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Hi, I’m Mihai Ducea
geologist. Grew up in the green landscape of southern Transylvania, went to school at University of Bucharest, and Caltech. Settled in the desert of so-Arizona


What I do
brief intro
I am a tectonic petrologist - prof at the University of Arizona and a courtesy researcher at the University of Bucharest. I foucs on a variety of tectonics problems from subduction related (magmatism, subduction erosion, delamination) to extension and collision of the continents. I invetigate mineral evolution, ciclicity of orogens, sutures, transform faults, and metamorphism in collisional belts among others. At Univ. Arizona we run a trace elemental geochemical + radiogenic isotopic facility.

05_MY PUP, OTIS

Min sep, rock prep, petrography,
Whole rock chemistry and isotopes
Geochronology -various
New techniques
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