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Department
Selected publications
- Brownlee, S.J., V. Schulte-Pelkum, K. Mahan, C. Condit, A. Raju, Characteristics of deep crustal seismic anisotropy from a collection of rock elasticity tensors and their expression in receiver functions, Tectonics, DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004625, 2017, agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017TC004625
- Brownlee, S.J., B.R. Hacker, G.E. Harlow, and G. Seward. Seismic signatures of a hydrated mantle from antigorite crystal-preferred orientation (CPO), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 375, p. 395-407, 2013, sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X13003191
- Brownlee, S.J., Hacker, B.R., Salisbury, M., Seward, G., Little, T.A., Baldwin, S.L., and Abers, G.A. Predicted velocity and density structure of the Papua New Guinea ultrahigh pressure terrane, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, vol. 116, B08206, DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008195, 2011, agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2011JB008195
Research Description
My research combines mineralogy, geochemistry, and geophysics to better understand the composition, structure, and deformation processes in the middle and lower continental crust. I am mainly interested in understanding the root causes of seismic anisotropy in crustal materials.
I am also interested in geochrolonology, and am currently studying the mechanisms of radon loss from minerals commonly used for U-Pb geochronology in an effort to understand the potential for Rn-222 loss to cause discordance between the different U-Pb systems.
I am also interested in geochrolonology, and am currently studying the mechanisms of radon loss from minerals commonly used for U-Pb geochronology in an effort to understand the potential for Rn-222 loss to cause discordance between the different U-Pb systems.