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Member Since 1983
Brad R. Hacker
Professor Emeritus, University of California Santa Barbara
Professional Experience
University of California Santa Barbara
Professor Emeritus
2021 - Present
University of California Santa Barbara
Professor Emeritus
1996 - 2021
Education
Doctorate
1988
Honors & Awards
Norman L. Bowen Award and Lecture
Received 2020
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Union Fellow
Received 2010
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Publications
Protracted Subduction of the European Hyperextended Margin Revealed by Rutile U‐Pb Geochronology Acr...

The Dora‐Maira massif is an archetypal nappe stack of subducted and exhumed upper crust. Slices of continental crust experienced metamorphism...

April 04, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Average composition & genesis of the continental lower crust: Density sorting beneath arcs and continental collision zones
THE FATE OF THE LITHOSPHERE DURING CONTINENTAL COLLISION: SLAB DEFORMATION, LITHOSPHERIC REMOVAL, AND TECTONIC SEGMENTATION IN ACTIVE OROGENIC SYSTEMS III POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Peter B. Kelemen, Mark D. Behn, Bradley R. Hacker
We combine area- & volume-weighted average seismic wave speeds of lower continental crust (LCC) with thermodynamic calculations of mineral proport...
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Relamination and Crustal Refining
NORMAN L. BOWEN AWARD LECTURE I
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 15 december 2021
Bradley R. Hacker
Most immature crust must be refined to attain the composition of mature continental crust. This refining may take the form of weathering, delamination...
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U–Pb Dates From Dynamically Recrystallized Titanite Directly Constrain Timing of Crystal-Plastic Deformation
ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS OF IN SITU PETROCHRONOLOGY AND THERMOCHRONOLOGY I ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 14 december 2021
Amy C. Moser, Bradley R. Hacker, Tarryn K. Cawood,...
Directly dating high-temperature deformation is important for constraining the timing and duration of numerous geologic processes, yet a widely applic...
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