Research Activities of Maureen Feineman

Research Interest Areas:

  • Experimental geochemistry
  • Igneous and metamorphic petrology
  • Trace element fractionation and diffusion among solids, melts, and aqueous fluids
  • Subduction zone geochemistry and dynamics
  • Mantle metasomatism
  • Isotope fractionation by diffusion-driven processes

Current Research Projects:

 
Lithium diffusion in the mantle
Trace element distribution in high grade eclogites from the Erzgebirge, Saxony
Magma storage and evolution in thick continental crust at the Diamante Caldera-Maipo Volcanic Complex, Argentina
Boron Isotope variation in basaltic melt inclusions from Lakagigar, Iceland
Numerical modeling of trace element fractionation in subduction zone fluids