Jim Watkins
Graduate student
UC Berkeley • Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
455 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-4767
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Research Interests
- Interactions between mantle plumes and subducting slabs.
- Silicate liquid structure.
- Water diffusion in obsidian.
- Magmatism in the western US throughout the Cenozoic.
B.S., Geology, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (2005)
Publications
- Huber, C., J. Watkins, and M. Manga, Existence of a stable shape for a bubble rising below an inclined wall at low Reynolds numbers, submitted to Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Abstracts
- Ihinger, P.D., Watkins, J.M., and Burton, B.R., 2003, The character of Cordilleran magmatism in the Eocene; Insights from the Sweetgrass Hills, MT, Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogical Association of Canada, Abstracts, v. 28, # 687.
- Ihinger, P.D., Watkins, J.M., Bernhardt, J.E., and Johnson, B.R., 2003, Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic Evolution of the North American Cordillera: Lithospheric Response to Plume-Slab Interaction, Eos. Trans., AGU, 84 (47), Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract V12B-0589.
- Ihinger, P.D., Watkins, J.M., Bernhardt, J.E., and Johnson, B.R., 2004, Yellowstone plumehead meets Farallon slab: a plausible mechanism driving North American continental tectonics for 80 My, Rocky Mtn/Cordilleran GSA, Abstracts, v. 36, no. 4, p. 95-96.
- Ihinger, P.D., Watkins, J.M., and Johnson, B.R., 2004, Reconciling Observations of the Yellowstone Hotspot with the Standard Plume Model, Eos. Trans., AGU, 85 (47), Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract V51B-0557.
- Ihinger, P.D., Watkins, J.M., and Johnson, B.R., 2005, The Yellowstone plumehead, mid-sized igneous provinces, and Cenozoic structural deformation of the North American Cordillera: A Single, Prolonged Tectonic Event, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Abstract T130-8410.
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