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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 |
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Academic Background: Full CV |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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County coordinator for the CoCoRaHS precipitation monitoring network |
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Background photo: dark rhyolitic pumice from the 1875 eruption of Askja, Iceland