Brent E. Owens

Professor

Office: McGlothlin-Street Hall 214
Email: [[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 Kremser, D.T., 2010, Akermanite breakdown to a cuspidine-bearing symplectite in a calc-silicate xenolith, Kiglapait Intrustion, Labrador: Canadian Mineralogist 48, 809-819.

Owens, B.E., Buchwaldt, R., and Shirvell, CR., 2010, Geochemical and geochronological evidence for Devonian magmatism revealed in the Maidens Gneiss, Goochland Terrane, Virginia: in  Tollo, R.P., Bartholomew, M.J., Hibbard, J.P., and Karabinos, P., eds., From Rodinia to Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record of the Appalachian Region. Geological Society of America Memoir 206, 725-738

 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.

Recent Abstracts

Owens, B.E., Hamilton, M.A, and Hess, S.P., 2010, Three Creek pluton:  A Neoproterozoic trondhjemitic to tonalitic intrusion in the Roanoke Rapids terrane, eastern Piedmont Province, Virginia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 42, 57.

Owens, B.E., King, S.E., and Samson, S.D., 2010, Geochemistry of the Arvonia Formation, Chopawamsic Terrane, Virginia:  implications for source area weathering and provenance:  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 42, 148.

Cota, A.C., Wise, M.A., and Owens, B.E., 2010, Textural and chemical constraints on the origin of epidote in granitic pegmatites:  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 42, 159.

Dorfler, K.M., Tracy, R.J., Buchwaldt, R., and Owens, B.E., 2009, Evidence for Ordovician-Silurian low-pressure regional metamorphism overprinted by an Alleghanian-age contact event, southeastern Virginia Piedmont:  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 41, 635.

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