Research and Publications

South Africa

I have been working in the Karoo Igneous Province of South Africa.  Large volcanic events occurred in the Jurassic leaving behind complex networks of sills and dikes.  By examining the magnetic fabric within the sills it may be possible to locate the source of the magmatic activity.

Barbarton at sunset.

Bushveld layered mafic intrusion.

Palisades Sill

I am studying magnetic flow fabrics in the diabase of the Palisades Sill.

View south from the Palisades to Manhattan.

Diabase in the Palisades Sill.

Publications

Titus, S.J., Maes, S.M., Benford, B., Ferré, E.C. and Tikoff, B., 2011, Fabric development in the mantle section of paleotransform fault and its effect on ophiolite obduction, New Caledonia: Lithosphere, v. 3, p. 221-244.

Ferré, E.C.,Maes, S.M., Butak, K.C., 2009, The magnetic stratification of mafic layered intrusions: natural examples and numerical models:  Lithos, v. 111, p. 83-94.

Maes, S.M., Ferré, E.C., Tikoff, B., Brown, P.E. and Marsh J.M.. 2008, Rock magnetic
stratigraphy of a mafic layered sill; a key to the Karoo volcanics plumbing system: Journal of
Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 171, p. 75-92.

Maes, S.M., Tikoff, B., Ferré, E.C., Brown, P.E. and Miller, J., 2007, The Sonju Lake layered
intrusion, northeast Minnesota: internal structure and emplacement history inferred from
magnetic fabrics. Precambrian Research. v. 157, p. 269-288.

Czeck, D.M., Maes, S.M., Sturm, C.L. and Fein, E.M., 2006, Assessment of the relationship
between emplacement of the Algoman Plutons and regional deformation in the Rainy Lake
region, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 43, p. 1653-1671.

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