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Donna L Whitney

Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Head, N.H. Winchell School of Earth Sciences

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8296-4692

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1989 …2021
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Research interests

  • metamorphic petrology, tectonics

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Projects 2005 2021

Collaborative research: Record of UHP terrain exhumation preserved in shear zones of the Western Gneiss Region (Norway)

Teyssier, C. & Whitney, D. L.

National Science Foundation

7/1/18 → 6/30/21

Project: Research project

exhumation
gneiss
shear zone

MRI: Acquisition of a next-generation electron microprob

Hirschmann, M. M., Bailey, J., Kohlstedt, D. L., Whitney, D. L. & von der Handt, A.

THE NATIONALSCIENCE FOUNDATION

8/15/16 → 1/31/19

Project: Research project

acquisition
electrons

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Central Anatolian Tectonics (CD-

Whitney, D. L. & Teyssier, C.

National Science Foundation

12/1/11 → 11/30/19

Project: Research project

collision
mantle
tectonics

Colliding channels and double domes in metamorphic core

Teyssier, C. & Whitney, D. L.

National Science Foundation

3/15/11 → 2/29/16

Project: Research project

Domes

EAGER: Continental subduction and deep crustal melting

Whitney, D. L. & Teyssier, C.

National Science Foundation

7/1/10 → 6/30/12

Project: Research project

exhumation
continental crust
melt
tectonics
rock

Research Output 1989 2020

Lawsonite-rich layers as records of fluid and element mobility in subducted crust (Sivrihisar Massif, Turkey)

Fornash, K. F. & Whitney, D. L., Feb 5 2020, In : Chemical Geology. 533, 119356.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

element mobility
lawsonite
Rocks
crust
Trace Elements
1 Citation (Scopus)

Lawsonite composition and zoning as an archive of metamorphic processes in subduction zones

Fornash, K. F., Whitney, D. L. & Seaton, N. C. A., Feb 1 2019, In : Geosphere. 15, 1, p. 24-46 23 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

lawsonite
zoning
subduction zone
trace element
rock
1 Citation (Scopus)

Petrology, geothermobarometry, and P-T path of spinel-bearing symplectite migmatites from the Simin area, Hamedan, Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, Iran

Baharifar, A. A., Whitney, D. L., Pang, K. N., Chung, S. L. & Iizuka, Y., Jan 1 2019, In : Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences. 28, 2, p. 275-298 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

symplectite
petrology
spinel
plagioclase
cordierite
4 Citations (Scopus)

Climate stability in central Anatolia during the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Meijers, M. J. M., Peynircioğlu, A. A., Cosca, M. A., Brocard, G. Y., Whitney, D. L., Langereis, C. G. & Mulch, A., Jun 1 2018, In : Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 498, p. 53-67 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Messinian
basins
salinity
climate
basin

Diffusion geospeedometry in natural and experimental shear zones

Nachlas, W. O., Teyssier, C., Whitney, D. L. & Hirth, G., Sep 15 2018, In : Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 498, p. 129-139 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Quartz
shear zone
quartz
shear
rutile