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Geology Prospective Students Meteorology Prospective Students Geology Undergraduates Geology Graduate Programs Meteorology Undergraduates Meteorology Graduate Programs Alumni Awards Faculty Field Camp Glossary of Geologic Terms History Meteorology Job Announcements News & Events Outcomes Assessment Real-time Weather Data Research Scholarships Photo Galleries 150 Fascinating People ISU ISU Library College of Liberal Arts & Sciences GE-AT Home Page Got a question or comment? Contact us at 515-294-4477 (geology) or 515-294-4758 (meteorology) geology@iastate.edu Meteorology Undergrad Program Meteorology Graduate Program Carl Jacobson Chair Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences 253 Science I Ames, Iowa 50011 FAX: 515-294-6049 William Gallus Professor-in-Charge Meteorology Program 3010 Agronomy Hall 515-294-2270	Faculty Karl E. Seifert Professor, Emeritus Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Dept. of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 Email: kseifert@iastate.edu Education B.S. Bowling Green State University, 1956 M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1959 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1963 Research Interests Trace Element Geochemistry of Mafic Igneous Rocks, Petrogenesis of Continental Flood Basalts, Abyssal Basalts and Anorthosites Selected Refeered Publications Schmidt, S. Th. and Seifert, K. E., 2001. Complex alteration history of buried volcanic Midcontinent Rift well samples from Iowa, USA. Seifert, K. E., Chang, C.-W. and Brunotte, D., 1997. Evidence from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 149 mafic igneous rocks for oceanic crust in the Iberia Abyssal Plain ocean-continent transition zone. Jour. Geophys. Res., 102, 7915-7928. Seifert, K. E. and Anderson, R. R. 1996. Geochemistry of Midcontinent Rift volcanic rocks in Iowa: Data from well samples. J. Iowa Acad. Sci., 103, 63-73. Seifert, K. E. and Brunotte, D., 1996. Geochemistry of serpentinized mantle peridotite from Site 897 in the Iberia Abyssal Plain. Proc. Ocean Drill. Program, Sci. Results, 149, 413-424. Additional publications

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