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Professor John Sinton
Department
of Geology and Geophysics
University
of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
1680
East-West Road
Honolulu,
HI 96822
sinton@hawaii.edu
tel: (808)
956-7751
fax: (808)
956-5512
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Education
A.B. Geology,
University of California at Santa Barbara, 1969
M.S. Geology,
University of Oregon, 1971
PhD. Geology,
University of Otago, 1976
post-doctoral appointment: Smithsonian Institution,
Department of Mineral Sciences, 1976-1977
Teaching
(course
outlines, notes and syllabi here)
Students (click here to
see a list of former students and where they are now)
Research Activities
Sinton's
research mainly involves the study of volcanic rocks as a tool for
investigating magmatic processes, including melting, magmatic
evolution, storage and eruption. Most projects are field based,
providing spatial and temporal geological constraints on eruptive
history, volumes, and petrological variations. Principal tools
are geologic mapping, petrography, and chemical analyses.
Among on-going, recent projects are:
Digital Map of the Geology of
Hawai‘i: (see here for
downloads of maps and data)
Mapping and petrological investigations of Wai‘anae, West Moloka‘i,
West Maui and East Maui volcanoes
Fine-scale magmatic
processes along the East Pacific Rise:
17°-19°S (see STOWA)
Morphology and magmatic processes of the Galápagos Spreading
Center (G-PRIME)
- Geology
and volcanic history of the
Western Volcanic Zone, Iceland (see here for data and map downloads)
Publications
complete list (pdf doc)
links and downloadable pdfs of recent
papers
CV (31 kb pdf file)
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This page last updated by John Sinton March, 2009