Mary J. Keskinen
Department of Geology & Geophysics
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-5780
907-474-7769
907-474-5163 (fax)
mjkeskinen@alaska.edu
EDUCATION
1979
1973
Ph.D. Geology
B.A. Geology
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Metamorphic petrology; application of petrology/geochemistry to geothermal
exploration and
development; field/petrographic studies of tectonic and
petrologic problems in Alaska and California; geochemistry of fumarolic and
hydrothermal systems; textural development of metapyroclastic rocks;
tephrochronology.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 1984 to present:
Department of Geology & Geophysics
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-5780
Associate Professor (1991 to present):
Assistant Professor (1984-1991):
Responsible for teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in igneous and
metamorphic petrology, optical mineralogy, physical geology, mineralogy, and
petrographic analysis. Advisor to graduate students in metamorphic petrology,
geothermal processes.
May to June 1985:
Santa Fe Geothermal, Inc.
5001 East Commerce Center Drive
Bakersfield, California 93309
Consulting Geologist:
Petrographic study of samples from geothermal wells from the Cascades region, for
purposes of prospect evaluation and site development. Work involved thin section
description, X-ray diffraction analysis, and interpretation of hydrothermal alteration.
September 1983 to July 1984:
Department of Earth Sciences
University of California
Riverside, California 92521
Visiting Lecturer:
Taught classes in optical mineralogy, petrography, introductory petrology, and graduatelevel igneous petrology. Advisor to graduate students in metamorphic petrology.
January 1980 to September 1983:
Occidental Research Corporation
2100 S.E. Main Street
Irvine, California 92713
Research Geologist/Geochemist:
Developed research program and provided geotechnical support for Occidental's
geothermal exploration and development. Work involved petrographic analysis of wellcuttings from geothermal areas, sinter and scale characterization, and assessment of
well-bore damage.
Designed program of rock:water interactions studies and oil shale characterization for
assessment and mitigation of environmental problems associated with Oxy's in-situ oil
shale retorting program.
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September 1979 to December 1979:
Department of Geology
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305
Post-doctoral Research Associate:
Initiated experimental study (with Dr. J.G. Liou) on the stability relations of idocrase in
C-O-H fluids as applied to skarn formation. Maintained and modified high-pressure
experimental petrology apparatus.
August 1978 to August 1979:
Department of Geology
Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
Instructor:
Taught classes for mineralogy/optical mineralogy/petrology sequence and physical
geology laboratory sections. Acted as honors thesis advisor for petrology students.
AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS:
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National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1973-6.
Geological Society of America Research Grant, 1975.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1972.
Sigma Xi, 1973 and 1979 (full member).
Member, Geological Society of America, Mineralogical Society of America,
American Geophysical Union.
Petroleum Research Fund Type G Grant, 1990-2.
Co-principal investigator: DOE grant - Hydrothermal Alteration/Long Valley
Caldera, 1991.
Member of evaluation panel for National Research Council/Ford Foundation
Fellowship Programs, 1995-8, 2002-7.
Selected participant, Teaching Mineralogy Workshop and Teaching Petrology
Workshop, National Science Foundation Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement
Program, 1996 & 2003.
Co-principal investigator: DOE grant/GRED program - Proposal for an Integrated
Geoscience Investigation and Geothermal Exploration at Chena Hot Springs,
2004.
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CLASSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS
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The Dynamic Earth (GEOS 101)
Rock-forming Minerals (GEOS 637)
Mineralogy (GEOS 213)
Advanced Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology (GEOS 621C)
Petrology (GEOS 214)
Advanced Metamorphic Petrology (GEOS 621A)
Rocks and Minerals (GEOS 262)
Geology Seminar (GEOS 482)
Optical Mineralogy (GEOS 316)
PUBLICATIONS: M. KESKINEN
Keskinen, M.J. and Liou, J.G., 1976. Synthesis and Stability Relations of
Piemontite. Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 1976
Annual Meeting, pp. 953-4.
Keskinen, Mary and Liou, J.G., 1979. Synthesis and Stability Relations of Mn-Al
Piemontite. American MIneralogist, v. 64, pp. 317-328.
Keskinen, Mary, 1979. Chemical and Petrographic Study of the Shadow Lake
Piemontite Zone, Ritter Range, Eastern Sierra Nevada, California. Abstracts with
Programs, Geological Society of America 1979 Annual Meeting, p. 457.
Keskinen, M., 1979. Experimental evidence on the effect of Fe and Mn on
piemontite and epidote stability. Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v.
60, p. 965.
Hochella, M., Liou, J.G., and Keskinen, M., 1980. Synthesis and Stability
Relations of Mg-Idocrase. Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of
America 1980 Meeting, p. 448.
Keskinen, Mary, 1981. Petrochemical Study of the Shadow Lake Piemontite
Zone, eastern Sierra Nevada, California. American Journal of Science, v. 281,
pp. 896-921.
Hochella, M., Liou, J.G., Keskinen, M., and Kim, H.S., 1982. Synthesis and
Stability Relations of Mg-Idocrase. Economic Geology, v. 77, pp. 798-808.
Keskinen, M. and Sternfeld, J., 1982. Hydrothermal alteration and tectonic
setting of intrusive rocks from East Brawley, Imperial Valley. Proceedings of the
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Eighth Geothermal Reservoir Workshop, Stanford University, 1982.
Sternfeld, J., Keskinen, M., and Blethen, R., 1983. Hydrothermal Mineralization
of a Clear Lake Geothermal Well, Lake County, California. Geothermal
Resources Council Transactions, v. 7, pp. 193-7.
Kodosky, L.G. and Keskinen, M.J., 1986. Preliminary Observations on Fumarole
Distribution and Alteration at Augustine Volcano, Alaska.
Transactions,
American Geophysical Union, v. 67, p. 1260.
Keskinen, Mary and Liou, J.G., 1987. Stability Relations of Mn-Fe-Al Piemontite.
J. Metamorphic Geology, v. 5, pp. 495-507.
Kodosky, L.G., and Keskinen, M., 1987. Mercury Distribution Within the Valley of
Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai National Park, Alaska. Transactions, American
Geophysical Union, v. 68, p. 1537.
Keskinen, M. and Roszkowski, G., 1987.
Hydrothermal mineralogy and
implications for the establishment and maintenance of high fO2 during
metamorphism from the Deer Lakes Piemontite Zone, Sierra Nevada, California.
Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 68, p. 1527.
Keskinen, M., 1989. Lithological and fluid compositional control of amphibole
compositions and their potential as P-T indicators of regional metamorphism: An
illustration from the Fairbanks Schist, Yukon Crystalline Terrane, Alaska.
Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 1989 Annual Meeting, p.
A275.
Hanks, C.L., Wallace, W.E., and Keskinen, M., 1989. Thrust emplacement of a
batholith under upper crystal conditions: An example from the northeastern
Brooks Range, Alaska. Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America
1989 Annual Meeting, p. A306.
Kodosky, L. and Keskinen, M., 1990. Fumarole distribution, morphology, and
encrustation mineralogy associated with the 1986 eruptive deposits of Mount St.,
Augustine, Alaska. Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 52,
pp. 175-185.
Beget, J.E., Edwards, M., Hopkins, D.M., Keskinen, M.J., and Kukla, G., 1991.
Old Crow tephra found at the Palisades of the Yukon, Alaska. Quaternary
Research, v. 35, pp. 291-297.
Keskinen, M., 1991. Origin and effects of spatial and progressive variations in
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oxygen fugacity on transition metal partitioning in oxidized metamorphic
environments. Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 1991
Annual Meeting, p. A446-7.
McConnell, V.S., Eichelberger, J.C., and Keskinen, M.J., 1991. Phase II of the
Long Valley Exploratory Well, Long Valley Caldera, California: Early Geologic
Results. Program and Abstracts, American Geophysical Union 1991 Fall
Meeting, p. 550.
Beget, J.E. and Keskinen, M., 1991.
The Stampede Tephra: a middle
Pleistocene marker bed in glacial and eolian deposits of central Alaska.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 28, pp. 991-1002.
McConnell, V.S., Eichelberger, J.C., Keskinen, M.J., Shearer, C.K., and Papike,
J.J., 1992. Investigations of Rhyolitic Intrusions into Intracaldera Bishop Tuff:
the Long Valley Exploratory Well, Long Valley, CA. Transactions, American
Geophysical Union 1992 Fall Meeting, p. 637.
Beget, J.E., Keskinen, M., and Severin, K., 1993. Mineral Particles from Asia
Found in Volcanic Loess on the Island of Hawaii. Sedimentary Geology, v. 84,
pp. 189-197.
Harbin, M.L., Keskinen, M.J., and Swanson, S.E., 1993. Partially melted
granulite xenoliths, Mt. Spurr, Alaska. Transactions, American Geophysical
Union 1993 Fall Meeting, p. 674.
Beget, J.E. and Keskinen, M.J., 1994. The Last Glacial Cycle in the Alaska
Loess Record. Programme and Abstracts, International Inter-INQUA Field
Conference and Workshop on Tephrochronology, Loess, and Soils, University of
Waikato, New Zealand, p. 22.
McConnell, V.S., Shearer, C.K., Eichelberger, J.C., Keskinen, M.J., Layer, P.W.,
and Papike, J.J., 1995. Rhyolite Intrusions in the Intracaldera Bishop Tuff, Long
Valley Caldera, California. J. Volcanological and Geothermal Research, v. 67,
pp. 41-60.
West, A.W., Keskinen, M., and Swanson, S., 1995. Petrology of the Mt.
McKinley Pluton, Denali National Park, Alaska.
Program and Abstracts,
Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, March 1995, p. 83.
Joy, B., Keskinen, M., and Newberry, R., 1997. Preliminary Thermobarometry
and Microprobe Mineral Compositions, Fairbanks Area Schists and Amphibolites.
PDF Report, Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys.
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Beget, J.E., Keskinen, M., and Severin, K., 1997. Tephrochronologic constraints
on the late Pleistocene history of the southern margin of the Cordilleran Icesheet,
Western Washington. Quaternary Research, v. 47, pp. 140-146.
Markussen, J., Keskinen, M., Newberry, R., and Layer, P., 1998. Petrology and
thermochronology of the Circle Mining District, Yukon-Tanana Terrane, Interior
Alaska. Program and Abstracts, American Geophysical Union 1998 Spring
Meeting, supplement to EOS, April 28, 1998.
Douglas, T.A., Layer, P.W., Newberry, R.J., and Keskinen, M.J., 2002.
Geochronologic and thermobarometric constraints on the metamorphic history of
the Fairbanks Mining District, western Yukon-Tanana terrane, Alaska. Canadian
Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 39, pp. 1107-1126.
Beget, J.E. and Keskinen, M., 2003. Trace-element geochemistry of individual
glass shards of the Old Crow tephra and the age of the Delta glaciation, central
Alaska. Quaternary Research, v. 60, pp. 63-69.
Beget, J.E., Layer, P., and Keskinen, M., 2003. Interactions between volcanism,
permafrost, Milankovitch cycles, and climate change on the Seward Peninsula.
Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 2003 Annual Meeting, v.
35, no. 6, p. 546.
Lessard, R.R., Newberry, R.J., Keskinen, M.J., Layer, P.W., and Werdon, M.B.,
2004. Geology of the Caribou Creek Area, Big Delta Northeast C4 and
Southeast D4 Quadrangles, East-Central Alaska. Abstracts with Programs,
Geological Society of America, v. 36, no. 4, p. 21.
Keskinen, J. and Beget, J., 2005. Age of most recent motion on the western
Denali Fault from lichenometric dating of a huge rockfall avalanche and offset
moraines. EOS, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts and
Programs, CD-rom.
Keskinen, M. and Beget, J., 2006. Proximal tsunami deposits produced during
the 1883 debris avalanche and tsunami from Augustine Volcano, Alaska. Eos
Transactions, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, v. 87, p. 52.
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