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Assoc. Prof. James D.L. White

James DL White

PhD, University of California-Santa Barbara

MS, University of Missouri-Columbia

BS & BA (Geology & Phil/Hist) Texas Christian University

Volcanology

Office - Geology 1S5

Tel 64 3 479 9009

Email james.white@otago.ac.nz

JDL White current CV.pdf

Teaching

Research Interests

  • Explosive subaqueous and subglacial eruptions

  • Maar-diatreme volcanism

  • Magma-water interaction and fragmentation

  • Peperites

  • Primary and secondary volcaniclastic sedimentation

Recent Publications

White JDL, Ross P-S (2011) Maar-diatreme volcanoes: A review. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 201(1-4): 1-29 doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2011.01.010

Schipper CI, White JDL, Zimanowski B, Büttner R, Sonder I, Schmid A (2011) Experimental interaction of magma and "dirty" coolants.  Earth Planet Sci Lett 303 (3-4):323-336 doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.01.010

Airoldi G, Muirhead JD, White JDL, Rowland J (2011) Emplacement of magma at shallow depth: insights from field relationships at Allan Hills (South Victoria Land, East Antarctica). Ant Sci 23(2): 281-296 doi:10.1017/S0954102011000095

Murtagh RM, White JDL, Sohn YK (2010) Pyroclast textures of the Ilchulbong 'wet' tuff cone, Jeju Island, South Korea. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 201(1-4): 385-396.
doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.09.009

Timm C, Hoernle K, Werner R, Hauff F, den Bogaard Pv, White J, Mortimer N, Garbe-Schönberg D (2010) Temporal and geochemical evolution of the Cenozoic intraplate volcanism of Zealandia. Earth-Sci Rev 98(1-2): 38-64 DOI:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.09.009

Schipper CI, White JDL, Houghton BF, Shimizu N, Stewart RB (2010) Explosive submarine eruptions driven by volatile-coupled degassing at Lo`ihi Seamount, Hawai`i.  Earth Planet Sci Lett 295, 497-510.  doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.031

Schipper CI, White JDL, Houghton BF, Shimizu N, Stewart RB (2010) “Poseidic” explosive eruptions at Loihi Seamount, Hawaii. Geology 38: 291-294.  doi:10.1130/G30351.1

Schipper, C. and White, J. (2010). No depth limit to hydrovolcanic limu o Pele: analysis of limu from Lo`ihi Seamount, Hawai`i. Bulletin of Volcanology, doi: 10.1007/s00445-009-0315-5

Schipper CI, White JDL, Houghton BF (2010) Syn- and post-fragmentation textures in submarine pyroclasts from Lo`ihi Seamount, Hawai`i. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 191: 93-106.  doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.01.002

Finnis KK, Johnston DM, Ronan KR, White JDL (2010) Hazard perceptions and preparedness of Taranaki youth. Disaster Prev Mgt 19(2):175-184 doi:10.1108/09653561011037986

Marx, R., White, J.D.L. and Manville, V. 2009. Sedimentology and allostratigraphy of post-240 ka to pre-26.5 ka lacustrine terraces at intracaldera Lake Rotorua, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. Sedimentary Geology 220: 349-362.  doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.04.025

McClintock M, Ross P-S, White JDL (2009) The importance of the transport system in shaping the growth and form of kimberlite volcanoes. Lithos 112: 465-472. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.04.014

White, J.D.L., Bryan, S.E., Ross, P.-S., Self, S. and Thordarson, T.
(2009) Physical volcanology of large igneous provinces: update and review.  In: T. Thordarson, S. Self, G. Larsen, S. Rowland and A. Hoskuldsson (eds), Studies in Volcanology: The Legacy of George Walker,Special Publications of IAVCEI 2, 291-321 Geological Society of London.  ISBN: 978-1-86239-280-9

Manville, V., Segschneider, B., Newton, E., White, J.D.L., Houghton, B.F. and Wilson, C.J.N. 2009. Environmental impact of the 1.8 ka Taupo eruption, New Zealand: Landscape responses to a large-scale explosive rhyolite eruption. Sedimentary Geology, 220: 318-336.  doi:
10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.04.017

Sequeiros, O.E., Cantelli, A., Viparelli, E., White, J.D.L., García, M.H. and Parker, G. (2009) Modeling turbidity currents with nonuniform sediment and reverse buoyancy.  Water Resources Research 45, 10.1029/2008WR007422. doi: 10.1029/2008WR007422

Ross P-S, White J, Zimanowski B, Büttner R (2008) Rapid injection of particles and gas into non-fluidized granular material, and some volcanological implications. Bulletin of Volcanology 70 (10):1151-1168.  doi: 10.1007/s00445-008-0230-1

Ross P-S, White JDL, Zimanowski B, Büttner R (2008) Multiphase flow above explosion sites in debris-filled volcanic vents: Insights from analogue experiments. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 178(1):104-112 doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.01.013

Mueller W, Stix J, White JDL, Corcoran P, LaFrance B, Daignault R (2008) Characterization of Archean subaqueous calderas in Canada: physical volcanology, carbonate-rich hydrothermal alteration and a new exploration model.  In: Caldera Volcanism (J Gottsmann, J Marti, eds) Developments in Volcanology 10: 181-232.  Elsevier.  ISBN-13: 978-0444531650

Cantelli A, Johnson S, White JDL, Parker G (2008) Sediment Sorting in the Deposits of Turbidity Currents Created by Explosive Subaqueous Eruptions.  Journal of Geology 116: 76-93   doi: 10.1086/524676

Ross P-S,  White JDL, McClintock MK (2008) Physical volcanology of mafic volcaniclastic deposits and lavas in the Coombs-Allan Hills area, Ferrar large igneous province, Antarctica. In: Physical Volcanology of Large Igneous Provinces. Skilling IP, White JDL (ed) J Volcanol Geotherm Res. 172, 38-60  doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2005.11.011

McClintock MK,  White JDL, Houghton BF, Skilling IP (2008) Physical volcanology of a large crater-complex within the Karoo flood basalt, Sterkspruit, South Africa. In: Physical Volcanology of Large Igneous Provinces. Skilling IP, White JDL (ed) J Volcanol Geotherm Res.  doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2005.11.012

Lockett G, White JDL (2008) Relationships among country rock, deposits of a volcanically triggered debris avalanche, and mafic volcaniclastic deposits of the Mawson Formation, Ferrar LIP, Mt Watters, Allan Hills, Antarctica. In: Physical Volcanology of Large Igneous Provinces. Skilling IP, White JDL (ed) J Volcanol Geotherm Res.172, 62-74  doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2006.02.017

McClintock et al. (2008) Compositionally diverse magmas erupted close together in space and time within a Karoo flood basalt crater complex. Bull Volc. 172, 93-111  doi: 10.1007/s00445-007-0178-6

Also See Publications

Postgraduate Student Supervision

PhD - Current

  • Andreas Auer Sedimentary Response to Debris Avalanche and Eruption at Mt Ruapehu
  • Carolyn Gorny Origin of Pleistocene lava-hyaloclastite sheets, southeast Iceland
  • Simone Hicks  Ecological and sedimentological evolution of the volcanically active Oligocene continental shelf, east Otago, New Zealand
  • Nathalie Lefebvre Volcanological Factors Controlling the Diamond Distribution within Kimberlite Pipes Using Drill Core Information and Modern Analogues From Selected Pipes in the Attawapiskat Kimberlite Field, Northern Ontario, Canada and Hopi Buttes, Arizona, USA
  • Michael May The Rotomahana Eruption of 1886: Thermodynamics of a basaltic eruption through an intensely active geothermal system, North Island, New Zealand
  • Ray Marx Depositional characteristics and volcanological interpretations of Miocene – Pliocene age marine ash deposits in the forearc East Coast Basin, North Island, New Zealand.
  • Rachel Murtagh An investigation into the explosivity of shallow subaqueous basaltic eruptions

PhD - Published/Past

  • Giulia Airoldi (2010) Magma injection dynamics in the shallow Ferrar LIP (South Victoria Land, Antarctica)
  • C. Ian Schipper (2009) Explosive Submarine Volcanism at Lō`ihi Seamount, Hawai`i
  • Jean-Baptiste Rosseel.  Supervisors JDL White, BF Houghton.  Project: Phreatic and phreatomagmatic processes of the 1886 Rotomahana eruption: destruction of an active hydrothermal system along an eruption fissure. (1998-2008; withdrawn).
  • McClintock, M.K.(2006) Evolution of a large volcaniclastic vent complex preceding emplacement of the Karoo flood basalts, Sterkspruit, Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa.
  • Finnis, K. (2006) Resilience and vulnerability in communities around Mt Taranaki.
  • Ross, P.-S. (2005) Volcanology of the Mawson Formation at Coombs and Allan Hills, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Unpublished PhD dissertation Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin
  • Nemeth, K. (2001) Phreatomagmatism at the Waipiata Volcanic Field, Otago, New Zealand. unpublished PhD dissertation Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin
  • Martin, U. (2000) Eruptions and deposition of volcaniclastic rocks in the Dunedin Volcanic Complex, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand. unpublished PhD dissertation Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin
  • Segschneider, B. (2000) Resedimentation of the 1.8 ka Taupo ignimbrite in the Hawke's Bay region, North Island, New Zealand. Unpublished PhD dissertation Thesis, University of Otago, New Zealand, Dunedin
  • Maicher, D. (1999) Hyaloclastite beds of shelf and seamount: roles of exsolution, entrapment and entrainment. unpublished Phd dissertation Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin

MSc

  • Lewis, Bridgette, (2007). Deposition and compositional characteristics of the Potaka Tephra, Wanganui Basin, North Island, New Zealand.
  • Guegan, Emilie, (2006). Magma-supply dynamics of the Ferrar large igneous province, Coombs Hills, Antarctica.
  • Schipper, Christopher Ian (2004) Chemical and mineralogical characterization of pyroclastic deposits from the ca. 1 Ma Kidnappers and Rocky Hill eruptions, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. Unpublished MSc thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Marx, Raymond S . (2004) The Rotorua caldera lake: volcanic eruptions and water levels from 220 ka to present. Unpublished MSc Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.04.025

  • Hood Hills, Simone B. (2004) Vent structures preserved in the Mawson Formation, a phreatomagmatic volcanic complex in the Allan Hills, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Unpublished MSc thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Lockett, Gillian M. (2003) Landslide and debris flow deposits at the margin of a large vent complex, Mawson Formation, Allan Hills, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Unpublished MSc thesis Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
  • Newton, Erin H. (2002) Resedimentation of the 1800a Taupo Ignimbrite along the Rangitaiki River Catchment, North Island, New Zealand. MSc Thesis Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 170 pp + 73 pg appendices
  • von Lichtan, Isabella J. (deferred) Flotation and sedimentation of large hot pumice blocks in a refilling caldera lake at the end of the Taupo 1.8 ka eruption
  • McClintock, Murray K. (1999) Phreatomagmatism at Coombs Hills, Antarctica: Magma-water super-volcanism in a wet, failed rift. unpublished MSc Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 191 pp.
  • Clarkson, Roger A.(1996) Immediate post-c. 1800a Taupo eruption secondary deposits and shorelines. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 156 pp.

BSc(Hons)

  • Garland, Marama. (2006) Mawson-Ferrar Dolerite relationships, northern East Ridge, Coombs Hills, Antarctica
  • Hardy, Lyndon (2005) Investigation of the Rotomahana Mud and deposits of the Lake Okaro hydrothermal explosions, North Island, New Zealand.
  • Dreiberg, Bede J. (1995) Post eruption deposition from the 10 June 1886, Mt Tarawera eruption. BSc (Hons) thesis Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, 1-82 pp.
  • Townend, John (1995) The Rotomahana Eruption 1886: Heterogeneous interaction between basaltic magma and a geothermal system. BSc Honours thesis Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin

Postgraduate Diploma in Science

  • Laurie, Blair (2004) Volcanic architecture of the Harbour Cone-Dicks Hill area, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand.