Member Since 2004
Tyrone O. Rooney
Professor, Michigan State University
President-Elect, Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Executive Committee; Section President-Elect, Council; Member, Volcanology, Petrology, and Geochemistry Fall Meeting Program Committee; Member, Fall Meeting Program Committee
Professional Experience
Michigan State University
Professor
2022 - Present
Education
Penn State University
Doctorate
2006
Penn State University
Masters
2002
University College Dublin
Bachelors
1999
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Honors & Awards
VGP Section Award for Service to the Community and Public Engagement
Received December 2024
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geophysical Research Letters
Received December 2013
Publications
Basaltic Pulses and Lithospheric Thinning—Plio‐Pleistocene Magmatism and Rifting in the Turkana Depr...
The East African Rift System (EARS) provides an opportunity to constrain the relationship between magmatism and plate thinning. During continental ...
August 05, 2024
Constraining the Magmatic Plumbing System in a Zoned Contine...
October 25, 2018
Magmatic consequences of the transition from orthogonal to o...
December 19, 2015
AGU Abstracts
Initial insights into the continent-ocean transition along the Angolan margin
RIFT TO RIDGE: BRIDGING THE EXTENSIONAL GAP I POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 13 december 2024
Tyrone O. Rooney, Dougal A. Jerram, Louis L. Jacob...
As a continental rift evolves towards an oceanic spreading center, the mechanism of extensional strain accommodation shifts from plate thinning to mag...
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The transition to focused magmatism in the East African Rift System – a tale of two Depressions
FROM CONTINENTAL RIFTS TO RIFTED MARGINS IV ORAL
tectonophysics | 12 december 2023
Tyrone O. Rooney, Andrew Bollinger, Sahira Cancel ...
During the terminal stages of continental rifting, magmatism may become localized into belts of focused magmatic and tectonic activity within the rift...
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Receiver function and surface-wave analysis of the Moho and lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary below the Turkana Depression, East Africa
FROM CONTINENTAL RIFTS TO RIFTED MARGINS III POSTER
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Christopher Steven Ogden, Rita Kounoudis, Ian D. B...
The Turkana Depression is a broad (~500km-wide), topographically-subdued (~0.5km), region between the elevated Ethiopian (~1.5km) and East African Pla...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - Present
Member
Fall Meeting Program Committee
2025 - Present
Member
Volcanology, Petrology, and Geochemistry Fall Meeting Program Committee
2025 - 2027
President-Elect
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Executive Committee
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