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Professor
Kilinc and his research group are presently
concerned with the origin of igneous rocks forming in divergent and convergent
plate boundaries. They use field, theoretical and experimental approaches
to understand how magmas form and differentiate in the mantle and in the
crust. The solubility of volatiles and oxidation state of magmas plays
a critical role in controlling sequence of crystallization of minerals
and differentiation of magmas. Experiments are performed in the high-temperature,
high-pressure lab which is equipped with an internally heated high pressure
vessel, several cold-seal pressure vessels and a one-atmosphere high-temperature
furnace. Software such as the MELTS algorithm of Ghiorso and Sack (1995)
is routinely used to test various hypothesis.
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Department
of Geology tel:
513-556-3732 fax: 513-556-6931 |
