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

2014

J. Chiarenzelli, M. Lupulescu, M. Hawkins, D. Bailey, J. Carl 2014, The Benson Mines, St. Lawrence County, New York: History of the Discovery, Mining, and Mineralogy of the Deposit, Rocks \& Minerals 89, 118-131. 10.1080/00357529.2014.865431

2013

M. Lupulescu, D. Bailey, S. Chamberlain 2013, Minerals of the Scott Farm Pegmatite Near Fine St. Lawrence County, New York, Rocks \& Minerals 88, 544-551. 10.1080/00357529.2013.826091
M. Lupulescu, M. Hawkins, D. Bailey, R. Rowe 2013, Six New Rare Minerals from New York, Mineral News 29, 3-4.

2012

M. Lupulescu, D. Bailey, T. Rayne 2012, Kimberlitic Rocks of New York: The Dewitt ’Kimberlite’. Field Trip Guidbook for the 84th Annual Meeting of the New York State Geological Association. Presented at the ,, Clinton, New York
M. Lupulescu, S. Chamberlain, M. Walter 2012, Road-cut Mineral Occurrences of St. Lawrence County, New York. Part 5: The Prehnite Occurrence on the Russell-Hermon Road, Rocks \& Minerals 87, 540-547. 10.1080/00357529.2011.622229
J. Chiarenzelli, M. Lupulescu, D. Bailey 2012, Mineralogy, Classification, and Tectonic Setting of the Granitic Pegmatites of New York State, USA, The Canadian Mineralogist 50, 1713-1728. 10.3749/canmin.50.6.1713

2011

M. Lupulescu, R. Rowe 2011, Al-rich Chromium-dravite from the \#1 Mine, Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York, The Canadian Mineralogist 49, 1189-1198.
J. Chiarenzelli, M. Lupulescu, A. Pullen, J. Price 2011, Using Pegmatite Geochronology to Constrain Temporal Events in the Adirondack Mountains, Geosphere 7, 23-29. 10.1130/GES00596.1
M. Lupulescu 2011, Tourmaline-Group Minerals. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 6, 8-9
J. Chiarenzelli, M. Lupulescu, D. Valentino, J. Thern, S. Johnston 2011, Differentiating Shawinigan and Ottawan Orogenesis in the Central Adirondacks, Geosphere 7, 2-22.