Chris Sinton, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences, has been awarded a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation titled The Effect of a Mid-Ocean Ridge-Centered Environment on a Zoned Mantle Plume and Associated Secondary Magmatism. He will work with his students and a colleague at Colgate University to determine the age and composition of lavas previously recovered from the now drowned part of the Galapagos Archipelago that formed between 5 and 10 million years ago.
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