Terry Plank
Terry Ann Plank (born October 18, 1963 in Wilmington ) is an American geochemist and volcanologist.
Plank graduated from Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in 1985 and received his PhD in 1993 from Columbia University ( Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ) with Charles H. Langmuir (Mantle Melting and Crustal Recycling at Subduction Zones) . The topic of her dissertation also became her main research area, the connection of volcanic magmas with the molten sediments in the subduction zones from which they originate. She was a post-doctoral student at Cornell University . In 1995 she became an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas and an Associate Professor in 1999 and Professor at Boston University in 2004 . In 2008 she became a professor at Columbia University (Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor) .
She was visiting professor in Rennes and Grenoble.
From the geochemical analysis of minerals in volcanic rocks, she drew conclusions about the formation conditions of magmas (temperature, water content and content of gases, decompression, etc.). She did field work in Nicaragua and the Aleutian Islands and was involved in the Ocean Drilling Program.
In 2012 she was a MacArthur Fellow . In 2013 she became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . She received the Houtermans Medal of the European Association for Geochemistry, the Donath Medal of the Geological Society of America and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Geochemical Society, the Geological Society for America, and the Mineralogical Society of America. For 2018 she was awarded the Wollaston Medal .
Fonts
- with L. Cooper, CE Manning: New geothermometers for estimating slab surface temperatures, Nature Geoscience, Volume 2, 2009, pp. 611-615
- with Jeff D. Vervoort u. a .: The Hf-Nd isotopic composition of marine sediments, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 75, 2011, pp. 5903-5926
- with DJ Maclennan u. a .: Melting during late-stage rifting in Afar is hot and deep, Nature, Volume 499, 2013, pp. 70-73
- with KA Kelly u. a .: Why do mafic arc magmas contain ~ 4 wt% water on average?, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 364, 2013, pp. 168-179 * with P. Ruprecht: Feeding andesitic eruptions with a high-speed connection from the mantle, Nature, Volume 500, 2013, pp. 68-72
- with AS Lloyd u. a .: NanoSIMS results from olivine-hosted melt embayments: Magma ascent rate during explosive basaltic eruptions, J. of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Volume 238, 2014, pp. 1-18
- The chemical composition of subducting sediment and its consequences for the crust and mantle, in: HD Holland, KK Turekian (Ed.), The Crust, Treatise on Geochemistry, 2nd edition, Elsevier 2014, pp. 607-629
- with DW Forsyth: Thermal Structure and Melting Conditions in the Mantle beneath the Basin and Range Province from Seismology and Petrology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 17, 2016, pp. 1312–1338.
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| SURNAME | Plank, Terry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plank, Terry Ann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geochemist and volcanologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilmington |