Dr. Penelope (Penny) L. King

Senior Research Scientist III

Institute of Meteoritics

MSC03 2050

1 University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Adjunct Research Professor – University of Western Ontario (UWO) – Canada

Phone: 505-277-1643

Fax: 505-277-3577

Email: penking /at/ unm /dot/ edu

B.Sc. Australian National University, 1993
Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1999

Research interests: Origin and evolution of planetary interiors and surfaces. Role of volatiles, pH and oxygen fugacity on minerals and melts at high and low temperature. Parameters that affect spectroscopic features of glasses, sulfates and meteorites. Analysis of astromaterials - especially novel techniques for analyzing light elements, multivalent elements and trace elements- so that we can better constrain genetic processes. Field analogs for Mars, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede.

Recent Publications

Lane, M. D., Bishop, J. L., Dyar, M. D., King, P. L., Parente, M. and Hyde, B. C. (2008) Mineralogy of the Paso Robles Soils on Mars. American Mineralogist, in press.

Byrnes, J. M, Ramsey, M. S., King, P. L. and Lee, R. J. (2007) Thermal infrared reflectance and emission spectroscopy of quartzofeldspathic glasses. Geophysical Research Letters, 34:L01306, doi:10.1029/2006GL027893.

Dalby, K. N. and King, P. L. (2006) A new approach to determine and quantify structural units in silicate glasses using micro Fourier-Transform infrared spectroscopy. American Mineralogist, 91:1783-1793.

King, P. L. and McSween Jr., H. Y. (2005) Effects of H₂O, pH and oxidation state on the stability of Fe-minerals on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110:E12S10, doi:10.1029/2005JE002482.

King, P. L., Lescinsky, D. T., and Nesbitt, H. W. (2004) The composition and evolution of primordial solutions on Mars, with application to other planetary bodies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68:4993-5008.

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New MIRA Laboratory

Cloutis, E. A., Craig, M. A., Mustard, J. F., Kruzelecky, R. V., Jamroz, W. R., Scott, A., Bish, D. L., Poulet, F., Bibring, J.-P., and King, P. L. (2007) Stability of hydrated minerals on Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 34:L20202, doi:10.1029/2007GL031267.

Wagner, C., Deloule, E., Fialin, M. and King, P. L. (2008) Dehydrogenation of kaersutitic amphibole under electron beam excitation recorded by changes in Fe³⁺/ΣFe ratios: An EMP and SIMS study. American Mineralogist, in press.

Mongrain, J., Larsen, J. F., and King, P. L. (2008) Rapid H₂O exsolution, gas loss, and bubble collapse observed experimentally in K-phonolite melts. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, in press.

Klimm, K., Holtz, F., and King, P. L. (2008) Fractionation vs. Magma Mixing in the Wangrah Suite A-type granites, Lachlan Fold Belt, Australia: experimental constraints. Lithos, in press.

Dalby, K. N., Nesbitt, H. W., Zakaznova-Herzog, V. P. and King, P. L. (2007) X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of silicate glasses: First detection of the nature of the Si-O bond. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 71:4297-4313.

Fleet, M. E., Liu, X., Harmer, S. L. and King, P. L. (2006) Sulphur K-edge XANES spectroscopy: Chemical state and content of sulphur in silicate glasses. Canadian Mineralogist, 43:1605-1618.

Hauri, E., Shaw, A., Wang, J., Dixon, J. E., King, P. L., and Mandeville, C. (2006) Matrix effects in hydrogen isotope analysis of silicate glasses by SIMS. Chemical Geology, 235:352-365.

Fleet, M. E., Lui, X., and King, P. L. (2004) Accommodation of the carbonate ion in apatite: an FTIR and X-ray structure study of crystals synthesized at 2-4 GPa. American Mineralogist, 89:1422-1432.

King, P. L., Ramsey, M. S., McMillan, P. F., and Swayze, G. A. (2004) Laboratory Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy methods for geologic samples. In: King, P. L., Ramsey, M. S. and Swayze, G. A. (eds.) Infrared Spectroscopy in Geochemistry, Exploration Geochemistry and Remote Sensing. Mineralogical Association of Canada, Short Course 33:57-91.

King, P. L., McMillan, P. F. and Moore, G. (2004) Infrared spectroscopy of silicate glasses with application to natural systems. In: King, P. L., Ramsey, M. S. and Swayze, G. A. (eds.) Infrared Spectroscopy in Geochemistry, Exploration Geochemistry and Remote Sensing. Mineralogical Association of Canada, Short Course 33:93-133.

Klimm, K., Holtz, F., Johannes, W. and King, P. L. (2003) Differentiation of A-type granites: an experimental study of the Wangrah Suite, Lachlan Fold Belt, Australia. Precambrian Research, 124:327-34.

King, P. L. and Holloway, J. R. (2002) CO₂ solubility in intermediate (andesitic) melts: The role of H₂O and composition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66:1627-40.

King, P. L., Vennemann T., Holloway J. R., Hervig R. L., Lowenstern J., and Forneris J. (2002) Analytical techniques for volatiles: A case study using intermediate (andesitic) glasses. American Mineralogist, 87:1077-89.

Hauri, E., Wang, J., Dixon, J. E., King, P. L., Mandeville, C., and Newman, S. (2002) SIMS analyses of volatiles in volcanic glasses, 1: Calibration, matrix effects and comparisons with FTIR. Chemical Geology, 183:99-114.

Righter K., Dyar M. D., Delaney J. S., Vennemann T. W., Hervig R. L., and King, P. L. (2002) Distribution of OH^-, O^2-, Cl^- and F^- in biotite from volcanic rocks and correlations with octahedral cations. American Mineralogist, 87:142-153.

King, P. L., Chappell, B. W., Allen, C. M., and White, A. J. R. (2001) Are A-type granites the high temperature felsic granites? Evidence from fractionated granites of the Wangrah Suite. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48:501-514.

King, P. L., Hervig, R. L., Holloway, J. R., Delaney, J. S., and Dyar, M. D. (2000) Fe³⁺/Fe_total and H partitioning between amphiboles and basanitic melts as a function of oxygen fugacity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 178:97-112.

King, P. L., Hervig, R. L., Holloway, J. R., Vennemann, T., and Righter, K. (1999) Oxy-substitution mechanisms in mantle-derived amphiboles. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 63:3635-3652.

King, P. L., Chappell, B. W., White, A. J. R., and Allen, C. M. (1997) Characterization and origin of the A-type granites of the Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia. Journal of Petrology, 38:371-391.

Grzechink, A., Zimmerman, H. D., Hervig, R. L., King, P. L., and McMillan, P. F. (1996) FTIR micro-reflectance measurements of the CO₃^2- ion content in basanite and leucitite glasses. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 125:311-318.

Edited short course volume

King, P. L., Ramsey, M. and Swayze, G. (eds.) (2004) Molecules to Planets: Infrared Spectroscopy in Geochemistry, Exploration Geochemistry and Remote Sensing. Mineralogical Association of Canada, 284 p.

Map

Chappell, B. W., English, P. M., King, P. L., White, A. J. R. and Wyborn, D. (1991) Granites and related rocks of the Lachlan Fold Belt 1:1 250 000 scale map. Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics, Australia.

Students Supervised

Current Graduate students

B. Hyde – M.Sc. – Characterization and APXS investigation of Fe-sulfates, University of Western Ontario (UWO)

M. Izawa – M.Sc. – Spectroscopic and XRD investigations of meteorites – with R. Flemming, UWO

I. Foster – M.Sc. – Hypersaline bacteria in magnesium sulfate lakes – with G. Southam, UWO

Past Graduate students

C. Dufresne – M.Sc. – Spectroscopic Investigation of the effects of SiO₂, Fe_total, Fe³⁺/Fe²⁺ and Alkali Elements in Basaltic Glasses, UWO

K. Dalby – Ph.D. – Structure of Silicate Glasses: An FTIR and XPS Study – with H.W. Nesbitt, UWO

S. Russell – M.Sc. –Oxygen Isotopes in the Tagish Lake Meteorite – with F.J. Longstaffe, UWO

D. Lui – M.Sc. – The Effects of Water on Basalt-Rhyolite Interactions in Volcanic Systems, UWO

Past Honors students

A. Baker – Zircon Crystallization and Incorporation of Ce: Oxygen Fugacity of Melts Inferred from Ce⁴⁺/Ce³⁺ – collaboration with T.K. Sham, UWO Chemistry

J. Lockard – The Effects of Iron-Oxidation State on the Weathering and Bacterial Colonization of Basaltic Glass – joint supervision with G. Southam, UWO Geology

D. Widmer –Geochemistry of the Acasta Gneiss from the Slave Province, Northwest Territories, Canada

E. Kirk – Comparison of Alteration Materials on Rhyolites from Kaiser Springs, Arizona and Obsidian Dome, California

R. Singer – Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Zea mays Treated with Nickel Under Light and Dark Conditions – joint supervision with S. Macfie, UWO Biology

A. Cox – Insights into the Pre-Eruptive Volatile History of the Caetano Tuff: Evidence from Fluid Inclusions in Quartz and Biotite Petrography

S. Russell – Geology and Geochemistry of Adirondack Fayalite-Augite Syenites

T. Griffin – Micro-Reflectance FTIR Analysis of Andesite Glasses

J. Riddell – Trace Element Partitioning Between Natural Andesite Glass and Plagioclase

M. Bagby – Petrology and Mineral Chemistry of Reaction Textures in Basalts from Potrillo Maar, Rio Grande Rift.