Warren B. Hamilton MAJOR RECENT PUBLICATIONS Hamilton,...
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Warren B. Hamilton Distinguished Senior Scientist Currently teaching: Geodynamics and Geology, GPGN 417 Major current interests: Tectonics, Geodynamics, Evolution of crust and mantle, Terrestrial planets EDUCATION A.B., UCLA, 1945, Geology M.Sc, University of Southern California, 1949, Geology Ph.D., UCLA, 1951, Geology CAREER 1943-1946 US Navy (NROTC Cadet, then deck officer on aircraft carrier) 1951-1952 University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor 1952-1995 U.S. Geological Survey, Geologist to Senior Scientist in Geologic, then Geophysical, Branches; retired 1995. 1-semester Visiting Professorships at Scripps Inst.Oceanog 1968,1979, Caltech 1973, Yale 1980, U. Amsterdam + Free U. Amsterdam 1981. 30 short courses (many as distinguished lectureships) to university and professional groups around the world, +>200 invited lectures 1996-continuing. Colorado School of Mines, Dept. of Geophysics, Distinguished Senior Scientist [volunteer] 1999-2002 Adjunct Professor, Louisiana State University 2000-continuing Adjunct Professor, University of Wyoming 2006-cont., volunteer instructor, DU/Osher Lifelong Learning Inst. (outreach) MAJOR HONORS NAS Senior Exchange Scientist to USSR, 1967 NAS Plate Tectonics Delegation to China and Tibet, 1979 Distinguished Service Medal, US Dept. of the Interior, 1981 Honorary Fellow, Geological Society of London, 1983 Fellow, Geol. Soc. America, and Geol. Assoc. Canada Chairman, Cordilleran Section, GSA, 1987-88 Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1989 Penrose Medal, Geological Society of America, 1989 Councilor, GSA, 1995-98 GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Career Contribution Award, 2007 MAJOR RECENT PUBLICATIONS. Hamilton, W.B., 2007, Earth’s first two billion years—the era of internally mobile crust: Geol. Soc. America Memoir 200, p. 233-296. Hamilton, W.B., 2007, An alternative Venus: GSA Spec. Paper 430, 879-914. Hamilton, W.B., 2007, Driving mechanism and 3-D circulation of plate tectonics, GSA Spec. Paper 433, p. 1-25. Hamilton, W.B., 2011, Plate tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time, and plumes from deep mantle have never operated: Lithos, v. 123, p. 1-20. Hamilton, W.B., 2013, Evolution of the Archean Mohorovicic discontinuity: Tectonophysics, v. 609, p. 706-733. Foulger, G.R., et al. incl. WBH, 2013, Caveats on tomographic images (Review Article): Terra Nova, v. 25, p. 259-281. Hamilton, W.B., 2015, Terrestrial planets fractionated synchronously with accretion: GSA Sp.Paper 514 and AGU Sp.Pub.71, 35 p. PRIOR RESEARCH TOPICS INCLUDE: Plate tectonics of Indonesia and surrounding regions, integrating offshore geophysics + onshore geology. Large book, 3 wall maps, journal articles. Tectonics, structural geology, and petrology of United States. Many articles, monographs, maps (CA, NV, ID, MT, WY, AK, NC, TN) and regional syntheses (plate and extensional tectonics and mechanisms, batholiths, Laramide orogeny, more). Antarctica. 2 monographs on petrology and structure; continental tectonic synthesis integrated with southern- hemisphere continents and arcs. And many more, North American, Arctic, USSR, Gondwana, global, planetary.
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Warren B. HamiltonDistinguished Senior Scientist
Currently teaching: Geodynamics and Geology, GPGN 417
Major current interests: Tectonics, Geodynamics, Evolution of crust and mantle, Terrestrial planets
EDUCATIONA.B., UCLA, 1945, GeologyM.Sc, University of Southern California, 1949, GeologyPh.D., UCLA, 1951, Geology
CAREER1943-1946 US Navy (NROTC Cadet, then deck officer on aircraft carrier)1951-1952 University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor1952-1995 U.S. Geological Survey, Geologist to Senior Scientist in Geologic, then Geophysical, Branches; retired 1995. 1-semester Visiting Professorships at Scripps Inst.Oceanog 1968,1979, Caltech 1973, Yale 1980, U. Amsterdam + Free U. Amsterdam 1981. 30 short courses (many as distinguished lectureships) to university and professional groups around the world, +>200 invited lectures1996-continuing. Colorado School of Mines, Dept. of Geophysics, Distinguished Senior Scientist [volunteer] 1999-2002 Adjunct Professor, Louisiana State University 2000-continuing Adjunct Professor, University of Wyoming 2006-cont., volunteer instructor, DU/Osher Lifelong Learning Inst. (outreach)MAJOR HONORS NAS Senior Exchange Scientist to USSR, 1967 NAS Plate Tectonics Delegation to China and Tibet, 1979 Distinguished Service Medal, US Dept. of the Interior, 1981 Honorary Fellow, Geological Society of London, 1983 Fellow, Geol. Soc. America, and Geol. Assoc. Canada Chairman, Cordilleran Section, GSA, 1987-88 Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1989 Penrose Medal, Geological Society of America, 1989 Councilor, GSA, 1995-98 GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Career Contribution Award, 2007
MAJOR RECENT PUBLICATIONS.Hamilton, W.B., 2007, Earth’s first two billion years—the era of internally mobile crust: Geol. Soc. America Memoir 200, p. 233-296.Hamilton, W.B., 2007, An alternative Venus: GSA Spec. Paper 430, 879-914.Hamilton, W.B., 2007, Driving mechanism and 3-D circulation of plate
tectonics, GSA Spec. Paper 433, p. 1-25.Hamilton, W.B., 2011, Plate tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time, and
plumes from deep mantle have never operated: Lithos, v. 123, p. 1-20.Hamilton, W.B., 2013, Evolution of the Archean Mohorovicic discontinuity: Tectonophysics, v. 609, p. 706-733.Foulger, G.R., et al. incl. WBH, 2013, Caveats on tomographic images
(Review Article): Terra Nova, v. 25, p. 259-281.Hamilton, W.B., 2015, Terrestrial planets fractionated synchronously with accretion: GSA Sp.Paper 514 and AGU Sp.Pub.71, 35 p.
PRIOR RESEARCH TOPICS INCLUDE: Plate tectonics of Indonesia and surrounding regions, integrating offshore geophysics + onshore geology. Large book, 3 wall maps, journal articles. Tectonics, structural geology, and petrology of United States. Many articles, monographs, maps (CA, NV, ID, MT, WY, AK, NC, TN) and regional syntheses (plate and extensional tectonics and mechanisms, batholiths, Laramide orogeny, more). Antarctica. 2 monographs on petrology and structure; continental tectonic synthesis integrated with southern-hemisphere continents and arcs. And many more, North American, Arctic, USSR, Gondwana, global, planetary.
