Igneous petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry

Yellowstone Hotspot, Supervolcanoes and Super-eruptions, Tephra, Silicic Volcanism, Large Igneous Systems, Electron Beam Microanalysis

Miller, David M., Oviatt, Charles G., and Nash, Barbara P., 2007, Late Pleistocene Hansel Valley basaltic ash, northern Lake Bonneville, Utah, USA. Quaternary International.  doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.03.016.

Negash, Agazi, Alene, M., Brown, F. H., Nash, B. P., and Shackley, M.S., 2007, Geochemical sources for the terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene obsidian artifacts of the site of Beseka, central Ethiopia.  Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 34, 1205-1210.

Nash, Barbara P., Perkins, Michael E., Christensen, John N., Lee, Der-Chuen, and Halliday, Alex N., 2006, The Yellowstone hotspot in space and time: Nd and Hf isotopes in silicic magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 247, No. 1-2, 143-156.

Jochum, Klaus Peter, and Barbara Nash among many others, 2006, MPI-DING reference glasses for in-situ microanalysis: New reference values for element concentrations and isotope ratios. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v. 7, Q02008, doi:10.1029/2005GC001060.

Cathey, Henrietta E. and Barbara P. Nash, 2004, The Cougar Point Tuff: Implications for thermochemical zonation and longevity of high-temperature, large-volume silicic magmas of the Miocene Yellowstone hotspot. Journal of Petrology, v. 45, 27–58.

Fenton, Cassandra, R. J Poreda, Barbara Nash, Robert Webb, and T. E. Cerling, 2004, Geochemical discrimination of five Pleistocene lava-dam outburst-flood deposits, Grand Canyon. Journal of Geology, 112, 91–110.

Fenton, C. R., R. H. Webb, P. A. Pearthree, T. E. Cerling, R. J. Poreda, and B. P. Nash, 2004, Cosmogenic 3He dating of western Grand Canyon basalts: implications for Quaternary incision of the Colorado River. In: Young, R.A., and Spamer, E.E., eds., The Colorado River: Origin and Evolution, Grand Canyon Association Monograph 12, 147–152.

Perkins, Michael E. and Nash, Barbara P., 2002, Explosive silicic volcanism of the Yellowstone hotspot: The ash-fall tuff record. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, 367-381.

PAPERS AT RECENT MEETINGS

American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2006.
Taking the temperature of supervolcanoes: thermal evolution of the Miocene Yellowstone hotspot (with Henrietta Cathey).

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, 2007.
High-temperature silicic magmas of the Bruneau-Jarbidge eruptive center 12.7– ~8 Ma, Yellowstone hotspot: quartz and pyroxene thermometry (with Henrietta Cathey).

American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2007.
Pervasive and persistent large-volume, low delta 18 O silicic magma generation at the Yellowstone hotspot, 12.7-10.5 Ma: ion microprobe analyses of zircon in the Cougar Point Tuff (Henrietta Cathey, John Valley, Noriko Kita, Taka Ushikubo and Mike Spicuzza).


RECENT INVITED LECTURES

University of Texas, Arlington: “Neogene tephrostratigraphy of the Western U.S. with application to the eruptive history of the Yellowstone hotspot.”

University of California, Berkeley: “Symposium on Frontiers in Igneous Petrology and Volcanology: The Yellowstone hotspot in space and time”.

University of Utah: “The Yellowstone hotspot in space and time”.

15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference: “The Yellowstone hotspot in space and time: Evidence from silicic volcanism.”

Pennsylvania State University: “The Yellowstone hotspot in space and time – The liquid line of ascent”.
   
University of Oregon: “The Yellowstone hotspot in space and time – super eruptions from a hot hot spot”.