Meet the Faculty

Jill Ferguson

Jessica Terrien

Visiting Assistant Professor
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Education

A.B. Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, 2001
M.S. Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2003
Ph.D. (ABD) Syracuse University, Syracuse NY

Research Interests/Current Projects

• 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology
• U/Pb Geochronology
• Plate Tectonics
• Geoscience Education

Selected Publications

Terrien, J.J., Baldwin, S.L., Gehrels, G. and Finn, C.A., 2007, Correlation between structural level and age of the Wilderness sills: Implications for a complex cooling history. Ores and Orogenesis meeting, Tucson, Arizona.

Terrien, J.J., Finn, C., and Baldwin S.L., 2005, Reassessment of the role of magmatism in the evolution of the Catalina MCC: Evidence for a Felsic-Intermediate Pluton at Shallow Depths. Eos Trans. AGU 85(52) Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T13C-0484.

Terrien, J.J., and Baldwin, S.L., 2005, Thermal Histories of the Wilderness Suite Granitoids as revealed by 40Ar/39Ar and MDD models. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, no. 7, p. 448.

Terrien, J.J., Hogan, J., 2003, Rapakivi Feldspars: Markers of Magma Chamber Dynamics. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Northeastern Section), Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 3, p. 35.

Terrien, J.J, Strasser, J.C., Ensminger, S.L. and Lawson, D.E., 2001, Dye-tracer experiments on a braided branch of the Matanuska River, Alaska. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 33, no. 4, p. 35.

Valley, P.M., Whitney, D.L., Paterson, S.R., Miller, R.B., and Terrien, J., 2000, Pressure-temperature history of deepest exposed units of the North Cascades arc: thermobarometric results across the Swakane-Napeequa contact. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 32, no. 6, p. 73.

Whitney, D.L., Christensen, J.N., Terrien, J., and Taylor, D.L., 1999, Comparison of Sr isotopic compositions in fluid inclusions, vein quartz, and matrix garnet from two zones of a Barrovian sequence. EOS, 80, p. 1083.