| Bruce W. Selleck, H.O. Whitnall Professor | |
| Department of Geology | Office: 315-228-7949 |
| Colgate University | Fax: 315-228-7187 |
| 13 Oak Drive | Email: bselleck@mail.colgate.edu |
| Hamilton, New York 13346 | http://offices.colgate.edu/bselleck/ |
Professional Preparation: Colgate University, Geology, B.A., 1971 Rochester, Geology, M.S., 1973; Rochester, Geology, Ph.D., 1975
Appointments:
8/1/06 -Present Director, Picker Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Colgate University
8/1/03 - Present H.O. Whitnall Professor of Geology, Colgate University
8/1/03 - 7/31/06 Chair, Department of Geology, Colgate University
8/1/86 - 7/31/03 Professor of Geology, Colgate University
7/1/90 - 6/30/94 Dean of Faculty and Provost, Colgate University
7/1/88 - 6/30/90 Associate Dean of Faculty, Colgate University
6/30/83 - 12/31/86 Chairman, Dept. of Geology, Colgate University
9/1/80 - 7/31/86 Associate Professor of Geology, Colgate University
6/20/82 - 7/15/86 Faculty Adjunct, University of Alaska Field Camp
9/1/74 - 7/31/80 Assistant Professor of Geology, Colgate University
Recent Publications:
Bickford, M.E., McLelland, J.M., Selleck, B.W., Hill, Barbara M., and Heumann, M.J.(2008) Timing of anatexis in the eastern Adirondack Highlands: Implications for tectonic evolution during ca. 1050 Ma Ottawan orogenesis; Geol. Soc. America Bulletin, v. 120
Kaplan, J. and Selleck, B. (2008) Stable isotopic composition of the freshwater gastropod Viviparus Georgianus, central New York State: Evaluation as a proxy for summer climate: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 30, no. 2, p. 130-139 (undergraduate student co-author)
Carr, P., Selleck, B., Stott, M., Williamson, P. (2008) Native lead at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; Canadian Mineralogist, v. 46
Selleck, B., Carr, P. and Jones, B. (2007) Glendonites (pseudomorphs after ikaite) as coldwater indicators; a review and synthesis with new data from the Sydney Basin; Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 77, p. 980-991
Matthew J. Heumann, Marion Bickford, Barbara M. Hill, James McLelland, Bruce Selleck and M. J. Jercinovic (2006) Timing of anatexis in metapelites from the Adirondack lowlands and southern highlands: A manifestation of the Shawinigan orogeny and subsequent anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite magmatism; Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, no. 8
Selleck, B., McLelland, J.M. and Bickford, M.E. (2005) Granite emplacement during tectonic exhumation: The Adirondack example; Geology, v. 33, p. 781-784
Goldstein, A., Selleck, B. and Valley, J. (2005) Pressure, temperature, and composition history of syntectonic fluids in a low-grade metamorphic terrane; Geology, v.33, p. 421-424
Selleck, B., McLelland, J. and Hamilton, M. (2004) Magmatic-hydrothermal leaching and origin of late- to post-tectonic quartz-rich rocks, Adirondack Highlands, New York; in Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J., and Bartholomew, M. J., eds., Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America: Geological Society of America Memoir no. 197, p.379-390
Michael A. Hamilton, James McLelland, and Bruce Selleck (2004) SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of the anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite (AMCG) suite, Adirondack Mountains, New York: Ages of emplacement and metamorphism; in Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J., and Bartholomew, M. J., eds., Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America: Geological Society of America Memoir no. 197, p 337-356
Selleck, B. and Baran, J. (2003) Petrology and stable isotope geochemistry of Holocene and Pleistocene calcite cement in kame terrace gravel, central New York State; Northeastern Geology and Environmental Science, v. 25, no. 3, p. 186-196 (undergraduate student co-author)
Selleck, B. and Zangrilli, P. (2001) Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Constraints on Temperature and Pressure of Vein Formation, Hudson Valley Fold-Thrust Belt, Catskill, N.Y.; Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, V. 23, no. 1, p. 1-11 (undergraduate student co-author)
McLelland, J, Hamilton, M., Selleck, B., McLelland, J., Walker, D. Orrell, S. (2001) Zircon U-Pb geochronology of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondack Highlands, New York; regional and tectonic implications: Precambrian Research, v. 109, no. 1-2 (20010615): 39-72
McLelland, J., Morrison, J., Selleck, B., and others (2001) Hydrothermal alteration late- to post-tectonic Lyon Mountain Granitic Gneiss, Adirondack Mountains, New York: Origin of quartz-sillimanite segregations, quartz-albite lithologies and associated Kiruna-type low-Ti Fe-oxide deposits; Journal of Metamorphic Petrology, v. 19, p. 1-19.
Selected Fieldtrip Guidebook Articles:
Johnson, E.L. and Selleck, B.W. (2005) The nature and significance of the Carthage-Colton Shear Zone and related late- to post-tectonic granites and ore deposits; Adirondack Mountains, New York; Friends of the Grenville (FOG) Annual Field Trip Guidebook, 46 pp.
Selleck, B.W. (2005) Exploring the root zone of an ancient fault-driven hydrothermal system in the Adirondack Lowlands, New York; NYSGA Fieldtrip Guidebook, 77th annual meeting, pp. 12-31
Mehrtens, C. and Selleck, B.W. (2002) Middle Ordovician Section at Crown Point Peninsula; NEIGC/NYSGA Fieldtrip Guidebook, Trip B5, p. B5-1 - B5-16
Selleck, B.W (1997) Potsdam Sandstone of the southern Lake Champlain Valley: Sedimentary Facies, environments and diagenesis; in 1997 NEIGC Fieldtrip Guidebook, pp. C3-1 - C3-16
Selleck, B.W. (1989) Sedimentary Sequences in a Foreland Basin: The New York System - Cambrian and Ordovician Strata in Northeastern New York; 28th Int. Geol. Congress Guidebook T156, p. 1-6
Selleck, B.W. and Linsley, R. L. (1988) Sedimentology and Faunal Assemblages, Hamilton Group, Central New York; NEGSA Guidebook, Trip b-9, pp. 220-236
Selleck, B.W. and Hall, R (1978) Sedimentology and Paleontology of Portions of the Hamilton Group in Central New York, NYSGA Guidebook, Trip B-8, p 1-23
Recent abstracts and those with undergraduate student co-authors:
Selleck, B.W., Peck, W., McLelland, J., Bergman, M., Ellis, A., and Conti, C. (2008) Late Ottawan Hydrothermal Signatures in the Southeaster Adirondack Lowlands: New Geochronological, Stable Isotope and Fluid Inclusion Results; GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vv. 40, #1
McLelland, J. and Selleck, B. (2008) Geological Synthesis and Tectonic Implications of the Southeastern Section of the Glens Falls, NY 2-Degree Sheet. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vv. 40, #1
Blickwedel., R., Carrillow-Sheridan, M., Selleck, B.W., et al (2007) In-situ Alkalinity Stabilization Study, UNC Church Rock Site, Gallup, New Mexico; GSA Abstracts with Program, vol. 39, no. 7
Selleck, B. W. (2006) Hydrothermal Alteration of Proterozoic ‘Grenville’ Marble and Cambrian Potsdam Sandstone by Seismically-Pumped Fluids, Adirondack Lowlands of Northwestern New York State; Eastern Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists, October, 2006
Goldstein, Arthur G., Peck, William H., Selleck, Bruce W., King, Marylynn, Colaiacomo, Erika, Kita, Noriko T., and Valley, John W. (2006) High resolution stable isotope thermometry of Taconic strain fringes; GSA Abstracts with Program, vol. 38, no. 7
McLelland, James M., Selleck, Bruce, Peck William and Bickford, M.E. (2006) Synthesis of Regional Ottawan Shear Zones in the Adirondack and Morin Terranes: Towards a Unified Tectonic Model; GSA Abstracts with Program, vol. 38, no. 7
Chappell, Jessica Lee, Bickford, M.E., Selleck, Bruce W., Wooden, Joseph L., Mazdab, Frank and Heumann, Matthew L. (2006) High-temperature shearing and pegmatite formation during Ottawan Extensional Collapse, Northwestern Adirondack Mountains, New York, GSA Abstracts with Program, vol. 38, no. 7
Harwood, E., Selleck, B.W., West, N.,, Jarolimek, A., , Fisco, G., Tansey, E.,, King, M., and Smyth,R. (2006) Stable isotope variation in Ordovician brachiopods from the Trenton Group of Central New York: Implications for geochemistry of Ordovician Seawater; GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 38, No. 2
Kaplan, J. and Selleck, B.W. (2006) Stable Isotopic Record of seasonal drought in lake water and mollusk carbonate: Woodman Pond, Central New York State; GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 38, No. 2
Kinsman, N., Goldstein, A., Peck, W. and Selleck, B. W. (2006) Stable Isotopes in Strain Fringes from Aptian Slates near Lourdes, France; GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 38, No. 2
King, M.E., Colaiacomo, E., Goldstein, A., Peck, W. and Selleck, B.W. (2006) Stable Isotopes in Strain Fringes from the Taconic Mountains, Vermont; GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 38, No. 2
McLelland, James M., Bickford, M.E., Hill, Barbara H., and Selleck, Bruce W. (2005) U-Pb Chronology of Detrital Zircons in the Irving Pond Quartzite, Adirondack Mountains, New York: Implications for the Tectonic History of the Grenville Orogenic Cycle; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 387
Carr, P., Jones, B and Selleck, B. (2005) The father of mineralogy, his son and frozen prawns - the cool mineral collection: Geological Society of Australia, Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, No. 76, p. 33-36
Selleck, B.W., McLelland, J.M. and Bickford, M.E. 2005, U-Pb SHRIMP geochronology of synkinematic leucogranites in the Carthage-Colton Shear Zone, Northwest Adirondack Highlands: Implications for tectonic collapse of the Grenville Orogen; Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 1, p. 8
Koff, D., Selleck, B.W., et al (2004) Stable Isotope Variation in Middle Devonian Brachiopods from the Hamilton Group of Central New York; Phyletic and Environmental Effects; NEGSA Abstracts with Programs
Olson, C. and Selleck, B.W. (2002) Stable Isotope Chemistry of Biogenic Carbonate and Lake Water, Central New York State; NEGSA Abstracts with Programs