Faculty Associates

Charles Langmuir

Higgins Professor of Geochemistry

 
Office: Hoffman 109
Assistant: Lisa McCaig (617) 496-7504
Email: langmuir@eps.harvard.edu
Web: http://eps.harvard.edu/people/charles-h-langmuir

Research Interests: 

Solid earth geochemical cycle; petrology; volcanology; ocean ridges; convergent margins; ocean islands; composition and evolution of the earth's mantle.

Related Publications: 

How to Build a Habitable Planet, Second Ed. (Princeton University Press, 2009)

Chemical systematics and hydrous melting of the mantle in Back-Arc Basins. (2006)

Origin of enriched ocean ridge basalts and implications for mantle dynamics. (2004)

A hydrous melting and fractionation model for mid-ocean ridge basalts: Application to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near the Azores. (2004)

The importance of water to oceanic melting regimes. (2003)

Faculty Department: 

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Environmental Courses: 

GENED 1018. How to Build a Habitable Planet
E-PSCI 345. Solid Earth Geochemistry

Research Areas: 

Harvard University
Center for the Environment
Address: 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge
Email: huce@environment.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 495-0368

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