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  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

G. Lang Farmer is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans a number of specialized subfields including Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, and Inorganic Chemistry.

They have contributed to the study of geological and geochemical analysis, focusing on areas such as high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and elemental analysis, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and radioactive element chemistry and processing.

Recent publications by G. Lang Farmer include:

  • Identifying Metasomatized Continental Lithospheric Mantle Involvement in Cenozoic Magmatism From Ta/Th Values, Southwestern North America, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Their frequent co-authors include Eric T. Ellison, A. S. Bell, Kevin H. Mahan, Shelby Dianne Litton, and Breno Goldenberg Araujo. These collaborations highlight a network of researchers working in closely related subjects.

Publications by G. Lang Farmer have appeared most often in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America and Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, as well as Ore Geology Reviews, American Mineralogist, and Rocky Mountain geology.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, an acknowledgment without a specified awarding year or citation details available.

Best Publications

  • Increasing Eolian Dust Deposition in the Western United States Linked to Human Activity

    J. C. Neff;A. P. Ballantyne;G. L. Farmer;N. M. Mahowald;N. M. Mahowald

  • Impact of disturbed desert soils on duration of mountain snow cover

    Thomas H. Painter;Thomas H. Painter;Andrew P. Barrett;Christopher C. Landry;Jason C. Neff

  • Origin of Mesozoic and Tertiary granite in the western United States and implications for Pre‐Mesozoic crustal structure: 1. Nd and Sr isotopic studies in the geocline of the Northern Great Basin

    G. Lang Farmer;Donald J. DePaolo

  • How Laramide-Age Hydration of North American Lithosphere by the Farallon Slab Controlled Subsequent Activity in the Western United States

    Eugene Humphreys;Erin Hessler;Kenneth Dueker;G. Lang Farmer

  • Origin of Mesozoic and Tertiary granite in the western United States and implications for Pre-Mesozoic crustal structure: 2. Nd and Sr isotopic studies of unmineralized and Cu- and Mo-mineralized granite in the Precambrian Craton

    G. Lang Farmer;Donald J. Depaolo

  • A positive test of East Antarctica-Laurentia juxtaposition within the Rodinia supercontinent.

    John W Goodge;J.D. Vervoort;Christopher Fanning;D.M. Brecke

  • Tectonics of Pliocene removal of lithosphere of the Sierra Nevada, California

    Craig H. Jones;G. Lang Farmer;Jeffrey Unruh

  • Did lithospheric delamination trigger late Cenozoic potassic volcanism in the southern Sierra Nevada, California?

    G. Lang Farmer;Allen F. Glazner;Curtis R. Manley

  • Timing of volcanism in the Sierra Nevada of California: Evidence for Pliocene delamination of the batholithic root?

    Curtis R. Manley;Allen F. Glazner;G. Lang Farmer

  • Late Proterozoic–Paleozoic evolution of the Arctic Alaska–Chukotka terrane based on U-Pb igneous and detrital zircon ages: Implications for Neoproterozoic paleogeographic reconstructions

    Jeffrey M. Amato;Jaime Toro;Elizabeth L. Miller;George E. Gehrels

  • Continental Basaltic Rocks

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  • The peralkaline granite-related Khaldzan-Buregtey rare metal (Zr, Nb, REE) deposit, western Mongolia

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  • Tectonic setting and provenance of the Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain and Big Cottonwood groups, northern Utah: constraints from geochemistry, Nd isotopes, and detrital modes

    Kent C Condie;Dennis Lee;G.Lang Farmer

  • Structure and evolution of the lithosphere beneath the rocky mountains: Initial results from the CD-ROM experiment

    K. E. Karlstrom;S. A. Bowring;K. R. Chamberlain;K. G. Dueker

  • Provenance of Late Quaternary ice-proximal sediments in the North Atlantic: Nd, Sr and Pb isotopic evidence

    G.Lang Farmer;Donald Barber;John Andrews

  • The 50 Ma granodiorite of the eastern Gulf of Alaska: Melting in an accretionary prism in the forearc

    Fred Barker;G. L. Farmer;R. A. Ayuso;George Plafker

  • Isotopic Evidence on the Structure and Origin of Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle in Southern Nevada

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  • Hydrodynamic mechanism for the Laramide orogeny

    Craig H. Jones;G. Lang Farmer;Brad Sageman;Shijie Zhong

  • Evolution of the Mazatzal province and the timing of the Mazatzal orogeny: Insights from U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of igneous and metasedimentary rocks in southern New Mexico

    Jeffrey M. Amato;Andre O. Boullion;Antonio M. Serna;Amos E. Sanders

  • Nd, Sr, and O isotopic variations in metaluminous ash-flow tuffs and related volcanic rocks at the Timber Mountain/Oasis Valley Caldera, Complex, SW Nevada: implications for the origin and evolution of large-volume silicic magma bodies

    G. Lang Farmer;David E. Broxton;Richard G. Warren;William Pickthorn

  • Variations across and along a major continental rift: An interdisciplinary study of the Basin and Range Province, western USA

    Craig H. Jones;Brian P. Wernicke;G.Lang Farmer;J.Douglas Walker

  • Ancient maize from Chacoan great houses: Where was it grown?

    Larry Benson;Linda Cordell;Kirk Vincent;Howard Taylor

  • Age determinations and growth rates of Pacific ferromanganese deposits using strontium isotopes

    B.L Ingram;B.L Ingram;J.R Hein;G.L Farmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Allen F. Glazner
Allen F. Glazner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Charles R. Stern
Charles R. Stern University of Colorado Boulder
Craig H. Jones
Craig H. Jones University of Colorado Boulder
Christopher M. Fedo
Christopher M. Fedo University of Tennessee at Knoxville
John T. Andrews
John T. Andrews University of Colorado Boulder
Markus B. Raschke
Markus B. Raschke University of Colorado Boulder
Joseph L. Wooden
Joseph L. Wooden Stanford University
Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
George E. Gehrels
George E. Gehrels University of Arizona

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