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Research at Rice Earth Science Sorted by Faculty Member John Anderson - Mechanism and Timing of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat at the End of the Last Glacial Maximum Gulf of Mexico Quaternary Stratigraphy Hans Ave Lallemant - Evolution of two high-pressure accretionary complexes in northern Venezuala Thermal evolution of the Serranía del Interior foreland fold and thrust belt, Venezuala Transcontraction, displacement partitioning, and arc parallel extension of the Aleutian volcanic arc Petrogenesis and exhumation of jadeitites in Guatemala Upper mantle evolution during rifting: Evidence from peridotite complexes along the North Pyrenean fault zone SE Caribbean Plate Boundary Continental Dynamics Project Gerald Dickens - Modelling the Global Carbon Cycle with a Gas hydrate Capacitor: Significance for the Latest Paleocene Evolution of Continental Margins During Major Global Change of the Cretaceous and Paleogene Cin-Ty Lee- 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 Bill Leeman - Thermal modeling of subduction zones Geochemistry of boron in subduction zones Geochemistry of boron (in the rest of the world) Petrology and geochemistry of Cascades arc basalts Adrian Lenardic - The Thermo-chemical state and thermo-tectonic evolution of cratons and deep cratonic lithosphere The Thermal, chemical, and tectonic evolution of Venus Alan Levander - CDROM - Continental Dynamics of the Rocky Mountains High-resolution 3-D Seismic Reflection Investigations at a Groundwater Contamination Site SE Caribbean Plate Boundary Continental Dynamics Project Andreas Luttge - From the Macroscopic to the Microscopic: Plagioclase Dissolution Kinetics Investigated by Optical Interferometry, (High Temperature) Atomic Force Microscopy and Ab Initio Calculations Wollastonite Dissolution Kinetics Studied by Vertical Scanning Interferometry Barite Dissolution Kinetics: A Comparison of Vertical Scanning Interferometry (VSI) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Results Julia Morgan - Mechanics and Kinematics of Fault Rocks in Death Valley, CA Numerical Simulations of Granular Shear Zones Studying Submarine Accretionary Prisms in a "Numerical Sandbox" Submarine Landslides and Flank Deformation on Kilauea Volcano, HI Dale Sawyer - Tectonic geomorphology of Extensional Provinces: Basin and Range Province of the Western U. S. The S reflector and Rifting Processes: Galicia Bank Basin and Iberia Abyssal Plain Manik Talwani - Gravity Gradiometry Colin Zelt - Seismic Characterization of a Gas Hydrate System in the Gulf of Mexico 3-D Seismic Tomography at a Groundwater Contamination Site 2D Seismic velocity structure of the Iberia margin Last Changed 5 September 2001 by Dale Sawyer