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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, diagenesis, geochronology, sedimentary petrology, depositional patterns, sedimentation and tectonics

Distinctions: NSF-URPS and NSF-ISEP grants (1978-80), ARCO Foundation grant for sedimentology laboratory (1982), NSF-CSIP grant, ACS-PRF grant (1986-89), NSF-MRI for SEM/EDS (2003), NSF-EAR for Taconic Fluids (2004-2008), NYSERDA Grant for Monazite Dating of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs (2008-2011)

Recent Publications:

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 no. 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 no. 197, p 337-356

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 (undergraduate student co-author)

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 (undergraduate student co-author)

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): 39-72

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:

Johnson, E.L. and Selleck, B.W. (2005) The nature and significance of the Carthage-Colton Shear Zone and related late- to post-tectonic granites and ore deposits; Adirondack Mountains, New York;  Friends of the Grenville (FOG) Annual Field Trip Guidebook, 46 pp.

Selleck, B.W. (2005) Exploring the root zone of an ancient fault-driven hydrothermal system in the Adirondack Lowlands, New York; NYSGA Fieldtrip Guidebook, 77th annual meeting, pp. 12-31

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




     Contact Information:

    Department of Geology
    Colgate University
    13 Oak Drive
    Hamilton, NY 13346

    Ph 315/228-7949
    Fax 315/228-7187
    bselleck@mail.colgate.edu


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