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Seth Kruckenberg

earth and environmental sciences

Seth Kruckenberg

Seth Kruckenberg, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Geology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2009)
B.S. Geology (Honors), University of Wyoming (2000)
B.S. Environmental Geology/Geohydrology, University of Wyoming (2000)

Phone: 617-552-3647
Email: seth.kruckenberg@bc.edu
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INTERESTS

Structural Geology, Tectonics, Textural and Magnetic Fabric Analyses, Geochronology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College (2012-)

Visiting Instructor, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2012)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011-2012)

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009-2011)

Instructor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2007)

Teaching/Research Associate, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2002-2009)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kruckenberg, S. C., Tikoff, B., Toy, V. G., Newman, J., and Young, L. (In Revision), Strain localization associated with channelized melt migration in upper mantle lithosphere: insights from the Twin Sisters ultramafic complex, Washington, USA. Journal of Structural Geology Special Issue: Deformation Localization in Rocks.

Kruckenberg, S. C., Vanderhaeghe, O., Ferré, E. C., Teyssier, C., and Whitney, D. L., (2011), Flow of partially molten crust and the internal dynamics of a migmatite dome, Naxos, Greece, Tectonics, v. 30, TC3001, 24 pp., doi: 10.1029/2010TC002751.

Kruckenberg, S. C., and Whitney, D. L. (2011), Metamorphic evolution of sapphirine- and orthoamphibole-cordierite-bearing gneiss, Okanogan dome, Washington, USA, Journal of Metamorphic Geology. v. 29 (4), p. 425-449, doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2010.00926.x.

Rey, P. F., Teyssier, C., Kruckenberg, S. C., Whitney, D. L. (2011), Viscous collision in channel explains double domes in metamorphic core complexes, Geology, v. 39, no. 4, p. 387-390, doi: 10.1130/G31587.1.

Kruckenberg, S. C., Ferré, E. C., Teyssier, C., Vanderhaeghe, O., Whitney, D. L., Seaton, N.C.A., and Skord, J. A. (2010), Viscoplastic flow in migmatites deduced from fabric anisotropy: an example from the Naxos dome, Greece, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, v. 115, B09401, doi: 10.1029/2009JB007012.

Kruckenberg, S. C., Whitney, D. L., Teyssier, C., Fanning, M., and Dunlap, W. J. (2008), Paleocene-Eocene migmatite crystallization, extension, and exhumation in the hinterland of the Northern Cordillera: Okanogan dome, Washington, USA, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 120, p. 912-929. doi: 10.1130/B26153.1.

Whitney, D. L., Teyssier, C., Kruckenberg, S. C., Morgan, V. L., and Iredale, L. J. (2008), High-pressure-low-temperature metamorphism of metasedimentary rocks, southern Menderes Massif, western Turkey, Lithos, v. 101, p. 218-232. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.07.001.

McFadden, R., Siddoway, C. S., Teyssier, C., Fanning, C. M., and Kruckenberg, S. C. (2007), Cretaceous oblique detachment tectonics in the Fosdick Mountains, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, in: Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World-Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, edited by A. K. Cooper and C. R. Raymond et al, USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Short Research Paper 046, 6 p. doi: 103133/of2007-1047.srp046.

Vanderhaeghe, O., Hibsch, C., Siebenaller, L., Duchêne, S., de St Blanquat, M., Kruckenberg, S., Fotiadis, A., and Martin, L. (2007), Penrose Conference – Extending a Continent – Naxos Field Guide, in: (Eds.) G. Lister, M. Forster, and U. Ring, Inside the Aegean Metamorphic Core Complexes, Journal of the Virtual Explorer, Electronic Edition, ISSN 1441-8142, v. 27, paper 4. doi: 10.3809/jvirtex.2007.00175.