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Lance E. Kearns

Lance Kearns Professor of Geology
Curator, James Madison University Mineral Museum
Director of the Scanning Electron Microscope Regional Facility
Former Director, Summer Geology Field Program

Ph.D. Univ. of Delaware (Mineralogy)
M.S. Univ. of Delaware (Coastal Geology)
B.S. Waynesburg College, PA
E-mail:kearnsle@jmu.edu
Office: Memorial Hall
Phone: 540.568.6421


Research
Minerals of Virginia, Mineralogy of the Amelia, Virginia pegmatite district, Mineralogy of the Buck Hill Syenite, Augusta Co., Virginia, Mineral distribution and mineral chemistry of the Morefield pegmatite mine
Selected Publications
Kearns, L. E. & Martin, B. S, 2004. New Discoveries from the Morefield Pegmatite, Amelia,Virginia. (abst). Contributed papers in Specimen Mineralogy, 30th Rochester Mineralogical Symposium, in Rocks & Minerals Magazine, V. 79, #4, p. 256.
Raiter, E., A. Saint John, L.E. Kearns, and T. Tucker, 2003. The Mineralogy of the Buck Hill Syenite Intrusion, Augusta County, Virginia. Rocks and Minerals Magazine, 78, p. 123 - 124.
Kearns, L. E. & Martin, B. S., 2000. The Morefield Pegmatite, Amelia, Virginia; Mineral Update. Virginia Minerals, v.46, p. 9-13.
Kearns,L. E., 1995. A rare alumino-fluoride suite from the Morefield pegmatite, Amelia county, Virginia.The Mineralogical Record.(in press)
Kearns, L. E., 1993. Minerals of the Morefield pegmatite, Amelia county, Virginia. Rocks and Minerals, v. 68pp. 232-242.
Courses
Laboratory Techniques in Geology
Geol 390
Mineralogy
Geol. 280
X-ray Characterization of Solid Materials
Geol/Mats 396
Chemistry, Physics and the Human Experience
GSci 101
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