Research Publications

Furman T, 2006, The right advice, Nature, 442, doi:10.1038/nj7098-106b.

Furman T, Geochemistry of East African Rift basalts: an overview. Journal of African Earth Sciences, in press.

Furman T, Bryce J, Rooney T, Hanan B, Yirgu G & Ayalew D, 2006, Heads and tails: 30 million years of the Afar plume. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 259, 97-121.

Furman T, Knight KM & Bryce JG, 2006, Tertiary mafic lavas of Turkana, N. Kenya: constraints on temporal evolution of the EARS and on the occurrence of HIMU volcanism in Africa, Journal of Petrology, doi:10.1093/ petrology/egl009..

Rooney T, Furman T, Yirgu G & Ayalew D, 2005, Structure of the Ethiopian lithosphere: evidence from mantle xenoliths. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69, 3889-3910.

Furman T & Blakey R, Using sedimentary stratigraphy of the Grand Canyon to encourage quantitative reasoning skills in introductory Physical Geology, Journal of Geoscience Education, accepted.

Furman T, Rooney T, Bryce J, Yirgu G, Ayalew D & Hanan B, 2004, Continental rupture in the Main Ethiopian Rift: constraints from magma source compositions. Proceedings volume, International Conference on the East African Rift System: Development, Evolution and Resources.

Furman T, J Bryce, J Karson & A Iotti, 2004, Geochemistry of Quaternary mafic lavas from Turkana, Kenya: evidence for a common asthenospheric source beneath the East African Rift System. Journal of Petrology, 45, 1069-1088.

Furman T, Rooney T, Bryce J, Yirgu G, Ayalew D & Hanan B, 2004, Continental rupture in the Main Ethiopian Rift: constraints from magma source compositions. Proceedings volume, International Conference on the East African Rift System: Development, Evolution and Resources.

Furman T, J Bryce, J Karson & A Iotti, 2004, Geochemistry of Quaternary mafic lavas from Turkana, Kenya: evidence for a common asthenospheric source beneath the East African Rift System. Journal of Petrology, 45, 1069-1088.

Ebinger CJ & Furman T, 2003, Geodynamical setting of the Virunga volcanic province, East Africa, Acta Vulcanologica, 15, 9-16.

Furman T & Gittings H 2003, Eocene basalt volcanism in central Virginia: implications for Cenozoic tectonism, Southeastern Geology, 42, 111-122.

Maguire PH, Ebinger CJ, Stuart GW, Mackenzie GD, Whaler KA, Kendall J-M, Khan MA, Fowler CMR, Klemperer SL, Keller GR, Harder S, Furman T, Mickus K, Asfaw L, Ayele A & Abebe, B 2003, Geophysical project in Ethiopia studies continental breakup. EOS 84, 337-343.

Bartels KS & T Furman 2002, Effect of sonic and ultrasonic frequencies on crystallization of basalt. American Mineralogist, 87, 217-226.

Fitzhugh RD, T Furman & AK Korsak 2001, Sources of stream sulfate in headwater catchments in Otter Creek Wilderness, West Virginia, USA. Hydrological Processes, 15, 541-556.

Furman T & D Graham 1999, Erosion of lithospheric mantle beneath the East African Rift system: evidence from the Kivu volcanic province. Lithos, 48, 237-262.

Fitzhugh RD, T Furman & BJ Cosby 1999, Longitudinal and seasonal patterns of stream acidity in a headwater catchment on the Appalachian Plateau, West Virginia. Biogeochemistry, 47, 39-62.

Furman T, P Thompson & B Hatchl 1998, Primary mineral weathering in the central Appalachians: a mass balance approach. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 62, 2889-2904.

Furman T 1995, Melting of metasomatized subcontinental lithosphere: undersaturated mafic lavas from Rungwe, Tanzania. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 122, 97-115.

Furman T, FA Frey & K-H Park 1995, The scale of source heterogeneity beneath Iceland 's eastern neovolcanic zone. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 152, 997-1002.

Furman T, FA Frey & PS Meyer 1992, Petrogenesis of evolved basalts and rhyolites at Austurhorn, SE Iceland: the role of fractional crystallization. Journal of Petrology, 33, 1405-1445.

Furman T, PS Meyer & FA Frey 1992, Evolution of Icelandic central volcanoes: evidence from the Austurhorn intrusion, SE Iceland. Bulletin of Volcanology, 55, 45-62.

Furman T, FA Frey & K-H Park 1991, Geochemical constraints on petrogenesis of mildly alkaline lavas from Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland: the Eldfell (1973) and Surtsey (1963-1967) eruptions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 109, 19-37.

Furman T & Spera FJ 1985, Co-mingling of acid and basic magma with implications for the origin of mafic I-type xenoliths: field and petrochemical relations of an unusual dike complex at Eagle Lake, Sequoia National Park, California, USA. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 24, 151-178.

Publications in Preparation

Doust R, Furman T & Voight B, Hazard assessment of Mt. Agung, Indonesia [ Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research]

Innocenti S, Furman T, Voight B & Andreastuti S, Textural and mineral chemical constraints on eruptive behavior of Merapi volcano [Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research]

Kurkcuoglu B, Furman T & Hanan B, Melting model, trace element and isotopic constraints on post-collisional mafic lavas from the North Anatolian Fault Zone, Armutlu Peninsula, NW Turkey [Lithos]

Graham DW, T Furman, CJ Ebinger, NW Rogers & JE Lupton, Isotope variations in mafic volcanic rocks from the western branch of the East African rift system: probes of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle. [Journal of Petrology]