Geology Department

 

Marty Giaramita, Professor of Geology

 

Journal Publications and Field Trip Guide Papers  

Giaramita, M.J. and Day, Howard, W., 1990. Error propagation in calculations of structural formulas. American Mineralogist, 75, 170-182.

Giaramita, M.J. and Day, Howard, W., 1991. Buffering in staurolite-aluminum silicate-biotite-garnet-chlorite assemblages. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 9, 363-378.

Giaramita, M.J. and Day, Howard, W., 1991. The 4-phase AFM assemblage staurolite-aluminum silicate-biotite-garnet: Extra components and implications for staurolite-out isograds. Journal of Petrology, 32, 1203-1229.

Giaramita, M.J. and Sorensen, S.S.,1994.  Primary fluids in low-temperature eclogites: evidence from two subduction complexes ( Dominican Republic and California U.S.A.).  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 117, 279-292.

Giaramita, M.J., MacPherson, G.J., and Phipps, S.P., 1998, Petrologically diverse basalts from a fossil oceanic forearc in California : the Llanada and Black Mountain remnants of the Coast Range ophiolite.  Geological Society of America Bulletin, 110, 553-571.

Giaramita, M.J., 1998, The Sierra Nevada Batholith as exposed in the Yosemite Valley area and western foothills of the Sierra Nevada , in Garry Hayes, ed. The Living Geology of the Sierra Nevada, Great Valley and Coast Ranges of California, Guidebook for the Fall Meeting of the National Association of Geology Teachers, p. 6-12.

Harper, G.D., Giaramita, M.J. and Kosanke, Stefan, 2002,  Field Guide to the Josephine and Coast Range Ophiolites, Oregon and California , p. 1-22,. n, Moore, George, ed., "Field Guide to Geologic Processes in Cascadia".  Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Special Paper 36.

Giaramita, M.J. and Harper, G.D., 2006, Geochemistry of ophiolitic rocks associated with the western part of the Elk outlier of the Western Klamath terrane, southwestern Oregon , in, Snoke, A.W. and Barnes, C.D., Geological Studies in the Klamath Mountain Province, California and Oregon : a volume in honor of William P. Irwin, Geological Society of America Special Paper 410, p. 153 – 176.

MacPherson, G.J., Giaramita, M.J., and Phipps, S.P., 2006, Tectonic implications of diverse igneous blocks in Franciscan melange, northern California and southwestern Oregon , American Mineralogist; v. 91, p. 1509 – 1520.  

Abstracts Pertaining to Southwestern Oregon

Harper, Gregory D., Kosanke, Stefan, Giaramita, M.J., Saleeby, J.B., and Heizler, M., 2000, Tectonostratigraphy and geochemistry of the Coast Range Ophiolite at Snowcamp Mountain , SW Oregon : Implications for the exotic vs. native origin of the Coast Range Ophiolite.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32 p. a-17.

Giaramita, M.J., and Harper, G.D., 2001, Newly discovered outlier of the the Jospehine Ophiolite (?) on the Elk River , southern coastal Oregon . Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. A-51.

Giaramita, M.J., and Harper, G.D., 2002, Lithologies, field relations, and petrotectonic affinities of a probable outlier of the Josephine Ophiolite, Elk River Area, SW Oregon, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs

Giaramita, M.J., and Harper, G.D., 2004, Geochemical and lithologic evidence of possible Rattlesnake Creek-like basement associated with a coastal outlier of the Josephine Ophiolite, SW Oregon , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs.

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