John W. Shervais

Current and Past Research

Professor and Head, Department of Geology

Utah State Univeristy

Igneous Petrology and Geochemistry

Director, USU X-ray Flourescence Laboratory

B.Sc., 1971, San Jose State University, California

Ph.D.,1979, University of California, Santa Barbara

Send Email To: shervais@cc.usu.edu

 

Research Areas: Petrology, major and trace element geochemistry of basic and intermediate igneous rocks. Continental volcanism, ophiolites and island arcs, mantle metasomatism, lunar petrology.

Mantle Plumes and Continental Volcanism

Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust

Fore-arc Peridotites: The Subduction Factory

Island Arcs, Eclogites, and Accreted Terranes

Archean Subduction Complexes

Metasomatism and Magma Evolution in the Upper Mantle

Fore-arc Peridotites: Fluid and Magma Flux in the Mantle Wedge over a Subduction Zone (Subduction Factory)

Petrogenesis of the Lunar Highlands Crust