Glenn J. MacPherson
Geologist
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C. 20560-0119
Current or Projected Exhibits
Meteorites and
Solar System Gallery of the
Recent Publications
MACPHERSON G.J., DAVIS A.M. AND ZINNER E.K. (1995) 26Al in the early solar system: A reappraisal. Meteoritics 30, 365-386. (Invited Review)
DAVIS A.M. AND MACPHERSON G.J. (1996) Thermal processing in the solar nebula: Constraints from refractory inclusions. In: Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk (R. H. Hewins, R. H. Jones, and E. R. D. Scott, eds.), p. 71-76. Cambridge University Press. 346 pp.
SWINDLE T. D., DAVIS A. M., HOHENBERG C. M., MACPHERSON G.J. AND NYQUIST L. E. (1996) Isotopic constraints on the timing of the formation of solids in the solar nebula. In: Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk (R. H. Hewins, R. H. Jones, and E. R. D. Scott, eds.), p. 77-86.Cambridge University Press. 346 pp.
RUSSELL S. S., SRINIVASAN, G., HUSS G. R., WASSERBURG G. J. AND MACPHERSON G. J. (1996) Evidence for Widespread 26Al in the Solar Nebula and Constraints for Nebula Timescales. Science 273, 757-762.
MCKEEGAN K. D., LESHIN L. A., RUSSELL S. S., AND MACPHERSON G. J. (1998) Oxygen isotopic abundances in calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions from ordinary chondrites: Implications for nebular heterogeneity. Science 280, 414-418.
GIARAMITA M., MACPHERSON G. J., AND PHIPPS S. P. (1998) Petrologically diverse basalts from a fossil oceanic forearc in California: The Llanada and Black Mountain remnants of the Coast Range Ophiolite. Geol. Soc. America Bull. 110, 553-571.
GUAN Y., HUSS G. R., MACPHERSON G. J., AND WASSERBURG G. J. (2000a) Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions from enstatite chondrites: Indigenous orforeign? Science. [In Press]
GUAN Y., MCKEEGAN K. D., AND MACPHERSON
G. J. (2000b) Oxygen isotopes in calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions from enstatite
chondrites: New evidence for a single CAI source in the solar nebula. Earth
and Planetary Science Letters. [In Press]