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Robert L. King
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Research Associate |
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School of Earth & Environmental Sciences |
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Webster 1228 | |
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509-335-1501 | |
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Research interests:
My primary research interests include metamorphism, fluid-rock interactions, and metasomatism. Specifically, I investigate the metamorphic evolution of subducted lithosphere, the subduction zone slab/mantle interface, and metasomatism of the mantle wedge. To these ends I employ a wide variety of stable and radiogenic isotopic systems (Li, B, O, S, Sr, Nd, Hf, Pb) in conjunction with field mapping, petrology, and elemental geochemistry. Other projects I’m involved in currently include thermochronology of metamorphic rocks from convergent margins and Nd-Hf isotopic tracers in rivers and the oceans.
Selected Publications:
- King, R.L., Bebout, G.E., Grove, M., Moriguti, T., and Nakamura, E., in press, Boron and lead isotope signatures of subduction-zone mélange formation: Hybridization and fractionation along the slab-mantle interface beneath volcanic arcs: Chemical Geology subduction-zone metamorphism special issue.
- King, R.L., Bebout, G.E., Moriguti, T., and Nakamura, E., 2006, Elemental mixing systematics and Sr-Nd isotope geochemistry of mélange formation: Obstacles to identification of fluid sources in arc volcanics: Earth & Planetary Science Letters, v. 246, p. 288-304.
- King, R.L., Bebout, G.E., Kobayashi, K., Nakamura, E., and van der Klauw, S.N.G.C., 2004, Ultrahigh-pressure metabasaltic garnets as probes into deep subduction zone cycling: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 5, Q12J14, doi:10.1029/2004GC000746.
- King, R.L., Kohn, M.J., and Eiler, J.M., 2003, Constraints on the petrologic structure of the subduction zone slab-mantle interface from Franciscan Complex exotic ultramafic blocks: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 1097-1109.
