Wes Le Masurier

Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1965

Areas of Interest:

Volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, Igneous Petrology, Volcanic Geology

Select Publications

LeMasurier, W.E., K. Futa, M.J. Hole, and Y. Kawachi, Polybaric Evolution of Phonolite, Trachyte, and Rhyolite Volcanoes in Eastern Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica: Controls on Peralkalinity and Silica Saturation. Submitted, July 2000.

LeMasurier, W.E. and C.A. Landis, 1996 Mantle plume activity recorded by low relief erosion surfaces in West Antarctica and New Zealand, Geol. Soc. American Bull, 108, p. 1450-1466.

Hole, M.J., and W.E. LeMasurier, 1994 Tectonic controls on the geochemical composition of Cenozoic alkali basalts from West Antarctica, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 117, pp. 187-202.

LeMasurier, W.E., D.M. Harwood & D.C. Rex, 1994 Geology of Mount Murphy volcano: An 8 m.y. history of interaction between a rift volcano and the West Antarctic ice sheet, Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 106, pp. 265-280.

LeMasurier, W.E. and J.W. Thomson (eds.) Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans, Antarctic Research Series, v. 48, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 512 pp., 1990.

LeMasurier, W.E. and D.C. Rex, 1990 Marie Byrd Land volcanic province and its relation to the Cenozoic West Antarctic rift system, in R.J. Tingey  (ed.) Geology of Antarctica, Chapt. 7, p. 249-284, Oxford University Press.

LeMasurier, W.E. and D.C. Rex, 1989 Evolution of linear volcanic ranges in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res. 94: 7223-7236.

Futa, K. and W.E. LeMasurier, 1983 Nd and Sr. studies on Cenozoic mafic lavas from West Antarctica: another source for continental alkali basalt, Contrib. Mineral Petrol. 83: 38-44