Brandon Schwab

• Office: Founders Hall 21
• Phone: 707-826-3950
• Email: bes21@humboldt.edu
• Personal Web Site: www.humboldt.edu/~bes21/

Experimental Petrology, Mineralogy

Ph.D., Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, 2000
B.S., Geology, University of North Carolina - Wilmington, 1994

Professional Background

Joined HSU 2000

Research Interests

My current research interests are focused on mantle partial-melting and the formation of mid-ocean ridge basalts utilizing the techniques of experimental petrology. Please visit my personal page for more information.

Selected Publications

Schwab, B. E. and Johnston, A. D., 2001, Melting systematics of modally variable, compositionally intermediate peridotites and the effects of mineral fertility, Journal of Petrology, 42:1789-1811.

Pickering, J. M., Schwab, B. E., and Johnston, A. D., 1998, Off-center hot spots: Double thermocouple determination of the thermal gradient in a 1.27 cm (1/2 in.) CaF2 piston-cylinder furnace assembly. Amer. Min.83:228-235.

Abstracts:

Schwab, B. E., and Johnston, A.D., 2000, Contrasting pyroxene phase relations during partial melting of compositionally variable peridotites. (Abst.) EOS Trans. Amer. Geophy. Union. 81:1299

Schwab, B. E. and Johnston, A. D., 2000, 10kilobar melting systematics of modally variable intermediate composition peridotites. (Abst.) Proceedings of the Oregon Academy of Science.36:39-40

Pickering-Witter, J. M., Schwab, B. E., and Johnston, A. D., 1999, Melting systematics at 1.0 GPa of modally variable peridotites with a focus on near-solidus pyroxene compositions. (Abst.) EOS Trans. Amer. Geophy. Union. 80:1112

Schwab, B. E. and Johnston, A. D., 1997, The effect of mineral fertility on mantle melting reactions, (Abst.) EOS Trans. Amer. Geophy. Union. 78:835

Schwab, B. E., Waff, H. S., and Johnston A.D., 1997, Configuration and preliminary results of piston-cylinder experiments designed to measure the electrical conductivity of partially-molten peridotites, (Abst.) presented at: Ridge Conference on Mantle Flow and Melt Generation Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges: Constraints from MELT and Other Experiments, Brown University

Schwab, B. E., Pickering, J. M., and Johnston, A. D., 1996, Off-center hot spots: Double thermocouple measurements of the thermal gradient in 1/2" piston-cylinder assemblies, (Abst.) EOS Trans. Amer. Geophy. Union. 77:772

Schwab, B. E., Landis, T. W., and Blake, D. E.,1995, Lithostratigraphic control on the development of structures along the Roanoke Rapids Tailrace, Halifax County, North Carolina, (Abst.) Annual Meeting of Southeastern Section of Geol. Soc. Amer., Abstracts with Programs 27:85-86