Matt Manon
Matthew R. Manon

Adjunct Associate Professor
Office: F.W. Olin 312
Phone: (518) 388-8015
Fax: (518)388-6417
Email: manonm@union.edu
Website: M. Manon

Education Research Courses Publications
Education:

B.A. 2002, Franklin Marshall College; Ph.D. 2008 Geology, University of Michigan

Research Interests:

My research focuses on the interplay between tectonic processes and rock metamorphism. I use the thermodynamic properties of minerals to unravel the pressure/temperature histories of metamorphic rocks. My graduate thesis focused on the exhumation history of lawsonite and epidote blueshists from the island of Crete. As a post doc at Syracuse University I worked on understanding the PT (Pressure+Temperature) history of very young coesite-bearing eclogite and associated rocks from the metamorphic core complexes in Papua New Guinea. Since our knowledge of these thermodynamic properties is somewhat incomplete, I will always be interested in acquiring more basic thermodynamic data on minerals. I have experience with the chemical characterization of minerals and rocks at many different scales by using Petrography, XRF, XRD SEM and EMPA. In addition, I have experience using thermodynamic modeling software such as THERMOCALC, PERPLE_X and THERIAK-DOMINIO for answering petrologic questions. As a geologist, I find it hard to be confined to just one field and so I've got a broad range of other interests including low-temperature thermochronology, accessory mineral thermobarometry, uncertainty assessment in geology, and geophysical modeling of mantle phase transitions.

Courses:
  • Geology 110: Physical Geology
  • Geology 112: Environmental Geology
  • Geology 220: Mineral Science
  • Geology 303: Introduction to Geophysics
  • Geology 307: Structural Geology
  • Geology 405: Senior Seminar
Publications:
  • Manon, M.R., 2009. PT history of a suite of rocks from the coesite-bearing locality on the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, PNG: insights from pseudosection modeling. Eos Trans. AGU 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V43D-2304.
  • Frey HM, Manon MRF (2009) Montserrat: The classroom to the field and back again. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, p. 601
  • Manon, M.R.F., Dachs, E. & Essene, E.J., 2008. Low T heat capacity measurements and new entropy data for titanite (sphene): implications for thermobarometry of high pressure rocks. Contr. Mineral. Petrol., 156:709-720 10.1007/s00410-008-0311-3
  • Wiebe, R.A., Manon, M.R., Hawkins, D.P., 2004. Late-stage mafic injection and thermal rejuvenation of the Vinalhaven granite, coastal Maine Journ. Petrol. 45 (11), 2133-2153