Phone: 979.845.3075
Fax: 979.845.6162
lamb@geo.tamu.edu

Room 306, Halbouty

Course Offerings:

  • GEOL 101 - Introduction to Geology
  • GEOL 304 - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
  • GEOL 689 - Metamorphic Petrology

Dr. Will Lamb

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1987.

Research specialty: metamorphic petrology

Research:

  • Metamorphic petrology: compositions and movement of fluids in the crust and upper mantle
  • Granulite-facies metamorphism, Phase-equilibria
  • Natural and synthetic fluid inclusions

Projects:

Publications:

  • Popp, R.K., Hibbert, H.A., Lamb, W.M. (2006) Oxy-amphibole equilibria in Ti-bearing oxy-amphiboles: Experimental investigation and petrologic implications for mantle derived amphiboles. American Mineralogist, v. 91, p. 54-66.
  • Lamb, W.M. (2005) Carbonates in Feldspathic Gneisses from the Granulite Facies: Implication for the formation of CO2-rich Fluid Inclusions. in H. Thomas (ed) Metamorphism and Crustal Evolution: a volume in honor of Prof. R.S. Sharma, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, pp. 163-181.
  • Lamb, W.M., McShane, C.J., and Popp, R.J. (2002) Phase relations in the CH4-H2O-NaCl system at 2 kbar, 300°C to 600°C as determined using synthetic fluid inclusions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. V. 66, pp. 3971-3986
  • Brouwer, F.M., Vissers, R.L.M., Lamb, W.M. (2002) Structure and metamorphism of the Gran Paradiso massif, western Alps, Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 143, p. 450-470
  • Drury, M.R., Newman, J., Lamb, W.M., Vissers, R.L.M., Van Roermund, H.L.M. (2000) The role of lithosperic mantle in orogenesis: Coupled or uncoupled? Journal of Czech Geological Society, v45, p222-.
  • Newman, J., Lamb, W.M., Drury, M.R., Vissers, R.L.M. (1999) Deformation processes in a peridotite shear zone: reaction-softening by an H2O-deficient, continuous net transfer reaction, Tectonophysics, v. 303, no. 1-4, pp. 193-222.
  • More Publications...

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Affiliations:

  • Deep Crust and Mantle Dynamics