Brent E. Owens
Professor Emeritus
Email:
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Education
- Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
- M.S., University of Massachusetts
- B.S., University of Kentucky
Research Interests
Mineralogy, petrology, petrology of massif anorthosites and related rocks, regional geology of the Virginia Piedmont
Selected Publications
Owens, B.E., and Buchwaldt, R., 2024, Further evidence for Devonian magmatism revealed in the Maidens Gneiss, Goochland Terrane, Virginia: Southeastern Geology 54, p. 265-281.
Dymek, R.F., Owens, B.E., and Wyatt, J.F., 2024, A tall tale of a tiny pluton: the L'Enfer norite, Grenville Province, Quebec: The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 62, 3-41.
Martin, A.J., Kadel-Harder, I., Owens, B.E., Kitajima, K., Samson, S.D., and Verma, S.K., 2020, Five hundred million years of punctuated addition of juvenile crust during extension in the Goochland Terrane, central Appalachian Piedmont Province: International Geology Review 62, p. 523-548.
Owens, B.E., Buchwaldt, R., and Bailey, C.M., 2019, New U-Pb zircon ages for the Petersburg batholith, Piedmont Province, Virginia: Southeastern Geology 53, 215-227.
Owens, B.E., Telep, E.S., and Garry, W.B., 2019, Enigmatic nodule-bearing rocks in the mafic to ultramafic Diana Mills pluton, Piedmont Province, Virginia: Geological Journal 54, p. 101-119.
Owens, B.E., and Hollingsworth, J.W., 2018, Mineralogical and geochemical constraints on the origin of kyanite quartzites in the Kings Mountain Terrane, North Carolina and South Carolina: Southeastern Geology 53, p. 81-96.
Owens, B.E., Peters, B.J., 2018, Ferruginous Quartzites in the Chopawamsic Terrane, Piedmont Province, Virginia: Evidence for an Ancient Back-Arc Hydrothermal System: Economic Geology 113, p. 421-438.
Owens, B.E., Carter, M., and Bailey, C.M., 2017, Geology of the Petersburg batholith, eastern Piedmont, Virginia, in Bailey, C.M., and Jaye, S. eds., GSA Southeastern Section Meeting Guides: Geological Society of America Field Guide 47, p. 153-162.
Owens, B.E., and Dymek, R.F., 2016, Comparative petrology of the Montpelier and Roseland potassic anorthosites, Virginia: Canadian Mineralogist 56, p. 1563-1593.
Recent Abstracts
Muller, I.P., and Owens, B.E., 2020, Further investigations of the Union Mill gneiss in the Raleigh Terrane, Piedmont Province, Virginia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 52, no. 10-4.
Owens, B.E., Johnson, T.A., and Cottle, J.M., 2020, The saga of a single sample: attempts to understand the geologic history of a portion of the Maidens gneiss, Goochland Terrane, Virginia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 52, no. 63-5.
Owens, B.E., Johnson, T.A., and Polly, C.E., 2020, Geochemistry and geochronology of a monzodioritic phase of the Petersburg batholith, eastern Piedmont Province, Virginia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 52, no. 10-5.
Owens, B.E., and Hamilton, M.A., 2018, A review of U-Pb zircon ages from the Roanoke Rapids Terrane, Eastern Piedmont Province, Virginia, and new Nd isotopic data bearing on the nature of cratonic basement: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 50, no. 192-7.
Holm-Denoma, C.S., Carter, M.W., and Owens, B.E., 2018, Provenance of the Cretaceous Potomac Group from detrital zircon analysis, central-eastern Virginia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 50, no. 28-14.
Owens, B.E., 2018, The Dover Creek syenite: a newly recognized Neoproterozoic pluton within the Mesoproterozoic State Farm Gneiss, Goochland, Terrane, Virginia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 50, no. 26-4.
Ray, D.E., and Owens, B.E., 2018, The origin and significance of a large mafic gneiss xenolith in the Petersburg Granite, Piedmont Province, Virginia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 50, no. 26-3.
