Claude T. Herzberg

Professor I
Room 342 Wright Geological Laboratory
(732) 445-3154
herzberg@rci.rutgers.edu

Education

• B.Sc., University of Alberta 
• Ph.D., University of Edinburgh 

Teaching

• Undergraduate: Introductory Geology, Minerology, Petrology 
• Graduate: Igneous Petrology, Structure and Formation of the Earth

Research Interests

Petrology and geochemistry of Earth's crust and mantle
 

Komatiites: hot plumes melt deep

Selected Publications

• Herzberg, C.T., Baker, M.B. and Wendlandt, R.F. (1982)  Olivine flotation and settling experiments on the join Mg2Si04-Fe2Si04.  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 80, 319-323.
  
• Herzberg, C.T. (1983)  Solidus and liquidus temperatures and mineralogies for anhydrous garnet-lherzolite to 15 GPa.  Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 32, 193-202.
  
• Herzberg, C.T., Fyfe, W.S. and Carr, M.J. (1983)  Density constraints on the formation of the continental Moho and crust.  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 84, 1-5.
  
• Herzberg, C.T. (1987)  High-pressure melting studies.  Nature 328, 472.
  
• Herzberg, C.T., Gasparik, T. and Sawamoto, H. (1990) Origin of mantle peridotite:  constraints from melting experiments to 16.5 GPa. Journal of Geophysical Research 95, 15,779-15,803.
  
• Herzberg, C.T. (1992)  Depth and degree of melting of komatiites.  Journal of  Geophysical Research 97, 4521-4540, 1992.
  
• Herzberg, C.T. (1993) Lithosphere peridotites of the Kaapvaal craton. Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters 120, 13-29.
  
• Zhang, J., Liebermann, R.C., Gasparik, T., Herzberg, C.T., and Fei, Y. (1993) Melting and subsolidus phase relations of SiO2 at 9 to 14 GPa. Journal of Geophysical Research 98, 19,785-19,793.
  
• Zhang, J. and Herzberg, C.T. (1994)  Melting experiments on pyrope, Mg3Al2Si3O12, at 7 to 16.5 GPa, American Mineralogist 79, 497-503.
  
• Zhang, J. and Herzberg, C.T. (1994) Melting experiments on anhydrous peridotite KLB-1 from 5.0 to 22.5 GPa, Journal of Geophysical Research 99, 17,729-17,742.
  
• Herzberg, C. (1995) Generation of plume magmas through time: an experimental perspective, Chemical Geology 126, 1-16.
  
• Herzberg, C. and Zhang, J. (1996) Melting experiments on anhydrous peridotite KLB-1:  Compositions of magmas in the upper mantle and transition zone.  Journal of Geophysical Research 101, 8271-8295. PDF
  
• Hewins, R.H. and Herzberg, C.T. (1996) Nebular turbulence, chondrule formation, and the composition of the Earth.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters 144, 1-7.
  
• Herzberg, C. and Zhang J. (1997) Melting experiments on komatiite analogue compositions at 5 GPa.  American Mineralogist 82, 354-367.
  
• Herzberg, C. and Zhang, J. (1998) Melting experiments in the systems CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 and MgO-SiO2 at 3 to 15 GPa.  American Mineralogist 83, 491-500.
  
• Herzberg, C. and O’Hara, M.J. (1998) Phase equilibrium constraints on the origin of basalts, picrites, and komatiites.  Earth Science Reviews 44, 39-79.
  
• Arndt, N., Ginibre, C., Chauvel, C., Albarède, F., Cheadle, M., Herzberg, C., Jenner, G. and Lahaye, Y. (1998)  Were komatiites wet? Geology 26, 739-742.
  
• Herzberg, C., Ratteron, P., and Zhang, J. (2000) New experimental observations on the anhydrous solidus for peridotite KLB-1.  Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-Cubed) 1, Paper number 2000GC000089. PDF
  
• Herzberg, C. and O’Hara, M.J. (2002). Plume-associated ultramafic magmas of Phanerozoic age.  Journal of Petrology 43, 1857-1883.
  
• Sproule, R.A., Lesher, C.M., Ayer, J.A., Thurston, P.C. and Herzberg, C.T., (2002). Spatial and temporal variations in the geochemistry of komatiites and komaiitic basalts in the Abitibi greenstone belt. Precambrian Research 115, 153-186.
  
• Herzberg, C. (2004A). Partial crystallization of mid-ocean ridge basalts in the crust and mantle. Journal of Petrology 45, 2389-2405. PDF
  
• Herzberg, C. (2004B). Geodynamic information in peridotite petrology. Journal of Petrology 45, 2507-2530. PDF
  
• Herzberg, C.T. (2005)  Big lessons from little droplets. Nature 436, 789-790. PDF
  
• Herzberg, C. (2006). Petrology and thermal structure of the Hawaiian plume from Mauna Kea volcano. Nature 444, 605-609. PDF
  
• Herzberg, C.T. (2007) Food for a volcanic diet. Science 316, 378-379. PDF
  
• Herzberg C., Asimow P.D., Arndt N., Niu Y., Lesher C.M., Fitton J.G., Cheadle M.J., Saunders A.D. (2007). Temperatures in Ambient Mantle and Plumes: Constraints from Basalts, Picrites and Komatiites, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 8, doi:10.1029GC001390. PDF
  
• Herzberg, C. and Asimow P.D. (2008). Petrology of some oceanic island basalts: PRIMELT2.XLS software for primary magma calculation, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 8, doi:10.1029GC002057. PDF
  
• Herzberg, C. and Gazel, E. (2009). Petrological Evidence for Secular Cooling in Mantle Plumes, Nature, 458, 619-622. PDF

Canadian Lake - Claude Herzberg