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Summer 2014 Volume 5, Number 1
Newsletter of the Department of Mineral Sciences
| Rocks ∙ Meteorites ∙ Gems ∙ Volcanoes ∙ Minerals |
In this Issue
Wounded warriors visit
Mineral Sciences
A Summer of Education
& Outreach
New Acquisitions for
Rock & Ore Collection
This summer a small group
of Wounded Warriors visited
the National Museum of Natu-
ral History and was treated to a
behind-the-scenes tour of the
Department of Mineral Scienc-
es. The Wounded Warrior
Project serves veterans and
service members who incurred
injuries due to their military
service on or after September 11, 2001. The
organization raises public awareness to the
needs of injured service members and helps
them aid and assist each others through direct
services and programs.
On June 5, 2014, Emma Bullock and Paul
Pohwat gave tours of the Meteorite and Min-
eralogy collections, respectively, to Wounded
Warrior alumni Tomas Carrasquel (orange
shirt), Jacob Werline (green shirt), David
Reardon (white shirt) and Andi Broom (seated
in wheelchair), service dog trainer Carol
Balmes (black jacket), recreation therapist
Cara Navarro and family member Kathy
Broom (kneeling). Photos by Linda Welzen-
bach and Joe Mack.
Wounded Warriors get DMS visit
Page 2 Volume 5, Number 1 Summer 2014
Education & Outreach
The Department of Mineral Sciences was extremely active this summer in a number of Outreach
activities ranging from interacting with visitors during the Scientist-Is-In/Expert-Is-In programs in
Q?rius to off-site teacher workshops. The Scientist-Is-In/Expert-Is-In programs highlighted some
of the department’s diverse research in meteoritics and mineralogy.
Page 3 Volume 5, Number 1 Summer 2014
Education & Outreach (cont.)
Michael Wise and Tim McCoy were speakers during a five day Smithsonian Associates
teachers workshop held at the United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, ND. The participants
were undergraduates working towards degrees in elementary education and represented 10 dif-
ferent Native-American tribes from the Bismarck area. Other speakers from the Smithsonian
Institution included Jim Zimbelman and Jennifer McIntosh from the National Air & Space Mu-
seum. The workshop, directed by the Smithsonian staff members, featured presentations and
hands-on, object-based activities
on various topics in earth science
such as rock and mineral identifi-
cation, the concept of geologic
time, and planetary geology.
One of the highlights of the
workshop was a one-day field
trip led by Mike and Jim to the
Theodore Roosevelt National
Park near Medora, ND where the
group learned about the geology
of the North Dakota Badlands.
Photos by Wally Mertes and Jim
Zimbelman.
Page 4 Volume 5, Number 1 Summer 2014
Education & Outreach (cont.)
In her live webcast from Q?rius, Liz Cottrell talks about volcanoes and some of the products
produced by volcanoes. The presentation was highlighted by Liz’s not-so dry demonstration of
a volcanic eruption and ended with a 5 minute Q and A session with viewers.
Page 5 Volume 5, Number 1 Summer 2014
On May 2014, Dr. Frederick Frey, Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy (MIT), donated 99 Hawaiian lava samples to the National Rock and Ore Collection. Seven-
ty-two samples are from the Koolau volcano, Oahu and twenty-nine samples are from the Halea-
kala volcano, east Maui. Dr. Frey’s research has focused primarily on the study of melting pro-
cesses and melt migration in the earth’s mantle. The research on these samples contributed to
the understanding of the origin and evolution of Hawaiian volcanoes.
Recent Acquisitions
The National Rock and
Ore Collection recently re-
ceived some nice manganese
dendrites on limestone.
Manganese dendrites are a
type of surficial growth of
manganese oxide minerals
that crystallize in a multi-
branching tree-like pattern.
They are often found
along fracture or bedding
planes of rocks. The
specimens shown here
are from caves on the
Yucatan peninsula of
Mexico and were a gift
of Michael and Judy
Chakmanoff. Photos by
Ken Larson.
Page 6 Volume 5, Number 1
Andrews, B.J. (2014) Magmatic storage con-
ditions, decompression rate, and incipient
caldera collapse of the 1902 eruption of Santa
Maria Volcano, Guatemala. Journal of Vol-
canology and Geothermal Research, 282, 103
-114.
Andrews, B.J. & Manga, M. (2014) Thermal
and rheological controls on the formation of
mafic enclaves or banded pumice. Contribu-
tions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 167(1)
doi:10.1007/s00410-013-0961-7
Carey, R.J., Wysoczanski, R., Wunderman,
R. & Jutzeler, M. (2014) Discovery of the
Largest Historic Silicic Submarine Eruption.
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical
Union, 95, 157-159.
Duke, G.I., Carlson, R.W., Frost, C.D.,
Hearn Jr., B.C. & Eby, G.N. (2014) Conti-
nent-scale linearity of kimberlite–carbonatite
magmatism, mid-continent North America.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 403, 1-
14.
Feather, R.C. (2014) Beyond Hope: Some
Other Notable Diamonds at the Smithsonian
Institution—Part 2. Rocks & Minerals, 89,
148-153.
Greenwalt, D., Rose, T., Siljestrom, S.,
Goreva, Y., Constenius, K. & Wingerath, J.
(2014) Taphonomic studies of the fossil in-
sects of the Middle Eocene Kishenehn For-
mation. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica,
doi:10.4202/app.00071.2014
Summer 2014
Selected Publications
Kudos
Department of
Mineral Sciences
Safety Officer
and Analytical
Laboratories
Manager Tim
Rose was one of
the Smithsonian
Institution 2014
Safety Persons of
the Year award
recipient. Tim’s
award actually
resulted from an
incident that
happened over
three decades
ago. As Tim
explains…”Over
thirty years ago here in the Natural History Museum, Joan Madden, who later became our first
Education Department head, was nearly electrocuted through a beaded metal lanyard she was
wearing. Recently, when a new research associate returned from the ID office, I noticed he was
wearing one of those beaded metal electrically- conductive lanyards with his new ID hanging
from it. I checked around and found quite a number of other staff had also been issued these
lanyards. To make a long story short, institutional memory of the terrible accident had been
lost so something had to be done. With some help from Kathy Makos of our Office of Safety,
Health and Environmental Management, I was able to find the right people around the institu-
tion and here at NMNH to help. Now non-conductive breakaway lanyards are issued to all new
staff and are replacing unsafe ones”. Congratulations go out to Tim and we all thank him for
his tireless efforts to make our workplace safer.
Page 7 Volume 5, Number 1
Helz, R.T., Clague, D.A., Mastin, L.G., &
Rose, T.R. (2014) Electron microprobe anal-
yses of glasses from Kīlauea Tephra Units,
Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii. U.S. Geological
Survey Open-File Report 2014–1090, 24 p.,
plus 2 appendixes in separate files, http://
dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141090.
Hollister, L.S., Bindi, L., Yao, N., Poirier,
G.R., Andronicos, C.L., MacPherson, G.J.,
Lin, C., Distler, V.V., Eddy, M.P., Kostin, A.,
Kryachko, V., Steinhardt, W.M.,
Yudovskaya, M., Eiler, J.M., Guan, Y.,
Clarke, J.J. & Steinhardt, P.J. (2014) Impact-
induced shock and the formation of natural
quasicrystals in the early solar system. Nature
Communications, 5: 8 doi:10.1038/
ncomms5040
MacPherson, G.J. & Krot, A.N. (2014) The
formation of Ca-, Fe-rich silicates in reduced
and oxidized CV chondrites: The roles of
impact-modified porosity and permeability,
and heterogeneous distribution of water ices.
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 49, 1250-
1270.
McCormick, B.T., Herzog, M., Yang, J.,
Edmonds, M., Mather, T.A., Carn, S.A., Hi-
dalgo, S. & Langmann, B. (2014) A compari-
son of satellite- and ground-based measure-
ments of SO2 emissions from Tungurahua
volcano, Ecuador. Journal of Geophysical
Research: Atmospheres, 119, 4264-4285.
McKeown, D.A., Buechele, A.C., Tappero,
R., McCoy, T.J. & Gardner-Vandy, K.G.
(2014) X-ray absorption characterization of
Cr in forsterite within the MacAlpine Hills
88136 EL3 chondritic meteorite. American
Mineralogist, 99, 190-197.
Peplowski, P.N., Evans, L.G., Stockstill-
Cahill, K., Lawrence, D.J., Goldsten, J.O.,
McCoy, T.J., Nittler, L.R., Solomon, S.C.,
Sprague, A.L., Starr, R.D. & Weider, S.Z.
2014. Enhanced sodium abundance in Mercu-
ry's north polar region revealed by the MES-
SENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer. Icarus,
228, 86-95.
Rakovan, J., Gaillou, E., Post, J.E., Jaszczak,
J.A. & Betts, J.H. (2014) Optically sector-
zoned (star) diamonds from Zimbabwe. Rocks
& Minerals, 89, 173-178.
Rosenfeld, C.E., McCormack, M. L. & Mar-
tínez, C.E. (2014) A novel approach to study
composition of in situ produced root-derived
dissolved organic matter. Soil Biology and
Biochemistry, 76, 1-4.
Swanson, D.A., Rose, T.R., Mucek, A.E.,
Garcia, M.O., Fiske, R.S. & Mastin, L.G.
(2014) Cycles of explosive and effusive erup-
tions at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i. Geology,
42, 631-634.
Walsh, J.M. & Rose, T.R. (2014) Mascaras
de Teotihuacan. Una tipologia prelimi-
nar. Arqueologia Mexicana, XXI, numero
126, Marzo-abril de 2014, 78-85.
Weider, S.Z., Nittler, L.R., Starr, R.D.,
McCoy, T.J. & Solomon, S.C. (2014) Varia-
tions in the abundance of iron on Mercury's
surface from MESSENGER X-Ray Spec-
trometer observations. Icarus, 235, 170-186.
Yin, Q-Z., Herd, C.D.K., Zhou, Q., Li, X-H.,
Wu, F-Y., Li, Q-L., Liu, Y., Tang, G-Q. &
McCoy, T.J. (2014) Reply to comment on
"Geochronology of the Martian meteorite
Zagami revealed by U–Pb ion probe dating of
accessory minerals". Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 385, 218-220.
Summer 2014
Selected Publications