Richard Hanson, Ph.D.

Harold D. and Imogene Herndon Professorship in Geology

r.hanson@tcu.edu817-257-7996

Program Affiliations

College of Science & Engineering Geological Sciences

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Education

B.S. Oklahoma State University, 1975
M.S. Oklahoma State University, 1977
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1983

Areas of Focus

Field-based research involving various combinations of petrology, volcanology, structural geology and tectonics, geochronology, and paleomagnetism.

Selected Publications

Hanson, R.E., Roberts, J.M.*, Dickerson, P.W., and Fanning, C.M., 2016, Cryogenian intraplate magmatism along the buried southern Laurentian margin: Evidence from volcanic clasts in Ordovician strata, Marathon uplift, west Texas: Geology, v. 44, p. 539-542.
Hanson, R.E., Puckett, R.E., Jr., Keller, G.R., Brueseke, M.E., Bulen, C.L., Mertzman, S.A., Finegan, S.A.*, and McCleery, D.A.*, 2013, Intraplate magmatism related to opening of the southern Iapetus Ocean: Cambrian Wichita igneous province in the Southern Oklahoma rift zone: Lithos, v. 174, p. 57-70.
Hanson, R.E., Rioux, M., Gose, W.A., Blackburn, T.J., Bowring, S.A., Mukwakwami, J., and Jones, D.L., 2011, Paleomagnetic and geochronological evidence for large-scale post-1.88 Ga displacement between the Zimbabwe and Kaapvaal cratons along the Limpopo belt: Geology, v. 39, p. 487-490.
Befus, K.S.*, Hanson, R.E., Lehman, T.M., and Griffin, W.R., 2008, Cretaceous basaltic phreatomagmatic volcanism in West Texas: maar complex at Peña Mountain, Big Bend National Park: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 173, p. 245-264.
Hanson, R.E., Crowley, J.L., Bowring, S.A., Ramezani, J., Gose, W.A., Dalziel, I.W.D., Pancake, J.A.*, Seidel, E.K.*, Blenkinsop, T.G., and Mukwakwami, J., 2004, Coeval large-scale magmatism in the Kalahari and Laurentian cratons during Rodinia assembly: Science, v. 304, p. 1126-1129.
Hanson, R.E., 2003, Proterozoic geochronology and tectonic evolution of southern Africa, in Yoshida, M., Windley, B.F., and Dasgupta, S. (eds.), Proterozoic East Gondwana: supercontinent assembly and breakup: Geological Society of London Special Publication 206, p. 427-463.

Selected Presentations

Puckett, R.E., Hanson, R.E., Brueseke, M.E., Eschberger, A.M.*, Toews, C.E.*, and Boro, J.R.*, 2017, Physical volcanology of Cambrian basalts and rhyolites in the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen from surface exposures and deep drilling penetrations: Geological Society of America South-Central Section Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Andrews, V.P.*, Hanson, R.E., Baylor, D.*, Lehman, K.M.*, and Williams, J.W.*, 2016, Intermixed Hawaiian, Strombolian and phreatomagmatic eruption styles in a Mesoproterozoic volcanic arc sequence (Barby Formation) in southwest Namibia: Geological Society of America National Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Hanson, R.E., Boro, J.R.*, Eschberger, A.M.*, Finegan, S.A.*, Puckett, R.E., Jr., and Toews, C.E.*, 2016, Geochemistry and petrogenesis of extensive A-type, partly peralkaline rhyolites emplaced during Cambrian rifting in the Southern Oklahoma aulacogen: Geological Society of America National Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Boro, J.R.*, Toews, C.E.*, and Hanson, R.E., 2015, Cambrian bimodal volcanic and hypabyssal intrusive lithofacies developed along a major rift-bounding fault in the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen: Results of new mapping in the West Timbered Hills, Arbuckle Mountains: Geological Society of America National Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Bucholz, J.F.*, Hanson, R.E., and Miggins, D.P., 2015, Eruptive styles in Eocene basaltic phreatomagmatic fissure vents, Big Bend National Park, West Texas: Geological Society of America National Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

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