Anthony Koppers

Assistant Researcher

Room: Munk Lab 329

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California San Diego,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0225, USA.

Telephone: (858) 534-8771

Email: akoppers@ucsd.edu

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Research Interests:

• Studying the Paradigm between Fixed and Moving hotspots
• Forward Modeling of the Geochemical Diffentiation of the Earth
• 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Intra-plate Volcanism
• Cyberinfrastructure Development for Earth Science Research

Recent publications: ^†

• 2004, Implications of a non-linear 40Ar/39Ar age progression along the Louisville seamount trail for models of fixed and moving hotspots, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 5(1), Submitted
• 2004, Hydrothermal venting at Vailuluu Seamount: The smoking end of the Samoan chain, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 5, -
• 2003, Short-lived and discontinuous intraplate volcanism in the South Pacific: Hot spots or extensional volcanism?, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4, 1
• 2003, Scalable models of data sharing in Earth sciences, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4, 1
• 2003, Paleomagnetism of the southwestern USA recorded by 0-5 Ma igneous rocks, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4, 1
• 2003, High-resolution Ar-40/Ar-39 dating of the oldest oceanic basement basalts in the western Pacific basin, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4(1)
• 2003, Electronic data publication in geochemistry, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4, 1
• 2003, A fluorescein tracer release experiment in the hydrothermally active crater of Vailuluu volcano, Samoa, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 108, B8
• 2002, ArArCALC - software for Ar-40/Ar-39 age calculations, Computers & Geosciences, 28, 5, 605-619
• 2001, Testing the fixed hotspot hypothesis using Ar-40/Ar-39 age progressions along seamount trails, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 185, 3-4, 237-252
• 2000, VailuluÕu undersea volcano: the new Samoa, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 1, 1, 13
• 2000, Late cretaceous polar wander of the Pacific plate: Evidence of a rapid true polar wander event, Science, 287, 5452, 455-459
• 2000, Dating crystalline groundmass separates of altered Cretaceous seamount basalts by the Ar-40/Ar-39 incremental heating technique, Chemical Geology, 166, 1-2, 139-158
• 1998, The Magellan seamount trail: implications for Cretaceous hotspot volcanism and absolute Pacific plate motion, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 163, 1-4, 53-68
• 1995, Argon geochronology of small samples using the Vulkaan argon laserprobe, Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 98, 185-218