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Bruce Selleck
Harold Orville Whitnall Professor of Geology


Ph.D. University of Rochester

Teaching Specialties: Stratigraphy and sedimentation, marine paleoecology, sedimentary petrology, hydrogeology

Research Interests: Paleoecology, carbonate/clastic sedimentary environments, sedimentary petrology, depositional patterns, sedimentation and tectonics of the Alaska Range

Distinctions: 2010 Sidney J. and Florence Felten French Prize for Inspirational Teaching NSF-URPS and NSF-ISEP grants (1978-80), ARCO Foundation grant for sedimentology laboratory (1982), NSF-CSIP grant, ACS-PRF grant (1986-89)

Recent Publications & Abstracts:
(*indicates student author)


McLelland, J.M., Selleck, B.W. Hamilton, M., and Bickford, M.E. (2010) Late- to post-tectonic setting of some major Proterozoic Anorthosite-Charnockite-Mangerite-Granite (AMCG) Suites; Canadian Mineralogist, v. 48

McLelland, J.M., Selleck, B.W. and Bickford, M.E. (2010) Review of the Proterozoic evolution of the Grenville Province, its Adirondack outlier, and the Mesoproterozoicnliers of the Appalachians, in Tollo, R.P., Bartholomew, M.J., Hibbard, J.P., and Karabinos, P.M., eds., From Rodinia to Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record of the Appalachian Region: Geological Society of America Memoir 206, p. 1–29

Bickford, M.E., McLelland, J.M., Selleck, B.W., Hill, Barbara M., and Heumann, M.J.(2008) Timing of anatexis in the eastern Adirondack Highlands: Implications for tectonic evolution during ca. 1050 Ma Ottawan orogenesis; Geol. Soc. America Bulletin, v. 120

Koff, A* and Selleck, B. (2008) Stable isotope signature of Middle Devonian Seawater from Hamilton Group brachiopods, Central New York State; Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 30, no. 4, p. 330-343 (undergraduate student co-author)

Kaplan, J.* and Selleck, B. (2008) Stable isotopic composition of the freshwater gastropod Viviparus Georgianus, central New York State: Evaluation as a proxy for summer climate: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 30, no. 2, p. 130-139 (undergraduate student co-author)

Carr, P., Selleck, B., Stott, M., Williamson, P. (2008) Native lead at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; Canadian Mineralogist, v. 46

Selleck, B., Carr, P. and Jones, B. (2007) Glendonites (pseudomorphs after ikaite) as coldwater indicators; a review and synthesis with new data from the Sydney Basin; Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 77, p. 980-991

Matthew J. Heumann, Marion Bickford, Barbara M. Hill, James McLelland, Bruce Selleck and M. J. Jercinovic (2006) Timing of anatexis in metapelites from the Adirondack lowlands and southern highlands: A manifestation of the Shawinigan orogeny and subsequent anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite magmatism; Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, no. 8

Selleck, B., McLelland, J.M. and Bickford, M.E. (2005) Granite emplacement during tectonic exhumation: The Adirondack example; Geology, v. 33, p. 781-784

Goldstein, A., Selleck, B. and Valley, J. (2005) Pressure, temperature, and composition history of syntectonic fluids in a low-grade metamorphic terrane; Geology, v.33, p. 421-424

Selleck, B., McLelland, J. and Hamilton, M. (2004) Magmatic-hydrothermal leaching and origin of late- to post-tectonic quartz-rich rocks, Adirondack Highlands, New York; in Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J., and Bartholomew, M. J., eds., Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America: Geological Society of America Memoir v. 197, p. 379-390.

Michael A. Hamilton, James McLelland, and Bruce Selleck (2004) SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of the anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite (AMCG) suite, Adirondack Mountains, New York: Ages of emplacement and metamorphism; in Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J., and Bartholomew, M. J., eds., Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America: Geological Society of America Memoir v. 197, p. 337-355.

Selleck, B. and Baran, J.* (2003) Petrology and stable isotope geochemistry of Holocene and Pleistocene calcite cement in kame terrace gravel, central New York State; Northeastern Geology and Environmental Science, v. 25, no. 3, p. 186-196

Selleck, B. and Zangrilli, P.* (2001) Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Constraints on Temperature and Pressure of Vein Formation, Hudson Valley Fold-Thrust Belt, Catskill, N.Y.; Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, V. 23, no. 1, p. 1-11

McLelland, J, Hamilton, M., Selleck, B., McLelland, J., Walker, D. Orrell, S. (2001) Zircon U-Pb geochronology of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondack Highlands, New York; regional and tectonic implications: Precambrian Research, v. 109, no. 1-2 (20010615): 39-7

McLelland, J., Morrison, J., Selleck, B., and others (2001) Hydrothermal alteration late- to post-tectonic Lyon Mountain Granitic Gneiss, Adirondack Mountains, New York: Origin of quartz-sillimanite segregations, quartz-albite lithologies and associated Kiruna-type low-Ti Fe-oxide deposits; Journal of Metamorphic Petrology, v. 19, p. 1-19.

Selected Fieldtrip Guidebook Articles:

Mehrtens, C. and Selleck, B.W. (2002) Middle Ordovician Section at Crown Point Peninsula; NEIGC/NYSGA Fieldtrip Guidebook, Trip B5, p. B51-B5-16

Selleck, B.W (1997) Potsdam Sandstone of the southern Lake Champlain Valley: Sedimentary Facies, environments and diagenesis; in 1997 NEIGC Fieldtrip Guidebook, pp. C3-1 - C3-16

Selleck, B.W. (1989)  Sedimentary Sequences in a Foreland Basin: The New York System - Cambrian and Ordovician Strata in Northeastern New York;  28th Int. Geol. Congress Guidebook T156, p. 1-6

Selleck, B.W. and Linsley, R. L. (1988) Sedimentology and Faunal Assemblages, Hamilton Group, Central New York; NEGSA Guidebook, Trip b-9, pp. 220-236

Selleck, B.W. and Hall, R (1978) Sedimentology and Paleontology of Portions of the Hamilton Group in Central New York, NYSGA Guidebook, Trip B-8, p 1-23


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