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Research Interest:
Volcanology and Igneous petrology Education
Classes that I
teach:
Undergraduate
Theses (BS): IN-PROGRESS Pre-Eruption
Storage Depth of Basaltic Involved in 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano
(Alaska) Recorded by Amphibole and Plagioclase-Hosted Melt Inclusions (Laurel
Morrow) Petrography of
Minaret Cone, Mammoth Mountain (Blair Davidson) Stratigraphy of
~90ka Rhyolite Pumice Fall Deposit from Mammoth Mountain’s (Only?) Plinian
Eruption (Zackary Newman) The ~680 yr BP
Panum Pyroclastic Surge Deposit (Zachary Haygood) Skarn
Mineralization in the Bird Spring Formation at the Slaughterhouse Fault, New
York Mountains (Taylor Kennedy) Petrological
Insights to Dome 7403, Long Valley Caldera (Matthew Hutchinson) * COMPLETED Magma Mixing
Recorded in Amphibole Compositions in Low-Silica Andesite and Basaltic
Enclaves from the 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska (Ashley
Melendez, 2012) link Evidence for
Glaciovolcanism at Long Canyon Dome, Sierra Nevada, California (John
Hennessy, 2011) link Field Geology
of the Long Canyon Dome Rhyolite, Sierra Nevada (David Van Sickle, 2011) Clinopyroxene
Geothermobarometry of Quaternary basalt erupted from Little Whitney Cone,
Sierra Nevada (Colin Campbell, 2011) Textural
Evolution of Plagioclase Microlites Across Pahoehoe-A’a Lava Flow Transitions
(Michael Matranga, 2010) Pre-Eruptive
Magmatic Temperature of Long Canyon Dome Rhyolite Based on Ti-in-Zircon
Thermometry, Sierra Nevada (Benjamin Lewis, 2010) Major Element
Fingerprinting of Lake Manix Tephra – Origins in the Southern Sierra Nevada?
(Chrysta Wells, 2009) link Petrography and
Field Geology of Monache Dome, eastern Sierra Nevada, CA (Allen Martin, 2008) Petrography and
Field Geology of Little Whitney Cone, Golden Trout Wilderness, California
(Frank Wille, 2008) Petrography and
Field Geology of Groundhog Cone, Golden Trout Wilderness, South-Central
Sierra Nevada, CA (Phil Saleen, 2008) Petrography of
Eruptive Products From Red Cones Volcanoes, Eastern California (Antonio
Martos, 2008) Contrasting
Basaltic Eruption Styles at Red Cones Volcanoes, California (Michael Louros,
2008) Quantifying the
Textural Characteristics of Hornblende Reaction Rims as a Means of
Understanding the Style and Rate of Magma Ascent During Dome Forming Volcanic
Eruptions (Mark Robson, 2008) Magma Ascent Rates
at Mammoth Mountain, California - Awarded Best Student Poster at
Southern California Academy of Sciences Conference (Christa Wolfe, 2007) Time Scales of
Eruption Trigger Events at Mammoth Mountain, California (Christopher
Terpolilli, 2007) Graduate Theses
(MS): Petrology and
Mineral Inventory of Basaltic Inclusions from the 2006 Eruption of Augustine
Volcano, Alaska (Michelle Vitale, MS Geology, 2012) link A Comparative
Study of the 370 yr BP West Island and 1883 AD Burr Point Pyroclastic
Deposits, Augustine Volcano, Alaska (Carolyn Rath, MS Geology, 2012) Petrography and
Thermobarometry of Earthquake Dome, Eastern California (Michael Van Ry, MS
Geology, 2011) A Model
Eruption: Using FLOWGO to Predict the Geospatial Extent of an Effusive Lava
Flow in the Mammoth Mountain Resort Area and Discussion of Ensuing
Environmental and Economic Impacts (John Velarde, MS Environmental Studies,
2010) A Petrological
Investigation of Mafic Inputs into the Augustine Volcano (Alaska) Magma
System Over the Past 2,200 Years - Awarded Outstanding Student Paper at 2008 American Geophysical Union Fall
Meeting (Arron Steiner, MS Geology, 2009) Publications (student
author): Coombs, M.L.,
McGimsey, R.G., and Browne, B.L.
(2012) Geologic Map of Mount Gareloi, Gareloi Island, Alaska: U.S.
Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2012-3145, 1 plate Steiner, A., Browne, B.L., Nye, C. (2011) Quenched Mafic Inclusions in ≤2,200
yrs B.P. deposits at Augustine Volcano, Alaska, International Geology Review DOI:10.1080/00206814.2011.636641 link Van Ry, M., Browne, B.L. (2011)
Petrology and Geobarometry of Magma Erupted from Earthquake Dome, Eastern
California. South Coast Geological
Society Field Guide, No. 36 Velarde, J., Browne, B.L. (2011) Using FLOWGO
to Predict the Geospatial Extent of Lava Flows Erupted From Near Mammoth
Mountain. South Coast Geological
Society Field Guide, No. 6 Browne, B.L., Bursik, M., Deming,
J., Louros, M., Martos, A., and Stine, S., (2010) Eruption
Chronology and Petrologic Reconstruction of the Holocene-aged Eruption of Red
Cones, Southern Inyo Chain, California. Geological
Society of America Bulletin 122, p. 1401 link Browne, B.L., P. Izbekov, J.
Eichelberger, T. Churikova, (2010) Constraints on the Pre-Eruptive Storage
Conditions of the Holocene-Aged KZI Dacite Magma Erupted from Kizimen
Volcano, Kamchatka. International
Geology Review 52, issue 12, p. 95-110 link Coombs, M.L., McGimsey,
R.G., and Browne, B.L. (2008)
Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for the Tanaga Volcanic Cluster, Tanaga
Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report
2008-5159, 36 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2008/5159/ Browne, B.L., J.E. Gardner (2006)
The Influence of Magma Ascent Path on the Texture, Mineralogy, and Formation
of Hornblende Reaction Rims. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 246, 161-176
link Browne, B.L., J. Eichelberger,
L.C. Patino, T.A. Vogel, K. Uto, H. Hoshizumi (2006) Magma mingling as
indicated by texture and geochemistry of plagioclase phenocrysts from Unzen
volcano, SW Japan. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 154, p. 103-116
link Eichelberger,
J.C., Izbekov, P., and Browne, B.L.
(2006) Bulk chemical trends at arc volcanoes are not liquid lines of descent.
Lithos v. 87, p. 135-154 link Browne, B.L., J. Eichelberger,
L.C. Patino, T.A. Vogel, J. Dehn, K. Uto, H. Hoshizumi (2006) Generation of
porphyritic and equigranular enclaves during magma mingling at Unzen volcano,
SW Japan. Journal of Petrology 47, p. 301-328 link Browne, B.L., J.E. Gardner (2005)
The transport and deposition of pyroclastic material from the ~1000 A.D. caldera-forming
eruption of Volcán Ceboruco, Nayarit, Mexico. Bulletin of Volcanology 67,
p. 469-489 link Browne, B.L., J. E. Gardner (2004)
The nature and timing of caldera collapse as indicated by accidental lithic
fragments from the ~1000 A.D. eruption of Volcán Ceboruco, Mexico. Journal
of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 130, p. 93- 105 link
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