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Member Since 1987
Peter Ulmer
Retired, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Professional Experience
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Retired
2024 - Present
ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Prof.
2004 - 2024
Education
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Doctorate
Current Roles
Member
Canvassing, Macelwane, Union Awards, and VGP Awards Committee
Honors & Awards
Norman L. Bowen Award and Lecture
Received 2022
It is an honor to introduce Peter Ulmer, one of the winners of the 2022 Norman L. Bowen Award of the AGU Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology section. Peter’s breadth of approaches spans experimental petrology, field geology, and magma rheolog...
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Publications
AGU Abstracts
Norman L. Bowen Lecture 1 - The Formation of Continental Crust by Crustal Distillation: An Experimental Perspective
NORMAN L. BOWEN AWARD LECTURE
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 13 december 2022
Peter Ulmer
The occurrence of felsic continental crust makes Earth unique among the terrestrial planets. One way to produce such crust is crystallization-differen...
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Magmatic Differentiation vs Contamination in Arc Plutons: A new in situ perspective based on Sr isotopes in plagioclase from Adamello (Italy)
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF MAGMATIC ARCS I ORAL
tectonophysics | 12 december 2022
Manuel Pimenta Silva, Andrea Giuliani, Urs Schalte...
We address issues of crustal contamination in arc magmas with a case study on the Adamello batholith (Italian Alps), where two igneous complexes intru...
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Experimental constraints on the fO2 dependence of the olivine-clinopyroxene cotectic crystallisation in hydrous arc magmas
CHEMISTRY, MECHANICS, GEOPHYSICS, AND TIMESCALES OF MAGMATIC PROCESSES I ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 12 december 2022
Manuel Pimenta Silva, Felix Marxer, Stepan Krashen...
Data from lower crustal arc sections and high-pressure experimental data indicate that derivative liquids reach alumina saturation at relatively low S...
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Volunteer History
2024 - 2028
Member
Canvassing, Macelwane, Union Awards, and VGP Awards Committee
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