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Patricia . Fryer Faculty

Patricia Fryer
Professor

Home Page: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pfryer/
Email: pfryer@hawaii.edu
Office: POST 514B
Phone Number: (808) 956-3146
Fax Number: (808) 956-3188

University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Hawai`i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
1680 East-West Road, POST 602
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA


Research Interests:
Marine geology, Petrology, Tectonics

Publications (partial listing):

Beard J.S., Frost B.R., Fryer P., McCaig A., Searle R., Ildefonse B., Zinin P. and Sharma S.K. (2009) Onset and progression of serpentinization and magnetite formation in olivine-rich troctolite from iodp hole U1309D. Journal of Petrology, in press <>

Nozaka T., Fryer P., and Andreani M. (2008) Formation of clay minerals and exhumation of lower-crustal rocks at Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. <7564>

Fryer P., Salibury M. (2006) Leg 195 Synthesis:Serpentitine Seamounts of the Izu-Bonin/Mariana Convergent Plate Margin-ODP Leg 125 and 195 Drilling Results Proceeding of the Ocean Drilling Progra, Scientific Results Volume 195

Fryer P., Gharib J., Ross K., and Savov I., and Mottl M.J. (2006) Variability in serpentinite mudflow mechanisms and sources: ODP drilling results on Mariana forearc seamounts. Geochem. Geophys. Geosystems, in press.

Fryer P., Becker N., Appelgate B., Martinez F., Edward M., an Fryer G. (2003) Why is the Challenger deep so deep? Earth Plant. Sci. Lett., in press.

Fryer P. (2002) Recent studies of serpentinite occurrences in the oceans: mantle-ocean interactins in the plate tectonic cycle. Chem. Erde 62, in press.

Fryer P., Lockwood J.P., Becker N., Phipps S., and Todd C.S. (2000) Significance of serpentine mud volcanism in convergent margins. Geol. Soc. Amer. , Special Publication 349, Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust, edited by Y. Dilek and E. Moore.

Martinez F., Fryer P., and Becker N. (2000) Geophysical characteristics of the Southern Mariana Trough, 11°50'N-13°40'N. J. Geophys. Res.-Solid Earth, 105, No. B7, 16, 591-16,607.

Fryer G.J. and Fryer P. (1998) Geology. Pac. Islands, M. Rapaport (ed.), Bess Press, Honolulu.

Fryer P., Wheat C.G., and Mottl M.J. (1998) Mariana blueschist mud volcanism: Implications for conditions within the subduction zone. Geology.

Fryer P., Fujimoto H., Sekine M., Johnson L.E., Kasahara J., Masuda H., Gamo T., Ishii T., Ariyoshi M., and Fujioka K. (1998) Volcanoes of the southwestern extension of the active Mariana island arc: New swath-mapping and geochemical studies. The Island Arc.

Fryer P., Gill J.B., Jackson M.C. (1997) Volcanologic and tectonic evolution of the Kasuga seamounts, Northern Mariana Trough: Alvin submersible investigations. J. Volcanol. Geothermal Res.

Fryer P. and Mottl M. (1997) Shinkai 6500 investigations of a resurgent mud volcano on the Southeastern Mariana forearc. J. Deep Sea Res., 103-114.

Fryer P. (1997) An actively vending serpentine Seamount on the southeastern Mariana Forearc, Shanghai 65 on Dive 280-281. JAMSTEC Deep Sea Research.

Baker N., Fryer P., and Martinez F. (1996) Rifting history of the northern Mariana Trough: SeaMARC II and seismic reflection surveys. J. Geophys. Res.

Fryer P. (1996) Evolution of the Mariana convergent plate margin system. Rev. Geophys., Vol. 34.

Fryer P. (1991) The 1991-1992 NSF Young Scholars Program at the University of Hawaii: Science and engineering studies of the Ala Wai Canal, and urban estuary in Honolulu. Pacific Science, Vol. 49, No. 4.

Bloomer S.H., Taylor C.J., McLeod, Stern R.J., Fryer P., Hawkins J.W., Johnson L. (1994) Early arc volcanism and the ophiolite problem: A perspective from drilling in the western Pacific. Active Margins and Marginal Basins: A Synthesis of Western Pacific Drilling Results, B. Taylor and J. Natlands(eds.), AGU Mongr.

Martinez F. and Fryer P. (1995) Evolution of backarc rifting: Mariana Trough 20o-24oN. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 100, NO. B3, 3807-3827.

Fryer P., Mottl M., Johnson L., Haggerty J., Phipps S., and Maekawa H. (1995) Serpentine bodies in the forarcs of western Pacific convergent margins: Origins and associated fluids. B. Taylor and J. Natland (eds.), AGU Monogr., Vol 88, 259-279.

Fryer P. (1994) Geology of the Mariana Trough, in Backarc Basins: Tectonic and magmatism. B. Taylor, ed., Plentom Press.

Maekawa H., Fryer P., and Ozaki A. (1995) Incipient Blueschist-facies metamorphism in the active subduction zone beneath the Mariana Forearc. B. Taylor (ed.), AGU Monogr., Vol. 88., 281-289.

Wessel J.K., Fryer P., Wessl P, and Taylor B. (1994) Extension in the northern Mariana inner forearc. J. Geophys. Res.
Marlow M.S., Johnson L.E., Pearce J.A., Fryer P.B., Pickthorn L.G., and Murton B.J. 16. Pleistocene volcanic rocks in the Mariana Forearc revealed by drilling at Site 781, 1992, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, Vol. 125, P. 293-310, SOEST 2641,

Hagen R.A., Shore A..N., and Fryer P. SeaMARCII evidence for the locus of seafloor spreading in the southern Mariana Trough, 1992, Marine Geology, P. 311-322, SOEST 2656,


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