Research Interests:

• Environmental and applied mineralogy.
• Experimental geochemistry. =09
• Reservoir characterization/petrophysics with an emphasis on the effects of clay minerals on rock and fluid properties.
• Integration of experimental and numerical simulations of fluid-rock interactions.
• Genesis of magmas and effects of volatile components on magmatic processes.=20
• Igneous occurrences and their relation to continental rift structure, evolution, and tectonics.

Courses:

Undergraduate

• Mineralogy (3 hrs.)
• Materials of the Earth (3 hrs.)
• Petrology (4 and 5 hrs.)
• Field Camp (1 week)
• Environmental Geoscience Field Camp (summer)
• Freshmen Success Seminar (0.5 hrs.)
• Cultural Anthropology (McBride Honors Program for Engineers) (3 hrs.)

Graduate

• Advanced Igneous Petrology (3 hrs.)
• Volcanology (3 hrs.)
• Clay Mineral Characterization (1 hr.)
• Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria (3 hrs.)
• Mineralogy and Crystal Chemistry (3 hrs.)

Topical Seminars (1 hr. apiece)

• Phase Rule and Heterogeneous Equilibria
• Carbonatites and Their Ore Deposits
• Geothermometry and Geobarometry
• Heat and Mass Transfer
• Silicate Mineralogy
• Pegmatites
• Kimberlites
• Igneous Processes in Continental Rifts
• Changing Paradigms of Magmatic Processes=20

Selected Publications:

• Wendlandt, R. F., Harrison, W. J., and Beaty, D. W. (1990) Origin of the ore deposits at Gilman, Colorado. Part V: Reaction path model for the formation of manto-type massive sulfide replacement deposits at Gilman, Colorado. Econ. Geol. Monograph 7, Carbonate-Hosted Sulfide Deposits of the Central Colorado Mineral Belt (eds., D. W. Beaty, G. P. Landis, and T. B. Thompson), 246-254.
  
  
• Wendlandt, R. F. and Bhuyan, K. (1990) Estimation of mineralogy and lithology from geochemical logging measurements. A.A.P.G. 74, no. 6, 837-856.
  
  
• Keller, G. R., Khan, M. A., Morgan, P., Wendlandt, R. F., Baldridge, W. S., Olsen, K. H., Prodehl, C., and Braile, L. W. (1991) A comparative study of the Rio Grande and Kenya Rifts. Tectonophys. 197, 355-371.
  
  
• Wendlandt, R. F., W. Scott Baldridge, and E.-R. Neumann, (1991) Modification of lower crust by continental rift magmatism. Geophys. Res. Lett. 18, 1759-1762.
  
  
• Hay, D.E. and Wendlandt (1995) The origin of Kenya rift Plateau-type flood phonolites: Results of high-pressure/high-temperature experiments in the systems phonolite-H2O and phonolite-H2O-CO2. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 401-410.
  
  
• Hay, D.E., Wendlandt, R.F., and Wendlandt, E.D. (1995) The origin of Kenya rift Plateau-type flood phonolites: Evidence from geochemical studies for fusion of lower crust modified by alkali basaltic magmatism. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 411-422.
  
  
• Hay, D.E., Wendlandt, R.F., and Keller, G.R. (1995) Origin of Kenya rift Plateau-type flood phonolites: Integrated petrologic and geophysical constraints on the evolution of the crust and upper mantle beneath the Kenya rift. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 10549-10557.=20
  
  
• Wendlandt, R. F., Altherr, R., Neumann, E.-R., and Baldridge, W. S. (1995) Petrology, Geochemistry, Isotopes. In, K. H. Olsen (ed.), Continental Rifts: Evolution, Structure, and Tectonics, Elsevier, pp. 47-60.
  
  
• Braile, L. W., Keller, G. R., Wendlandt, R. F., Morgan, P., and Khan, M. A. (1995) The East African Rift System. In, K. H. Olsen (ed.), Continental Rifts: Evolution, Structure, and Tectonics, Elsevier, pp. 213-231.
  
  
• Keller, G. R., Bott, M. H. P., Wendlandt, R. F., Doser, D. I., and Morgan, P. (1995) The Baikal Rift System. In, K. H. Olsen (ed.), Continental Rifts: Evolution, Structure, and Tectonics, Elsevier, pp. 325-341.
  
  
• Lengke, M. F., Wendlandt, R. F., and Ridley, W. I. (1996) The origin of mafic and ultramafic xenoliths from San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona. Geol. Soc. Am., Abstracts with Programs, 28(7), 481.
  
  
• White-Pinilla, K. and Wendlandt, R. F. (1996) Characterization of fenitizing fluids at the Iron Hill Carbonatite Complex, Gunnison County, Colorado. Geol. Soc. Am., Abstracts with Programs, 28(7), 213.
  
  
• Keith, D. A., Harrison, W. J., Wendlandt, R. F., and Daniels, E. J. (1998) Mineralogical responses of siliciclastic carbonate-cemented reservoirs to steamflood enhanced oil recovery. Applied Geochemistry, 13, 491-507.
  
  
• Wendlandt, R. F., Harrison, W. J., Simon, J. I., Chastain, E. A., and Ernstberger, J. J. (1998) Weathering of arid-climate soil by acid, metal-rich irrigation water: Part I - Clay control of acid buffer capacity. 15th Conference on Clay Mineralogy and Petrology, Brno, Czech Republic, Sept. 6-9, 1998. =09
  
  
• Evensen, J. M., London, D., and Wendlandt, R. F. (1999) Solubility and stability of beryl in granitic melts. American Mineralogist (in press).
  
  
• Kaszuba, J. P. and Wendlandt, R. F. (1999) Effect of carbon dioxide on dehydration melting reactions and melt compositions in the lower crust. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. (in review).
  
  

Personal Info:

My favorite recreational activities include back-country skiing (we are in Colorado after all), jogging, hiking, camping, trout fishing, and mineral collecting.