Dr. Marian Lupulescu

Curator of Geology
marian.lupulescu@nysed.gov
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

Publications

2018

M. Lupulescu, Steven Chamberlain, Michael Walter, George Robinson, David Bailey, Jeffrey Chiarenzelli, Susan Robinson 2018, The Rose Road Localities, Town of Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New York: Part 1—History, Rocks \& Minerals 93, 442-453. 10.1080/00357529.2018.1477011
M. Lupulescu, Jeffrey Chiarenzelli, Jared Singer, Sean Regan 2018, Age and Origin of the Mesoproterozoic Iron Oxide-Apatite Mineralization, Cheever Mine, Eastern Adirondacks, NY, Geosciences 8, 345. 10.3390/geosciences8090345
J. Chiarenzelli, M. Lupulescu, J. Singer, S. Regan, M. Pecha 2018, Columbite-Group Minerals from New York Pegmatites: Insights from Isotopic and Geochemical Analyses, Geosciences 8, 169. 10.3390/geosciences8050169

2017

J. Chiarenzelli, M. Lupulescu, D. Bailey, Jonathan Traylor 2017, Age and origin of the Cannon Point syenite, Essex County, New York: southernmost expression of Monteregian Hills magmatism?, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 54, 379-392. 10.1139/cjes-2016-0144
J. Chiarenzelli, M. Lupulescu, B. Selleck, M. Bickford, P. Valley, L. McLelland 2017, Lyon Mountain ferroan leucogranite suite: Magmatic response to extensional thinning of overthickened crust in the core of the Grenville orogen, Geological Society of America Bulletin 129, 1472-1488. 10.1130/B31697.1
J. Chiarenzelli, M. Lupulescu, D. Bailey, J. Hughes 2017, Texture, Crystal Structure, and Composition of Fluorapatites From Iron Oxide-Apatite (Ioa) Deposits, Eastern Adirondack Mountains, New York, The Canadian Mineralogist 55, 399-417. 10.3749/canmin.1600057
M. Lupulescu, Steven Chamberlain, George Robinson, David Bailey, Andrew Sutherland, Scott Sutherland 2017, New Danburite Locality Discovered in the Town of Macomb, St. Lawrence County, New York, Rocks \& Minerals 92, 180-187. 10.1080/00357529.2016.1277924
Bailey, D., Lupulescu, M., Chiarenzelli, J., 2017. Kimberlites in the Cayuga Lake Region of Central New York: The Six Mile Creek, Williams Brook, and Taughannock Creek Dikes, in: Muller, O. (Ed.), Field Trip Guide, New York State Geological Association 89th Annual Meeting. Alfred University, Alfred, New York, pp. 159-189.
Chiarenzelli, J., Kratzmann, D., Selleck, B., DeLorraine, W., Lupulescu, M., 2017. Sediment Provenance Utility of Detrital Zircon Grains From Upper Amphibolite Facies Rocks of the Grenville Supergroup, Adirondack Lowlands, Northeastern United States, in: Mazumder, Rajat (Ed.), Sediment Provenance Influences on Compositional Change from Source to Sink. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 371-401.

2016

J. Chiarenzelli, M. Lupulescu, L. Grohn, de Nascimento, M. Walton 2016, Bedrock Geology of the Witherbee Quadrangle, Essex County, New York. Map and Chart Series 93