Current Activity

• Creating an electronic text on Volcanic Petrology. To view progress, click on the link, Volcanic Petrology, in the Quick Links Panel.
• Completing an electronic text on Advanced optical mineralogy. To view progress, click on the link, Optical Mineralogy, in the Quick Links Panel.
• Learning about climate changes over the past 20,000 years.

Current Research

• Igneous Petrology:
• Crystallization paths of magmas at Craters of the Moon, Idaho
• Thermodynamic modeling of igneous processes
• Optical Mineralogy
• Birefringence on the Indicatrix
• Reflection and Refraction at Mineral Surfaces in Thin Section
• Field Studies:
• Geology and petrology of volcanic centres, northern Canadian Cordillera
• Magmatic histories of volcanic centres, southwestern USA

Department of Geoscience
University of Calgary
Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4

Email: nichollj@ucalgary.ca

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