RICHARD N. ABBOTT, JR.
Department of Geology
Appalachian State University
ASU Box 32067
Boone, NC 28608
Rick and friends
2009 - Mahogany Vale, Jamaica
CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRENT RESEARCH 
Ultra high pressure rocks, Dominican Republic
2011, (Gazel, E., Abbott, R.N., Jr., and Draper, G.)
Garnet-bearing ultramafic rocks from the Dominican Republic: Fossil mantle plume fragments in an ultra high pressure oceanic complex? Lithos, 125, 393-404.
2007, (Abbott, R.N., Jr., and Draper, G.)
Petrogenesis of UHP eclogite from the Cuaba Gneiss, Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic. Int. Geol. Rev., 49, 1069-1093.
Metamorphic rocks, Jamaica 
2008, (Abbott, R.N., Jr., and Bandy, B.R.)
Amphibolite and blueschist-greenschist metamorphism, Blue Mountain inlier, eastern Jamaica. Geol. J., 43, 525-541.
COMPUTER PROGRAMS for crystallography and theoretical optical crystallography.
E-mail: abbottrn@appstate.edu
Phone: 828-262-3055
Fax: 828-262-6503


 
 FALL SEMESTER, 2011
 
  WEEKLY SCHEDULE, OFFICE HOURS, etc.
 GLY 1101 INTRO. to PHYSICAL GEOLOGY, SYLLABUS
 GLY 3220 FUNDAMENTALS of MINERALOGY, SYLLABUS


 
SPRING SEMESTER, 2012
 
  WEEKLY SCHEDULE, OFFICE HOURS, etc.
 GLY 1103-102 INTRO. to ENVIRONMENTAL and APPLIED GEOLOGY, SYLLABUS
 GLY 1103-215 LAB - ENVIRONMENTAL and APPLIED GEOLOGY, SYLLABUS


 
 SUMMER SESSION #1, 2012
 
 GLY 1101-102 INTRO. to PHYSICAL GEOLOGY, SYLLABUS


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