Brent E. Owens
Professor and Chair
Office: McGlothlin-Street Hall 214Email: [[beowen]]
Office Phone: 757 221 1813
Education
- Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
- M.S., University of Massachusetts
- B.S., University of Kentucky
Research Interests
Mineralogy, petrology, petrology of massif anorthosites and related rocks, regional geology of the Virginia Piedmont
Selected Publications
Owens, B.E., and Wilson, S.E., 2009, Geochemical constraints on the origin of chloritoid-bearing kyanite quartzite at Hagers Mountain, North Carolina: Southeastern Geology 46, 135-153.
Owens, B.E., and Pasek, M.A., 2007, Kyanite quartzites in the Piedmont Province of Virginia: evidence for a possible a high-sulfidation system. Economic Geology 102, 495-509.
Blatt, H., Tracy, R.J., and Owens, B.E., 2006, Petrology: Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic. 3rd edition. New York, W.H. Freeman and Company.
Owens, B.E., and Dymek, R.F., 2005, Rediscovery of the Mattawa anorthosite massif, Grenville Province, Quebec. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42, 1699-1718.
Owens, B.E., and Samson, S.D., 2004, Nd-isotopic constraints on the magmatic history of the Goochland Terrane, easternmost Grenville crust in the southern Appalachians, in R.P. Tollo, L. Corriveau, J.B. McLelland, and M.J. Bartholomew, eds., Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America. Geological Society of America Memoir 197, 601-608.
Owens, B.E., and Tucker, R.D., 2003, Geochronology of the Mesoproterozoic State Farm gneiss and associated Neoproterozoic granitoids, Goochland Terrane, Virginia. Geological Society of America Bulletin 115, 972-982.
Owens, B.E., and Tomascak, P.B., 2002, Mesoproterozoic lamprophyres in the Labrieville massif, Quebec: clues to the origin of alkalic anorthosites? Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39, 983-997.
Recent Abstracts
Owens, B.E., and Buchwaldt, R., 2009, The taste of crow: a revised age for a metaigneous variety of the Raleigh gneiss, southeastern Virginia Piedmont. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 41, 47-48.
Owens, B.E., Dymek, R.F., and Clement, S.C., 2008, Petrographic evidence for excess silica in antiperthitic plagioclase of the Montpelier anorthosite, Virginia, and a link with extensive myrmekite development. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 40, 288.
Owens, B.E., and Kremser, D.T., 2007, A multi-phase, cuspidine-bearing intergrowth resulting from åkermanite breakdown in a calc-silicate xenolith, Kiglapait Intrusion, Labrador. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 39, 395.
Cheek, L.C., and Owens, B.E., 2007, Geochemistry of the Raleigh gneiss in the Piedmont Province of southeastern Virginia: implications for the nature of the protolith. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 39, 27.
Wilson, S.E., and Owens, B.E., 2007, Geochemical constraints on the origin of chloritoid-bearing kyanite quartzite at Hagers Mountain, North Carolina and comparisons with Virginia occurrences. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 39, 28.
Owens, B.E., and Garry, W.B., 2006, Serpentinized harzburgite clasts in the Diana Mills pluton, Virginia: Remnants of Paleozoic serpentine mud volcanism? Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 38, 561.
Courses
150: Double, Double Oil & Trouble (freshman seminar)
150: Geology is Destiny (freshman seminar)
310: Regional Field Geology
321: Rock-Forming Minerals
403: Geochemistry
422: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
