Vali Memeti
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2009
My main interests are in structural geology, tectonics, petrology,
geochemistry and geochronology. My geologic goals are to understand physical and chemical processes
of lithospheric to microcopic scales that occur from the upper to the
lower continental crust during the evolution of continental magmatic
arcs. I am also interested in the evolution of strain fields from pre-
to post-arc formation. Specifically, I am studying pluton emplacement
mechanisms, pluton - host rock interaction, and petrologic evolution
through time. Understanding pluton evolution gives us insight into the
understanding of lower to upper crustal melting and processes that lead
to volcanic eruptions. Another main focus is to investigate pre- magmatic
arc regional geology and evolution by using geologic relationships of
small host rock pendants and structures in plutons. Pendants are usually
the only remnants that have recorded information about pre-arc tectonics.
My long term goals are to generally understand how melts affect lithospheric
processes and rheology in Cordilleran magmatic arcs and other plate tectonic
settings and orogenies around the world.
Zak, J., Paterson, S.R., Memeti, V., 2007, Four magmatic
fabrics in the Tuolumne batholith, central Sierra Nevada, California
(USA): implications
for interpreting fabric patterns in plutons and evolution of magma chambers
in the upper crust: GSA Bulletin; January/February 2007; v. 119; no.
1/2; p. 184–201; doi: 10.1130/B25773.1.
Paterson, S.R., Barth, A.P., Wooden,
J.L., Pignotta, G.S., and Memeti, V., 2006, Bedroc0k geologic map of
the Keys View 7.5 minute quadrangle,
Riverside County, California: National Park Service.
Economos, R., Memeti, V., Paterson,
S.R., Miller, J., Erdmann, S., Zak, J., in press, Causes of compositional
diversity in a lobe of
the
Half Dome granodiorite, Tuolumne batholith, Central Sierra Nevada, CA:
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society
of Edinburgh, Vol. 100, The Sixth Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granites
and Related Rocks.
Needy, S.K., Anderson, J.L., Wooden,
J.L., Barth, A.P., Paterson, S.R., Memeti, V., Pignotta, G.S., in press,
Mesozoic magmatism
in an upper-
to middle-crustal section through the Cordilleran continental margin
arc, eastern Transverse Ranges, California in GSA Special Publication
Crustal cross sections from the western North American Cordillera and
elsewhere; implications for tectonic and petrologic processes, edited
by R.B. Miller & A.W. Snoke.
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memeti@levee.wustl.edu 
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