Draper, Grenville

Grenville Draper
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Professor, Earth and Environment , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

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draper@fiu.edu

305-348-3087

selected publications

Article
- 2013
  
  The Case for UHP Conditions in the Cuaba Terrane, Rio San Juan Metamorphic Complex, Dominican Republic. GEOLOGICA ACTA. 11:149-+.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1344/105.000001841 Web of Science: 000320469300002
- 2011
  
  Mass flow in serpentinite-hosted subduction channels: P-T-t path patterns of metamorphic blocks in the Rio San Juan melange (Dominican Republic). JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES. 42.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.01.011 Web of Science: 000294984200003
- 2011
  
  Ar-40/Ar-39 DATING OF ALUNITE FROM THE PUEBLO VIEJO GOLD-SILVER DISTRICT, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. ECONOMIC GEOLOGY. 106:1059-1070.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.106.6.1059 Web of Science: 000294394900008
- 2011
  
  Garnet-bearing ultramafic rocks from the Dominican Republic: Fossil mantle plume fragments in an ultra high pressure oceanic complex?. LITHOS. 125:393-404.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.02.021 Web of Science: 000292663600025
- 2008
  
  Some speculations on the Paleogene and Neogene tectonics of Jamaica. GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL. 43:563-572.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/gj.1124 Web of Science: 000261563700005
- 2008
  
  The dynamics of intra-oceanic subduction zones: A direct comparison between fossil petrological evidence (Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic) and numerical simulation. LITHOS. 103:106-137.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.09.003 Web of Science: 000257527200006
- 2007
  
  Optical anisotropy of the human cornea determined with a polarizing microscope. APPLIED OPTICS. 46:8351-8357.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.008351 PMID: 18059679 Web of Science: 000254673900020
- 2007
  
  Petrogenesis of UHP eclogite from the Cuaba Gneiss, Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic. INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW. 49:1069-1093.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.49.12.1069 Web of Science: 000251588900001
- 2007
  
  UHP magma paragenesis revisited, olivine clinopyroxenite and garnet-bearing ultramafic rocks from the Cuaba Gneiss, Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic. INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW. 49:572-586.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.49.6.572 Web of Science: 000247156600005
- 2006
  
  P-T path for ultrahigh-pressure garnet ultramafic rocks of the Cuaba Gneiss, Rio San Juan complex, Dominican Republic. INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW. 48:778-790.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.48.9.778 Web of Science: 000240249900002
- 2005
  
  Plate-kinematics and crustal dynamics of circum-Caribbean arc-continent interactions: Tectonic controls on basin development in Proto-Caribbean margins. CARIBBEAN-SOUTH AMERICAN PLATE INTERACTIONS, VENEZUELA. 394:7-52.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/2005.2394(01) Web of Science: 000271394900002
- 2005
  
  UHP magma paragenesis, garnet peridotite, and garnet clinopyroxenite: An example from the Dominican Republic. INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW. 47:233-247.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.47.3.233 Web of Science: 000227403000002
- 2003
  
  Kinematics of throughgoing fractures in jointed rocks. TECTONOPHYSICS. 376.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.10.001 Web of Science: 000187437500002
- 2000
  
  Constraining the Late Mesozoic and early tertiary tectonic evolution of southern Mexico: Structure and deformation history of the Tierra Caliente region. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. 108.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/314414 Web of Science: 000088192400004
- 1996
  
  Thrust emplacement of the Hispaniola peridotite belt: Orogenic expression of the mid-Cretaceous Caribbean arc polarity reversal?. GEOLOGY. 24.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<1143:TEOTHP>2.3.CO;2 Web of Science: A1996VZ94200022
- 1986
  
  BLUESCHISTS AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS IN EASTERN JAMAICA AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR CRETACEOUS PLATE-MARGIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHERN CARIBBEAN. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN. 97.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1986)97<48:BAARIE>2.0.CO;2 Web of Science: A1986AYD7600005
- 1981
  
  DENUDATION RATES, THERMAL EVOLUTION, AND PRESERVATION OF BLUESCHIST TERRAINS. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. 89.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/628625 Web of Science: A1981MF63300005
- 1979
  
  VARIATION IN STRAIN AND STRAIN RATE DURING UNDERTHRUSTING OF TRENCH DEPOSITS - COMMENT AND REPLY. GEOLOGY. 7.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1979)7<419a:CAROVI>2.0.CO;2 Web of Science: A1979HH58600001
Discussion
- 1985
  
  GEOLOGY AND HYDROCARBON PROSPECTS OF JAMAICA - DISCUSSION. AAPG BULLETIN.
  Web of Science: A1985AJY2200014
Editorial Material
- 2012
  
  Reply to Comment on "Garnet-bearing ultramafic rocks from the Dominican Republic: Fossil mantle plume fragments in an ultra high pressure oceanic complex?" by Jan CM De Hoog. LITHOS. 335-339.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.12.002 Web of Science: 000301762300021
- 2010
  
  Comments on "Corundum-bearing garnet peridotite from northern Dominican Republic: A metamorphic product of an arc cumulate in the Caribbean subduction zone," by Hattori et al. [Lithos 114 (2010) 437-450]. LITHOS. 322-326.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.03.011 Web of Science: 000278731800021
- 1988
  
  DEFORMATION AND PLATE-TECTONICS. GEOLOGY.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0283:DAPT>2.3.CO;2 Web of Science: A1988M656100022

chaired theses and dissertations

Chen, Zhuoning, Vent alignments in San Francisco volcanic field, Arizona : statistical analysis and assessment of structural controls 1994
Anam, Khandaker I., Petrology and geochemistry of some high pressure rocks from northern part of Rio San Juan complex, Dominican Republic 1993

co-principal investigator on

Growing Community Roots for the Geosciences in Miami, FL awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2015

teaching activities

ESC1000-U02: Introduction to Earth Sciences Spring Term 2019
GLY4400-U01: Structural Geology Fall Term 2019
GLY6061-U01: Geoscience Systems Fall Term 2019
IDS4949-U01: Internship in Liberal Studies/Interdisciplinary Studies Fall Term 2019
IDS4949-U01: Internship in Liberal Studies/Interdisciplinary Studies Spring Term 2019

full name

Grenville Draper

ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0978-1774 (confirmed)

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publication subject areas

Geochemistry & Geophysics
Geology
Mineralogy
Optics

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