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Christopher L. Andronicos (b. December 1968 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) is an American geologist, Associate Professor of Geology at Cornell University.
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Early life
He is the son of Domingo Montoya, former governor of Sandia Pueblo, and Maria Flying Horse, an Native American artist. He graduated from Del Norte High School in 1987 and the University of New Mexico where he majored in geology, graduating in 1995. He then attended Princeton University where he received a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and Princeton's Dodson Fellowship, completing his PhD in 1999 .[1]
He then took a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. In 2005 he moved to a position at Cornell University where he is a member of the Institute for the Study of the Continents, and a member of the faculty in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the American Indian Program.
His research is focused on understanding high temperature deformation in the deep crust and upper mantle. He has focused his work on continental orogenic belts in the southwestern United States, western Canada, and the Tibetan plateau. He has recently begun work on the Oman Ophiolite complex which provides access to rocks which once made up the Oceanic crust and upper mantle. He has published in journals including Tectonics, Terra Nova, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters and has received funding from the National Science Foundation for his research. His work in western Canada has been influential in both understanding magmatic arcs and the paleogeography of North America.
Research Papers by Chris Andronicos
Depine, G. V., Andronicos, C. L., and Hollister, L. S., (2011) Response of continental magmatic arcs to regional tectonic changes recorded by synorogenic plutons in the middle crust: an example from the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Journal of Structural Geology, Volume 33, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 1089-1104
Wolf, D. E., Andronicos, C. L., Vervort, J., Mansfield, M.*, and Chardon, D., (2010), Application of Lu/Hf garnet dating to unravel the relationships between deformation, metamorphism and plutonism: An example from the Prince Rupert area, British Columbia, Tectonophysics.
Chang, J. M., and Andronicos, C. L., (2009), Constraints on the depth of generation and emplacement of a magmatic epidote-bearing quartz diorite pluton in the Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia, Terra Nova.
Gehrels, G. E., Russmore, M. E., Woodsworth, G. J., Crawford, M., Andronicos, C.L., and 11 others, (2009), U-Th-Pb geochronology of the Coast Mountains Batholith in north-coastal British Columbia: constraints on age, petrogenesis, and tectonic evolution, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121, p. 1341-1361.
Andronicos, C. L., Phipps Morgan, J. , Chang-Hamblock, J. M.*, and Wolf, D. E.*, (2008), Melt-filled hybrid fractures in the oceanic mantle: Melt enhanced deformation during along-axis flow beneath a propagating spreading ridge axis, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.06.035.
Depine, G. V.*, Andronicos, C. L., and Phipps Morgan, J., (2008), Near-isothermal conditions in the middle and lower crust induced by melt migration, Nature, 425, doi:10.1038/nature06689.
Hamblock, J. M.*, Andronicos, C. L., Miller, K. C., Barnes, C. G., Ren, M-H., Averill, M. G., and Anthony, E. Y., (2007), A composite geologic and seismic profile beneath the southern Rio Grande rift, New Mexico, based on xenolith mineralogy, temperature, and pressure, Tectonophysics, 442, 14-48.
Andronicos, C. L., Velasco, A. A., and Hurtado, J. M., (2007), Large-scale deformation in the India-Asia collision constrained by earthquakes, Terra Nova 9, 105-120, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00714.x.
Miller, K. C., Carrick, T. M., Martínez-Sussmann, C., Levine, R., Andronicos, C. L., and Langford, R. P., (2007). Effectiveness of a Summer Experience for Inspiring Interest in Geoscience Among Hispanic-American High School Students, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 55, p. 596-603.
Hollister, L. S., and Andronicos, C. L., (2006), Formation of new continental crust in Western British Columbia during transpression and transtension, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 249, 29-38.
Keller, G. R., Karlstrom, K. E., Williams, M. L., Miller, K. C., Andronicos, C. L., Lavander, A., Snelson, C.*, and Prodehl, C., (2005), The Dynamic Nature of the Continental Moho: Crustal Evolution in the Southern Rocky Mountain Region as an Example, Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 154, 482 pages, hardbound, 2005, ISBN 0-87590-419-X.
Quezada, O. A.*, G. R. Keller, and Andronicos, C. L., (2005), A seismic reflection, gravity and remote sensing study of the southeastern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico, Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 154, 482 pages, hardbound, 2005, ISBN 0-87590-419-X.
Tervino, L.*, Keller, G. R., and Andronicos, C. L., (2004), Rootless Mountains and Gravity Lows in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, Southern Colorado-Northern New Mexico, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 55th Field Conference.
Quezada, O. A. *, Andronicos, C. L., and Keller, G. R., 2004, Structure of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains between Taos and Mora based on an integrated Geophysical analysis, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 55th Field Conference.
Andronicos, C.L., Chardon, D., Gehrels, G., Hollister, L.S., and Woodsworth, G.J., (2003), Strain partitioning in an obliquely convergent orogen, plutonism, and synorgenic collapse: the Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia, Canada, Tectonics, 22, doi:10.1029/2001TC001312.
Hollister, L. S. and Andronicos, C. L. (2000) The central gneiss complex, Coast orogen, British Columbia, GSA Special Paper 343, 45-59.
Andronicos, C.L., Hollister, L.S., Davidson, C., and Chardon, D., (1999), Kinematics and tectonic significance of transpressive structures within the Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia, Jour. Struct. Geol., 21, p. 229-243.
Chardon, D. H., and Andronicos, C. L., and Hollister, L. S., (1999), Large-scale transpressive shear zone patterns and displacements within magmatic arcs: The Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia, Tectonics, 18, 278-292.
Hollister, L.S. and Andronicos, C. L., (1997), A Candidate for the Baja British Columbia Fault System in the Coast Plutonic Complex, GSA Today, 7, 1-7.
Kirby, E. K., Karlstrom, K.E., Andronicos, C. L., Dallmeyer, R.D., (1995), Tectonic Setting of the Sandia Pluton: An orogenic 1.4 Ga granite in New Mexico, Tectonics, 14, no. 1, p. 185-201.
Kirby, E. K., Karlstrom, K. E., and Andronicos, C. L., (1995), Structural and thermal setting during emplacement of the Sandia Pluton, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 46th Field Conference, p. 219-225.
(* Indicates Student Co-author)
References
- ^ Brooks, Cassandra. "SACNAS Biography Project". Society of the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in the Sciences. http://bio.sacnas.org/biography/Biography.asp?mem=180&type=2. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
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Categories:- 1968 births
- American people of Native American descent
- Cornell University faculty
- American geologists
- Living people
- Princeton University alumni
- University of New Mexico alumni
- University of Texas at El Paso faculty
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