Home , Go Back to faculty page JAMES H. STOUT Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies PhD, 1970, Harvard University Office: 24 Pillsbury Hall Phone: (612) 624-4344 Fax: (612) 625-3819 Email: jstout@...

    I am basically a geologist by training and I believe combinations of field, experimental and theoretical approaches are most likely to provide answers to geologic problems. My specific research interests are in the following areas of petrology, geochemistry and materials science:

1. Theoretical studies of chemographic analysis and equilibrium phase diagrams. My emphasis in this area over several years has been to extend graphical methods to progressively more complex systems with many phases. Current applications are to 4-component systems that describe phase equilibria in granulite-facies rocks from Labrador.
2. Application of electron microprobe techniques to phase equilibria in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Current applications are to oxide-silicate equilibria in Labrador, and to calc-silicate equilibria at different levels in the crust. The latter include granulites from lower crustal rocks from New Zealand and contact skarns around Tertiary intrusives in Colorado.
3. Magnetic petrology. My interests in this area center around the origin of magnetic anomalies in the lower crust and the history of remanence acquisition during cooling from one or more metamorphic events. A current application is the paleomagnetic record preserved in granulites from the northeastern Grenville Province and the history of oblique plate convergence in this region.
4. High temperature x-ray diffraction studies and the reactive element effect. Most of this effort is in the area of materials science where the high temperature behavior of metal alloys has important engineering applications. Protective oxide scales that develop on alloy surfaces during use often fail because of accumulated stress. Alloys doped with small amounts of reactive elements such as yttrium produce more cohesive scales, and we would like to know why. Experimental studies and theoretical modeling are designed to answer these questions.
5. Geologic field studies are an essential part of all but (4) above.

Professional Society Memberships

• Mineralogical Society of America (Fellow)
• American Geophysical Union

• IT Best Professor of the Year Award 2000-2001, 2003-2004
• Fellow, Mineralogical Soc. of America

• The Dynamic Earth: Intro. to Geology
• Earth Materials
• Volcanoes of the Earth
• Geodynamics I, the Solid Earth
• Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
• Phase Equilibrium in Mineral Systems
• Geologic Field Camp

• D. Zhu, PhD (Material Science), 1996, The study of in-situ oxide growth stresses and residual stresses in oxide-alloy systems using x-ray diffraction.
• G. Kletetschka, PhD (Geophysics), 1998, Magnetic and Petrologic Characteristics of Lower Crustal Metamorphic Rocks, Labrador.
• C. Regan, PhD (Geology), 2000, Theoretical Phase Reactions in Chemical Systems Relevent to Granulite Facies Metamorphic Rocks.
• N. Bulloss, PhD (Geology), 2000, Fluid-Rock Interaction in the White Rock Stock Metamorphic Aureole, Gunnison County, Colorado.
• S. Peterson, MS (Math), 2000, Oriented Matroid Analysis of Thermochemical Reaction Systems (co-advised with P. Edelman and V. Reiner, School of Mathematics). Click here for CHEMOGALE web page.

• Korhonen, F.J., and Stout, J.H., 2005, Crustal melting involving phengitic white mica: observation and theory: Geological Society of America North-Central Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Programs with Abstracts, v. 37 (5), p. 87.
• Korhonen, F.J., and Stout, J.H., 2005, Undeformed kyanite- and borosilicate-bearing veins from the Grenville Province of Labrador: Evidence for rapid uplift, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 23, p. 297-312.
• Korhonen, F.J., and J.H. Stout, 2004, Structure and Petrology of the Leading Edge of the Wilson Lake Terrane, Central labrador: Current Research (2004) Newfoundland Dept. of Mines and Energy Geological Survey Report 04-1, pp. 157-170.
• Korhonen, F.J., and J.H. Stout, 2004, Low Variance Sapphirine-Bearing assemblages from Wilson Lake, Grenville Province of Labrador: In Tollo, R. P, Corriveau, L., Mclelland, J., and Bartholomew, N.J., eds., Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in north America: Geological Society of America Memoir no. 197, pp. 81-103.
• Korhonen, F.J., and Stout, J.H., 2004, Undeformed kyanite- and borosilicate-bearing veins from the Wilson Lake terrane, Labrador: Evidence for rapid exhumation: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 7-10 November, Denver, Colorado, Programs with Abstracts, v. 36, (5), p. 135.
• Edelman, P.H., S.W. Peterson, V. Reiner, and J.H. Stout, 2003, Geochemical Phase Diagrams and Gale Diagrams: SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. 64 pp. 231-259.
• Korhonen, F.J., and Stout, J.H., 2003, Silicate-oxide equilibria in the Wilson Lake, Labrador, and implications for granulite facies metamorphism under high fO2: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2-5 November, Seattle, Washington, Programs with Abstracts, v. 35 (6).
• Korhonen, F.J., and Stout, J.H., 2001, Low variance sapphirine-bearing assemblages from Wilson Lake, Labrador: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 1-10 November, Boston, Massachusetts, Programs with Abstracts, v. 33 (7).

Recent Research Support

• University of Minnesota Graduate School, Ion microprobe dating of emplacement and rotation of tectonic plates