Dr. Brennan T. Jordan
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Earth Sciences
University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark St.
Vermillion, SD 57069
Ph. 605-677-6143
Fax 605-677-6121
Brennan.Jordan@usd.edu

Academic Background: Full CV
  Ph.D. 2002 Oregon State University
  M.S. 1994 Idaho State University
  B.A. 1990 Hofstra University

Teaching:
Spring 2008 Courses:

 
ESCI-101 Principals of Earth Science I 
  ESCI-423 Earth Materials II: Petrology
                                                                                    
Other Courses:                                                  
  ESCI-421 Earth Materials I: Mineralogy (last: Fall 2007, next Fall 2009)
 
ESCI-396 Field Trip: New Mexico & W. Texas in Spring 2007
  ESCI-451 Earth Structures (last: Spring 2007, next Spring 2009)
  MTRO-201 Meteorology (last: Fall 2006, next: Fall 2008)
Current and Recent Research:
*Magmatic evolution of Tertiary rifts in northwestern Iceland: Keck Projects 2003, 2004, & 2007
*Origin of Tertiary alkaline volcanics of central Mongolia: Mongolia 2006 Keck Project, see pictures
*Igneous origin of Proterozoic metabasalts of the Black Hills, South Dakota
*Cause of west-migrating volcanism of the Oregon High Lava Plains: see animation

*Opposing models for the origin of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain trend and Columbia River
  basalts: see contribution to mantleplumes.org page

*Plume versus non-plume models for intraplate and anomalous plate margin volcanism
*GIS model of time-space patterns of deformation of the Brothers fault zone, central Oregon
: summary
*The role of crustal thickening in magma genesis of the Idaho batholith: summary

 

County coordinator for the CoCoRaHS precipitation monitoring network

Photo Galleries:

Iceland


Mt. St. Helens


California


Mongolia


Other


PBase (high res)

Background photo: dark rhyolitic pumice from the 1875 eruption of Askja, Iceland