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Alaska Sea Grant Program
Wells Fargo Building, Suite 238
794 University Ave.
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Phone: (907) 474-7949
Fax: (907) 474-6285
david.christie@alaska.edu

David Christie Professor

Geological Oceanography • Marine Geology and Geophysics

Affiliations

Education

Research Overview

- Exploration of unmapped volcanic regions in the deep ocean.
- Origin and evolution of oceanic plates.
- Origin and evolution of oceanic volcanoes and lavas

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Publications

Edited Volumes:

1. Christie, D.M., Fisher, C.R., Lee, S-M., Givens, S. (2006) Backarc Spreading Systems: Geological, Biological, Chemical and Physical Interactions. Monograph, Amer. Geophys. Union.

2. Pedersen, R.B., Christie, D.M., Miller, D.J. (Eds.) (2004). Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 187 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/187_SR/187sr.htm, 2004

3. Christie, D.M., Pedersen, R.S., Miller, D.J. et al., (2001) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, Leg 187 [CD-ROM], Ocean Drilling Program, College Station TX.

Articles:

4. Christie, D.M. and Fisher, C.R. (2006) Geological, Biological, Chemical and Physical Interactions in Back-Acr Spreading Systems - an Introduction in Christie, D.M., Fisher, C.R., Givens, S., Lee, S-M. (2006) Backarc Spreading Systems: Geological, Biological, Chemical and Physical Interactions. Monograph, Amer. Geophys. Union.

5. Christie, D.M., Pedersen, R.B., Miller, D.J. and Leg 187 Scientific Party, ODP LEG 187: Mantle Reservoirs & Mantle Migration in the Australian Antarctic Discordance. JOIDES Journal, 27, 1, 3-6, 2001.

Peer Reviewed Papers:

6. Christie, D.M., R. Werner, F. Hauff, K. Hoernle, B. Hanan (2005) Morphological and Geochemical Variations Along the Eastern Galapagos Spreading Center, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q01006, doi: 10.1029/2004GC000714.

7. Christie, D.M., Pyle, D.G., Pedersen, R.B., Miller J. (2004) Leg 187 Synthesis: History of the Australian Antarctic Discordance and the Indian-Pacific mantle isotopic boundary. In Pedersen, R.B., Christie, D.M., Miller, D.J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results Volume 187. [Online]. International Ocean Drilling Program, College Station TX. http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/187_SR/187sr.htm.

8. Hanan, B.B., Blichert-Toft, J., Pyle, D., and Christie, D.M. (2004) Origin of Indian- and Pacific-type Oceanic mantle Isotope Signatures: Hafnium and Lead Isotope Constraints from the AAD. Nature 432, 91-94.

9. Okino, K., K. Matsuda, D.M. Christie, Y. Nogi, and K. Koizumi (2004), Development of oceanic detachment and asymmetric spreading at the Australian-Antarctic Discordance, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 5, Q12012, doi:10.1029/2004GC000793.

10. Pedersen, R.B., Christie, D.M. and Pyle, D.G. (2004) Regional and local mantle heterogeneities associated with the Australian-Antarctic Discordance: Sr and Nd isotopic results from ODP Leg 187. In Pedersen, R.B., Christie, D.M., Miller, D.J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results Volume 187. [Online]. International Ocean Drilling Program, College Station TX. http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/187_SR/187sr.htm

11. Thorseth, I.H., R.B. Pedersen, D.M. Christie (2003) Microbial alteration of 0-30-Ma seafloor and sub-seafloor basaltic glasses from the Australian Antarctic Discordance, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 215, 237-247, 2003.

12. Mahoney, J.J., D.W. Graham, D.M. Christie, K.T.M. Johnson, L.S. Hall, and D.L. VonderHaar, Between a Hotspot and a Cold Spot: Astheospheric Flow and Geochemical Evolution in the Southeast Indian Ridge Mantle, 86*E - 118*E, J. Petrology, 43, 1155-1176. 2002

13. Kempton, P.D., Pearce, J.A., Barry, T.L., Fitton, J.G., Langmuir, C., and Christie, D.M., Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf Isotope Results from ODP Leg 187: Evidence for Mantle Dynamics of the Australian-Antarctic Discordance and Origin of the Indian MORB Source. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 3(12), 1074, doi: 10.1029/2002GC00320, 2002.