Kay, Suzanne Mahlburg
William and Katherine Snee Professor of Geological Sciences
Suzanne Mahlburg Kay joined the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell in 1976. She is a fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA), the Mineralogical Society of America, and the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG), an honorary foreign member of the Geological Association of Argentina. She is a recipient of the GSA Distinguished Service Award. Among other activities, she is a former member of the GSA council and the US National Committee for Geological Sciences, former co-chair of the 2006 GSA-Asociación Geológica Argentina “Backbone of the Americas” meeting in Argentina, and on the editorial boards of a number of journals.
research
primary investigator of
research areas
- active source & earthquake seismology | research concentration area (EAS)
international geographic focus
- Chile | country
- South America | continent
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Geological Sciences | graduate field
teaching
teaches
- EAS 4530 - Mineralogy (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | fall 2009 class
- EAS 7010 - Thesis Research in Geological Sciences (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- EAS 7570 - Current Research in Petrology and Geochemistry (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- EAS 7930 - Andes-Himalaya Seminar (F 03:00:PM-04:00:PM) | fall 2009 class
- EAS 7930 - Andes-Himalaya Seminar (F 03:00:PM-04:00:PM) | spring 2009 class
- EAS 4530 - Mineralogy (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | fall 2008 class
- EAS 7930 - Andes-Himalaya Seminar (F 03:00:PM-04:00:PM) | fall 2008 class
background
professional background
- Faculty, Cornell University, 1976-present
awards and distinctions
- Geological Society of America Distinguished Service Award, 2000
- Miembro Correspondiente, Asociacion Geologica Argentina, 1995
- Senior Fulbright Fellow, 1989-90
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
- Kay, S. M., Godoy, E., and Kurtz, A., 2005, Episodic arc migration, crustal thickening, subduction erosion, and magmatism in the south-central Andes: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117, p. 67-88.
- Kay, S.M., C. Mpodozis, and V.A. Ramos, 2004, Andes. In Selley, R.C., Cocks, L.R., and Plimer, I.R., (eds). Encyclopedia of Geology, Elsevier publications. p. 118-131.
- Kay, S.M. and C. Mpodozis, 2002, Magmatism as a probe to the Neogene shallowing of the Nazca plate beneath the modern Chilean flatslab, Jour. South American Earth Science., 15, 39-59.
- Gorring, M. L. and Kay, S.M. 2001. Mantle processes and sources of Neogene slab-window magmas in southern Patagonia. Journal of Petrology, v. 42, 1067-1094.
- Kay, S.M., and C. Mpodozis, 2001, Central Andean ore deposits linked to evolving shallow subduction systems and thickening crust, GSAToday, v. 11, no. 3, 4-9.
- Kay, S. M., C. Mpodozis, and B. Coira, 1999, Magmatism, tectonism, and mineral deposits of the Central Andes (22?-33?S latitude). In Skinner, B. (ed.), Geology and Ore Deposits of the Central Andes, Society of Economic Geology Special Publication 7, 27-59.
- Kay, S. M. and R.W. Kay, 1994, Aleutian magmatism in space and time, in G. Plafker and H.C. Berg (eds.), The Geology of Alaska, Decade of North American Geology, Geol. Soc. Am., v. G-1, 687-722.
- Kay, S. M., B. Coira, J. Viramonte, 1994, Young mafic back-arc volcanic rocks as guides to lithospheric delamination beneath the Argentine Puna Plateau, Central Andes, J. Geophys. Res. 99, 24323-24339.
- Kay, S. M., V.A. Ramos, and M. Marques, 1993, Evidence in Cerro Pampa volcanic rocks for slab-melting prior to ridge-trench collision in southern South America, Journal of Geology 101, 703-714.
- Kay, S. M., V. Ramos, C. Mpodozis and P. Sruoga, 1989, Late Paleozoic to Jurassic silicic magmatism at the Gondwana margin: analogy to the Middle Proterozoic in North America?, Geology 17, 324-328
- Kay, S. M., V. Maksaev, C. Mpodozis, R. Moscoso and C. Nasi, 1987, Probing the evolving Andean lithosphere: middle to late Tertiary magmatic rocks in Chile over the modern zone of subhorizontal subduction (29?- 31.5?S), J. Geophys. Res. 92, 6173-6189.
- Kay, S. M., R.W. Kay and G.P. Citron, 1982, Tectonic controls of Aleutian arc tholeiitic and calc alkaline magmatism, J. Geophys. Res. 87, 4051-4072.