Publications

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Since 2001  (Total of 130 since 1975)

  • Rubin, K., Smith, M.C., Bergmanis, E,. Perfit, M.R. Sinton, J., and Batiza, R. (2001). Geochemical heterogeneity with mid-ocean ridge lava flows: insights into eruption, emplacement and global variations in magma generation. 2001. Earth Planet Sci. Lett.; 188; 349-367.
  • Smith, M.C., Perfit, M.R., Fornari, D.J, Ridley, W.I., Edwards, M.E., Kurras, G., Von Damm, K. (2001).  Magmatic Processes and Segmentation at a Fast Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridge: Detailed Geochemistry and Mapping of the East Pacific Rise Crest at 9° 37’N – a Small Overlapping Spreading Center.  Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 2, 2000GC000134, 32 p.
  • White, S.M., Haymon, R.H., Fornari, D.J., Perfit, M.R., and Macdonald, K.C., (2002). Volcanic Structures and Lava Morphology of the East Pacific Rise, 9-10N: Constraints on Volcanic Segmentation and Eruptive Processes at Fast-Spreading Ridges. J. Geophys. Res., 24 p.
  • Sims,K., Goldstein,S.J., Blicher-Toft, J., Perfit, M.R., Keleman, Fornari, D.J., Michael P., Murrell, M.T., Hart, S.R., DePaolo, D.J., Layne, G., Jull, M and Bender, J., (2002). Chemical and isotopic constraints on the generation and transport of melt beneath the East Pacific Rise. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 66, 3481-3504.
  • Saal, A.E., Hauri, E. H., Langmuir, C.H., and Perfit, M.R., (2002). Vapor Undersaturation in Primitive Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalt and the Volatile Content of the Earth’s Upper Mantle. Nature, 419. 451-455.
  • Danyushevsky, L.V., Perfit M.R., Eggins S.M. and Falloon, T.J., (2003). Assimilation of lower crustal cumulates produces ‘ultra-depleted’ and ‘plagioclase’ signatures in oceanic magmas: Evidence from melt inclusions in olivine phenocrysts in MORB from Siqueiros FZ, East Pacific Rise. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 144; 619-637.
  • Sun W., Bennett, V.C., Eggins, S. M., and Arculus, R.J. and Perfit, M.R., (2003).  Rhenium systematics in submarine MORB and Back-arc basin glasses: Laser ablation ICP-MS results. Chemical Geology, 196, 259-281.
  • Engels, J.L., Edwards, M.E., Fornari, D.J., Perfit, and Cann, J. R., (2003). A new model for submarine volcanic collapse formation. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., v. 4, 9, doi:10:1029/2002GC000483, 22 p.
  • Perfit, M.R., Cann, J.R., Fornari, D.J., Smith, D.K., Ridley, W.I.,  Engels, J., Edwards, M.E., (2003). Interaction of seawater and lava during submarine eruptions at mid-ocean ridges. Nature, 426, 62-64.
  • Sims, K.W. W., J. Blichert-Toft, D. J. Fornari, M. R. Perfit, S. Goldstein, P. Johnson, D.J. DePaolo, S. R. Hart , M.T. Murrell, P. Michael, G. Layne, L. Ball, (2003).  Aberrant youth: Chemical and isotopic constraints on the origin of off-axis lavas from the East Pacific Rise, 9° – 10° N. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4, doi: 10:1029/2002GC000443, 27 p.
  • Kamenov, G., Mueller, P., and Perfit, M., (2004), Optimization of mixed Pb-Tl solutions for high precision isotopic analyses by MC-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy, v. 19, DOI: 10.1039/b403222e.
  • Fornari, D.J., Tivey, M., Schouten, H., Perfit, M.R., and 8 others,  (2004). Submarine Lava Flow Emplacement at the East Pacific Rise 9° 50’N: Implications for Uppermost Ocean Crust Stratigraphy and Hydrothermal Fluid Circulation. in Mid-Ocean Ridges: Hydrothermal Interactions between the Lithosphere and the Oceans;  ed. German, C.R., Lin, J, and Parson, L.M.; Geophys. Monograph 148, Amer. Geophys Union, Washington D.C., 187-217.
  • Chadwick, D.J., Perfit, M.R., Ridley, W.I., Jonassan, I.R., Kamenov, G., Chadwick, W.W., Embley, R., le Roux, P.,  R., Smith, M.C. (2005). Magmatic Effects of the Cobb Hotspot on the Juan de Fuca Ridge. J. Geophys. Res., v. 110, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002767, 16 p.
  • Kamenov, G.D., Perfit, M.R., Jonasson, I., and Mueller, P.A., (2005). Magma recharge as a mechanism for ore deposit formation: examples from Lihir Island and Conical Seamount, Papua New Guinea. Chemical Geology, 219, 131-148.
  • Soule, S.A., Fornari, D.J., Perfit, M.R., Tivey, M.A., Ridley, W.I., and Schouten, H.; (2005). Channelized lava flows at the East Pacific Rise crest 9°-10°N: The importance of off-axis lava transport in developing crustal architecture, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q08005, doi:10.1029/2005GC000912, 28 p.
  • Stakes, D.S,. Perfit, M.R., Tivey, M.A., Caress, D., Ramirez T.M., Maher N., (2006). The Cleft Revealed: Geologic, magnetic and morphologic evidence for construction of upper oceanic crust along the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q04003, doi: 10.1029/2005GC001038, 32 p.
  • le Roux P.J., Shirey, S.B., Hauri, E.H., Perfit, M.R., Bender, J.F., (2006). The effects of variable sources, processes and contaminants on the composition of northern EPR MORB (8-10ºN & 12-14ºN): evidence from volatiles (H2O, CO2, S) and halogens (F, Cl).  Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 251, 209-231.
  • Bowles, J. Gee, J.S., Kent,  D.V., Perfit, M.R., Soule,  S.A., and Fornari, D.J. (2006) Paleointensity results from 9° – 10°N on the East Pacific Rise:  implications for timing and extent of eruptive activity. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, QO6006, doi:10.1029/2005GC001141, 32 p.
  • Tolstoy, M., Cowen, J. P., Baker, E.T., Fornari, D.J., Rubin, K.H., Shank, T. M., Waldhauser, F., Bohnenstiehl, D., Forsyth, D.W., Holmes, R.C., Love, B., Perfit, M.R., Weekly, R.T., Soule, S.A., and B. Glazer. (2006) A seafloor spreading event captured by seismometers. Science, 314,  DOI: 10.1126science.1133950, 1920-1922.
  • Geist , D.J, D. J. Fornari, M. D. Kurz, K. S. Harpp, S. A. Soule, M. R. Perfit, and A. M. Koleszar, A.M. (2006). Submarine Fernandina: A magmatic plumbing system at the leading edge of the Galápagos Hotspot. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q12007, doi:10.1029/2006GC001290. 27 p.
  • Ridley, W.I., Perfit, M.R., Fornari, D.J. and Smith, M. (2006) Magmatic processes in developing oceanic crust revealed in a cumulate xenolith collected at the East Pacific Rise, 9°50’N. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.; 7, Q12O04, doi:10.1029/2006GC001316, 25 p.
  • Soule, S.A., Fornari, D.J., Perfit, M.R., Ridley, W.I., Reed, M.H., and Cann, J.R., (2006) Incorporation of seawater into mid-ocean ridge lavas during emplacement. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 252, 289-307.
  • Kamenov, G.D., Perfit, M.R., Mueller, P.A., and Jonasson, I. R., (2007) Controls on magmatism in an island arc environment: study of lavas and sub-arc xenoliths from the Tabar-Lihir-Tanga-Feni island chain, Papua New Guinea. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., DOI 10.1007/s00410-007-0262-0, 22 p.
  • Soule, S.A., Fornari, D.J., Perfit, M.R., and Rubin, K.H., (2007) New insights into mid-ocean ridge volcanic processes from the 2005-2006 eruption of the East Pacific Rise 9° 46’ – 9° 56’N. Geology. v. 35; no. 12, doi: 10.1130/G23924A.1; 1079–1082.
  • Putirka, K.D., Perfit, M.R., Ryerson, F.J. and Jackson, M.G., (2007). Ambient and excess mantle temperatures, olivine thermometry, and active vs. passive upwelling. Chemical Geology. 241, 177-206.
  • Escartın, J., Soule, S. A., Fornari, D. J., Tivey M. A., Schouten H., and M. R. Perfit (2007). Interplay between faults and lava flows in construction of the upper oceanic crust: The East Pacific Rise crest 9° 25’–9° 58’N, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q06005, doi:10.1029/2006GC001399., 20 p.
  • Lowell, R. P., Seewald, J.S., Metaxas, A., and Perfit, M.R., (2008) Modeling hydrothermal processes at ocean spreading centers: magma to Microbe – an overview. In Magma to Microbe: Modeling Hydrothermal Processes at Ocean Spreading Centers; Lowell, R. P., Seewald, J.S., Metaxas, A., and Perfit, M.R., eds., Geophysical Monograph, 178, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C., 1-13.
  • White, S.M., Mason, J.L., Macdonald, K.C., Perfit, M.R., Wanless, V.D., Klein, E.M., (2009). Significance of widespread low effusion rate eruptions over the past two million years for delivery of magma to the overlapping spreading centers at 9°N East Pacific Rise, Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 280, 175-184.
  • Chadwick, J., Perfit, M., McInnes, B., Kamenov, G., Plank, T., Jonasson, I, Chadwick, C. (2009). Arc lavas on both sides of a trench: Slab window effects at the Solomon Islands triple junction, SW Pacific. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 279, 293-302.
  • Goss, A.R., M R Perfit, G D Kamenov, K H Rubin, A T Fundis, S A Soule, D J Fornari, and W.I. Ridley (2010) Geochemical characterization of axial and off-axis lavas from the 2005-06 eruption along the East Pacific Rise (9° 47-53’ N): Implications for mantle composition over decadal time scales along fast spreading centers. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. doi:10.1029/2009GC002977, 35p.
  • Fundis, A.T., Soule, S.A., Fornari, D.J., and Perfit, M.R., (2010). Paving the seafloor: Volcanic emplacement processes during the 2005-06 eruption at the fast-spreading East Pacific Rise, 9°50´N. Geochem., Geophys., Geosys., 11, no. 8. doi.org/10.1029/2010GC003058; 20p.
  • Wanless, D., Perfit, M.R., Ridley, W.I., and Klein, E., (2010) Dacite Petrogenesis on Mid-Ocean Ridges: Evidence for Oceanic Crustal Melting and Assimilation, J. Petrology, v. 51, no.12, doi: 10.1093/petrology/egq056, 2377-2410.
  • Zellmer, G.F., Rubin K.H., Dulski, P., Iizuka, Y., Goldstein S.L., Perfit M.R. (2011) Crystal growth during dike injection of MOR basaltic melts: evidence from preservation of local Sr disequilibria in plagioclase. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 161, 153-173. DOI:10.1007/s00410-010-0518-y,
  • Putirka K.D., Ryerson, F.J., Perfit, M.R. and Ridley, W.I., (2011) Mineralogy and Composition of the Oceanic Mantle. J. Petrology, 52,279-313.
  • Waters, C.L., Sims, K.W.W., Perfit M.R., Blichert-Toft, J., and Blusztajn, J., (2011) Perspectives on the genesis of E-MORB from chemical and isotopic heterogeneity at 9-10ºN East Pacific Rise. J. Petrology. 52, 565-602.
  • Schmidt A.K., Perfit M.R., Rubin K.H., Stockli, D.F., Smith M.C., Cotsonika, L.A., Zellmer, G.F., Ridley I., Lovera, O.M. (2011). Rapid cooling rates at an active mid-ocean ridge from zircon thermochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 302, 349-358. DOI:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.022
  • Hayman, N. W., N. R. Grindlay, M. R. Perfit, P. Mann, S. Leroy, and B. M. de Lépinay (2011), Oceanic core complex development at the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Spreading Center, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 12, Q0AG02, doi:10.1029/2010GC003240.
  • Wanless, V.D., M.R. Perfit, W.I. Ridley, P.J. Wallace, J.W. Valley, C.B. Grimes, E.M. Klein. (2011). Assimilation in the Petrogenesis of Lavas on Mid-Ocean Ridges inferred from Cl, H2O, and Oxygen Isotope Analyses. Chemical Geology. 287, 54-65, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.05.017.
  • Lewis, J.F., Mattietti, G.K., Perfit, M. and Kamenov, G. (2011). Geochemistry and petrology of three granitoid rock cores from the Nicaraguan Rise, Caribbean Sea: implications for its composition, structure and tectonic evolution. Geologica Acta, 9, 467-479, DOI: 10.1344/105.000001714.
  • Wanless, V.D., Perfit, M.R., Ridley, W.I., Wallace, P., Grimes, C. and Klein, E. (2011). Volatile Abundances and Oxygen Isotopes in Basaltic to Dacitic Lavas on Mid-Ocean Ridges: The Role of Crustal Assimilation at Spreading Centers.  Chemical Geology, vol. 287, 54-65, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.05.017.
  • Kamenov, G.D., Perfit, M.R., Lewis J.F., Goss, A.R., Arévalo Jr., R., and Shuster, R.D., (2011). Ancient lithospheric source for Quaternary lavas in Hispaniola. Nature Geosciences. 4. 554-557, doi:10.1038/ngeo1203.
  • Perfit, M.R., Wanless, V.D., Ridley, W.I., Klein, E., Smith, M.C., Hinds, J.S., Kutza, S., and Fornari, D.J. (2012) EPR ISS Lava Geochemistry –2 decades of comprehensive sampling and 2 eruptions. Oceanography,  25-1, 89-93.
  • Rubin, K.H., Soule, S. A., Chadwick, Jr., W. W., Fornari, D. J., Clague, D. A., Embley , R. W., Baker, E. T., Perfit, M. R., Caress, D. W., and Dziak, R. P. (2012) Volcanic Eruptions in the Deep Sea. Oceanography,  25-1, 142-157.
  • Fornari, D.J., Von Damm, K.L., Bryce, J., Cowen, J.P., Ferrini, V., Fundis, A., Lilley, M.D., Luther, G.W., Mullineaux, L.S., Perfit, M.R., Prado, F., Rubin, K.H., and 5 others. (2012) The East Pacific Rise at 9°-10°N: 25 years of integrated, multidisciplinary oceanic spreading center studies. Oceanography, 25-1, 18-43.
  • Soule, S.A., Nakata, D.S., Fornari, D.J., Fundis, A.T., Perfit, M.R., and Kurz, M.D., (2012) CO2 variability in mid-ocean ridge basalts from syn-emplacement degassing: constraints on eruption dynamics. Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 327, 39-49
  • Wanless, V. D., Perfit, M. R., W.I., Klein, E., White, Ridley, W.I, (2012). Reconciling Geochemical and Geophysical Observations of Magma Supply at the 9°N Overlapping Spreading Center, East Pacific Rise. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. V.13; Q11005, DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004168.
  • Klein, E. M., White, S. M., Nunnery, J. A., Mason‐Stack, J. L., Wanless, V. D., Perfit, M. R., and Ridley, W. I. (2013). Seafloor photo‐geology and sonar terrain modeling at the 9° N overlapping spreading center, East Pacific Rise. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 14, doi: 10.1002/2013GC004858, 25p.
  • Carbotte, S. M., Marjanović, M., Carton, H., Mutter, J. C., Canales, J. P., Nedimović, M. R., and Perfit, M. R. (2013). Fine-scale segmentation of the crustal magma reservoir beneath the East Pacific Rise. Nature Geoscience, 6(10), 866-870.
  • Chadwick, W. W., Clague, D. A., Embley, R. W., Perfit, M. R., Butterfield, D. A., Caress, D. W., and Bobbitt, A. M. (2013). The 1998 eruption of Axial Seamount: New insights on submarine lava flow emplacement from high‐resolution mapping. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(10), 3939-3968.
  • Moore, A., Coogan, L.A., Costa, F., and Perfit, M.R. (2014). Primitive melt replenishment and crystal-mush disaggregation in the weeks preceding the 2005-06 eruption 9˚50’N, EPR.  Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 403, 15-26.
  • Kendrick, M. A., C. Hémond, V. S. Kamenetsky, L. Danyushevsky, C.W. Devey, T. Rodemann, M. G. Jackson and M. R. Perfit. (2017). Seawater cycled throughout Earth’s mantle in partially serpentinised lithosphere. Nature Geoscience, 10, 222-228. DOI:
  • Clague, D. A., Paduan, J. B., Dreyer, B. M., Chadwick Jr, W. W., Rubin, K. R., Perfit, M. R., & Fundis, A. T. (2018). Chemical Variations in the 1998, 2011, and 2015 Lava Flows From Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge: Cooling During Ascent, Lateral Transport, and Flow. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(9), 2915-2933.
  • Turner, M., Turner, S., Blatter, D., Maury, R., Perfit, M., & Yogodzinski, G. (2017). Water contents of clinopyroxenes from sub‐arc mantle peridotites. Island Arc, 26(5), e12210.
  • Fei Wu, F., Yuhan Qi, Y., M.R. Perfit, M.R., Gao, Y., Langmuir, C.H., Wanless, V.D., Huimin Yua, Huang, F., (2018). Vanadium isotope compositions of mid-ocean ridge lavas and altered oceanic crust.  Earth and Planetary Sci. Lett., 493,128-139.
  • Putirka, K., Tao, Y., Hari, K.R., Perfit, M.R., Jackson, M.G., and Arevalo Jr., R. (2018). The Mantle Source of Thermal Plumes: Trace and Minor Elements in Olivine & Major Oxides of Primitive Liquids (And Why the Olivine Compositions Don’t matter). American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials 103, 1253-1270.

Books, Encyclopedias and Non-refereed journals (since 2000)

  • Perfit, M.R. and Davidson, J.P. (2000). Plate Tectonics and Volcanism. in Encyclopedia of
  • Volcanoes, H. Sigurdsson ed.Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 89-113.
  • Perfit, M.R., (2001). Sea-Floor Spreading- Mid-Ocean Ridge Geochemistry and Petrology. in
  • Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, J. Steel, S. Thorpe and K. Turekian, eds., Academic
  • Press, San Diego, CA, 1778-1788.
  • Perfit, M.R., (2003). Mid-Ocean Ridges, in Encyclopedia of Oceanography and Marine
  • Science. Jim Nybakken (ed).; Fitzroy-Dearborn Publishers. 1500p.
  • Perfit, M.R. and Soule, S.A. (2015). Axial Summit Trough. in Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences, J. Harff, M. Meschende, S. Petersen and J. Thiede, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin DOI: 10.1007/SpringerReference_350448
  • Perfit, M.R. Earth’s Oceanic Crust. Earth Sciences Series: Encyclopedia of Geochemistry. W.White (ed). Springer-Verlag.
  • Lowell, R. P., Seewald, J.S., Metaxas, A., and Perfit, M.R., (eds.); (2007). Magma to Microbe: Modeling Hydrothermal Processes at Ocean Spreading Centers; Geophysical Monograph, 178, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C.
  • Karson, J., Fornari, D.J., Kelly, D., Perfit, M.R., and Shank, T.,  (2015). Discovering the Deep. A Photographic Atlas of the Seafloor. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-85718-5, 414p.
  • Brown, D. and Perfit, M.R., (2017) Older than Dirt (a wild but true history of Earth). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York. 104p.

 

Internet Publications

 

Papers presented at National and INternational meetings

(* Student or **Post-doc presentations)

  • Perfit M., Goss, A., Fundis, A., Ridley, I., Rubin, K., Soule, A., Fornari, D., and Carbotte. S., (2010). Recent Magmatism on the Northern East Pacific Rise: Implications for Decadal Changes in Magma Chamber Composition and Relationships to Crustal Melt Distribution. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-7453, EGU General Assembly 2010; Vienna, Austria.
  • *Wanless, V., Perfit, M R., Ridley, W I., Valley, J W., Grimes, C B. and Klein, E M. (2010). Crustal Assimilation at Mid-Ocean Ridges Using Major and Trace Elements, Volatiles, Oxygen Isotopes and Petrologic Modeling. Geophysical Research Abstracts,Vol. 12, EGU2010-7453, EGU General Assembly 2010; Vienna, Austria.
  • *Fundis, A., Soule, S.A., Fornari, D., Perfit, M.R., (2010). Lava Morphology and Geochemistry: Insights into MOR eruption dynamics. Ridge 2000 Community Meeting, Portland Oregon, 29-30 Oct., p.41.
  • *Baxter, N.L., Perfit, M.R., Lundstrom, C. and Clague, D.A., (2010). Geochemical Diversity of Near-Ridge Seamounts: Insights into Oceanic Magmatic Processes and Sources. Ridge 2000 Community Meeting, Portland Oregon, 29-30 Oct., p.6.
  • Perfit, M.R., (2010). From Mantle to Magma to Gabbros to Basalts to Hydrothermal Vents: How do we put the pieces together? Ridge 2000 Community Meeting, Portland Oregon, 29-30 Oct., p.84.
  • *Wanless, V., Perfit, M R., Ridley, W I., Klein, E M., Grimes, C B. and Valley, J W (2010). Crustal Assimilation and the Petrogenesis of Mid-Ocean Ridge Dacites. Abstract V11A-2243 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA., 13-17 Dec.
  • *Baxter, N L., Perfit, M R., Lundstrom, C., and Lundstrom, C. (2010). Petrogenesis o f Near-ridge Seamonts: An Investigation of Mantle Source Heterogeneity and Melting Processes. Abstract V11A-2240, Fall Meeting,
  • Klein, E. M., Perfit, M. R., Wanless, V., White, S. M., Nunnery, J. A., (2010). Complex relationships between surficial geology, rock geochemistry and subsurface melt bodies at the 9°N Overlapping Spreading Center, East Pacific Rise. Abstract V12A-08 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA., 13-17 Dec.
  • Hayman N.W., Grindlay, N., Perfit, M.R., Paul Mann, P., Leroy, S., Mercier De Lepinay, B F (2011). Oceanic core complex development at the ultraslow spreading Mid–Cayman Spreading Center. Abstract T23A-2373, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
  • Smith, M.C., M.R. Perfit; C. Davis; G.D. Kamenov, (2011). Temporal and Spatial Variability in the Geochemistry of Axial and CoAxial Segment Lavas and their Mantle Sources. V11E-2556. Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
  • *Baxter Hann. N.L., M. R. Perfit; C. Lundstrom; D. A. Clague, R. Walters, R. Wendt, E. Cornejo. (2011). Geochemical Diversity of the Vance Seamount Chain: Insights into near-ridge seamount genesis and mantle melting in the off-axis environment. V51E-2553.  Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
  • **Walters, R.L., Perfit, M.R., Ridley, W.I, Maclennan, J., and Jones, S.M. (2011). Modeling major element variation in primary melts from a two-component mantle: application to the E-MORB and N-MORB relationship at the EPR. V-23B, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA
  • Soule, S.A., D.S. Nakata; A.T. Fundis; M.R. Perfit. (2011). Duration and flow rates of the 2005-06 East Pacific Rise eruption: constraints from syn-emplacement degassing and vesiculation. V53D-2656. Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
  • **Walters, RL., Baxter, N.L., Perfit M.R., (2012). Physically realistic forward geochemical modeling of MORB: a comparison of INVMEL and pHMELTS. T13G-2723, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
  • Yang, S., Humayun, M., V.J. Salters,  D. Fields,  G. Jefferson,  M.R. Perfit, (2012). Transition Element Abundances in MORB Basalts. DI51A-2348, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
  • Michael, P.J., Graham, D.W., Perfit, M.R., (2012). Vesiculation and degassing in the 2005-6 submarine flow at 9°50’N, East Pacific Rise: Implications for volatile fluxes and CO2: He kinetic fractionation. V24B-04, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
  • Turner, M.B., Turner, S., Ireland, T.R., Adam, J., Yogodzinski, G.M., Blatter, D.L., Perfit, M.R., (2012). Recycling of water within the mantle: New insights from pyroxene water data. DI13D-2450, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
  • Klein, E.M., White, S.M., Nunnary, A., Mason-Stack, J., Wanless, V.D., Perfit, M.R., and  Waters, C., (2013). On- and off-axis magma transport in dikes at axial discontinuities: 9N OSC EPR. Abstract OS42A-03 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec
  • Huggett, N,, Lundstrom, C.C., Perfit, M.R., and Zambardi, T., (2013). Using iron and silicon isotope ratios as tools to understand plagiogranite and rhyodacite petrogenesis at mid-ocean ridges. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. V. 45 (7).
  • **Walters, R.L., Hann, N. and Perfit, M.R., (2013). Geochemical constraints on the formation of near-ridge Vance seamount chain at the Juan de Fuca Ridge (Invited). Abstract OS42A-07 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.
  • *Smithka, I. N., and Perfit, M.R., (2013). New Geochemical Analyses Reveal Crustal Accretionary Processes at The Overlapping Spreading Center Near 3 N East Pacific Rise. Abstract OS43A-1882 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.
  • Gregg, P.M., Perfit, M.R., and Fornari, D.J., (2013). Petrologic-geodynamic models of the geochemical evolution of the segmented Siqueiros transform fault (Invited). Abstract S53D-08 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.
  • Lundstrom, C., Huggett, N., Perfit, M.R., and Zarnbardi, T., (2013). A non-traditional isotope study of plagiogranite and rhyo-dacite suites: insights into mid ocean ridge magma chamber processes (Invited). Abstract V51A-2628 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.
  • Perfit M, Wanless D, Lundstrom C, Ridley I & Clague D.A. (2014). Petrogenesis and Tectonic Significance of High-Silica MOR Lavas. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2014 1939.
  • Rubin K, Michael P., Perfit M.R., & Sinton J. (2014). Keynote: Magma Dynamics from Temporal and Spatial Compositional Variations within and between Eruptions. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2014 2125. (INVITED)
  • Lundstrom C., Zambardi T., Gajos N., Huggett N., Kehoe K. & Perfit M.R., (2014). Assessing Stable Isotope Fractionations during Differentiation Through Spatial Sampling. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2014 1538.
  • Putirka K., Tao Y., Hari K.R. & Perfit M.R., (2014) The Plume Source As Characterized by Trace Elements in Olivine. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2014 2003.
  • Yang S., Humayun M., Salters V., Clague D.A. & Perfit M.R., (2014). Elemental Discrimination between Peridotite and Pyroxenite Melting in MORB and Hawaiian Glasses. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2014 2773.
  • Wanless,V.D., Behn, M., Perfit, M.R., Clague, D.A. (2014). Comparison of volatile and major element concentrations from off-axis seamounts and the adjacent Juan de Fuca Ridge. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
  • **Walters, R.L., and Perfit, M.R., (2014). Re-evaluating across-axis geochemical variations at the East Pacific Rise and Juan de Fuca Ridge: on- and off-axis melt delivery. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
  • *Smithka, I., Perfit, M.R., Clague, D.A., Wanless, V.D., (2014). Geochemistry and petrology of andesites from the north rift zone of Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
  • Perfit, M.R., Mertz, M. and Lavelli, L., (2014). SEA Change: Bringing together Science, Engineering and the Arts at the University of Florida. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting*Trim, C.S., *Gerlach, M.E., Perfit, M.R., and Mueller, P.A., 2016. The Aleutian arc puzzle: Putting together the clues of volcanism and plutonism on Unalaska Island. Geol. Soc. America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, 256-34
  • * Mills, S. R., Perfit, M.R., Clague, D.A., Paduan, J. B.; 2017. Petrology and Petrogenesis of Andesites from Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Meeting; T11, 44-1; Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Fornari, D., Gregg, P., Perfit, M.R., McCully, E., Lubetkin, M., OASIS Science Team, 2017. High resolution mapping using the submersible Alvin and Sentry AUV at the 8° 20’N Seamounts: Morphostructural analysis and volcanic history. International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Interior of the Earth, IAVCEI 2017 Scientific Assembly, Portland, OR.
  • Perfit, M.R., Fornari, D.J., Gregg, P.M., Wanless, V.D., Smith, M.C., Ridley, W.I., Geist, D. and OASIS Science Team; 2017. Diversity of Lavas from the 8° 20’N Seamount Chain: Windows into Small-scale Geochemical Heterogeneity of the Mantle Proximal to the Northern East Pacific Rise. International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Interior of the Earth, IAVCEI 2017 Scientific Assembly, Portland, OR.
  • Anderson, M., Wanless, V.D., Perfit, M.R., Gregg, P.M., Fornari, D.J., McCully, E., and Ridley, W.I., 2017. Off-Axis Seamount Lavas at 8°20’ N Span the Entire Range of East Pacific Rise MORB Compositions. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.  V51D-0389
  • McCully, E., Fornari D.J., Gregg, P.M, Perfit, M.R., Wanless, V.D., Anderson, M. and Lubetkin, M. 2017. Geophysical and Geochemical Analysis of the 8°20’ N Seamount Chain: Studies of Off-Axis Volcanism. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.  V51D-0390
  • Romano, V., Gregg, P.M., Zhan, Y., Fornari, D.J., Perfit, M.R., and Battaglia, M., 2017. Formation and evolution of the near axis 8˚20’N seamount chain: Evidences from the geophysical data analysis, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. V51D-0391
  • Shimizu, K., Hauri, E., Saal, A., Perfit, M.R., and Hekinian, R., 2017. Interaction of ultra-depleted MORBs with plagioclase: implications for CO2/Ba ratios, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.  V33F-0577
  • Wanless, V. D.; Anderson, M.; Perfit, M. R.; Gregg, P. M.; Fornari, D. J.; McCully, E. E.; Ridley, W. I. (2018). Off-Axis Seamount Chain Lavas at 8°20′ N Reveal a Spatially Complex, Heterogeneous Mantle Near the East Pacific Rise. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018, abstract #V43G-0200.
  • *Conrad, E. M.; Perfit, M. R.; Anderson, M.; Wanless, V. D.; Fornari, D. J.; Gregg, P. M. (2018). Geochemical Diversity of Lavas from the 8°20’N Seamount Chain Provides Insights into Seamount Evolution from a Heterogeneous Mantle. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018, abstract #V43G-0199.
  • Shimizu, K.; Saal, A. E.; Hauri, E.; Perfit, M. R.; Hekinian, R. (2018). Partial degassing and regassing of CO2 in CO2 undersaturated mid-ocean ridge basalts.  American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018, abstract #V52A-07.
  • Bremner, P. M.; Forte, A. M.; Perfit, M. R.; Mueller, P. A.; Simmons, N. A.; Grand, S. (2018). New Inferences of Mantle Composition in Terms of Three End-member Mixing via Markov Chain Monte Carlo Inversion of the GyPSuM Tomography Model. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018, abstract #DI41B-0009
  • *Jiang, P., Foster, D.A., Perfit, M. and Trucco, A., (2018) Application Of High Spatial Resolution Major And Trace Element Analyses Of Accessory Minerals In Metamorphic Tectonites By Electron Microprobe. GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA – 2018. Paper No. 190-3.

Invited lectures (since 2010)

  • Keynote speaker for Environmental Science Symposium Miami Dade College; 03/10/2010 “Chasing Mid-Ocean Ridge Eruptions: Deep Sea Forensics.”
  • Ridge 2000 Community Meeting, Portland Oregon, 29-30 Oct. 2010. From Mantle to Magma to Gabbros to Basalts to Hydrothermal Vents: How do we put the pieces together?
  • Invited Panel Member at Society of Environmental Journalists Annual meeting in Miami, Fl, Oct 22, 2011. “Deep-sea Exploration: Drugs, Damages, and Other Discoveries”
  • Invited presentation at Axial RSN Science Workshop, “Geochemical diversity of lavas from Axial Seamount and adjacent ridges and seamounts”; Seattle, Washington, October 5-7, 2011
  • Invited lecture, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, March 2, 2012. James Kirkpatrick Lecture; “Chasing Mid Ocean Ridge Eruptions: Deep Sea Forensics”.
  • Alachua County Library Talk on Deep Sea Research, July 10, 2013
  • University of Tasmania:  July 2014
    • Public Lecture: “Chasing Mid-Ocean Ridge Eruptions: Deep-sea Forensics” July 28, 2014
    • Earth Sciences and Center for Ore Deposits and Exploration: “Geochemistry of Basalts from Near-Ridge Seamounts: Insights Into Mantle Sources And Melting Processes” July 17, 2014
  • Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
    • Public Lecture: “Exploring the Deep Ocean: Magma and Microbes at Ocean Ridges”, July 21, 2014
  • Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, “Geochemistry of Basalts from Near-Ridge Seamounts: Insights Into Mantle Sources And Melting Processes” September 11, 2014