Dr. Will Lamb

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

• Fluids in the Earth's mantle
• Synthetic Fluid Inclusions
• Granulite Facies Metamorphism (i.e., Fluids in the Lower Crust)
• Precambrian Rocks of the Llano Uplift, Central Texas
• Metamorphism, Deformation, and Fluids

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
• Dubessy, J., Buschaert, S., Lamb, W., Pironon, J., Thiéry, R.(2001) Methane-bearing aqueous fluid inclusions: Raman analysis, thermodynamic modelling and application to petroleum basins. Chemical Geology, v. 173, pp. 193-205
• 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.

Publications continued

Affiliations

Deep Crust and Mantle Dynamics

Links

• Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology
• Deep Crust and Mantle Dynamics