Donna L. Whitney

brief CV

Education: AB 1985, Smith College (Geology); PhD 1991, University of Washington (advisor: BW Evans, Geological Sciences)

Academic positions: Instructor, 1991, Univ of Washington; Postdoc, 1991-92, Univ of Calgary (w/Ed Ghent); Visiting Assistant Professor, 1992-93, Vassar College; Assistant Professor, 1993-97, Univ of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Assistant Professor (1997-2000), Associate Professor (2000-05), Professor (2005-present), Univ of Minnesota; Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Univ of Minnesota (2010-).

Other: Guest Professor, ETH-Zürich, 2004-05; Visiting Professor, The Australian National University, 2011-12.

Some honors and awards: Distinguished McKnight University Professor (awarded 2010), MSA Fellow, GSA Fellow, Best Geology Instructor Award (3x), McKnight Land-Grant Professor (1998-2000), MSA Distinguished Lecturer (1998-99), NSF CAREER award (1996-2000).

Publications

2011/in press

Goergen, E.T., and Whitney, D.L. (in press) Corona networks as 3D recorders of transport scale and pathways during metamorphism. Geology.

Goergen, E.T., and Whitney, D.L. (in press) Control of effective bulk composition on the evolution of textures and mineral assemblages in orthoamphibole-cordierite gneiss from the Thor-Odin dome, British Columbia, Canada. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.

Rey, P.F., Teyssier, C., Kruckenberg, S.C., and Whitney, D.L. (2011) Viscous collision in channel explains double domes in metamorphic corec omplexes. Geology, 39, 387-390.

Kruckenberg, S.C., Vanderhaeghe, O., Ferre, E.C., Teyssier, C., and Whitney, D.L. (2011) Flow of partially molten crust and internal dynamics of a migmatite dome, Naxos, Greece. Tectonics, TC3001.

Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., Toraman, E., Seaton, N.C.A., and Fayon, A.K. (2011) Metamorphic and tectonic evolution of a structurally continuous blueschist-to-Barrovian terrane, Sivrihisar Massif, Turkey. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 29, 193-212.

2010

Okay, A.I., and Whitney, D.L. (2010) Blueschists, eclogites, ophiolites and suture zones in northwest Turkey: a review and a field excursion guide. Ofioliti, 35, 131-171.

Teyssier, C., Whitney, D.L., Toraman, E., and Seaton, N.C.A. (2010) Lawsonite vorticity and subduction kinematics. Geology, 38, 1123-1126.

Rey, P.F., Teyssier, C., and Whitney, D.L. (2010) The limit of channel flow in orogenic plateaux. Lithosphere, 2, 328-332.

Miller, B.V., Stewart, K.G., and Whitney, D.L. (2010) Three tectonothermal pulses recorded in eclogite and amphibolite of the eastern Blue Ridge, southern Appalachians. In: From Rodinia to Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record of the Appalachian Region. Geological Society of America Memoir 206, 701-724.

Kruckenberg, S., Ferré, E., Teyssier, C., Vanderhaeghe, O., Whitney, D.L., Skord, J., and Seaton, N.C.A.   (2010) Viscoplastic flow in migmatites deduced from fabric anisotropy: an example from the Naxos dome, Greece. Journal of Geophysical Research.

Whitney, D.L., and Seaton, N.C.A. (2010) Garnet polycrystals and the significance of clustered crystallization. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 160, 591-607. doi: 10.1007/s00410-010-0495-1

Gordon, S.M., Whitney, D.L. Miller, R.B., Bowring, S., McLean, N., and Seaton, N.C. (2010) Metamorphism and deformation at different structural levels in a strike-slip fault zone, Ross Lake fault, North Cascades, USA. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 28, 117-136.

Gordon, S.M., Bowring, S., Whitney, D.L., and McLean, N. (2010) Time scales of metamorphism, deformation, and crustal melting in a continental arc. Geological Society of America Bulletin. doi: 10.1130/B30060.1.

McFadden, R.R., Teyssier, C., Siddoway, C. Whitney, D.L., and Fanning, C.M. (2010) Oblique dilation, melt transfer, and gneiss dome emplacement. Geology, 38, 375-378.

Whitney, D.L., and Evans, B.W. (2010) Abbreviations for names of rock-forming minerals. American Mineralogist, 95, 185-187.

2009

Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., and Rey, P.F. (2009) The consequences of crustal melting in continental subduction. Lithosphere, 1, 323-327, doi: 10.1130/L62.1.

Seaton, N.C., Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., Toraman, E., and Heizler, M.T. (2009) Recrystallization of high-pressure marble (Sivrihisar, Turkey). Tectonophysics, 479, 241-253.

Rey, P., Teyssier, C., and Whitney, D.L. (2009) The role of partial melting and extensional strain rates in the development of metamorphic core complexes (McMCC). Tectonophysics, 477 (3-4), 135-144.

Gordon, S.M., Grove, M., Whitney, D.L., Schmitt, A.K., and Teyssier, C. (2009) Fluid-rock interaction in orogenic crust tracked by zircon depth profiling. Geology, 37, 735-738.

Gordon, S.M., Grove, M., Whitney, D.L., Schmitt, A.K., and Teyssier, C. (2009) Time-temperature-fluid evolution of migmatite dome crystallization: Coupled U-Pb age, Ti thermometry, and O isotopic ion microprobe depth profiling of zircon and monazite. Chemical Geology, 262, 186-201.

Rey, P., Teyssier, C., and Whitney, D.L. (2009) Crustal melting and core complex dynamics. Geology, 37 (5), 391-394.

2008

Gordon, S.M., Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., Grove, M., and Dunlap, W.J. (2008) Timescales of migmatization, melt crystallization, and cooling in a Cordilleran gneiss dome, the Valhalla Complex, southeastern British Columbia. Tectonics, 27, TC4010, doi:10.1029/2007TC002103

Kruckenberg, S.C., Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., Fanning, M., and Dunlap, W.J. (2008) Paleocene-Eocene migmatite crystallization, extension, and exhumation in the hinterland of the northern Cordillera: Okanogan dome, Washington, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120, 912-929. doi; 10.1130/B26153.1

Goergen, E.T., Whitney, D.L., Zimmerman, M.E., and Hiraga, T. (2008) Deformation-induced polymorphic transformation: experimental deformation of kyanite, andalusite, and sillimanite. Tectonophysics, 454, 23-35.

Davis, P.B., and Whitney, D.L. (2008) Petrogenesis and structural petrology of high-pressure metabasalt pods, Sivrihisar, Turkey. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 156, 217-241. doi: 10.1007/s00410-008-0282-4.

Whitney, D.L., Goergen, E.T., Ketcham, R.A., and Kunze, K. (2008) Formation of garnet polycrystals during metamorphic crystallization. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 26, 365-383. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2008.00763.x

Whitney, D.L., Tepper, J.H., Hirschmann, M.M., and Hurlow, H.A. (2008) Late-orogenic mafic magmatism in the North Cascades, Washington: petrology and tectonic setting of the Skymo layered intrusion. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120, 531-542.

Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., Kruckenberg, S.C., Morgan, V., and Iredale, L. (2008) High-pressure - low-temperature metamorphism of metasedimentary rocks, southern Menderes Massif, western Turkey. Lithos, 101, 218-232.

Whitney, D.L., Umhoefer, P.J., Teyssier, C., and Fayon, A.K. (2008) Yo-yo tectonics of the Ni?de Massif during wrenching in central Anatolia. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 17, 209-217.

2007

Umhoefer, P.J., Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., Fayon, A.K., Casale, G., and Heizler, M.T. (2007) Yo-yo tectonics in a wrench zone, central Anatolia. In: Till, A., Roeske, S., Sample, J., and Foster, D. (eds.), Exhumation and Continental Strike-Slip Fault Systems, Geological Society of America Special Paper 434, 35-58.

Whitney, D. L., Teyssier, C., and Heizler, M.T. (2007) Gneiss domes, metamorphic core complexes, and wrench zones: Thermal and structural evolution of the Nigde Massif, central Anatolia. Tectonics, 26, TC5002, doi:10.1029/2006TC002040.

Fayon, A.K., and Whitney, D.L. (2007) Tectonic vs. magmatic processes and the resetting of apatite fission track ages: an example from the Nigde Massif, Turkey. Tectonophysics, 434, 1-13.

Whitney, D.L., Fayon, A.K., Broz, M.E., and Cook, R.F. (2007) The Mohs scale revisited: exploring the relationship of scratch resistance, hardness, and other physical properties of minerals. Journal of Geoscience Education, 55, 54-59.

Whitney, D.L., Broz, M.E., and Cook, R.F. (2007) Hardness, fracture toughness, and elastic modulus of some common metamorphic minerals. American Mineralogist, 92, 281-288.

MacLeod, K.G., Whitney, D.L., Huber, B.T., and Koeberl, C. (2007) Impact and extinction in remarkably complete K/T boundary section from Demerara Rise, tropical western North Atlantic. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119, 101-115.

Fayon, A.K., Duranczyk, I.M., and Whitney, D.L. (2007) Doing Time: Incorporating fission track analysis in undergraduate science curriculum. Journal of Geoscience Education, 55 (3).

2006

Davis, P.B., and Whitney, D.L. (2006) Petrogenesis of lawsonite and epidote eclogites and blueschist, Sivrihisar Massif, Turkey. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 24, 823-849.

Whitney, D.L., and Davis, P.B. (2006) Why is lawsonite eclogite so rare?: Metamorphism and preservation of lawsonite eclogite, Sivrihisar, Turkey. Geology, 34, 473-476.

Whitney, D.L., and Régnier, J.-L. (2006) Monazite ages and the evolution of the Menderes Massif, western Turkey (Discussion). International Journal of Earth Sciences. DOI: 10.1007/s00531-006-0068-8.

Broz, M., Cook, R.F., and Whitney, D.L. (2006) Microhardness, toughness, and modulus of Mohs scale minerals. American Mineralogist, 91, 135-142.

2005

Teyssier, C., Ferré, E., Whitney, D.L., Norlander, B., Vanderhaeghe, O., and Parkinson, D. (2005) Flow of partially molten crust and origin of detachments during collapse of the Cordilleran orogen. In: Bruhn, D., and Burlini, L. (eds.), High-Strain Zones: Structure and Physical Properties. Geological Society of London Special Publication 245, 39-64.

Clarke, D.B., Dorais, M., (+ alphabetical listing of 34 co-authors) (2005) Occurrence and origin of andalusite in peraluminous felsic igneous rocks. Journal of Petrology, 46, 441-472.

2004

Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., and Vanderhaeghe, O. (2004) Gneiss domes and crustal flow. In: Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., and Siddoway, C.S. (eds.), Gneiss Domes and Orogeny, Geological Society of America Special Paper 380, 15-33.

Fayon, A.K., Whitney, D.L., and Teyssier, C. (2004) Exhumation of orogenic crust: diapiric ascent vs. low-angle normal faulting. In: Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., and Siddoway, C.S., (eds.), Gneiss Domes and Orogeny, Geological Society of America Special Paper 380, 129-139.

Whitney, D.L. and Hamilton, M. (2004) Timing of high-grade metamorphism in central Turkey and the assembly of Anatolia. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 161 (5), 823-828.

Paterson, S.R., Miller, R.B., Alsleben, H., Whitney, D.L., Valley, P.M., and Hurlow, H. (2004) Driving mechanisms for > 40 km of exhumation during contraction and extension in a continental arc, Cascades core, Washington. Tectonics, 23 (3), doi TC3005 10.1029/2002TC001440.

Sepahi, A., Whitney, D.L., and Baharifar, A.A. (2004) Petrogenesis of andalusite-kyanite-sillimanite veins and host rocks, Sanandaj-Sirjan metamorphic belt, Hamadan, Iran. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 22, 119-134.

Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., and Fayon, A.K. (2004) Isothermal decompression, partial melting, and the exhumation of deep continental crust. In: Grocott, J., Tikoff, B., McCaffrey, K.J.W., and Taylor, G. (eds.), Vertical Coupling and Decoupling in the Lithosphere, Geological Society of London Special Publication, 227, 313-326.

Whitney, D.L., Paterson, S.R., Schmidt, K.L., Glazner, A.F., and Kopf, C. (2004) Growth and demise of continental arcs and orogenic plateaux in the North American Cordillera: from Baja to British Columbia. In: Grocott, J., Tikoff, B., McCaffrey, K.J.W., and Taylor, G. (eds.), Vertical Coupling and Decoupling in the Lithosphere, Geological Society of London Special Publication, 227, 167-176.

2003

Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., Fayon, A.K., Hamilton, M.A., and Heizler, M. (2003) Tectonic controls on metamorphism, partial melting, and intrusion: timing of regional metamorphism and magmatism of the Ni?de Massif, Turkey. Tectonophysics, 376, 37-60.

Valley, P.M., Whitney, D.L., Paterson, S.R., Miller, R.B., and Alsleben, H. (2003) Metamorphism of deepest exposed arc rocks in the Cretaceous to Paleogene Cascades belt, Washington: evidence for large-scale vertical motion in a continental arc. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21, 203-220.

2002

Teyssier, C., and Whitney, D.L. (2002) Gneiss domes and orogeny. Geology, 30, 1139-1142.

Whitney, D.L. (2002) Coexisting andalusite, kyanite, and sillimanite: sequential formation of three polymorphs during progressive metamorphism near the Al2SiO5 triple point, Sivrihisar, Turkey. American Mineralogist, 84, 405-416.

Whitney, D.L. and Bozkurt, E. (2002) Metamorphic history of the southern Menderes Massif, western Turkey. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 114, 829-838.

Norlander, B.H., Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., and Vanderhaeghe, O. (2002) High temperature decompression of the Shuswap metamorphic core complex, Canadian Cordillera. Lithos, 61, 103-125.

2001

Fayon, A.K., Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., Garver, J.I., and Dilek, Y. (2001) Effects of plate convergence obliquity on timing and mechanisms of exhumation of a midcrustal terrain, the Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 192, 191-205.

Whitney, D.L., and Dilek, Y. (2001) Metamorphic and structural geology of the Hirkadag block, Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 10, 1-15.

Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., Dilek, Y., and Fayon, A.K. (2001) Metamorphism of the Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex, Turkey: influence of orogen-normal collision vs. wrench dominated tectonics on P-T-t paths. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 411-432.

2000 and earlier

Dilek, Y., and Whitney, D.L. (2000) Cenozoic crustal evolution in central Anatolia: extension, magmatism, and landscape development. In: Panayides, I., Xenophontos, C., and Malpas, J. (eds). Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Geology of the Eastern Mediterranean. Geological Survey Department, Nicosia, Cyprus, 183-192.

Whitney, D.L., Cooke, M.L., and Du Frane, S.A. (2000) Modeling of radial fracturing at corners of inclusions in garnet using fracture mechanics. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 2843-2853.

Whitney, D.L. , and Dilek, Y. (2000) Andalusite-sillimanite-quartz veins as indicators of low-pressure - high-temperature deformation during late-stage unroofing of a metamorphic core complex, Turkey. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 18, 59-66.

Dilek, Y., Whitney, D.L., and Tekeli, O. (1999) Links between neotectonic processes and landscape evolution in an Alpine collision zone, south-central Turkey. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplement, 118, 147-164.

Whitney, D.L., Miller, R.B., and Paterson, S.R. (1999) P-T evidence for the magnitude of syn-metamorphic vertical tectonic motion in a contractional orogen: the North Cascades - Coast Mountains Belt, northern U.S. and Canadian Cordillera. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 17, 73-88.

Whitney, D.L., and Dilek, Y. (1998) Metamorphism during crustal thickening and extension in central Anatolia: the Nigde metamorphic core complex. Journal of Petrology, 39, 1385-1403.

Bralower, T.J., Whitney, D.L., Kogan, I., and Campbell, D. (1998) A new interactive class and lab for undergraduate non-geology majors on Earth, climate, and life through time. Journal of Geoscience Education, 46, 24-27.

Whitney, D.L., and Dilek, Y. (1998) Characterization and interpretation of P-T paths with multiple thermal peaks. In: Treloar, P.J., and O'Brien, P. (eds.), What Drives Metamorphism and Metamorphic Reactions: ? Geological Society of London Special Publications, 138, 47-54.

Whitney, D.L., and Dilek, Y. (1997) Core complex development in central Anatolia. Geology, 25, 1023-1026.

Bralower, T.J., Thomas, D.J., Zachos, J.C., Hirschmann, M.M., Röhl, U., Sigurdsson, H., Thomas, E., and Whitney, D.L. (1997) High-resolution records of the late Paleocene thermal maximum and circum-Caribbean volcanism: Is there a causal link? Geology, 25, 963-966.

Baldwin, J.A., Whitney, D.L., and Hurlow, H.A. (1997) Metamorphic and structural evidence for significant vertical displacement along the Ross Lake fault zone, a major orogen-parallel shear zone in the Cordillera of western North America. Tectonics, 16, 662-681.

Dilek, Y., Kempton, P.D., Thy, P., Hurst, S.D., Whitney, D.L., and Kelley, D. (1997) Structure and petrology of hydrothermal veins in gabbroic rocks from Sites 921 to 924, MARK Area (Leg 153): Alteration history of slow-spread lower oceanic crust. Karson, J., Cannat, M., Miller, J., and Elthon, D. (eds.). Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, 153, 155-178.

Dilek, Y., and Whitney, D.L. (1997) Counterclockwise P-T-t trajectory from the metamorphic sole of a Neo-Tethyan ophiolite (Turkey). Tectonophysics, 280 (3-4), 295-310.

Whitney, D.L. (1996) Garnets as open systems during regional metamorphism. Geology, 24, 147-150.

Whitney, D.L., Mechum, T.A., Dilek, Y., and Kuehner, S.M. (1996) Modification of garnet by fluid infiltration during regional metamorphism in garnet- through sillimanite-zone rocks. American Mineralogist, 81, 696-705.

Whitney, D.L., Mechum, T.A., Kuehner, S.M., and Dilek, Y. (1996) Progressive metamorphism of pelitic rocks from protolith to granulite facies, Dutchess County, New York: constraints on the timing of fluid infiltration during regional metamorphism. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 14, 163-181.

Whitney, D.L., Lang, H.M., and Ghent, E.D. (1995) Quantitative determination of metamorphic reaction history: mass balance relations between groundmass and mineral inclusion assemblages in metamorphic rocks. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 120, 404-411.

Whitney, D.L . , and Irving, A.J. (1994) Origin of K-poor leucosomes in a metasedimentary migmatite complex by ultrametamorphism, syn-metamorphic magmatism, and subsolidus processes. Lithos, 32, 173-192.

Dilek, Y., Thomas, R.C., and Whitney, D.L. (1994) Team-teaching petrology in a tectonic context. Journal of Geological Education, 42, 25-31.

Whitney, D.L., and Ghent, E.D. (1993) Prograde reactions and garnet zoning reversals in staurolite schist, British Columbia: implications for thermobarometric interpretations. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 11, 779-788.

Whitney, D.L., Hirschmann, M., and Miller, M.G. (1993) Zincian ilmenite-ecandrewsite from a pelitic schist, Death Valley, California, and the petrogenesis of (Zn,Fe)TiO 3 solid solution in metamorphic rocks. Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 425-436.

Miller, R.B., Brown, E.H., McShane, D.P., and Whitney, D.L. (1993) Major intra-arc crustal loading and its tectonic implications, North Cascades crystalline core, Washington and British Columbia. Geology, 21, 193-288.

Miller, R.B., Whitney, D.L., and Geary, E.E. (1993) Tectono-stratigraphic terranes and the metamorphic history of the northeastern part of the crystalline core of the North Cascades: evidence from the Twisp Valley Schist. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30, 1306-1323.

Whitney, D.L. (1992) Origin of CO 2 -rich fluid inclusions in leucosomes from the Skagit migmatites, North Cascades, Washington. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 10, 715-725.

Whitney, D.L. (1992) High pressure metamorphism in the western Cordillera of North America: an example from the Skagit Gneiss, North Cascades, Washington. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 10, 71-85.

Whitney, D.L. (1991) Calcium depletion halos and Fe-Mn-Mg zoning around faceted plagioclase inclusions in garnet from a high-grade pelitic gneiss. American Mineralogist, 76, 493-501.

Whitney, D.L., and McGroder, M.F. (1989) Cretaceous crustal section through the proposed Insular-Intermontane superterrane suture, North Cascades, Washington. Geology, 17, 555-558.