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Dr.
Eric W. James
Analytical
Geochemist
Area of Expertise: Isotope Geochemistry,
Igneous petrologist. and Analytical Chemistry
Short
Biography:
Dr. James
received a Ph.D in 1986 from the University
of California at Santa Barbara.
He is trained as an isotope geochemist
and igneous petrologist. His dissertation
work on rocks of the Salinian Block of
California showed that these rocks have
clear affinities with North American basement.
His postdoctoral studies at Caltech involved
the petrology and isotopic character of
rocks from a deep scientific drilling
project on the San Andreas Fault.
Eric came to the University of Texas in
1989 to work at the Bureau of Economic
Geology. He investigated the isotopic
geochemistry of igneous rocks of Trans-Pecos
Texas, mapping the southeastern extent
of Laurentian basement using Pb isotopes. After
moving to the Department of Geological
Sciences in 1993, he worked on rocks and
ores in the Ertsberg Mining District of
Irian Jaya, Indonesia and continued work
on the 87Sr/86Sr
of Paleozoic seawater using conodont elements.
Eric now splits his time between the Environ-mental
Science Institute (ESI) and geochemical
research. He is currently preparing grant
proposals; measuring U-series ages on
speleothems; assisting with outreach lectures;
organizing working group meetings; measuring
the 87Sr/86Sr
of conodonts, anhydrite, and red-fish
otoliths; drilling small holes in samples,
and dealing with a back-log of unpublished
manuscripts.
Contact
Information:
Office: 5.212A
Phone: 512-471-5567
FAX: 512-471-9425
Email: lilej@mail.utexas.edu
Mailing
Address:
The University
of Texas at Austin
Geol Science Dept
1 University Station C1100
Austin, TX 78712-0254
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