CURRICULUM
VITAE
CURRENT
RESEARCH
Optical Crystallography
2023, (Abbott, R.N., Jr.)
The effect of strain on the optical properties of quartz: point-dipole calculations. Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 1095-1107.
Ultra
high
pressure rocks, Dominican Republic
2018,
(Abbott, R.N., Jr.)
Trace element
thermometry of garnet-clinopyroxene pairs, revisited.
American Mineralogist, 103, 1169-1171.
2016,
(Abbott, R.N., Jr.)
Model-space theory: A
study of the mineralogical expression of tholeiitic
compositions at T>850 C in the lithosphere and
mantle. Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1437-1457.
2013,
(Abbott, R.N., Jr., and Draper, G.)
The case for UHP
conditions in the Cuaba terrane, Rio San Juan
metamorphic complex, Dominican Republic. Geologica
Acta, 11(2),
149-165.
2011,
(Gazel, E., Abbott, R.N., Jr., and Draper, G.)
Garnet-bearing
ultramafic rocks from the Dominican Republic: Fossil
mantle plume fragments in an ultra high pressure
oceanic complex? Lithos, 125,
393-404.
Metamorphic rocks,
Jamaica
2017,
(Abbott, R.N.,
Jr., and Bandy, B.R.)
Geochemistry of basalt
clasts near the base of the Wagwater Formation, parish
of St. Andrew, Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Earth
Sciences, 50, 21-29.
2016,
(Abbott, R.N.,
Jr., West, D.P., Jr., Bandy, B.R.
and McAleer, R.J.)
Petrology and tectonic history of the Green Bay
Schist, Portmore, St. Catherine Parish, Jamaica.
Caribbean Journal of Earth Science, 48,
1-18.
2014,
(West, D.P., Jr., Abbott, R.N., Jr., Bandy, B.R.,
and
Kunk,
M.J.) Protolith provenance and thermotectonic history
of metamorphic rocks in eastern Jamaica. Geological
Society of America Bulletin, 126,
600-614, DOI:10.1130/B30704.1
2013,
(Abbott, R.N., Jr., Bandy, B.R., and
Rajkumar, A.) Cenozoic
burial metamorphism in eastern Jamaica. Caribbean
Journal of Earth Sciences, 46,
13-30.
COMPUTER
PROGRAMS for crystallography and
theoretical optical crystallography.
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