ANN HEATHERINGTON
Assistant in
Geological Sciences
University of Florida
B.S. Chemistry:
1980, Furman University
M.S.
Chemistry: 1981, Furman
University
Ph.D. Earth
and Planetary Sciences: 1988, Washington
University
Departmental responsibilities:
Management
of thermal ionization mass spectrometry and clean preparation laboratories.
Research interests:
Isotope
geology, igneous and metamorphic geochemistry, geochronology. Specific areas of
interest include:
- Applications
of geochronologic and geochemical techniques to tectonic problems in both
continental and oceanic environments. Current projects include an investigation
of the tectonomagmatic history of the Southeast Coastal Plain basement,
Grenville-age terranes of the Southeast, and studies of the evolution of
the Wyoming craton.
- Evolution
and geochemistry of the mantle and crust. Recent and current projects range
from investigations of the geochemistry of Cenozoic igneous rocks in
western North America to studies of the Precambrian of the Southeastern
USA.
Selected recent publications:
- Heatherington,
A.L. and Mueller, P.A. 2003, Mesozoic igneous activity in the Suwannee
Terrane, Southeastern USA: Petrogenesis and Gondwanan affinities, Gondwana
Research, v. 6, p. 296-311.
- Heatherington,
A.L., Mueller, P.A., and Nutman, A.P., 1999, A Jurassic granite from
southern Georgia, U.S.A.: silicic, extension-related magmatism along the
Southeastern Coastal Plain, Journal of Geology, v. 107, p. 375-384.
- Heatherington,
A., and Mueller, P.A., 1999, Lithospheric sources of North Florida, USA
tholeiites and implications for the origin of the Suwannee terrane,Lithos,
v. 46, p. 215-233.
- Heatherington,
A., 1998, Age and isotopic composition of the Appling Granite, eastern
Georgia, Southeastern Geology, v. 38, p. 21-27.
- Heatherington.
A.L. and Mueller, P.A., 1997, Geochemistry and Origin of Floridan Crustal
Basement Terranes, in A. Randazzo and D. Jones, eds., The Geology of
Florida, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, p. 27-39.
- The Corbin Gneiss:
Evidence for Grenvillian magmatism and older continental basement in the
southernmost Blue Ridge, 1996, A.L. Heatherington, P.A. Mueller, M.S.
Smith, and A.P. Nutman, Southeastern Geology, v. 36, p. 15-25.
- Neoproterozoic
magmatism in the Suwannee terrane and possible correlations with other
circum-Atlantic terranes, 1996, Heatherington, A.L., Mueller, P.A.,
and Nutman, A.P, in Nance, R.D. and Thompson, M., eds., Avalonian and
related peri-Gondwanan terranes of the circum-North Atlantic, GSA
Special Paper 304, p. 257-268.
Useful Links
Isotope Geochemistry at the UF Department of
Geological Sciences
Department of Geological Sciences Home Page
Ann Heatherington
Phone: 352-392-6220
aheath@geology.ufl.edu
Last updated July 3, 2006 by ALH