Cin-Ty Aeolus Lee
Assistant Professor 

Office: 324
Phone: (713) 348-5084
Email ctlee@rice.edu

ESCI 412

Research | Publications | More about Cin-Ty

Research:

• Solid Earth Geochemistry

• Marine geochemistry and weathering

• Deep lithosphere dynamics beneath continents

• Distribution of chalcophile & siderophile elements during magma genesis

• Integrated study of the transport of platinum-group elements in low temperature environments

Lee, C-T, "Platinum group element geochemistry of peridotite xenoliths from the Sierra Nevada and the Mojave Province, California." in press for Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pending Publications

Lee, C-T, Wasserburg, G. J., Kyte, F. T., "Platinum group elements and Rhenium in marine sediments across the K-T boundary: constraints on Re-PGE transport in the marine environment." submitted to Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Lee, C-T, "California arc magmatism: lithospheric removal, magmatic pulses, and the making of continental crust." submitted to Geology.

Rudnick, R. L., Lee, C-T, Osmium isotope constraints on the tectonic evolution of the lithosphere in the southwestern United States, submitted to the "Thompson Symposium Volume."