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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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Keywords

  • 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

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

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

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 2019

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

Fornash, K. F., Whitney, D. L. & Seaton, N., 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

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
2 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
2 Citations (Scopus)

Numerical investigation of deep-crust behavior under lithospheric extension

Korchinski, M., Rey, P. F., Mondy, L., Teyssier, C. & Whitney, D. L., Feb 15 2018, In : Tectonophysics. 726, p. 137-146 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

crusts
crust
viscosity
domes
dome