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Dr. Marian Lupulescu

Curator of Geology

518-474-1432

Research in the Mineralogy lab focuses on the systematic mineralogy, hard rock petrology, geochemistry, and mineral deposits of New York State. It unites field survey and mapping with analytical work. Mineralogy, Petrography and Geology of Ore Deposits

My Research Projects

Publications

2012

Bailey, D., Lupulescu, M.V., 2012. Kimberlitic Rocks of New York: The Dewitt 'Kimberlite', Field Trip Guidbook for the 84th Annual Meeting of the New York State Geological Association. Clinton, New York.

2011

Lou, Y., Rakovan, J., Lupulescu, M.V., Hughes, J.M., Pan, Y., 2011. Crystal Chemistry of Th in Fluorapatite. American Mineralogist 96, 23-33.

Chiarenzelli, J.R., Valentino, D., Lupulescu, M.V., Thern, J., Johnston, S., 2011. Differentiating Shawinigan and Ottawan Orogenesis in the Central Adirondacks. Geosphere 7, 2-22.

Lupulescu, M.V., Chiarenzelli, J.R., Pullen, A.T., Price, J.D., 2011. Using Pegmatite Geochronology to Constrain Temporal Events in the Adirondack Mountains. Geosphere 7, 23-29. doi:10.1130/GES00596.1

Lupulescu, M.V., Rowe, R., 2011. Al-rich Chromium-dravite from the #1 Mine, Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York. The Canadian Mineralogist 49, 1189-1198.

Chiarenzelli, J.R., Lupulescu, M.V., Thern, E., Cousens, B., 2011. Tectonic Implications of the Discovery of a Shawinigan Ophiolite (Pyrites Complex) in the Adirondack Lowlands. Geosphere 7, 333-356. doi:10.1130/GES00608.1

Lupulescu, M.V., 2011. Tourmaline-Group Minerals. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 6, 8-9.

2010

Chiarenzelli, J.R., Lupulescu, M.V., Cousens, B., Thern, E., Coffin, L., Regan, S., 2010. Enriched Grenvillian Lithospheric Mantle as a Consequence of Long-lived Subduction Beneath Laurentia. Geology 38, 151-154. doi:10.1130/G30342.1

Lupulescu, M.V., Chamberlain, S.C., Walter, M., Wallace, S., 2010. Diagenetic Uvite with Overgrown Dravite: Bigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York. Rocks & Minerals 85, 250-259. doi:10.1080/00357529.2010.487359

Chamberlain, S.C., Robinson, G.W., Lupulescu, M.V., Morgan, T.C., Johnson, J.T., deLorraine, W.M., 2010. Cubic Magnetite Crystals from Balmat, New York. The Mineralogical Record 41, 527-537.