Donald H. Lindsley
Donald H. Lindsley (born May 22, 1934 in Princeton , New Jersey ) is an American petrologist and mineralogist .
Donald Lindsey grew up in Charlottesville ( Virginia on). He studied geology at Princeton University with a Bachelor Accounts in 1956 and in 1961 at the Johns Hopkins University (he studied at the Minor PhD in Geology Physical Chemistry ). From 1962 to 1970 he was a petrologist at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC From 1970 he was Professor of Petrology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . In 2001 he became a Distinguished Professor . From 1991 he was also an adjunct professor at the University of Wyoming . In 1969 he was visiting professor at Caltech and 1976/77 visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia .
He dealt with experimental petrology specifically of minerals of basalt before the area became topical through the analysis of lunar rocks (in which he was involved) and the oceanic deep drilling programs in the 1960s. Among other things, he investigated iron and titanium oxides in basalt, methods of determining the temperature of basalt formation and the chemistry and mineralogy of silicates in basalt. Another focus of his research are igneous rocks within plates (and the pursuit of the hypothesis of their formation through fractional crystallization in the magmas) and especially the larami- anorthosite complex (see Wyoming-Kraton ) from the Proterozoic . He also examined Mars meteorites and conclusions that can be drawn from them about magmatism and possible sources of water on Mars . He also deals with the calibration of thermometers and bolometers in experimental petrology.
In 1982 he was President of the Mineralogical Society of America and from 1991 to 1993 of the Geochemical Society . From 1984 to 1987 he was Associate Editor of the American Mineralogist . In 1996 he received the Roebling Medal . In 1983 the mineral lindsleyite was named after him.
He is not to be confused with the neurophysiologist Donald B. Lindsley (1907-2003).
Fonts
- Pyroxene thermometry, American Mineralogist, Volume 68, 1983, pp. 477-493
- with ML Fuhrman: Ternary-feldspar modeling and thermometry, American Mineralogist, Volume 73, 1988, pp. 201-215
- with BR Frost: Equilibria among Fe-Ti Oxides, Pyroxenes, Olivine and Quartz, Part 1,2, American Mineralogist, Volume 77, 1992, pp. 987-1002, 1004-1020
- with JS Scoates, BR Frost: Magmatic and structural evolution of an anorthositic magma chamber: the Poe Mountain intrusion, Laramie anorthosite complex, Wyoming (USA), Canadian Mineralogist, Volume 48, 2010, pp. 851-885.
- with BR Frost, JS Scoates: Petrology, Geochemistry, and Structure of the Chugwater Anorthosite, Laramie Anorthosite Complex, SE Wyoming, USA., Canadian Mineralogist, Volume 48, 2010, pp. 887-923
- with FM McCubbin a. a .: Hydrous magmatism on Mars: A source of water for the surface and subsurface during the Amazonian, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 292, 2010, pp. 132-138.
literature
- Alexander E. Gates: Earth Scientists from A to Z, Facts on File, 2003
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lindsley, Donald H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American petrologist and mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Princeton , New Jersey |