Sarah Brownlee

Faculty Profile

Associate Professor
ex2432@wayne.edu

Department

Environmental Science and Geology

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

www.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.

Affiliated Departments