Member Since 1982
Roberta L. Rudnick
Distinguished Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
Professional Experience
University of California Santa Barbara
Distinguished Professor
2015 - Present
University of Maryland College Park
Emerita Distinguished University Professor
2000 - 2016
Education
Australian National University
Doctorate
1988
Honors & Awards
Publications
The Addition of Felsic Sediments to the Lower Continental Crust During the Variscan Orogeny
Lower crustal metasedimentary xenoliths (garnet‐sillimanite granulites) from the Bournac breccia pipe in the Massif Central, France, provide ...
January 14, 2025
Heat Transfer and Production in Cratonic Continental Crust: ...
October 19, 2022
Heterogeneous magnesium isotopic composition of the lower co...
September 23, 2013
AGU Abstracts
Coupled crustal maturation, decreasing surface temperature, and increasing δ18O of surface waters through geologic time based on triple oxygen and hydrogen isotopes of glacial diamictites
ADVANCES IN DEEP EARTH–SURFACE INTERACTIONS I POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 11 december 2024
Ilya Bindeman, Roberta L. Rudnick, Richard M. Gasc...
Oxygen, a major element in both the hydrosphere and lithosphere provides an important link between evolving lithosphere and surface waters. We presen...
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Thermochronological Constraints on Heat Production, Composition, and Formation of Lower Continental Crust
PROBING THE LOWER CONTINENTAL CRUST USING MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 11 december 2024
Francisco Apen, Roberta L. Rudnick
Temperatures of the lower crust and Moho are important boundary conditions for models of heat transfer and the bulk composition of continental crust. ...
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To the lower crust and back again: a tectonic history of metasedimentary xenoliths from the Eocene Missouri Breaks diatremes, central Montana
RATES AND DATES OF LITHOSPHERIC PROCESSES II ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2023
Mary S. Ringwood, Sophia E. Ortner, Gareth Seward,...
Metapelitic xenoliths carried within the Missouri Breaks diatremes in central Montana, USA, document an ~1800 Ma history of sediment deposition, tecto...
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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2023
Chair
Union Fellows Committee
2022 - 2022
Member
Honors and Recognition Committee
2013 - 2014
Union Medals Chair
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Executive Committee
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