debate is the apparent paradox that continents are felsic in composition, but felsic melts cannot be generated by melting of the mantle.  One of our ongoing studies is to investigate how a basaltic, mantle-derived magma differentiates into complementary felsic and mafic counterparts.  Our project takes us to the Sierra Nevada and Peninsular Ranges batholiths in California, where we investigate the composition and nature of the deep crust and the overlying plutons.

 


 

:: Origin and dynamics of continental lithosphere

 

Beneath the Moho lies a part of the Earth’s mantle that translates more or less with the over-riding crust.  This is the mantle lithosphere and, together with the crust, they make up part of the thermal boundary layer underlying continents.  It turns out that much of the mantle part of the continental thermal boundary layers is chemically distinct from the ambient mantle in subtle ways.  The mantle part of the chemical boundary layer appears to be melt-depleted and of slightly lower density than the surrounding mantle, a feature that has led to the suggestion that the longevity of continents is due to the intrinsic chemical buoyancy of the underlying chemical boundary layer.  Our research is focused on 1) understanding the petrogenetic and tectonic origins of these chemical boundary layers, and 2) quantifying the physical properties of the rocks that make up the chemical boundary layers (1,2).  We are particularly interested in how the nature of the continental mantle affects continental deformation.  Is the strength of a continent sourced in the mantle part of the lithosphere or is it mostly in the crust?  Towards these end, we are slowly mapping out the composition, thermal state and physical properties (seismic velocity, water content, density, rheology) of the mantle beneath western North America using xenoliths as a window into the mantle.  This work will complement the USArray seismic study.

 


 

 

:: Serpentinization, the global water cycle, and element cycling

 

The upper part of the lithospheric mantle beneath oceans is believed to be serpentinized.  The extent of serp entinization is not fully known, but a number of studies suggest that seawater can penetrate tens of kilometers into the lithosphere through faults and fractures.  Understanding how much of the oceanic lithospheric mantle is serpentinized is key to understanding how much water is recycled into the Earth’s interior by subduction, one leg of the global water cycle.  This in turn has important implications for the rheologic state of the mantle and even how this state has evolved with time because trace amounts of water play an important role in controlling viscosity.  Graduate student Zhengxue Li and I have been investigating the trace and major element chemistry of serpentinites from the Feather River Ophiolite in California in order to place constraints on the mechanisms and depths of serpentinization.  Together with post-doctoral fellow Arnaud Agranier, we are also investigating the Re-Os isotopic and platinum group element systematics of these serpentinites to help our interpretations.  We are also quantifying the amount of fluid-mobile elements in these serpentinites (As, Pb, Li, B and soon halogens) in order to place bounds on the fluxes of these elements into subduction zones. 

 


:: Mantle geochemistry (partitioning, redox, metasomatism)

 

We also do a lot of general mantle geochemistry.  We are currently working on trace-element partitioning, redox evolution of the mantle (using the redox-sensitive behavior of V), and trace-element signatures of mantle metasomatism. Other projects include magma thermobarometry, core-mantle interaction and differentiation, platinum group element geochemistry, etc.  See publication list below if you want to know more.

 


 

:: Continental weathering and the link to continent formation

 

Grad student Mark Little (that’s him on the right) and I (I’m taking the picture) have been investigating soil formation processes and associated element mobility.  Some of this work has taken us to the volcanic highlands in East Africa.  We are also modeling how chemical weathering, soil formation and mass wasting are linked in mountainous or tectonically active regions.

 

Most recently, we have been investigating how chemical weathering alters the major element composition of the continental crust.  One of the questions we are interested in is to what extent is the felsic nature of continental crust and the presence of granites linked to the weathering and sedimentary cycle. 

 


 

:: Education

Teaching geology or other natural history topics to elementary school kids.  More later! 

     What’s inside the Earth?

 

 

:: Field ornithology

One of my side interests is field ornithology.  My main interests are on the subtle nuances of field identification.  Our latest contribution was on the identification of American dowitchers, a notoriously difficult ID-pair.  This was published recently in Birding magazine as well as on Surfbirds.com.  I am also very interested in the migratory status of shorebirds, particularly on the upper Texas coast.  I have been conducting surveys for the last three years.  A sample of some of the data can be found here.  Also, I am working on a bird check-list for Rice. Stay tuned for more or download some of my articles.

 

:: Natural history

Finally, I am embarking on a project to map out and describe the geology and natural history of the Bolivar Peninsula, here along the Upper Texas Coast.  This is a weekend endeavor and is basically a long term project (a decade).  If you are interested in volunteering, please contact me.  Some experience (or desire to learn) in coastal geomorphology and field identification of plants, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and invertebrates would be helpful.  Most of this work is in the field, so appreciation of hot and humid weather, mud, mosquitoes, poisonous snakes, deer flies, and ticks is recommended.  More information on this work can be found at Natura-Aviflora.


 

  Publications (articles only)

Click on the “click” to access electronic files

 

*denotes student; $ denotes post-doct

 

Submitted

$Shen, B., Lee, C.-T. A., Global hypoxia and mass extinction at the Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary triggered by subduction zone volcanism, submitted

$Shen, B., Jacobsen, B., Lee, C.-T. A., Yin, Q.-Z., Morton, D. M., The Mg isotopic signature of granites and the role of weathering in continent formation, submitted.

*Young, H. P., Lee, C.-T. A., A mantle xenolith window into the Grenville orogeny of southern Laurentia: integrating geochemistry and tectonics, under major revision to Lithosphere.

 

Accepted, published, in press or in revision (tentatively accepted) $post-doct; *grad student; **undergrad

50. Savov, I. P., Leeman, W. P., Lee, C.-T. A., Shirey, S. B., Boron isotopic variations in NW USA rhyolites: Yellowstone, Snake River Plain, Eastern Oregon, in press J. Volcanology and Geothermal Research

49. Debaille, V., Tronnes, R. G., Brandon, A. D., Waight, T. E., Graham, D. W., Lee, C.-T. A., 2009, Four components, pseudo-binary mixing beneath Iceland and Jan Mayen Island revealed by 187Os/188Os, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 73: 3423-3449; doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.03.002. click

48. Canil, D., Lee, C.-T. A., 2009. Were deep cratonic roots hydrated in Archean oceans? Geology 37:667-670. Doi: 10.1130/G25610A.1 click

47. $Luffi, P., Saleeby, J., Lee, C.-T. A., Ducea, M. N., 2009, Lithospheric mantle duplex beneath the central Mojave Desert revealed by xenoliths from Dish Hill, California, J. Geophysical Research, 114: B03202, doi:10.1029/2008JB005906.click

46. Lee, C.-T. A., Luffi, P., Plank, T., Dalton, H. A., W. P. Leeman, 2009, Constraints on the depths and temperatures of basaltic magma generation on Earth and other terrestrial planets, Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 279:20-33. Paper  Program  Supplement

 

2008

45. Lee, C-T A, *Oka, M, Luffi, P, Agranier, A., Internal distribution of Li and B in serpentinites from the Feather River Ophiolite, California based on laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9:doi:10.1029/2008GC002078. click

44. *Li, Z-X A, Lee, C-T A, Peslier, A, Lenardic, A, Mackwell, S J, 2008, Water contents in mantle xenoliths from the Colorado Plateau and vicinity: implications for the rheology and hydration-induced thinning of continental lithosphere, J. Geophys. Res, 113: doi:10.1029/2007JB005540. click

43. Lee, C.-T. A., Luffi, P., Höink, T., Li, Z.-X. A., Lenardic, A., 2008, The role of serpentine in preferential craton formation in the late Archean by lithosphere underthrusting, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 269: 96-104. click

42. Lee, C-T A, Morton, D M, Little, M G, Kistler, R, Horodysky, U, Leeman, W P, Agranier, A, 2008, Regulating continent growth and composition by chemical weathering, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105:4981-4985. click

41. $Höink, T., Lee, C.-T. A., Hawthorne, J., Lenardic, A., 2008. Paleo-viscometry of magma bodies, Earth Planetary Science Letters 267:100-106.  click

40. $Miller, M. S., Lee, C.-T. A., 2008. Possible chemical modification of oceanic lithosphere by hotspot magmatism: seismic evidence from the junction of Ninetyeast Ridge and the Sumatra-Andaman arc. Earth Planetary Science Letters 265: 386-395. click

39. Nijjer, S., Rogers, W. E., Lee, C.-T. A., Siemann, E., 2008, The effects of soil biota and fertilization on the success of Sapium sebiferum, Applied Soil Ecology 38:1-11.  click

 

2007

38. Courtier, A. M., Jackson, M. G., Lawrence, J. F., Wang, Z., Lee, C.-T. A., Halama, R., Warren, J. M., Workman, R., Xu, W., Hirschmann, M. M., Larson, A. M., Hart, S. R., Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., Stixrude, L., Chen, W.-P., 2007,  Correlation of seismic and petrologic thermometers suggests deep thermal anomalies beneath hotspots, Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 264: 308-316.  click

37. Lee, C.-T. A., Morton, D. M., Kistler, R. W., Baird, A. K., 2007, Petrology and tectonics of Phanerozoic continent formation: from island arcs to accretion and continental arc magmatism,  Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 263:370-387. click (appendix)

36. $Agranier, A., Lee, C.-T. A., Li, Z.-X. A., Leeman, W. P., 2007, Fluid mobile element budgets in serpentinized oceanic lithospheric mantle: insights from B, As, Li, Pb, PGEs and Os isotopes in the Feather River Ophiolite, California, Chem. Geol. 245: 230-241. click

35. O'Neill, C., Lenardic, A., Moresi, L., Torsvik, T. & Lee, C.-T. A., 2007, Episodic Precambrian subduction,  Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 262:552-562 click

34. Lee, C-T A, Yin, Q.-Z., Lenardic, A, $Agranier, A., $O’Neill, C J, **Thiagarajan, N., 2007, 2007, Trace-element composition of Fe-rich residual liquids formed by fractional crystallization: implications for the Hadean magma ocean, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 71:3601-3615. click

33. $Agranier, A., Lee, C.-T. A., 2007, Quantifying trace-element disequilibria in mantle xenoliths and abyssal peridotites, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 257: 290-298. click

32. **Horodyskyj, U., Lee, C-T A, Ducea, M N, 2007, Similarities between Archean high MgO eclogites and Phanerozoic arc-eclogite cumulates and the role of arcs in Archean continent formation, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.  256: 510-520. click

31.  Lee, C.-T. A., Chen, W.-P., 2007, Possible density segregation of subducted oceanic lithosphere along a weak serpentinite layer and implications for compositional stratification of the Earth’s mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 255:357-366. click

30. Lee, C-T A, **Harbert, A, Leeman, W P, 2007, Extension of lattice strain theory to mineral/mineral rare-earth element partitioning: a tool for assessing disequilibrium and developing internally consistent partition coefficients between olivine, orthoyproxene, clinopyroxene and basaltic melt, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.09.014, v. 71: 481-496. click

 

2006

29.  Ott, U., Yin, Q.-Z., Lee, C. T., 2006, s-Process signatures in bulk presolar silicon carbide: a multi-element study, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 77:891-896. click

28. *Little, M. G., and Lee, C-T A, 2006, On the formation of an inverted weathering profile on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: buried paleosol or groundwater weathering? Chemical Geology 235: 205-221; doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.06.012. click

27. *Li, Z-X A, and Lee, C-T A, 2006, Geochemical investigation of serpentinized oceanic lithospheric mantle in the Feather River Ophiolite, California: implications for the recycling rate of water by subduction, Chemical Geology 235: 161-185. click

26. Yin, Q.-Z., Lee, C-T A, Ott, U., 2006, Signatures of the s-process in presolar silicon carbide grains: barium through hafnium, Astrophysical Journal 647:676-684. click

25. Levander, A., Niu, F., Lee, C.-T. A., *Cheng, X., 2006, Imag(in)ing the continental lithosphere, Tectonophysics 416: 167-185. click

24. Lee C.-T. A., *Cheng X., and **Horodyskyj U. (2006) The development and refinement of continental arcs by primary basaltic magmatism, garnet pyroxenite accumulation, basaltic recharge and delamination: insights from the Sierra Nevada, California. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 151:222-242, DOI 10.1007/s00410-005-0056-1. click

23. Lee C.-T. A. (2006) Geochemical/petrologic constraints on the origin of cratonic mantle. In Archean geodynamics and environments, Vol. 164 (ed. K. Benn, J.-C. Mareschal, and K. C. Condie), pp. 89-114. American Geophysical Union Monograph. click

 

2005

22. Lee, C.-T. A., 2005, Trace-element evidence for hydrous metasomatism at the base of the North American lithosphere and possible association with Laramide low angle subduction, Journal of Geology 113:673-685. click

21. Lee, C.-T. A., Leeman, W. P., Canil, D., Li, Z.X.A., 2005, Similar V/Sc systematics in MORB and arc basalts: implications for the oxygen fugacities of their mantle source regions, Journal of Petrology 46 (11): 2313-2336. click

20. Liu, Y., Shan, G., Lee, C.-T. A., Hu, S., Liu, X., Honglin, Y., 2005, Melt-peridotite interactions: links between garnet pyroxenite and high-Mg# signature of continental crust, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 234, 39-57. click

19. Lee, C.-T. A., Lenardic, A., Cooper, C., Niu, F., Levander A., 2005, The role of chemical boundary layers in regulating the thickness of continental and oceanic thermal boundary layers, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 230, 379-395. click

 

2004

18. Lee, C.-T. A., 2004 Are the core and mantle on speaking terms?, Science 306:64-65. click

17. F. Niu, A. Levander, C.M. Cooper, C.-T. A. Lee, A. Lenardic, D.E. James, 2004, Seismic Constraints on the Depth and Composition of the Mantle Keel beneath the Kaapvaal Craton, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 224: 337-346. click  

16. *Li, Z.X.A., Lee, C.-T. A., 2004, The constancy of upper mantle fO2 through time inferred from V/Sc ratios in basalts, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 228, 483-493. click

15.  Schmitz, B., Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B., Heilmann-Clausen, C., Aberg, G., Asaro, F., Lee, C.-T. A., Basaltic explosive volcanism, but no comet impact, at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: high-resolution chemical and isotopic records from Egypt, Spain and Denmark, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 225: 1-17. click

14. **Thiagarajan, N., Lee, C.-T. A., 2004, Trace-element evidence for the origin of desert varnish by direct aqueous atmospheric deposition, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 224: 131-141. click

 

2003

13. Lee, C.-T. A., Compositional variation of density and seismic velocities in natural peridotites at STP conditions: Implications for seismic imaging of compositional heterogeneities in the upper mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 108(B9), 2441, doi:10.1029/2003JB002413, 2003. click

12. Lee, C-T A, Brandon, A. D., Norman, M., 2003, Vanadium in peridotites as a proxy for paleo-fO2 during partial melting: prospects, limitations, and implications, Geochimica Cosmochimica Act 67:3045-3064. click

11. Lee, C-T A., Wasserburg, G J, Kyte, F T,  2003, Platinum group elements and Rhenium in marine sediments across the K-T boundary: constraints on Re-PGE transport in the marine environment. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 67: 655-670. click

 

2002

10. C.-T.A. Lee, 2002, Platinum-group element geochemistry of peridotite xenoliths from the Sierra Nevada and the Basin and Range, California, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 66: 3987-4005. click

9. Rudnick, R. L., Lee, C-T, 2002, Osmium isotope constraints on the tectonic evolution of the lithosphere in the southwestern United States, International Geology Review, 44:501-511. click

 

2001

8. Lee, C-T, Rudnick, R L, and Brimhall, G. H., Jr., 2001, Deep lithospheric dynamics beneath the Sierra Nevada during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic as inferred from xenolith petrology, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 2, 2001GC000152. click

7. Yin, Q-Z, Jacobsen, S B, Lee, C-T, McDonough, W F, Rudnick, R L, Horn, I, 2001, Precise and accurate calibration of Os spike, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 165, 2113-217. click

6. Lee, C-T, Yin, Q-Z, Rudnick, R L, Jacobsen, S B, 2001, Preservation of ancient and fertile lithospheric mantle beneath the southwestern United States, Nature 411, 69-73. click

5. Lee, C-T, Yin, Q-Z, Lee, T-C, 2001, An internal normalization technique for unmixing total-spiked mixtures with application to MC-ICP-MS, Computers and Geosciences 27, 577-581. click

 

2000

4. Lee, C-T, Yin, Q-Z, Rudnick, R L, Chesley, J T, Jacobsen, S B, 2000, Os isotopic evidence for Mesozoic removal of lithospheric mantle beneath the Sierra Nevada, California, Science 289: 1912-1916. click

3. Lee, C-T, Rudnick, R L, McDonough, W F, Horn, I, 2000, Petrochemical investigation of carbonates in peridotite xenoliths from northeastern Tanzania, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 139: 470-484. click

 

1999

2. Lee, C-T and Rudnick, R L, 1999, Compositionally stratified cratonic lithosphere: petrology and geochemistry of peridotite xenoliths from the Labait tuff cone, Tanzania. In J J Gurney and S R Richardson (eds). Proceedings of the 7th International Kimberlite Conference, pp 503-521. click

1. Chesley, J T, Rudnick, R L, and Lee, C-T, 1999, Re-Os systematics of mantle xenoliths from the East African Rift: age, structure, and history of the Tanzanian craton, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 63:1203-1217. click

 

Ornithology (*peer-reviewed)

15.  *Lee, C-T A, Birch, A, Hveding, H., 2009, ID av bekkasinsniper – ett steg videre, FeltOrnitologen, in press.

14.  *Lee, C-T and Birch, A., 2008, Field Identification of Western and Eastern Wood-Pewees. Birding 40 (5): 38-48.

13.  *Lee, C-T and Birch, A, 2006, Field Identification of North American dowitchers, Birding 38:34-43.

12. *Lee, C-T and Birch, A, 2002, Notes on the distribution, vagrancy, and field identification of American Pipit and “Siberian Pipit”, North American Birds 56:388-398.

11. *Lee, C-T and Birch, A. 2001, Wing covert pattern as a diagnostic feature in identifying immature and female Bullock’s and Baltimore Orioles: reply to A. Jaramillo, “Wing covert pattern as an aid to identifying female and immature Bullock’s and Baltimore Orioles-Another look”, Birding, February issue, 64-68.

10. *Lee, C-T and Shany, N 1998, Birding Taiwan, Birding 30:492-503.

9. *Lee, C-T and Birch A, 1998, Field identification of female and immature Bullock's and Baltimore Orioles, Birding 30: 282-295.

8. *Lee, C-T and Birch A, 1998, Answers to the June photo quiz, Birding 30: 296-298.

7. *Birch, A. and Lee, C-T, 1997, Field identification of Arctic and Pacific Loons, Birding 29: 106-115.

6. Lee, C-T, 1996, Birding Taiwan: 1996 report. In Foreign Field Note Series, American Birding Association.

5. *Lee, C-T, 1995, "Birdwatching in Riverside, California", San Bernardino County Museum Association, Redlands, volume 42, 218 pp., 117 figures.

4. *Birch, A and Lee, C-T, 1995, Identification of the Pacific Diver - a potential vagrant to Europe, Birding World 8:458-466.

3. Lee, C-T, 1994, A teenaged birder's syndrome, A Bird's Eye-view 2:6.

2. *Lee, C-T, 1994, More records of breeding Barn Swallows in Riverside, California, Western Birds 26:155-156.

1. Lee, C-T, 1994, Birding Taiwan: Trip report from summer 1994. In Foreign Field Note Sieries, American Birding Association

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:: Funding Opportunities

 

For students, post-docts

Mineralogical Society of America

Geological Society of America

National Science Foundation

    NSF Graduate fellowship

    NSF post-doctoral fellowship

NASA graduate fellowship

National Geographic Society

Hertz Foundation

Gates Foundation

AGEP-RICE

Watson Fellowship

Soc. for Exploration Geophysics

Ford Foundation (Nat’l Academ)

The National Academies

 

Faculty

Welch Foundation

Packard Foundation

NSF

DOE

USGS

NASA

US govt

Fulbright

Guggenheim

Templeton Foundation

Sloan Foundation

American Chemical Society PRF

Keck Foundation

 


 

 

 

 

:: Lab Files

 

 

 

Rock database

Generic Box Model

GEOREM

Osmium Spike Unmixing

Spike-Normal Unmixing

   (instructions, Fortran)

 


ICPMS Schedule XLS


Solution

   Data reduction

   Low Resolution XLS

   Med Resolution XLS

Laser

   Data reduction

   1. Raw data time resolve

   2a. Laser LR temp

   2b. Laser MR temp


Misc

   No ions (trouble-shoot)


Gas Orders


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   Glass Expansion

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