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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1942 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Charles R. Bacon is a researcher affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular contributions in subfields such as Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Geology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their main research topics encompass Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Geological Studies and Exploration, and Geological formations and processes.

Charles R. Bacon has published papers in the following venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Bulletin of Volcanology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Charles R. Bacon include:

  • "COMPOSITIONAL PROGRESSION FROM BASALT-ONLY TO BASALT+ANDESITE+DACITE DURING THE 300 KA ERUPTIVE HISTORY OF MT. VENIAMINOF, ALASKA" (2021), published in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • "MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF THE COSO VOLCANIC AND GEOTHERMAL FIELDS FORTY YEARS AGO" (2020), published in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • "MOBILE, "DRY" DACITES BY SHALLOW, GABBROIC DIFFERENTIATION OF ARC BASALTS AT MOUNT VENIAMINOF VOLCANO, ALASKA PENINSULA" (2021), published in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • "New insights into gas-driven phase segregation in andesitic enclaves from Mt. Mazama (Crater Lake), USA" (2025), published in Bulletin of Volcanology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Charles R. Bacon are:

  • T. W. Sisson
  • Andrew T. Calvert
  • Andrew J. Calvert
  • Vincent J. M. Salters
  • Julie Oppenheimer

Charles R. Bacon's career includes recognition through awards such as:

  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), awarded in 2008
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 1942

Best Publications

  • Compositional evolution of the zoned calcalkaline magma chamber of Mount Mazama, Crater Lake, Oregon

    Charles R. Bacon;Timothy H. Druitt

  • Eruptive history of Mount Mazama and Crater Lake Caldera, Cascade Range, U.S.A.

    Charles R. Bacon

  • Mg/Mn partitioning as a test for equilibrium between coexisting Fe-Ti oxides

    Charles R. Bacon;Marc M. Hirschmann

  • Magmatic inclusions in silicic and intermediate volcanic rocks

    Charles R. Bacon

  • Structure and physical characteristics of pumice from the climactic eruption of Mount Mazama (Crater Lake), Oregon

    C. Klug;K. Cashman;Charles R. Bacon

  • Gas-driven filter pressing in magmas

    Thomas W. Sisson;Charles R. Bacon

  • Late Cenozoic volcanism, geochronology, and structure of the Coso Range, Inyo County, California

    Wendell A. Duffield;Charles R. Bacon;G. Brent Dalrymple

  • Crystallization of accessory phases in magmas by local saturation adjacent to phenocrysts

    Charles R. Bacon

  • Primitive magmas at five Cascade volcanic fields; melts from hot, heterogeneous sub-arc mantle

    Charles R. Bacon;Peggy E. Bruggman;Robert L. Christiansen;Michael A. Clynne

  • Eruptive history and geochronology of Mount Mazama and the Crater Lake region, Oregon

    Charles R. Bacon;Marvin A. Lanphere

  • Garnet/high-silica rhyolite trace element partition coefficients measured by ion microprobe

    Thomas W. Sisson;Charles R. Bacon

  • Late Pleistocene granodiorite source for recycled zircon and phenocrysts in rhyodacite lava at Crater Lake, Oregon

    Charles R. Bacon;Jacob B. Lowenstern

  • Pleistocene high‐silica rhyolites of the Coso Volcanic Field, Inyo County, California

    Charles R. Bacon;Ray Macdonald;Robert L. Smith;Philip A. Baedecker

  • Magmatic inclusions in rhyolites, contaminated basalts, and compositional zonation beneath the Coso volcanic field, California

    Charles R. Bacon;Jenny Metz

  • Petrology of the zoned calcalkaline magma chamber of Mount Mazama, Crater Lake, Oregon

    Timothy H. Druitt;Charles R. Bacon

  • Lithic breccia and ignimbrite erupted during the collapse of Crater Lake Caldera, Oregon

    Timothy H. Druitt;Charles R. Bacon

  • Time-predictable bimodal volcanism in the Coso Range, California

    Charles R. Bacon

  • Stages in the P-T path of ascending basalt magma: an example from San Quintin, Baja California

    C. R. Bacon;I. S. E. Carmichael

  • Water, CO2, Cl, and F in melt inclusions in phenocrysts from three Holocene explosive eruptions, Crater Lake, Oregon

    Charles R. Bacon;Sally Newman;Edward M. Stolper

  • Influences of organic matter and calcification rate on trace elements in aragonitic estuarine bivalve shells

    Renee K. Takesue;Charles R. Bacon;Janet K. Thompson

  • Stable isotope and petrologic evidence for open-system degassing during the climactic and pre-climactic eruptions of Mt. Mazama, Crater Lake, Oregon

    Charles W. Mandeville;James D. Webster;Christine Tappen;Bruce E. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Wendell A. Duffield
Wendell A. Duffield Northern Arizona University
Joseph L. Wooden
Joseph L. Wooden Stanford University
James V. Gardner
James V. Gardner University of New Hampshire
Timothy H. Druitt
Timothy H. Druitt University of Clermont Auvergne
Anders Meibom
Anders Meibom École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Marvin A. Lanphere
Marvin A. Lanphere United States Geological Survey
Michael A. Clynne
Michael A. Clynne United States Geological Survey
Art B. Owen
Art B. Owen Stanford University
Clark M. Johnson
Clark M. Johnson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert B. Dunbar
Robert B. Dunbar Stanford University

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