Publications

Zieman, L., Ibañez-Mejia, M., Rooney, A., Bloch, E, Pardo, N., Schoene, B., Szymanowski, D. (2023) To sink or not to sink: The thermal and density structure of the modern northern Andean arc constrained by xenolith petrology. In press at Geology.

Tompkins, H. G. D., Ibañez-Mejia, M., Tissot, F. L. H., Bloch, E, Wang, Y., Trail, D. (2023) Zircon-growth experiments reveal limited equilibrium Zr isotope fractionation in magmas. In press at Geochemical Perspective Letters.

Jollands, M., Bloch, E, Van Orman, J., O’Neill, H., Hermann, J. (2022) Scandium diffusion in forsterite: Concentration dependence, inter-site reactions and the effect of trivalent cations on Fe diffusion. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 334, 106954.

Bloch, E., Jollands, M., Tollan, P., Hervig, R., Müntener, O., Bouvier, A.-S., Plane, F., Berry, A., Escrig, S., Meibom, A., Alleon, J., Ibañez-Mejia, M., Baumgartner, L., Zaubitzer, C., Marin-Carbonne, J., Newville, M. (2022) Diffusion anisotropy of Ti in zircon and implications for Ti-in-zircon thermometry. Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 578, 117317.

Devoir, A., Bloch, E., Müntener, O. (2021) Residence time of igneous garnet in Si-rich magmatic systems: Insights from diffusion modeling of major and trace elements. Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 560, 116771.

Bloch, E., Jollands, M., Devoir, A., Bouvier, A.-S., Ibanez-Mejia, M., Baumgartner, L. (2020) Multi-species diffusion of yttrium, rare earth elements and hafnium in garnet. Journal of Petrology v. 61(7), egaa055.

Jollands, M., Bloch, E., Müntener, O. (2020) New Ti-in-quartz diffusivities reconcile natural Ti zoning with time scales and temperatures of upper crustal magma reservoirs: REPLY. Geology v. 48(12), e514.

Pistone, M., Baumgartner, L. P., Begué, F., Jarvis, P. A., Bloch, E., Robyr, M., Müntener, O., Sisson, T. W., Blundy, J. D. (2020) Felsic melt and gas mobilization during magma solidification: An experimental study at 1.1 kbar. Frontiers in Earth Science 8.

Jollands, M., Bloch, E., Müntener, O. (2020) New Ti-in-quartz diffusivities reconcile natural Ti zoning with time scales and temperatures of upper crustal magma reservoirs. Geology v. 48(7), 654-657.

Cheng, H., Bloch, E., Moulas, E., Vervoort, J. (2020) Reconciliation of discrepant U-Pb, Lu-Hf, Sm-Nd, Ar-Ar and U-Th/He dates in an amphibolite from the Cathaysia block in Southern China Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 175: 4.

Bloch, E., Jollands, M., Gerstl, S., Bouvier, A.-S., Baumgartner, L. (2019) Diffusion of calcium in forsterite and ultra-high resolution of experimental diffusion profiles in minerals using local electrode atom probe tomography. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 265: 85-95.

Ibañez-Mejia, M., Bloch, E., Vervoort, J. (2018) Timescales of collisional metamorphism from combined Sm-Nd, Lu-Hf and U-Pb thermochronology: A case study from the Proterozoic Putumayo Orogen. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 235: 103-126.

Bloch, E., Watkins, J., Ganguly, J. (2018) Comment on “Reconciliation of the excess 176Hf conundrum in meteorites: Recent disturbances of the Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd isotope systematics” [Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 212 (2017) 303-323]. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 230: 190-192.

Bloch, E., Ibañez-Mejia, M., Murray, K., Vervoort, J., Müntener, O. (2017) Recent crustal foundering in the Northern Volcanic Zone of the Andean Arc: Petrological insights from the roots of a modern subduction zone. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 476: 47-58.

Bloch, E., Watkins, J., Ganguly, J. (2017) Diffusion kinetics of lutetium in diopside and the effect of thermal metamorphism on Lu-Hf systematics in clinopyroxene. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 204: 32-51.

Bloch, E., Ganguly, J. (2015) 176Lu-176Hf  geochronology of garnet II. Numerical simulations of the development of garnet-whole rock 176Lu-176Hf isochrons and a new method for constraining the thermal history of metamorphic rocks. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 169: 14.

Bloch, E., Ganguly, J., Hervig, R., Cheng, W. (2015) 176Lu-176Hf  geochronology of garnet I. Experimental determination of the diffusion kinetics of Lu3+ and Hf4+ in garnet, Diffusion mechanisms, closure temperatures and geochronological implications. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 169: 12.

Bloch, E., Ganguly, J. (2014) 176Lu-176Hf and 147Sm-143Nd ages of the Martian shergottites: Evaluation of the shock-resetting hypothesis through diffusion kinetic experiments and modeling, and petrological observations. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 395: 173-183.

Yang, H., Jenkins, R., Downs, R., Evans, H., Bloch, E. (2013) Rongibbsite, Pb2(Si4Al)O11(OH), a new zeolitic aluminosilicate mineral with an interrupted Framework from Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. Amer. Mineral. 98: 236-241.

Yang, H., Jenkins, R., Thompson, R., Downs, R., Evans, H., Bloch, E. (2012) Markascherite, Cu3(MO4)(OH)4, a new mineral species polymorphic with szenicsite, from Copper Creek, Pinal County, Arizona, USA. Amer. Mineral. 97: 197-202.