I received my Ph.D./ B.S. degree in Mineralogy and Petrology from University of Vienna, Austria. There I worked on ultramafic and mafic ophiolitic sections of Eastern Alps, investigated mainly peridotites, serpentinites and mafic metamorphic rocks. I participated in geodynamic projects on "Eastern Taurus Ophiolites" at Mineral Research and Exploration Institute, Ankara, Turkey before I moved to US in 1980. Since then, I held a teaching position at University of New Orleans, Louisiana, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Then in 1992, I moved to Houston where I now work as a "Research Scientist" at Rice University and also teach Mineralogy and Optics (Geol 311).

My research interests are broadened with time:

• Petrology and metasomatism of mantle and crustal xenoliths of Simcoe Mountains,WA. collaborator: William P. Leeman
• Fluid inclusion studies in mantle (dunite-peridotite-websterite) and crustal (granulite-gabbro) xenoliths and metamorphic rocks (eclogite-and miscellaneous schists).
• Petrogenesis and metamorphism of eclogites and related high grade metamorphic rocks in northern Venezuela collaborators: Virginia B. Sisson and Hans G. Avé Lallemant.
• Dissolution experiments and measuring dissolution rates of carbonates using interferometry techniques: collaborator Andreas Luttge
• Here are some of the figures and results of my research areas

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Recent Publications:

• Ertan, I.E., and Leeman, W.P., 1999, Fluid inclusions in mantle and lower crustal xenoliths from the Simcoe Volcanic Field, Washington. Chemical Geology, v. 154, p. 83-95.
• Sisson, V. B., Ertan, I.E., and Avé Lallemant , H. G., 1997, Geothermobarometry of kyanite and glaucophane-bearing assemblages and associated eclogites from Cordillera de la Costa Belt, Venezuela, Journal of Petrology, v. 38, .p. 65-88.
• Ertan, I.E., and Leeman, W.P., 1996, Metasomatism of Cascades subarc mantle: Evidence from a rare phlogopite orthopyroxenite xenolith. Geology, v. 24, no. 5, 451-454.

Recent Abstracts:

• Sisson, V. B., Avé Lallemant, H. G., Ertan, I.E., Smith, C.S., 1999, Evolution of two high-pressure accretionary complexes in Venezuela. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abst. with Prog., v. 31, no. 6, p. A-95.
• Leeman, W.P., and Ertan, I.E., 1998, Diverse invasive melts in Cascadia mantle xenoliths: no subduction connection. Mineralogical Magazine, Goldschmidt Conference Abstract Volume, 62A, 2, p. 875-876.
• Ertan, I.E., and Leeman, W.P., 1998, The neture of Cascades subarc lower crust and upper mantle: where were the subducting slab melts? AGU fall meeting, v.79, n.45, p. F-924.
• Ertan, I.E., Sisson, V. B., and Avé Lallemant , H. G., 1995, Metamorphic and age constraints for the Cordillera De La Costa Belt, Venezuela, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abst. with Prog., v. 27, no. 6, p. A-229.
• Sorenson, S.S., Sisson, V.B., Ertan, I. E., and Avé Lallemant, H.G., 1996, Likely protoliths and mass transfer within a Caribbean high P/T metamorphic terrain., AGU fall meeting, v.
• Ertan, I.E., and Leeman, W.P., 1996, Fluid inclusion studies in xenoliths of the Cascades subarc mantle. PACROFI VI Program and Abstracts, p. 44.
• Ertan, I.E., and Leeman, W.P., 1994, Mantle xenoliths from the Simcoe volcanic field: recorders of subarc mantle evolution. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abst. with Prog., v. 26, no. 7, p. A-332.
• Ertan, I.E., and Leeman, W.P., 1994, Metasomatism of Cascades subarc mantle: evidence from a rare phlogopite orthopyroxenite xenolith, IAVCEI Prog. w. Abstracts

Publications in preperation:

• Ertan, I.E., and Leeman, W.P., 1999, A profile via Cascades subarc lower crust and upper mantle: xenoliths of Simcoe Volcanic Field, Washington, USA.
• Leeman, W..P., Ertan I.E., and Hervig R.L., 1999, Intra-plate origin of diverse invasive melts in Simcoe (Cascades) mantle xenoliths.
• Ertan, I.E., Sisson, V.B., Beran, A., 1999, Chemical, Optical and Crystallographic Properties of Rare Mg-Glaucophane of High Grade Kyanite-bearing Garnet-Paragonite Schist.
• Ertan, I.E., 2000, Chemical and Textural Variations in Garnets of High Grade Metamorphic Pelitic Schists from Puerto Cabello, Venezuela'
• Avé Lallemant, H. G., and Ertan, I.E., 2000, Explosion of Quartz in Garnets: Evidence From Non-coesite Related Radial Cracks of High Grade Metamorphic Rocks due to decompression.
• Sisson, V.B., and Ertan, I.E., 2000, Fluid Inclusion Studies in High PT Pelitic Schists and Eclogites from Venezuela.

updated 10/15/99