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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
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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.

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05_MY PUP, OTIS

BS GEOLOGICAL ENGINEER

Univ. Bucharest, 1991

PhD Geology

Caltech 1999

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Min sep, rock prep, petrography, 

Whole rock chemistry and isotopes

Geochronology -various

New techniques

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Contact

In the US: ducea@arizona.edu, +1-520-665-1254

In Romania: mihai@ducea.com, +40 740048328

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