Robert S. Darling Distinguished Teaching Professor, Geology PhD (1992) Syracuse University Bowers Hall, Rm. 323, Phone: (607) 753-2923 robert.darling@cortland.edu curriculum vita (pdf)

Courses Taught:

• The Cortland Experience (COR 101)
• Earth Science (GLY 171)
• Physical Geology (GLY 261)
• Mineralogy (GLY 301)
• Petrology (GLY 302)
• Geology of New York State (GLY 550)
• Thermodynamics and Isotopes in Geology (GLY 560)

Research Interests:

• Petrogenesis of Adirondack Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
• Geochemistry of Fluid Inclusions
• Experimental Petrology including Cold-Seal and Quench Furnace Methods

Journal Articles Published:

• Ashley, K.T., Darling, R.S., Bodnar, R.J., Law, R.D., 2015, Significance of “stretched” mineral inclusions for reconstructing P–T exhumation history: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 169:55, doi: 10.1007/s00410-015-1149-0 

• Darling, R.S., 2013, Zircon-bearing, crystallized melt inclusions in peritectic garnet from the western Adirondack Mountains, New York State, USA: Geofluids, v. 13, p. 453-459, doi:10.1111/gfl.12047
  
  
• Derry, L.A., Evans, M.J., Darling, R.S., and France-Lanord, C., 2009, Hydrothermal heat flow near the Main Central Thrust, central Nepal Himalaya: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 286, p. 101-109.
  
  
• Darling, R.S., Florence, F.P., Lester, G.W., and Whitney, P.R., 2004, Petrogenesis of prismatine-bearing, metapelitic gneisses along the Moose River, west-central Adirondacks, New York: in Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L. McLelland, J., and Bartholomew, M.J., eds., Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the Grenville orogen in North America: Boulder Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 197, p. 325-336.
  
  
• Darling, R.S., and Bassett, W.A., 2002, Analysis of natural H₂O+CO₂+NaCl fluid inclusions in the Hydrothermal Diamond Anvil Cell: American Mineralogist, v. 87, p. 69-78.
  
  
• Darling, R.S., 2000, Modeling magmatic phase equilibria with synthetic H₂O-KCl fluid inclusions: Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 48, p. 198-202.
  
  
• Darling, R.S., Chou, I-M., and Bodnar, R.J., 1997, An occurrence of metastable cristobalite in high pressure garnet granulite: Science, v. 276, p. 91-93.
  
  
• Florence, F.P., Darling, R.S., and Orrell, S.E., 1995, Moderate pressure metamorphism and anatexis due to anorthosite intrusion, western Adirondack highlands, New York: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 121, p. 424-436. (pdf)


• Darling, R.S., and Florence, F.P., 1995, Apatite light rare-earth element chemistry of the Port Leyden nelsonite, Adirondack Highlands, New York: Implications for the origin of nelsonite in anorthosite-suite rocks: Economic Geology, v. 90, p. 964-968.
  
  
• Darling, R.S., Campbell, H.W., and Link, P.K., 1995, Petrogenesis of silver-lead-zinc veins on the eastern margin of the Idaho batholith in the Carrietown mineralized area, Blaine and Camas Counties, south-central Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 2064-P, p. P1-P17.
  
  
• Darling, R.S., 1994, Fluid inclusion and phase equilibrium studies at the Cannivan Gulch molybdenum deposit, Montana, USA: Effect of CO₂ on molybdenite-powellite stability: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 58, p. 749-760.
  
  
• Darling, R.S., 1991, An extended equation to calculate NaCl contents from final clathrate melting temperatures in H₂O-CO₂-NaCl fluid inclusions: Implications for P-T isochore location: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 55, p. 3869-3871. (pdf)
  
  

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