Rita C. Economos
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
3651 Trousdale Parkway, ZHS 117
Los Angeles, CA 90089
213-740-8261 economos@usc.edu
http://earth.usc.edu/~economos
Education:
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Ph.D. candidate, 2003 – May 2009, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
B.A., 2001, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, Graduated Cum Laude
Mapping Experience:
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Gobi-Tienshan intrusive complex, Gobi-Altai Province, Mongolia, June-July, 2008
Gobi-Tienshan intrusive complex, Gobi-Altai Province, Mongolia, June-August, 2007
Gobi-Tienshan intrusive complex, Gobi-Altai Province, Mongolia, July-August, 2006
Chandman Massif, Gobi-Altai Province, Mongolia July-August, 2005
Tuolumne Batholith, Central Sierra Nevada Mountains, USA, July-August, 2004
Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico, May, 2004
Grants and Awards:
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Earth Sciences Department award for teaching excellence, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008
Research Grant (2004,5), USC Dept of Earth Sciences, graduate student research fund
Keck Fellowship, for academic excellence, 2003 from USC
Sarah Williston Scholar, for academic excellence, 1999
Extra-departmental Funding:
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National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Proposal, 2008
USC, College of Arts, Letters and Sciences summer travel fellowship, 2008
USC, College of Arts, Letters and Sciences diversity fellowship, 2007
Geological Society of America, research grant, 2007
Teaching Assistantships:
Structural Geology, Petrology, Mineralogy, Nature of Scientific Inquiry, Planet Earth, Crises of a Planet,
Multi-media in the Core: The intersection of science and public policy
Papers in Press:
Economos, R.C., Paterson, S.R., Erdmann, S., Miller, J., Memeti, V., Zak, J., Causes of compositional
diversity in a lobe of the Half Dome Granodiorite, Tuolumne Batholith, Central Sierra Nevada, CA. 6th
Hutton Volume
Economos, R.C., Hanzl, P., Hrdlickova, K., Berianek, D., Said, L.O., Gerdes, A., Paterson, S.R.,
Geochemical and structural constraints on the magmatic history of the Chandman Massif of the eastern
Mongolian Altay Range, SW Mongolia. Journal of Geosciences
Papers in Preparation:
Paterson, S.R., Economos, R.C., Memeti, V., Okaya, D., Miller, R.J., The incremental growth of large
magma chambers in continental margin arcs: results from field, geochronologic, geochemical, and
thermal modeling studies from the North American Cordillera and central Asia. (To be submitted to
Tectonophysics, Nov, 2008)
Economos, R.C., Paterson, S.R., Said, L.O., Anderson, J.L., A tilted continental arc section in southwest
Mongolia; Magmatic architecture, mafic injection, and hybridization in a high-flux magmatic system (To be
submitted to Geology, Dec, 2008)
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Paterson, S.R., Pignotta, G., Memeti, V., Zak, J., Erdmann, S., Economos, R.C., Chambers, J.,
Formation and transfer of stoped blocks into magma chambers: the high temperature interplay between
cracking, focused porous flow, ,diking, and host rock anisotropy (To be submitted to Geosphere, Dec,
2008)
Padilla, A.J., Economos, R.C., Anderson, J.L., Paterson, S.R., Arc-scale mafic-felsic interactions:
Insights from an enclave megaplume, Gobi-Tienshan intrusive complex, southwestern Mongolia. (To be
submitted to Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Feb 2009)
Published Abstracts:
Economos, R.C., Paterson, S.R. (2008) 4d Architectural Variation in the Gobi-Tienshan Intrusive
Complex, Southern Mongolia, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting
Padilla, A.J., Economos, R.C., Anderson, J.L., Paterson, S.R. (2008) Mafic-Felsic Magma Interactions in
an Enclave Megaplume, Gobi-Tienshan Intrusive Complex, Southern Mongolia, American Geophysical
Union, Fall Meeting
Economos, R.C., Paterson, S.R., MacGillivray, H. (2008) Volcanic-plutonic Transition in the
Carboniferous Gobi-Tienshan Intrusive Complex, southern Mongolia, Abstract, Geological Society of
America annual meeting, #331-5
Economos, R.C., Said, L.O.,Paterson, S.R., Anderson, J.L. (2007) Coeval Intrusion and Batholith-Wide
Mingling in the Gobi-Tienshan Intrusive Complex, Southern Mongolia, Abstract, American Geophysical
Union, Fall meeting, #V33C-1512.
Economos, R.C., Said, L. O., Paterson, S.R. (2007) Preliminary mapping, geochemical data and tectonic
setting of the Gobi-Tienshan tilted cotinental arc section, southern Mongolia, Abstract, Geological Society
of America, Annual Meeting, 39, no 6: p.238.
Economos, R.C., Miller, J.S., Paterson, S.R., Memeti, V., Erdmann, S., Zak, J. (2005) The Role of
Fractionation at the Emplacement Level in the Tuolumne Batholith, Sierra Nevada, CA, Abstract,
Geological Society of America, National Meeting, 2005.
Economos, R.C., Erdmann, S., Memeti, V., Paterson, S.R., Miller, R. (2005) Enigmatic East-West fabrics
in the Tuolumne Batholith; is there a tectonic significance?, Abstract, Geological Society of America,
Cordilleran Section Meeting, 37, no 4: 71.
Memeti, V., Paterson, S.R., Economos, R.C., Zak, J., Erdmann, S. (2005) Deciphering Chamber Growth
and Internal Magma Chamber Processes Using Magmatic Lobes as Snapshots of Processes During the
Construction of the Tuolumne Batholith, Sierra Nevada. Abstract, Geological Society of America,
National Meeting.
Memeti, V., Economos, R.C., Erdmann, S., Paterson, S.R., Miller, R.B. (2005) Regional and
emplacement related tectonism during intrusion of the Tuolumne Batholith; results forma the Benson
Lake and May Lake pendants, Sierra Nevada, California, Abstract, Geological Society of America,
Cordilleran Section, 37, No 4: 70.
Paterson, S.R., Memeti, V., Zak, J., Matzel, J., Mundil, R., Miller, J., Miller, R., Burgess, S., Economos,
R., Anderson, J.L., (2007) Facing up to the complexity of batholiths construction; using the Tuolumne
Batholith (TB), Sierra Nevada, California as an example, Abstract, Geological Society of America,
Cordilleran Section, 39, No 4: 22.
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