RESEARCH GRANTS (last five years)

1995-98 Jurassic Volcanic Rocks in the Transantarctic Mountains: a Test of a Model for Continental Flood Basalt Magmatism in Antarctica. NSF Grant (Office of Polar Programs). Principal Investigator: D.H. Elliot.

1996-99 Mesozoic Break-up of Gondwanaland: Geochronolgy of Antarctic Tholeiites. NSF Grant (Office of Polar Programs). Principal Investigators: D.H. Elliot and K.A. Foland.

1997-98 Workshop on Earth Science Investigations in the Central and Southern Transantarctic Mountains. NSF Grant (Office of Polar Programs). Principal Investigators: D.H. Elliot and J.W. Collinson.

1999-2002 Ferrar rocks, Deep Freeze Range: possible key to Jurassic evolution of north Victoria Land. NSF Grant (Office of Polar Programs). Principal Investigator: D.H. Elliot.

2001-2004 Ferrar basaltic tuff breccias formed by direct eruption: testing an hypothesis. NSF Grant (Office of Polar Programs). Principal Investigator: D.H. Elliot.

PUBLICATIONS (last five years)

1997 Fleming, T.H., A. Heimann, K.A. Foland, and D.H. Elliot. 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Ferrar Dolerite sills from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: implications for the age and origin of the Ferrar Magmatic Province. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 109:533-546.

1997 Elliot, D.H. The planar crest of Graham Land, northern Antarctic Peninsula: possible origins and timing of uplift. In Barker, P.F. and A.K. Cooper (editors), Geology and Seismic Stratigraphy of the Antarctic Margin, Part 2, American Geophysical Union, Antarctic Research Series, 71, p. 51-73.

1997 Elliot, D.H. Paleogene volcaniclastic rocks on Seymour Island, northern Antarctic Peninsula. In Ricci, C.A. (editor), The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes, Terra Antarctica Publication, Siena, Italy, p. 367-372.

1999 Elliot, D.H., Fleming, T.H., Kyle, P.R., and K.A. Foland. Long distance transport of magma in the Jurassic Ferrar Large Igneous Province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 167:89-104.

1999 Fleming, T.H., K.A. Foland, and D.H. Elliot, D.H. Apophyllite 40Ar/39Ar and Rb/Sr geochronology: potential utility and application to the timing of secondary mineralization of the Kirkpatrick Basalt, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104:20,081-20,095.

2000 Elliot, D.H., and T.H. Fleming. Weddell triple junction: The principal focus of Ferrar and Karoo magmatism during initial breakup of Gondwana. Geology, 28:539-542.

2000 Elliot, D.H. Stratigraphy of Jurassic pyroclastic rocks in the Transantarctic Mountains. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 31:77-89.

In press Elliot, D.H. Paleovolcanological setting of the Mawson Formation: evidence from the Prince Albert Mountains, Victoria Land. In, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, July, 1999.

In press Elliot, D.H., and R.E. Hanson. Origin of widespread, exceptionally thick basaltic phreatomagmatic tuff breccia in the Middle Jurassic Prebble and Mawson Formations, Antarctica. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

ABSTRACTS (last three years)

1999 Elliot, D.H. Unusual tuff-breccias from the Jurassic Mawson and Prebble Formations, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(4), A11.

1999 Elliot, D.H. Paleovolcanological setting of the Middle Jurassic Mawson Formation: evidence from the Prince Albert Mountains, Victoria Land. Abstracts, Eighth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, July 1999, 97.

1999 Elliot, D.H., and T.H. Fleming. Ferrar Large Igneous Province: implications for Gondwanaland break-up. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31 (7), A430.

2000 Albrecht, J.L., and D.H. Elliot. The paleovolcanological setting of the Moroni formation, central Utah. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 32(4),A1.

2000 Zhang, X., Foland, K.A., and D.H. Elliot. Laser 40Ar/39Ar dating of phenocrysts and groundmass in basaltic rocks from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. EOS, 81(19),S442.

2000 Zhang, X., Elliot, D.H., and K.A. Foland. Anomalous 40Ar/39Ar ages of glass shards from Paleogene volcaniclastic rocks in Seymour Island, Antarctica. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 32(7), A436.

2000 Elliot, D.H., and T.H. Fleming. Physical volcanology of the Jurassic Kirkpatrick Basalt, Antarctica. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 32(7), A395-396.

2001 Elliot, D.H., Fleming, T.H., Foland, K.A., and X. Zhang. Establishing contemporaneity and duration of magmatism in the Jurassic Gondwana Large Igneous Province. Abstracts, Earth Systems Processes, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2001, 119.