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Member Since 1977
Timothy Harrison
Distinguished Professor, University of California Los Angeles
Professional Experience
University of California Los Angeles
Distinguished Professor
1989 - Present
Education
University of British Columbia
Bachelors
1977
Australian National University
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Walter H. Bucher Medal
Received 2021
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Reginald Daly Lecture
Received 2009
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Union Fellow
Received 1996
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Publications
On a Scientific Approach for Deep Time Investigations

I came to geology through a metaphoric back door and was gifted a series of visionary mentors who imbued me with an outside‐the‐box vie...

May 15, 2023
AGU Abstracts
A Critique of Deep Time Geology
WIDENING THE GEOSCIENCES: A HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE ORAL
science and society | 13 december 2023
T. Mark Harrison, Adrian Lenardic
One explanation for the broad range of views of what constitutes a philosophy of science is that there is no such thing. Geochemistry came of age ~60 ...
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Thermobarometry of Ti and Zr Partitioning Between Quartz, Rutile, and Zircon
UNDER PRESSURE: MEASUREMENT AND INTERPRETATION OF PRESSURE-DEPENDENT PARAMETERS AND DECOMPRESSION RATES IN MAGMAS II POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 12 december 2023
Heather Kirkpatrick, Dustin Trail, T. Mark Harriso...
Examination of trace element partitioning into quartz, rutile, and zircon has allowed for the calibration of several accurate and precise trace elemen...
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Constraining igneous sources of phosphorus using detrital zircon inclusions and geochemistry
EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF EARLY EARTH ENVIRONMENTS, PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY, AND LIFE’S EMERGENCE I ORAL
planetary sciences | 11 december 2023
Elizabeth A. Bell, Heather Kirkpatrick, T. Mark Ha...
Phosphorus is an important limiting nutrient in the modern biosphere and must have played a similar role on early Earth and in prebiotic chemistry. Th...
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