Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences

Stephen A. Nelson
Associate Professor/Chair  
Dept. Earth & Env. Sciences
Tulane University 
New Orleans, LA 70118
Room 208 Blessey Hall

Phone: (504) 862-3194
Fax: (504) 865-5199
snelson@tulane.edu

Special - What happened during Hurricane Katrina - Field Trips

Education

University of California, Berkeley, A.B. 1973
University of California, Berkeley, M.S. 1975
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1979

Research Interests

• Volcanology
• Igneous Petrology
• Mexican Volcanic Belt
• Geological Hazards
• Thermodynamics

Courses Taught

• EENS 111 Physical Geology
• EENS 204 Natural Disasters
• EENS 211 Mineralogy
• EENS 212 Petrology
• EENS 634 The Earth
• EENS 614 Igneous Petrology
• EENS 668 Volcanology

Nelson, S.A. and Leclair, S.F., Katrina’s unique splay deposits in a New Orleans neighborhood. GSA Today, 16:4-9, 2006.

Nelson, S.A.  E. Gonzalez-Caver and T.K. Kyser. Constrains on the origin of alkaline and calc-alkaline magmas from the Tuxtla volcanic field, Veracruz, Mexico. Contr. Mineral. Petrol. 122:191-211. 1995.

Nelson, S.A. and E. Gonzalez-Caver. Geology and K-Ar dating of the Tuxtla volcanic field, Veracruz, Mexico. Bull. Volcanology. 55:85-96, 1992.

Verma, S.P., and S.A. Nelson. Isotopic and trace-element constraints on the origin and evolution of calc-alkaline and alkaline magmas in the northwestern portion of the Mexican Volcanic Belt. J. Geophys. Res. 94:4531-44, 1989.


 
 

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