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Current Projects

  • Cycling of chalcophile elements in subduction zones     

    • Central American volcanic rocks (with Esteban Gazel, Virginia Tech and Kaj Hoernle, GEOMAR)

    • Western Alps metaophiolite (Coworking with Baptiste Debret, Cambridge)

    • Sub-arc mantle peridotite from the Mariana forearc (IODP 366)

    • Boninites and sub-arc mantle peridotites from PNG and Kamchatka (with Antoine Benard, Lausanne)

    • Post-subduction magmas associated with porphyry Cu deposits in Iran (Jiwon Hwang, Coworking with Bo Wan, CAS)

    • Submarine volcanic rocks associated with SMS deposits (Jiwon Hwang, IODP 376)

 

  • Seafloor hydrothermal systems and the Oceanic crust      

    • Behavior of the PGE during partial melting and magma differentiation: Evidence from the Macquarie Island MORB (Gyuchan Park, Coworking with Dima Kamenetsky, UTAS)

    • Volatile and chalcophile element geochemistry of melt inclusions from Central Indian MORB (Sarang Choi)

    • Hydrothermal alteration on the basement rocks of the Onnuri vent field (with KIOST)

    • Volatile and halogen element geochemistry of MORB (Sungwhan Im)

  • Mantle and magma process​es                                               

    • Geochemical variations of mantle spinel during  metasomatism by carbonatite melt (Gyuchan Park, Coworking with Alex Macoy-West, James Cook Uni)

    • Geochemistry of petrogenesis of alkaline volcanic and lower crustal rocks from the Pleiades, Antarctica (Jihyuk Kim)

    • Petrology and geochemistry of the Niagara Falls complex, Antarctica (Austin Arias)

    • Petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous igneous rocks in the Korean Peninsula (Jiin Lee)

    • PGE geochemistry and Os isotopic compositions of the Kalaymyo ophiolite, Myanmar (Bongjoo Kim)

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Professor
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Seoul National University

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