Mark Bukowinski
Faculty

Mark Bukowinski
Physics and chemistry of planetary interiors, theoretical mineral physics, nature of bonding in deep earth minerals, modeling of geochemical processes, thermal and chemical evolution of the earth.
1969 B.S. (Physics), University of California, Los Angeles
1975 Ph.D. (Physics), University of California, Los Angeles
Physics and chemistry of planetary interiors, theoretical mineral physics, nature of bonding in deep earth minerals, modeling of geochemical processes, thermal and chemical evolution of the earth.
Agnon, A. and M. S. T. Bukowinski, Thermodynamic and elastic properties of many-body model for simple oxides, Phys. Rev. B1, 41, 7755-7766, 1990
Agnon, A. and M. S. T. Bukowinski, dS at high pressure and dlnVS/dlnVP in the lower mantle, Geophys. Res. Lett.,17, 1149-1152, 1990.
Bukowinski, M. S. T. and G.H. Wolf, Thermodynamically consistent decompression: Implications for lower mantle composition, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 12583-12594, 1990.
Stixrude, L. and M. S. T. Bukowinski, Rings, topology, and the density of tectosilicates, Am. Mineral., 75, 1159-1169, 1990.
Stixrude, L. and M. S. T. Bukowinski, Fundamental thermodynamic relations, silicate melting with implications for the constitution of D'', J. Geophys. Res., 95, 19311-19325, 1990.
Stixrude, L. and M. S. T. Bukowinski, A novel topological compression mechanism in a covalent liquid, Science, 250, 541-543, 1990.
Zhang, H. and M. S. T. Bukowinski, Modified potential-induced breathing model of potentials between closed-shell ions, Phys. Rev. , B44, 2495-2503, 1991.
Stixrude, L. and M. S. T. Bukowinski, The atomic structure of SiO2 glass and its response to pressure, Phys. Rev. ,B44, 2523-2534, 1991.
Stixrude, L., A. Oshagan and M. S. T. Bukowinski, Coordination changes and vibrational spectrum of SiO2 glass at high pressure, Am. Mineral, 76, 1761-1764, 1991.
Stixrude, L. and M. S. T. Bukowinski, Stability of (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite and the structure of the lowermost mantle, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 1057-1060, 1992.
Bukowinski, M. S. T., Review of Introduction to the Physics of the Earth's Interior, J.-P. Poirier, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 71, 217-218, 1992.
Stixrude, L. and M. S. T. Bukowinski, Thermodynamic analysis of the system MgO-FeO-SiO2 at high pressure and the structure of the lowermost mantle, in Chemical Evolution of the Earth and Planets, Geophysical Monograph 74, IUGG Volume 14, edited by E. Takahashi and R. Jeanloz, Washington: International Union of Geology and Geophysics and American Geophysical Union, pp. 131-141, 1993.
Bukowinski, M. S. T., Review of Theoretical Geochemistry: Application of Quantum Mechanics in the Earth and Mineral Sciences, J.A. Tossell and D.J. Vaughan, Pageoph, 140, 139-141, 1993.
Bukowinski, M. S. T., Quantum geophysics, Ann. Revs. Earth Planet Sci., 22, 167-205, 1994.
Boisen, M. B., G. V. Gibbs and M. S. T. Bukowinski, Framework silica structures generated using simulated annealing with a potential energy function based on an H6Si2O7 molecule, Phys. Chem. Minerals, 21, 269-284, 1994.
Bukowinski, M. S. T., A. Chizmeshya, G. H. Wolf and H. Zhang, Advances in electron-gas potential theory: Applications to candidate lower mantle minerals, Molecular Engineering, 6, 81-112, 1996.
Bukowinski, M. S. T., Review of Geochemical Thermodynamics by D. K. Nordstrom and J. L. Munoz, Pageoph, 146, 1996.
Thomson, K. T., R. M. Wentzcovitch and M. S. T. Bukowinski, Polymorphism of alumina predicted by first principles: Putting pressure on the ruby pressure scale, Science, 274, 1880-1882, 1996.
Bukowinski, M. S. T., A. Chizmeshya, G. H. Wolf and H. Zhang, Advances in electron-gas potential theory: Applications to candidate lower mantle minerals, in Modeling of Minerals and Silicated materials, B. Silvi and P. D'Arco (eds.), 81-112, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 1997.
Downs, J. W. and M. S. T. Bukowinski, Variationally induced breathing equations of state of pyrope, grossular, and majorite garnets, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 1959-1962, 1997.
Sigma Pi Sigma - Physics Honor Society
1989 Mineralogy-Geochemistry visiting fellowship at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
1995 Elected Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
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