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Robert Newton, Visiting Professor |
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| Mailing Address: | Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567
Mail Code: 156704 |
| Office: | Geology 1679 |
| Telephone: | (310) 206-2917 |
| Fax: | (310) 825-2779 |
| E-mail: | rcnewton@ucla.edu |
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Current Research Interest |
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Experimental phase equilibrium of mineral systems at high temperatures and pressures; solubility of minerals at deep-earth conditions; geology and petrology of the ancient crystalline shield of South India.
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Education |
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A.B. (Geology) UCLA 1956
M.A. (Geology) UCLA 1958
Ph.D. (Geology) UCLA 1963 |
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Honors |
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Senior Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America
Plenary Lecturer, 5th European Conference on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry (1994)
Fellow, American Geophysical Union (1989)
20th Hallimond Lecturer, British Mineralogical Society (1988)
Norman L. Bowen Award, American Geophysical Union (1984)
Senior Fellow, Geological Society of India (1983)
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Appointments |
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1963-1998, Lecturer & Professor, Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
1983-1997, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Geology
1998-present, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
1998-present, Visiting Professor, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
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Selected Publications |
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| | Experimental determination of calcite solubility in H2O-NaCl solutions at deep crust/upper mantle pressures and temperatures: implications for metasomatic processes in shear zones (with C.E. Manning). Am. Mineral. 87, 1401-1409, 2002. |
| | Experimental determination of the equilibria: rutile + magnesite = geikelite + CO2 and zircon + 2 magnesite = baddeleyite + forsterite + 2 CO2 (With J.M. Ferry and C.E. Manning). Am. Mineral. 87, 1342-1350, 2002. |
| | Activity coefficient and polymerization of aqueous silica at 800 °C, 12 kbar, from solubility measurements on SiO2-buffering mineral assemblages (with C.E. Manning). Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 146, 135-143, 2003. |
| | Solubility of anhydrite, CaSO4, in NaCl-H2O solutions at high pressures and temperatures: applications to fluid-rock interaction (with C.E. Manning). Journal of Petrology, v. 46, p. 701-716, 2005 |
| | Free energy of formation of zircon from aqueous solubility measurements at high temperature and pressure (with C.E. Manning, J. Hanchar, and R. Finch). J. Am. Ceram. Soc., v. 88, 1854-1858, 2005. |
| | Ion Microprobe V-Pb age determinations on zircon from the Late Archaean granulite facies transition zone of southern India (with S.J. Mojzsis, and T.C. Devaraju). Journal of Geology, v. III, 407-425, 2003. |
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