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James Louis Aronson

Professor of Earth Sciences
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Departments

  • Earth Sciences

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Contact Information

Email: james.aronson@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603 646-3338
Office: 6105 Fairchild Hall

Education

B.A. Rice University; M.S. California Institute of Technology; Ph.D. California Institute of Technology

Areas of Expertise

Regional geology; tectonic history and geochronology of the Southwest Pacific; Iceland; East Africa; geology, geochronology and environmental interpretation of fossil hominid sites; applications of K/Ar dating to sedimentology; basin reconstruction K/Ar dating of clay minerals in argillaceous sediments and in authigenic pore fills of reservoir sandstone related to petroleum geology

Selected Works

  • Aronson, J L, S P Altaner, R F Ylagan, S M Savin, H E Belkin, A Pozzuoli, "Geothermometry, Geochronology, and Mass Transfer Associated with Hydrothermal Alteration of a Rhyolitic Hyaloclastite from Ponza Island, Italy," Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 67, (2003) 275-288.
  • Aronson, J L and D Bish, Preface remarks to the Reynold's commemorative volume, American Mineralogist, 87 (2002) 1517-1518.
  • Aronson, J L, M Hailemichael, S Savin, M J S Tevesz, and J G Carter, "δ18O in Mollusk Shells from Pliocene Lake Hadar and Modern Ethiopian Lakes; Implications for History of the Ethiopian Monsoon," Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 186, (2002) 81-99.
  • Aronson, J L, G WoldeGabriel, and F Goff, "Mineralogy and K-Ar geochronology of Mixed-layer Illite/Smectite from the Geysers Coring Project, California, USA," Geothermics, 30 (2001) 193-210.
  • Aronson, J L, X Feng, A Faiia, G. WoldeGabriel, M, Poage and C P Chamberlain, "Oxygen Isotope Studies of Clays and Cliniptilolite from Yucca Mountain: Implications for Paleohydrology," Earth and Planetary Science Letter, 171 (1999) 95-106.

Current Projects

"δ18Ο of Hadar Paleosols: Hadar Paleo-Environments in a Framework of Ethiopian Climate Change"; "Environment of Deposition of the Plicoene Hominoid-bearing Hadar Formation, Afar, Ethiopia"; "Origin of the Athabasca Tar Sand Petroleum, Alberta, Canada";