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Billen, Magali
Carlson, Sandra
Cooper, Kari
Cowgill, Eric
Day, Howard
Hill, Tessa
Kellogg, Louise
Lesher, Charles
McClain, James
Montañez, Isabel
Motani, Ryosuke
Mount, Jeffrey
Dave Osleger
John Rundle
Rustad, James
Schiffman, Peter
Spero, Howard
Sumner, Dawn
Turcotte, Donald
Vermeij, Geerat
Verosub, Kenneth
Qingzhu Yin
Zierenberg, Robert
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Charles E. Lesher
Ph.D., Harvard (1985)
Professor
Faculty Director, UC Davis Education Abroad Center

Experimental igneous petrology and geochemistry; phase equilibria and kinetics of silicate systems at elevated pressure and temperature; physical, transport and thermodynamic properties of silicate melts. Recent projects include (a) Laboratory: low to high pressure phase equilibria studies of basaltic systems; trace element partitioning; chemical and self diffusion studies of silicate melts; solution properties of silicate liquids from thermal diffusion. (b) Field: magmatic evolution of the North Atlantic Ocean basin and the evolution of the Iceland hot spot; petrologic studies of early Tertiary volcanic and plutonic rocks of East Greenland.

lesher@geology.ucdavis.edu
(530) 752-9779

UCD Interdisciplinary Center for Plasma Mass Spectrometry (UCD ICPMS)

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