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Selected Recent Publications

Lerner AH, Sublett DM, Wallace PJ, Cauley C, Bodnar RJ (2024) Insight into magma storage depths and eruption controls at Kīlauea Volcano during explosive and effusive periods of the past 500 years based on melt and fluid inclusions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118579.

Ding S, Plank T, Wallace PJ, Rasmussen DJ (2023) Sulfur_X: A model of sulfur degassing during magma ascent. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010552.

Muth MJ, Wallace PJ (2022) Sulfur recycling in subduction zones and the oxygen fugacity of mafic arc magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117836

Muth MJ, Wallace PJ (2021) Slab-derived sulfate generates oxidized basaltic magmas in the southern Cascade arc (California, USA). Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G48759.1.

Lerner AH, Wallace PJ, Shea T, Mourey A, Kelly PJ, et al. (2021) The petrologic and degassing behavior of sulfur and other magmatic volatiles from the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea, Hawaiʻi: melt concentrations, magma storage depths, and magma recycling. Bulletin of Volcanology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-021-01459-y.

Wallace PJ, Plank T, Bodnar RJ, Gaetani GA, Shea T (2021) Olivine-hosted melt inclusions: A microscopic perspective on a complex magmatic world. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-082420-060506.

Paul J. Wallace
Professor

Research Interests

Igneous petrology, volcanology, geochemistry

Education

B.S., 1986, George Washington University
Ph.D., 1991, University of California, Berkeley