Meagen Pollock

Department/Affiliation: Geology
Phone: 330-263-2202
Office Address: 117 Scovel
Office Hours: See my office door for weekly appointment schedule.
Email: mpollock@wooster.edu
Web Site: Meagen Pollock

Degrees

• B.S., Marshall University 2001
• Ph.D., Duke University 2007

Courses Taught

• GEOL 105: Geology of Natural Hazards
• GEOL 208: Mineralogy
• Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology

I.S. Projects

• Becky Alcorn (2011): "A Three-Dimensional Investigation of Subglacial Pillows, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland"
• Samantha Spencer (2011): "Petrogenesis of Jurassic Diabase, Southeast Pennsylvania"
• Robert Lydell (2010): "Distribution of Zeolites on Vatnsdalur, Iceland"
• Adam Samale (2010): "Rhyolite Alteration on the Skagi Peninsula, Iceland"
• Todd Spillman (2010): "Relationship between Pillow Size and Lava Viscosity, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland"
• Ali Drushal (2009): "The Formation of the Hjallin Lens: A Quantitative Study of Igneous Rock Textures through Crystal Size Distribution (CSD) and Conductive Cooling Models, Vatnsdalur, Iceland"
• Bob Nowak (2009): "Protolith Determination of the Hyde School Marginal Gneisses, Adirondack Lowlands, NY”

Awards and Professional Memberships

• CUR Councilor
• GSA
• AGU
• NAGT

Publications

• Srogi, L., T. Lutz, L.D. Dickson, M. Pollock, K. Gimson, and N. Lynde, (2010). Magmatic layering and intrusive plumbing in the Jurassic Morgantown Sheet, Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, in Fleeger, G.M., and Whitmeyer, S.J., eds., The Mid-Atlantic Shore to the Appalachian Highlands: Field Trip Guidebook for the 2010 Joint Meeting of the Northeastern and Southeastern GSA Sections: Geological Society of America Field Guide 16, doi:10.1130/2010.0016(04).
• Pollock, M.A., E.M. Klein, J.A. Karson, and D.S. Coleman, (2009) Compositions of dikes and lavas from the Pito Deep Rift: Implications for crustal accretion at superfast spreading centers, Journal of Geophysical Research 114, B03207, doi:10.1029/2007JB005436.
• Heft, K.L., K.M. Gillis, M.A. Pollock, J.A. Karson, and E.M. Klein, (2008) Role of upwelling hydrothermal fluids in the development of alteration patterns at fast spreading ridges: Evidence from the sheeted dike complex at Pito Deep, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, 5, doi:10.1029/2007GC001926.
• Pollock, M.A., E.M. Klein, J.A. Karson, and M.A. Tivey, (2005). Temporal and spatial variability in the composition of lavas exposed along the Western Blanco Transform Fault, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11, 6, doi:10.1029/2005GC001026.

Notes

Pollock joined the Geology faculty in 2008, her interests include mid-ocean ridges, igneous geochemistry/petrology/mineralogy, solid earth processes, geoscience education.