Emeritus Professor of Geology
University of Florida
Ph.D.: 1960, University of Michigan
Research interests:
Mineralogy; mineralogy of phosphorites; crystal chemistry of phosphate minerals; evaluation, testing, and preparation of X-ray powder diffraction standards, Rietveld analyis.
Courses taught: Mineralogy, X-ray Mineralogy, Optical Mineralogy, Optical Crystallography
Selected publications:
Blanchard, F.N., R.E. Goddard, and B. Saffer, 1986, Application of quantitative X-ray diffraction analysis combined with other analytical methods to the study of high-magnesium phosphorites, Advances in X-ray Analysis, 29, 235-242.
Blanchard, F.N., and P.P. Saligan, 1989, High quality powder diffraction data from an impure specimen, triphylite. Li (Fe Mm) PO4, Powder Diffraction, 4, 26-28.
Blanchard, F.N., and G.J. Palenick, 1989, X-ray powder data for two tetracyclines: 6-methylene-5-hydroxytetracycline hydrochlorine (metacycline hydrochloride). C22H23N2O8Cl and 6-dementhyl-7-chlorotetracycline hydrochloride trihydrate (declomycin hydrochloride), C21H28O11N2C12, Powder Diffraction, 4, 21-23.
Blanchard, F.N., 1989, New X-ray powder data for gorceixite [BaAl2(PO4)2(OH)5H2O], an evaluation of d-spacings and intensities, pseudosymmetry and its influence on the figure of merit, Powder Diffraction, 4, 227-230.
Blanchard, F.N., 1989, X-ray powder data for mellite, Powder Diffraction, 4, 172-173.