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Tony Maria

Dr. Tony H. Maria

Professor of Geology

Geology, Physics and Environmental Science Department

Chair of Geology, Physics and Environmental Science Department

Geology, Physics and Environmental Science Department

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Denny, F.G., Maria, A.H., Mulvaney-Norris, J.L., Guillemette, R.N., Cahill, R.A., Fifarek, R.H., Freiburg, J.T., and Anderson, W.H., 2017, Geochemical and petrographic analysis of the Sparks Hill Diatreme and its relationship to the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district, Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 588

Maria, A., Millam, E., and Wright, C., 2011, Using a differential scanning calorimeter to teach phase equilibria to students of igneous and metamorphic petrology, Journal of Geoscience Education 59, p. 63-70.

Maria, A. and Luhr, J., 2008, Lamprophyres, basanites, and basalts of the western Mexican Volcanic Belt: Volatile contents and a vein-wallrock melting relationship, Journal of Petrology, 49(12): 2123-2156; doi: 10.1093/petrology/egn060.

Maria, A.H. and Counts, R.C. (eds.), 2008, From the Cincinnati Arch to the Illinois Basin: geological field excursions along the Ohio River Valley, Geological Society of America Field Guide 12, 180 pp.

Maria, A. and Carey, S., 2007, Quantitative discrimination of magma fragmentation and pyroclastic transport processes using the fractal spectrum technique, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2006.12.006.

Maria, A. and Carey, S., 2002, Using fractal analysis to quantitatively characterize the shapes of volcanic particles, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(B11), 2283, doi: 10.1029/2001JB000822.

Maria, A. and Hermes, O.D., 2001, Volcanic rocks in the Narragansett Basin, southeastern New England: petrology and significance to early basin formation, American Journal of Science, 301(3), p. 286–312.

Maria, A. Carey, S., Sigurdsson, H., Kincaid, C., and Helgadóttir, G., 2000, The source and dispersal of jökulhlaup sediments discharged to the sea following the 1996 Vatnajökull eruption, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 112(10), p. 1507–1521.

Carey, S., Maria, A. and Sigurdsson, H., 2000, Use of fractal analysis for discrimination of particles from primary and reworked jökulhlaup deposits in SE Iceland, Journal of Geothermal and Volcanologic Research, 104, p. 65–80.

Carey, S., Maria, T. and Cornell, W., 1998, Processes of volcaniclastic sedimentation during the early growth stages of Gran Canaria based on sediments from Site 953, in Weaver, P.P.E., Schmincke, H.-U., Firth, J.V., and Duffield, W., eds., Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 157, p. 183–200. 

Abstracts (* denotes student author):

Ritterskamp, M.M*, Durbin, J.M. and Maria, A.H., 2017, XRF analysis of trace elements in soils surrounding a coal-fired power plant, Posey County, southwestern Indiana, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meetingv. , No. .

Maria, A.H., DiPietro, J.A., and Howard, K.F.*, 2016, Geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotopic compositions of Permian ultramafic lamprophyres in southern Illinois, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meetingv. 48, No. 7. 

Howard, K.*, Maria, A., DiPietro, J., and Cashel-Cordo, W.*, 2016, Petrography and geochemistry of igneous and metamorphic core samples from the Omaha Dome in southern Illinois, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 50th annual meeting, North-Central Section.

Maria, A., Ford, C.M.*, and King, M.D.*, 2014, A petrogenetic relationship between ultramafic lamprophyres in the New Madrid seismic region and similar intrusions associated with the Elk Creek carbonatite complex? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 48th annual meeting, North-Central Section, v. 46, p. 22.

Maria, A., and King, M.D.*, 2012, Petrography and geochemistry of an ultramafic dike in southern Illinois, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meetingv. 44, p. 541.

Maria, A., Mills, O., and Keimig, H.*, 2010, Fractal analysis of volcanic deposits for insights to explosive Hawaiian eruptions, Eos Trans., AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V11D-2324. 

Keimig, H.*, Maria, A., and Mills, O., 2010, Using SEM and fractal analysis to fingerprint volcanic ash deposits, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Joint Meeting, North-Central & South-Central Sections.

Maria, A. and Luhr, J., 2008, Volatile contents and degassing of primitive magmas from the western Mexican Volcanic Belt, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 42nd annual meeting, North-Central Section.

Maria, A. and Luhr, J., 2007, Glass inclusions and volatile contents of lamprophyres, basanites, and basalts from the Colima Rift and Mascota Volcanic Field (western Mexican Volcanic Belt), Eos Trans., AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V31H-07.

Maria, A., 2006, Quantitative characterization of basaltic tephra using the fractal spectrum technique, Eos Trans., AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V33B-0667.

Earles, J.* and Maria, A., 2005, Insights into impact processes from morphology of glassy clasts of the Onaping Formation, Sudbury, Ontario, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 39th annual meeting, North-Central Section.

Maria, A. and Luhr, J., 2004, Melt inclusions in Late-Quaternary basanites and minettes of the Colima Rift and Mascota Volcanic Field (western Mexico Volcanic Belt), Neogene-Quaternary  Continental Margin Volcanism– Proceedings of the GSA Penrose Conference at Metepec, Puebla, Mexico.

Maria, A. and Luhr, J., 2002, Glass inclusions and melt volatile contents in the Late-Quaternary basanites and minettes of Colima (Mexico), Eos Trans., AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V22A-1223.

Maria, A. and Carey, S., 2001, Fractal spectrum technique for quantitative analysis of volcanic particle shapes, Eos Trans., AGU, 82(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract F1377.

Maria, T., 1999, Significance of South Attleboro volcanics, Massachusetts, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 31(2), No. 05356.

Maria, A., Carey, S., Sigurdsson, H. and Kincaid, C., 1998, The source and fate of jökulhlaup sediments discharged to the sea following the 1996 Vatnajökull eruption, Eos Trans., AGU, 79(17), Spring Meet. Suppl., S13.

Maria, A., 1989, Petrology of Carboniferous Volcanics, South Attleboro, Massachusetts, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 21(2), No. 15473.