Associate Professor of Geology at Northeastern University since 1978
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
14 Holmes Hall
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115-5096
617.373.3263 m.ross@neu.edu
Education
Ph.D. 1978 University of Idaho
Dissertation: “Stratigraphy, Structure, and Petrology of Columbia River Basalt in a portion of the Grande Ronde River-Blue Mountains Area of Oregon and Washington”
M.S. 1970 Kent State University
Thesis: Quantitative Petrography of Precambrian Mafic Dikes in the Bald Mountain Area, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming.
Research Interests
The petrology and tectonics of Proterozoic to Mesozoic mafic dike swarms of the Avalon terrane in southeastern New England.
The nature and origin of chemical and mineralogic trends within individual dikes.
The stratigraphy, petrology, and origin of the Columbia River Basalts and related silicic volcanics in southeast Oregon and adjacent portions of California, Nevada, and Idaho.
The origins of magma pillow-like structures and variations in phenocryst concentrations in individual lavas of Steens Basalt.
Ross, M. E., 2010, An Early Triassic 40Ar/39Ar age for a camptonite dyke in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Atlantic Geology, V. 46, pg. 127-135.
Camp, V. E., Ross, M. E., Duncan, R. A., Jarboe, N. A., Coe, R. S., and Johnson, J.A., in press, The Steens Basalt: Earliest Lavas of the Columbia River Basalt Group, in, Reidel, S.P. , Camp. V.E., Tolan, T. L., Martin, B. S., Wolf, J. A., and Ross, M.E. (eds.), Geological Society of America Special Paper.
Hooper, P.R., Camp, V.E., Reidel, S.P., and Ross, M.E., in review, The Columbia River Basalts: a regional perspective: in Cheney et. al. (eds), Geology of Washington State, University of Washington Press. * Hooper, P.R., Camp, V.E., Reidel, S.P., and Ross, M.E., in review, The Columbia River Basalts: a regional perspective: in Cheney et. al. (eds), Geology of Washington State, University of Washington Press.
Hooper, P.R., Camp, V.E., Reidel, S.P., and Ross, M.R., 2007, The origin of the Columbia River flood basalt province: plume versus nonplume models: in (Foulger, G.R. and Jurdy, D.M. (eds), Plates, Plumes and Planetary Processes, Geological Society of America Special Paper.
Ross, M. E., 2004, Dike swarms of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in Hanson, L.S., (ed), Field Trips from Boston, MA to Saco Bay, ME: 96th Annual New England Intercollegiate Geologic Field Conference Guidebook, Salem, Massachusetts, Salem State College, p. 219-236.
Camp, V.E. and Ross, M.E., 2004, Mantle dynamics and genesis of mafic magmatism in the intermontane Pacific Northwest: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 109, 14 p.
Camp, V. E., Ross, M. E., and Hanson, W. E., 2003, Genesis of flood basalts and Basin-and-Range volcanics from Steens Mountain to the Malheur River Gorge, Oregon: Geological Society of Amercia, Bulletin, v. 115, no. 1, p. 105-128.
Ross, M. E., 2001, Igneous petrology of the Pine Hill area, Medford, Massachusetts: in West, D. P., and Bailey, R. H., (eds), Guidebook for Geological Field Trips in New England, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, p. M-1 to M-25.
Ross, M. E., and Bailey, R. H., 2001, Igneous and sedimentary petrology of East Point, Nahant, Massachusetts: in West, D. P., and Bailey, R. H., (eds), Guidebook for Geological Field Trips in New England, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, p. O-1 to O-29.
I teach a wide variety of advanced and introductory undergraduate courses including igneous petrology, structural geology, environmental geology, geology and land-use planning, optical mineralogy, and field geology. I have led extended field trips for undergraduate geology students to the Pacific Northwest, the Black Hills, and Iceland.
Martin Ross
at Northeastern University since 1978
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
14 Holmes Hall
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115-5096
617.373.3263
m.ross@neu.edu
Education
Ph.D. 1978 University of Idaho
Dissertation: “Stratigraphy, Structure, and Petrology of Columbia River Basalt in a portion of the Grande Ronde River-Blue Mountains Area of Oregon and Washington”
M.S. 1970 Kent State University
Thesis: Quantitative Petrography of Precambrian Mafic Dikes in the Bald Mountain Area, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming.
Research Interests
Faculty Research
Selected Publications
Complete list of publications
Teaching Interests
I teach a wide variety of advanced and introductory undergraduate courses including igneous petrology, structural geology, environmental geology, geology and land-use planning, optical mineralogy, and field geology. I have led extended field trips for undergraduate geology students to the Pacific Northwest, the Black Hills, and Iceland.