Fred (Alfred) Anderson
Fred Anderson
Prof. of Geology, Emeritus
Phone: 773 702 8138
Email: canderso at uchicago.edu
Office #:HGS 369
Research interests:
I am stymied to explain the stratigraphic variations found in some large-volume silicic pyroclastic deposits such as the Bishop Tuff, California. I use melt (now glass) inclusions in quartz phenocrysts to assess the depth and amount of exsolved gas in the preeruptive magma.
I have used melt inclusions to assess the roles of volatiles and of magma mixing in a wide range of magmas.
Publications:
Anderson, A.T., Davis, A.M. and Lu, F., 2000, Evolution of Bishop Tuff Rhyolitic Magma Based on Melt and Magnetite Inclusions and Zoned Phenocrysts. J. Petrology, 41, 449 - 473.
Anderson, A.T. Jr. (1991) Hourglass inclusions: Theory and application to the Bishop Rhyolitic Tuff. Am. Mineral. 76:530-547.
Anderson, A.T., and Brown, G.G., (1993) CO2 contents and formation pressures of some Kilauean melt inclusions. Amer. Mineral., 78, 794 - 803.
Gualda, G.A.R., Cook, D.L., Chopra, R., Qin,L., Anderson, A.T.Jr., and Rivers, M. (2004), Fragmentation, nucleation and migration of crystals and bubbles in the Bishop Tuff rhyolitic magma. 5th Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granites, Japan, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 95, 375 - 390.
Holness, M.B., Anderson, A.T., Jr., Martin, V.M., Maclennan, J., Passmore, E., and Schwindinger, K., (2007) Textures in partially solidified crystalline nodules: a window into the pore structure of slowly cooled mafic intrusions. J. Petrol., 48, 1243 - 1264.
Liu, Y., Anderson, A.T., Wilson, C.J.N., Davis, A.M. and Steele, I.M. (2006) Mixing and differentiation in the Oruanui rhyolitic magma, Taupo, New Zealand: evidence from volatiles and trace elements in melt inclusions. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 151, 71- 87.
Liu, Y., Anderson, A.T., Jr., Wilson, C.J.N. (2007) Melt pockets in phenocrysts and ascent rates of silicic magmas. J. Geophys. Res. - Solid Earth, 112, B06204, doi:10.1029/2006JB004500.
Peppard, B., Steele, I., Davis, A.M., Wallace, P.J., and Anderson, A.T., Jr.,2001, Zoned quartz phenocrysts from the rhyolitic Bishop Tuff,Am. Mineral., 86, 1034 - 1052.
Schwindinger, K.R., and Anderson, A.T., Jr., 1989, Synneusis of Kilauea Iki olivines. Contrib. Min. Pet., 103, 187-198.
Skirius, C.M., Peterson, J.W., and Anderson, A.T., Jr. (1990) Homogenizing rhyolitic glass inclusions from the Bishop Tuff. Amer. Mineral. 75, 1381 - 1398.
Wallace, P.J. and Anderson, A.T., Jr. (1998) Effects of eruption and lava drainback on the H2O contents of basaltic magmas at Kilauea volcano. Bull. Volcanol. 59, 327 -344.
Wallace, P.J., Anderson, A.T., Jr., and Davis, A.M.,(1999), Gradients in H2O, CO2 and exsolved gas in a large-volume silicic magma system: interpreting the record preserved in melt inclusions from the Bishop Tuff. J. Geopys. Res, 104, 20097 - 20122.
Wallace P.J., Dufek, J., Anderson, A.T., Jr., and Zhang, Y. (2003) Cooling rates of Plinian-fall and pyroclastic flow deposits in the Bishop Tuff: inferences from water speciation in quartz-hosted glass inclusions. Bull. Volcanol., 65, 105 - 123.
Education:
Ph D. Princeton U., 1963
Employment:
Univ. of Chicago, 1968 - 2004
Bowen award, 2001
